Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat6 Apr 2016
Day 10 Dhamma discussion group C — Sound As Object and Knowing Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 11 min
Original audio: English
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This group interview covers maintaining mindfulness in daily life and recognizing sounds and memories simply as objects. The teacher advises resting with the knowing mind rather than chasing objects, while discerning natural physical tension from mental defilements.
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Transcript
EnglishOkay, listen— Say it, Sayadaw, why just told us "make sure you bring your sati home, don't leave it here."
EnglishRight.
EnglishIs it really what you bring, or not? This is important, right? If you really want to bring it, then you can bring it. This is the
Englishunderstanding of the value about the practice, or awareness.
EnglishIf you're someone with more understanding, more practice—a little bit understanding, a little bit practice—if you really understand, you really practice.
EnglishThis is the nature of meditation.
EnglishOne time I was meditating,
Englishand what I get: the kamma itself.
EnglishAnd between the meditating and sitting and watching, watching, watching, watching, suddenly I get: this is Shwe Oo Min. You must, this practice, bring it whole life.
EnglishIt should not stop. Because of the mind, it's all the time come and go.
EnglishCome and go, come and go. If you stop, then the next new thing is not coming. If your awareness is not coming, then all defilement is coming.
EnglishSo what should we do, huh, better?
EnglishOkay. You want to say something?
EnglishHi. Sayadaw, I'm so grateful to you for sharing your knowledge and your time with us and this experience. I started in November, from your first retreat where I met you. It's really life-changing. Oh. Yeah, I just feel how the mind works differently. And I feel that
Englishthe mind state in which I've been living for the last at least 5 years, that it's changing. That I can't—it's
Englishnot completely gone, but I can see how it— Now you can handle. That it is not me. So it really works. I can't express with words really how I'm grateful to you. You're welcome.
EnglishI just noticed that mostly my mindfulness is still, like, following that. I just, like, noticed that mindfulness, awareness, is following the action. Wow. Oh yes. So it's like—it's not like, "Oh, I'm going to do something." Right. I'm already doing it. It's funny.
EnglishThe mind is leading. The mind is the follower. The body is follower. Mm-hmm. So I just start to realize how much work, like, is forward. Right. That the way is just—like, when I shared this whole thing and Sa- Said that my mind just started, he said it hadn't started yet. Oh.
EnglishThis is a mind action. After the beginning, start with a mind action. Then it's more stronger and stronger. Then vābha is chitta. And more stronger and stronger, then physical chitta. The intention is like this. I just wonder what lies behind the intention.
EnglishBecause there is— Hmm? Like, in one of the feelings, I just noticed, like, the mind sends the intent—forms the intention to swallow. But there is something like a spark, like very quick something behind the intention. Like, hmm. So I'm just really interested what comes behind the intent—before the intention.
EnglishYeah. So is there some—it comes because of some idea or— Idea. Yeah? Planning. Yeah. So, yeah. Then intention is started. And as the mind decides, then intention becomes more stronger. Mm-hmm. So my, like, next question to the mind, actually, is from where the idea comes.
EnglishSo why want it to come?
EnglishThis meditation is a little like medicine. If someone is sick, I mean, the very good medicine, take the good medicine, then the disease is changed, gone. No, it really works. And actually— Because the mental disease is—it's unscaped from mind. It's mental disease, delusion.
EnglishDon't know why is right, why is wrong. I don't understand, and/or craving, avoidant, and so on. These are all our mental disease.
EnglishNow, the meditation is
Englishchanging this defilement and posing qualities. So that's why there's something—somebody, they have a sad problem, they meditate, then this is—this meditation is more obvious, more understanding about value, how good this medicine is.
EnglishAnd actually, before I was, like, thinking that I'm afraid to lose mindfulness and awareness when I go out from the center.
EnglishNow I understand that
EnglishI was afraid not to lose the awareness itself, but the motivation to meditate. Yes. Now I, like, realize the value of meditation and realize that if I stop, that it will be bad. Actually, all this mental state, all this, like, trash will come, like, come and—I don't want to live like before.
EnglishRight. Yes. Now you compare with how different, right? Yeah. And why? So we're going to go back to the last situation. Mm-hmm. Anymore. So that's why this motivation needs practice continuously. Yeah.
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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.…