Guided MeditationShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat1 Apr 2016
Day 5 morning guided — Observing Mental Processes and the Value of Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 37 min
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0:00−37:49
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Guided meditation instructing meditators to check their attitude and recognize mental activities like thinking, feelings, and intentions. Seeing mental and physical processes clearly dissolves the illusion of self. Maintaining continuous awareness cultivates wholesome qualities and purifies the mind.
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Transcript
EnglishCheck your attitude first.
EnglishDo you have any expectation, Pháp, or not?
EnglishSympathy. We are still in the present moment.
EnglishIs the mind aware?
EnglishPhysical object is more obvious than mind.
EnglishThe mind is nowhere, no shape, no color, no form.
EnglishBut you can experience: the mind is happening, or the mind is working.
EnglishWe can awareness the mind. More obvious state? Feeling, thinking is more obvious.
EnglishWe just practice again and again to be aware.
EnglishPleasant feeling, unpleasant feeling, also neutral feeling.
EnglishAnd thinking also, two kinds of thinking.
EnglishSometimes intentionally we want to think.
EnglishSometimes it's just a memory arising itself.
EnglishAnd also,
Englishin a voice. Sometimes the mind chattering itself, internal monologue, dialogue, is also thinking.
EnglishWe can know.
EnglishIf they are happening, we can know.
EnglishThe mind says something very often.
EnglishWhatever we notice, the mind thinking about the meaning,
Englishor judging,
Englishanalyzing,
Englishis also thinking.
EnglishMore obvious: mind is thinking and feeling.
EnglishAlso, pay attention. We can know. The mind pay attention. This object, that object, good interaction to the object.
EnglishPay attention, focus. We can know. This is happening, or this is working.
EnglishWe can know the gross level of mental state has been said,
Englishtaught. Anxiety, worry, we can know.
EnglishWhen we work the mental state,
Englishright attitude is very important.
EnglishBecause unpleasant feeling, the mind don't want to work.
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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.…