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TeacherENFirst of all, I try to tell you thank you for everybody involved in this retreat.

TeacherENSadhasana. Everything, the good results coming is because of mainly conditioning.

TeacherENNow the retreat is very well finished.

TeacherENSo

TeacherENonly

TeacherENone can cannot do the cannot get the result, only one things.

TeacherENOnly meditation teacher alone, how to do retreat.

TeacherENNo yogi.

YogiVIKhông có hành, không có hành giả.

TeacherENTeacher also have, yogi also have, supporter also have.

YogiVIỪ.

TeacherENAnd conditioning, every place, eating food, organizer, translator, many things, then good results come.

TeacherENThis mean is, this is a meaning of anattā.

TeacherENAnattā means is a cause and effect.

TeacherENNot, not for only one.

TeacherENOnly one cannot get that.

TeacherENGood result.

YogiVIKhông có được, không có được cái, cái, cái kết quả tốt.

TeacherENSo that's why I thank you for everybody.

TeacherENOkay, now I remind you to how to continue practice in daily life.

TeacherENAre you happy to go back?

TeacherENOkay.

TeacherENAre you go back, happy to go back, or happy to practice?

TeacherENNo, no, you should say both, both, both.

TeacherENNow, so where you go? Now where are you going?

TeacherENWhere are you going?

TeacherENGoing back my home, right?

TeacherENGoing back to my home, going back to my family.

TeacherENSo be careful, because of identify this idea of self, I mean my, my, this is a very dangerous, uh, idea.

TeacherENSo why the people, they very difficult to practice in daily life, their home?

TeacherENIn their home,

TeacherENa lot of defilement.

TeacherENA lot of craving, a lot of aversion, a lot of worry, anxiety, a lot of happy, whatever, agitation, a lot of agitation.

TeacherENSo you cannot handle your agitation, then very difficult to practice.

TeacherENSo, so that's why when you go back your home, you change your idea first.

TeacherENYou need to change your attitude, idea.

TeacherENMy home, my family is the con- this is a concept.

TeacherENReality is there is a no I.

YogiVIỜ, trong cái thực tế, trong cái, mà, mà, cái pháp chân đế đó không có tồn tại.

TeacherENSo if you practice, if you want to practice, then you must have this right idea is nature.

TeacherENSo now

TeacherENyou, you think is very important. Now you should think this way.

TeacherENMeditation isn't, should not be finished.

TeacherENSo meditation means is that we are trying to cultivate the whole sun quality of the mind.

TeacherENBuddhajana mean is a lot of defilement. They have, they have a lot of defilement.

TeacherENAnd also Buddhajana mind is only two mind, whole sun mind or unwholesome mind.

TeacherENIf you must be have wholesome mind, then unwholesome mind cannot come.

TeacherENSo this, that's why your mind, you take care of your mind all the time, cultivating about whole sun quality of the mind, then the whole sun quality of mind is growing and naturally growing, then unwholesome quality of mind less and less and less.

TeacherENThen your life becomes less suffering.

TeacherENSo that's why you should be practicing.

TeacherENIf you not practice, you must be suffer.

TeacherENSo that's why the meditation need to practice all the time.

TeacherENWe can start, if you can start to meditate, it should not be finished.

TeacherENUntil you die.

TeacherENSo the meditation is become part of your life, should be part of, part of your life.

TeacherENIf your life is only, we have a three kind, three action ha, mental action, verbal action, and physical action.

TeacherENSo we take care of our mind, mental action first. Then mental action is a growing the good quality of mind, awareness, samādhi, wisdom is increasing,

TeacherENthen the mind quality defilement is less and less.

TeacherENSo you need to think this way. Now meditation retreat, one retreat, sure mean meditation retreat is finished.

YogiVIỪm.

TeacherENBut your home retreat is. Tomorrow started.

TeacherENIn Boddhachan there is no retreat center.

YogiVIỪm, đúng rồi.

TeacherENOnly they come to listening Dhamma talk and come listening the technique. And everybody go back their home and practice, then many people get enlightenment.

TeacherENOne thing is you should, you need to be want to be practice.

TeacherENFaith, sadhā about practice.

TeacherENFaith about, uh—

YogiVIỪm, pháp hành, cái đức tin này nói rằng là cái pháp hành này nó đưa lợi, đưa đến cái sự lợi lạc trong cuộc sống.

TeacherENConfident about faith, uh, trust about your practice.

TeacherENIf you get the result, good result from your practice, you can understand the beneficial of your practice, then the faith is increasing.

TeacherENI tell you my story.

TeacherENWhen I'm depressed very strong, when I'm young, thirty years long, I'm very depressed.

TeacherENTwo years depressed, very strong.

TeacherENSo very suffering, every day very suffering, every morning wake up, oh, today again. How do you deal with this, every problem?

TeacherENI don't want to see people, I don't want to do anything, I want to, I don't do anything, I don't want to do anything.

TeacherENThe mind suffering is all the time.

TeacherENFear all the time.

TeacherENOnly can sleep, otherwise I can, if you cannot sleep then you become crazy.

TeacherENNo, no, I can sleep my time, otherwise maybe I become crazy.

TeacherENI tried many way to, happy for, for me, happy, many way, try.

YogiVICố gắng.

TeacherENGo there, go to visit everywhere, I'm not happy.

YogiVIDạ, tôi cố gắng, tôi làm đủ mọi chuyện để giúp cho cái tâm mình nó an vui, nhưng mà không được, tôi đi khắp nơi, tôi đi thăm chỗ này chỗ kia rồi vậy, tôi nghĩ là cái cảnh nó giúp cho tâm của tôi nó, nó bớt đau khổ, nhưng mà không.

TeacherENThen I realize if I go to the moon also I will suffer.

TeacherENBecause this suffering is there, here. Whenever you go you suffer.

TeacherENIf your mind suffer then you can look everything become negative.

TeacherENSo every, because of this thought that mind most suffer.

TeacherENThen I have no, no way out, no way out.

TeacherENThen I start to think meditate.

TeacherENFor beginning I'm not very trust for meditation.

TeacherENBut because of knowledge or meditation be happy, so I meditate.

TeacherENThat time, that time I only understanding is when I meditate I relieve a little bit from suffering.

TeacherENIf I'm not meditate the depression is overwhelm me.

TeacherENSo I only, I only understanding only that much. If I practice I relieve.

TeacherENThen I start to meditate three, four months continuously day by day, day by day, day by day. Because of only this understanding a little bit.

TeacherENOne day after three month, three, four month, then one day

TeacherENwhen I'm meditating. All the time not, not only sitting time not, the whole day, morning wake up until sleep time I continue practice. One day, one time, only the very, very short time the mind is totally no suffering at all. Very, very short, very, very short, but immediately the suffering come back.

TeacherENSo like a sm, it's very dark, only the small, small light come.

TeacherENBut that again.

TeacherENBut the mind understanding this is only the way from the free from suffering.

TeacherENThat time the confident trust faith is very strong.

YogiVILúc bây giờ.

TeacherENThis is the only way to be free from suffering.

TeacherENAnd then I practice continuously very wholeheartedly, very strongly practice, very trust, very confident and practice until now.

TeacherENI want to say is trust for Dhamma not.

TeacherENThis motivation is very important.

TeacherENIt push me to practice nonstop because of this understanding.

TeacherENI never look back, I run, run, run, run.

TeacherENSo,

TeacherENso understanding the beneficial of practice, you understand very well, then your trust is very strong, then you can practice day by day, day by day.

TeacherENWhy people are not because not progress the meditation because they cannot practice continuously.

TeacherENThey come to practice many time not, one time come to ten day, ten day, one month, two month. So what happening when you come to practice your practice center then your progress come. One day, two days, one, one hour, one week, ten day, then your progress is one, two, three, four, five.

TeacherENBut if you go back, you not continue practice, it going down, you can't zero.

TeacherENAnd they come next time come to practice zero, start them zero again.

TeacherENAnd go back, become zero.

YogiVICứ vậy.

TeacherENSo how to progress?

TeacherENHow many time you come to retreat cannot progress?

TeacherENAs mu as you practice as much you all you get.

TeacherENBut I ask you how long you practice before? I have practice two years.

YogiVIỪm, tôi hỏi quý vị tu bao nhiêu.

TeacherENI start to practice two year. Mean every day you practice or not?

TeacherENOnly one day, only one hour.

TeacherENTwenty-four hour you practice only one hour.

TeacherENThen he said I practice two years before.

TeacherENI start to practice long time, not really long time. You start to practice two years ago, but not, you cannot practice continuously not two years.

TeacherENThey come to practice and retreat, they understanding how to watch bodily sensation, feeling, they not very skillful how to continue practice and mind state.

TeacherENSo if you continue practice your progress become one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, they never get the six, seven, eight, nine.

TeacherENTheir level is one, two, three, four, five. Next time one, two, three, four, five.

TeacherENSo that's why if you continue practice very important and bring your life.

TeacherENOne day, one day practice your quality of mind, think about like this, your quality of mind not, one day practice your quality of mind is one day good. Seven day, ten day practice, ten day good. Hundred days

TeacherENdifferent quality not. Then hundred, hundred day, one thousand day different quality. Ten thousand day different quality.

TeacherENSo this the Vipassanā sudha practice is if you continue practice long, long time then your level is become slowly growing.

TeacherENSo

TeacherENI want to say, so long time practice and this make your quality of mind is increasing.

TeacherENOne yogi said

TeacherENshe practice every day two hour, morning one hour, evening two hour. One of retreat center said you should sitting two hour every day. So he follow the instruction. Every day he practice morning one hour, evening one hour. Never miss five years already. But when he saw me, then he discussed me, I practice like this, but why the mind cannot improve?

TeacherENCraving stay craving, angry stay angry. So what is, what happening like this?

TeacherENSo I, I, I explain like this, one day twenty-four hour. How many hour you sleep?

YogiVIMột ngày hai mươi bốn tiếng, ngủ mấy tiếng?

TeacherENToo much.

YogiVIMười tiếng, trời đất ơi, mô phật.

TeacherENIf, oh, okay, eight hour, eight hour.

TeacherENHow many hour left?

TeacherENSixty hour, right? Only you practice two hour.

YogiVICòn lại mười sáu tiếng mà ngủ.

TeacherENAnother fourteen hour, what state of mind is there?

TeacherENOnly two hour you have a sati samādhi wisdom. Another fourteen hour is craving, aversion, all deluded, all defilement is present.

YogiVIHai tiếng thì niệm định tuệ, mà mười bốn tiếng kia là phiền não, tham, sân, si.

TeacherENHow do we progress?

TeacherENIf you practice fourteen hour, only defilement two hour, you are progress very well.

TeacherENLike a business.

TeacherENSo if you really, really want to progress, you should practice continuously.

TeacherENAnd difficulty mean is, difficulty mean is not enough practice.

TeacherENSo now you practice very well in ten day here, right? For ten day, one, two, three, five.

TeacherENFive, every rows. When you go back, five, four, three, slowly going down.

TeacherENBut, but, but, but don't give up.

TeacherENTry as much as you, you can. Try as much as you can.

TeacherENBecause, because now you understand very well how to watch your mind, right?

YogiVIBởi vì biết cách tôi quan sát.

TeacherENHow to watch your feeling, how to watch your body.

TeacherENNow you understand.

TeacherENSo as much as you, you can. Try to as much as you can.

YogiVIRáng càng nhiều càng tốt.

TeacherENIf you lost awareness, don't complaining. Give up, let it be. As much as you can try again, try again, try again, be patient. That is the effort. Effort mean is a patient, persevering, don't give up.

TeacherENSlowly then you can slowly become more, come back to progress is come back.

TeacherENSo every day you need to remind yourself, every time morning wake up, how to live your life today. I try to stay with awareness, whatever you do.

TeacherENThis is a Dettanā paramita.

TeacherENTry to remind yourself, morning wake up, I today I try to see like this, like this, stay like awareness.

TeacherENLost, no problem, come back, bring back, bring back, bring back.

TeacherENSo very easy to bring back is to remind yourself, thinking yourself, are you, how do you feel? Are you aware? So this kind of question make you remind yourself, then awareness come back, come back, come back.

TeacherENSome people use like this, they stick to the what they saw, many places, be mindful, be mindful, be mindful.

TeacherENThen reminding come, then awareness come back, and practice as much as you can.

TeacherENThen all the time, whatever you see, whatever you hear, whatever you meet, any people, bring back your feeling. How do you feel? How do you feel? How do you feel? Just do like this, enough.

TeacherENJust try to know about yourself, enough. Try to be know about yourself.

TeacherENBut many day, many time, this knowing is slowly, slowly increasing power have.

TeacherENSo that's why the daily life practice is very important.

TeacherENỪm, how about you there, your,

TeacherENhow should I take?

TeacherENAnd also,

TeacherENjust know daily activity, whatever you do, bodily sensation also okay, checking the feeling also okay.

TeacherENFor, for me, that time I practice, I only check my feeling.

TeacherENMy, my relax or not?

TeacherENI check all the time my feeling, my mental state.

TeacherENThen slowly I know the mind become more understanding,

TeacherENhow the mind become tense, how to, how the mind become relaxed.

TeacherENSo try to aware of this thinking, the feeling, all the time, I notice what, what the mind think, how the mind feel.

TeacherENJust know, not just know what happening, that's enough.

TeacherENIf you concentrate, focus too much, then you cannot do the outside things.

TeacherENSo thinking also the same, just know your thinking, enough, don't focus too much.

TeacherENWe want to know what happening, what's going on, the process.

TeacherENIf you concentrate too much, then the mind cannot think. You cannot see the nature as they are.

TeacherENAnd also daily life, you cannot think, you cannot do anything.

YogiVIIn daily life, cannot do anything.

TeacherENIn daily life, the mind cannot think anything, it cannot do anything.

TeacherENSo you should think before what are you doing.

TeacherENSo try to know, just know about your thinking.

TeacherENAnd slowly, long time, if you apply this knowing, knowing, knowing many times, the mind become, slowly the wisdom is growing. The mind understanding is follower.

TeacherENSo,

TeacherENuh,

TeacherENevery time the mind have a sati, the wisdom is already there.

TeacherENIf you have awareness, then the mind have a time, you know something happen, then the mind have space, think, do space.

TeacherENFor example, if you want to talk, intention to talk, you notice, you aware want to talk. Then the mind have time to think, should or not, need or not, necessary or not. The wisdom is slowly growing.

TeacherENSo we call sati samādhī.

TeacherENAnd we feel sati and samādhī. Samādhī is a paññā. Every time the mind have awareness, samādhī is already there.

TeacherENSo every time you follow the defilement, after that you have a remote regret.

TeacherENEvery time you follow the wisdom, the mind have confident, and, uh,

TeacherENgood, become confident about yourself.

TeacherENSo in daily life, try to practice as much as you can, then your meditation progress is slowly growing.

TeacherENSo as much as you can practice in your daily life, then if you have a time and retreat, go to retreat, then your progress become very fast.

TeacherENSo, so in your life, become more wholesome quality of mind is increasing, your life become more peaceful, more happy, more meaningful, then you satisfy your life.

TeacherENSo appreciate, appreciate the awareness, not.

TeacherENEvery time you have a defilement, then awareness is come, then you should be happy about awareness.

TeacherENBecause defilement arising, if you cannot aware and diluted mind is present, then defilement eat the whole mind.

TeacherENSo if the defilement eat the whole mind, the whole mind become crazy.

TeacherENIf you notice, the craving and defilement stop. If you continue practice, watching, practicing, watching mind, the practice mind come, then craving may be no chance to grow.

TeacherENThat's why the Satipatthana Sutta, they guarantee for you, if you practice the Satipatthana practice, you must be left suffering.

TeacherENRelief from this abhijjha dhoomanassa, worry, anxiety, relief, and wisdom growing, and later you can get the enlightenment.

TeacherENSo do you want to practice?

TeacherENYeah, I encourage to practice, I encourage, this is my encourage for you, not.

TeacherENSo my life also because of practice, then I like this. Otherwise I become

TeacherENmental hospital or chí or, or die.

TeacherENSo this is my, in my real experience, so I share you, not. If you practice, you become like me, not.

YogiVIƠ, ngài nói ngài dạy nói chánh niệm hả?

YogiVIHả?

YogiVIÝ là ngài hứa ngài dạy nói chánh niệm hả?

YogiENOh, but you promise to, to practice, uh, to teach them how to practice in talking.

TeacherENYeah, that's why, but this time, next time, next.

YogiENActually, they do like this.

TeacherENOne talk, one person talking, one person listening. I make the sound hear, tong. One person talk one minute, talk one person listening. But only talk about the Dhamma nature, not, not defilement nature. Talk about Dhamma nature, but talk one hour, one minute, one minute, one minute.

TeacherENThen I make the sound, tong, stop.

TeacherENOne do, one do, one do, one do, two, two couple, two couple. And one is talking, two listening. And next time, tong, two is talking, one listening. Really they know how, when they talking time they aware themselves. How do you feel, what you thinking, what your sound, and slowly

TeacherENthey know when you are talking time. Now you can practice every time you talking the same.

TeacherENPeople is very understanding, not very well. Only practice and, but, uh, make the practice then they can know. Buddha teaching is very obviously, when you are talking time be mindful, when you are silent be mindful, but people not understanding, cannot follow.

TeacherENThen we make this, this session, one two couple, two couple, two couple, one do, one do, one do, A, B, A, B, A, B. Now I said here, A talking,

TeacherENtong, stop, B talking.

YogiVIĐó, thầy chia ra từng cặp, từng cặp rồi ngồi với nhau vậy đó.

TeacherENAnd they know, cái con.

YogiVIRồi người A nói, gõ cái, cái con rồi A ngưng lại, gõ cái con rồi B nói, gõ cái con rồi B ngưng lại.

TeacherENThen kindergarden.

TeacherENLike a kindergarden, not.

TeacherENKindergarden.

YogiVIKindergarden, nó giống như mấy đứa con nít vậy đó, con nói, con nín, nói, nín, nói, nín, vậy đó.

TeacherENThen one minute they talk, they know they are eager to talk. I said tong. They want to talk.

TeacherENIf you talk about your story, more eagerness coming.

TeacherENSo be careful about your story, talk other people, not.

YogiVINhớ đừng có kể cho ai nghe.

TeacherENThen you lose everything.

TeacherENSo every time you are talking, before you talking, check your state of mind first. How do you feel?

TeacherENAnd awareness present.

YogiVIKiểm tra trước.

TeacherENAwareness present or not.

TeacherENThen you know your state of mind and you. Then start to talk.

TeacherENThis is some skillful. I like to do one job, two job one time. This is my hobby. I want to do, for example, I learn for lesson and also I want to listen the music. Same time. Two job one time I do. I want to do like this.

YogiVIDạ, thầy sư nói tôi rất thích làm cái kiểu là nghe một cái câu chuyện gì đồng thời mở nhạc nữa, nghe cả hai thứ cùng một lúc.

YogiENTwo things at a time huh.

TeacherENYeah, the mind very fast can do.

TeacherENI learning the study. Same time I listening the music.

TeacherENSo now you do like this, knowing your feeling and talking. Same time.

TeacherENYou can do, not very difficult.

TeacherENSo half fifty, awareness fifty fifty, not.

YogiVIỪm, nửa này nửa kia.

YogiVINăm mươi, năm mươi.

YogiVINửa này năm mươi, năm mươi.

TeacherENFifty fifty awareness yourself, fifty talking process.

TeacherENThen slowly the mind become more habit.

YogiENYou don't forget to talk huh. You aware of your mind, you don't forget.

TeacherENVery skill. You talking is very skill. No need to think.

TeacherENDifficulty is be aware yourself. This is difficult. Talking is not difficult.

TeacherENJust more remind about yourself.

TeacherENOkay. Now you can start to practice if you go back your home, not. You meet everybody. You meet everybody and start to talking. Remember me.

TeacherENOr remember the Buddha, Buddha advice already, when you are talking time you mindful, you should be mindful.

TeacherENAnd also the last one, the Buddha before preliminary paranah, last word, he gives the last word. Last word mean is very, very important. What he said before the Buddha become

TeacherENnibbana.

YogiVIĐức Phật có lời.

TeacherENWhat he last word is what, what you remember?

TeacherENAll

TeacherENthe Dhamma is anatta.

YogiVIApmadena, samadhita, tinh cần.

TeacherENDon't forget to be aware.

TeacherENEverything is environment. Don't forget to be knowing this.

TeacherENAll the Dhamma tinh khaya. Apmadena, samadhita. This is the last word.

TeacherENSo if you are very respectful Buddha, you should be follow the Buddha advice.

TeacherENThis word is not only that he passed away. Every day also he remind this. Every time he come back from the armstrong, then he Dhamma talk. Apmadena, samadhita. For monk.

YogiVIDạ, the Buddha hả?

TeacherENYes.

YogiVIỪm, Đức Phật là ngày nào mà đi bát về đó ngài cũng hồi chư tăng lại và ngài nói cái chữ này Apmadena, samadhita, tinh cần, tỉnh giác, tu tập.

TeacherENJust not forget the nama rupa or not forget the Dhamma.

TeacherENSo if you really respect the Buddha,

TeacherENare you respect the Buddha?

TeacherENAre you sure?

YogiENYes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

TeacherENAre you sure?

YogiENYes, sure.

TeacherENThen follow the advice.

TeacherENThis advice is very, very powerful and very important.

TeacherENOkay. Now we're closing the ceremony. Apmadena, samadhita.

YogiVISà.

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