Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat23 May 2016
Meditation instructions — Natural Awareness and Right Attitude
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 32 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−32:14
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Meditation instructions on checking the state of mind and maintaining awareness naturally without force. With the right attitude, awareness remains light, free, and uninvolved even when encountering difficult or unpleasant objects. The meditator's duty is simply to do their best to stay aware at all times.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
- 31 hr 57 minB 1 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Everything Is Nature, and Right Effort21 May 2016
- 42 hr 6 minC 1 Group interview — Being Aware Without Forcing and Working with Thoughts and Pain21 May 2016
- 529 minMeditation instructions — Right Attitude Towards Experience and Thinking22 May 2016
- 62 hr 2 minD 1 Group interview — Recognizing Awareness and Working with Difficult Emotions22 May 2016
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- 81 hr 58 minB 2 Group interview — Recognizing Delusion and Appreciating Awareness23 May 2016
- 92 hr 11 minC 2 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Observing Thoughts, and Non-Identification23 May 2016
- 1030 minMeditation instructions — Knowing the Awareness and the Quality of Awareness24 May 2016
- 111 hr 51 minD 2 Group interview — Recognizing Awareness and Understanding Dukkha24 May 2016
- 1217 minMeditation instructions — Knowing the Mind and Developing Awareness25 May 2016
Transcript
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Check your state of mind. You might also say, "Check how you feel."
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We don't have to forcefully try to be aware. It's just... it's just to be aware.
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Just aware.
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[Burmese speech]
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Whatever you already see,
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that's what you're aware of. There's no need to look for anything else.
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When the awareness becomes more continuous, it gains momentum. That awareness will
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be stronger because of that momentum. And that momentum will allow the awareness to see more detail. It comes very naturally.
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It will come naturally.
[Burmese segment]
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When the awareness
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is... when the awareness is right. You might say when the awareness is in the right mood. Then it feels
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light, fresh.
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What like that? Free. Say what you thought. Interested.
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Pure. And happy.
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These are the results of wholesome mental states. The effects of wholesome mental states.
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And awareness is a wholesome mental state. Or activity.
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Even if you're experiencing something difficult, the object that you're having to observe is... is unwholesome. Or tight and unpleasant.
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If the awareness has the right attitude, then the awareness feels free
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of what it is observing.
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It's not involved in what it is observing.
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[Burmese segment]
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Awareness
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knows the things that it is knowing.
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And
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is there... are you
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aware that there is this awareness?
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Can you detect that awareness is working?
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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.…