Relax and Be Aware by Sayadaw U Tejaniya & Doug McGill

Author:Sayadaw U Tejaniya & Doug McGill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

DAY 2

be simple and just know

Don’t exert. Just pay attention to whatever objects are arising in your awareness—physical sensations, sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions, whatever. You will know what needs to be known.

If our eyes are open, seeing happens, even though we don’t try to see. Similarly, we don’t have to listen—hearing still happens.

Even without paying close attention, we can still know whatever is going on.

Be simple and just know. It’s effortless. If you see striving or dissatisfaction in how you are being aware, let it go if you can.

Awareness can be quiet and calm and yet alert and interested in what it knows. Are you clear about what you are aware of? Is there a clear feeling of knowing?

Let experiences come as they may. Whatever you are knowing in the body and the mind, let it be as it is.

Notice the difference between what is knowing and what is being known. Notice that they have different roles and different natures. To know versus to be known. Awareness knows; objects are known.

An object can’t be anything other than what it is, because that is its nature. Its nature is to be known. You don’t need to control it or manipulate it. You just observe it.

Observing needs to have right view and to be persistent. Right view is that all objects are just nature, that all experience is just nature. Right effort means keeping awareness as continuous as possible.

Don’t complain about experience; appreciate that it can be known.

Appreciate awareness every moment.

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