Dhamma talkMae Hong Son Retreat20 Feb 2025
Final day · advice — Practicing Together and Knowing Your Own Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 5 min
Original audio: English
0:00−5:27
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The teacher encourages the yogi to practice together with his spouse to cultivate similar mental qualities and wisdom. Understanding one's own mind is essential before helping others effectively. The teacher also reminds him to maintain natural awareness steadily in daily life over the long term.
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Transcript
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Yes, it is. Paramī is the core quality of mind. So
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Buddha, you together with—stay with the someone with the—who face the paramī, Shukya. Even the Buddha also do like this, right?
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Many lives, they each other support to core quality of the mind, right?
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So better to be your
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wife with the practice together. Better, right? Next time, bring your wife.
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Yeah. Yeah. I hope. I hope so.
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Yeah. Good. The same quality of mind, just better, right?
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One is
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less defilement. One is a lot of defilement. How to match? No match, right? Yeah.
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Same wisdom. There should be same level of wisdom. Then you can together stay together. That's more meaningful in life.
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That guy is Indian guy, very fine. He not practice too much, but he support many people.
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Don't budget it. Don't budget it.
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But he not budget it.
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He social worker. He very interesting social worker. He want to help the people. But if you know your mind, it's better. More important, right? Then you know your mind, and then you can help other people more beneficial way.
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So the most important point is you know yourself first. You know yourself, and you know the mind quality nature. Nature is the mind is all principle is the same, right? You can read your mind very well, then you can read other people mind also. Then you can help each other better.
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Okay? So
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develop your mind quality. Whatever you do, just—just yesterday I talked. Not very seriously concentrate. Just know whatever you do. Whatever you think. Whatever you feel. Just know. Just know day by day. That knowing is slowly, slowly increasing.
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Understanding also increasing. Meditation is a long-time practice, no? Not only short-time. Long-time, then you can more understanding the beneficial practice or awareness. Okay?
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I would like to—a lot to bring my wife also.
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To Myanmar, to Dhama River.
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Yeah. She better and better. You are more less suffering, right?
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Otherwise, it's not easy.
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She would love to, but because of the sun, she take to take care of sun.
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Yeah. Also, good heart. Everybody have good heart. But sometimes no wisdom. And the loot is coming, and a lot of problem. This is not personal. This is a quality of nature.
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Okay?
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So may someday my wife and my son can come to Dhama Vibhagya?
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Sure.
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Even my son?
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If I—yes. If I alive.
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If I die, no. There's no chance.
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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.…