Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat6 May 2014
Dharma Discussion group A4 — Practicing with Regret, Delusion, and Emotions
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 41 min
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In this group interview, the teacher explains how to recognize regret and defilements simply as natural mental objects. He emphasizes maintaining continuous awareness in daily life beyond sitting practice. Meditators are encouraged to let wisdom, rather than grief or aversion, guide their actions and decisions.
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Talks in this retreat
Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 35 talks
- 231 hr 46 minDharma Discussion group C3 — Defilements as Objects and Awareness of Mind4 May 2014
- 242 hr 1 minDharma Discussion group D3 — Working with Defilements and Right Attitude4 May 2014
- 251 hr 51 minDharma Discussion group E3 — Investigating Defilements and Reality of the Mind5 May 2014
- 262 hr 14 minDharma Discussion group F3 — Being Aware of Awareness, Personal Effort, and Looking Internally at Defilements5 May 2014
- Viewing271 hr 41 minDharma Discussion group A4 — Practicing with Regret, Delusion, and Emotions6 May 2014
- 282 hr 1 minDharma Discussion group B4 — Wisdom, Delusion, and Relationships Between Defilements6 May 2014
- 291 hr 53 minDharma Discussion group C4 — Conditioning, Mind-Matter, and Aware Speaking7 May 2014
- 301 hr 58 minDharma Discussion group D4 — Self-Criticism, Right Effort, and Defilements7 May 2014
- 3131 minMorning reflections — Momentum of Awareness and Detecting Subtle Defilements8 May 2014
- 322 hr 5 minDharma Discussion group E4 — Simple Awareness and Defilements8 May 2014
Transcript
EnglishDhamma summary. Today is Tuesday, May 6. This is interview group A with Sayadaw U Tejaniya at IMS.
EnglishThank you.
EnglishI'd like to start with a thank you for Sayadaw teaching, for his wisdom, his
Englishgenerous teaching, and, um, a lot of humor. It made me more interested in the meditation.
EnglishComing to this retreat changed my concept about meditation. In the beginning, I thought that
Englishit's just for the, uh, release my stress. And if I have a stressful day, I sit. If I don't, I have a good day, then I don't sit.
EnglishNow I understand that
Englishthere are reasons that people sit every day. Because of, um, a lot of environment. And, um, if you don't sit every day, this, uh, defilement can grow bigger and bigger, and it's so hard to catch. So, um, I really thank you for, um, Sayadaw's wisdom to point out that, uh, no reason to sit.
EnglishAnd, um. To meditate. These defilements are very, very,
Englishuh, sneaky. I start out with the awareness, and a while later I check and I go to the side of the object. So I don't know how it's happened, but it's what happened countless times. So it's, it's, it sounds easy, but it's not easy. So, um.
EnglishActually, not because not, not always sit. Meditate. Meditate is not sit. Sit, medit, uh. Yeah.
EnglishI used to think that only sitting is the sitting. Even though the teacher always reminds, but still, back of my mind is the sitting. Meditation is the sitting. But now I realize that, you know, in any Buddhism, we, we can be, we can be aware. And then it, I, I think that it changed my practice a lot.
EnglishShould be like this. Meditation is like this. Should be like this. Not only sitting. Meditation is the mind work, right? Not Buddhism body work.
EnglishWell, be that, no?
EnglishTapi orang masing-masing.
EnglishHe says we only don't improve in our practice because we don't practice all the time.
Englishattitude. Cara lain. Sebab saya ambil yang. We may have practiced a long, long time, but when we don't make the attempts to maintain a steady practice, then we find that we don't gain a lot of momentum in our practice. Nizah yogi.
EnglishNizah dulu termasuk. Itu dulu kelisah. He said we are like daily rated workers. We earn the money today and we eat all the, we use it for our food today. A little down a charge. So. A little down a charge. Macam mana tau? So we work, and we work a long time and very hard, but we don't become rich.
Englishaku. What we, what we get and what we use. He says it's all used up.
EnglishYeah, every day. Aku yang ni. Aku yang ni lah. Aku yang macam ni. Sometimes what we, what we earn and what we spend is not balanced. And sometimes we're in debt.
EnglishHe says that's what the Dhamma is about. He says we have to practice it daily, we have to practice it all the time, we have to be patient, and we have to continue to grow it steadily.
EnglishThen over the long term,
Englishit gives us great benefit.
EnglishWe come for a retreat to learn how to practice, but it's at home that the real practice must
Englishtake place.
EnglishOkay, next.
EnglishNothing to say.
EnglishMaybe I never say lah. Nothing to say and nothing to ask. Last chance.
EnglishYes.
EnglishOver the last few years, there is a regret in my mind
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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.…