Guided MeditationInsight Meditation Society Retreat2 May 2014
Guided meditation — Four Right Efforts and Developing Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 23 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−23:46
Uses compressed audio.
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The guided meditation instructs directing effort toward maintaining awareness rather than chasing objects. Right effort focuses on cultivating the aware mind and right view to prevent defilements. Objects are merely objects, and meditators face all feelings with continuous awareness.
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- 141 hr 27 minDharma discussion C2 — Concepts and Experience, Being Aware of Awareness1 May 2014
- 152 hr 2 minDharma Discussion group D2 — Working with Past Trauma, Sleepiness, and Right Speech1 May 2014
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- 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
- 1934 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
Transcript
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Is there awareness?
[Burmese segment]
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With awareness,
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some wisdom must be present.
MY
[Burmese speech]
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Every moment that we are aware, every moment of mindfulness, the five spiritual faculties are working together: the awareness, the right effort, the stability of mind, the faith or confidence, and the wisdom.
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Everyone is making the effort to meditate, to be aware.
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How are we making this effort?
[Burmese segment]
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There are two ways we might make the effort to be mindful.
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One, we might try to ensure that
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we don't lose the objects. That means we're always aware of some object or the other.
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The other way
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is to ensure that we don't lose the mindfulness, that at any moment
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we are aware. So the emphasis is on the awareness,
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regardless of whatever
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we are aware of. Making the effort
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to
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not lose the object, he says,
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requires more effort, more tiring. We have to follow the objects.
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But ensuring that we don't lose mindfulness is easier,
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and it's the more natural way to do it.
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And the emphasis is on
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having awareness, ensuring we're not losing awareness. He says, "Then it doesn't matter what the object is,
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or how many, or how few the objects are, because all that matters is that there is mindfulness."
MY
[Burmese speech]
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When there is mindfulness, he says, there is always some sort of wisdom. At the very least, there's the wisdom
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of the things that we have heard and learned before.
MY
[Burmese speech]
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The Buddha talked about four right efforts.
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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.…