Guided MeditationInsight Meditation Society Retreat3 May 2014
Guided meditation — Present Moment Knowing and Momentum of Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 34 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−34:03
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A guided meditation on staying in the present moment, recognizing the nature of thinking and knowing rather than the stories. The teacher explains that all experiences are continuously new and changing. Meditators learn to apply right effort to build momentum of awareness, using wisdom to sustain it.
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- 1624 minGuided meditation — Four Right Efforts and Developing Awareness2 May 2014
- 172 hr 15 minDharma Discussion group E2 — Natural Awareness, Dealing with Pīti and Effort2 May 2014
- 181 hr 52 minDharma Discussion group F2 — Taking Care of Awareness, Thinking Productively, and Working with Sleepiness2 May 2014
- Viewing1934 minGuided meditation — Present Moment Knowing and Momentum of Awareness3 May 2014
- 201 hr 39 minDharma Discussion group A3 — Doubt, Nature of Awareness and Objects, and Dukkha3 May 2014
- 212 hr 9 minDharma Discussion group B3 — Working with Defilements, Pain, and Effort3 May 2014
- 2228 minGuided meditation — Noticing Defilements and Continuous Awareness4 May 2014
- 231 hr 46 minDharma Discussion group C3 — Defilements as Objects and Awareness of Mind4 May 2014
- 242 hr 1 minDharma Discussion group D3 — Working with Defilements and Right Attitude4 May 2014
Transcript
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Okay. What is the mind aware of?
[Burmese segment]
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The past is no longer here,
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and the future is not yet here.
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All we have is the present moment,
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where we can stay, really, is the present moment.
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Knowing is always in the present moment.
[Burmese segment]
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The things we think about, the stories, might be about things in the past or about things in the future.
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But the mind, if you know it is the mind that is thinking,
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that mind is in the present moment. Just the mind, not the story.
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[Burmese speech]
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When you recognize thinking whenever it arises,
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when you recognize the mind is thinking whenever the mind starts thinking or is thinking, you will start to see
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that this is mind. We're not interested in the story. We're interested in the nature of the mind
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in the present moment.
[Burmese segment]
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Knowing is also mind. Thinking is also mind.
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That which knows, that which thinks.
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[Burmese speech]
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You know the mind is thinking.
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You can also know the mind is not thinking. Thoughts appear
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and disappear.
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Or you might recognize that
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what's arising is new. It's a new mind in the present moment, every moment. Or that it's changing in every moment.
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If it's
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awareness and object, if it's nature, it's always new.
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Ở khổng tin thì ở tiếp đấy. Ở khổng. What you know now, this moment, is new.
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The knowing is new, and the next knowing is new.
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And so on.
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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.…