Dhamma talkSpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat9 May 2015
Morning instructions · closing day — Continuing Practice at Home
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 8 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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Meditation instructions on the retreat's closing day urge yogis to maintain continuous practice in daily life. The teacher explains how to cultivate wholesome states, recognize thoughts, and face defilements with mindfulness. He also addresses working with computers, planning, and the wholesome nature of joy (pīti).
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- Viewing381 hr 8 minMorning instructions · closing day — Continuing Practice at Home9 May 2015
Transcript
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We can begin.
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Are you ready
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to go back?
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. Do you want to continue staying here, or do you want to go home?
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[Burmese segment]
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... Firstly, Sayadaw would like to thank everyone who made this retreat possible. Everyone who did all the organization, the managers, the people who worked behind the scenes way before this retreat ever began. He would like to thank everyone. Yogi A .
[Burmese segment]
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enthusiastically you all practice. retreat . He feels very— . Encouraged by your practice, and he feels it has been very wholesome.
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retreat . At the end of every retreat, he says this to the yogis. So he said he'll just repeat that.
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. So this is delusion. He's very happy when we say the retreat is over. No, no, no. Retreat is over. No, meditation is over.
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Or we've finished the meditation retreat. , retreat . But Siddhartha, although the retreat might be over, we should not stop meditation. Meditating. retreat .
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. Whenever he went home from going on retreat with his teacher, his teacher would always remind him to continue practicing at home. . But he never did.
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Yogi, yogi, yogi . At home it was home mind. And he just got lost in that. . But every time he did go on retreat, he threw himself fully into the practice.
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So he learned a lot. He was quite skillful at practicing. So by the time he needed to use it in his life, he was able to. .
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Life came to a
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state in which meditation was his last resort, and he had to... he had to take it. Resort to that. . But when he finally began to meditate at home is when he began to understand the true nature of meditation.
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. Because the mind comes and goes, arises and passes away. . He began to understand that if he wasn't constantly cultivating wholesome states of mind and wholesome minds, then the unwholesome would slowly creep back in.
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. If we reflect on our lives and how much of our lives we've allowed wholesome... wholesome minds to be inhabit us, versus how much time we are with unwholesome states of mind.
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. And the balance is often that we have had, consciously or unconsciously, more unwholesome states of mind in than wholesome. .
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. The mind is like a stream, and mostly the stream is a stream of unwholesome.
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ly . So through that stream we... we attempt to... to... to row upstream.
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And we have to row very hard.
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. The moment we stop rowing, we get swept down by the current again.
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Yogi . Some of us have been practicing for a very long time, but
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maybe we're not getting as much from the practice as we think we should. Or maybe we haven't changed as much as we could for the better. . We may still have
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our storehouse of
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a lot of aversion, or greed, or delusion.
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. And if that is so, it's only because
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we haven't got to the point that we practice all the time. . If we could feel like we do on retreat about meditation as we do at home, if we could bring that mindset of how we commit ourselves to mindfulness on retreat, if we could bring that mindset back home, and if we could sustain that mindset for a long time, he says we will see big changes.
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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.…