Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat3 Apr 2016
Day 7 Dhamma discussion group B — Craving, the Sense of Self, and Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 39 min
Original audio: English
0:00−1:39:37
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A group interview addressing working with physical pain, subtle craving, and the realization of not-self (anatta). The teacher explains that letting go is the job of wisdom rather than the self, emphasizing continuous awareness with right view.
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Transcript
EnglishIn compliance with the other thing, creating. The mind becomes a little bit calmer,
Englishand that's all I mean. Notice that when the mind becomes calm, then when the mind becomes more stable and subject, I notice it's the time that drowsiness can be brought away very carefully. Yeah. A time
Englishwhich doesn't need to be calm, because the samādhi is already there. If the mind is not active, not working, then the mind will slowly weak. That time you need more use with the mind itself.
EnglishI felt also more awake, more alert, more interested, because of this already
Englishcan see the more subtle level, right? Because the mind calms down, then the mind needs to work. If you're not working, then the mind is calm, enjoying, peaceful, and it comes down. I felt less. I felt slowly less sleepy time.
EnglishRight.
EnglishMore careful. More careful. Use your inner strength. Use intelligent effort. Think about practicing the way.
EnglishOkay. Let's move closer and move down.
EnglishSayadaw, I've been having a few long sittings,
Englishand during the sitting, I noticed the awareness is there, Sayadaw. And there's completely no pain, nothing. I can really sit. And I surprised myself, because normally anything more than an hour I'd be in a lot of pain. This is more than two hours. But I learned nothing, Sayadaw.
EnglishOnly long sitting. Only long sitting. Long sitting, long sitting. But I notice everything, Sayadaw. I mean, listening is happening, everything. I check. I ask questions, no answers.
EnglishNot for answer. The question is not for answer. The question is for interest. Yeah, but I check. Interest, not every time you ask, the answer cannot come. You take a time. You need to be experienced again and again and again. Not immediately cannot come. Yeah, Sayadaw. I ask the question, I wait. Nothing. Wait what?
EnglishWait for what? Wait for something new.
EnglishThat's why this cannot learn. This is not learning. This is waiting. Learning means that time the mind calm, very peaceful, awareness sharp, see the process clearly, continuously. That's all. More aware, more awake to the process.
EnglishNot try to task it. Try to get the answer. That's why investigation is
Englishsome questions, only one question, and other thing is more watching.
EnglishThis is investigation. It's not immediately get answer, try to answer. This watching is we try to wake up the wisdom that is working. More interest, more see the process, everything about relationship, everything about
Englishas far as we see. That's it. Just continue to. Yeah, just aware continually. Not get over. Learning means it's not immediately learn something, see the process again, and get information.
EnglishJust interest and learn.
EnglishWhen I learned and practiced, my teacher said, "The whole day we are practicing sometimes only some understanding, a little bit."
EnglishA little bit, then my teacher said, "That's enough."
EnglishSometimes not. Some days no. Just the whole day we cannot learn. Just practicing.
EnglishSo this understanding is conditioning complete and they can rise it.
EnglishYou cannot get the conditioning is not complete enough, the understanding cannot come. But we collect information again, again, again, again, right? And slowly the mind becomes more mature. If you're able to understand, sometimes the mind can understand. So understanding you cannot create.
EnglishOkay? And then something new as well today, Sayadaw, with watching pain.
EnglishI tried that three times already. When there's pain, I check my feeling. So every time there's pain, I check my feeling. I can feel a tightness, discomfort, and find it very
Englishinteresting that every time when this let go, pain disappears.
EnglishAgain the pain comes, I check. It goes.
EnglishPain comes then you need to check. Check feeling. Not immediately you see the situation come. Sorry, Sayadaw? Immediately the pain comes, but at the same time you can see this happening or you need to check back. I check back. I check back. But eventually there's a momentum.
EnglishWhen there's pain, there's already here. But I check here. I don't. Yeah, don't focus to the pain. Yeah, I don't. And interestingly, Sayadaw, it completely goes away. There's no pain. Doesn't matter. On nothing happening or disappear. Only sensation, Sayadaw.
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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.…