Apr 17 2019 54 mins 5
Subtitle, the Design, History and Original Purpose of Meditation. The content of our modern minds becomes overwhelming for us. There is so much messaging from so many sources, television, work, the media, advertising, the news, the internet, our devices, our family, our friends, partners and peers. In the modern world, we make a critical, yet understandable error. We confuse the contents of the mind with the mind itself. Thoughts are messages from our mind as it tries to interpret this incessant deluge of information. The mind is running a verbal interpretation of the complicated narrative it is trying to negotiate past our awareness in a search for consistency and resolution to its confusion. If it fails to gain consistency it continues to produce this stream of thought and then we have the modern mind. It is the work of many years to observe, notice and calm this process. In this session, Robert teaches key meditations from the perspective of the ancient meditative concept of Clarity. Clarity meditation allows us to see what we project onto any experiences we have from our personal and cultural narratives. The Dzogchen Clarity meditation helps us to see what we bring to an experience and what it actually consists of as a sensory experience of the present moment without that narrative operating. We can witness our responses and thoughts arise, subside, become replaced and finally dissolve in the intricate detail of the experience of the present moment. The Modern Mind meditation allows us to experience, at a very low level, the point where thought arises into our experience. We can witness our thoughts arising through these mediations. This process of observing our mind witnessing thoughts arising is what Robert calls The Wisdom Process. Meditations are: A Dzogchen Clarity Meditation The Modern Mind Meditation.
