Guided MeditationInsight Meditation Society Retreat28 Apr 2014
Guided meditation with reminders — Object and Mind, Feeling and Wisdom
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 33 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−33:12
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A guided meditation reminding meditators to recognize the two natures: the object being known and the mind knowing. The guidance emphasizes maintaining right view toward pleasant and unpleasant feelings, acknowledging thinking without getting involved in the story, and sustaining continuous awareness.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 35 talks
- 11 hr 16 minOverview of the meditation instructions by Sayadaw U Tejaniya26 Apr 2014
- 234 minGuided meditation with morning reminders — Right Attitude and Continuous Awareness27 Apr 2014
- 31 hr 26 minDharma Discussion group A1 — Recognizing the State of Mind and Viewing Experiences as Nature27 Apr 2014
- 41 hr 56 minDharma Discussion group B1 — Being Aware of Awareness and Watching Mind Activity27 Apr 2014
- Viewing533 minGuided meditation with reminders — Object and Mind, Feeling and Wisdom28 Apr 2014
- 61 hr 45 minDharma Discussion group C1 — Wisdom of Knowing How to Practice28 Apr 2014
- 71 hr 59 minDharma Discussion group D1 — Recognizing Nature of Objects and Continuous Awareness28 Apr 2014
- 840 minGuided meditation with reminders — Right View and Attitude Towards Objects29 Apr 2014
- 91 hr 48 minDharma Discussion group E1 — Recognizing Dosa and Working with Wisdom29 Apr 2014
- 101 hr 53 minDharma Discussion group F1 — Awareness of Mind, Thinking, and Dosa29 Apr 2014
Transcript
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Continue practicing?
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What is the mind knowing? Or what is the mind aware of?
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Don't forget to think about the nature. Experience is all. Experience is our nature.
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There are two natures. One is a being-knowing. One is knowing or aware.
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Object is being-known. The mind is knowing.
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We should not complain about the experience, whatever happened.
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We should be appreciating awareness present.
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If you have a right view, right thought,
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the mind is not resist and not attached to the object.
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Then the mind becomes still.
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[Burmese speech]
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Pleasant sensations are also objects, and unpleasant sensations are also objects.
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Things to be known.
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But the objective of meditation is not only to seek happiness.
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The goal is not to
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just become happy.
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I think I'm saying this wrong, but yeah. I think you have cheap. The real goal— The third time. The real goal of meditation is the development of wisdom, which then leads to happiness.
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If you think
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pleasant sensations are good, then you will attach to them.
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Then when unpleasant sensations arise, you will resist them. You will have aversion to them.
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So remember, whether it's pleasant or unpleasant—a pleasant sensation, a pleasant feeling, an unpleasant sensation, or an unpleasant feeling—a sensation is just a sensation, a feeling is just a feeling. They are objects to be known.
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Know there is pleasant feeling. Know there is unpleasant feeling.
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If you practice to gain wisdom, then with the flowering of wisdom, with the development of wisdom, happiness follows as a natural result.
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It's part of the effect of having wisdom.
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Sometimes developments arise in the mind, and naturally they're accompanied by unpleasant sensation or feeling.
[Burmese segment]
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the practice of the four divine abidings, either use metta, loving-kindness, karuna, compassion, mudita, sympathetic joy, or upekka, equanimity, to try and deal with the development and the unpleasant sensation or feeling that we're experiencing.
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And that's a temporary solution, but it might not help you develop any wisdom about
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the development. If we want to understand that development, develop wisdom around it, then
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we should challenge ourselves to
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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.…