Q&AMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat21 May 2016
B 1 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Everything Is Nature, and Right Effort
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 56 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:56:47
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The teacher clarifies how to maintain awareness with right view, seeing all experiences as natural phenomena. Meditators are guided not to over-focus or control, but to sustain open awareness of multiple objects, allowing wisdom to learn directly from experience.
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Transcript
EnglishOkay, um, I'm practicing mostly being aware, or trying to be aware, and I'm standing in the question
Englishfor many times. I get to be aware, but then
Englishbeing aware of awareness—what is behind? Is that consciousness, or is that also the mind?
EnglishDile eso y tira, ¿no? Vale, dice.
EnglishDigo: ya de la objetiva.
English
EnglishYeah, it's only another awareness, but you don't have to look for it. He says, "We don't have to look for the awareness of the awareness," nor do we need to know what's behind it. If we know it—he says, "When we are continuously aware enough, the mind will see what it can see at the time that it's able to."
EnglishOtherwise it's a concept again. Like since I concept it. Okay, like since I concept it. If you're trying to think of it and look for it, it becomes a concept. Sina viti, tito. Yeah, because we're not trying to think of what things are, we're trying to experience it just by being present. Being present, yes.
EnglishKwanza, interest shining, maduka. Interest mashitu, nyaya ngeli tone tone faina. When you are being aware, so long as you find that the mind is quite interested in being aware, you don't need to ask yourself any questions. Just be aware. Yeah, questions only need to be asked if we find ourselves dull or unmotivated.
EnglishThen we need to ask a question sometimes to get us—give us some direction. Question of— From the attitude. Do I know the right attitude behind? Taka nilikuwa, the more tao, the bora we. Tabo? Sometimes, yes, to find out. The accidents will have teaching of the accidents. Yeah, when we check, right? When we check to see what's in our attitude, that's a way of examining.
EnglishOkay, thank you.
EnglishI mean, I mean. Mimi nio, si mimi nio. Yeah. He says, "And we must understand that when we ask a question—when we are trying to be aware—a question is just another thought, right? So what's important is the motivation behind the thought. Why do we ask this question?"
EnglishYou know? And he says, "Sometimes some people think, oh, they should ask questions, and they keep asking one question, another question, you know, one question after another. And that might not be helpful when you look behind the motivation. It might just be, like, impatience or greed." So what's the energy? Okay. Okay.
EnglishYes.
EnglishSo yesterday I made an irritating experience because I was tired, which is not irritating, which is quite normal. But then I found that I was still very present and very aware at the same time. And I've never seen that before, and I was not sure whether it's just
EnglishI'm making it up or whether it's. You were aware of the dosa? No, of the tiredness, but also of the sitting, of the sounds, of everything. So I found it a bit bizarre in a way. But the count it out, what who said it. Primane juari ya kutia kaunti, unajua. Chao. Normally I'm either tired and then I'm not aware, I'm basically.
EnglishI'm table. Or I'm aware of the thing. I'm a tailor Yeah, but you're not a Primana I'm a tailor. I'm a
EnglishDhatia shida si ndiyo ama Primano. Ndiyo hiyo.
EnglishYeah. Seattle says, "So, um, what likely?" Primana amekaa kama ngomvi. Yeah, it's probably lucky that you got tired.
EnglishHe says, "Because what happens is when we are tired, the mind can't put in so much effort anymore. So your, you know, your personal effort relaxed. No more personal effort. But then you found the natural awareness doing its own work. And that's what he wants us to discover. Awareness sound ni ndiyo tena. That's a sign that awareness is good, that it's working naturally on its own.
EnglishOkay. Hata nyama ya pig na ya nguru. Nyama ya pig na ina dhatia, pig na ina swala gonga. Yeah, and when we know many things, it shows that the awareness is powerful. It has the power to know a lot. Even if we're a bit tired then, obviously. The awareness is not tired. Nina awareness. Na hapo mambe, mambe maalo pig na inaanza awareness kama Primano.
EnglishSija kana gora Primane, sija. Kuna vile dola dola lowa amechinja Primano. Yeah. He says, "The body might be tired, but if the mind is not filled, not full of, like, frustration or desire, it can be quite clear and aware."
Englishact of decision. Kana goma one. Yeah. He says, "It's sort of like, you know, if you see sports people, like runners, cyclists, or swimmers," he says, "they can be aware." And he says, "Bodily, they might be very tired, especially if they do, you know, well, if they exert themselves.
EnglishBodily they're tired, but the mind, they're very concentrated. They're very focused, very clear, and their awareness is very sharp."
EnglishCan I ask one more question? Mm-hmm. I was yesterday reading a sentence in the, I think, Dhammapada Everywhere book. I'm just going to see whether I can repeat it correctly. Dadi, wacha tu. It was saying,
English"Experiencing and understanding arising and passing away is not the same." I just asked myself whether I really understand, or when do I know that I understand? So I was a bit confused then, whether I'm just thinking I'm understanding, or whether I'm really understanding, or. What are you understanding?
EnglishThat basically whatever I experience is coming, it's going, and if I try to get hold of it, it will not stay. Or maybe it will stay for a moment, but not for as long as I would wish for.
EnglishYeah, so he. Experience na understanding ho. What he wants to say is that
Englishjust because we see things come and go, that's the experience. We see things come and go. Doesn't mean necessarily. Tuko kwenye timing ya jana na leo. Doesn't necessarily mean that we understand that things come and go, that things are impermanent. You know?
EnglishSio si kama na leo na leo. Experience wa duuli. Yeah, the understanding of impermanence
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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.…