Q&ABangkok Retreat23 Oct 2017
Day 3 · interview (Bangkok) — Awareness, Wisdom, and Handling Defilements
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 45 min
Original audio: English
0:00−1:45:54
AI-written summary
This interview clarifies the difference between awareness and focusing on concepts, highlighting wisdom in facing defilements. Sayadaw guides yogis to recognize intention, check their attitude, and learn from drowsiness or anger.
Topics
Talks in this retreat
Bangkok Retreat · 17 talks
- 11 hr 1 minDay 1 · instruction (Bangkok) — Meaning of Awareness, Right View, and Object21 Oct 2017
- 240 minDay 2 · instruction (Bangkok) — Right Attitude and Continuous Awareness22 Oct 2017
- 343 minDay 3 · instruction (Bangkok) — Nature of Mind and Object23 Oct 2017
- Viewing41 hr 46 minDay 3 · interview (Bangkok) — Awareness, Wisdom, and Handling Defilements23 Oct 2017
- 549 minDay 4 · instruction (Bangkok) — Meditation Is Mind Work and Purpose of Awareness24 Oct 2017
- 61 hr 30 minDay 4 · interview (Bangkok, Thai) — Working with Tension, Seeing vs Looking, and Mind Nature24 Oct 2017
- 71 hr 39 minDay 5 · interview (Bangkok) — Effortless Effort and Recognising Self in Intention25 Oct 2017
- 81 hr 50 minDay 6 · interview (Bangkok, Thai) — Awareness of Mental Reactions, Vipassana, and Ending Samsara26 Oct 2017
- 91 hr 59 minDay 7 · interview (Bangkok) — Conditioning, Equanimity, and Daily Life Practice27 Oct 2017
- 1058 minDay 8 · talking with awareness — Talking and Listening Practice in Pairs28 Oct 2017
Transcript
English
Who want to talk? I don't have time to— Officer, back. Reporter? Officer.
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There's no need in the translation. If you— If you want to— Please.
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I think if you go near the Thai people, you will translate to them. Okay, I sit near them.
TH
ผมขออนุญาตนะครับ ผมถามว่า คนไทยที่อยากเข้าใจความหมายของคําว่า "ธรรม" หมายถึงอะไรครับ
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The
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recording is not clear. The recording is not clear? Yeah, not loud enough. You need louder.
English
ขอโทษนะคะ เราก็ร้านนี้ เราก็ร้านนี้ช่วย Oh, you heard that, oh.
TH
ใช่ แก้ไขไปยังไงครับ
English
Okay. Who want to start? Yes, Sadhu. Sadhu, when I do sitting meditation, I first, I change my attitude, and then
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I am aware of awareness, and my mind knows many objects at the same time. Within, sound, feeling, posture, and I feel my mind is clear, stable. Clear, awake, and alert. But sometimes,
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when my mind becomes calm and peace, I forget to check awareness, and awareness becomes bitter. Yes. I also know the object, but not so clear. Yes. So now you already know what's happening. Yes. Right?
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Yes. So next time, how to do?
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I think I should take all the time checking awareness. Yes. And when your mind is calm and peaceful,
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naturally your wisdom is working. Nothing to do. But sometimes wisdom is not working. You need to apply it to use some investigation or question. Yes. Okay? Yes, I know. So it's better to some applying the wisdom, because of your mind awareness and calmness already there.
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Right? Yes. But if you now use the wisdom, slowly the
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wisdom lessens. So that's why the mind is going down. Yes. And when my mind is stable and clear, I know why entry and out. Yes. So you need to check this entry and balance. Right? Yes. If your balance is off, you need to do something. Right?
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And yesterday,
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at lunchtime,
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I ate sour soup. Sour soup. Yes. And I like it. Yes. And I saw my mind want to check more.
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And then I watched my mind, and suddenly the lobha mind disappeared, and I don't want to check anymore. Yes. I don't follow. Yeah, don't follow the lobha. Right? Lobha. Yes. Better.
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Okay.
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So as Sadhu, I like to practice the lying meditation, but I try many times, but I fail. Fail means I fall asleep? Yeah. If you're lying down, you need to check your effort and wisdom. Because failing is awareness not working.
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Right? Yes. If you are knowing your mind is working, it's continuing. Meditation is continuing. If you cannot see your mind is meditating, you cannot aware the mind is meditating, then it slowly goes down, lost. At the beginning, my mind was— So now you say you know your awareness, right?
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Yes. So you stay with the awareness. If you know your awareness is working, it's still working. Right? Yes. My mistake that Sadhu, because when the mind calm down and peaceful, and I joy, I joy. You enjoy. Enjoy that. Yeah. Most of the yogis, the peaceful and calm, they're easy to be enjoying, indulging.
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So that's why sometimes I remind yogis, "Do you are you aware or are you enjoying?" Sometimes the pay attention and enjoy together.
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The lobha also, he also have pay attention. The lobha pay attention to the object and they enjoying. So pay attention and awareness is similar. Right? Yes.
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And when I study in university,
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I saw my mindfulness is on and off, on and off. Sometimes natural help, mindfulness.
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My mind usually come back, observe body and mind. And at that time, I sit, I sat on the glass, but my mind come back, observe body and mind. And then about 10 minutes, I remind my mind, now
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I study, not meditation time. So I open my eye and continue to study. But usually my mind come back, body and mind. Yes. Better.
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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.…