Dhamma talkPauenhof Center Retreat30 Apr 2016
Morning instruction day 8 — Cultivating Awareness and the Process of Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 49 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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Meditation instructions emphasize maintaining continuous awareness to cultivate wholesome qualities and prevent defilements. With wisdom recognizing experience as merely experience, the mind no longer identifies with suffering.
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- 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
- 1332 minMorning instruction day 7 — Noticing Intentions and Observing Present Experiences29 Apr 2016
- 141 hr 10 minGroup interview C2 — Experiential Understanding and Practicing Continuously29 Apr 2016
- Viewing1549 minMorning instruction day 8 — Cultivating Awareness and the Process of Mind30 Apr 2016
- 161 hr 31 minGroup interview B3 — Mind as Nature, Wise Attitude, and Skillful Action30 Apr 2016
- 1740 minMorning instruction day 9 — Practicing at Home and Working with Anger1 May 2016
Transcript
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Yeah, I told her yelling would get good. You cannot stop
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trying to be aware.
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Yeah, I told her the power of nothing. Yeah, I told her I jump. I jump through the power of nothing life. Yeah, I told her yelling and yelling and this stuff, the power of yelling. If we understand the nature of
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awareness, meditation, if we understand the causes and effects of the process of meditation and being aware, then
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we will begin to understand that it's something that we can never stop trying to do.
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[Burmese speech]
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Meditation shows us that
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if we're not always trying to cultivate wholesome qualities in our mind, which includes the awareness,
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then once the wholesome qualities are not being actively cultivated, unwholesome qualities
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start to grow, like the weeds in the garden.
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. If the unskillful
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qualities—the kilesas—have momentum in our minds, then
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we have to bring the wholesome qualities up to speed to challenge those unskillful qualities, to meet them, to be their match, and to
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exceed them, to become better than them.
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. No, he says we have to—we have to think. We have to remind ourselves, "Oh, I'm going to be aware. I must try to be aware. I will meditate."
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And then we remember to be aware. But try doing nothing. Don't try to be aware.
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And our natural state is just
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delusion.
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Mostly delusion.
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. And when delusion is present—when we leave the door open for delusion—then it's easy for
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delusion to allow the other unskillful qualities to
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enter our minds,
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to exercise themselves, for the unskillful qualities to express themselves.
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. And so if we want to gain insights, if we want to grow our wisdom beyond the wisdoms we already have, then he says we have to—to grow the good qualities in our mind.
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We have to learn how to maintain
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the mind in a state of—in a more wholesome state. Because then, when the mind is more wholesome
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and we realize something, when we have an insight, they come with much more power.
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. When there's defilements, then it's hard for really deep insights to arise,
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generally.
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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.…