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subscribe so today is meditation and I
talked a little bit about it in how to
create the perfect vegan life so get the
book today it's a very very short easy
read even if you're not vegan get the
book okay so meditation I'm going to be
explaining some very simple and basic
concepts for people who don't really
know what or how to start it or what it
is so meditation is basically trying to
understand who we are as individuals so
we can strive to not only help this
world humans and other animals but to
just understand who we are so we can
understand our purpose and then create
that purpose individual purpose and try
what we can to better this world so
basically the first thing that we want
to do or the first things that we want
to do is is understand that meditation
is trying to understand who we are okay
this is what I refer to what is referred
to as self contemplation or self inquiry
meditation and this meditation is just
one of the meditations that you can you
can work at there's various ones and in
my book I talk about several techniques
and basically what you want to do is you
want to create within you more positive
environment so that is what you want to
try and do is not only understand who we
are as individuals but to create a more
positive environment now you're not
going to meditate to create a worser
environment or to create a bad
environment or situation but to create a
better environment so for example let's
say you are I don't know having some
kind of stress in your life with your
work for example with your job and so we
need to meditate in order to try to
relieve that stress now the stress can
also be relieved in many other ways like
positive thinking and positive thinking
action so when we meditate we can
meditate in many different ways now I'm
meditating by sitting on the bed you can
meditate that way you can meditate with
your legs crossed you can meditate
standing it's better to meditate with
one's eyes closed in a fixed position
now you definitely can meditate or
please be mindful more more or less
mindful when you are about walking
around in nature wherever but you gotta
make sure of course that your eyes are
not you know not closed because of
course if you're on the street and
they're closed you might get into an
accident call them sense so you're
sitting here and you are with your eyes
closed you are meditating now when you
meditate you remove all abstractions
okay you remove everything from just
everything you want a clear mind
basically so what I've learned is that
you want there's a meditation where you
I actually meditate from nothingness so
you just meditate and there's absolutely
nothing in your mind and then you see
where that leads to
now you can meditate also on nothingness
but just meditating on nothingness and
what that does it really calms the mind
in the heart so whenever you meditate
breathing in and breathing out very
slowly and also clearing any negative
thoughts within you
any thought of that that not matter when
you do this then you are ready to really
to begin to meditate on on ourselves so
Who am I so this is what I focus on and
this is what I teach is self inquiry
meditation so who we are
so how do we actually meditate on who we
are we just have to meditate
consistently on this notion who we are
now I don't meditate always on this
notion of Who am I I meditate many
different ways as as I talked about in
my book so there's several meditations
that I that I actually practice but like
the self inquiry is what I really really
focus on and I've been focusing on that
for like 15 some years so you breathe in
and breathe out slowly deeply and you
try to understand basically try to
understand our songs and who we are okay
and see what what comes out of it okay
so you sit you can cross your legs if
you want and sit this way you can sit
like this all up to you there's really
no wrong way to do
you can sit on your bed like this and
meditate whatever but the preferable way
is to sit and to meditate now people say
it is not good to sit for very long time
so if you meditate for a very long time
I would really suggest to stand actually
meditating if you get tired of course
then you go back to the sitting position
and then alternate that you know from
sitting and meditating now I recommend
that you don't meditate you know too
long of a time because you want to be
able to to be flexible and active
throughout the day so you don't want to
meditate too long
supreme master Ching hai recommends
two-and-a-half hours per day you can
include some of that in the morning and
some of that at night so let's say an
hour and an hour so that's two hours and
then let's say in the afternoon time
some sometimes half an hour so you can
do that for example really depends
sometimes I do a few minutes a day and
sometimes there there are times when I
do like hours a day so it really really
depends but if you do more than like two
to three hours you should really strive
to do that throughout the day so again a
little bit of learning a little bit a
night meditation just one note
meditation and praying are very very
similar things but they are I actually
do praying more than I actually meditate
and I got into praying more once I
started reading the Bible and still not
of course I'm just a student of the
Bible by no means am i religious and I
do not agree on everything that it's in
the Bible so there
are a lot of very good very good
passages in there and there are some
that are not so good and some that I
just didn't read but I did read a lot of
the Bible so I know a lot of it and so
praying is more like trying like talking
to the universe or God and and just
talking with your higher consciousness
because God and universe can basically
be known also known as your higher cone
higher consciousness and it is different
because meditation is just feeling
within you the mind the mind and seeing
within your mind and heart
but praying is really like talking you
can pray of course
silently but praying is generally
talking to the higher power so it's a
little bit different but when we
meditate you can again whatever position
is comfortable for you if you want to
just sit on a bed or a chair or kneeling
on the floor or your bed whatever it
takes to practice meditation okay
so again you close your eyes and you
start you know clearing all negative
thoughts from you any emotions that you
know come to you don't hide any of these
emotions don't don't suppress them but
embrace all these emotions if there are
any negative emotions try to you know
clear them and just continue it's pretty
simple
and for people that are very the very
very beginning stages and they don't
know too much about meditation but what
we've got to do is when we first start
to meditate let's say I'm starting
tonight at the
I'm a beginner I don't know what to
expect with thoughts and things and the
whole problem is people's minds are
racing all the time we're racing all the
time going to one place going to another
place so the first thing that we got to
do is get rid of all thoughts of
anything that is external any thoughts
of X any external thoughts get rid of it
get rid of your problems with your kids
with your grandkids with their job with
their friends with your life with money
problems any issues that you have get
rid of all of that and that is going to
be hard and sometimes we can't even sit
and can't even concentrate we keep on
thinking of these problems because that
is our society our society wants us
living in fear wants us living in this
rush rush rush rush rush you know go
here go there eat you know well on the
run and all these things so you want to
be calm and that is the thing in life
isn't going to be mindful and calm at
every moment or at least majority of the
time and to strive to keep this keep
this balance so when it comes to
meditation we have to set at least a few
minutes a day I would say at least 5-10
minutes in the morning and and 5-10
minutes in the evening or nights before
going to bed and we should meditate we
could even meditate while we sleep think
about you know meditating you know the
line so meditating basically is removing
anything and everything from our minds
and now we're ready to begin to meditate
now again there's two main ways to do
this the main way is self inquiry
meditation as I discussed so thinking
about nothing and then getting into this
Who am I and Who am I
meditating on Who I am and keep
meditating on this and trying to
understand who we are this builds on a
foundation so we can understand what our
purpose is or at least what our goals
are that we must achieve in our lives
the second thing is just meditating
again on nothing yes but nothingness and
see where that leads to because there's
two different types of nothing that's
meditation and that is one is just
meditating on nothingness in keeping
that stance that God mind and meditating
starting to meditate on nothingness but
then seeing where it leads to
so this is a good thing for beginners
meditating or nothingness and seeing
where it leads to because this way you
get rid of all your thoughts and then
you come to understanding realizing who
you are or just anything whatever comes
to mind comes to your mind and heart so
when we any any time when we exhibit
emotions negative emotions you must turn
those into positive emotions so for
example let's say we're example let's
say we're I don't know meditating on
nothingness and then again come to our
thoughts about a jobs for example so
let's see it's a negative job all our
bosses are you know stressing us out and
we've got very little time and jaw my
job is awful and you know create
positive affirmations about our jobs
okay so if you say your boss is
he's an awful boss whatever maybe that's
coming to your mind anything negative
you just reverse it and think something
positive about that person or positive
at least about that situation so let's
say okay your boss is giving me so much
work he's very bossy and he or she I
don't know always gave me so much work
okay so you got to translate that into
something positive so thinking about
something positive what about that
person let's say something positive both
those people well they're the reason
that you're employed first of all so
that's a benefit that's so that's
something good so that's basically like
gratitude is what you want to talk about
about this person what are the what is
the positive qualities of that person
but what does the call quality positive
qualities of that job but what is the
positive qualities of that situation so
let's say let's just say I don't know
could be you know my kids are my
grandkids are stressing me out
okay they're giving me a lot of stress
so first of all we create all of the
events in our lives we create all the
events in our lives we think the events
events are external but they're not
external at all we just see them
externally but all the events everything
starts from within ourselves and a lot
of people can't grasp this notion they
don't understand it they don't believe
it and they just think everything is
external everything happens externally
and that's absolutely not true because
when we create positivity within
ourselves through our minds so when we
see a
situation as positive situation I mean
maybe in the beginning of this situation
or the event it may be you know a
negative situation but then you get back
on track and we focus on positivity and
we focus on how can we learn from this
situation or event and how can we fix it
and no situation no event no person is
negative situation so our kids did not
do this to us
or drinkies did not do this to us we
don't have a stressful life because
everything is starting from a blank
slate just like a movie you start if
you're a filming director you start with
a blank movie canvas there's nothing in
the movie absolutely nothing there may
be some ideas or some things like that
that we may have but there's absolutely
nothing on the canvas in fact nothing
even exists in this world everything is
just externally visible and externally
hopping happening but nothing is nothing
really even exists if you think about it
we create all of these to happen for
example the chairs over there and even
though the chair physically is over here
I can choose to put the chair somewhere
else and then that movie or that movie
which I call it's a light my life but
basically to me I call it a movie but
basically the movie and now for the life
now is different because the chair is
somewhere else just like if I sell this
computer then you know something happens
within my life and then then from there
something else happens if I decide not
to sell it then I know the thing will
happen so psyche those books I don't
know if you remember those those books
where are you where you I can't remember
what they
call but basically when you when you
read the first page you'll tell you oh
do you want to like go to go to page
five or do you want to go to page ten
instead and do this or not so it's
telling you if you do one thing it's
going to take you on this path and if
you're doing other things going to take
you on this path so let's if if the kids
and grandkids are causing you stress
let's try to you know change that around
so we're doing all of this but you know
mentally and spiritually when our eyes
are closed meditating okay basically so
our kids and our grandkids are stressing
yourself now what about the situation is
stressing ourselves how can we rectify
this situation because we can you can
change the whole situation we are the
creators of our lines okay we can change
that whole situation now of course the
universe God higher power whatever has
as a like a set kind of journey that we
are on but we can change some of that
okay so we do have some free will I'm
not saying all three will but we do have
some control of our free will so let's
say they stress us out because they
always seem to have problems in their in
their lives okay now we've graded for
example this situation we create
everything in our lives
nobody else creates these problems when
we create these problems we create these
problems okay so everything that is
external we create those problems within
ourselves it's somewhere deep very deep
within ourselves so if we are stressed
out about our kids and grandkids we
created those problems they did not
create those problems we created it and
we can we can edit or alter those
situations to make them a positive
situation
so before we
start to analyze it and start to create
positive situations from those events
what we're going to do is we're going to
understand that no matter how bad a
situation or event might seem to be we
can actually create our thoughts our
hearts we can create positive thoughts
and we can see these events in a
positive light just understanding that
there's always some thing that we're
going to get out of it some kind of a
learning lesson okay we might not
understand what the learning lesson is
but there's always some learning lesson
you can always turn that negative into a
positive okay so let me give you
specifics for example so let's say they
just stress us out and I don't know they
don't listen and they just do whatever
they want and they're causing a lot of
chaos within your life okay so there's a
lot of things happening the kids are
always asking for money from you the
grandkids are always asking for things
from you
maybe junk food or something like that
they're always fighting let's say they
never listen to you all these things
okay so let's analyze this and this is a
big action big situation so this is
going to go all within our minds now we
can actually accomplish this even
without meditation but meditation it's
good to be calm and whatever but we can
do this also just by thinking about
these things first we have to understand
that this situation is a learning
experience okay and there's always
something positive coming out of this
learning experience now we can change
that
event or situation at any time so if we
want to continue to see it as a negative
situation we're going to continue seeing
it as a negative situation plain and
simple
just like if we always have this fear
mentality that something's going to
happen to us or something's going to
happen to our kids we're always going to
have this fear mentality so we have to
switch our beliefs which are thinking
switch our thoughts to more negative
sort of more positive thoughts so how do
we do this it's just like the
affirmations about loving ourselves we
have to love ourselves and keep
repeating these affirmations I love
myself so keep switching from negative
to positive but how do we do this if our
thoughts and our minds and our lives are
consistently in fear and negativity how
do we get rid of all this stuff well
first of all it really comes down to a
few things number one is first we have
to unconditionally love every creature
on earth we need to love everyone
unconditionally and keep bringing in
more creatures into our sphere of
compassion okay
understanding that the suicide bomber
and the killer over there we got to love
them even though their actions are not
aligned to what we really want to see in
this world so it's not the person
themselves but it's the action that
we're not fond of but we love them the
people so that's number one number two
is get rid of everything fear-based we
have rid of media anything that's fear
and violence based a lot of the movies
are violent violence based a lot of the
media violence based a lot of the music
violence based so get rid of it get rid
of media and get rid of mass media get
rid of news get rid of everything in
your life that is fear
violence based now it's not going to be
possible to do it you know the next day
to do it right away but slowly as time
goes on you want to get rid of it these
distractions from reliance you know
because the more fear the more violence
we have in their lives the more it
affects us and the more affects our
events in our lives and situations in
our lives and so we want to get rid of
them that is why a lot of times and most
of the time happy and loving person
because I embrace all these concepts
embrace positivity embrace love as much
as I possibly can so another thing that
we can do another tip is to set time to
calm our mind set time to meditate it's
very important to do this at least a few
minutes a day again like I explained so
let's go back to the let's go back to
the situation the negative situations
now again we can create see these events
as negative or we can see these events
as positive and transform them into
something positive and understand okay
so let's say grandkids don't listen to
us and the O's do their own thing
they're always taking junk food and
candies or you know that that they're
not supposed to have so first of all
number one get rid of all junk food from
your house don't have any junk food and
what I'm talking about junk food I
thought about candies chocolates
everything that's junk food okay get rid
of all an animal foods also so they do
not anything unhealthy go vegan first of
all this number one get rid of all
animal products could be rid of all junk
food from your house I have nothing
there junk food that way they absolutely
cannot ask for anything junky or animal
foods because you don't have it so
that's number one number two is
let them do whatever they want now some
people might not agree with this but let
them do whatever they want but but try
to teach them teach them as best as you
can but love unconditionally loving
every being and set an example be calm
collective cool collective dog movie
russia russia all the time don't eat
russia have them you know helping with
cooking preparing the meals all these
things you know get them involved with
whatever you're doing if you're sewing
get them involved with your with sewing
if you're cooking get them involved with
cooking and preparing meals all these
things so that we they learn and they
learn from your experience you're
sitting of example let's say they're
fighting all the time get them to do
first of all if you're telling them to
do something don't tell them as in I'm
what I'm what I've learned from from
from a friend is that you should never
use negative words when speaking to
children or grandchildren or anybody
like for example do never say no don't
do this no don't do that for example if
someone is playing on a computer but
Frankie's are playing over a computer
for example you don't want them to play
on the computer you don't say don't do
that please don't do that because that
is a negative and people don't tend to
flare well when people say negative
things to them no no no don't touch that
don't do that cool you know so we have
to transform that into positive words so
instead of saying no don't touch that
say it in a different way even if it
might not sound Paul
but a different way so it doesn't sound
too negative so for example just tell
them I have very important information
on this computer and if you happen to
use it and you maybe you may delete
something so you know something not
realm instead of saying like no don't
touch it or no don't do this
now sometimes they will not listen stone
even if you say something and what I
tend to do in that case is just tend to
teach them calmly and instead of saying
guys don't fight you know just say when
you are fighting you might get injured
and bounding her and you don't want to
cause unnecessary suffering to your
brother for example so let's
compassionately play together some game
or something you know instead of saying
no don't do this
say it in a different way and the thing
is we're trained we have these these
these thought thoughts that and these
actions are just automatically good and
negativity it's like no don't do this no
don't do this you know and we can change
it and create more positive things for
kids and grandkids and anyone who when
you happen to talk to so for example if
somebody says something you something to
you and you feel that what they said is
not true or not accurate you don't say
well no I don't think so I think it's
this way for example you don't say that
because right away they they they have
already their opinion they said opinion
you cannot say anything otherwise
because they have their said opinion so
what you say it's just this is what I
feel this is what I do this is what
however my life so you for example base
well animal protein is so vital for our
bodies and that's why I know continuing
to eat animal foods then the response
will be that's crazy
animal proteins too acidic for bodies
you know one can't we can't utilize
animal protein instead of using that
method or that response instead say
something like you know when I as soon
as I cut out animal foods and cut out
animal protein I felt so much better I
mean in the first few weeks you know our
bodies are transitioning and our
cleansing and so we want to we have to
understand that and we're cleansing and
so we might feel bad for the first few
weeks but overall I felt so much better
in the mid-eighteen animal foods and so
that is a better response telling about
our experience okay our experience of
not eating animal protein for example I
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