Preciousness of Human Life Form: A Guided Meditation with Robert Thurman #220

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<v Speaker>Now we're going to meditate on what we are as human beings.

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<v Speaker>And this is an ancient Tibetan meditation called Deljorn Yeka.

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<v Speaker>The difficulty to find the human life form endowed with liberty and opportunity.

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<v Speaker>So to begin first, just to settle down, just focus on breathing, and imagine that at the very center of your heart chakra, which is at the height of the heart, sort of the same height as the nipples of either male or female, but back near the spine, in this center in this central channel, there is a little bubble, which, in which, a tiny mustard seed sized consciousness is present, what we might call the soul consciousness, S O U L, soul consciousness, super subtle mental continuum, is what the Tibetans might call it.

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<v Speaker>And then imagine as you inhale, that you bring energy, to that key point, which is your central awareness, and which we normally don't occupy.

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<v Speaker>We're normally sort of in our sense consciousnesses of our ordinary body.

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<v Speaker>But when you inhale, you bring fine energy into that center.

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<v Speaker>So as the air goes up through the nostrils, it goes into a central channel.

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<v Speaker>At the sort of middle of the brain, rises to your crown, and then descends down a very subtle nerve channel that sort of goes in front of your cervical joints, and down your back in front of the spine, and reaches the heart, and actually it goes all the way down to your perineum, but we're not going to focus on that lower part.

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<v Speaker>Just feel that the energy goes into the center of your heart, chakra.

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<v Speaker>And then hold it there for just a couple of seconds at first, and then you gradually, gently exhale from there.

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<v Speaker>Exhaling can be either through the mouth or also through the nostrils, but the inhale should be through the nostrils.

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<v Speaker>So just sort of enjoy that for a couple of minutes.

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<v Speaker>Once you go calm there, You're sort of bringing all life energy, and when you hold it at that heart center, it radiates the warmth of the energy everywhere throughout your subtle body, and blesses, gives the oxygen blessing to every organ and every part of the body.

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<v Speaker>And that deep awareness of yours is like, almost so tiny, it's like a zero point.

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<v Speaker>But it is the doorway to the infinity, to your immersion in infinity.

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<v Speaker>And then as you exhale, that awareness sort of rises to be your main awareness without interfering with whatever else you are attending to, even your hearing your own thoughts.

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<v Speaker>And then you realize that that central awareness.

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<v Speaker>This has been always existing.

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<v Speaker>One reason it's hard to find is that from, from a point zero, there is the doorway of infinity, and infinity in time goes toward the past as beginninglessness, and goes toward the future as endlessness.

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<v Speaker>And so within that, think of any animal that you know, and your dog or cat, or any wild animal you've seen on TV, or at a zoo, or walking in the hills, mountains, wilderness, on a safari, and realize they also have a central point like that, of awareness, but their central point is carried by a being that doesn't have awareness.

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<v Speaker>The analytical thinking that you do, it doesn't have the same degree of self awareness as you have.

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<v Speaker>So, actually, you have been, you imagine yourself having been such a being, and then you, anything you can imagine, a deity, a god must feel like if you know any sort of different visions of the divine, divine from mystics west or east, you've been all kinds of divine beings.

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<v Speaker>You've been sort of macho, you might, you've been fierce predators.

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<v Speaker>You've been prey beings.

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<v Speaker>Both sides, and every time that central point, awareness, the micro infinite, it encodes how you have been, and it carries some central elements of how you have been into another state of being, into another coarse embodiment.

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<v Speaker>And somehow, you have reached this very complex course embodiment with this amazing nervous system and this incredible ability to think and to imagine and to even focus your awareness toward the center of your being.

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<v Speaker>The heart center.

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<v Speaker>And so, you have so much more awareness of your environment, how it works, it's chemistry, it's physical energy transformations, you have so much more awareness of others, you can imagine being them, you identify with them, you can imagine being them, you can loving them, feeling empathy toward them, sort of imagining being in their shoes.

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<v Speaker>Therefore, you have a really good chance at optimizing your relationship with them all and really understanding what you and they are, and even whatever one of those animals is, and so on, and those divinities, and those angels, or those demons, or whatever you have imagined.

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<v Speaker>you have been.

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<v Speaker>And so you realize that you, neuroscientists say the core of our brain is a limbic brain.

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<v Speaker>It's like a crocodile, self centered, survival oriented, uh, energy, fight and flight.

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<v Speaker>Fight or flight reactions, primal reactions to what's perceived as the other, the world around us, outside our skin.

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<v Speaker>And if we've identified with animals, we realize they are really quite helpless in regard to what's outside them.

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<v Speaker>Even the most ferocious lion can attack a deer for food, but has no idea about the man aiming a gun at it.