Dhamma talkPauenhof Center Retreat1 May 2016
Morning instruction day 9 — Practicing at Home and Working with Anger
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 39 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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Meditation instructions emphasize that the end of a retreat marks the beginning of practice at home. The teacher encourages setting the daily intention to be aware in ordinary life. By recognizing defilements such as anger, wisdom develops and frees the mind from 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
- 1549 minMorning instruction day 8 — Cultivating Awareness and the Process of Mind30 Apr 2016
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Transcript
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Okay.
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We're building a
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chit-to-dining jump routine. We asked a couple of people, "Along, we need help." Along organize all, we stuff you all. All yogi y'all.
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So Sayadaw wants to just say thank you today to the people who made this retreat possible, the staff of this retreat, and the yogis for being here
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and doing their best. After
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every retreat, he says, "Something reminds us."
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He says, "When we go home, we have to change our idea from, 'I'm going to practice on retreat,' to, 'I'm going to practice at home.'"
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. If you think the retreat is over, it will be quite difficult to start trying to practice again. . So although a retreat
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might end, but
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the effort to be aware
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must never end.
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this is the end of the retreat, but it is the beginning of practicing at home. So if we think of it as a new beginning, he says, then we have a purpose, we have a plan, we are going to keep being mindful.
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And when we go home, we have to renew this
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thought every day. Every day you wake up, think about how you want to spend the day.
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"I want to be mindful today. I will try to be mindful today. I will try in this, this, and this way."
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So when he speaks to yogis, he often hears about yogis who think they'll try to meditate at some time or in another time.
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But he really wants us to
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change that thought and make it that awareness is something we will try to remember to do all the time,
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regardless of whether we are able to or not. It's about having the intention to try to be aware.
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Particularly if we've been practicing for a long time. We've had many years, it's been many years since we began our first retreat.
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Sayadaw says, "If we find our progress is slow, it's because of
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the fact, because of the fact that our awareness hasn't gained much continuity."
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And as yogis, he knows everybody really wants to try and be aware continuously, but just the thought of doing it all day long, he says he can see that all of us would go like, "Hmm."
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And that is because,
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he says, "We haven't had a taste of what it is like to be continuously aware." And
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greed is a very,
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greed is very
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sneaky, you would say. Tricky. Tricky, yeah. Greed makes us think that it
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will not be so nice if we were mindful all the time at home, or we might be missing something, maybe we won't be able to feel something or do things properly. Greed makes us think that way. So we think that mindfulness won't be such a great experience at home.
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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.…