Guided MeditationGaia House Retreat4 Jun 2015
Morning Guided meditation — Knowing the Awareness and the Object, Thinking, and Intention
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 25 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−25:55
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Guided meditation reminding yogis to know both the object and awareness to clearly understand the process of mind, matter, and causality. Knowing that thinking happens now prevents being lost in stories. Meditators are also guided to steadily and sincerely recognize intention before every action.
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Transcript
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Do you know that you're awake?
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Tadi syi ni, dau pianthi dia tu, ti ni la, thing sa, nama ti ni la, thing sa.
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When you know that you're aware, then
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it's clear when you're aware, and it's clear when you're not aware.
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Knowing the object alone is not a complete picture. It's when you
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know the awareness
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through which the object is being known. So you know both the awareness and the object, that you have a complete picture.
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. When your awareness and samādhi
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gain momentum, they're more continuous.
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Then it feels like the objects you know
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become very clear,
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very lucid,
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very alive.
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And if the mind judges that experience as
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good, as pleasing, then yes,
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greed can arise.
[Burmese segment]
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In that state, it's not that the objects have become better.
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It's just
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that the view is clearer
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because the awareness is better.
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At that time, it feels like all your senses are more clear. You feel like you see better, clearer. You hear better.
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You can taste better, smell better.
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The subtleties are more clear.
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But we have to have
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the right idea about this: that the object is the object, the awareness is the awareness, and the object might have become more clear because the awareness is in a better state at that time. But fundamentally, the object is
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just being known. It's just an object.
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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.…