Dhamma talkMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat20 May 2016
What is meditation
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 12 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:12:12
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The teacher explains meditation as cultivating wholesome qualities through sati and the other spiritual faculties. Meditators are guided to reduce focusing, maintain right view, and naturally know experience through all six senses throughout the day.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
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- 42 hr 6 minC 1 Group interview — Being Aware Without Forcing and Working with Thoughts and Pain21 May 2016
- 529 minMeditation instructions — Right Attitude Towards Experience and Thinking22 May 2016
- 62 hr 2 minD 1 Group interview — Recognizing Awareness and Working with Difficult Emotions22 May 2016
- 732 minMeditation instructions — Natural Awareness and Right Attitude23 May 2016
- 81 hr 58 minB 2 Group interview — Recognizing Delusion and Appreciating Awareness23 May 2016
- 92 hr 11 minC 2 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Observing Thoughts, and Non-Identification23 May 2016
- 1030 minMeditation instructions — Knowing the Awareness and the Quality of Awareness24 May 2016
Transcript
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Are you ready?
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? If there's anything I say that maybe I use Polly words and stuff and you don't understand, maybe can I ask, does everybody understand the Polly words that I used in the, you know, in the sati patana suttan all? Yes? Anybody doesn't understand? Okay.
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So I'll try to remember to use the English.
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Okay.
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Now we can start. Yeah.
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Okay. The deeper time. ? So Seyadaw is going to talk to us about the medita- um, sati patana, the type of meditation, you know, based on sati patana. meditation sutra ? So first he'll tell us what meditation is.
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[Burmese speech]
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Meditation is the cultivation of the good qualities of our minds. . Are called kusala.
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So we all have good qualities of mind, and we also have poor qualities of mind, or negative qualities of mind. Um, and when we
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choose to cultivate the positive qualities of mind, the good qualities of mind, and we choose to abandon or, um, work to understand and lessen the poor qualities of mind, this is called meditation.
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[Burmese segment]
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Um, this meditation is called sati patana because what we use to do this meditation, the leading, um, faculty is sati. And using sati, what we are trying to develop is, in particular, five good qualities of mind. It is sati itself, and then, um, sati is remembering, and then there is samādhi, which is the stability of our minds.
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There's vīriya, which is right effort, he will explain it. And then there is, um, saddhā, which is faith or confidence in the practice of meditation. And finally paññā, which is the wisdom. These five qualities we are trying to cultivate by using sati. .
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Ngang qua .
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So, so every time we are mindful, every moment that we are mindful, um, these five qualities actually work together. And as you meditate, you'll realize how much— not just how much, you'll realize that what is doing the meditation is your mind.
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Yeah, that will become clear to you. And when we meditate, there's always two paths to the meditation. There is the mind that is being aware, that's you trying to meditate. And then there is the things that we observe.
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We will call the things that we observe objects. So the objects that you know, the experiences that you have, these are all objects. So there's two paths. And you— and we are more concerned with the part that we play, which is the awareness that we put in, the mind that is being aware.
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And it is in this mind that is being aware, the way that we are being aware, that it is important that we hold good qualities, that we are not— well, not at least consciously choosing to use any unskillful ways of being aware.
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But you will find that, because it's the habit of our minds, that even while we try to meditate and try to be positive while we meditate, that, um, our old habits come in.
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And we find ourselves, um, trying to be aware and we're anxious about what we're aware of. Or we have greed and we want to be aware of something in particular, and so on. huynh phim .
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The outside of the detail. And the result of having an unskillful way of being aware is that we start using too much energy. So you'll find— and too much energy is usually, um, it usually manifests as focusing a lot.
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So you'll find that if you're wanting your experience to be a certain way, you start using a lot of effort to try and make it go that way. If you don't like what you're experiencing and you want it to go away, you tend to use too much effort to try and make it go away. You may not notice that that's your motivation, but if you notice that you're using too much effort, and if you check, you might find that there.
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So when we get into that mode, we have begun to practice incorrectly. And then we get the results of that. We get the results of that.
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We start to find ourselves getting tired, tense, tight, um, upset, frustrated. Um, both mind and body get tired. . Sometimes we get bored.
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right practice phi. He says, "But if we are practicing correctly, we will find that the way we feel as we continue to practice is, the mind feels lighter, we get more interested, we feel strong, we feel confident, um, we feel fresh, it feels interesting."
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. And this is the result of being having positive— being positive in the way we are being aware. Yes? paññā . So if these positive qualities are, um, operating in the way that we are being aware, then you will find the results come quite naturally.
[Burmese segment]
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. And Seyadaw says, um, for all of us, learning how to practice with this in this skillful way, where the way we are being aware is skillful, that is the first and most important lesson that we want to learn from the meditation itself.
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And in the beginning, for some of us, it might feel a little difficult. We don't really know what we're looking for. Am I practicing skillfully or not?
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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.…