Dhamma talkMaui Retreat18 Nov 2016
Morning instructions — Personal Effort, Natural Effort and Continuous Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 14 min
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Meditation instructions distinguish personal effort from natural effort when awareness gains momentum. Meditators need not focus, but simply avoid being lost in thought and let nature unfold. Maintaining continuous awareness helps recognize reality's ever-new nature and brings peaceful ease.
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Transcript
EnglishThere's two ways
Englishthat effort is put forth.
EnglishOne is
Englishpersonal effort, where we have to intend to put in effort, and then there is
Englishnatural effort, and that is
Englishwhen we use the
Englishnature of effort to power it. Using Dhamma law, understanding it, we— Shri Maya, I didn't get it. What's the effort of your shiny anicca? The vibe, the power, all that.
EnglishWe do something until it
Englishgains momentum.
EnglishWe keep doing it so
Englishit becomes natural, becomes practiced,
Englishbecomes habit.
EnglishSo that's natural effort
Englishwhen it becomes nature, Dhamma.
EnglishWhen there is no momentum yet, we do have to put in personal effort.
EnglishEffort, effort. Ubunyai, adhoga. See the dignity, sassavo.
EnglishThe work of effort is to join our moments of awareness, so that one moment of awareness is followed by
Englishthe next moment of awareness, and then another moment of awareness, and so forth.
EnglishTaja, the Mahābhārata. Are you noticing it about Paramita?
EnglishIt's a pure object. Are you noticing? Are you noticing?
EnglishSaya, the Mahābhārata. Are you noticing it about Shri?
EnglishWe don't need to
Englishfocus in order to know
Englishan object. Object meaning
Englishour senses, including the mind. We don't have to make an effort to know it, in the sense of we don't have to focus to know it. We know it to the degree we do, because
Englishpart of the nature of the mind is to know.
EnglishAjittha, adhurya māmyā uniga. The only thing we need in order to access
Englishthe knowing in the moment is not be lost in thought.
EnglishWhatever is happening,
Englishlet it happen and observe it
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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.…