Notes taken from - Meditation for the Modern Life

Learn to Meditate course Saturday 4 October 2014

Teacher, Kelsang Richog, Buddhist Nun

www.meditateintauranga.org

• First obstacle to meditation is our distractions. These obstacles are our enemies
• A mind that sees others as special – very beneficial
• Freedom from pain, freedom from problems
• Approach needs to change to achieve happiness. The obstruction is your mental attitude
• Cherish yourself. Change views and intentions
• Open ourselves up so we have the capacity to cherish others
• The more we are able to do this, the happier we are going to be
• When we recognize others kindness, we cherish them
• Think about benefits of considering others
• Contemplate the kindness of our Mother
• If we take away everything people have given us (directly or indirectly), we are left with nothing, not even our body
• To develop patience, we need an irritating person
• To develop love, we need some to love
• We need an object for our mind to develop these positive qualities
• To develop compassion, we need to develop love and we need to observe suffering
• We can use suffering to develop powerful minds to motivate us to do things and make changes 

Meditation:

Object: determination/intention

Focus: kindness of others, appreciate others

“The less we focus on ourselves, the less pain we have.”

Everyone has his or her own sufferings.

Namaste