Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat7 Mar 2017
Day 7 Discussion group B — Being Aware of Thinking and Noticing Judging Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 35 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:35:30
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This group interview explores recognizing judgmental attitudes, being aware of thinking, and examining inner defilements. The Sayadaw guides yogis to maintain right attitude, distinguish continuous consciousness from mindfulness, and understand conditioned processes.
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Transcript
English
7th March 2017, Tuesday, 8:30 a.m., Group B, in Kallol. It's about fear and anger. Walking meditation. I have a favorite spot here, and all the time somebody comes close. The day before yesterday I felt anger. It came up immediately. I had no choice.
English
It came up. And I thought, "Is he serious to come in my way?" And the next day I felt fear. The whole day. So. I think fear and anger are the same family, and maybe one day the system is more willing to be angry and attack, and the other day maybe there is some weakness and I feel more like, "What will that person do to me?"
English
So everything is automatically. It's sort of the system. Part of the system. Yeah.
[Burmese segment]
MY
Yeah. Just the same family. Yes. So just. Just watch and accept as it is.
MY
Some days it's different than the other days. Yeah. Yeah. Just watch. Yeah. This is. This is its nature. The defilements work this way and you just watch how it works.
English
Now we are just beginning to follow the footsteps of the developments to find out what they do. We're just starting now.
English
Second question is about judging. So everybody is judging and
English
I contemplate about it. From time to time I see it more clearly now. But sometimes I like it also. I like to tell an idiot an idiot.
English
Inwardly. Of course not directly. And it is a sort of relief.
English
But for myself I've found the excuse that it is okay as long as I watch it. And as long as I give the person a chance to
English
the next time I find him okay. So when he's doing good,
MY
He is no idiot and Don't hang on to the... Yeah. Keep it on the flow. Yeah.
[Burmese segment]
MY
Yeah. That's good to be open, yeah? To the changes
English
Yeah. See, I just said the strange. The strange psychology of the mind is, or the strange nature of the mind is that when it thinks somebody is not as good, it makes itself, subconsciously somewhere, it makes itself feel that it is better. Therefore, if somebody else is worse, like that person is an idiot, that means I must not be an idiot.
MY
What up, what up, what up. Yes sir. Who upset now ah. This subconscious mind has that sort of. It makes me better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Just by that act of calling something. Wish not ability
English
Yeah. He says it's a strange mind. It's sort of like a strange twist in the mind. And if we watch the mind every time it makes a judgment about someone else, we'll see how the judgment sort of already
English
has made the mind feel the opposite. Although all it's doing is actively judging, passively it has already decided that for itself. So for example, he says when we see, "Oh, poor thing." Somebody is, "Oh, he's so pitiful." That means we must be okay.
English
You know? Yeah. Yeah. So at that moment, the mind automatically feels that it is better or the opposite. Or if we think someone is great, we feel that we are not so great. You know? There's this automatic. Yeah. Sometimes it also feels like a self-aggression. Yeah. It has both. Yeah.
MY
It has a relief but also it comes back to myself. Myself.
English
Yeah. He says so that's why when we want to make a judgment, he says, "Do it mindfully."
English
So that we can see what we're doing to ourselves as well. Thank you. And I would like to continue. Actually, I have three questions. And the first one, I hope I can clear what I mean. Yesterday, one yogi was speaking about watching thinking. And that's something I'm trying to figure out, or I'm practicing with that quite a lot.
English
Sometimes when thinking is happening, I'm aware of thinking. But sometimes when there is something I really have to be very, it really needs energy to think through something difficult issue. Then my awareness is here, and then all of my mind is absorbed in the process of thinking, then an awareness is here.
English
And it's like the awareness would jump from the content I'm thinking of to be aware content. Is it because I'm not skillful enough to be aware during
MY
Is it difficult thinking or is it just jumping? You know what I mean.
[Burmese segment]
English
Yeah. He says in the beginning it's like this. So there's quite a lot of effort and, you know. But eventually you will feel like it's more natural, that it's more during the thinking.
English
And, you know, it's like two trains going side by side. He always says it will feel, begin to feel more and more like that. Even if, you know, for example, finding out why I cannot download my images. I'm trying to figure out, but in this moment my mind is so. So yes. It's so difficult. So if.
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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.…