Guided MeditationInsight Meditation Society Retreat29 Apr 2014
Guided meditation with reminders — Right View and Attitude Towards Objects
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 39 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−39:30
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This guided meditation reminds yogis that all objects are equal to cultivate mental qualities. Calm arises from right view, right attitude, and continuous natural awareness rather than the object.
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- 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
- Viewing840 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
- 111 hr 47 minDharma Discussion group A2 — Working with Depression, Reactions, and Simplicity30 Apr 2014
- 122 hr 10 minDharma Discussion group B2 — Concept, Reality, and Observing Mind30 Apr 2014
- 1332 minGuided meditation — Strengthening Awareness Rather Than Following Objects1 May 2014
Transcript
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What is the mind aware of? What is the mind knowing?
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You can use any object.
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All objects are the same.
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We use the object
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and grow our mind quality: awareness, samādhi, and wisdom.
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So
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no object, any object, are not disturbing you; they are helping you.
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All objects are helping you to grow our mind.
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If you have the right attitude,
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if you have the right view, object is helping you.
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If you have a wrong view,
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object is become,
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uh, craving. The mind becomes craving, aversion, to do something because of object.
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So don't forget to think: nature. Nature means it's impersonal.
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Feeling just feeling.
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Thinking just thinking. Sensation is just sensation.
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There is no body there.
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Nature means cause and effect process. Every process, they have their cause.
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People use the object to meditate, to be aware.
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But
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object is not, uh,
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the mind is calm because of no object. We use the object to be growing awareness, samādhi, and wisdom. But
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the mind is calm or still not because of object.
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Because of right view, right attitude, and continue the awareness
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is make the mind calm down.
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Sometimes we use this object but the mind calm, but sometimes we use only this object but the mind is not calm. Because
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there is right attitude or wrong attitude.
[Burmese segment]
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Whether the practice is going well or not
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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.…