Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat22 May 2016
Meditation instructions — Right Attitude Towards Experience and Thinking
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 29 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−29:12
AI-written summary
Meditation instructions emphasize seeing all experiences as natural processes. Yogis learn to recognize thinking as an object and maintain continuous mindfulness to weaken delusion and cultivate wisdom.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
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- 226 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
- Viewing529 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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Say good afternoon.
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What is the mind knowing?
[Burmese segment]
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We need to have the right attitude towards
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what we observe or experience. Remind yourself that
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they are just nature.
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Whatever is happening is just showing its nature.
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[Burmese speech]
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Its nature is conditioned, which means that
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it's a process of cause and effect.
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[Burmese speech]
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. Everything that's happening now
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is
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everything now, or the effects of conditions or causes that have already been
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that have already happened in the past.
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So effects are unavoidable. They're already here. We can't run away from them. We can accept them. We can understand that
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they are here.
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So if past actions have given
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result, and the present moment result or effect is unpleasant,
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it's causing suffering.
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We have two choices.
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We can
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regard it
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with the wrong attitude. You could call that wrong thought. If we think of it in the wrong way, we suffer some more, double our suffering. Or we can have
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the right thought about what's happening now. This is an effect. This is nature.
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And that can
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relieve us
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from that suffering,
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that unpleasantness.
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When unwholesome and unskillful thoughts and emotions are arising in the present moment, we just need to let them be.
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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.…