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Dhamma talks — Right View and Continuous Awareness in Vipassanā
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 48 min
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The teacher guides practitioners to maintain right view, recognizing all physical and mental phenomena as natural cause-and-effect processes rather than self. When facing pain, thoughts, or restlessness, one should calm the mind, be aware of feelings, and keep the right attitude without reacting to objects.
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EnglishOkay, now we try to talk about practice in here, huh? You practice before? I have, yeah, for a few years. Huh? Practice for a few years. Fifth year. Uh, five, around five. Five, oh yeah, okay, okay. But not this way. Not this way, okay. So I— we talk about here, about practice, mindfulness meditation.
EnglishUh, so most important thing is
Englishmindfulness, Vipassanā, huh? If you practice Vipassanā, you must have the right view, huh, right view.
EnglishWe are more talking about
Englishhow to practice, huh, how to practice. The way to practice, what idea, what attitude, and we practice, huh. Because it's— for Vipassanā meditation, practice is the— the view is very important. So we try to aware ourselves, right? Pay attention to ourselves.
EnglishThen what happening? Our mind is me. It's already there, right? Everybody have this idea of self, I, me, my, myself. It's very powerful, very strong. If you look at you or point on you, how do you feel? What? I, me, it's
Englishalready there, huh. Now we try to aware ourselves like this. So idea is already there. So first we need to think about this is nature, yeah? This is— we aware about ourselves, what we know, what we see. Physical process, mental process. Physical and mental. They are nature.
EnglishThere is no body there, right? So you must understanding this idea first. Because
Englishif you are thinking about I, then all defilement increases. Because they research around you, saccāyā-devī, around you. Because of I, for example, when your brain come, body brain come, huh, then you think I brain. The brain is me. Then the aversion increases, right?
EnglishIf you think brain is nature, then the mind can accept, because it not belong to me. Nature is the— the own cause and the own effect process. Process meaning is no body there. Cause and effect process we call nature. Okay? Understand? Yes. So this nature here, our body, we are the nature, huh.
EnglishDon't think about whatever happening in your body and mind is
Englishme. But this idea is very powerful. So don't forget to think about this idea. Right view, right view.
EnglishSo this is the first important point. Without this idea, you cannot practice Vipassanā. You don't know about this idea and try to focus to the object, physical process, or physical object or mental object, if you belong to you. Then you attach or resist. Then the mind cannot practice. Very difficult. Okay?
EnglishSo this is idea, idea. This attitude, I point of view is very important. That's why we need to talk about this first. And think about this nature, huh. For example, when you seeing, if you close the eyes, don't see. Open the eyes, seeing already there. How about what do you need to do about this seeing happen?
EnglishKnowing. You need— you don't do anything, right? Just open the eyes, seeing is already there. Why you say I am seeing? Right?
EnglishSeeing is me. I am seeing. Ground view is already there, right? Nature is already happening because of conditioning. If you like the eye good, the object there, the attention there, then eye consciousness arising, right? Seeing is happening. Actually, it's seeing is happening. Experience, huh.
EnglishNot me, not person. Okay? Do you understand this meaning? Then you can think everything about your body and mind is like this, nature. But a lot of people
Englishvery attached to this idea of self, right? Knowing. Who's knowing? I am knowing. Who's feeling? I feel. Who's suffering?
EnglishWho's happy? All mental process, huh, mental activity, all are I, me, right? Who is creating? Who is— who want? I want. Who's angry? I angry. Right? This is a very strong idea about that. That's why when you practice Vipassanā, don't think about this, uh, understand about this nature first.
EnglishThen you can accept whatever happening in your body and mind come, accept. Okay, this not belong to me, right? Then you— and also, why are we aware?
EnglishRight? Because of myself, teacher said.
EnglishWhy you are aware? Why you are mindful? You want to learn the nature. Yeah. We want to understand this nature, right? That's why we are watching and learning. Okay? That's— you need to do is like this. We are not create anything. You are not resist anything. Wait and watch with the right attitude.
EnglishRight view. Okay? Simple, huh. It's— first you need to know what to do, right? This we should do this way, huh. So yogi responsibility, yogi job is only three things.
EnglishWe are trying what, huh? When you are sitting in the Dhamma hall and trying, right? Trying, trying to practice. Trying what?
EnglishWhat are we trying?
EnglishTrying to calm down? Or trying to stop the thinking? Or trying what? You try a lot, right? What are you trying? What we are trying?
EnglishJust, um, to recognize. Recognize. To recognize, huh. We are trying only three things. We need to try three things only, huh. We are trying to think right way, right view. It's nature, huh. And try to be awareness present moment, right?
EnglishTry to be aware. And try to maintain the awareness continuously, moment to moment. That's what we try. Okay? This is yogi job, three things. We are not trying to do anything about experience, huh. All object, you have all six object there. We are not trying to do anything about the object.
EnglishLet them be. Okay? We no need to try anything about object. Let them be. We need to try only this: try to think right way, right view. Try to be aware. Try to maintain the awareness moment to moment. That is your yogi job. That's all. That's all, huh. You— you are— this is your responsibility.
EnglishSo experience is you can use six object, right? Everybody have six object. This object is we use the object to grow our awareness quality. That is the meaning of meditation. Bhavana. Bhavana mean is cultivation. Cultivate the what? Cultivate the quality of mind, wholesome mind, awareness.
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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.…