Dhamma talkShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat9 Mar 2017
Day 9 closing — Carrying Practice into Daily Life
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 20 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−20:27
AI-written summary
The closing Dhamma talk encourages yogis to maintain continuous practice in daily life. By applying mindfulness and wisdom, meditators can skillfully handle difficulties and reduce suffering.
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Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat · 18 talks
- 91 hr 47 minDay 5 Discussion group D — Natural Effort and Not Personalizing Experiences5 Mar 2017
- 101 hr 15 minDay 6 Discussion group A — Free Will, Knowing the Mind and Anchor Objects6 Mar 2017
- 111 hr 19 minDay 6 Discussion group C — Working with Six Sense Doors and Reactions6 Mar 2017
- 121 hr 36 minDay 7 Discussion group B — Being Aware of Thinking and Noticing Judging Mind7 Mar 2017
- 132 hr 16 minDay 7 Discussion group D — Observing Defilements and Looking for Cause7 Mar 2017
- 141 hr 10 minDay 8 Discussion group A — Cause and Effect, Anatta, and Role of Samatha8 Mar 2017
- 151 hr 57 minDay 8 Discussion group C — Samādhi, Quality of Awareness and Attitude8 Mar 2017
- Viewing1620 minDay 9 closing — Carrying Practice into Daily Life9 Mar 2017
- 171 hr 16 minDay 9 Discussion group B — Reality, Stability of Mind, and Wisdom9 Mar 2017
- 181 hr 46 minDay 9 Discussion group D — Talking Meditation, Dealing with Defilements, and Uncovering Subtler Layers9 Mar 2017
Transcript
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Ajahn Go.
MY
[Burmese speech]
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— Y- y- yoga, . I just wanted to thank everybody,
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from the staff, the U , to the yogis, for enabling this retreat to happen peacefully, and for this yog— uh, this retreat to have run its course. study, . Yeah, the staff. yogi , ok.
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I'm yo-yoga. Beautiful. Oh, okay.
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He is very, um,
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encouraged by
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the— your practice. He has seen many of you progress
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and make a lot of effort, and
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he feels a lot of, um, kusala from witnessing your practice.
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Some of the yogis have been following him from retreat to retreat, and he can see the difference— it has the differences in you, in your practice.
MY
[Burmese speech]
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Now, at the end of our retreat, um, so he's going to give us some words of encouragement and say the usual things he says at the end of a retreat.
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? He says, "Maybe you're used to." Maybe it's become usual to hear him say this. yogi yogi ? He can see that many people have taken his words to heart and have actually been putting the practice into their lives, using the practice in their lives.
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So he says, "Retreats may become over, but meditation should never end." Uh, meditation
MY
It's something we need for our life. It's something that's connected to our life. It's part of our life. Retreat
English
Yeah. And he's been thinking about this word "retreat," and we discussed it slightly in one of the interviews. And he says he feels that the idea of a meditation retreat, um, suggests that there's something outside of a retreat. So if we practice a retreat, then we don't practice outside of retreat.
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And he wants to change this idea, that it's not a retreat. meditation, retreat , meditation, retreat .
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Uh, okay. And he mentioned this in, in his introduction talk, that yogis have an attachment to two wrong views about when meditation happens.
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And yogis believe that meditation happens when they're on retreat and when they're sitting meditation. But he said that's just a concept. So when we have this sort of idea, then we have a lot more tension where we're— when we are on retreat or when we sit meditation.
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He says, "Because then we— when we go on retreat or we sit meditation, then we want to do it properly, we want to put in all the energy, and then we put in too much energy, and then we get tense."
MY
And he says, but it shouldn't be that way. And not everybody. He's not referring to everybody. He knows that it-- but there are a lot of yogis who can have this problem, that when they go-- when they think of themselves as being on retreat or they sit meditation, they start using too much energy and they get tight.
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He's not saying that retreats are bad. He's just talking about the way our mind holds the idea of a retreat.
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He says, um
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He says, "If we only think of re— of practicing when we, uh, go on retreat, we give up practicing at home. We think, 'Oh, it's too difficult,' and we give up, and we, um, only, you know, uh, you know, we think, 'Oh, you know, I'll go back on retreat to, like, gather momentum again.'"
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He says, "All the time that we spend not trying," he says, "he likens it to, um, borrowing money at a high interest rate." He says, "We borrow all this time, you know, with our defaults, and then when we get on retreat," he says, "we have to pay back that loan before we can start earning some money."
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So, um, we find ourselves not moving. Ten days we spend, um, paying off the debt of all the accumulated stuff, and then, uh, just as we're settling down, it's time to go home again.
MY
So if we want the Dhamma to be growing in our lives, if we want the Dhamma to be growing in our lives, we want to be progressing along the path, Sayadaw says we need to practice as much as we can every day, however much we can at home, being mindful so that when we come on retreat, we move ahead.
MY
I mean, it doesn't matter whether the mindfulness is good or bad. All he wants us is to do it. It doesn't have to be-- It's harder at home, he agrees, but just do it. That's all.
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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.…