Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Sayadaw U Tejaniya is a Burmese monk who studied with Shwe U Min. A householder until 36 years old, he focuses on a continual awareness throughout daily life. His style is very different from the first episode's topic, Mahasi Sayadaw.
Sayadaw U Tejaniya focuses on a gentle and continual effort, right attitude, and watching the mind rather than objects. This is the style in which I currently practice, and find his style of practice and sitting meditation to be very pragmatic.
If his teaching style interests you, we have a weekly sitting group in this style that focuses on mindfulness throughout the day. You can find out more here.
Teachings
Meditation
Resources
Living with Awareness - Our weekly group in the Tejaniya style. We focus on bringing awareness to everyday life, looking at right attitude, and building continuity with our practice.
Awareness in Everyday Life - Our free course introducing the teachings of Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
When Awareness Becomes Natural - In my opinion, this book is the best introduction to his teaching and style. It's focused on cultivating mindfulness in everyday life and outlines his theory fairly well.
Awareness Alone is Not Enough - My favorite Tejaniya book, this is a series of questions and answers from residential and non-residential retreats in the West. It offers great insights to common questions with his method.
Don't Look Down on the Defilements - Focusing on greed, aversion, and delusion, this book investigates right attitude, continuity, and many forms of the defilements with funny illustrations.
Mindfulness of Mind Retreat - This is a series of talks from Andrea Fella at the Insight Retreat Center, focusing on the Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice.
The Daily Tejaniya - This is a daily free email from American teacher Doug McGill. It contains a teaching every day from Tejaniya.
AshinTejaniya.tumblr.com - This is a great collection of short talks and question and answer sessions with Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
DharmaSeed - This is a link to all the talks from Sayadaw U Tejaniya on DharmaSeed. As of writing this, there are 377 talks, most of which are Q&A's, as this is his primary teaching method.
Alexis Santos - A former monk of Tejaniya, Alexis's talks focus on the Tejaniya style.
