Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat2 May 2014
Dharma Discussion group F2 — Taking Care of Awareness, Thinking Productively, and Working with Sleepiness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 51 min
Original audio: English
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In this group interview, the teacher discusses caring for awareness rather than chasing objects, and applying wisdom to work with sleepiness and thinking. He explains that understanding the relationship between object and mind allows natural awareness to unfold, gradually weakening greed for pleasant sensations.
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EnglishThis is May 2 at Insight Meditation Society, discussion group F.
EnglishAnd would those first group raise your hands? Just so Ma Thet and Sayidah can see who you are.
English9. 9.
EnglishDuty
Englishof me, I'm Duty of Sutra.
EnglishNo, Ma Thet Chandi. Yeah. Choya. Choya Chandi. Choya Chandi. Yeah, yeah. Koya Nitisha. Nibbāna. Nibbān in the Velo Layer. Yeah. Koya Nitisha. Choya Nitisha. Ninga. Choya Chandi.
EnglishI'm curious to see what you all say.
EnglishI don't really have a question, Sayadaw, but I'll just give a short report. And first, I want to thank you for the morning reflections. And reminders have been really, really great, really great, and very helpful in the moment and over time, both. I really appreciate it. Chamma is what you're used to.
EnglishYeah.
EnglishHe does that at the center also now, every morning. That's really good.
EnglishI've been trying to get
Englishused to
Englishletting the attention be more with the awareness rather than objects, and this is somewhat new for me, at least in the way it is here now. And
Englishso I was trying to do that, and the trying was problematic. And then Sayadaw, a couple of days ago, said something about it's not necessary to follow the objects, which I didn't realize I was really doing that, but there was some way that I was kind of leaning to the objects and using that as the measure for the mindfulness.
EnglishAnd so rather than trying to be with the awareness, I was let go of the objects in a subtle way, but it changed very quickly. And
Englishso I feel like I'm starting to get a feeling for it
Englishthrough doing that. Should I keep talking or let you? You can tell him.
Englishmake pure joshi
EnglishAnd
EnglishI noticed that the feeling for the samadhi is very different. The samadhi is there, the continuity is there, but the feeling is different than I've been used to, and so it was harder for me to trust it a little bit. I haven't been trusting it. And because I tend to assume that I'm not being mindful, which is not true, but it's been an assumption for a long time that I'm not really practicing with enough mindfulness.
EnglishAnd I know that that has it's woven into the way I look at things. And so a little bit. It's not a big deal. It's not like a anyway, it's better. And
Englishso it's getting used to the feeling of it is really interesting. And then Sayadaw said something maybe yesterday or today that was great for me. I think he said it, or else I made it up.
EnglishI might have made it up. It seems like something he would say.
EnglishOkay.
English
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EnglishWe're all eating now.
EnglishI'm attuning to Sayadaw, what he said.
EnglishSomething words to the effect that our job, in great part, is to care for, use the word to care for, the awareness. And so that was really great for me. I thought, oh, that's what I'll do, is I'll take care of the awareness. And then I don't the objects can take care of themselves, or the awareness can take care of them if they need anything.
EnglishAnd then I thought that taking care of the awareness, there were so many good qualities. If you really take care of something, then you have love and respect and kindness and gentleness and all good things that I feel are so good. And so they come right there with that. And so I thought I would do 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.…