Two Kinds of Awareness

This video includes subtitles in English, Japanese, and Spanish.

[AG-yxip]

I get it now: in meditation we are adding another layer of awareness directing it towards our awareness -that’s why any object is useful for meditation - this way we are exercising the mind. With practice we can get more and more familiar with this second layer of awareness and that leads to calm and profound understanding of the nature of things .

[FutureSoundStation]

You are a wonderful human being. I have been meditating for a few months now and much of the way we approach it in the west has not felt right to me. Everything is about goals or classes or making money. But your words are true and wise and echo my mind like a mirror. You are able to articulate much of what I knew but could not express. Thank you

[beales]

Your explanations of mindfulness practice are crystal clear. I have been meditating for 10 years and read tons of books and watched tons of youtube videos on the subject and yours are among the best.

[generalllup]

During the average days I have moments of awareness when I catch myself observing myself doing what I’m doing and usually think oh wow, I’ve been in autopilot.
Being aware as you Breathe in breathe out is all that’s required to become the silent observer.
It’s amazing

[healingmelody]

Whoever is reading this now, remember:

You can achieve anything you can imagine. You are the light, that radiates love and compassion!
Feel the abundance in your heart and be sure that you are not alone on this journey!
Feel the power within and be the creator of your own reality!

Blessings to all beings!
Love and Light!

[Fascistbeast]

He is explaining the lotus flower of Buddhism.
Surrounded by dirt in a pond but the flower is stable and blooms.
Our minds should live in the world like this!

[okaaykate]

The metaphor with water was one of the best I have ever heard!

[juancarlos]

Thank you so much, you saved my life, and you don't know :) please, continue helping people, I will follow you always

[paulmiller]

Thank you for this. You're a beautiful soul and this came to me just as I needed it. I no longer wish to be a flag in the wind.

[vlanderable]

The water metaphor made it easier to understand. With awareness moving around it's like turbulent water stirring up mud and making the water murky, but when you focus your awareness on one thing, it just takes a little time before the mud settles to the bottom and you can see clearly again.

[themindfuldj]

There is a great difference between secular teachings of mindfulness and those speaking from direct realisation of their essential nature that is awareness. The former is dry and lacks passion, based on using mindfulness as a technique to prop up an already struggling ego. The latter is about ego death and fully living from the absolute truth of what one is, which is always aware, empty and one with all experience. Thank God for teachers like this who don’t give a pale version of truth but transmit the full grace of what all the great spiritual teachers from all traditions have, which is our fundamental nature. Awareness is always the case, we just need to stop identifying as the images and labels we have picked up along the way and rest in the direct experiential truth that we are 🙏🏻

[adogdad]

Meditative awareness is the flag pole. Unmoving and always present.

[pemachoedon]

I had an anxiety attack recently and now I am feeling so much better after listening and meditating under your guidance. Thank you so much Rinpoche!
Lama la Kyapsu Chey

[sudo]

I had amazing patience when i had no phone, over time my patience degraded because of the need of not getting bored. Over time i got so bored of everything i have, then i got this awareness that phones and other stimulants really makes my life worse than good.
Getting bored alot for an uncouscius need for an unhealthy stimulating device. 🌌

[atmajazone]

Maybe people who gave dislike to this video, didn't understand what Rinpoche try to explain. This is one of his best video ever. Because it showed what awareness in meditation is. That it is not concentration or even focus, because we do those everyday in daily life but we aren't meditating. Thank you Rinpoche for the teaching.

[Captaincrunchh]

your book has got me into meditation i have been doing it for almost 5 years now and ever since i have been opened up to a greater understanding of life and sense of possibility, thank you

[jvkk]

He is enlightened master! Thanks for explaining in a simple way

[shitalsrivastava]

You are my favorite Buddhist guru . 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Godislove]

I'm so thankful for this master simplicity. Makes me feel so at ease.

[nguyendl]

You are not the bad emotion (anger, worries, fear, grief...), you're the observer which is observing (awareness) those bad emotions. With awareness 💎, your bad emotions are less harmful/ powerless on your mind 😊