Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat31 Mar 2016
Day 4 Dhamma discussion group D — Object Versus Concept, Working with Reactions, and Mind Nature
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 8 min
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The group interview clarifies the difference between concepts and natural reality, emphasizing continuous awareness. The Sayadaw guides yogis to observe mental reactions to pain and irritation without identification, cultivating right attitude to develop wisdom.
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Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat · 25 talks
- 41 hr 15 minDay 3 Dhamma discussion group A — Checking Attitude, Quality of Awareness, and Nature of Defilements30 Mar 2016
- 51 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
- Viewing81 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
- 111 hr 11 minDay 5 Dhamma discussion group B — Recognizing Wisdom and Craving in the Mind1 Apr 2016
- 1244 minDay 6 morning guided — Recognizing Mind Activities and Natural Effort2 Apr 2016
- 131 hr 29 minDay 6 Dhamma discussion group C — Changing Mind's Habitual Reactions and Cultivating Interest2 Apr 2016
Transcript
EnglishAbout your practice? What do you feel, how do you feel, what do you do, what do you have experienced? Tell something about your experience, then we can discuss about the practice.
EnglishOkay, Shwe Oo Min. Um, so it's going ups and downs, so
Englishit's not really constant yet, but, um— But beginning is a continuity of awareness, if possible. On, off, on, off, on, off. It's not habit. This is not habit yet. Our mind is all the time paying attention to the outside. It's habit. Now we try to aware ourselves: this is not habit.
EnglishNobody do their life this way, right? That's why it's trouble. Right. This morning I was noticing, um, when I— you know, think when I got out of bed. No, it was later that I noticed. And, um, I was not feeling well. What? I was not feeling well. Not feeling well.
EnglishYeah. Then— And, um, and then I thought, okay, what's happening there? First I was, you know, about to go back to bed and, like, okay— Mentally or physically? Yeah, that's the interesting part. Oh. So I was checking what was, what was, um, what was actually not really feeling well.
EnglishSo I was cold, and I was hungry, but together that's not really the reason why one should not feel very well. So there was no headache, there was no stomach ache, no— No. —ach whatsoever. So physically it's not pain. Yeah. No, not uncomfortable. Yeah.
EnglishAnd then I noticed that, um, this little voice in my head was almost like screaming, "I'm not feeling well, I'm not feeling well."
EnglishI didn't think. I was like, wait, that's interesting, what's happening here? Yeah. And then, and then after a little while I was feeling okay. I was just hung- or, yeah, I was hungry and I was cold, but I was not, not feeling well. Yeah. I was, yeah. Because of the mind, it's just a little bit reacting for complaining.
EnglishYeah. And the whole mind believes this idea. Yeah. You see? This is a delusion is working. Now you awareness what happening, then you notice people really not just are not sick. Yeah. But that's the mind complaining. Yeah. Because of resistance. Some are a little bit, um, resistant or not happy, so that's why complaining.
EnglishYeah, it was really like, like a little child that was— Yeah, right, right, right, right. —wanted, wanted. So yeah. Come, here. Mm-hmm.
EnglishSo
Englishnow you notice we are believing our thoughts a lot. Yeah. Not real. But I know the mind say delusion is automated belief. Yeah. Then we, we think we, we happen like this. Yeah. Not really is not like this, right? Yes.
EnglishSo now you start to learn about the mind nature. The mind is working, right?
EnglishHow the mind nature, how the mind is doing. Yeah. Right?
EnglishWe try to, try to know the, this mental process, what's happening. Yeah. We learn from our mental process and physical process, how their relationship has, right? Because I guess there will be some process prior to
Englishthe, the moment that I realized that this voice was, like, screaming in my head. Yeah, right. I can imagine that, but yeah. So we, we, we should not believe every thought. Yeah. You understand? Sometimes all environment is talking. So we, we might, if you are aware, well, we can check what is right or what is wrong, what is good or what is bad, is need or not necessary or not needed.
EnglishThen define it. Yeah. This, uh, cannot overwhelm the whole mind.
EnglishBecause of we don't know our mind, that's why we have a lot of suffering.
EnglishWhy the mind is suffer, why the mind is happy, we don't know why. That's the problem, right?
EnglishSo that's why we need to see the mental process what's going on again and again and again. We learn from our self.
EnglishSo first we need to know about this mental process in nature, then we, then we don't think about this is a personality, not me, like, like as a nature, then we can learn. Yeah. If you judge, oh, this, you believe this is my mind,
Englishthen if you good, you attach. If you bad, you resist. So you cannot learn. So we need to think as a nature, then we can interest, ah, what kind of nature this.
EnglishRight? Okay. Yeah. Then, then we slowly, uh, talking about your practice, what do you, what your experience is telling me, then we can discuss about practice.
EnglishWhen you're sitting time, what do you aware of? Um,
Englishquite a lot of things. Mm-hmm. So I hear the guru. No, you don't use the main object or
Englishjust whatever happening, just aware. Yeah. Oh. But
EnglishI, I noticed that different sounds or different objects have different impact. Yes. Yeah. Object, we feeling the mind, how to react. Okay. We have a six object, right? Seen, the mind reacting. Hearing, also the mind reacting. Smell, reacting. Taste, reacting. Happening.
EnglishThe mind's relationship, body sensation also.
EnglishSo first we need to know about how to aware the physical sensation
Englishand feeling and mind's activity, right?
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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.…