Guided MeditationMae Hong Son Retreat18 Feb 2025
Guided meditation — The Meditating Mind and Three Jobs of a Yogi
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 15 min
Original audio: English
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A guided meditation instructs yogis to recognize the meditating mind instead of merely focusing on the object. Yogis need to maintain right attitude, be aware in the present moment, and sustain continuous awareness. When momentum develops, meditation unfolds naturally and the selfless nature (anatta) becomes obvious.
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- 327 minQuestions and answers (morning) — Recognizing Seeing and Mind State13 Feb 2025
- 416 minQuestions and answers (1) — Recognizing Awareness and Mind StatesSession 1
- 547 minQuestions and answers (2) — Overcoming Guilt and Seeing Thoughts as NatureSession 2
- 61 hr 13 minQuestions and answers (afternoon) — Fear, Right Attitude and Dealing with Expectations14 Feb 2025
- 71 hr 4 minQuestions and answers: investigation — How to Ask Questions to Investigate and Understand Mental Processes16 Feb 2025
- Viewing815 minGuided meditation — The Meditating Mind and Three Jobs of a Yogi18 Feb 2025
- 91 hr 28 minMorning session — Intention, Natural Awareness, and Recognizing the 'I'19 Feb 2025
- 105 minFinal day · advice — Practicing Together and Knowing Your Own Mind20 Feb 2025
- 118 minHow to know mind is realityFeb 2025
- 126 minQ&A — Right Attitude Towards Pain and Why Awareness Comes BackFeb 2025
Transcript
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Just— you sit? I can talk something, huh? Yeah.
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Okay, keep going. Be aware yourself.
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Meditation is mind work,
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so we need to know about the mind, how the mind is working.
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When you're meditating time, the most important mind is meditating mind.
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What state of mind are you meditating?
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If you don't know the mind process, sometimes craving is come to meditate. Want something, achieve something,
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try to get something,
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expect something, then this is a craving.
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If you practice with the craving,
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that's not meditating.
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So we need to know about our quality of the mind.
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Meditating mind should be wholesome mind.
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Sati is wholesome. Samādhi is wholesome.
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Effort is wholesome.
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Saddhā, faith is wholesome, and wisdom also wholesome. These five indriyas should be balanced and come together to practice.
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But effort is something you need to know. If you practice with the craving, or aversion, or delusion,
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then effort becomes wrong effort.
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This is very important to know. All meditator,
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they don't know their mind.
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Sometimes we don't know what state of mind are we are meditating.
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Again, you can know about you are meditating. Now you can know what the mind is doing: awareness, pay attention,
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be aware.
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Not doing away, huh. Just be away. Don't use too much effort, energy, because the mind is the mind. Want something or resist something, the mind use a lot of energy.
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So be careful, be careful about your how much energy you use.
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Don't focus too much about the object.
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Object is not very important.
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The mind is, meditating mind is more important.
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There is an object and a knowing mind, or awareness. There are two nature is happening: object and knowing mind, or awareness.
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If you only know the object, the mind, the view is not complete yet.
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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.…