Q&ABangkok Retreat25 Oct 2017
Day 5 · interview (Bangkok) — Effortless Effort and Recognising Self in Intention
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 39 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:39:29
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The interview explores letting go of personal effort in favor of natural effort through continuous awareness. The teacher explains that the mind lacks physical location, examines the nature of seeing to dismantle self-view, and guides yogis to observe physical pain and suffering with equanimity.
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Bangkok Retreat · 17 talks
- 343 minDay 3 · instruction (Bangkok) — Nature of Mind and Object23 Oct 2017
- 41 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
- Viewing71 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
- 111 hr 45 minDay 8 · interview (Bangkok) — Talking Meditation and Working with Depression28 Oct 2017
- 1252 minConversation With Sayadaw28 Oct 2017
Transcript
EnglishBut not all the time, so sometimes I recognize— Yes, that's what I'm asking: if you recognize, the intention is better. Yes.
EnglishAnd I also observing the thinking mind, and it's come and go, but I see that the mind know
Englishthe thinking mind, and they also know the content of the thinking. Yes. Yeah. And when the thinking mind come and go, and observing mind also change. Change. Yeah.
EnglishAnd Sayadaw,
Englishyou always remind us that the mind has no location. Would you please explain more about that for us? Explain more, explain. Explain. Yeah, explain. Where is the mind?
EnglishLocation is concept, right? Yeah. The mind is no word. But you can, if you are awareness present, you can experience this is happening or this is working. We can know the mind only experience.
EnglishBut Sayadaw— But sometimes we have a location with the concept. Sometimes the thinking, where is the thinking? Here or here? Nowhere. We think here, right? Up, or feeling is here, right?
EnglishWe have idea about this, feeling is here, thinking is here. So this is a location, this concept. This is not reality. Reality is a happening. The mind is happening and disappear. That's all. Yes. But according to Abhidhamma Sayadaw, for example, I consciousness based on I, but Sayadaw is not involved.
EnglishBut Sayadaw, but Sayadaw, but Sayadaw,
Englishbut Sayadaw, yeah. But Sayadaw, but Sayadaw, I know the form and know the object. And
Englishif consciousness based on, yeah, but Sayadaw know the— How do you know passada? How do you know passada? Do you see the passada? We cannot see, but if— But we can experience only the object, right? But theory we understanding because of object and contact.
EnglishContact. Passada rupa also have, right? Passada rupa and object rupa contact, then we have a consciousness. Our vīrya-nā is arising. Do you see the passada? We cannot see, but according to the theory, Abhidhamma explains. So for example, for the blind person, they cannot see, so they cannot help, the eye consciousness cannot appear.
EnglishPassada is a rupa, right? Yes. You cannot see that this rupa?
EnglishIf you ask— Yeah, someone asked me. Someone asked me. How do you know that this passada? Because of passada also rupa, right? Yes, definitely. So interesting, yeah. And later I have find the answer.
EnglishHow do you know your passada?
EnglishSo Sayadaw, I consciousness only know the paramatta, right? They don't know the paññā here? Yeah. The passada. Rupa is a reality, right? Paramatta. Sight is also paramatta. But you can see the sight. By hand you cannot see the passada.
EnglishSo wisdom object is
Englishthe
Englishreality.
EnglishWe have enough wisdom that you can know. Yeah, definitely. The paramatta, right? Paramatta is the wisdom object. Without paññā, without wisdom, then you cannot understanding, you cannot experience with this reality, paramatta.
EnglishAll defining object is concept, right? Yes. Vipassanā-ñāṇa object is
Englishparamatta, right? Definitely.
EnglishSo Sayadaw, mindfulness and wisdom can know both paññā here and paramatta? Yes, yes. Paññā here also the mind creates, right? Yes. Paññā also this saññā is working. Saññā also paramatta, right? Yes. Yes.
EnglishThank you, Sayadaw. You got it.
EnglishTwo words next.
EnglishSayadaw, I want to— And also I need to recommend you if you wear the seeing.
EnglishSeeing, when you every time you see, you can wear your seeing, right? Yes. Seeing and awareness, right? Yes.
EnglishChecking
Englishwhat the mind believing is me, right? Seeing or aware or knowing.
EnglishWe have already have a wrong view, right? Yes. So what is the right view?
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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.…