Guided MeditationSasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat13 Jun 2013
Morning Guided meditation — Momentum, Value of Awareness and Impersonal Nature
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 41 min
Original audio: English
0:00−41:50
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A guided meditation on cultivating awareness, samādhi, and wisdom through continuous practice. Both the object and the knowing mind are natural processes operating through cause and effect without a self. Yogis are encouraged to check the quality of mind and maintain right attitude and alertness.
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat · 13 talks
- 11 hr 12 minIntroduction talk — Nature of Awareness and Right Attitude9 Jun 2013
- 244 minMorning Guided meditation — Yogi's Duty and Awareness in Daily Activities11 Jun 2013
- 342 minMorning Guided meditation — Nature of Mind and Reality vs Concept12 Jun 2013
- Viewing442 minMorning Guided meditation — Momentum, Value of Awareness and Impersonal Nature13 Jun 2013
- 545 minMorning Guided meditation — Maintaining Awareness and Understanding Reality as Nature14 Jun 2013
- 648 minMorning Guided meditation — Checking the Quality of Awareness and Recognizing the Knowing Nature15 Jun 2013
- 748 minMorning Guided meditation — Three Yogi's Jobs and Right View of Experience16 Jun 2013
- 840 minMorning Guided meditation — Maintaining Continuous Awareness and Observing Intention17 Jun 2013
- 944 minMorning Guided meditation — Momentum, Intention, and Checking the Mind18 Jun 2013
- 1036 minMorning Guided meditation — Reality, Concept and Understanding Delusion19 Jun 2013
Transcript
EnglishSomething known by the mind,
Englishbeing known, and knowing.
EnglishBe careful what we are trying: we are trying to just recognize the
Englishexperiment, experience,
Englishobject also nature, knowing mind also nature. There is no body there.
EnglishMeditation mean is a cultivation.
EnglishCultivate that good quality mind is a meaning of meditation.
EnglishSo cultivate mean we try to allow to happen
Englishthis awareness, samādhi, wisdom, faith, and effort
Englishhappening again and again and again,
Englishmoment by moment.
EnglishIf you can maintain more
Englishcontinuously,
Englishthe momentum—to get the momentum—is more easier,
Englishmore faster.
EnglishMomentum is very important.
EnglishIf you get the momentum, the mind becomes natural, becomes habit, habit.
EnglishHabit is the second nature.
EnglishMake the habit again and again and again, then it can become automatically arise.
EnglishThen another idea is walking. There is nobody doing.
EnglishThere is nobody meditating.
EnglishNature is meditating.
EnglishIf you cannot get the momentum yet,
Englishwe have idea personally trying to be effort.
EnglishThe time we believe in effort is me, I am meditating.
EnglishWhen the momentum come,
Englishmeditating mind is become nature.
EnglishHe do his job. Experience also they do their job. Meditating mind also he do his job.
EnglishAre you sure awareness is present?
EnglishIf you can say sure, mean you recognize the awareness.
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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.…