Dhamma talkSasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat9 Jun 2013
Introduction talk — Nature of Awareness and Right Attitude
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 12 min
Original audio: English
0:00−1:12:22
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This introductory retreat talk clarifies the nature of awareness and right attitude. The teacher explains that knowing happens naturally without excessive effort or fixing onto a single object. Meditators are guided to maintain continuous mindfulness through all sense doors and recognize the mind in daily life.
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat · 13 talks
- Viewing11 hr 12 minIntroduction talk — Nature of Awareness and Right Attitude9 Jun 2013
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- 342 minMorning Guided meditation — Nature of Mind and Reality vs Concept12 Jun 2013
- 442 minMorning Guided meditation — Momentum, Value of Awareness and Impersonal Nature13 Jun 2013
- 545 minMorning Guided meditation — Maintaining Awareness and Understanding Reality as Nature14 Jun 2013
- 648 minMorning Guided meditation — Checking the Quality of Awareness and Recognizing the Knowing Nature15 Jun 2013
- 748 minMorning Guided meditation — Three Yogi's Jobs and Right View of Experience16 Jun 2013
- 840 minMorning Guided meditation — Maintaining Continuous Awareness and Observing Intention17 Jun 2013
- 944 minMorning Guided meditation — Momentum, Intention, and Checking the Mind18 Jun 2013
- 1036 minMorning Guided meditation — Reality, Concept and Understanding Delusion19 Jun 2013
Transcript
EnglishAre you ready
Englishto practice? Yes.
EnglishSo half is old. Continue practice. Retreat. Half is new. So now we can start.
EnglishToo
Englishclose. Too close because sometimes I might get hurt. Okay. Okay. Move away.
EnglishYeah, that's enough. This one better. Yeah, that's good. Just now, that's okay. More space for you and your head.
EnglishYeah. Okay.
EnglishSo now I start to talk about meditation.
EnglishSo we practice, we know, everybody know, we practice mindfulness meditation.
EnglishSo first, we need to know about this, uh, awareness, mindfulness. In Samatha or Vipassanā, any meditation, first we need to know about the
Englishobject and the mind, the experience part and the mind part.
EnglishExperience is
Englishthe object, the mind is meditating.
EnglishSo in Sati Patanas Sutta, they emphasize about the kaya, withna, citta, and dhamma; Nupassanā is, this is an object. You're watching with the body sensation, it's a kaya of Nupassanā,
Englishand you're watching with the feeling, pleasant, unpleasant, neutral. That feeling, you're watching the feeling with the Nupassanā. Then we watch the, we are aware of the, um,
Englishpleasant, unskillful mind, unskillful mind, any good mind, bad mind, any mind. So this is what we call citta and nupassanā, and this kaya with the nācitta becomes
Englishimpersonal, then becomes nature, then we call this is a dhamma nupassanā. This four kind of, four foundation of, this four kind of foundation of awareness is, uh, we call, this is experience, object part. Now we're talking about meditating mind, how to meditate, how to think, how to use, how to meditate.
EnglishSo object is not meditating.
EnglishThe mind is meditating.
EnglishSo if you practice with the craving, aversion, and delusion, then your practice becomes wrong.
EnglishSo,
Englishso we need to know about our mind state, what state of mind are we are meditating.
EnglishAnd another way is
Englishwe use our sense door. Another way means we use sixth sensor door. Sixth sensor door, and everybody have a sixth sensor door, then there is a sixth object. We use this sixth object to grow our quality of mind.
EnglishSo meditation is, we are cultivation. Meditating, meditation mean is a cultivation, to grow our good quality of mind. Now, mindfulness meditation is, we try to cultivate the awareness, samādhi, and effort, and faith or confidence, and wisdom.
EnglishSo meditating mind must be pure, wholesome mind. You cannot mix with this defilement. If you defilement and mix with the meditating, then practice becomes more difficult, or more suffering, more tense. So meditating mind, you need to know about the meditating mind, or awareness mind, or watching mind, whatever.
EnglishSo first you need to know about the awareness, meaning of awareness, nature of awareness. People, they misunderstand about this awareness or mindfulness because they use too much effort, too much energy, because
Englishthey want something.
EnglishBuddha jhana mean is a lot of craving. That mean is a buddhu jhana. A lot of defilement. So we are buddhu jhana. So we have a lot of defilement. So every time we doing, or we thinking, we are talking, we doing,
Englishbecause of craving, aversion, and delusion, this is a habit, automatic happening. So even the meditating also, the defilement can come, can arise, because of this is habit. So we need to check our quality of mind, what state of mind are we meditating.
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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.…