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Basic instruction for Vipassana practice
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 40 min
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Meditation instructions explaining how to practice Vipassanā with relaxed, continuous awareness without excessive effort or concentration. The teacher emphasizes right view by seeing mind and body as natural processes, expanding awareness across the six sense doors instead of focusing on a single object.
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EnglishOkay. Now, we'll try to tell you about the basic idea about meditation—more important part, huh?
EnglishSo you need to know about the meaning of awareness.
EnglishUh,
Englishawareness means we are knowing our sixth sense of.
EnglishIf you know your sixth sense of, that means that you're aware.
EnglishBecause the mind can direct experience, can know the sixth only sense of. You know you're seeing, you know you can hear, you know you can smell, you can taste, right? You know you taste, and you know your sensation, body sensation. And then you can know your mental state, mental activity. So only sixth sense of the mind can direct, can aware, can know.
EnglishSo if you know your sixth sense, sixth object, that means it's awareness.
EnglishBut the first very important point is we are
Englishdon't use too much concentration, huh? Don't use concentration too much. And penetrate, concentrate, we don't use.
EnglishBecause we need to practice all the time. If you use a lot of energy, the mind—then body, mind, it can be tired. And also,
Englishuh, we have a habit: whatever we do, we use the craving. We are follow that craving, aversion, and delusion of
Englishdefilement. If defilement, you—we—we use our defilement, our mind, it becomes tense. For example, when we practice, we have expectation, or we want something, we want to get something, then we use a lot of energy.
EnglishAnd also, we—if you don't like something, we try to get rid of something, then we use a lot of energy. And also, we don't know how to practice, also we use a lot of energy. So—so that's why we are not
Englishtry to use a lot of energy. Relaxed way. We try to relax from the defilement.
EnglishBecause the people are habit, whatever we do, we use a lot of effort.
EnglishNow we meditate, we don't use too much effort. Relaxed, and better to be aware continuously, huh? We are
Englishso
Englishhere, first important point is don't push too much.
EnglishHmm. And also maintain that awareness all the time.
EnglishBecause bhavana means it's a meditation, means it's a cultivation. Cultivate the good quality of mind. Every time we are mindful, every time we are aware, there's a fight, fight, uh, fight—how to say?—faculty. Yeah, five faculties working: awareness, samādhi, effort, faith, and wisdom.
EnglishThese five faculties is working together.
EnglishSo not only the aware. Awareness, not alone awareness. Awareness, stability of mind. Samādhi is a stability of mind, and effort, and faith, and wisdom. We need to use all together. So every time we mindful, this quality must be working. So we try to cultivate this quality of mind.
EnglishMeditation means it's a cultivate, cultivation. That's why we need to practice all the time. So here, we—our schedule is morning wake up to under 3 time. Meditation, all the time is we need to meditate. Because meditation is mind work, not body work.
EnglishMaybe body is sitting, pusher, sitting, walking, standing, lying down. Any pusher, the mind need to be aware.
EnglishUm, pusher, it's not meditating.
EnglishWhen you sit and you think what you want to think, that's not meditation, right? So meditation is a mind work. The mind need to be aware. And also have a right thoughts, right view.
EnglishSo that here, we practice all the time. Any whatever you do, wherever you go, anywhere, anytime, don't forget yourself. Pay attention yourself.
EnglishAnd also,
Englishnature of the mind is like this. If you allow this quality of mind again and again and again, the quality is increasing.
EnglishThis is the nature of the mind. Good quality of mind or bad quality of mind. If you allow this mind happen again and again and again and again, this quality is naturally increasing. So that's why we no need to force.
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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.…