Dhamma talkSpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat1 May 2015
Morning instructions day 6 — Concept and Reality
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 33 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−33:06
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Meditation instructions emphasize right view when being aware through the six sense doors. The Sayadaw explains concept versus reality, encouraging yogis to care for mind quality and use objects to develop wisdom.
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Transcript
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Examine your own aversions.
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Wanting, not wanting, not satisfied. If we're "thinking" with these attitudes in mind,
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something's going wrong.
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When we are meditating, right view is so important.
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process , process lung tung . Something rises in the body, something rises in the mind. Know that this process—that this is a process, just a process.
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It is nature or natural for these processes to take place.
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lung tung .
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lung tung . Acknowledge what is happening as it is, just the fact of what is happening. That's all.
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. The difference between a yogi and someone who's not a yogi is just the attitude
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towards experience.
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Everything we see, hear, experience are objects.
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And objects are supposed to
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support the development of awareness, samādhi, and wisdom. Any object, all objects, they support
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sati-samādhi and paññā.
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. Someone who has right view sees all experience as
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a stepping stone, not hindrances. Not as hindrances.
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Giang . Giang . Whenever you notice seeing and hearing,
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acknowledge it. Recognize it.
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It's strange. Seeing is just happening. Hearing just happens.
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Something happens, you recognize this is happening. It stops happening, you recognize it stopped.
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Don't go to the story, "This person did that, they
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did this or the other, they shouldn't be." It's just
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something you experienced, you heard or saw. Seeing happened, hearing happened. That's all.
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Ideally, recognition happens, awareness happens, understanding happens.
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Ideally, we wouldn't be having a reaction. We wouldn't be having aversion or attachment. But
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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.…