Dhamma talkPauenhof Center Retreat25 Apr 2016
Morning instruction day 3 — Concept Object and Nature Object
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 38 min
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0:00−38:17
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Meditation instructions clarifying right attitude and the difference between concepts and natural objects. The teacher advises meditators to observe the mental and physical process without attaching to peace. Maintaining continuous awareness without liking or disliking allows wisdom to arise naturally.
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Talks in this retreat
Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
- 155 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
- Viewing538 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
English
EnglishJust checking your attitude.
EnglishDo you have any expectation, or any wanting? And letting go.
EnglishWhat the mind is aware of.
EnglishWhat do you notice?
EnglishWe used an object
Englishto grow our quality of the mind, quality of the awareness.
EnglishWatching mind, meditating mind, the same.
EnglishObject means it's being known.
EnglishThe knowing is mind. The mind is knowing.
EnglishAs much as you practice, as much as you get, the result already.
EnglishSo don't need to expect to the result. If you're doing good, doing right, the result is good.
EnglishJust knowing the process.
EnglishWatching and learning.
EnglishVipassanā practice is mean learning process.
EnglishWe are watching the process again and again.
EnglishAwareness is a two option.
EnglishAwareness has two option. One is cardioid itself. One is the collected data, information. If you get that complete information, that wisdom understanding comes.
EnglishThere is a two object.
EnglishOne is the concept object, one is the nature object.
EnglishWe are trying to understanding the nature.
EnglishConcept mean is
Englishform, shape, color,
Englishplace,
Englishdirection, distance, name, time. These are the concepts.
EnglishConcept means the mind think. After the mind thinking, then the mind can know.
EnglishIt's not real.
EnglishFor example, if you watch your hand, you cannot know the hand. You can think the hand form. We can know the touching, hardness, softness, warm, cold. That is a nature, direct experience.
EnglishNature object is the mind can direct experience a nature object.
EnglishIf the mind have if the mind don't have craving and aversion, or liking and disliking, then you can understanding the nature as 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.…