Guided MeditationGaia House Retreat3 Jun 2015
Morning Guided meditation — Cultivating the Wholesome and the Value of Sati
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 30 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−30:28
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The guided meditation explains how practice purifies the mind by cultivating wholesome qualities, especially wisdom, thereby weakening the unwholesome. While past results cannot be changed, yogis can choose wholesome present action through right view and the continuous effort to maintain mindfulness.
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- 121 hr 18 minQuestion and answer session in the hall — Observing Defilements with Right View and Equanimity2 Jun 2015
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- 151 hr 48 minInterview groups C and D session 3 with priority for group c to speak — Recognizing Wrong Attitude and the Difference Between Goal and Expectation3 Jun 2015
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- 181 hr 46 minInterview groups A and B session 4 with priority for group b to speak — Observing Aversion and Watching the Mind Door4 Jun 2015
Transcript
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? Just know. ?
[Burmese segment]
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The mind knows the things
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that it knows.
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Every moment we know, we weaken
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the power of not knowing.
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The defilements of the unwholesome
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are said to taint the mind.
[Burmese segment]
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And the building, the cultivating of
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wholesome qualities in the mind, like sati
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and the five fac— and all the other five faculties, and cultivating wholesome qualities in the mind
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makes the unwholesome decrease, and that is how
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we purify the mind.
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And that's how meditation purifies the mind: by building the wholesome. Correspondingly, it decreases the unwholesome.
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And of all the wholesome qualities,
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the highest is wisdom,
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the most powerful.
[Burmese segment]
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And when we are
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applying the mind to
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a practice that
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leads to wisdom and uses wisdom, we're
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trying, we're trying to purify the mind.
[Burmese segment]
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there must be this constant
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effort to
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strengthen the wholesome in the mind, to always be cultivating the wholesome.
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The five faculties,
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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.…