Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat8 Sept 2017
Dhamma discussion — Cultivating Awareness and Working with Defilements
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 31 min
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The interview covers cultivating continuous awareness and balancing the five spiritual faculties for wisdom to arise. Sayadaw explains working with defilements with right attitude, and maintaining awareness throughout daily life.
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Transcript
EnglishProcess of sadhana level peak, the mental process, or physical process, it's also this wisdom. Hmm.
EnglishSo when your five Indria balanced, wisdom can come. So five Indria, you know: awareness, samādhi, effort, faith, and wisdom. All together, working together, very balanced, that kind of wisdom can come.
EnglishUm. And also when you're watching
Englishwith the right attitude or right view, that kind of wisdom can come.
EnglishSo when your awareness is present, then wisdom can come. Hmm. It's the wisdom's nature.
EnglishUm, when I observe that I have seen when the mind—when the object arises in the sixth sense door, then immediately that they have the mind. So. So what happened? I have the question that, so where is the awareness? Because the awareness, knowing this is the mind and this is the object, so.
EnglishYes. So it's like something not right. Why? Because here's the object, and then the mind, so what happens? But the awareness, something.
EnglishMind. Awareness, also mind. So that whole thing becomes the object. Yes. And then the awareness will come.
EnglishHuh? Something really not clear about the what is it. You. But it's clear that the mind is aware, right? Yes. Sometimes it's clear it's the object or physical or mental. Yes. Watching mind is mental process. Wisdom is into watching mind, right view or right attitude with the awareness, then you watching.
EnglishWhen the
Englishincrease or right condition, the wisdom can come here,
Englishin the watching mind. So wisdom is also a mind also. Yes. Awareness also mental state. Definement also mental state.
EnglishAnd is it true that, um, defilement just know the, um, it's a function is not know, but the awareness has the function of knowing, and the wisdom can know both their defilement and. Yeah. Awareness and wisdom is working together. One mind, this is the, uh, Abhidhamma theory, no? Yeah. One mind is many mental states together.
EnglishAt least
Englishseven mental states is every mind they, they, they involve.
EnglishEvery mind has a, a-at least one mind has a 12 or 13 mental states together.
EnglishSo meditation is this quality of mind, it becomes strong increasing.
EnglishThat's it.
EnglishQuality of mind becomes in if mental state is becomes increasing, the mind also becomes resolved. Mind is also stronger.
EnglishThat's why we need to cultivate all the time. Awareness continuously. So this, if you allow this mind happen again and again and again, his quality is increasing. That's why we need to practice all the time.
EnglishRight? Uh-huh. Second question. Um, can you clarify to me again? Uh, Kalyan Vipassanā, Vedānā Vipassanā, Cita Vipassanā, and Dhamma. Kalyan Vipassanā, if you're watching the object is for the process. Yes. It's Kalyan Vipassanā. If you're aware the mental feeling,
Englishit's Vedānā, Vedānā Vipassanā, right? Object is, if, if it's a whole object. Kalyan Vipassanā is object. Vedānā Vipassanā also object. Cita Vipassanā also object. Dhammā Vipassanā also object.
EnglishIt's the bodily sensation, bodily process is with, uh, Kalyan Vipassanā.
EnglishFeeling, present, unpresent, neutral, all feeling. You just watch the, learn from the feeling. It's Vedānā Vipassanā. And mind, any mind, mental state, object becomes object, it's also Cita Vipassanā. But these three, lumbā, bodily, lumbā, if you understand this, these three objects become nature.
EnglishThere is no body there. Yes. Then becomes Dhammā Vipassanā.
EnglishUm, about Vedānā Vipassanā, it's also the activity of the mind. Yes. But why the Buddha separate Vedānā Vipassanā and Cita Vipassanā? Because of Vedānā Vipassanā, only feeling. Because of feeling is obvious. Yes. Present, unpresent, neutral, you are only the watching the feeling only. But feeling including the Cita Vipassanā.
EnglishYes.
EnglishAnd is it true that when we say Dhammā Vipassanā is in that we can. Wisdom, object, wisdom, the mind becomes more understanding. You know that this nature, the object becomes nature. This is wisdom is stronger. That, that time you can practice Dhammā Vipassanā.
EnglishEven the Cita Vipassanā, if you don't understand, you cannot watch the mind.
EnglishAnd when watching the mind, it means that we're watching the activity of the mind, the function of it, the perceiving, um, thinking, planning, anything, the activity. Activity of mind. It's Cita Vipassanā.
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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.…