Dhamma talkPauenhof Center Retreat23 Apr 2016
Morning instruction day 1 — Cultivating the Mind and Continuous Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 55 min
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Meditation instructions define meditation as cultivating good mental qualities and maintaining continuous awareness. The teacher explains the importance of right view, urging meditators to recognize experiences as nature without judging, excessive effort, or attachment to objects.
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Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
- Viewing155 minMorning instruction day 1 — Cultivating the Mind and Continuous Awareness23 Apr 2016
- 21 hr 23 minGroup interview a — Attitude, Defilements, and Observing Mind and Body23 Apr 2016
- 338 minMorning instruction day 2 — Object and Awareness24 Apr 2016
- 41 hr 54 minGroup interview d — Attitude Toward Sounds and Aversion, and Seeing the Nature of Mind24 Apr 2016
- 538 minMorning instruction day 3 — Concept Object and Nature Object25 Apr 2016
- 61 hr 30 minGroup interview B1 — Practicing Continuously and Using Intelligence25 Apr 2016
- 743 minMorning instruction day 4 — The Value of Awareness and Nature of Mind and Body26 Apr 2016
- 81 hr 30 minGroup interview C1 — Mind Activities and Right Attitude Toward Emotions26 Apr 2016
- 940 minMorning instruction day 5 — Recognizing Mind and Continuity of Awareness27 Apr 2016
- 102 hr 10 minGroup interview A2 — Meditation as a Learning Process and Working with Defilements27 Apr 2016
Transcript
EnglishNow, everybody here?
EnglishCan you hear me?
EnglishOkay, yeah.
EnglishNow we can start
Englishwith— now I start with talking about mindfulness meditation.
EnglishSo, first, we need to know about the meaning of meditation.
EnglishMeditation mean is
Englishcultivate the good quality of the mind. That's mean in meditation. If someone meditate, if you long time he meditate, his quality of mind must be become better and better.
EnglishSo, meditation mean is the cultivation of the good quality of the mind. So mean is meditation is the mind work.
EnglishSo, how to be mindful? What state of mind and we need to meditate?
EnglishBecause the meditation is the mind work.
EnglishVery important point is, when we are meditate, we should not practice with craving or aversion or delusion. So meditation mind must be wholesome quality.
EnglishSkiful mind or wholesome mind, no? Wholesome mind. The meditation mind must be wholesome quality. So we need to know about the meaning of the quality of the mind. We are trying to cultivate the quality of the mind. So mindfulness, awareness, effort, faith, stability of mind, and wisdom.
EnglishEvery time when we are mindful, this five faculty is working: awareness, stability of mind, effort, and faith and wisdom. So you must understanding this meaning of this quality of the mind.
EnglishIf when we are meditate we use a lot of energy, there's a
Englishmaybe we can use a lot of energy because of
Englishcraving, aversion, and delusion. Because we want something,
Englishwe use a lot of energy. It's a lobha nature, the craving nature. And if you cannot get what you want, then aversion come. We practice with the aversion also we use a lot of energy. And delusion also, we don't know how to meditate, then we use a lot of energy. Sometime focus too much, sometime not enough energy.
EnglishSo
Englishvery important point is what I want to remind you is, when we are meditate, don't focus too much. Don't concentrate too much, penetrate, don't use too much energy. Just recognizing awareness mean is recognizing soft energy. Relax. We try to practice with the relax.
EnglishRecognizing, acknowledging, just knowing the present moment, that's enough. Because we need to practice all the time. This mindfulness meditation is mean
Englishmindfulness meditation is we should be practice continuously because cultivation of the mind.
EnglishWhatever the
Englishany quality of the mind, good quality of mind or bad quality of the mind, if you are allowed this mind happen again and again and again, this quality is increasing. This is the nature of the mind. So
Englishwe practice mindfulness meditation need to be practiced all the time. So this retreat, time table is morning wake up and then sleep time. The whole day we need to practice all the time. That's why if you use a lot of energy you cannot maintain the awareness all the time. Very difficult to maintain evening or because if you use a lot of energy the mind is become burnt out and also very tired.
EnglishSo don't let your body and mind tired, suffering. We practice with the relaxed way.
EnglishSo
Englishenergy is be careful about your how much you use energy. Awareness, awareness mean you need to understand the meaning of awareness.
EnglishAwareness mean is not forget that your sick sun don't. Awareness mean is not forget that yourself. Mean is everybody have sick sun don't. There's a sick object. You know sick object? Seeing, hearing, sight, sound, smell, taste, and the whole body sensation and mind activity.
EnglishThere is a sick object. Everybody have sick 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.…