Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat28 Apr 2014
Dharma Discussion group D1 — Recognizing Nature of Objects and Continuous Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 59 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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In this group interview, the Sayadaw discusses maintaining continuous awareness during daily activities without clinging to concentration. He emphasizes having the right attitude, checking the mind, and viewing defilements as natural phenomena.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 35 talks
- 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
- 61 hr 45 minDharma Discussion group C1 — Wisdom of Knowing How to Practice28 Apr 2014
- Viewing71 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
- 122 hr 10 minDharma Discussion group B2 — Concept, Reality, and Observing Mind30 Apr 2014
Transcript
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Okay, so this is April 28, 2014, at IMS in Discussion Group D.
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Just interview is— this is not interview, this is discussion time.
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Just you're telling me your experience, what you're happening, what you're practicing, how do you practice. Then I know about you, then I can help you more.
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Right? Yeah. That's why I want to know about your situation. Then you tell me, then I listening, then I hear, then I know about your nature, then I can help you more. That's why you can tell any experience or any question.
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Experience is a practice.
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You have a practice, you have a lot of experience, right? So some, anything you can tell me about your experience.
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We can explore. Yeah, I feel yeah. Yes.
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Explore through the children and stuff, you're doing that. Explore through our little life. And then through son and children, yeah.
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Yes.
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Speaking through when he asks. Start. I'll hear you, yeah. Yeah.
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Thank you for being here and this opportunity. And I'm very tired tonight, and I think I'm a very hard worker by nature, so I'm getting in my own way and because of this, trying so hard to do the instructions. So
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there are moments when it seems so simple, the practice that you're talking about is so simple and so direct, and then there's kind of a self that wants to do something more. Or, and then a lot of judging, which makes me tired.
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Aversion makes I can feel that I get tired from it. But it seems persistent. Judging. Judging or have aversion to the aversion.
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But there's almost like this persistent sense of self wants to keep, wants to do more than what you're teaching.
[Burmese segment]
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He said, so you need to sort of change your attitude a little bit. Sort of set up an attitude. So you remind yourself that what is happening is nature. The judgment and all that is nature. And then prepare yourself to just watch what's going on in the mind. .
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Yeah. So the mind is judging, recognizing judging. Judging again, recognizing judging. Judging again, recognizing judging. And you can. The You can put in the thought, this is also nature. This is also nature. This is nature. Yeah.
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And you just. Yeah. Because in meditation we're not trying to do anything. We're here to acknowledge what is already presenting itself. And there it is.
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If you find that the mind is. Eagerness. Too energetic, like trying very hard to get it, just relax. To reduce that energy. Yeah. Reduce that. So I think.
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He said, I think in yesterday's morning sit, remember he said, without listening we can hear, without looking we can see, and without focusing we can know. So he says, you might notice, you might think, you might find yourself focusing on the judging and stuff like that. He said, there is no need.
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It's already known.
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Can I ask something else? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think I understood the Sayadaw to say, maybe today or yesterday, that bringing the Brahma Baharas
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Can be helpful but doesn't promote wisdom. Did I understand that right? Yes, right. Right. It may not bring wisdom.
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Particularly. . If we're always using the Brahma Biharas to actually soothe the wound, you know, if that's always been our practice, so that's our goal, is to feel better, then that's just what's going to happen, is we're going to feel better. Nothing more. gia an . Sometimes you need to open the wound. And then it heals.
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It's a bit easier. Okay, yeah.
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Yes, yes. First group, yeah.
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I think I'm
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learning, or I'm enjoying the relaxing, and I realize that maybe when I've meditated all the time in the past, that
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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.…