Q&ALing Shan Temple Retreat24 Apr 2018
Group 03 — Open Awareness and Everything Is Nature
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 44 min
Original audio: English · Chinese interpretation
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This group interview clarifies maintaining continuous awareness and seeing phenomena as natural processes. The Sayadaw explains how to work with anger and lobha, emphasizing checking right attitude rather than trying to control.
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Ling Shan Temple Retreat · 25 talks
- 44 minQ&A 02 — Learning from Anger Instead of Focusing on the Object22 Apr 2018
- 51 hr 50 minGroup 02 — Awareness of the Awareness and Working with Objects23 Apr 2018
- 63 minQ&A 03 — Using Questions to Arouse Interest23 Apr 2018
- 714 minQ&A 04 — Maintaining Awareness While Talking and in Vipassanā23 Apr 2018
- Viewing81 hr 45 minGroup 03 — Open Awareness and Everything Is Nature24 Apr 2018
- 91 hr 57 minGroup 04 — Tension, Motivation, and Cause and Effect24 Apr 2018
- 1013 minQ&A 05 — Investigating Anger and the Mind's Process24 Apr 2018
- 111 hr 27 minGroup 05 — Working with Images, Pain, and the Unstable Mind25 Apr 2018
- 122 hr 1 minGroup 06 — Maintaining Awareness at Six Sense Doors and Right View25 Apr 2018
- 139 minQ&A 06 — Practicing with Right View in Walking Meditation25 Apr 2018
Transcript
English
9 a.m. also late. 9:10 also late. So 9:30 also late.
ZH
禅师说9点大家迟到，9点10分大家也迟到，估计到9点半还是迟到。
English
Just say nature. Yeah, because I'm night finish. But I'm in it.
English
So can start now. 好，现在可以开始了。
ZH
嗯。
ZH
禅师好，就是报告我这两天的坐禅跟行禅跟生活禅。那在这三方面，我大概都会以当下那个，比如说坐禅就以呼吸为主要的目标，然后行禅的话就以脚步为主要目标，然后生活禅是比较差，就是因为还是会妄想很多。那大部分就是说用做呼吸为一个最主要的点，然后扩展出去看自己可以觉知到多少，觉知到多少这样来操作。
English
So sitting meditation, breathing as the main object, and to know, also can know other
English
objects. And walking meditation is use feet, movement of feet. And daily activities are a bit worse because forget a lot of times. Okay. So more careful about daily activity and reminding. If you want to be aware, you need to remind yourself, what am I aware of? What do you know?
English
Very often you need to remind yourself.
ZH
禅师说要更加注重生活禅，就是会忘记嘛，你刚刚说忘记很多。然后禅师说让你提醒自己，就现在有没有觉知，现在觉知到什么，就一直去提醒自己。 就是自己有发现，这两天有发现，当失去觉知的时候，大部分已经脱离到我说的那个正在进行的那个当下的目标，然后已经跑到妄想去。大部分有发现这一点跟我以前不一样的地方。
English
So in daily activities, forget a lot of times, and often it's involvement in the thinking mind. Involvement in the thinking. Involvement. Yeah, involved in the thinking. In thinking, in the daily activity.
English
So that's why you need to be more stay with your body, what you are doing.
ZH
禅师建议就是你在日常生活中的时候，更加觉知身体的动作。就是你在做事情的时候，更加觉知身体的动作。那另外一方面就是。
English
And because people think that sitting and walking is meditation time. So daily activity is not ideal. They don't have an idea this is meditation time.
English
That's why it's easy to lose. So you need to think. Every time is meditation time.
ZH
禅师说呢，就是大家会有既有的观念，就是行禅和坐禅的时候呢，是觉得是禅修的时间。然后其他大部分时间呢，就日常生活当中呢，大家没有这个想法。所以我们呢，首先要有这样的想法，就是其他的时间也是禅修的时间，要有这样的观念。
English
So more careful, more careful about daily activity than sitting and walking.
ZH
要更加注重，就是比坐禅和行禅要更加注重日常生活中的觉知。
English
So when you wake up, what do you know?
ZH
禅师问你，当你醒来的时候，早上醒来的时候，你知道什么？ 第一个就是听到打板的声音，听到。
English
Hearing, hearing the sound, the alarm.
ZH
Then? 还有呢？ 就自己知道。 然后呢？ 张开眼睛，然后翻身，想要起来。
English
Opening your eyes, turning. Okay, that's good. And then? 然后呢？
ZH
就开始折被子，然后慢慢起来。然后。
English
Tidy up the bed and then. And then? 还有呢？
ZH
就是可是到了，我们说有时候会忘事就对了。 Sometimes。 没有办法，没有办法一直连续到。
English
So next, next, next. Just grossly knowing is enough. Try to habit, make habit. Next, next. Try to aware and doing. Aware and doing.
English
Aware and doing together.
ZH
禅师说就试着就是连续的，做什么知道什么，做什么知道什么，这样去做。
ZH
那报告一个，就是比较特别的是，以前在坐禅的时候，就是有妄想来的时候，比如说我这两天还没有进入到一个比较进入状况，然后就是有比较不好的妄想，然后那个妄想是两三个念头，那已经变成身心状态都非常坚固了，那你要去关心也不太容易。那这次的操作是想到禅师说可以再觉知到其他的目标，然后那个时候刚好有一个钟声一敲，我觉得好像救命恩人。那个就一敲以后，那个坚固的状态，因为我心去注意那个敲的声音，就那个坚固，很坚固的身心状态就慢慢慢慢的这样被瓦解了。这是我以前没有体验过，以前都会把那个很坚固的状态关到生到灭，关到为止。那这一次比较特别的是，我把它注意目标，其他目标然后就瓦解。
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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.…