Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat29 May 2016
Final meditation instructions — Making Home Your Meditation Center
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 28 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−28:46
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The meditation instructions encourage turning home into a retreat center and sustaining peace of mind. The teacher explains the necessity of continually cultivating wholesome qualities and the five faculties rather than chasing results. All daily challenges serve as meditation objects to understand with right view.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
- 132 hr 29 minB 3 Group interview — Simple Awareness and Observing the Mind25 May 2016
- 142 hr 29 minC 3 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Checking the Attitude, and Facing Experiences25 May 2016
- 1517 minMeditation instructions — The Nature of Mind and Momentum of Awareness26 May 2016
- 162 hr 16 minD 3 Group interview — Appreciating Awareness and Watching Without Interference26 May 2016
- 1730 minMeditation instructions — Knowing the Mind and Being Mindful When Speaking27 May 2016
- 181 hr 46 minB 4 Group interview — Deciding with Defilement or Wisdom and Background Awareness27 May 2016
- 192 hr 56 minC 4 Group interview — Greed in Meditation and Understanding Strong Aversion27 May 2016
- 2025 minMeditation instructions — Checking the Attitude and State of Mind28 May 2016
- 212 hr 17 minD 4 Group interview — Beyond Calmness and Being Aware in Daily Life28 May 2016
- Viewing2229 minFinal meditation instructions — Making Home Your Meditation Center29 May 2016
Transcript
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You're free now.
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Calm or agitated? I don't know. I don't know. I don't think you're aware that how you feel is aware? I'm aware about what I'm feeling. Yes, aware. Okay.
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Sayadaw would like to thank. Chisute. Every single person who made this retreat possible. He would like to thank all of you. And that includes the yogis, because if you weren't here, there wouldn't be a retreat either, so yes.
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Yeah, he says a teacher alone is not enough. There must be students.
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Shima. Shima. And then there must be shelter and food. Yeah. So alo . So when all the conditions come together, we have one effect: a retreat. .
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. So as we go home,
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what how, in what state of mind shall we go home? What shall we carry home in our minds? yogi. . He says this retreat is over, but there is another retreat that's beginning for you.
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Yogi, yogi. Yogi retreat . Yogi sandal . You have to make your home your meditation center. sandal . Making our home our meditation center gives us more freedom.
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We all, hmm, we all have our own ways of living our lives, um, according to our own rules. And how do we bring
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mindfulness into that mix, into that, into our way of living? .
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If we've ever thought that, um, mindfulness or meditation is something to do
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on a retreat or once a day, you know, like a part-time thing, he says then if we ever thought that, he says,
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maybe we know better now. That is something that really needs to be nurtured and cultivated and made part of our lives.
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And, um,
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Yeah, because he says if we are not cultivating the wholesome qualities of mind, the unwholesome qualities of mind already have a place in our minds,
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whether we cultivate those or not. , u a meditation a . He says, and the more we practice meditation, the more clear it becomes that, um, awareness must always be a part of our lives. a chi .
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Particularly when we watch our minds, when we see our own minds all the time, we begin to clearly realize that when we are not taking care of our minds, the mind is slowly descending into chaos. It's always unraveling unless we're taking care of it.
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It very. A The Buddha talked about the asavas, are those the kankhas?
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Asavas? Um, yeah. Kili . Well, basically the, the kilesas. And he says they're like a, a river also. They're always flowing
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in the mind. Alo. Even when we, um, practice to have wholesome states of mind, and we manage to build up quite a lot of wholesome, wholesome, um, you know, mental well-being, he says we need to take care of it.
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In other words, we need to continue to cultivate it. We can't take it for granted. Because the moment we take it for granted and we're not ensuring that it's wholesome, um, you know, minds that are always ever-present in our minds, he says, it's very easy for the unwholesome to start finding its way in.
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So he has a little hint for us. He says, if we want to, um, grow our, um,
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practice in our lives, if we want to grow the wholesome qualities of the mind in our lives, we have to, um, check to see if our mind is peaceful or not. The longer we can maintain our peace of mind, um, the more—and this requires mindfulness, of course—the more we become able to cultivate wholesome qualities of mind.
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So first we have to learn how to develop, um, peace of mind. Then we have to know how to maintain our peace of mind, our stability of mind.
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. He says, when we are able to maintain our peaceful states of mind, or when we are learning to maintain our peaceful states of mind, he says, we, we learn, um, what makes the mind become peaceful. We also learn what makes the mind not peaceful.
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[Burmese speech]
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And the key is, again, awareness. He says, when the mind is peaceful and we continue to know that the mind is peaceful, it becomes more peaceful, um, or stable.
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But if you're not aware that the mind is peaceful, it can slowly stop. It can slowly, slowly start losing its peacefulness.
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And when the mind is agitated, and we don't know the mind is agitated, it just keeps being agitated. But when you start knowing the mind is agitated, it can come back to peacefulness.
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. And this is happening all the time for us. , peacefulness , khuy . And the longer we are able to maintain our peace of mind, um, the more opportunity we are giving for wisdom to arise in the mind.
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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.…