Spirit in Buddhist medicine is primary, and physical health is secondary, it is only derived from the state of the human soul. Therefore, the fundamental principle of Buddhist health care is very simple: happy people are smaller. About how the Dalai Lama and all the other Buddhists caress themselves and all the other Buddhists than they are treated, as they die, told the Buddhist monk Barry Kerzin at the lecture "Human health: in the harmony of the soul and body."
It was a rare possibility of almost first-hand to learn something about the Dalai Lama, because he himself does not come to us since 2004 for reasons, with Buddhism in no way connected. Yes, and that visit to Elista called protests from China, who considers the spiritual leader of Buddhists by the separatist. Monk Kerzin is a personal doctor of the Dalai Lama, and who, like he, knows all the subtleties of health in Buddhist.
As Buddhists are treated
For one of the main questions, Barry Kerzin replied after the lecture, when he was asked: "What to do from the point of view of Buddhism, if a person has witnessed and his throat hurts?" "Go to the doctor," a personal doctor of Dalai Lama advised without the shadow of irony.
Monk Kerzin, who has a Buddhist degree similar to our doctoral, another American diploma, answered purely American. In the United States, even the usual medicine for rinsing the throat without a recipe written by the doctor will not buy. If he had our medical diploma, it would simply advise you to rinse the throat with a solution of soda and take a tablet.
But if in our original Western medicine tablet the treatment ends, then in Buddhist just begins. According to Barry Kerzin, the main thing in it is the mood of the patient when he takes the medicine. Buddhist thinks: "I took a tablet and now I will eat. I will be fine, but it would be even better if all the others, who hurts the throat, also cured, and it would be great if anyone had In the world, no throat hurt at all. "
Such a positive attitude that does not give forth on their own health problems and does not even allow the thought that the pill will not help, and there is a guarantee of the recovery of the Buddhist.
In other words, the well-known ancient Roman principle "in a healthy body is a healthy mind," from which western medicine has grown, Buddhists turn upside down, or, from their point of view, from head to feet.
For example, a personal Dalai Lama doctor is pretty skeptical about the common stereotype of ideas about the healing power of yoga. Yes, it can help with some diseases of the respiratory system, but, of course, not infectious, he stressed. It will help at pressure, with some paragraphs of a psychological nature. But only helps, will not cure.
The Dalai Lama himself, who, by virtue of his position of the spiritual leader of Buddhists, meditates a lot and has a high degree of enlightenment, relies more on ordinary training. According to his personal doctor, the Dalai Lama is not less than half an hour on a day pays on the treadmill.
Buddhist "Stretch" (analogue of prayer with earth bows and the fall of the NIC in other world religions), Barry Kerzin considers useful freezing in the morning. If there is also a spiritual component in it, then such a charging, of course, is even more useful.
What the Buddhist is sick
Buddhists are sick with all the same diseases as the adepts of the rest of religions and atheists are sick. The main difference is in understanding the causes of the disease. And the reason for any disease for Buddhist is his karma. Karma from the standpoint of our worldview is difficult to choose one word-synonym. Therefore, Barry Kerzin clarified that in this case "Karma" is the long-term consequences of past actions of a person.
If the deeds were bad, unkind, then the person is doomed to get sick. What exactly is not so important, karma is not a diagnosis, but the payback for the shortage of good to others, and not only to people, but all living beings, emphasizes the personal doctor of the Dalai Lama.
From this, however, it logically implies an uncomfortable question of Buddhism. Why are even the most consecutive Buddhists, including Dalai Lam and even Buddhist gods, are sick and die?
The question is from the point of view of Buddhism, ridiculous. After all, Buddhists live not one life, but continuously traveling from one life to another. Probably, one life is missing, explains Barry Kerzin to pay off all the debts accumulated in previous lives.
How Buddhist die
The death of the Buddhist comes in eight stages. The first four of them, according to the Dalai Lama personal doctor, are well known to Western medicine. At the first stage, muscles and bones weaken. On the second "dry" juices - blood, lymph, hormones, other biological fluids. On the third - weakens "Fire", the body is cold. At the fourth, final, movement stops - heart, lungs, other organs.
At this point, Western doctors diagnose the offensive of clinical death. From the point of view of our medicine, refund to life is still possible within a few minutes, sometimes dozens of minutes. And from the point of view of Buddhists, the last four stages of dying occur.
Explain the essence of each Barry Kerzin did not, referring to the complexity of their understanding for the uninitiated. He said only that at the very last eighth stage, an experienced yogi can linger on days, weeks and even months. In fact, he is a corpse, but it does not happen, but an aura even appears around him, with the feeling of which the surrounding becomes good.
But for ordinary Buddhists who do not speak this technique, a maximum of 72 hours is given to the dying, no more.
By the way, personally feel death in Buddhist easily. The eighth final her stage comes when a man yaws or sneezes. In the body at this moment, the same processes occur, Barry Kerzin argues, and after that there is bliss. If you think about it, then it is perhaps right. From the soul to sneeze or zoo - really bliss.
Scientific substantiation of Buddhist medicine
According to Barry Kerzin, the main principle of Buddhist medicine is a positive attitude of the patient - Western medicine unconsciously uses a long time in different schools of psychotherapy. But especially intensively studies of this phenomenon goes only the last half a century.
Barry Kerzin himself in 2011 was invited by the German scientific society of Max Planck as a consultant of such research and personally participates in the experiments to find the material carrier of Buddhist health.
The search goes by the "Tyk method", as scholars experimenters like to speak. With experimental patients with the help of various devices, a wide variety of physico-chemical indicators take off, trying to determine which of them are reliably affected by human emotions.
So far, according to the Scientist Buddhist Kerzin, it was possible to show that the positive attitude of the person strengthens his immune system and, accordingly, the body resistance to disease. But it has long been known without Buddhism. From happiness, no one has died, but from anger, longing, and other negative emotions, people definitely die before time.
Some hopes of the personal doctor of the Dalai Lama lay on the epigenetics, science learning what happens not in the genes themselves, but around them. Allegedly human mood affects the speed of protein synthesis genes. But while this level is not even theory, but only hypothesis.
The subject of the special scientific pride of Kerzin is the discovery of periods of unusually large gamma-rhythm amplitude at the electroencephalogram (EEG) of Buddhists in a state of meditation. True, a similar phenomenon is observed in epileptics at the time of the seizure and very similar - in schizophrenics at the moments of exacerbation. But Dalai Lama's personal doctor is not confused.
"Epileptics will not remember anything, and the meditative remembers everything," Kerzin objects and adds that the same gamma bursts were recorded on the EEG mice at the time of their death, so what?
Therapy is kindness in Buddhist
You can relate differently to the fact that the personal doctor of the Dalai Lama said. But among other things, he mentioned that he himself was chronically sick to the leanory, and a few hours before the lecture he was sucked off the liquid from the lungs. "I could not not come, you waited for me," he said without rice.
Lung drainage operation, if anyone knows a rather unpleasant, tedious and painful procedure. But by the appearance of Barry Kerzin could not be said. He looked perfectly, even fresh, perhaps, of many young listeners in the audience. One thing that makes think about the therapeutic efficiency of the Buddhist principle of kindness to others.
But if everything was so simple. As if reading the thoughts of the audience, the Dalai Lama doctor explained to the example of the example of what the real Buddhist kindness is.
If someone insulted you, you are hurt, you are in rage. But if you think, explained Barry Kerzin, then you will understand that you insulted not a person, but his words. That is, the words are to blame, not a person. Australiate words stupid. When you realize it, you will become funny. You will laugh.
If you were hit by a baton on your head, it is not ridiculous that the stick is to blame, and not a man who keeps her, ruthlessly continued to reveal the essence of Buddhist kindness Barry Kerzin.
It also appeared with each word the feeling that such, it seemed, simple and light Buddhist therapy was irrevocably flooded to the distance out of the reach of us.
"I know that the first time it is difficult," the Dalai Lama's personal doctor smiled.
It is very difficult to experience kindness to a person who beats you on the head baseball bat, even if this is your karma. To do this, you really need to be a very enlightened Buddhist.
D Alai Lama XIV (Ngagwang Lovzang Tenszin Gyamqjo) is the spiritual leader of Buddhist Tibet, Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva, Kalmykia and other regions. Winner of the Nobel Prize of Peace (1989). In 2006, the US Higher Award was awarded the Gold Medal of Congress. Until April 27, 2011, the Tibetan government was also headed in exile (Lobsang Sangai) was also led by the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Dalai Lama is incarnations on the land of Avalokiteshwara, Bodhisattva compassion.
The site Dalailama.ru is a conversation with the Dalai Lama on the eve of his 75-year-old anniversary of July 3, 2010, in which His Holiness said that there was no meat
"There are several controversial opinions, but there is no ban on meat in the blade, therefore the monks of Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka eat and vegetarian, and non-vegetarian food. I somehow discussed this topic with one monk from Sri Lanka, many years ago, and he told me that the Buddhist monk does not belong to the vegetarians, nor to nonsense. What they give you, then you should eat. This is the principle. In Wine, it is clear that the meat of animals, killed specifically for you, cannot be eaten, but the use of meat is not prohibited. In some books, such as Lancavarat-Sutra, a ban on the use of any kinds of meat, including fish, and in other books there is no such ban. When I was thirteen-fourteen years, meat was served in abundance at all official festivals. I changed it - now it is served exclusively vegetarian food. Then, in 1959, I came to India. In about 1965, I became a vegetarian. Refused meat ... For 20 months I adhered to strict vegetarianism. At that time, one of my Indian friends advised me to try meat substitutes. I used in food a lot of milk, sour cream. Then in 1967 ... In 1966 or 1967, I started problems with a bubble, hepatitis. The whole body is yellowed. Later I joked that at that time I became a "live Buddha". The whole body is yellow, myself is yellow and yellow. And then the Tibetan doctor, as well as allopath, I advised me meat. So I returned to the usual food. But at the same time, in all our monasteries in the south of India, as well as in Namgyla, only vegetarian food is preparing. In the monasteries in the south of India, the number of monks is 3000-4,000 people in each, and all of them are preparing vegetarian food. Also in other countries I was in Buddhist centers and always asked about it. Everywhere everything is different. But in solemn cases, food should be vegetarian. And its constant use leads to the problems of the gallbladder and, in the end, to the operation ... As for me, I eat one or twice a week, the rest of the time is vegetarian food. I tried to become a vegetarian, but still difficult. "
In his "thinking about ten unlawful acts" Dalai Lama XIV writes:
"Eating meat, in essence, makes us accomplices of murder. The question naturally arises: should I refuse meat products? Once I tried to completely switch to a vegetarian diet, but there were health problems, and two years later, my doctors advised me to turn on meat to my diet. If there are people who can completely stop eat meat, then we must coat the nobility of their act. In any case, at least try to reduce meat consumption to a minimum and abandon it where its reserves are limited, and our desire to eat meat will entail additional murders. Although by the power of the climatic and geographical features of our country, Tibetans, we treat traditional consumers of meat, the teachings of Mahayana about compassion imposed their beneficial imprint on this tradition. All Tibetans are known to the expression: "All living beings were once our mothers." Nomads who have earned livestock breeding, committed pilgrimage in Lhasa, having a long fur care, which even in the midst of winter were tied up around the waist and descended from the shoulders, exposing her breasts with rimpets of falling blessed shoelaces. And although they externally resembled the gang of robbers and robbers, these were pious people who were deeply tuned to Mahayan. Since they were nomads, the meat of animals served as a single source of intake. But if they had to be deprived of animal life, they always tried to resort to the most humane way, without ceasing at the same time whispering the prayer ear. In Lhas, the custom was common to buy an animal intended for slaughter and let him go to freedom; It brought spiritual merits. If it happened that the cattle was ill and died, it was possible to see how people sprinkle with Her Holy Water and raise prayers. On the entire territory of Tibet, the murder of any wild beast was forbidden, the exception was only the wolves who attacked her herds, and rodents, from whom the peasants suffered. "
Sir Paul McCartney, a member of the PETA organization calling for animal protection, in 2008 tried to return Dalai Lama to vegetarianism. In an interview with Prospect Magazine, the singer and musician told that he was somewhat shocked by learning that Dalai Lama began to eat meat from medical considerations. The legendary musician wrote a letter to the spiritual leader:
"Sorry me, but the eating animals causes living beings of suffering."
Dalai Lama replied that he began to eat meat at the direction of the doctors.
"I told him that the doctors were mistaken", - told Sir Paul.
Why is the meat eating a convinced supporter of vegetarianism His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV?
Dorges Zhambo Chojj-Lama, the abbot of the only in Ukraine officially operating Buddhist monastery Sheichen Ling and the Primate of the Spiritual Department of Ukraine Buddhists, in different years received dedications and instructions from teachers of various schools, including from Dalai Lama XIV, comments on the meat science of his teacher in the following way:
"In the wine-nutrition, prohibitions relative to meat are clearly spelled out - this is only a human, meat of padelvers, an elephant meat, animal meat with poisonous meat. Everything. Any attachment to a certain diet and the conditionality of food is unfavorable and impeding spiritual development. Not all followers of Mahayana are vegetarians. Such is a minority. I can assure you that there is no prohibition about meat science in any of the famous Vintai, but there is a clear ban for the monks to demand special types of food. As a doctor with twenty-year-old experience, I can authoritatively declare that with certain types of diseases meat dishes have therapeutic effects. Just as with other diseases - a vegetarian diet. You will tell you hundreds of Emchi Lam on your own medical experience. "
Other opinions adheres to Kyabja Cathedral Rinpoche Sang Nezda Dorje - a recognized Master Dzogchen, famous for its high spiritual realization and strict consequences of morality standards, one of the main holders of Longchen Nyingtik. Every year, Rinpoche, together with his family and close disciples, conducts a ritual of repurchase and liberation of living beings, whose fate is to lose their lives, being on our table. So, in December 2006 in Calcutta, Rinpoche organized a redemption 78 tanks with live fish at 450 kg of live weight each. At the request of representatives of the Tibetan Society for the Protection of Animals in 2005, he made the following statement:
"Tibetan lamas and monks eat meat! What a disgrace that even lama rebirths are not able to abandon the use of the killed flesh! First of all, it is Lamam who needs to become vegetarians. If highly accepted, spiritual people continue to eat meat, as you can expect that ignorant commoners, wrapped in life where they are indicated, like the flock of sheep, suddenly become vegetarians. When we arrived in India, I became one of the first Tibetan las that refused meat and elected a vegetarian lifestyle. I remember that the first nyingma monlam in Bodhgaye was Neshuezetarian. For the second year, having arrived at the Mons, I took the floor at the collection of the Supreme Lam Nyingma. I turned to them with the words that Bodhgayia is an exceptionally significant and holy place for all Buddhists, and if we declare that they gathered here for the Montlam (annual prayer festival for the benefit of peace and prosperity around the world), and at the same time Eat here meat killed animals, it is a shame and the greatest insult to all Buddhism as a whole. I called them all to refuse to eat meat at the time of the annual Nyingma Montlam. In the long-standing time, Saciapinsky Patriarch Sachchen Kunga Nyingpo abstained from the use of meat and alcohol and called for this. Later, there were such figures like Ngari Pandit Pema Wangyal, the emanation of the king Tronig Decent, who lived a vegetarian who lived his whole life. Sabarcar COF, who from an early meat, being in the neighborhood quarter in Lhasa, and sawing how hundreds of animals are deprived of life, became a vegetarian and did not use meat food before the condense of his days. Most of his disciples also refused meat. Many other masters of the traditions of Sakya, Gelug, Kagyu and Nyingma came in the same way and became vegetarians. In Congpo, Gutsang Nalog Rangdrol punished his monks to abandon the use of meat and alcohol. When the monks of the Kongpo monastery are a goal of Gon, he warmed up on them and retired to Goutsang Pokhug, in Niza Kongpo, where he spent about 30 years in pinch. Refusing unfinished, which are the use of meat and alcohol, he achieved the highest spiritual realizations and became known as Gutsang Nal Rangdrola - an outstanding spiritual mentor. Nonya Pema Dudowl also did not use meat and alcohol. He lived in the days of Nyagka Gloa Noglyal and became known in the world as "Pema Dudowul, who realized the Rainbow Body." When I was in Bhutan, sometimes I have ever seen how during rituals or poju, for the benefit of the dead, the meat of killed animals participated in them. Such deprivation of the lives of the living beings "for the benefit" of the deceased relative, there is nothing more than creating obstacles on the spiritual path of the deceased, blocking the path to liberation. From such practice, the deceased will not be any benefit. Most of the population of the Himalayan region - Buddhists. Some lamas of the Nativity Tamang and Sherpa are quite ignorant. Being tied to meat and alcohol, they declare into their excuses that it is necessary to use them, as they are followers of Guru Rinpoche [Padmasambhava], which he helped meat and used alcohol. But after all, Guru Rinpoche was born in this world a miraculous way, unlike the mentioned Lam, which appeared on the world from the womb of the mother, from the Father's seed. Guru Rinpoche is known as the second Buddha. Buddha Shakyamuni - Teacher of Sutra, whereas a Tantra teacher is the omniscient Guru Rinpoche, as accuracy of many significant events of the future. Failure to meat is one of the means of achieving peace and calm on Earth. I myself refused not only from meat, but also from eggs, so I do not eat and baking in which eggs are contained. Eating meat and eggs - equivalent actions. Egg, matured, gives life a chick, which is no doubt is a living being. After all, there is no difference between the murder of the fetus in the womb of the mother and the deprivation of the life of a newborn baby - the extension of life and in the first and in the second cases is equally a grave atrocity. For what reason I refused from eggs. Your efforts are not meaningless, they are very important and helpful. My call is addressed not only by Buddhists - all thinking and able to take meaningful solutions People can respond to it. In particular, you should think about this scientist and doctors: is smoking and meat science useful? Ask, who lives longer: smokers, or people non-smoking? Which of them more often sick? You, university students, you can explore this issue, weigh all scientific data and figure it out. I myself say and understand only in Tibetan, and I do not know other languages. But I deeply studied VINA - the external Dharma of the Buddha, and the inner Dharma - Vajrayan. In particular, I spent a lot of strength to study the texts of Dzogchen, written by famous scientists and the yogins of the past. All of them in one voice say that the refusal of meat prolongs the life of the practitioner. As for my own family, no one from my relatives managed to live for longer than 60 years, and they all have long left this world. But since, leaving their homeland, I was able to give up meat and tobacco, I lived for up to 94 years old and still woofing in everyday life and moving without help. "
SAVETIBET.RU website reports that Szhazhin-Lama Kalmykia - Talo Tulku Rinpoche - became a convinced vegetarian many years ago.
"I do not eat meat for 16 years, since in 1994 I received the dedication of Calachakra from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In India it was very hot, and I initially decided to abandon meat to abandon meat, so as not to whistle and dormant. Upon completion of the training, I felt that my condition, physical and spiritual, now, when I did not eat meat anymore, it became much better. First, I began to feel better, less to get tired. Secondly, special spiritual satisfaction came, and thirdly, vegetarianism is useful for health as a whole. But, abandoning meat, nevertheless, I allowed myself occasionally. There is a fish, since doctors do not advise completely switch to vegetarianism. Then, after thinking, I came to the conclusion that there is no meat, but there is a fish - incorrectly, and stopped eating fish. Yes, perhaps it is not so easy to refuse meat food, but this is not so difficult, as it seems to many of us. In addition, we open a lot of new things in ourselves. "
Tel Tulku Rinpoche noticed that there is a mantra to eliminate the flope of meat into food, and the creature whose meat was eaten, thus acquires the opportunity to be reborn in the world's blessing worlds. Mantra must read seven times: "Ohm Ayam Ketzar Hung"
Part of the Buddhist monks of the Central Hurula Kalmykia refused to eat meat, timed to ravine his decision by the year of the pig. In this way, the monks "Golden Abode Buddha Shakyamuni" want to extend the life of the Dalai Lama XIV, reports Elista.org. As explained in an interview with the company "Europe plus" the Supreme Lama of the Republic of Talo Tulku Rinpoche, "the year is problematic in terms of health for people born in the year of pig, including for the spiritual leader of Buddhists around the world of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Buddhist Practices of India believe that to extend the life of the Dalai Lama, it is necessary not to harm living beings. The more meat we eat, the more animals kill the world, which violates the basic principle of Buddhist teachings. " With a request to reduce the amount of meat consumed, the head of Buddhists Kalmykia also turned to believers.
Sergey Kirishov, a monk, told that he decided to abandon meat, after hearing the teachings of Tel Tulku Rinpoche, it happened five years ago. At first, Sergey admitted:
"I did it unconsciously, internally was not ready, but then, after time, when I began to understand the dharma better, the vegetarianism was closely waggered with my way of life. On my example you can see that vegetarians outwardly do not differ from other people. " "But be careful," the Buddhist monk warned, "you can harm your health, so I am against the speaking solutions." If your motivation is pure, connected with Bodhichitta, then vegetarianism will benefit you. And you will have meat meat at least every other day, you can already say that you did not eat meat half of your life. There is another danger: Vegetarianism is able to strengthen in you pride and egocentrism, if you become considered special creatures, the creatures of the highest order "
The head of the Buddhist center "ILC" Vitaly Bokov told the Buddhist parable about Wolf and Deer, in which the wolf fell into clean lands, despite the fact that he killed living things and ate meat, and the deer came to hell, although she ate grass. This happened due to the fact that the wolf repeated, drinking food, and the deer did not think about the fact that there are also many living beings in the grass, and therefore not tested remorse. Therefore, Vitaly noted, you can, if you save the correct motivation.
Perhaps this parable explains what Dalai Lama, trusting the opinion of the doctors, takes meat as a medicine and at the same time takes an active part in the activities to reduce animal suffering. According to the voice of America, after due to the outbreak of Salmonellez, one and a half billion chicken eggs in the United States, the spiritual leader of Tibet in exile published a call to the consumers of yolks and proteins not to buy eggs grown in cells, where they cannot even straighten wings. According to him, "the transition to the consumption of eggs from the chickens of extracellular content will reduce the suffering of animals." In June 2004, he sent an appeal to the owners of the network of fast-food restaurants "Kentucky Fried Chicken" asking not to open their representative office in Tibet. In his letter, Dalai Lama wrote that before the conquest of Tibet, the locals rarely used the meat of chicken and fish, preferring the meat of larger animals, such as Yaki. Due to this, Tibetans could receive the amount of meat needed for them, killing fewer animals.
From the appeal of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to KFC Corporation (KentuckyfriedCruelty.com):
« On behalf of his friends from the organization "People for Ethical Animal Treatment", I write to ask KFC to cancel your opening plan for restaurants in Tibet, since the policy of cruelty and massacre supported by your corporation is contrary to Tibetan values.
Over the years, I was particularly concerned about the suffering of chickens. It was seen by me by me the death of chicken ended up in the decision to become a vegetarian. In 1965, I stayed in a government hotel in southern India, and the windows of my room went to the kitchen, located directly opposite. Once I saw how the chicken kill, and it made me become a vegetarian.
Tibetans are usually not vegetarians, because in the Tibet of vegetables is often missing, and most of the diet make up meat products. However, in Tibet, it was considered more correct from an ethical point of view to eat the meat of large animals, for example, Yakov, rather than small, because so you have to kill less animals. For this reason, the use of fish and chicken was rare. We always treated chickens as a source of eggs, not meat. But even eggs we rarely, because it was believed that they dulp the memory and clarity of the mind. Mass eating chickens began only with the arrival of Chinese.
And now, when I see in the meat shop of a carcass clogged and pinned chickens, I feel pain. I find unacceptable that violence is the basis of some of our habits in nutrition. When I drive through the Indian cities, located next to the place where I live, I see thousands of chickens in the cells next to restaurants are doomed to death. When I see them, I get to me very sad. On hot days they have no shadow to hide from heat. In the cold - they have nowhere to hide from the wind. These poor chickens are treated as if they are vegetables
In Tibet, buying animals at the butcher to save them life and release to freedom, was commonplace. Many Tibetans continue to do so in exile, if that there are conditions. Therefore, for me, it is completely natural to support those who are currently protesting against the introduction of industrial cooking in the Tibet, which will lead to an inexhaustible suffering of a huge amount of chickens. "
When, using the temporary softness of the Chinese authorities, the Tibetans came to a meeting with the Dalai Lama, they were dressed in heavy sheep Tulups and fur hats. Tibetan pilgrims found that Kalachakra's initiation ceremony was declared strictly vegetarian - a ban on the trade in meat products was introduced in local shops and restaurants. To such a cardinal measures of Dalai Lama, it was long for a long time, whenever the Hindu religious holidays, where hundreds of thousands of believers are gathering, but one thing is not to sacrifice life.
The Dalai Lama invariably encourages Tibetans if not to abandon meat at all, then at least to reduce its consumption to the required minimum. "Try," he smiles, "perhaps you can even like being a vegetarian."
To the surprise of many, Dalai Lama asked Tibetan pilgrims to abandon the skins of wild animals. "I am ashamed to look at these photos," said the Dalai Lama of each of those who came to him with the reverence and dedication to the Pilgrimnikov group, adding that he had to keep the people who were alone. "When you return home, remember my words. Never use, do not sell and do not buy wild animals, their skins and horns, "he said to tribesmen, most of whom saw him in the first and perhaps the last time in life
Few, however, suspected that these instructions will soon grow into a real "Tiger Revolution", which overwhelms the Tibet of the Wave of Burning Bones. In fact, Dalai Lama did not call the Tibetans to burn the fur, but only asked them not to wear fur products. Tiger bonfires, thus, became the will of the people, suddenly he had the opportunity to fulfill the wish of separated by the spiritual teacher: not to take away the life of animals without much that need.
In Buddhist texts, the four main obstacles that need to be overcome in order to achieve success in meditation. The first of them is excitation, or scattered. This obstacle manifests itself on the rude level of mind and is a tendency to scattering thoughts. The second obstacle is dullness and lethargy, or drowsiness. The third is a subtle diard, under which the inability of the mind is understood to keep the sharpness of perception and clarity. And finally, the thinnest level is a subtle excitation that is born from the transient, the volatile nature of our mind.
When our mind is too disturbed, it becomes annoyable and easily excited, and then our thoughts begin to rush after different ideas and objects, which is why we are experiencing or lifting or depression. Excessive excitation leads to a variety of moods and emotional states. In contrast to her, the subtle diard of the mind, arising, brings with him temporary relief. It can be quite pleasant because it carries soothing. But despite this, she actually is an obstacle to meditation. I noticed that if birds and animals are fed, they become completely relaxed and satisfied. When we hear how a satisfied cat rich, we can say that it is in a state of a subtle point.
The dumpness affects the coarsest levels of mind, while the thin diard, which in a sense is the result of coarse sweating, is felt on a thinner level. In fact, the contemplator is very difficult to distinguish genuine meditative immersion from a fine sweating. This is because there is some degree of clarity in a thin dullness. You have not lost the object of meditation from the focus, but there is no longer any perception. Therefore, although some clarity of the perception of the object remains, yet this state of mind does not get vitality. A serious contemplator is very important to learn to distinguish between a fine sweating and genuine meditative immersion. It is also extremely necessary because there are different degrees of thin sweating.
Another obstacle is the excitation when we are in the scattered mind of the mind with many distractions. This is the common problem with which we face, as soon as we try to focus your attention on a specific object. We discover that our attention is very quickly losing strength, we begin to be distracted, we are going on about different ideas and memories that can be both pleasant and unpleasant.
The fourth obstacle is a subtle excitation, this is one of the types of excitation, but here it is predominantly about distracts for pleasant objects. This obstacle stands out in a separate category, because pleasant thoughts are most distracted from meditation. It may be memories of the past or thought about something pleasant, or reflections on what we would like to experience. Memories and thoughts of this kind often become the main factor preventing successful meditation.
Of these four obstacles, the main is the excitation and a thin diard of the mind.
How do we overcome these obstacles? Rough diard, in particular, closely related to our physical condition. If, for example, we do not fall out, then our mind can fall into a dullness state. If we do not eat wrong - we do not use those products, committed or overeating, it can also entail a point of sweating. For this reason, monks and nuns are not recommended to eat after dinner. Restraining from afternoon, monks and nuns can keep the clarity of the mind that will contribute to meditation. In addition, awakened the next morning, they will feel special sharpness of perception. So, the proper nutrition serves a very effective antidote from the dullness of the mind.
If we affect the problem of a thin dullness, it is believed that it occurs during the meditation because it does not get vigilance, and our energy is low. When this happens, you need to try to raise your spirit, and one of the best ways to do it - the joy will be filled, thinking about your achievements or about the positive aspects of life and so on. This is the main antidote from the fine sweating.
In general, the subtle diard is considered to be a neutral state of mind in the sense that it is neither good nor a destructive (that is, it does not contribute to any good thoughts and actions). However, the following may occur: at the beginning of the meditational session, the mind can be configured to a virtuous way. For example, the contemplator dwells in unidirectional concentration on the non-permanent nature of being. Then, at some point, his concentrated mind loses the memo and rolling into a state of a thin sweating, although at the beginning of the practice his condition was very positive.
Excitation occurs when we are in an overly raised arrangement of the Spirit or something has done very much. As an antidote, we need to apply the following method - we must try to confuse the joyful of the mind. This can be achieved with the help of thoughts and ideas that naturally adjust us to a gloomy way, for example, about death, the flow of life or that the suffering is laid in the very fact of human existence.
These methods can be applied in the context of all major religious traditions. Consider as an example theistic religion. If the meditation shows an excessive coarse or thin diard of the mind, then you can lift the spirit, thinking about the grace of the Lord or the merciful nature of the Lord. These thoughts can fill you with a feeling of joy, lifting and save your mind from sweating. Similarly, if excessive excitation is manifested, it is necessary to think, for example, how infrequently we can live in accordance with the covenants and instructions of the Lord, or remember the original sin. It immediately gives us humility in us and somewhat will take our peaceful lift. Thus, these practices can be applied in different religions.
Let's summarize. In order to overcome four obstacles in meditation, and especially the main of them (excitation and subtle diard), it is necessary to skillfully apply two mental factor: remembrance and vigilance. The vigilance helps us to be frequently followed by your mind, so that at any time it is to understand whether it is in the power of excitation or distracts, or focused on the object of meditation, or rolled into a dullness state. When we realized the condition of your mind, we rely on memo, which allows you to return your attention to the object of meditation and in the future it is to maintain focus on it. Thus, we can say that the practice of remembrance is the essence of meditation.
Whatever form of meditation you do, the most important thing is not to lose memo and constantly make efforts. It would be unrealistic to expect the results of meditation very quickly. It is necessary for a long time to make great efforts.
Analytical meditation, even if we do not use this term, constantly applied in our daily life and almost every profession. Take for an example of an entrepreneur. To achieve success, he needs an acute analytical mind. In the course of the negotiation process, he must weigh all "for" and "against". He gives himself a report or not, he applies the same analytical skills that we use in meditation.
In general, from two types of meditation, it is the analytical to most contribute to the transformation of the mind and heart.
Translation of Yulia Gironkina
Below are the meditations that Dalai Lama offers us 14. With their help, you will be able to strengthen the feeling of compassion, cope with your own egoism. Think about how the Buddhist philosophy of the development of compassion on the Christian commandment "Love your neighbor is similar.
Practice Ton Len (Exchange Meditation)
It is designed to train the mind, strengthening the natural power of compassion. These goals are achieved by combating their own egoism.
Start this exercise with visualization on one side of the group of people, desperately needing help, desperately suffering in poverty, deprivation and pain. Visualize this group as clear as possible. Then, on the other side, visualize ourselves as an incarnation of egoism and narcissism, indifference to the problems and needs of other people. And then see myself as a neutral observer between this group of suffering people and the selfish embodiment of themselves.
Now think to which of these sides you are experiencing a natural attraction. Do you have more to this lonely individual, the embodiment of egoism? Or your natural feeling of compassion is drawn to a group of weaker people who need help? If you are able to judge objectively, you will realize that the well-being groups are more important than the well-being of one person.
After that, focus on needing and suffering people. Direct all your positive energy on them. In the shower, give them your progress, your abilities, your positive qualities. Having done this, visualize the acceptance of their suffering, their problems.
So you can visualize an innocent Somali child suffering from hunger and think about how you reacted in reality to a similar spectacle. In this case, if you experience deep sympathy in relation to this child, it is based on a group of thoughts "he is mine relative "or" He is my friend. " You do not even know this child. But the fact that this creature is right in front of you is the same human being ", like you yourself, awakens your natural ability to sympathize with your natural ability. So, you can visualize something similar and think: "This child is not able to get rid of herself from the suffering and difficulties that are overcome." Then mentally assume all the suffering caused by poverty, hunger and a sense of humiliation, and mentally give this child all the material benefits you have, ability and success. With this "exchange" you can raise your mind.
When performing this practice, it is sometimes useful at the beginning to imagine their future suffering and, awakening the compassion, take these suffering right now with a sincere desire to free yourself from all future suffering. After you gain some experience in the awakening of compassion to yourself, you will be able to expand this practice, incorporating other people's suffering on it.
Visualizing the acceptance of other people's suffering, it is useful to represent suffering, problems and difficulties in the form of a poisonous substance, dangerous weapons or animals, objects, one type of which usually makes you shudder. Visualize suffering in these forms, and then take them directly into your heart.
The meaning of the visualization of these negative and hazardous forms dissolving in your hearts is to destroy our usual selfish relationship there. However, those who have problems with the perception of themselves, hate or low self-esteem, should first decide whether this practice is suitable for them. Probably no.
Practice ton-flax can be very effective if you combine visualization with a special breathing, you will imagine the "adoption" on the breath and "return" - in exhalation (Gassu meditation).
Meditation for anger: Exercise 1
Imagine that someone from familiar, close or dear people fall into the situation in which he loses control over. You can imagine that the situation is associated with the quarrel or some personal troubles. This man is so angry that he completely comes out of himself, creates very negative vibrations, even begins to beat himself or the things surrounding it.
Then think about the immediate consequences of the rage of this person. You will see that it changes physically. The person with whom you feel the proximity you love, one type of which brought you pleasure in the past, now turned into a monster in the full sense of the word. The reason why I suggest you visualize the rage of someone else is that the shortcomings of others are much easier to notice than their own. So, using your imagination, perform this meditation and visualization within a few minutes.
Having finished the visualization, analyze the situation and relate these circumstances with your personal experience. Do not care what and you repeatedly had to lose control of yourself. Tell myself: "I will never give up the influence of such a strong malice and hatred, otherwise I will be very similar to this person. I will also suffer from all these consequences, Lossing peace of mind, lost the ability to think soberly, look disgusting." And t. P. Accepting this decision, the last few minutes of meditation focus on it without any analysis; Let your mind simply focuses on the decision without leaving the influence of anger and hatred.
Meditation for anger: Exercise 2
Let's perform one more meditation using visualization. Start with the visualization of the person unpleasant to you, who annoys you, gives you a lot of problems. Then imagine the situation in which this person takes you out of himself or does something offensive for you.
Visualizing it, try to respond naturally: let the will with its natural reactions. Then analyze your condition, find out if your heartbeat is not intensified, etc. Find out what you feel: Comfort or discomfort, peace or anxiety. Examine yourself. So, for three to four minutes, experiment and explore. Then, if you come to the conclusion: "Yes, it makes no sense to allow this irritation to develop, I lose peace of mind." Tell me: "In the future, I will never do it." We work out this determination. Finally, in the past few minutes, meditation is as deeply focused on this solution and determination. That's all meditation.
Meditation of the exchange tone-flax can be the starting point for creating other options for this nature of unity, the significance of all people. In our school, for example, we are conducting such meditation.
Meditation "My Home - Earth"
Imagine land as your home. You sometimes leave it, leaving on vacation, on business trips, but always return with joy. You are here born by a human being. You fought for your existence. Together with you born and died all other types of life on Earth. You participated in the birth and death of civilizations, in mastering and studying the planet, in wars and holidays, in the joys and troubles of all mankind. Gradually, you are approaching your current life and live it from childhood until today with all people who filled it, with the whole country, the whole planet. Having lived this existence as a human being on Earth, you will experience an extraordinary expansion of consciousness.
Group meditations
Journey to the center
Deep inhale in the stomach, exhale "Ha - A". ATTENTION in Tanne, breathing Ki, just breathing. We descend on the channel of consciousness deep into the ground, throwing "anchor" - we visualize the symbol of the Cr., Three times they pronounce his name. Aware growing roots growing out of stop. We observe how energy rises on the feet, enters the spine, follow it up, watching each vertebra, through the painting energy goes into the sky.
We fold the palms in Gassely in front of the breast, smile to your heart, ascertain your hands up above your head, opening the palm of the sky, and visualize over the head symbols 1,2,3. We are closed with palm over the painter, then we lower them to the level of the heart, pronounce the principles of Reiki. We fold the hands by the belly by the abdomen in Jnana-Mudra, we transfer attention to the navel, we realize themselves on the rod of consciousness between the heaven and earth chakras, we connect these points in the sphere of light.
Breathing: inhale over the top of the tandan, exhale through the body and aura. A minute later, you feel how the space of your inner universe is saturated with energy, expands ... You feel that the body becomes a fixed, frozen in one concentrated point in the depths of the abdomen. Right into the very center of your creature, it is inside, right behind the navel of 2-3 fingers below. There is a life of your life source. Help him flashed brighter - draw the Rake symbol in the navel (or CR).
Feel a tide of energy, expansion. A little more and you can plunge into your center even deeper, find out the truth about yourself. You begin to disappear as a person as an ego. An internal witness appears, you need to merge with him. Testify that you do not have your body, mind, feelings, thoughts, emotions. You do not even have your name and your biography. You are pure consciousness.
Relax, go down to deeper into your own depth, to the very center of your life source. And you feel that you start to melt ... This is freedom from yourself. You acquire your essence, freed from the mask of the person.
Your heart begins to beat in the consonance with an universe heart, your roots leave deep into the ground, and the branches are dusted in the sky.
Beauty, power, love - merger with great existence. Collect all the truth of this moment and take with you in everyday life. From now on, she is with you ...
Inhale, exhale. Slowly open your eyes. Stay a little inside, do not rush to talk.
Harmony with me and the world (to activate the chakras)
Relax. Inhales deeply and release all thoughts with exhale. Imagine your legs deeply rooted in the ground. Energy rises, the energy is lifted at the bottom of the abdomen, rises along the spine up, goes through the top, spilling out the fountain of the body, and rushes high in space, where the silver stream of spiritual energy of the universe is descended from towards the rising flow of the Earth's energy. Both of these streams, mixing in Tandane, at the bottom of the abdomen, form your own unique energy of life. This is your place of peace and strength. From now on, your inner gaze is here. Relaxing is becoming more and more, you are immersing deep inside.. And begin to see images.
1st chakra. You go on white warm sand along the edge of the immense ocean. The whiseline sky is above you. Water smooth almost immovable.
Slow rings are washed caustic about your feet. As far as the Eye is grabbed the endless ocean and endless sand. You are absolutely lonely in this world of emerging life. The horizon paints the golden pink dawn, the golden path reflecting in the water. You are one, you are God, you are a Krishna, Buddha, Christ. You are one with this immense ocean of the sky, land and water.
2nd chakra. You feel the power of your body in the arms of the sun, sky, water and sand. Your eyes are guessing the oasis in the distance. These are exotic trees, herbs, flowers, animals. You sit down on the grass and notice near the wonderful animal, it stretches to you, you look into his eyes and see interest and joy there. The game begins. Other animals are included in it.
Joy overwhelms you. Running you rushing to the ocean and enjoy bathing.
3rd chakra. Returning to the oasis, you notice the source of cool clean water and enjoy drink from it. You notice wonderful fruits and berries, try them to taste. You are arranged a hammock on a sprawler tree. Resting, you are watching savanna, for her life, after all the space of your being, filling a sense of unity with everything that is a sense of security.
4th chakra. You go down and feel like your heart starts singing. Your own world is full of paints and the joy of relationships. Walking on the ocean of eternity, you notice the way going going to meet the figure of a person. Approaching him, you extend a palm to him and comes into contact with his palms, feel the energy of kinship, attraction, he came from his world, he is also alone, but he is the same, you, a resident of this ocean of eternity. You take your hands
they look into each other and start an amazing dance. The energy of the heart fills the chest, rises above.
5th chakra. And you begin to communicate, telling about your feelings, experiences, about your world - as you can only. You are clean and filled with gratitude, you meet the same in the interlocutor.
6th chakra. And suddenly an insight comes: you and your friend is it, he, like you, is born by this ocean of eternity, which means an integral from you.
7th chakra. Your mind rushes upwards, stitch, deep into the ocean, oasis with its plants and animals, over the planet Earth. Your attention is focused on the 7th chakra, on a violet flame. Cosmos rhythm fascinates you. And an understanding comes: Planet Earth lives, like you, in the ocean of eternity, choosing the energies of seven planets and the sun. And you feel the beat of the pulse of eternal life. It penetrates you through the planet Earth on the ray of creation. You see and feel like a rainbow seven chakras of your consciousness pulses energy of life.
Now you can tell yourself: "I am one with the energy of the great existence," "I am one with the Being", "I am in harmony with me and with the world," "My consciousness is endless."
At this point, you start feeling your greatness. The snow-white lotus of your consciousness germinates thousands of petals in infinity of the star paths, universes and spaces.
Make a deep breath and exhalation, slowly open your eyes.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements require a big risk. The risk is present in every wonderful opportunity in life. If she were not risky, then everyone could use it, which would make it usual, not "exceptional". Separate yourself from the crowd, like the one who can not only go to risk, but also loves to do so. Such confidence in life can bring you satisfaction until you get bored.
2. When you miss something, do not miss the lesson. If you lose what you knew how such that would not be done, you will be doomed to get this lesson again. More important, however, fear of failure. Failure is a predecessor of success. It is unlikely that something special, which you want to achieve, will come without failures. This returns us to the risk rule mentioned above.
3. Follow the three eternal rules: Respect yourself - Trust plays a key role in success and one who respects themselves, others trust. Thus, if you do not respect yourself, you will not be able to succeed in something big and you will not be able to respect others. Respect others - And you will be maintained mutually. Anyone who on a mutual basis does not show respect for you, immediately gives you to know that he is not worth your time and does not respect himself. Avoid weak, unreliable, complete hatred of people. We are responsible for all your actions - Only you are responsible for your feelings, actions, success, etc. You have complete control over your life, so do not try to blame other people for your mistakes or misfortune.
4. Remember that the non-receipt of what you want is sometimes incredible luck.. Not all that you want will definitely be good for you in the long run. If something does not work for you for a long time, so that it seems that fate intervened, think about letting go to let it at all or return to it. The paths of the universe are non-evortions and this should be trusted. Just make sure you do not give your own mistakes for the prompts of the universe.
5. Learn the rules to know how to break them correctly. The rules are for both intended to break them. Most of them are put into effect by archaic, corrupt institutions seeking only to enslave and maintain their own power. When it comes to a violation of the rules installed by them, do it correctly to avoid punishment. But first of all, make sure you actually violate the rules. If the authorities were never challenged, we could become a congestive civilization.
6. Do not let the little disagreement to destroy big friendship. Obviously, friendship is more important than one small dispute, but very few people actually apply this rule in practice. They will also have to follow rule 7 in order to truly follow this rule.
7. When you realized that they made a mistake, take immediate steps to fix it. And do not let your pride become on the way of committing these steps. Bring apologies by taking full responsibility. It will talk about your personality more than the action that has led the mistake from the very beginning.
8. Every day spend one time alone with you. Regardless of what you do, allocate at least 30 minutes a day to spend them alone in a quiet place. It will give you at least half an hour for analyzing what is happening in your life, to study the most of themselves and find out what you want. Do you use prayer, meditation, yoga or golf, this ritual is required.
9. Swipe the arms of change, but do not reject your values. This world is constantly changing. If you are not open to change, then you will live a very unfortunate life. You yourself will also change, but this does not mean that your values \u200b\u200bshould be discarded. Welcome new places, new faces and new love, but never change the core part of yourself, except that you have good reason to believe that your belief in them from the very beginning was erroneous.
