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So now I want to jump into meditation without object, and everybody wants to learn that. How many of you want to learn that? So we learn meditation with object, right? Remember? Yeah, maybe we can do a poll question. Yes and no. How many of you want to learn meditation without object? Sometimes what we call objectless meditation or open awareness meditation. And how many of you want to learn? Okay, so I think 475 of you want to learn. So it's a percentage. How many percentage? 74 percentage, maybe. Okay.
Anyway, um, so the meditation without object, awareness without object, is like trying to see light in the empty space. So it is quite challenging because it's going to be beyond concept. With the sound, it's quite easy, right? Your mind can grab on something. You can listen to sound. I can hear the sound. But now it's quite challenging because you don't have an object. So what we call awareness being with itself. So awareness is like a lamp. Do you know the candle lamp? So the flame has two qualities. It illuminates itself and it illuminates things around. So if you have the candle, and then if you bring the watch, you can see the watch because of the light from the candle. So what we call illuminating others. But at the same time, the candle is the light. The flame is the light. So flame is illuminated by itself. What we call self-luminosity. So two things, right? For the flame, the self-luminosity and illuminating others. So the self-luminosity means like the flame is the light. So we don't need to use a flashlight to see the flame because the flame is the light. No need of two things. And then the flame can illuminate the watch. So same thing, our mind has these two, um, clarity. So mind illuminates itself, but at the same time, our mind illuminates others. So you can see my hand, you can hear the sound, you can smell. So illuminating others. So we already learned how to meditate with illuminating others, meaning listen to sound. Finish. So now, very important meditation is being with the mind itself without object. So this is difficult if you're new to this meditation. I think many of you already learned this because I see many of you from, uh, J Living Part, the liberation background. So you already know. But if we are new to this one, then we need two steps. The first step is what we call, um, just relax. You don't need to meditate. And, um, just like after you finish work or exercise, maybe you, you, you went jogging for half an hour and you finish your jog, then you rest on a nice bench with a deep breathing, like that. So this first step, we don't need to meditate. So it's very easy. The second step is the object meditation without object. That's the second step. So this first step, just relaxing. And you know how to relax, right? If you're tired, normal, what we do, like that, right? Just like that. Or cleaning. After cleaning the house, you feel very tired and you're relaxed. Or after the meditation class, you go to a meditation retreat and very tired, finish meditation retreat, oh, relax. Or after, uh, 5:00 PM when you finish your work, you're very happy. So just like that. So no need to meditate. Just let your mind be as it is. Relax. So we will practice this together. So please everybody keep your spine loosely straight. Keep your spine loosely straight and, uh, relax muscles in your body. And if you want, you can close your eyes and just feel your body and just relax. And if you cannot relax also, okay. For the awareness, relax feeling of relax is awareness. Feeling of not relax also awareness. So it doesn't matter. Now, please do deep breathing together. Slowly let go and the rest. Now breathing in and natural breath and continue. Just relax your mind. No need to meditate. Just relax. And we will do deep breathing again. Slowly breathing [Music] in and let go and the pause a little bit and relax. Now breathing in and natural breathing again and continue. Relax, relax your mind, relax your body. And remember, this is not the meditation. So there's no right or wrong. You don't have to worry about, am I doing right or wrong? As long as you just try to relax, then it's okay. Even you cannot relax also, okay. Now, last deep breathing. Slowly, slowly breathing in [Music] again, relax. Now natural breathing again and continue to just relax. Okay. How was it? How many of you feel relaxed? Little bit relaxed? Yes and no. Poll question. So you can, if you feel relaxed, you can click yes. If you didn't feel relaxed, you can say no. Okay. [Music] 95% of you feel relaxed. Correct. And 5% of you don't feel relaxed. Also good. Because this is not the meditation. And especially if you cannot feel relaxed, be okay with it. And when you give permission to yourself that you cannot relax, that means you're relaxing. And actually, for the awareness, it doesn't matter. Relax or not relax, doesn't matter.
So another example for the awareness, what we call, um, the awareness is like sky. And relax, no relax, or the thought emotions. When I was young, I had panic attacks. Maybe we feel disappointed, depressed, maybe anger, maybe, um, loneliness, or maybe just a bunch of thoughts. All this are like clouds in the sky, like storms. So these storms cannot change the nature of the sky. No matter what happens, sky is beyond clouds. And sky cannot be polluted by clouds. So similarly, we all have this inner sky. Sometimes what I call, uh, inner safe place. You know, nowadays everybody is looking for a safe place, right? The real safe place is within us. That our awareness, the kindness and compassion and the wisdom is the real safe place. And that, that is with us all the time. This innate well-being, like that diamond, remember, like diamond, like sky, with us all the time. We just need to recognize. We need to discover. Okay.
So now we just finished the first step. How many of you are ready for the second step? So second step is the non-conceptual. So it's very difficult. You have to think well before making a decision, you know. So how many of you want to have the second one? Yes, yes and no. Poll question. Yes, I like to learn the second step. [Music] Great. So 98% of you want to learn the second step. So you all are brave, you know, very courageous. So everybody fasten seatbelt. You know, when you fly, you have to fasten seatbelt, right? Why? Because from the concept, we are going to beyond concept. So we have to use the seatbelt. So ready? I think many of you know already. So normally, what I call here, we have a big secret. And how many of you know this big secret? Uh, yes and no. Poll question again. So first step is finished. For the second step, we have a big secret. So how many of you know the big secret? Yes and no. Still many people doesn't know. That's good. So 55% of you know the big secret and 45% of you know you don't know the big secret. Okay, very good.
So now I will tell you the big secret. And this big secret is the open awareness meditation or objectless meditation. So actually, there is no such as second step. So that means the objectless meditation is already done. What we did together now, just let our mind be as it is, right? That is the meditation without object, the open awareness meditation. So you all did it, actually. But I didn't tell you. I told you the second step. So we have to be, you know, ready for this. Why is that? Because what we call normally non-meditation is the best meditation. So real meditation, we don't need to meditate. Because the fundamental quality of our mind is pure. It is beyond. It is present. So it's just like sky. Nothing to get rid of, nothing to create, it, nothing to change. So therefore, just let our mind be as it is. And the mind is always illuminating, always has the clarity, awareness. So it's like light in the empty sky, our mind. So when we let our mind be as it is, then there are three qualities there. We are not lost. Actually, there's there's a sense of being, sense of relax, sense of presence is there. There's something there. We are not like zombie. We are not become like zombie. So zombie become like that. No. So we are not like that. And the second quality is we are not meditating. We we don't have any particular object. No meditation meaning no object. We don't need to listen to sound. We don't need to watch our breathing. We don't need to feel the bodily sensation or not need any object. So second quality, no object. Third, what we call natural, completely natural. So if your mind is peaceful, okay. Not peaceful, okay. If your mind is messy, also okay. Clear is okay. Everything is okay. So no matter how much cloud comes in the sky, sky is always okay. Sky is always beyond. So no meditation meaning no object, but not totally lost. And number three, completely natural. So this is what we call open awareness meditation or meditation without object, awareness being with itself.
So now I would like to ask you to do homework. So what is the homework? Um, during the break time, please try to meditate one of this, maybe sound or maybe open awareness meditation, few seconds. Like while you're drinking tea, you know, hope and awareness or listen to sound if there is sound. Or while you're walking around, while using the bathroom, why not? While you're going outside to the exercise. Just short time, many times. You don't need to worry about the posture. You don't need to close your eyes. If you walk outside and close your eyes, danger, you know. So no need to close your eyes. But just short time, many times, a glimpse, glimpse, glimpse.