Dhamma talkSasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat14 Jan 2024
Concluding talk — Continuing Practice and Awareness at Home
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 48 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−48:27
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In this concluding talk, the teacher encourages yogis to continue practicing at home as a new retreat. He explains the value of appreciating small moments of awareness, keeping the right attitude, and using daily routines to nurture the mind.
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- 32 hr 15 minQ&A group B — Investigating Drowsiness and Practicing with Right Attitude8 Jan 2024
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- 52 hr 26 minQ&A group B — Appreciating Awareness and Staying on the Side of Awareness12 Jan 2024
- Viewing648 minConcluding talk — Continuing Practice and Awareness at Home14 Jan 2024
Transcript
English
Today is 13 January 2024, concluding talk by Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and translation by Ma. Tet at Sasanaraka Buddhist Sanctuary via Zoom. Sayadaw, may we invite you to give us the concluding talk, please?
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I—
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the answer cannot be rewarded. SBS, the answer cannot be rewarded, no? SBS, the answer can't be rewarded. Now the answer can't go down.
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Yeah, this is SBS meditation retreat is over, but you're going to start another
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meditation retreat.
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The joke is a goddamn concede. I'll answer it.
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His teacher always said this when
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he would go on retreat, on the day that he left retreat, whether he had been there for 3 days or 5 days or 9 days or 9 months or 2 years. Sayadaw, his teacher would always say the same thing.
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Did I— did he say 2 years? Anyway, a long time.
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[Burmese segment]
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So, um, I should be a good of your, Sayadaw, be a nice bath, you're left. I'll talk. And his teacher always said, when you go home, continue practicing. And he said, the first few days when he got home, there'd be some momentum from the retreat, so killer can kind of be aware. And then, and then slowly the momentum fades and, um,
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home life takes over. Home frustrations and unwholesome stuff takes over and, um, other priorities take over, and then you forget to try.
[Burmese segment]
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Ruby Omen, I know you do. Anh
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Needing the room, need light, no? Now, I— the powerless So, for some of us, what happens is that we get home and then, um,
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and then it feels like, I don't know, like meditation was work, so now we can relax. So then we get home and then we relax and, and then, um, then we want to forget about it because we want to just take it easy or, yeah, so then we lose it. Now, now, now the core: insulate needing the room, need low-ya-da-need-a, core
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And at home, Sayadaw says, you know, subconsciously we have this, this idea that home is mine, is where I can, you know, do things my way.
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Um, he says if you look around your home there, we fill it with the things that we want. You know, we won't put things in our home that we don't want, um, generally. So, um, yeah, so there's this idea that this is my, you know, this is my place, yeah.
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So when there's a sense of identification, when there's a strong sense of identification of, uh, this being my home, my family, my whatever, Sayadaw says then, um,
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when that sense of I is strong, Sayadaw says, then it's also easy for the, for the unwholesome mind to, uh, entrench itself when it presents itself based on the identification.
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When you come on retreat, when you come to an SB, uh, to a, a retreat, uh, in a meditation center, Sayadaw says, first thing you wake up in the morning, what is your first thought?
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What is your intention for the day? As one of the yogis said, what, what, what intention do you set yourself for the day? And at home, when you wake up in the morning, what sort of intention do you set, set up for yourself for the day?
[Burmese segment]
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At home, Sayadaw says, our mind gets filled with thoughts of the tasks we have to perform. I have to, um, you know, do this task, that task. I have this agenda for the day, and you have a list, you have a to-do list.
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But on retreat, at a meditation center, your priority is just, how do I practice? How do I practice? And, and so if we bring that thought into our day at home.
[Burmese segment]
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if you're someone who wants to practice meditation at home, Sayadaw says, it is something you will have to prioritize. It is something you will think about, um, schedule into your day like you do anything else that you consider a priority. Then you will keep doing it.
[Burmese segment]
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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.…