Dhamma talkSpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat3 May 2015
Morning instructions day 8 — Observing the Nature of Mind and Defilements
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 39 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−39:43
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Meditation instructions remind meditators to proceed steadily without rushing. The teacher clarifies how to observe defilements with right view to understand their nature and natural laws rather than trying to remove them. As greed and aversion decrease, understanding of mental and physical processes arises.
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Transcript
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There is no way you can rush progress in meditation.
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We can only
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proceed steadily.
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But we don't stop either.
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How much you do, how skillful you are, how much you are able to do, the benefits of that are already accruing,
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are already present.
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Whenever we're going to, be aware of the defilements. Right view and right thought
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about the defilements and how you observe them is very important.
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The objective of observing
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is not to
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make the defilement go away. We're observing
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to understand, not to fix it or solve it, but to understand its nature.
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We're
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studying the
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nature of
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the habits of
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these different qualities of mind, their function, the way they work. We're not observing
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the story
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behind them, or the story that they're perpetuating, rather.
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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.…