Dhamma talkInsight Meditation Society Retreat11 May 2012
Advice for taking awareness home
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 24 min
Original audio: English
0:00−24:08
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The teacher encourages yogis to continue practicing in daily life with right attitude. Instead of using excessive effort, lightly and consistently remind the mind to maintain awareness. As awareness and wisdom grow steadily, the Dhamma will naturally protect and sustain the practitioner.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
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- 2012 minTaking practice into life7 May 2012
- 211 hr 44 minGroup A 4 — Recognizing Wisdom and Checking the Observing Mind8 May 2012
- 221 hr 38 minGroup B 4 — Observing Defilements, the Illusion of Self, and Cause-and-Effect Chain8 May 2012
- 231 hr 53 minGroup C 4 — Guarding Sense Doors and Staying with Awareness9 May 2012
- 241 hr 47 minGroup D 4 — Working with Wanting, Aversion and Awareness9 May 2012
- 251 hr 10 minDharma teachers group — Right Attitude, Interviewing and Sharing the Practice9 May 2012
- 261 hr 49 minGroup E 4 — Mindfulness of Speech and Noticing Greed in Experience10 May 2012
- 271 hr 51 minGroup F 4 — Maintaining Awareness in Daily Activities and Dealing with Pain10 May 2012
- Viewing2824 minAdvice for taking awareness home11 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishWell, um,
Englishwe have no idea what we're going to do now.
EnglishOr very little idea.
EnglishBut it might include Sayadaw speaking a little bit about leaving here and taking practice.
EnglishThere will be—John will be taking photos of what's going on here. And at the end, before we break up to leave, we're going to try a group photo with people coming down here and sitting, and—you see the tripod back there? We'll try that.
EnglishIf you have any
Englisheasy questions, maybe we'll take some.
EnglishAnd we'll see how it goes.
EnglishSo, Sayadaw, would you like to say something? Yeah.
EnglishI have no idea.
EnglishYou have your mic on, Monk? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
EnglishThe asking people said, "Yeah, yeah, good news." We didn't do it. Yogi did it, so stop it. Say it all over, no? Give it to them, right? Sayadaw says he would like to thank all those who have made this retreat possible, including the yogis, the staff, the teachers, everyone. Supporters did it all over, no?
EnglishYeah. Everyone who supported. Also the translator.
EnglishI'm very tired about listening, because English is not my—I'm not understanding fully. I'm not fully understanding what they're saying. So because she's helping, so I can understand deeply, so I can advise deeply. Yeah. So I thank you about that.
EnglishAnd, you know,
Englishthe asking people—I mean, the asking people—but what they are not saying is, "Be the knee."
EnglishHe says, although the retreat is over, he says meditation, the Dharma is not over. He says the whole purpose of his teaching meditation is so that we can—is to enable us to practice in our daily lives. But John, as yogi told me, but what they are to look at, they
Englishare to learn attitude. They are learning attitude. And they
Englishare to—but what they are to take attitude, they are learning attitude. And they are building attitude.
EnglishHe says he knows many of us try to practice in daily life and have either found it hard or not possible. And he also did that, tried very hard to practice in life and found a way. And so that's why he really wants to encourage everyone and to help them with every means he has possible to try and explain how it's possible.
EnglishPinned by attitude. You can practice in your life.
EnglishWe better learn how you pin it. To get awareness of the attitude. Many insights can be
Englishawakened once we become skillful at practicing. And also be enlightened. And he believes that you can become enlightened as well. But what they are—actually, but what they are—they are telling me.
EnglishBut you must be practicing. They are learning attitude. They are—you see? They are student. They are students and they are learning attitude. He says, but we must be practicing all the time. He says, if we really want to advance in our practice, he says, then we have to be very close to the Dharma all the time. But that means to love a lot of people.
EnglishYou have to love them a lot. You have to love their character. Confident in yourself. But John says, we need that. We are same idea. Same culture. Same culture. He says, even in a professional field, like, you know, if you're a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer or something, if you've been out of touch with the profession for a long time, you haven't been practicing, he says, when you want to start again, you lack the skill, the confidence, the—yeah.
EnglishSo it's the same way. The other man, they do it. But they are learning attitude.
EnglishThey can do that. But John, they are learning attitude. He says, so
Englishthat's why we have to be—we have to keep the Dharma close to us. We have to be familiar with it, almost like a best friend. He says, then it brings real
Englishprogress. A lot of people learn a lot. They learn a lot. John, John says, now we do that. Jump up. Sit down. Check. He says, when you do something and you're very skillful at it, you not only, you know, are excellent at doing it, you also find new ways of doing it and doing it better.
EnglishYou expand your horizons in the very thing that you're skilled at. Also, in Satsang in the yogi do, the inspiration being, helping good knee.
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Sayadaw U Tejaniya began his Buddhist training as a young teenager in Burma under the late Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw (1913–2002). After a career in business and life as a householder, he has become a permanent monk since 1996.…