Dhamma talkInsight Meditation Society Retreat28 Apr 2012
Dhamma everywhere — Three Yogi Jobs and Right View in Daily Practice
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 53 min
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The talk explains meditation practice through right view and natural awareness. The teacher emphasizes that objects are merely what is known, and effortless continuity in all activities fosters wisdom.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
- Viewing154 minDhamma everywhere — Three Yogi Jobs and Right View in Daily Practice28 Apr 2012
- 21 hr 45 minQ&A group A 1 — Awareness Instead of Focusing, and Appreciating the Awareness29 Apr 2012
- 31 hr 58 minQ&A group B 1 — Observing the Thinking Process and Difficult Emotions29 Apr 2012
- 41 hr 53 minQ&A group C 1 — Natural Process, Delusion and Open Awareness29 Apr 2012
- 546 minQ&A Monday morning — Not Focusing Too Much, Seeing Versus Looking, and Being Aware of Thinking30 Apr 2012
- 61 hr 56 minQ&A group D 1 — Working with Pain, Mental Feelings and Asking Questions30 Apr 2012
- 71 hr 47 minQ&A group E 1 — Seeing Everything as an Object and the Role of Wisdom30 Apr 2012
- 81 hr 47 minQ&A group F 1 — Removing Greed from Effort and Awareness1 May 2012
- 91 hr 48 minGroup A 2 — Functions of Mind and Dealing with Defilements2 May 2012
- 101 hr 55 minGroup D 2 — Investigating Strong Objects, Torpor, and Thinking Mind3 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishDon't turn off, please. My sniffing is going to go in there.
EnglishI'm very glad to be here.
EnglishHello, Dima.
EnglishDima, the other guy is quite young; the other tombstone is quite young. One day he'll— Yeah, it says he's very happy to have the opportunity to speak to you about the Dhamma here.
EnglishHello, the other tombstone is my cousin, my niece. The other tombstone is my brother, my niece. The other tombstone goes the same way, right? So he is interested in the practice. He wants to hear about the practice, and he wants to discuss the practice with all of you. Abhidhamma is about
Englishthe body, right? Because this is our life.
EnglishWell, the other tombstone is my sister's name.
EnglishWithout the practice, our mind can become full of unskillful thoughts, and life can become very difficult for ourselves. So the retreat
Englishis the other
Englishtombstone will go the same way, right? So in this retreat, he's not even interested for you to have an insight; he just wants you to practice. That's all. The other tombstone will go the same way, right? To be interested in the
Englishprocess of practice.
EnglishYeah.
EnglishThe other tombstone will go the same way, right? So he's going to tell you a little bit about
Englishhow he views practice.
EnglishThe other tombstone goes to my sister's name.
EnglishSo the practice of the Dhamma is, in fact, the practice of cultivating or increasing the good qualities in our mind. Hello, good. The other tombstone goes the same way. And the sister goes the same way. Meditation will go that way. All of us have good qualities of mind.
EnglishIn Burmese, they call it Dharma mind. Basically, they're minds that are reasonable, that are balanced. And the practice of
Englishsustaining these states of mind, of growing, cultivating these states of mind, learning how to have more of these states of mind, is called meditation. Hello, the other tombstone goes the same way. And the practice of meditation is something we do with our mind. It's the work of the mind. Hello, the other tombstone goes the same way.
EnglishAnd in the practice of meditation, there's two bits: the object bit of the practice and the mind bit of the practice.
EnglishSo are you the baba? Are you the baba right now? You have to understand what an object is, and what the nature of an object is. So objects are the kind of the body.
EnglishBeing an object means that whatever it is, is being known, is being observed. The body is the body. And to have that role of being something that is being observed or being known,
Englishis its nature. That's its role. Hello, the other tombstone goes the same way.
EnglishThe other tombstone goes the
Englishsame way. But the act of meditation is not done by the objects which are being known. The act of meditation is the act of using the mind to know. Hello, the other tombstone goes the same way. The other people, good to see people, are easy to know. And in that mind that is acting to do the meditation, it's very important that those good qualities that we were talking about just now, that they're coexisting in that mind.
EnglishThose are the other tombstones. Those are the other tombstones.
EnglishSo it's very important not to
Englishbe trying to meditate
Englishin tandem with a mind that has greed, or in tandem with a mind that is aversive or deluded. Hello, the deep vision. The other yogi is my nephew. Those are the other yogis. The most common
Englishunskillful
Englishpartner in the act of meditation is greed. Yeah. So if those are the other yogis, the other tombstone goes the same way. But whether it's greed, or aversion, or delusion, if any of it is present in our meditation, then we will find that
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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.…