Dhamma talkPauenhof Center Retreat26 Apr 2016
Morning instruction day 4 — The Value of Awareness and Nature of Mind and Body
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 43 min
Original audio: English
0:00−43:14
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Meditation instructions emphasize continuous awareness and seeing the difference when awareness is present versus absent. The teacher explains the body-mind relationship as natural processes rather than self, encouraging an equanimous mind watchful of greed.
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- 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
- Viewing743 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
- 1134 minMorning instruction day 6 — Eight Conditions for Dhamma and Awareness in Speech28 Apr 2016
- 121 hr 18 minGroup interview B2 — Gross and Subtle Objects, and Attitude Towards Sensations28 Apr 2016
Transcript
EnglishCheck your state of mind.
EnglishWhat attitude do you have?
EnglishWhat has the experience and the awareness? An object and knowing.
EnglishDay by day, we are continuing practicing. The quality of mind is slowly increasing, naturally growing.
EnglishAwareness is better, stability in mind is better. Understanding is growing, slowly,
Englishgradually
Englishincreasing.
EnglishWe need to understand the value of awareness.
EnglishWhat is different: awareness present or not?
EnglishWhen the awareness is present continuously,
Englishwhat's happening in the state of mind?
EnglishSometimes we lose awareness, then what's happening in the mind?
EnglishWe need to compare about this quality: awareness and not awareness.
EnglishQuality is very different.
EnglishKnowing present moment
Englishis to feel clearly, knowing clearly, feel alive and peaceful.
EnglishIf you lost awareness, don't know nothing.
EnglishQuality of mind is very different.
EnglishThere is an object and knowing.
EnglishIf your awareness is present, we can know this object and knowing together.
EnglishSometimes we need to check: awareness present or not?
EnglishThe mind is aware or not?
EnglishIf you can recognize awareness is present, it means you are knowing the awareness.
EnglishBody and mind are relationship. Thinking, feeling, body sensation—these are
Englishconnected.
EnglishBody process also, they do their job. Mental process also, they do their job, but they have a relationship.
EnglishWe are believing the wrong way about the object as me. Knowing is me. The mind is me. Thinking is me.
EnglishActually, they are nature.
EnglishThinking just thinking. Mind just mind. Feeling just feeling.
EnglishThey have their cause and effect process.
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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.…