Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat30 Mar 2016
Day 3 Dhamma discussion group B — Perception, Intention and Watching the Mind in Daily Life
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 13 min
Original audio: English
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The group interview clarifies distinguishing the object from the knowing mind and seeing from thinking. The teacher explains working with craving, anger, and numbness. Meditators are also guided to recognize sensations and distinguish conceptual thoughts from subtle intentions driving bodily actions.
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Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat · 25 talks
- 129 minDay 1 instructions — Cultivating Continuous Awareness and Right View28 Mar 2016
- 242 minDay 2 morning guided — Yogi Responsibility and Right View29 Mar 2016
- 325 minDay 3 morning guided — Object and Knowing Mind30 Mar 2016
- 41 hr 15 minDay 3 Dhamma discussion group A — Checking Attitude, Quality of Awareness, and Nature of Defilements30 Mar 2016
- Viewing51 hr 14 minDay 3 Dhamma discussion group B — Perception, Intention and Watching the Mind in Daily Life30 Mar 2016
- 630 minDay 4 morning guided — Experience as Object and Checking the Mind31 Mar 2016
- 71 hr 19 minDay 4 Dhamma discussion group C — Nature and Concept, Object and Awareness, and Cause and Effect31 Mar 2016
- 81 hr 9 minDay 4 Dhamma discussion group D — Object Versus Concept, Working with Reactions, and Mind Nature31 Mar 2016
- 938 minDay 5 morning guided — Observing Mental Processes and the Value of Awareness1 Apr 2016
- 101 hr 26 minDay 5 Dhamma discussion group A — Investigating Unpleasant Objects and Neutral Mind1 Apr 2016
Transcript
EnglishOkay. So I noticed immediately on arriving here that the mind slowed down quite a bit. Um,
Englishbecause I was also noticing as I was traveling, the tension was aris- arising because of thinking about the future and wondering if we could— Letting go. Yes. So letting that go. And with that, settling a lot of, a lot of
Englishsomewhat peaceful joy
Englishcoming up. And then as I settled into my practice,
EnglishI was having some discomfort in my hip, and so noticing the aversion in the mind increasing it. Um,
Englishthere was a natural inclination to go to the sensation,
Englishum,
Englishand seeing the sensations just changing. And as I practiced more and more— The mind is not reacting. Sorry? The mind reacting less. Yes. Reacting to— Yes. Okay. Uh, the aversion released, um, because the attention was on the sensation and
Englishthere was an acceptance. Mm-hmm. Uh, so there was a release. Mm-hmm. Um, and that's been— Then you can watch your pain. The pain becomes change. Yes. Yeah. Okay. And so that's been an ongoing process because it has come back, and so I learned from that. Mm-hmm. Um,
Englishsitting outside, um,
EnglishI had some pleasant visual surprises because I saw some beautiful birds that I had never seen. And of course, my mind was filled with delight. And then, so there was a lot to explore there in terms of how could I, um, experience the pleasure of nature without wanting more and without craving more of it, and noticing how my mind kept going between being wanting to see more and being able to be with accepting each thing, seeing all of the things changing, the sounds, the sights, the sounds.
EnglishSo it's new kind of aware seeing, huh? Also. Yes. Seeing and seeing and thinking is very different. Yes. This is not very typical. But if you are direct, um, the mind pay attention to the direct, to the concept, then the mind liking or disliking. Yes. Yes. And so that was a challenge. Then you can watch your liking.
EnglishYes. The comfort you see. Yes. Glance from this mind state and experience, right? Yes. And so I was practicing with that quite a bit today. Um.
EnglishMm-hmm. I wanted to ask you, you said something this morning, um, you said if you don't understand, it's because you've separated. So object and mind. Object and mind. If the mind understands. Mm-hmm. Okay? The meaning of object, the meaning of the, the mind becomes understand.
EnglishMm-hmm. The object and the mind is become natural, nature is become separate. Mm-hmm. Being know and knowing. Mm-hmm. Right? Mm-hmm. Being know is object. Knowing is the mind. So this different nature. Mm-hmm. You can face it like separate, but it's not separate, but. Yes. Different nature. Not only one, right?
EnglishYeah.
EnglishBecause sometimes the reminding, the experience, when the people, the aware of the experience, that time some idea is coming, it make can become more clear. Yes. They have the experience, then the understanding there, then this become more understanding.
EnglishI try to tell the yogi, the experience and the knowing mind and object is different nature. Mm-hmm. Right?
EnglishWell, I think today what kept,
EnglishI think kept being seen was
Englishthe constant arising of different experience and
Englishthe mind going between just accepting it as it was arising, or
Englishmostly it wasn't aversion, it was wanting more of something or mainly to do with visuals. Oh, seeing. And yes. But if you, the mind is not aware of seeing, the mind immediately, the mind resisting kind of liking or disliking. And, and that's what was happening there. It's like identifying with me seeing and then being aware of. Oh, and, and in any, any way you can catch it, this okay, okay.
EnglishYes. So that was a lot what I was practicing. So we need to learn from seeing and reaction, seeing and reaction, coming back and forth. Right. And later the mind become more clear understanding. And, and so what happened for me today as it, as I practiced with that, as it was clear, it was like almost like a screen. Yeah. What?
EnglishMore like a screen. Like a screen. Like a TV screen. A screen, oh. Screen with just things coming by. Oh, okay. Yeah.
EnglishTry to daily activity and continue the practice daily activity. The try to, I try to recommend the yogi to try to see the aware of the seeing and looking.
EnglishBecause of this is a naturally this working. This area is of people a lot of looking, right?
EnglishA lot. All the time looking outside.
EnglishBecause this has become habit. It's the seeing and looking is becomes automatic. Yeah. Every time you pay attention, for me is I pay attention, immediate awareness there. It is a habit because aware, try to aware the awareness many years. So a pay attention, some any pay attention, the mind doing this, awareness already there. Mm-hmm.
EnglishThen, then one point they show me, I try to get sitting Dhamma hall. They always beside the Dhamma hall, there's a one flower pot. Mm-hmm. Very beautiful flower pot. All the time yogi all the time doing it. Make beautiful.
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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.…