Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat3 May 2014
Dharma Discussion group A3 — Doubt, Nature of Awareness and Objects, and Dukkha
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 39 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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This group interview explores the changing nature of awareness and understanding dukkha through greed and aversion. The teacher guides yogis to practice receptive natural seeing, maintain relaxed effort, and investigate the mind's states rather than clinging to concepts.
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Transcript
EnglishOkay. This is May 3, at Insight Meditation Society, interview group A with Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
EnglishWho want to share the experience?
EnglishShe's picking up our lingo.
EnglishAll right, participant A.
EnglishOh, sure.
EnglishBeginner is a little bit struggling. I think that is smooth.
EnglishActually, it was yesterday. I woke up, and within 5 minutes,
Englishthis wrong attitude
Englisharose in me. Couldn't figure it out. I'm in a beautiful place. No one's talking to me. I'm not talking to anyone. I have snuck a peek, so that's another story.
EnglishBut I wondered, why am I here? The attitude was, "What's this all about?" Doubt came into me.
EnglishAnd what you said this morning
Englishwas something that contributed to this doubt, and that was not staying in the present moment, going to the future, going to the past in my thoughts,
Englishand that
Englishrealized why this attitude helped me realize why this attitude arose in me. I needed to take a step back and
Englishget back on track, and my way of doing that is to always come back to the Four Noble Truths. I'm here because of dukkha,
Englishand primarily the Second and Third Noble Truth. Awareness certainly alleviates that dukkha. Prior to taking refuge, I didn't know what dukkha was. So this aspect of my life after refuge certainly makes it more meaningful, and
EnglishI want to appreciate this life that I've been given. And awareness
Englishhelps me do that. So it got me back on track. Thank you.
EnglishThank you, Madi. Involved adult generation. Step out of the room now. ，，。 step out of the room now。。step back。。
EnglishI love you too. I try to be step out of the room. double step back to the back。 Yeah. He said there's a funny thing about doubt. ，"。" I said, "You know, out of the room now." Yeah. With me. It's a funny thing about doubt. He says, "Unlike the other defilements," he says, "other defilements, it's like we can step back and observe them." When we're in doubt, he says, it's very hard to step out of doubt or away from doubt and just know there is doubt.
EnglishHe says it just because it's doubt. And he says,
English"And the antidote is wisdom." But he says, "We can't use the wisdom to step away." So he said, "We actually have to bring in some wisdom." Like the mind has to get something which helps it to think a different way. And once the wisdom, another kind of wisdom comes in, he said, "Then that stepping away happens."
EnglishThat's why people, sometimes people, they try to practice let go, step back. Sometimes okay. Sometimes cannot. Because it depends on the quality of mind. If you define it a lot of song, then they cannot let go, they cannot step back. When the samādhi, awareness, wisdom, whole samādhi is increased, very easy, right?
EnglishBut people think, "I can do." It is a conditioning.
EnglishOkay? Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Yes.
EnglishSo I'd just like to ask about a couple of experiences that are very fresh with me now.
EnglishSo normally I go in the meditation hall through the walking room, but yesterday I came up the stairs from the outside, or was about to come up the stairs from the outside, do you know? And paused,
Englishand was
Englishkind of a little overwhelmed by the feeling of being settled so firmly on the ground and the ground beneath me. And so I
Englishthe wind on my face,
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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.…