Q&ABangkok Retreat28 Oct 2017
Conversation With Sayadaw
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 51 min
Original audio: English
0:00−51:42
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The teacher explains that the natural mental process continuously arises and ceases without ever stopping. When wisdom is present, the mind recognizes concepts and reality without interfering or suppressing defilements. The discussion also covers maintaining awareness in daily life and working skillfully with emotions.
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Transcript
EnglishJust happening. Just stop. Just— Happening.
EnglishYou can sit here.
EnglishOkay, Sayadaw. Sayadaw, I noticed— So when— Sorry. When— When your family member— every time you need to be
Englishwith these people, every time you just check in, "How do you feel?" "Want you have idea?" So you need to prepare right— If you have a right view, then already let go. Right? Everybody— you communicate with your family member every time. You need to check. You can love, but you cannot attach. If you attach, you will suffer.
EnglishRight?
EnglishYes. What? Sir,
EnglishI'm noting the mind and the notice that even
Englishwe leave the people, leave the things like that. You know, we try attachment or disattachment. But the thing is, I notice that what we leave is just like now, but it is like
Englishwe leave like that, but there is this— Idea, belief, belief— No. You know, Sayadaw, we start here to born and die here. We go like that. But there is also another way, this way. What this way? This way is lots of— Things you can think many ways.
EnglishNo, no, no. I mean, we go like that, but this is not,
Englishyou know, not only this now.
EnglishI'm not understanding. What do you mean? This born to die, so what? Yes, born to die, but it is not only what we experience, but rather have, like, all the karma going with us. Karma. Or whatever. I don't know. Thoughts. And different thoughts at the same time, different levels. Something like that.
EnglishMaybe a level. Mean is a define level or understand level? Wisdom level?
EnglishStories. Lots of stories. Yeah, story, yes. Only concept. Yeah, concept. Going, da, da, da, da. But the mind is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes, mind is gone, but it repeats. Yeah, I mean, because of perception. Not come back. No, not come back. Because of perception. New mind, new mind, new mind, new mind. New mind, new mind. And continue the cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect.
EnglishLike this. Yes. But not only this, but like, you know, like because of dreaming or imagination. Yeah? This is also— In the mind. It's also mind. Yeah. So only— Already inside there. Yes. All is like that also. Not only this, but also like that. Many. I don't understand this.
EnglishYeah, I mean— I don't understand this. All happening in the mind state. Yes. Our mind is gone, gone, gone. Yes. But the coming one, not only this. But you can see like this. If your mind is rising and passing, but the quality is increased, quality is left, we can see if your quality is still— Okay.
EnglishI want to say like that, Sayadaw. Television, one screen, but hundred channel. Yes, this is— Mind also like that. No, no. Mind is mind. The television is television. You cannot think like this. But it is something like that. But you can see that the quality of mind is left.
EnglishWe call this a— we call this energy. Paramita is still there. So you mean goes up, down. Not go up, down. The rising and passing with the mind is always rising and passing. But next mind, next mind, next mind, have quality is— Better. Stronger and stronger. Like this. Then it changed.
EnglishChange. Also change. You can go down and increase or go down. Maybe I perceive that like that. Yeah, that is what I'm telling, maybe. That's why we have a quality is increasing, then we have more fulfilled our wisdom is slowly growing. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can say that existent, but they are not real existent. They are because of connection.
EnglishCause and effect, and his quality is increasing. We can say like this. So it is very complex. Complex means—
EnglishNot difficult, but complex means not complicated. Complicated is called confused. Not confused, but it's not like— But not complicated. Very simple. I mean, yes. If we follow concepts, it's very complicated. If your mind is not understanding, complicated.
EnglishEverything is complicated. If you understanding, the mind is— everything is clear. Yes, clear. But the thing is— anyway. So what I mean is,
Englishwe try to
Englishstop this, right? The— We're not trying to stop. No. I mean, eventually, cause and effect, you will be somewhere. Never stop. If you still have a cause— So you just jump out.
EnglishJump out is only you can see it if the wisdom can jump out. No wisdom cannot jump out. Jump out mean is the process you will not involved with the process. That's it. So there is— So wisdom must be present. If you're not wisdom, then you must be involved there. That is the aim. Aim is understanding. Let the understanding growing. And then— That understanding made you detach from the process.
EnglishSo this ongoing one will never— What? The ongoing mind, which is arising and deciding, will— Right, yeah, yeah. Never stop.
EnglishUntil we have a— But sometimes— If your need cause is not finished yet, it still tell me happening. But sometimes it look like stop. Huh? If you stop, mean is that you become very—
Englishwisdom is very high level. But sometimes stop, Sayadaw. But the mind never stop. Like— No, no. If you— Really. If you can see— And then again— That mean is your mind not— maybe not knowing. No, no, no. The mind process never stop. No, it's getting very slow sometimes.
EnglishI can see like— Yeah, maybe some conditioning, but the process of mind is never stop. It's going. So, okay. The knowing will make us the wisdom arise and jump, but these ones we not try to— Jumping is, yeah, wisdom is present. If your wisdom is very— when wisdom is strong, then the process is still happening.
EnglishYeah, but you are not— Define mean is stop. Yes. Not process is stop. Define mean is stop. Just watching con. Or awareness there. Awareness— Define mean is no chance to come because of wisdom present. Right? So there's no define mean. But process is still happening. Oh. I have a wrong view that this somehow will be stop if the karma— Oh, no way.
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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.…