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Dhamma talks at Aquaplex Arizona — Cultivating Mind and Right View Across Six Senses
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 15 min
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The Sayadaw explains that meditation cultivates wholesome mental qualities with right view and awareness, not forced concentration. All experiences through the senses are natural objects for continuous practice, allowing wisdom to understand mind and matter.
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EnglishAll, um, meditate then.
EnglishBut my English is not very good, but I tried my best. To tell you about mindfulness meditation and right attitude.
EnglishSo, can you hear me? Okay.
EnglishSo,
Englisheverybody knows mindfulness, awareness, right? The meaning of awareness, or meaning of mindfulness. So, mindfulness meditation means we try to be aware about our—our self, our body, physical process, and mental process. So first I try to tell you is, meaning of meditation.
EnglishActually, the meaning of meditation is we try to cultivate a good quality of mind. That is the meaning of meditation. So, mindfulness meditation means we—awareness or mindfulness is a leading, and other, uh,
Englishawareness, stability of mind, there's a samādhi. You know samādhi? Concentration. But I don't want to say concentration. I try to trans- translate: it's a stability of mind. Samādhi is stability of mind, effort, faith, and wisdom. And with—together with awareness.
EnglishAwareness is a leading. So we try to cultivate this quality of mind. That's what we call mindfulness meditation. So, pract—meditation means it's a cultivation. Cultivation means it's try to, uh, grow or allow this quality of mind again and again and again. That means it's a cultivation.
EnglishSo we should be practicing mindfulness meditation all the time.
EnglishSo we—our center also practices meditation. The schedule is morning wake-up and sleep time. It is a schedule. Meditation must be practiced like this. Because of this, uh, cultivation, you need to cultivate moment to moment.
EnglishBecause if you don't practice a good quality of mind, then you are not practicing wholesome quality of mind. A wholesome quality of mind is already there. So that's why we need to practice a wholesome quality of mind. Allow it to happen again and again, and moment to moment. So this is the meaning of meditation: we try to cultivate the quality of mind.
EnglishSo first, very important point is, uh, don't force too much.
EnglishA lot of meditators, they use a lot of energy to focus too much. Awareness means it's not focus too much. Awareness means it's, uh, remembering in the present moment, recognizing. I use this word: recognizing, remembering, in the present moment. Uh, recognize that your sense door.
EnglishThat is the meaning of awareness. So this is not need too much use there, focusing. So mindfulness awareness is not focus too much. For example,
Englishdo you aware of yourself now? Do you recognize you are sitting?
EnglishOkay.
EnglishRight?
EnglishDo you know you are sitting right? Yes. Okay. Do you recognize you are seeing?
EnglishYes. Do you recognize you are seeing? Yes. Okay. When you start to recognize you are seeing?
EnglishWhen you ask. Yes.
EnglishThat's—that's correct. So we are morning wake-up, open the eye, we see. But we do not recognize we are seeing. Right? This recognizing about it, this is the meaning of awareness. So how much energy we need to know?
EnglishA lot of energy. Need to—we need a lot of energy? Not much. No. No. Okay. So this is the meaning of awareness. The awareness is to recognize your sense.
EnglishYou recognize you—everybody has a sixth sense door. Sixth object. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and the whole body sensation, and the mind door. It's a sixth sense door. Everybody has a sixth sense door. There is a sixth object already there. Sight, sound, smell,
Englishtaste, and the whole body sensation, and the mind activity. This is the object. We use this object to grow our awareness quality.
EnglishSo we try to aware our seeing, we try to aware our hearing, we can try to aware our smelling, tasting,
Englishand body sensation, and the mind activity. So we—we can recognize directly only this sixth object.
EnglishThis is a reality, nature object. Not concept object. Concept is the mind created the concept, then we know the concept. So we can experience directly, experience only this sixth sense door. It is a reality, nature. So we try to aware, not forget the nature.
EnglishWe are not forget the present moment, what happening yourself. That is the meaning of awareness. Not focus too much. Right? So awareness yourself is not difficult. It's difficult to aware yourself? Is it difficult? To remember.
EnglishYeah. Right, right. To aware yourself is not very difficult. Right? It is tired. It is tired? Not tired. Right? So meditation is not tired. Also not very difficult. If you understand the meaning of meditation, you are not very tired.
EnglishBut people, they know the meditation is a two-way. One way is, one technique is concentration practice. They use a lot of concentration practice. This is a, we call samādhi practice. One point of concentration and to make the mind calm down. This is a concentration practice. What mindfulness meditation is, we use, we are inside meditation.
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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.…