[0:00]We're all here today. So, uh as some of you may know that I, you know, I use Tik Tok sometimes to, uh, wander around and to be exposed and to be out in the world. And sometimes a lot of people tune in and connect and then they want to follow along, they want to try and join. So we have a lot of new people who are watching now, maybe for the first time. So welcome to all of you Tik Tokers.
[0:33]Um if you are watching on Tik Tok, but you plan to join for the this meditation class, this Dharma exploration, then please do uh hop over to the YouTube channel now and watch there. Um so you can see everyone who's gathered together on the Discord, and you can also see me in HD. Uh so what a treat that will be. And you will not have all of these random comments coming from random people. Um on Tik Tok. So definitely if you want to join fully, you can hop over to YouTube. The channel name is just my name, Ponte Var Pan Yo, same as my Tik Tok name, okay?
[1:34]So it's great to see Anushka and Karan and Christina and Matthew, Sila, Dominic, Nikki, Nina here. Hi Jeff, and Robert and Sonia, and Amanda and Amanda, AJ and Amanda, and Anastasia, Ela, Britt, Muk, Peter, Simon, Steve, and Zion here on the Discord. And for the people who are joining uh on YouTube, you can say hello. I especially see Hoalu who's joining. And uh Angela, Jennifer, Fenny, Mary, James, Kanagawa, Mantis, Eliza, JB, Bob, Lynette, Kenneth, Mary, Vicky, Annie, Kara, Tess, Awan, Frederick, Eliza, all kinds of real people. showing up and joining here, right? So we all have a a lot of inspiration and a lot of invitation to also really show up and be sincere at this present moment with our own practice. So we'll start today with uh just a few moments of getting settled in. So, uh I will light some incense, and you can light your body by finding a comfortable, stable meditation position, in which to sit in, to be in at this present moment.
[3:26]So we always start with uh spiritual practice or with uh meditation by uh setting the body down to be in a comfortable and stable position. This gives us some initial relief right away that we are no longer kind of dragging the body around in the outside world, needing to do this and to do that, but we're kind of intentionally setting the body down. Um in a comfortable and simple position.
[4:08]We have a a real big habit in our life where we just want to consume. And we also have a really powerful ability to just consume all the time. Right? There's Reese's Puffs upstairs, there's uh Tik Tok on our phone, there's a YouTube on the computer. There's always something to consume. There's always something to uh distract ourselves from what's happening now. But the spiritual practice, the meditation practice is not based on consuming. It's based on first and foremost 100% stopping whatever it is that you're doing. Stopping whatever it is that you're involved with.
[4:56]So how do we start stopping? Find a comfortable, stable position to put the body down. We call it our meditation position.
[5:10]Now, at that time when we find a comfortable when we find a comfortable, stable meditation position,
[5:22]we can began to turn the mind around. So began to notice, began to become aware of the breath as it's happening in this present moment.
[5:46]Start to listen to the breath. Start to listen to the body. Start to be aware of the body at the present moment.
[6:56]What's happening right now as the breath flows in deeply and flows out.
[7:09]Breathing deeply we can participate in this healing process, this listening process.
[7:54]The investigation of a Hato can be divided into five phrases, five phases. To raise, to keep, to ask, to investigate and to watch, the Hato.
[9:09]We are practicing this method and staying with it without letting up. The moment we become aware that we've lost it, we raise it again right away.
