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Santa Meditation - Empty the Heavy Sack! | Guided Meditation | Buddhist Xmas | Ajahn Dhammasiha
In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha uses Santa Claus as a metaphor for the process of emptying the mind.
Santa's job is to give gifts to all the kids for Christmas. He's working very hard to fulfill this task, travelling on his sleigh carrying a very big and heavy sack with all the presents. Similarly, our mind is carrying around the heavy load of all kinds of different emotions, feelings, moods, worries, desires, hopes, concerns, phantasies, images, thoughts... and so on.
When Santa takes the gifts out of his sack, his task is simply to give it away to the kid that requested that…
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