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Hello Friends! Two HeartMirror Breathing Meditation classes scheduled in the next two weeks. Please note, these are going to happen at private residences. You must RSVP below! $20 suggested donation per person per class. If you are RSVPing for both classes, reload this page after submitting first RSVP. Thank you, Alex Any questions? Text/call me at 650-260-3070
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Sitting Quietly, Breathing Loudly. The HeartMirror Tibetan Breathing Meditation Practice This is going to be a 90 minutes donation-based (Dana Paramita) breathing meditation class. As a group, we will sit and breathe together in specific patterns, with a hope of generating a samadhi-like state. This samadhi-like, or transcendental state of the Mind is a blissful, luminous state of being, where mind and body seems to have disappeared. When such state is experienced, it can help us on the path towards awakening our minds In this state we can taste the suspension, but not yet the eradication of Samsara. (Class cancelled.)Class will be held at 9am on August 4, 2018 at the Jikoji Zen Meditation Retreat Contact Alex Send email to alex (@) heartmirror.us. Text or call Alex with any questions: 650-260-3070 I deeply bow to all of my teachers for doing their best to teach Dharma to me. (Which is a difficult task!) An even deeper bow goes out to the Sangha of the Jikoji Zen Retreat Center which has welcomed me in their midst! Class Outline for the Heart Mirror Pranayama July 14, 2018 1. Breathing practice is the quickest way to change the content and quality of our minds, so we can begin on the Noble path 2 This Breathing Practice is healing in nature 3. This is a purification practice. 4. With it we can shed layers of delusions and ignorance. 5. Listen attentively during breathing 6. Our pain, suffering and karma keeps our point of awareness fixed and we are not able to move our awareness at will. 7. If we are successful in letting go of whatever is holding us back, like our attachments and suffering, then the various body energies will eventually make their way into the heart. There they will meet with the awakened Mind and if the union was successful then the experience of emptiness will arise. The wheel of Dharma is set into motion with first experience of emptiness. This practice helps to enter a samadhi-like state. In this state you can taste the suspension, but not the cessation of samsara. From Setting in Motion the Wheel or Dharma Sutra “ The knowledge and the vision arose in [Buddha]: 'Unshakeable is the liberation of my mind. This is my last birth. Now there is no more re-becoming." “ Turn the subtitles On to read what I am saying. Transcript of the video below: Hello everyone. Today is July 14 2018 and I just came back from teaching at the Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains. So first of all I want to say big thank you to the Jikoji Zen Center especially to Doug Jacobson and Eric Remington who have welcomed me in the community in the Sangha and let me teach here. So first of all, a really good lesson today. We had 15 people at the Zen Center. What I taught was basically a technique for entering into a samadhi-like state a technique for entering in a higher concentration, higher level of concentration. Because for example you can do various kinds of practices: breathing practices, meditation on mantras, singing mantras, you can also sit in the meditation without really trying to think of anything, or you can also do a Taoist meditation for example where they circulate energy throughout the body. In fact I did a lot of that myself throughout the years, but the truth is that there needs to be a direct experience and quite often the direct experience doesn't happen with various methods.Some methods are very good some are okay. This particular method that I've been teaching, what I liked about it, was that it was extremely simple. Almost a deceptively simple technique, but it can produce profound changes. Today we had 15 people, and of those, I spoke to three or even four people today. One lady had a very emotional experience, realizing what potential is holding her back. There were you know other people who came over and said: "Alex, Wow this was really powerful and profound!" So if you can remember those profound experiences, then definitely write them down, because those are insights that you have received, for yourself. Those insights sometimes are ridiculous in the sense that they would only make sense to you. They they're not gonna make sense to anybody else, but that insight that you have received, or hopefully you have received, could be very helpful and this practice, it is called Heart Mirror practice the full name is: Heart Mirror of Vajrasattv. It's a Tibetan Buddhist practice We can hopefully have David Verdesi come out one day. He was the teacher who has taught a group of people of which I was part of in January 2018. This is a practice of breathing and of progressive relaxation, of letting go of your various obstacles. If you're trying to accomplish something you are definitely going to have obstacles, so don't be surprised! This practice, the Heart Mirror pranayama breathing meditation, can serve, maybe can help you on various levels. For example: you can, depending on where you are, so to speak, in your life, Maybe you are simply trying to survive because something has happened, maybe a big event happened in your life and you're simply trying to get by. So this is a great practice to just keep keep going, and keep your willpower going. But maybe you already have a pretty comfortable life, and you are trying to see if there is something else out there. So this practice also can put you in touch, very easily, with for lack of better term, oneness of all things around. I ramble sometimes and I want to wrap up hopefully you had a positive experience. Hopefully you have benefited from the experience. If you have benefited from experience please comment below on this video, or you can talk to me, talk to anybody else and see if you can make sense of the practice and your insights. Do they make sense? Maybe they don't exactly make sense. Maybe this is just a a first step towards bigger insights? 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