Guided MeditationGaia House Retreat30 May 2015
Morning Guided meditation — Concept Versus Reality
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 22 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−22:52
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The guided meditation instructs yogis to maintain relaxed and awake awareness. The teacher clarifies the distinction between concept and reality using examples such as hearing, thinking, and the breath. Yogis are reminded to pay attention to natural reality rather than mental stories.
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Gaia House Retreat · 22 talks
- 11 hr 30 minOpening instructions and questions — Cultivating the Mind with Right View29 May 2015
- Viewing223 minMorning Guided meditation — Concept Versus Reality30 May 2015
- 31 hr 43 minInterview groups A and B · session 1 (priority for group A) — Open Awareness and Working with Resistance to Pain30 May 2015
- 41 hr 36 minInterview groups C and D · session 1 (priority for group C) — Working with Aversion, Right Attitude, and Everyday Habits30 May 2015
- 529 minMorning Guided meditation — Three Yogi Jobs and Right Attitude31 May 2015
- 61 hr 43 minInterview groups E and F · session 1 (priority for group E) — Middle Way, Right View, and Working with Dullness31 May 2015
- 71 hr 46 minInterview groups A and B · session 2 (priority for group B) — Natural Speed, Concept and Reality, and Working with Craving31 May 2015
- 826 minMorning Guided meditation — Right View and Right Attitude Towards Experiences1 Jun 2015
- 91 hr 26 minInterview groups C and D session 2 with priority for group d to speak — Protecting the Knowing Mind and Practicing with Fear1 Jun 2015
- 101 hr 42 minInterview groups E and F session 2 with priority for group f to speak — Being Aware of Thinking and Knowing Without Focusing1 Jun 2015
Transcript
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Just continue to be aware.
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Even if you don't try to listen, you will still be able to hear.
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A-tāndra . A-tāndra . Sound is not an external object.
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Hearing of sound is an experience that happens inside of you.
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Just the mind relaxed.
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What is the mind aware of?
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Don't try to do anything
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with or to the objects that you are observing.
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? Just let it be as it is.
[Burmese segment]
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Our effort is just to be aware, to know the object. Just to be aware.
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Alert, awake,
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and aware.
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Don't forget that everything that is happening is happening naturally.
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There is the knowing and the known. The knowing you can call awareness. The known is the object. But their nature is different.
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Their function is different.
[Burmese segment]
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There is also
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concept versus reality.
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Whatever the mind can
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experience or sense directly,
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that is reality.
[Burmese segment]
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Reality is a natural phenomenon.
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But concepts, concepts are things that we have to think about. We have to visualize it
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for a concept to be real for us.
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So for example, in thinking,
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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.…