Q&ASasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat8 Jan 2023
02 Zoom Q&A group B — Recognizing Hindrances and Appreciating Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 2 hr 15 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−2:15:52
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In this group interview, the teacher emphasizes appreciating the practice process rather than craving results. Meditators are guided to recognize defilements with right attitude. Continuous awareness in daily life is encouraged to cultivate wisdom and face challenges equanimously.
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Talks in this retreat
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat · 7 talks
- 11 hr 39 min01 Zoom Q&A group A — Open Awareness, Working with Expectations and Overthinking6 Jan 2023
- Viewing22 hr 16 min02 Zoom Q&A group B — Recognizing Hindrances and Appreciating Awareness8 Jan 2023
- 31 hr 57 min03 Zoom Q&A group A — Awareness of Thinking, Handling Restlessness, and Attitude10 Jan 2023
- 42 hr 42 min04 Zoom Q&A group B — Attitude Towards Defilements and Discontent12 Jan 2023
- 52 hr 8 min05 Zoom Q&A group A and B — Attitude and Appreciating Awareness14 Jan 2023
- 61 hr 45 min06 Zoom Q&A group A and B — Being Happy with Awareness and Checking Attitude16 Jan 2023
- 754 min07 concluding talk — Continuing Practice and Motivating Awareness at Home17 Jan 2023
Transcript
EnglishFor today's recording, 8 January 2023, small-group discussion, group B1 and B2 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya at Sasanaraka Buddhist Sanctuary via Zoom.
EnglishSayadaw really wants yogis to remember that what we want to appreciate is the work that we are doing. Not the results that we are hoping for, but the work that we are ing— currently in the process of doing, right? And he says that
Englishgreed can come in, and when greed comes in, it's in the form of all those questions that you ask: why am I not progressing, why am I not— you know? And he wants you to notice that, and also appreciate that, right? This is also part of knowing the mind and how it's working, knowing the greed. And recognizing the greed is something, he said, you also need to appreciate.
EnglishOh, it's good that you noticed your own— okay, there it is, it's coming again, right? He says we also have to remember, why are we meditating? He says we are meditating to grow the five faculties, to cultivate them, right? The awareness, the samādhi, the vīriya, the faith, the wisdom.
EnglishBut we can get
Englishlost in thinking that it's a result, rather than what we are doing.
EnglishMm-hmm. So to remember that it's a process, and we are in that process, and to appreciate that we are doing that process, yes? And any of these thoughts that come in about whether we're progressing or not, it's not a bad thing. It's something you notice, so celebrate, you know, just appreciate that, he said, you know?
EnglishNaudukua. Naudukua.
EnglishNaudukua.
[Burmese segment]
EnglishMm-hmm. So he said we want. Yeah. So he says, you know, when we— the insights that we will— we will have, Sayadaw says, depends on how well we recognize— how many times— not many times, how well we recognize the hindrances that arise in the mind, you know, that is practicing.
EnglishSo, he said,
Englishthe more we recognize the greeds that come into our mind, yeah, the more we recognize them, and we are like, oh, good, I've recognized that this is the way right now. Or the version, oh, you know, you notice, oh, there's a subtle not wanting it to be this way. The more you recognize these— not to push them away, but to say, oh, right, I recognize it again, and that means I'm aware, right? That means that awareness is present.
EnglishSo the more you do that, the more you recognize the hindrances, he says, the more it clarifies the mind, and
Englishthe clearer the mind becomes, the more purified the mind becomes in that way, the more easily the insights will arise. In a way, recognizing these subtle hindrances is also like having an insight into your own practice. That's the— these are the insights he always talks about, about your own practice, right?
EnglishWe are looking for some other rarefied thing, but some insights are happening right there, but then we are lost in the judgment of things. So he says, please remember that.
[Burmese segment]
English
EnglishAti tuta— sikipo— sikipo—
EnglishShure sika, lowa dola shure sika, lowa
[Burmese segment]
EnglishYeah. Yogi tuna
EnglishShule hamchwanja nini. Eh, au
Englishmimi twa me
[Burmese segment]
Englishmah toba dola pile pita So Sayadaw says,
Englishso he always talks about skillfulness, right? We have to become skillful at the practice. And he said, skillfulness at the practice is basically what we just talked about just now, right? He says, the process of purifying the mind is about recognizing the greeds and the aversions and the delusions in the mind,
Englishbut not only the ones that we are observing, like I'm angry now and I'm observing the anger, but especially the ones like the questions that were asked, you know, yesterday, and might come again, come up again now and later, where we say, oh, you know, I've been doing this and I seem not to be progressing, to recognize that those are also hindrances.
EnglishRecognizing it. And he says, the more we recognize them, the more— the less we will get caught in them. So we can move forward instead of thinking we need to fix something, because that's when we get stuck. When we think we need to fix something in order to get ahead, instead of recognizing this is another trap, and just continuing to— first, you know, appreciating that that is mindfulness, and then continuing to be mindful.
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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.…