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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.08,0:00:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear friends, now I would like to \Naddress some commonly asked questions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.72,0:00:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about guided meditation in Plum Village.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.85,0:00:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first question we might be asked is
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.48,0:00:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do we apply\NPlum Village guided sitting meditations
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.41,0:00:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can benefit\Nfrom the meditations?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.56,0:00:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You realize that on this app
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.36,0:00:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a number of guided\Nmeditations for you to practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.48,0:00:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main thing to remember is \Nnot to try to use our intellect
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.16,0:00:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are practicing guided meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.88,0:00:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words of the guided meditation\Nare there to touch seeds,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.80,0:01:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we call them seeds.They are potentials\Nin the depths of your consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.48,0:01:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When those seeds are watered \Nby the words,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.90,0:01:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you can concentrate\Non that particular feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.25,0:01:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that comes up in association\Nwith the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.60,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you try and think too much,\Nthe guided meditation will not help you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.96,0:01:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In guided meditation images are \Nusually more helpful than abstract ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.29,0:01:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So be aware of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.99,0:01:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A word can water an image. You can\Nuse the image in order to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.91,0:02:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realize some insight that\Nyou may not have ever had before.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.64,0:02:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time you use a guided meditation,\Nthe insight will be a little bit different.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.32,0:02:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no perfect insight that goes \Nwith a particular guided meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.60,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second question: what can we do if we \Ndon't understand the exercise,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.49,0:02:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we cannot experience the exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.22,0:02:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, we hear, 'Breathing in,\NI feel joy', and we don't feel joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.52,0:02:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is just an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.89,0:02:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should not ever try\Nto experience something,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.87,0:03:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some words that we hear. If we \Ndon't have an experience we can let go,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.25,0:03:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the next time when you want\Nto do that meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.24,0:03:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may like to\Nprepare yourself a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.12,0:03:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may like to remember times\Nwhen you have felt a deep joy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.37,0:03:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that came not from things\Ngoing on around you
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.71,0:03:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but came from your own consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.29,0:03:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you may remember\Nthe incident or the event
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.04,0:03:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that triggered that sense of joy in you,\Nand you can feel that joy again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.16,0:03:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our daily life,\Nit is important to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.60,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we have moments of joy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.53,0:03:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to help those moments of joy to last,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.78,0:04:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the depths of our consciousness\Nare like a ratatouille, like a stew,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.71,0:04:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we put many ingredients in that.\NThey all, the taste of each ingredient
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.26,0:04:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes into the other ingredients.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.18,0:04:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that just by watering the seed of joy\Nevery day in your consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.94,0:04:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will transform some of the suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.05,0:04:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by penetrating the suffering without you\Nhaving to make an effort to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.96,0:04:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What can we do when\Nwe haven't realized the exercise
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.85,0:04:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then the next exercise\Nis already coming?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.82,0:04:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a difficulty\Nthat many of us may experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.37,0:04:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because everyone needs more time than\Nor a different amount of time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.86,0:05:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for realizing an exercise.\NSo if you need more time, the best thing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.39,0:05:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to try to remember\Nthe guided meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.91,0:05:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then to practice it on your own.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.76,0:05:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may like to note it down,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.85,0:05:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the different stages\Nof the meditation are.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.91,0:05:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you do it on your own,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.72,0:05:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you can take as long as you like\Nfor each part of the exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.90,0:05:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, that is really the way for you\Nto use these exercises on the app.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.67,0:05:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not every time\Nto have to listen to the app,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.85,0:05:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but be able to remember the exercises,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.77,0:05:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then practice them\Nfor yourself in your own time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.60,0:05:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are Plum Village guided \Nmeditations visualizations?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.93,0:05:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is meant by 'Breathing in,\NI see myself as a flower,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.39,0:05:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathing in, I see myself\Nas a mountain', and so on?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.79,0:06:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are images. 'Flower' is a word,\Nand when you hear the word 'flower'
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.12,0:06:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you let it sink into\Nthe deep levels of your consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.69,0:06:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then a flower image\Nwill appear in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.66,0:06:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same is true of a mountain image.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.87,0:06:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you allow any image that comes up,\Nto come up of a flower.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.99,0:06:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And going with that image\Nthere is a feeling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.59,0:06:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The feeling going with the flower image\Nis a feeling of freshness,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.44,0:06:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the feeling going with a mountain \Nimage is a feeling of solidity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.72,0:06:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the image and the feeling,\Nthey go together,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.47,0:06:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they keep watering each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.08,0:06:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's like a feedback.\NYou have the image and then the feeling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.38,0:06:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the feeling leads\Nto the image again, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.32,0:07:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should we stay in one chapter, if you're \Nusing the book 'Blooming of a Lotus',
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.52,0:07:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we understand before \Nwe move to another chapter?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.68,0:07:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need, if we're using\Na book of guided meditations,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.39,0:07:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what has helped me is to be able\Nto know all the guided meditations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.50,0:07:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, depending\Non my state of mind, or my need,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.39,0:07:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I will choose the suitable \Nguided meditation for that particular day.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.64,0:07:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there are days when I feel tired\Nand not so well,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.36,0:07:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I need to do meditations which\Nwill help take care of my body,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.64,0:07:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,help relax my body, calm my body.\NAnd in relaxing and calming my body,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.69,0:08:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will relax and calm my mind.\NAnd when I feel strong and well,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.36,0:08:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will do some meditation like\Na meditation on impermanence,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.81,0:08:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to see that\NI am of the nature to die, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.12,0:08:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I am not in good health and it is \Nnot so, or in my body or my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.36,0:08:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to do meditations\Nlike contemplating my own death,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.17,0:08:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or contemplating the death\Nof my loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.60,0:08:39.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why in Plum Village\Nis there such an emphasis
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.58,0:08:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on breathing and the body\Nin guided meditation?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.36,0:08:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The breathing is the basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.81,0:08:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The breathing is like if you have a truck,\Nand that truck can carry things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.19,0:09:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can also be empty of carrying things.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.17,0:09:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it can take them\Nfrom one place to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.92,0:09:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the breathing is like that, it can take\Nyour mind from one place to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.55,0:09:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing about meditation\Nis that sometimes,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.02,0:09:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we haven't got guidance\Nin our meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.21,0:09:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our mind just goes along in one track.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.18,0:09:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or it's like a train.\NThe train goes from Bordeaux to Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.48,0:09:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it goes from Paris to Bordeaux.\NIt goes back and forth on the same track.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.34,0:09:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But guided meditation is to try\Nand get our mind out of its normal tracks,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.35,0:09:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go in a different direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.56,0:09:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need our breathing.\NWhen we come back to our breathing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.50,0:09:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just concentrate on our breathing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.15,0:10:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we can let go of the \Nnormal ways of thinking that we have,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.81,0:10:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allow the meditation to guide us\Nin thinking in a different way
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.26,0:10:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in feeling in a different way, which \Ncan bring us insight and transformation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.40,0:10:22.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason why we begin often \Nwith mentioning your body
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.37,0:10:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because mind and body\Nare not two separate realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.70,0:10:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, what we do\Nis we alienate a little,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.70,0:10:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we alienate our body from our mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.18,0:10:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we may feel that\Nour body is a source of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.63,0:10:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we take our mind out of our body,\Naway from our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.12,0:10:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, our mind is not at its best\Nwhen it is separated from our body,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.41,0:11:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not its true self\Nwhen it's separated from our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.91,0:11:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's very important to bring\Nour mind and our body together.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.74,0:11:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is what the breathing can do,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.42,0:11:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the breathing is a function of our\Nbody and the breathing is also spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.12,0:11:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we feel our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.55,0:11:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we stay in our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.36,0:11:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout the meditation exercise.\NAnd if at any point,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.42,0:11:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel that your mind\Nis gone out of your body,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.02,0:11:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it's very important to open your eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.04,0:11:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring your mind and your body\Nback together again.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.55,0:11:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, all meditation\Nin Plum Village is about,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.50,0:12:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is meditation that is done with \Nthe mind and the body together.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.36,0:12:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.