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21. How to Go Forward Part 2
Lessons
Introduction - Why Meditate?
15:12 2How to Meditate - Taking Your Seat
12:59 3Placing Attention on Breath
04:32 4Labeling Thoughts as Thinking
06:35 5How to Meditate - Leaving Some Space
12:19 6Bringing Meditation Into Everyday Life
11:30 7Digging Into the Practice Part 2
05:51 8Obstacles Along the Way
08:29Obstacles Along the Way Part 2
08:59 10Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety
26:56 11Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
06:28 12The True Meaning of Success
18:28 13The True Meaning of Success Part 2
03:40 14Developing Compassion for Ourselves & Others
04:39 15Compassion for Ourselves & Others Part 2
29:34 16Compassion and Mindfulness
26:27 17Compassion and Mindfulness Part 2
08:11 18Happiness and Joy
18:15 19Happiness and Joy Part 2
04:06 20How to Go Forward
10:59 21How to Go Forward Part 2
07:31Lesson Info
How to Go Forward Part 2
I wanted to cover a few things and then we'll probably just take the rest of the time to continue this kind of dialogue. But just so we don't run out of time. Um going forward, packing the lunch box. You know, what do what can we take away from this for the folks here and for the folks online. Mm Our program was an introductory program. It was meant to introduce the idea of meditation. I took it at the most basic level. Why meditate how to meditate? What's it good for? What are the different ways to practice? Um contemplative meditation, loving kindness, meditation, mindfulness, meditation. And also just take a moment for all of us as just, you know, people who are busy people to just fall back for one minute. Take a good look at our lives and see if we wanted to do a course correction and that that I think is a valuable thing, contemplating happiness, success, things like that. So if you're moved to take any part of this forward, I consider that a positive outcome. You know, some peop...
le might just say, you know, I just, something like this could start, somebody just starting to read more, look into it more and I would suggest a couple of books, maybe I can just mention them now, can I do that? Is that okay for people to start on? Um I think There are three authors that really represent my tradition really strongly. Um the first one is the kind of creator of it really or the sort of original um presenter of the these teachings was choking him Trumper Report, which is referred to as a title and his name is tibetan, so it might be a little bit hard for us to pronounced, but there's a book called Shambhala, the Sacred Path of the warrior, which I recommend heartily to everybody. Um and then um one of his sort of principle students was pema Children who a lot of people boy when I traveled, she's really reached a lot of people. Um, she's a wonderful, she's an american buddhist nun. She was a married person with, with Children and she just got into the more strict practice and very, very accessible to a lot of people I think. So I recommend her highly pima Children and lots of books there and even audiotapes and series and things like that. So the one book I recommend is called The Wisdom of No Escape, which is like, you know, how do you, how do you close the barn door and all this and keep yourself in there. Um, in the logic of that. And then my teacher now, which is trunk roommate's son. Second my palm remember which is my P. H. A. M. So count me a partner has quite a few books out that are carrying these teachings forward. Um, and uh, As a divergence, I'll say two books. One is called turning the mind into an ally, which is a very good meditation primer. Turning the mind into an al I think of your mind is either an enemy or as a friend. Um, and how the path of meditation can work with that. And the other one that I think even though there are quite a few, I recommend. Um, and you can look up any of them if you like. The other one I would recommend is um running with the mind of meditation. So I think, you know, I know a lot of people who run in America. I don't know what they're running from or to, but maybe they're just running for the sake of it. Uh, health benefit of it. Um I think it's good to learn how to run in case somebody who is chasing you. That's it like. And if you if you couldn't run far enough or fast enough, that would be a really good skill to have, or if somebody has stolen your wallet, you have to run after them. That could be a good skill, but a lot of people run for exercise. Um Does anybody hear a runner? Uh huh. Okay. So um anybody out there a runner, maybe you could write in if you do running running with the mind of meditation because it mixes this very popular kind of exercise form with the arts that we've been talking about. Um and then um another book I wanted to uh recommend is um by my dear friend Michael Carroll awake at work because this is setting the meditation practice into the workplace. So that's a wonderful book too. And then if you just look online, um there are quite a few books that you can read about and just get organized to know more about this. That's a good first step. I myself like to be a kind of lemonade salesmen in the middle of the oasis. You know, just uh as people are buzzing by, you know, like they say, I'm thinking of reading this book by this teacher or taking this workshop, you can write to me. Um and if you want to just stay in touch with me in general facebook dot com slash David nick turn hit the like button, we're on its social networking and it works, I would say find something that resonates with you because then you're gonna go for it and you know, I can usually no with somebody what it's gonna be. Um and so I don't always recommend my own school interestingly enough because some people you can just tell they're gonna love us then, you know, and some people are more devotional so they might like a different kind of practice. Uh and some people like shamanistic practices and things like that. So I consider myself a little bit of a, what would you call it? A nudge. Uh You want to thank you if those are, you don't know what gentle means. It's sort of like a grandmother who loves you, but it's a little bit annoying. Uh so, uh you know, there's a lot of wonderful traditions out, their wisdom traditions and you can uh and they're being framed in all kinds of ways these days, you know, so you can just kind of look around for something that suits you. But if what we've been talking about the flavor of what we've been talking about sort of entices you at all. I've got to tell him 100% shambhala uh kid, you know, so shambhala dot org. S H A M B H A L A dot org. And there's it's a pretty well organized school and it's really um all over the place. So you can find centers definitely big center here in san Francisco um um L a even a lot of smaller places in between. So if you like this flavor of teachings, uh and and there's other people there and then you can find the kind of environment which you can go to a practice session on a sunday morning or Wednesday evening, open class or take an ongoing class and and develop your relationship with it. So having said that, we have just a few minutes left, let's do a short sitting meditations, just so we can let all of this dissolve back into a kind of open space and don't worry about holding onto any of it. And if it comes up, we can just label thinking and relax our mind into a kind of present awareness. So at this point, I think we know how to do that. I'm just going to ring the bell for the start and end.
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