Q&AShwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Retreat31 Jul 2017
Dhamma discussion — Cause and Effect, and Maintaining Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 46 min
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The interview covers understanding cause and effect and non-self to reduce clinging to results. The Sayadaw advises recognizing mental reactions, maintaining right attitude, and sustaining continuous awareness to examine the mind.
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Transcript
EnglishSo if you want to go out, you need to— How fast?
EnglishYes. What? I want to talk about the talking about— Go make— come— Lens. Come make translate better. I— I— I'm right. I'm right. You're right. I don't know how in English. Because of— Because you know that everything is a cause and effect. Right? If your cause is a complete effect, it must be right.
EnglishSo we can do the cause. We cannot control the effect.
EnglishRight?
EnglishIf you said, "I cannot control everything," that means you cannot do anything. Right? Now we try to fulfill the quality of mind. Right? If you know how to practice and how to continuously— your quality of mind is increasing. That means also control.
EnglishWe cannot control the result. Right? We can— we can change our course.
EnglishOtherwise, we cannot do anything.
EnglishYou cannot control means is you cannot control what you want.
EnglishYou cannot get what you want.
EnglishWhatever you get, you got already, everything is because of conditioning.
EnglishUnderstand? Yeah. How— how does the concept of no-self go into— No-self means is a process. There is a nature— it's process— it's happening.
EnglishThat we believing is we— we think there is a self or me. This is idea.
EnglishProcess is real. I is concept.
EnglishOkay? Yeah.
EnglishSayadaw, so how do we control the cause? By— If you know.
EnglishBy last— That's why we— we try to know. We try to know what's going on. You— you try to see the nature, cause and effect, cause and cause and effect. This all process is a cause and effect process. Already happening. We don't see. We don't know. That's why we cannot handle.
EnglishIf you know, then you can handle.
EnglishRight? Okay. Like the last week I have a tooth operation. I get— I have a— the erosion came out. And then I passed it. So the first I told myself, I said, "Oh, it's a condition. Whatever happened already happened." So I accept the situation and then I don't stay at that— the angu— the erosion.
EnglishIt's going down, right? Yeah. That means is that you have a right thought that that emotion is going down. Okay. Right? Mm-hmm. So that must be— must be have wisdom. Understanding. Wisdom must be have. Then you can think right way. If you think right way, your emotion is sa-da-da. Yeah. I think at that time the right view, yeah.
EnglishRight. Right view, right thought. This is a cause. Right? How do you know this— how do you think this way?
EnglishHow do you know how— like this, how do you think this way? How do you think this way? You already think this way, right? Uh-huh. Then sa-da-da, right? Uh-huh. How do you know this— this thinking? You just know it.
EnglishBecause of your long time practice and knowledge, listening and practice, and you understand a lot. This make your— your become some understanding can think this way. Oh, because practice, practice, so— Yes. Yeah. Right. And— and— That means is that we can handle our defilement
Englishnature, right? Uh-huh. If you know or you have some understanding. Uh-huh. That's why we are learning. Yeah. Yeah. So Yasada, I will ask you, the another situation is that when I also have the— I get mad, and then I, okay, I don't know it's the right information or not. I tell myself, "Okay, this just— this is situation happening right now, just my assume.
EnglishIt's not— it's not really something really happened." And then I immediately let go, so. So now you see happening and reaction. So that's a process. Right? Happening. Some conditioning. The outside situation or some situation happening, experience. Uh-huh. And aversion. Right? We very difficult to handle about this outside situation.
EnglishUh-huh. Because very wide, right? Mm-hmm. But the reaction. You can go back to that. You can handle. If you have a— a ability, right?
EnglishThat— this is a— this is our side, right? That we can try to— we already learn about this— this nature. Outside thing, experience is we cannot control. Mm-hmm. Because very wide. Many conditioning. Yeah. Right?
EnglishThe one Korean yogi said, "This— this is a very good story. I already told this, huh? Last time? I forget.
EnglishYou don't know the story. You don't? You don't know the story yet? Yeah.
EnglishShe— she come to practice because so angry. There is a Korea, some problem happening about the— the— the— the ship fall down and a lot of student died. Yeah. Yeah. Right?
EnglishShe— she cannot accept.
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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.…