Guided MeditationSasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat14 Jun 2013
Morning Guided meditation — Maintaining Awareness and Understanding Reality as Nature
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 45 min
Original audio: English
0:00−45:29
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Guided meditation instructing on maintaining awareness with right attitude, free from clinging or expectations. The teacher clarifies the natural characteristics of both object and knowing mind, which are fresh in each moment. Continuous awareness prevents defilements from growing and fosters wisdom.
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- 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
English
English
Englisheverything we have experienced now
Englishis a past conditioning effect.
EnglishExperience is not your responsibility.
EnglishYour responsibility is review,
Englishawareness, and maintaining that awareness
Englishand interest.
EnglishWithout craving, without expectations, the mind is free.
EnglishWhen the mind is free,
Englishthen understanding can arise.
EnglishEvery sense draws. There is only an actual object in the mind, knowing mind.
EnglishObject means being known. That's it.
EnglishObject is an object.
EnglishLook at understanding the being-known.
EnglishThe nature of the being-known.
EnglishObject also nature. Awareness also nature.
EnglishAny experience and knowing mind are new. Every moment is new experience, new knowing mind.
EnglishAll realities are always news.
EnglishNew happening.
EnglishIf you think it is the old one, that is a concept.
EnglishReality is always news.
EnglishIf experience is not changing, then the mind
Englishthinks it is the old one.
EnglishIf you have experience of changing, that is always news.
EnglishMeditation is a cultivation.
EnglishWe cultivated this awareness, samādhi, faith, through effort. Wisdom is cultivate again and again and
Englishmoment by moment.
EnglishWhen the defilement arises, we are aware of this. The defilement is stopped.
EnglishCannot overwhelm the mind
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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.…