Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat17 Aug 2017
Dhamma discussion — Awareness with Wisdom, Middle Way, and Right View
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 6 min
Original audio: English
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In this Q&A, the Sayadaw clarifies maintaining awareness with right view to avoid feeding defilements. He advises relaxing, recognizing the natural mind-body process, and remaining equanimous across the six sense doors despite craving or tension.
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Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat · 10 talks
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Transcript
EnglishUm, I— I'm finding that this mind is really, uh,
EnglishI suffer a lot, a lot of— goes through a lot of suffering because I want things to be a certain way, and then they're not that way. Mm-hm. So I'm just noticing more and more how much I— So idea is a different way one, different way. Yeah, I want it a certain way, I want people to be a certain way, and when they aren't, I judge them, and I think, like, but I suff- I suffer. Mm-hm.
EnglishSo your advice is just to— I just try to watch it and observe instead of being so caught up in it, and, uh, that's it, just kind of watch it. Okay. And you know you're suffering, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I— and I keep going back to it. Right. Then
Englishthe mind comes on?
EnglishUh, I'm— I think my— Right, comes on is not very important, but if you know it is happening, it's enough. Just— just let that happen. Yeah. Over and over. Again, again, again. Yeah, that's— that's fine. I'm doing the same thing. I keep doing it, but I'm doing it right then. Knowing again and again and again, the mind already learned. Okay. So try to be know, huh?
EnglishTry to be aware. Okay. There is one thing is awareness, pay attention is
Englishtwo ways, huh? People, they think it's a mindful or pay attention awareness. If you pay attention with the defilement, we feel the defilement.
EnglishPay attention with the wisdom, that is the meditation mind. This is awareness. Only pay attention, but sometimes there's no right view or no right thought, uh, no wisdom. Sometimes the defilement already there. Then you watch it with the defilement and, uh, pay attention, then the defilement increases. For example, for— that's why the beginner yogi, they try to be aware about unpleasant feelings.
EnglishThe mind more and more resists. They watch the pain, the mind more and more angry, or they watch the angry, the mind more angry. Like this. So this is pay attention, but there's no wisdom. So awareness mean is, uh, you must have a right view, right thought, or right understanding, right knowledge is idea, huh?
EnglishSome idea and pay attention, that is awareness. Then the, the, the, the
Englishdefilement already comes on. Otherwise, if you pay attention, the defilement increasing is very true. So pay attention is something wrong. It's about pay attention and defilement together.
EnglishThat's why not only unpleasant, pleasant also. Many people, they pretend they're not samādhi, that the mind becomes peaceful, and pay attention, they be aware then, hmm,
Englishalready there's a lobha really indulging and obsta— because there's no wisdom, then it's going to feel, feel just a imbalance we call knowing or feeling.
EnglishYou need to check if the mind is still aware and knowing or
Englishfeeling, feeling. Feeling. Two ways.
EnglishAnd regarding regarding right view, when I— I realize I'm noticing a lot of it is because of wrong views, this sense of self. Yeah. So I just remind myself. Right. I'm doing this and, you know, and, uh, remember about right view. Mm-hm. That's why we beginning, we need to repeat, recall about the right attitude or right view.
EnglishBecause, uh, all the time the mind is not wisdom.
EnglishMm-hm. Okay. Thank you.
EnglishHi. Yes. I'm back today, and, uh, I went to Dhamma, also for, for, for time. Yes. And, uh, yesterday I felt, uh, very tired. Today, uh, there was an improving because I felt, uh, very relaxed. Yes. But, uh, it, uh, my difficulty is that, uh, my mind goes to the future.
EnglishOh. Not in the present. Okay. I always, uh, when I close my eyes, I have a dodge object, the, the face of Buddha, but I always think about my son. I think I would like my son to be here. Oh. So it I, I, I don't think this is a very nice, uh, thing.
EnglishSo your pay attention is the Buddha.
EnglishWhen you're sitting time, what do you aware of?
EnglishI, I, I see the when I close my eyes, I see the Buddha. Okay. Then you continue watching this Buddha? Yes, but some, uh, thoughts, uh, thinking. This is the imagination, right? The mind image. So this is a constant object, but we not try to pay attention to this constant object.
EnglishDon't pay attention to this image, huh? Bring back to the your body sensation. Okay. Or bring anavana, touching, or right hand folding movement, or any folding sensation. Try to aware of the body sensation. This is a more present moment. And also, when your mind thinking the future, so don't pay attention to the storyline.
EnglishYou need to notice, ah, the mind thinking, that's enough. And bring back with the body sensation. Okay? Okay. Story is future, but happening mind, thinking mind, now thinking is now, right? This thinking mind is present.
EnglishStory is a future. Concept is future. So we are not interested in the concept. We are more interested about the nature. Mind nature, huh? This is happening or this is a doing. Thinking mind is happening. So we need to notice thinking mind is happening enough. Okay? Or just a thought and bring back.
EnglishDon't watch the thought long time. Continue don't continue watch the thought like this. Just notice enough. Okay. And bring back with the body sensation. And back and forth, no problem. Okay? Thank you. Yeah. Otherwise, if you pay attention to the thought, then you, you interest the story, then don't walk. Right?
EnglishOkay.
EnglishSo your thought is your son. In the thought is the son, story is your son, but you need to notice the mind thinking.
EnglishOkay? Then there's no point that, 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.…