Dhamma talkBangkok Retreat14 Nov 2015
Final sit and encouragement — Carrying on Practice After Retreat
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 53 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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The teacher encourages yogis to maintain awareness after the retreat ends. Continuous practice at home builds wholesome momentum, preventing defilements from taking over. By applying awareness to daily life, meditators gradually develop stability of mind and wisdom.
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- 157 minDay 6 guided 10 min meditation — Being Aware or Idle Thinking12 Nov 2015
- 161 hr 42 minDhamma discussion group B3 — Wrong Attitude, Defilements, and Relaxation in Practice12 Nov 2015
- 172 hr 11 minDhamma discussion group C3 — Working with Anger, Resistance, and Thoughts12 Nov 2015
- 1815 minDay 7 guided 15 min meditation — Right Attitude and Practicing Vipassanā Anywhere13 Nov 2015
- 191 hr 57 minDhamma discussion group D3 — Working with Loud Noise, Thoughts, and Cause and Effect13 Nov 2015
- 201 hr 56 minDhamma discussion group A4 and B4 — Grounding Mind When Facing Challenges and Working with Emotions13 Nov 2015
- 211 hr 50 minDhamma discussion group C4 and D4 — Nature of Mind, Defilements and Wisdom14 Nov 2015
- Viewing2254 minFinal sit and encouragement — Carrying on Practice After Retreat14 Nov 2015
Transcript
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So we're going to do a little group sit for half an hour, and Sayadaw will speak to us then.
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cho. I'm going to speak to us a bit because it's the end of the retreat. He wants to thank everybody, and he also wants to give us some last words—not last words, he also wants to— The last what?
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He wants us to— Bye-bye.
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—to say something about
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carrying on after the retreat.
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For any endeavor, for any work to
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come to completion, for example, for a retreat to start
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And and Sayadaw says for it to get through all those days, for anything to happen, all conditions must come together for that to be achieved.
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Nè, sầu nè. A retreat doesn't happen just because there is a teacher only. And it doesn't happen because there are yogis only. And it doesn't happen if there aren't people who are willing to cook for us. It doesn't happen if there is no place to stay.
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And many other conditions. ? Sao? ? A a . Yogi . So for making this retreat possible and successful, Seata would like to thank Mike, and he would like to thank the staff, and he would like to thank the yogis.
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For participating wholeheartedly and applying yourself.
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Thank you. yogi ? There are so many of you here from so many different places.
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And there are people who have never practiced before, people who have practiced some, and there are people who have practiced a long time, very experienced.
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But everyone has made the progress that is commensurate, that matches their effort. And Seata is very pleased with your efforts.
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So in the Dhamma, Seata says, we get as much as we—let me try and phrase this right—we get what we get depending on how much effort we put in, how skillful we are at putting in effort, and how
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much we understand how to put in that. It is not effort alone that gives results. It also has to be right effort and skillful effort. And then only the results will follow.
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If we understood this nature, that the results we get are dependent on the amount and of right, skillful effort that we put in, Seata says, then we will never be too greedy for just results.
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We won't just hope for results.
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sao. Greed only thinks of results, but wisdom thinks about how something can be achieved. And wisdom's aim is to
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fulfill the conditions that are needed to achieve an aim.
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It doesn't just hope for results. Yogi Seata wants to remind us to be interested in the practice, to be interested in how to practice correctly.
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. So if we practice seven days, we get seven days' worth. . If we practice a month, we'll get a month's worth. And if we practice a year, we get a year's worth.. If it's skillful.
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So we need to
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be careful, or take care of, how and whether we are practicing skillfully.
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Thì ai sẽ khám rồi? Thì ai sẽ khám rồi biết rồi? Thì ai thu đạo rồi mà biết. So a retreat is over, but that is not the end of the practice of meditation. Meditation mà biết rồi. Thì ai sẽ khám rồi biết rồi? Meditation never ends. Only retreats end.
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So this retreat in this place is ending, but the retreat that you call life is going to begin
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again. . Seata says delusion and his party of unwholesome friends, they love it when you say the retreat has ended. meditation . Or meditation has ended. Because they think, "Oh good, now we can play."
[Burmese segment]
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And this is because Seata says the nature of delusion and his party of unwholesome friends is that when you want to go on retreat, they ask, "So how long are you going on retreat?" And if you say a week, they're like, "Okay, a week." If you say a month, they're like, "Oh, a month." If you say a year, they're like, "Oh, a year."
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And then when that's over, we'll be back.
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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.…