Q&AMeditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat28 May 2016
D 4 Group interview — Beyond Calmness and Being Aware in Daily Life
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 2 hr 16 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−2:16:43
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This group interview clarifies being aware of the mind rather than identifying with sensations and thoughts. The teacher explains that tranquility is only a foundation for developing wisdom. Yogis are guided to maintain awareness with right attitude toward defilements in daily life.
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Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Retreat · 22 talks
- 132 hr 29 minB 3 Group interview — Simple Awareness and Observing the Mind25 May 2016
- 142 hr 29 minC 3 Group interview — Natural Awareness, Checking the Attitude, and Facing Experiences25 May 2016
- 1517 minMeditation instructions — The Nature of Mind and Momentum of Awareness26 May 2016
- 162 hr 16 minD 3 Group interview — Appreciating Awareness and Watching Without Interference26 May 2016
- 1730 minMeditation instructions — Knowing the Mind and Being Mindful When Speaking27 May 2016
- 181 hr 46 minB 4 Group interview — Deciding with Defilement or Wisdom and Background Awareness27 May 2016
- 192 hr 56 minC 4 Group interview — Greed in Meditation and Understanding Strong Aversion27 May 2016
- 2025 minMeditation instructions — Checking the Attitude and State of Mind28 May 2016
- Viewing212 hr 17 minD 4 Group interview — Beyond Calmness and Being Aware in Daily Life28 May 2016
- 2229 minFinal meditation instructions — Making Home Your Meditation Center29 May 2016
Transcript
English
Um, I—
English
for 2 days before I went for watching this paragliding guys and decided it, like, let's go there and watch what will happen, and I was— the first thing was, after I maybe I was there 20 minutes, I was very disappointed because it was a bright day and colors and— should be nice, shouldn't it?
English
Yes. But— and then, um, I noticed that I had— of course I had an expectation, so that was the first point, no right attitude, but then I asked me, okay, and that's the experience I have with other objects too, that I want to— really this feeling I want to get something back.
English
Mm-hmm. If I go there, I want to have something from it after I have seen it or— Made the effort to be there, yeah. Yes, that, that, yeah. Yeah. And then I recognized that
English
it's a special meaning, and that this meaning I before had pumped into the object. Oh, yes. And then afterwards I'm disappointed because the object isn't— Living up to your expectations, yes. Yes. And
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that was
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also— it was relieving and funny because— and I want to ask if that's— if we can generalize that. Mm-hmm. That I always pumped in
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with meanings, with— and then— yeah, and that's the problem. Mm. And that's the thing, the creator. Mm. That works. Yeah. The Huttoni had to paraglide a ritual team, I suppose. Huttohoro seeker, and they— hmm, disappointed with that.
[Burmese segment]
MY
Yeah. That's right. He says you know what we what you call pumping and your idea is
English
He says, "That's the attitude." You know, the mind is already setting up an idea, some expectation, some, you know, and Yeah. And, um, and since we don't know what's coming, he says, "Surely it's not wisdom that's built— that's pumping up the idea.
English
It must be, um, a kilesa, you know, building up fantasies. And then, yes, you can generalize, it's going to get you into trouble because it, you know, how can we even believe that anything we are going to experience is going to be exactly as we expect it to be. So.
English
Yeah, so that's So that the mind gets disappointed, or at the very least feels like, "Meh," you know? Yeah. Yeah.
English
He says that, um, that's why in meditation he reminds the yogis, um, not to have a fixed
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plan, you know? He, he, he says, "Whatever you do, you, um,
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you shouldn't even think ahead about how you're going to meditate. It's just the present moment. You shouldn't think, 'I'm going to sit an hour even.'" He says, "Because you're just setting up the mind. If you don't manage to sit an hour, then the mind is going to start to feel that, oh, you know, it wasn't good enough and all that. And if you manage to sit the hour, you're saying, oh, you know, this was a good sitting." So it's like, it's all delusion, you know?
English
He says, "What was the need?" You know? Meditation is just always continuing. It's always just the present moment. What was the, the, the need to make a picture? . Yeah. He says, "So what? One hour." He says, "After that, you must still be aware." So it's, it's, it's. . And unnecessary construction of the mind.
English
Yeah. He says, "And when we plan," he says, "we must be careful of having a fixed plan," you know, like thinking it must happen that way. And he says, "Often when we are planning," he says, "we are not just—" planning is sort of like actually, um, uh, taking into consideration contingencies.
English
That's what planning should be. Oh, you know, we, we, we plan that, you know, it should go roughly this way, and then if it doesn't happen, maybe this or that. But he says that most of the time the mind doesn't plan like that. It thinks of what it wants, and then it's. And then if it doesn't happen just the way we thought it should, then we, you know, have to deal with our frustration and.
English
But this process I told about, was this just thinking or I thought it was awareness, ongoing, knowing. Yeah. You, you, you knew the process that the mind was happening.
English
No. Yeah, because of the awareness, you know, that, that what the mind did, yeah. Yeah. He says, "You know, we are used to put making effort to do something, even to be mindful."
English
He says, "And when sometimes the, the mind notices things on its own, you were not trying to do it, then you think
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that maybe you weren't mindful because you weren't trying to do it." Yeah.
English
Mm-hmm. Okay. That's all. Thank you.
English
Yeah, please. Um, yes, in the last 2 days I had some, yeah, insights into my own structure. And, uh, about, uh, how I see myself, how I think that others see me, how I want that others see me.
English
Yes. So, uh. Just think of me. Just this, um, it gave me some freedom. Mm.
English
. That's why knowing is so good, because it gives us freedom when we really know. . Yeah. If we don't know, then it keeps doing what it's always been doing. Yes. I mean, and I see I'm always, um, falling into the same trap.
English
Mm. Sort of harmony trap and wanting that everything is, uh, in harmony and. Yes. Trying to balance. Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah. And in my, um, sitting meditation, um,
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uh, it was sometimes very clear to see the thoughts coming.
English
And, um, I've got the impression that I think in whole sentences. Mm-hmm. Subject to verb and object point. Yeah. Uh, dot at the end. And, um, so sometimes I had the impression I just see the beginning of a sentence, a thought, and then I could cut it off.
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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.…