Q&ABangkok Retreat11 Nov 2015
Dhamma discussion group A3 — Mind-Body Process and Right Attitude Towards Thoughts
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 29 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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This group interview clarifies the cause-and-effect relationship between body and mind through daily friction. The teacher explains that emotions and thoughts are natural processes rather than a self. Meditators learn to check their attitude and patiently sustain awareness in daily life.
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Transcript
English
Okay, good. Uh, join because— Not easy to meditate, come try.
English
Uh, notice so many things. But I'll just relate one, one, one of the episode. Hmm. Yeah. Uh, yesterday there were a lot of thoughts, so I wanted to write down. So I took out my pen. The pen is supposed to twist, then the writing part will come out. I twist, twist, twist, twist.
English
Doesn't come, huh. So twist, twist, twist, then I got agitated. Then I got angry. So I notice agitation, I notice angry. Then I remember Sayadaw said, mind, look at body. So I notice the body, very hot, sweating, sweating, sweating.
English
Sweating. Yeah. So then I remember as well to check the mind. So I check the mind. Dislike. Unpleasant. Yeah. Tense. Yeah, very tense. Dislike. And the more dislike, the more I want to— More use energy.
English
But, but, but
English
it, it, it just didn't work. Worse and worse. Yeah, it got worse and worse. So, uh, it gets more and more tense. It spires more and more. That just means if you, whatever you do with the craving or aversion, worse and worse. But very funny was, after that, it knows how to stop. Then it says, "You got another pen right."
English
So I just took the pen out and just get another pen. I was like, what is happening? The mind wants to write. The mind cannot turn the pen. Got angry, got agitated. The mind got dislike. The body gets heated up, sweating. And then the mind finds the solution. Everything is the mind.
English
Oh. So it's just like,
English
I don't know, it's just, everything is just happening within the mind. It's so funny. So when I recovered, it was just so funny. Easy on me. I'm done. You need to learn about the body and mind relationship. That's more important. We want to understand the physical process and mental process. Now you see that because of mind angry, the body change.
English
Sensation change, right? Who make this? I see if you can look at it. I look at your attitude. So who make this, this change? You, you not involved, nothing, right? There's a cause and effect. Body and mind relationship, cause and effect process. Because the cause was the— This is a map. Because of this heat, bodily heat, come from the mind.
English
Ah. So the body— Because of mind, body also something happen. Relationship, cause of the mind, then affect. The body is affected. Okay. So it's cause— If you more understand this cause and effect, cause and effect relationship, then you more understanding about there's no body. Right. So if the same thing happen again, so I keep— Yeah, many times.
English
Yeah, many times. Many times. Yeah. So keep— For example, if you're hungry, desire, strife will come. Who make it? Yeah. You said, we said, "I, I, I think." But there's no I anymore. We're not doing anything. They're happening, conditioning. Oh, okay. So it's the causes, then the effect.
English
Then we, we try to, we can understanding this conditioning. The whole process, the body and mind is conditioning. They do their job. They are nature, and they do their job. But we don't understanding their working, their job, then we think this is me.
English
Wrong view is, wrong idea is, believing the I. Okay. Actually, it's a reality, it's a, yeah, cause conditioning and cause and effect process. So— Slowly, slowly, you can mostly, most experience about it many time, then your understanding can change. But it's, it's, it's really a joy to, to know. It's funny. To know is enjoyable, right?
English
To see, to know, that's enjoyable. Yeah. Sometimes suffering. Experience suffering. But because of knowing, because of understanding, oh, the confident, oh, and interest, joy is coming. So if we continue to see the relationship within the mind and the body, before it happens, you will know, or?
English
Before, you know, before this happening. Like the— Yes. If you understanding cause and effect, you can stop the cause. For example, the anger. Anger. Why the anger arising? Because of craving. This is theory, no?
English
You're not understanding yet. Because of craving. Next time, if you have something the mind start to liking, the mind break. Oh, dislike. As much as you liking, as much as you anger. Oh. It's cause and effect, cause and effect. If you understand, you can stop the cause. That is what we learn from the nature. Why this happening?
English
We try to stop the cause. Then bad situation cannot come, right? If you are knowing the nature.
English
So which means have to go through a lot of experiences. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh, my experience is, um, when I'm meditating, the yogi next to me spray the insect repellent. So I say, oh, the smell is happening. Because I smelled it. Then suddenly it dawned to me that actually smelling is happening all the time.
English
Not just when I, when she sprayed it, I smelled it. It's all the time, but just that either I'm not aware of it, or
English
there's such thing called no smell as an object. Is there such thing called no smell as an object? Oh, can we do it together? Anna, Anna, you're not your dad. So is smelling happening all the time, or only when there's contact only happening?
English
There must be a smell that comes through the nose. Also the nose. There is a, somehow consciousness are recoups here. Yeah.
English
The, now, how they call it, somehow rehabilitation. Jagatnaya rehe- reheal me. Somehow reheal me. Attention reheal. So for smelling, smelling consciousness to arise, there must be four things, right? You must have a nose that can smell. There must be air to bring the smell to your nose. And then you must be aware, so you know that there's smell.
English
If you are very agitated or wondering, sometimes the smell come, you don't know. Because you're not attention.
English
One of them is not there, you mean? Actually, because of— It's not happening, right? No, no smelling function, consciousness happening.
English
When you get the smell, mean is, the smelling consciousness is arising, happening.
English
Um,
English
I was thinking about, um, one student of you, uh, told me that in Buddhism, uh, love is monogamic.
English
Like, understand love like a couple. Like monogamous. Yeah. Huh?
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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.…