Find a quiet place where you can be alone and lock the door so you can practice unaccompanied. Now take a sit on the floor with your leg fold up like the Buddha. When you are ready, close your eyes and breathe normally.
You can start watching your mind now, normally thoughts come in like a lightning when u starts to relax your body, don’t stop it from coming in but simply be aware that it is a thought. Try to observe your mind and see what his writing. The Choezen Kuchen Rinpoche (http://www.choezerinpoche.org/) said: “You should stop writing and watch who is writing”. You will find part of your thoughts were control by your mind.
We need to remember and understand that our mind does not belong to us. If you do not watch it, defilements will grow and multiply. We cannot leave the mind alone. It needs to be watched consistently. To helps deepen our understanding please refer to the book below.
Title of the book: Don’t look down on the Defilements
They will laugh at you
By Ashin Tejaniya 2008
What is Defilements?
Defilements are not only the gross manifestations of greed, hatred and delusion but also all little small thoughts that come in to your mind. See if you ever had one of the following or similar thoughts cross your mind:
“These lights should not be on at this time”
“His behaviour is so irritating”
“He should not have done that”
“I could do it a lot faster”
“I am a hopeless meditator, my mind cannot even stay on the rising-falling for one minute.”
“Yuck the salad had onion in it”
“No banana again”
All such thoughts are motivated by defilements!!
Don’t underestimate them!
Have you ever told someone you are not angry even though you are clearly unhappy with them? Do you talk negatively about your boos, a friend, your family or even a good friend? All such talk is motivated by defilements! Watch out for it!
With right attitude, it will allows you to accept, acknowledge and observe whatever is happening whether pleasant or unpleasant in a relax and alert way. You have to accept and watch both good and bad experiences. Every experience gives you a learning opportunity to notice whether the mind accepts things the way they are or whether it likes, dislikes, reacts or judges.
You are not trying to make things turn out the way you want them to happen. You are trying to know what is happening as it is. Wrong attitudes are caused by delusion. We all have them in our minds. All wrong attitudes are the defilements craving and aversion or any of their relatives such as elation, sadness or worry. Not accepting defilements will only strengthen them. The defilements hinder your progress in meditation and prevent you from living your life fully. They also prevent you from finding true peace and freedom. Don’t look down on defilements … they will laugh at you!
Look out for the defilements. Get to know the defilements that arise in your mind. Observe and try to understand them. Do not attach to them, reject or ignore them and do not identify with them. As you stop attaching to or identifying the defilements, their strength will slowly diminish. You have to keep double checking to see what attitude you are meditating with.
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