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Good intention is more important than good action
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 5 min
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Wholesome intention is more important than external action. The teacher explains that one may act if defilements do not increase and are recognized with right attitude. Wisdom clearly notices the natural process of mind and matter arising and passing away without interference.
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EnglishIf I want to take an action, let's say it's a good action, it might benefit somebody rather than me, but it has a subtle motivation, a hidden— it's motivated by— Good action is— good action is not important. Good intention is more important. Okay. So good intention, then you can say this is good action.
EnglishThen—
Englishso— So the question: in that scenario, if an action can actually help somebody but there's a hidden motivation led by defilement, in that case, should I still do the action? Because it's— Not the defilement. You can do anything. If you define my weak, define my less, that's okay.
EnglishGood. You can do whatever. If you define my increase, you should not do it. That's it. This is a meditation,
Englishright? Yeah. Okay.
EnglishOkay. Now, 5 minutes only. If you say, if you see the defilement and if you— and you see the defilement still the same, it's not increasing, you can watch it as you're doing it. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. That's okay. Because we are— we are trying to be aware, right? Yeah. Not to— not to define— Not encourage to define the— because the define meant they show their energy.
EnglishCorrect. This is their problem. We're not involved. Right. We are— we are more thinking about right attitude and how to practice. That's our side. Otherwise we see how we don't do anything. Very few things that we can do. Yeah. Yes. No need to pretend.
EnglishThat's why
EnglishVipassanā meditation is— every time I notice about this awareness, very sharp, wisdom sharp, I can see the process
Englishbeginning to end very clearly. The process is they do their job. Right. After this, then boom, another calm insight. The process cannot— cannot stop. Only wisdom can see the process. For example, one time in the Narkala, a ghoul center, there's a— one to the alone.
EnglishI stay alone. Night time I meditated, maybe midnight. In the window there's a lot of trees outside. Then one sound comes, green, green, green.
EnglishWhen the hearing come, the whole flesh come. Whole flesh fear. Whole flesh come. Appear and disappear because who? In this much, right, that much faster, I saw the— the manifestate, the whole process, beginning to end. I start to hear the sound. The mind start to think, "This is close."
EnglishThen the fear come. The fear— the whole body comes and gone. Gone. Everything gone. So fast. But now I talk to you very loud. Right, right, right. What's happening is like this. But then I realized about wisdom nature is like this. Wisdom very soft. He can see the process.
EnglishThat's all. And create the— how the mind create, he know everything very clearly.
EnglishAnd everything come and gone. Also,
Englishsee the process more important.
EnglishThis is unconscious level working. Right. Just awareness can see the unconscious level. That's it. Unconscious level you cannot go— cannot
Englishdisturb in there.
EnglishActually I more and more understanding the— the meditation is become
Englishthis level happening.
EnglishIs that the wisdom can stop the thinking sometimes? This is another wisdom. Understanding the define meant. This is not define meant. This is body and mind process. Body and mind process. Wisdom can see and then can stop. If your wisdom can stop, it's because your wisdom is ability to stop.
EnglishBut now this wisdom cannot stop the define meant. That's why define meant. Because the mind already believe the wrong. The deluded already there. If your wisdom is go to the deluded state, no deluded, that time no define meant come. But already now, right?
EnglishThis is the Pratiyata Mogga. It's rude like this. You cannot stop the Pratiyata Mogga. Some people, they try to practice Pratiyata Mogga like this.
EnglishWisdom is a tana, tana. You try to go to the tana, you cannot tana. Paññā comes.
EnglishImpossible. You see how there's a feeling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
EnglishBetter to go to the nibbāna time.
EnglishOkay. Now finish. Today.
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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.…