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Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Welcome back, everyone.

[00:00:01]Dhyana can be understood in many ways.

[00:00:10]It can be understood as... I think for now, let's try to understand it as where you are not distracted, but today, we are also going to talk about the idea of home.

[00:00:34]Home is very important, but at the same time is also quite vague.

[00:00:54]I think for many home is where you feel you belong.

[00:01:07]We also feel that home is where perhaps you experience peace.

[00:01:17]Somewhere where it is safe, supposedly.

[00:01:20]Supposedly, it is somewhere where it is safe.

[00:01:23]Perhaps for some people it is also where your family is.

[00:01:28]It's not just for human beings, a lot of beings like animals, like ants, bugs, birds.

[00:01:41]Home is kind of important.

[00:01:44]This is also where you bring all your shopping back.

[00:01:54]This is also where you feel ease.

[00:01:57]You probably walk around just in your underwear.

[00:02:07]But many times it's only on an ideal level.

[00:02:12]Many times home is also where everything goes wrong.

[00:02:20]Actually some people feel they have no home.

[00:02:25]Especially modern people, I think they feel less and less that they have a place called home.

[00:02:38]I think a lot of people, we stay in a rented place, right?

[00:02:49]For a lot of people, your own suitcase is almost like a home.

[00:02:55]For a lot of people, you feel more at ease with a stranger than your own family member.

[00:03:06]Now according to Buddha, the real home is the mind that you have.

[00:03:24]Your mind is where you always come back, no matter what.

[00:03:33]But the problem is, most of us, we are always going out of this home.

[00:03:44]And then, outside your home you face all kinds of challenges, and instead of really trying to come back home, we drift further.

[00:04:07]So today, what we are going to do is let us try to come back to this home.

[00:04:15]So for that, let us just be however you are.

[00:04:22]Whether you are standing, walking, just be there without any specific posture.

[00:04:34]Be there for a few moments.

[00:04:43]Try not to entertain yourself.

[00:04:49]Try not to... don't send messages.

[00:04:55]Don't read your phone.

[00:04:58]Don't look at a specific object.

[00:05:02]Just be how you are.

[00:05:09]So let's do that for a few minutes, I mean a few seconds.

[00:05:45]If you are hearing a dog barking, just listen.

[00:06:51]If your mind is beginning to wander, thinking a lot of things, just come back to where you are.

[00:07:55]This mind that you have is going to be with you all the time.

[00:08:18]Even your beloved body may change, or even it may perish, but mind continues.

[00:08:29]And this mind that you have is also the most powerful.

[00:08:34]If you know how to be with this mind, this mind is the most peaceful and the safest.

[00:08:43]No matter what you face, if you know how to be in this home, you will always find security, some sort of escape.

[00:08:59]So let us now first watch our body, because your body is so connected to your mind.

[00:09:11]So when I say watch your body, you don't have to go through every detail.

[00:09:18]Just notice your body.

[00:09:24]Okay, let's do that.

[00:10:42]Okay. Next, let's watch our feeling.

[00:10:49]It can be your physical feeling, such as feeling itchy or pain, or more importantly, your feelings such as sadness or hunger.

[00:11:11]That kind of feeling.

[00:11:16]Okay. So, let's watch our feeling.

[00:12:22]Okay.

[00:12:25]If your body— we are talking about home— so if your body is the roof, ceiling, walls, and floor, okay, then feeling is more like your bed, furniture, kitchen.

[00:13:06]But in your home, there must be a place where you put your precious things, where you hide things, a safety box, or maybe like a bedroom.

[00:13:27]That is your mind.

[00:13:30]And also there's something else.

[00:13:34]You know, we have references.

[00:13:37]You know, there's like, "I'm a man."

[00:13:42]"She is a woman."

[00:13:50]"I'm a Buddhist."

[00:13:52]"He is a Hindu," or doesn't matter—color, shape, nationality, all these different references.

[00:14:02]This also is a big part of our home.

[00:14:06]So, let us today watch our references.

[00:14:10]Let's say, whoever you are, if you are meditating right now.

[00:14:14]If you are a woman, just watch this reference.

[00:14:20]You call yourself a woman.

[00:14:23]I'm not asking you to ask why you are a woman.

[00:14:28]I'm just asking you to watch the notion of woman, man, businessman, doctor, nurse.

[00:14:41]All kinds of references, whatever references you have.

[00:14:45]Okay, let's start.

[00:15:51]Okay.

[00:15:53]Some of you may think like this.

[00:15:55]Okay. We watch. Now what do we do?

[00:15:59]You may think like this.

[00:16:01]Nothing. Just watching your mind.

[00:16:06]Just watching it already makes you come back home.

[00:16:19]That's it. We have done almost six minutes today.

[00:16:23]So, we have finished this week's Dhyana.

[00:16:30]Thank you.