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Practice with natural effort
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 13 min
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0:00−13:16
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The talk discusses natural effort when practice gains momentum, advising against excessive striving. The teacher clarifies recognizing mental activities and six sense doors while maintaining mindfulness in daily life.
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EnglishSo first, um, just assume the speed of a bicycle, uh, the speed is 10 miles per hour, and then when the person cycle this bicycle and then has momentum. So when the person try, anyhow the speed of the bicycle cannot improve.
EnglishSo sometimes just try a little bit, and then because momentum the bicycle can maintain the speed. And then learning Vipassanā is also the same thing. If the, if the meditator has momentum, and then later on, no matter how you try, you will not improve.
EnglishMm-hmm. You know? Yeah. You get at it. If the meditation has momentum. Mm-hmm. Later, whatever you tr- try. Oh, oh, oh, oh. You will not improve. Yes, yes, yes. Fight is, how to fight, you need to, you know, if you fastener, uh, natural effort is working, fastener effort is not involved.
EnglishShould not be involved. If you fastener effort involved, then natural effort becomes broken. How to try.
EnglishSo you need to see how to try, huh. Mm-hmm. If you wish on understanding, then he wish on is necessary thing only, he moved careful about something necessary. Mm-hmm. But not like before, like a beginner's try, try, try to be something happen. That is a problem. Mm-hmm.
EnglishYeah. So you need to learn how to maintain that this natural one is keep going, huh.
EnglishOkay. And then the second question is, uh,
Englishso now sometimes, uh, sitting meditation 20 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes, and then she checks her mind states. Thinking become less and less, and also reaction less. Before it's like this, now it's like this.
EnglishMostly about it. Mostly. 20,20 Sometimes sitting meditation, she feels the sitting meditation no good, because a lot of pain and a lot of thinking.
EnglishBut that time, actually. This is not, this is not good. This is not good.
EnglishNo, not good. Yeah, this is not good.
Englishnot not good, this is happening, right? Experience is, meditation object is
Englishnot good, not bad, right? Just experience, experience. Yeah. 。，。 ，，，，20。 She doesn't feel good, but time passed very quick.
EnglishYeah, that mean is the mind interest already. Sometimes the body sensations are obvious.
EnglishMm-hmm. And also sometimes you feel there is no, uh, how do they say, the four elements. Cannot see the four elements. Only the mind activity. Is that normal? Normal. If, because the mind, you move interest of the mind, then we can move see the mind process.
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EnglishUm, before you. Mm-hmm. So
Englishbefore she don't understand, uh, what's the big difference between normal people and a meditator, knowing the six sense doors. Mm-hmm. Um, now she understand a little bit. And then because the difference is meditator knows the six sense door happening is a function of mind.
EnglishYeah. Or, um, physical process or mental process. Not all the time mind. Oh. Physical process is a lot. Five sense door is a root part.
EnglishOne door only, mind door is one, mind.
EnglishMm-hmm.
EnglishAnd also, now she doesn't understand much about the mindfulness in daily activities. So in daily activities, like for example, like washing her face or teeth brushing, uh, is that mean if there's no thinking, that means I'm aware?
EnglishSo try to aware what you're doing, huh. If your hand move, your pay attention, you know, you're aware your hand, there's a sensation, energy, feeling, anything. You can know touching, right? So you must know your awareness present.
EnglishSo what you're doing, when you are doing this something, which part is more active, right?
EnglishThat is more aware of this action. Hand move, you make more aware of your hand. For example, the walking, the leg is a lot of walking, right? So you more attention, you can just know the walking, also the leg sensation. When you cleaning, what do you aware of?
EnglishThe car is outside object. You know you're looking, you know your hand moving, right? And leg also moving, right? The body also moving, and hand moving. And seeing, looking.
EnglishThat is a meditation object. All mental state. is not, mind is seeing. If you open the door, what do you aware of?
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EnglishNot aware. Okay.
EnglishWhich one first?
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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.…