Dhamma talkSpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat7 May 2015
Morning instructions day 12 — Knowing Intentions and Continuity of Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 32 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−32:10
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Meditation instructions explain how to recognize mental activities, especially intentions behind both movement and stillness. Being aware of intentions supports the continuity of mindfulness through transitions in daily activities. Meditators are encouraged to bring awareness into every single action.
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Transcript
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Do you know what's happening in the mind?
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Say it's about near elements here. Bullet elements here.
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Mind has no place or shape, but But you can know the mind. You can know the mind is doing something.
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You can know something has come up in the mind.
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You can know the mind is knowing. You can know the mind is there.
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You can know, for example, like awareness is present, which is You can know the mind is feeling. You can know the mind is thinking.
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Intention của tí đâu ra. You can know the mind has intentions.
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Or the mind is intending.
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. Intention
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our daily activities, if we know our intentions, it helps us to transition with our awareness. It's easier to keep being mindful.
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It's not only when we move that there are intentions. It's intentions are not only
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intentions to move. If we're not moving, there are also intentions.
[Burmese segment]
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Where your hands are placed now, why are they there, is because the intention to remain there
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is operating.
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The intentions are there throughout our body.
[Burmese segment]
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For example,
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somebody is riding a bike.
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The bike is the body, and the person is the mind. So for the bicycle to move, they move together.
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And same when it stops.
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Then it's still.
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[Burmese speech]
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When the mindfulness is better and you can see more subtle
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activities in the mind, then you can detect this subtle,
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the subtle energies and impulses that
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are constantly there, the intentions.
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When we go from a position of stillness and we want to make a movement, the movement begins in the mind. The mind first knows what it wants to move, whether it wants to move a limb or some other part of the body.
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