Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat21 May 2016
Meditation instructions — Concept, Reality, and Using Objects to Cultivate Sati
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 26 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−26:23
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Meditation instructions explain how to relax and check the attitude of the mind. The yogi is guided to distinguish concepts from direct reality through the six senses. Continuously cultivating mindfulness (sati) allows objects to support the growth of samādhi and wisdom.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
- 11 hr 12 minWhat is meditation20 May 2016
- Viewing226 minMeditation instructions — Concept, Reality, and Using Objects to Cultivate Sati21 May 2016
- 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
- 732 minMeditation instructions — Natural Awareness and Right Attitude23 May 2016
- 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
Transcript
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Keep going.
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Like this is.
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Are you not doing it right?
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Just—just be aware of whatever you're knowing now.
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Nam, Dham, and U Tejaniya.
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Even if you don't try to listen, you will still hear him.
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Relax the mind and body,
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and then check—check the attitude.
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What's in the mind?
[Burmese segment]
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Is there something you might be expecting?
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Something the mind is secretly wanting.
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Is there something you think you should have?
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There is knowing, and there is—there is—there is what you know.
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And the things you know
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could be concepts or reality.
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Ordinarily, we are always aware of concepts.
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But concepts are—are the mind's
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designations. It's something that the mind has thought about. Something the mind thinks about as a concept.
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an. Such as
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distance, shape, form.
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. Name, size, color, time.
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Reality is something that the mind can know directly.
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I think I'm thaying it to your—thaying it to your—I'm not thaying it to your, yeah, I'm not thaying it to you. Translation is thaying it to you. You can know sight directly, sound directly, smell directly. You can know taste directly, tactile sensations directly.
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And you can know the movement of the mind directly.
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The activities of the mind.
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The things that we can know. These six sense objects. They're there all the time. Whether we know them or not,
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