Q&ASasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat12 Jan 2023
04 Zoom Q&A group B — Attitude Towards Defilements and Discontent
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 2 hr 42 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−2:42:17
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In this group interview, Sayadaw clarifies how to recognize mental states such as craving, restlessness, and sleepiness with right attitude. He emphasizes maintaining awareness without judging, accepting experiences as part of learning, and exploring the mind rather than escaping or seeking comfort.
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Transcript
English
For recording: today, 12 January 2023, small-group discussion, Group B, with Sayadaw U Tejaniya at Sasanaraka Buddhist Sanctuary via Zoom.
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Is it Group B2? Yes. Today we start with Group B2 and then B1.
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Okay, I will start. First, hello Sayadaw and Mother. First, I would like to update about the chili things. I already asked for forgiveness and
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keep observing the mind while taking the chili. First thing that— it's not happened on the chili, but it's happened on the tofu. That when I take the tofu, the mind just recognized, "Oh, I don't want to take this one because it's not good for my uterus." So when I recognize that thought, it just stopped there.
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And it could be recognized that, "Oh, it's not about the food," but it's about the thought that made that one not nicer. So I keep alert, and then when with the bowl and the chili in, I saw it's not nice, like I wanted to.
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And then keep next day, and then next meal, also it's not that exciting. It's not, "Ah, so good!" Like it used to be. It's like,
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boys already. It's like, it's not that good. It's just like a little bit different, but the feeling good is not that like it used to be.
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Yeah.
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Freezing.
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Good job.
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Tappi a due, mamma.
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No, tu, uno a pieno a pieno due. Tappi a tantio.
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Giallo.
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tanto. Giallo. Yeah. Tu so raro. Tu con le anni ho di cura e tu. Fatti a mano, tu lo fai mettere bene e tenere. Tu cura i secco cili. E allora tu secco saran giro. Tu
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hai dire cila
[Burmese segment]
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Okay. You broke up just now. Yeah. So
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I pulled Seadoff
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about your investigating the taste and the thoughts and ideas and not finding it so exciting anymore and so on. And then you broke up. So yeah. I think basically you were talking about investigating all that, right? Yes, yes. Okay. Va bene.
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That's good. Seadoff said. And I noticed that when I'm not— oh, when I love chili, my mind is very alert with chili. Whenever it's half the chili tree, I will know. But when the mind not love chili, even though the chili on the table, I also don't— it doesn't catch my mind.
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Like, but I know that back of the mind is, it will searching for a new craving. It's not stop the craving, but it just change the object.
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You know what? tempo, you know. a fare i
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te secca a giro.
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Yeah. Per me, lobba io ora non vole.
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Tu che siete sciani, piccoli.
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Allora cibo. So just keep observing.
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Okay. I have another experience to add.
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Seadoff always asked to check the quality of the mind. So lately I found that the current checking is more like when checking the quality of the mind, it's check in the big picture. Last time, there are two things to check for me. First thing is, what is the mind knowing?
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But the second thing to check is, what is the quality of the mind? And while observing that, I see that, oh, this is how it's filled. What is there? And also, what is good, not good? So it's more like a bigger picture rather than just the object that the mind knows.
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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.…