Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat28 May 2016
Meditation instructions — Checking the Attitude and State of Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 25 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−25:14
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Meditation instructions emphasize checking one's attitude and mental state before acting, thinking, or planning. Meditation is simple: continuously know what is happening as it is, without preferences, expectations, or defilements.
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Transcript
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8 . Whatever you do, before you think or speak or act, check your attitude.
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What is happening in the mind, and with
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what mental state are you going to
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approach
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your task?
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And the mind is constantly changing, and the mind is also very quick. And because of this, we should check often, check in again with the mind. What is the attitude?
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What is the mental state? Is it still the same? Has it changed?
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Best of all, of course,
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if we didn't have to check, because we just see the mind all the time. We just recognize
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all the time
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what's in the mind, what it's feeling and thinking
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or knowing.
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It's important to know the thoughts.
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. We need to plan. For example, we need to think, to plan. And the important question is: with what state of mind, with what sort of mind, what sort of motivation are we going to plan?
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So the energy behind the thinking, behind the planning, we need to recognize it. And then we need to consider: do we want to
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plan
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in a heated state of mind? Do we want to plan
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and be suffering while planning?
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— Stressed while planning. . Or do we want to plan in a peaceful way? Plan because it's necessary, and plan what to do. And how
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far do we need to plan? How much
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do we need to really plan for?
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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.…