Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat7 May 2014
Dharma Discussion group C4 — Conditioning, Mind-Matter, and Aware Speaking
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 52 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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This group interview clarifies the relationship between mind and matter, rebirth, and the cessation of defilements. The teacher advises staying aware in the present during eating, speaking, or working rather than overthinking. Questions on free will, intention, samadhi, and precepts regarding food are also addressed.
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Transcript
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This is May 7, discussion group
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C, with Sayadaw U Tejaniya at Insight Meditation Society.
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Anybody? Yes.
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I'll go. I have two questions regarding the nature of the mind.
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They're interrelated, so I'll ask them both at the same time.
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I would like to have Sayadaw's
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clarification on exactly what is the connection between the body and the mind. You said the other day that the body was Doha without a mind. Isn't that the expression, Doha? No. Doha? What? Doha? The body is without the mind. Right. The body is. Rupa. Rupa. Oh, rupa.
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Okay. All right. Rupa. Okay. Sorry about that. That's what it's called. Rupa. That's what it's called. Material. Material. Material phenomena is rupa, yeah. Okay. So the body is rupa. Yes. Without a mind. Yet it's this body that I get information from through this body's sensors, not through hers, not through yours, only this body.
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And so I just would like to have some understanding because this is confusing. The
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experience you can only experience it through this. What happens in this mind reflects through this body. But what is the confusion? Well, because I don't so they're connected.
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Yes. Okay. Because
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Yeah. The body, the rupa. Rupa and the jungle equity. Yeah. Same vibe. Yeah. The rupa is constructed of four things. The rupa. And the four things are
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karma,
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citta, uttu, and ahara. So karma cause and effect. There is still reason for the rupa to be here. So the rupa is here, karma, and whatever attended. Citta, mind. Udu, temperature. Ahara, nutrition. So these four
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are the building blocks of the mind, of the body, sorry, of the rupa. So citta is one of them. So that's why citta feeds into when the citta changes, it affects the rupa. Yeah. Well, and that leads into my second question, which is
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I had always thought up to this point that the mind was in the backdrop of everything.
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I read things like the Buddha's discourses on luminous mind, and I read other things that talk about the mind as being awakened throughout practice.
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Yet I hear from Sayadaw that the mind is constantly changing.
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So if that's the case, then what is it that is awakened? What is it that knows the deathless? What is it that becomes reincarnated? Right.
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so you've heard? Yeah.
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You've heard him talk about how I don't know if it's in this group, but how
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every mind that passes away passes on an inheritance to the next mind. You've heard that? Yes. Yes. So whatever
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conditions or whatever qualities and the mind is full of qualities, okay, and possible qualities. So there are wholesome qualities possible in the mind, and there are unwholesome qualities possible in the mind.
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And
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of these qualities, one of those qualities that can
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arise in the mind is wisdom. And
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if wisdom is awakened over and over again, it passes on its inheritance. And then the next mind also
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keeps doing the practice that helps awaken wisdom. Then there's more awareness and then more wisdom. And then so the impression of wisdom or the quality of wisdom, the inheritance of wisdom is getting richer and richer. He says there comes a time when the wisdom that
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arises is a wisdom that cannot be forgotten anymore. And that is when the mind is awakened.
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It is, yeah, it is that strong, that wisdom that always. Permanent evil. Permanent evil. The permanent evil that the idea is happen. So it's not that the mind is permanent, but it's that the quality in the mind, the wisdom, becomes something that becomes indelible from the mind. So the mind keeps passing away, but when the wisdom becomes an indelible one, it passes that indelible wisdom to its
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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.…