Dhamma talkSpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat8 May 2015
Morning instructions day 13 — Maintaining Awareness in Daily Activities and Thoughts
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 30 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−30:23
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Meditation instructions explain how to observe thoughts as objects without losing samādhi. The teacher encourages yogis to maintain continuous awareness during busy activities by relaxing and doing one thing at a time.
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Transcript
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Notice the thoughts.
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You can know the sort of qualities that accompany the thoughts, whether they're wholesome or unwholesome.
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And whether what the mind is thinking of is
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thoughts of the past, memories, or thoughts of the future.
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You just need to know that this is mind
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thinking
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. And while there's thinking going on, what else is going on in the mind? What are the feelings associated with the thinking? What are the other mental activities, ideas, and so on that feed into the thinking?
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When we
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talk more, we find we have more thoughts after the fact as well.
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We have more thinking.
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And these thoughts,
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the thinking mind needs to be seen as the object, seen as objects.
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The thinking process.
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That there is thinking,
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that there are thoughts, is not an indication of whether the mind has samādhi or not. So just because the mind is thinking does not mean that you have lost samādhi. Samādhi is in the observing mind.
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It's able to watch
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steadily. That's samādhi.
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? If you're able to
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maintain awareness, it means there is samādhi.
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And this next day, the level of activity is going to start increasing, probably has already done so. You'll find yourself planning more, deciding what to do. There's a lot of cleaning to do, packing. He says, "But remember that no matter how much there is to get done, you only do things one at a time."
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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.…