Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat28 Apr 2014
Dharma Discussion group C1 — Wisdom of Knowing How to Practice
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 44 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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This group interview addresses maintaining awareness in daily activities and having the right attitude toward memories, guilt, and subtle defilements. The teacher emphasizes the necessity of an object, the spontaneous arising of loving-kindness through wisdom, and clearly recognizing liking and disliking.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 35 talks
- 234 minGuided meditation with morning reminders — Right Attitude and Continuous Awareness27 Apr 2014
- 31 hr 26 minDharma Discussion group A1 — Recognizing the State of Mind and Viewing Experiences as Nature27 Apr 2014
- 41 hr 56 minDharma Discussion group B1 — Being Aware of Awareness and Watching Mind Activity27 Apr 2014
- 533 minGuided meditation with reminders — Object and Mind, Feeling and Wisdom28 Apr 2014
- Viewing61 hr 45 minDharma Discussion group C1 — Wisdom of Knowing How to Practice28 Apr 2014
- 71 hr 59 minDharma Discussion group D1 — Recognizing Nature of Objects and Continuous Awareness28 Apr 2014
- 840 minGuided meditation with reminders — Right View and Attitude Towards Objects29 Apr 2014
- 91 hr 48 minDharma Discussion group E1 — Recognizing Dosa and Working with Wisdom29 Apr 2014
- 101 hr 53 minDharma Discussion group F1 — Awareness of Mind, Thinking, and Dosa29 Apr 2014
- 111 hr 47 minDharma Discussion group A2 — Working with Depression, Reactions, and Simplicity30 Apr 2014
Transcript
English
Today is Monday, April 28, interview group C at IMS.
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First group, who wants to talk? I need to know about your conditioning or situation, then I can help more. Mm-hmm. Okay. So you need to tell me your experience or something to talk about your practice, then we can explore for this kind of practice.
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All right.
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Lovely. Yes? I've been practicing the Dharma for, uh, over 5 years. I've been on many retreats here at IMS, and I spent a month at, um, the forest refuge. And I've, uh, been with Thich Nhat Hanh and Pema Chödrin, and, um.
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No, not over. Mm-hmm. I think this is
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very good, uh, especially since I took the forest refuge. And this is this would help me to be more, um,
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aware if I were to do that again.
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What do you mean if you were to do it again?
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Well, I, I think that I think that your teachings are, um, very clear about
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awareness and the observing the object and, and, um, understanding it
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to, to help with the wisdom. The awareness, uh, I, I wasn't as, as, um, structured in my mind. I didn't have the, the, uh,
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the insight and the spaciousness that your teachings allow.
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Ok. , spaciousness. Yes. Okay.
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Uh, the whole point, idea of information in the Dharma, you learn manners of the other ones, or come? Yeah. It's just when we understand when we understand what, what is being taught or what is being said, however it comes to us. He says, "When we understand it, if it resonates with us," he said, "that always helps to make practice easier."
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So right information she might, uh, So when we. Information are easy. When we have right information, then we can think about things in the right way, and then we can apply that in the right way too. Right. Because look at Yeah. Before we do anything, if we're clear about what we're going to do, that helps to do it.
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And I wasn't that clear when I went. Oh, you know a lot of Well, thank you
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That's it? Do you have more? No. That's all. Thank you. Good. Next.
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You don't have to have a question. Just, I just want to know what's happening.
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Say something.
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I know I no something, no topics. Yesterday we talked about thinking, yeah? I want to say some thought, and everybody say about this thought, thought, thought.
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Um,
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well,
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I, I haven't been too sure. Well, uh, when you say, you know, just practice all the time, the easiest thing to do is to do the familiar, walking and sitting. Um,
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so I guess I'm just finding my own rhythm with that. Mm-hmm. Um. And are you mindful in the other activities? He says, "It can be difficult, but it's only because of lack of time." Or it can't be mindful.
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Yeah. Yeah. Because difficulty means is you less practice.
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Well, not enough practice. That's why difficult. So more practice and daily activities. All right. Yeah. Okay. And then the other thing that's coming up for me is, the night before I came here, I, um, I had promised to help with an event, and at the last minute I canceled out. And, um, I'm sure it created difficulties for the people that I canceled out on.
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And
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it just brought up feelings of guilt. So, um, I've been feeling guilt about that, and then remembering many other incidents in my life that, um, that I regret. I feel I failed to do what I should have done, made mistakes. So I'm ha-having, um, well, it's I'm unhappy to think about all these things.
[Burmese segment]
English
He says, "Memories are just memories. They're thoughts arising in the mind." He says, "We need to have right view towards them."
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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.…