Q&ALing Shan Temple Retreat28 Apr 2018
Group 11 — Recognizing Nature and Thoughts Instead of Concepts
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 53 min
Original audio: English · Chinese interpretation
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In this group interview, the teacher discusses the impersonal nature of mental processes and maintaining continuous awareness. He advises against identifying with defilements, emphasizing knowing reality over narrative concepts. Yogis are encouraged to learn from defilements and keep sense doors naturally open.
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Ling Shan Temple Retreat · 25 talks
- 169 minQ&A 07 — Observing Discomfort and Understanding Dukkha26 Apr 2018
- 171 hr 13 minGroup 09 — Checking the Attitude and Accepting with Wisdom27 Apr 2018
- 181 hr 53 minGroup 10 — Dealing with Sleepiness and Natural Awareness27 Apr 2018
- 1912 minQ&A 08 — Right Reflection and Understanding Dukkha27 Apr 2018
- Viewing201 hr 54 minGroup 11 — Recognizing Nature and Thoughts Instead of Concepts28 Apr 2018
- 212 hr 16 minGroup 12 — Working with Pain, the State of Mind, and the Sense of Self28 Apr 2018
- 2211 minQ&A 09 — Using Wisdom and Working with Anger28 Apr 2018
- 231 hr 51 minGroup 13 — Watching the Mind Reaction and Working with the Mind Door29 Apr 2018
- 242 hrGroup 14 — Concept and Reality in Meditation29 Apr 2018
- 258 minQ&A 10 — Defilements in Dreams and Questions Arising Naturally29 Apr 2018
Transcript
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Just—just now, um,
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during the guided meditation,
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I— Before arriving for the guided meditation? Mm-hmm.
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Mind, as I was aware of the—any of the six senses, mind just arised by itself? Mm-hmm.
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Why so sad?
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It's beyond—beyond my control. Huh?
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Beyond my control. Beyond your control.
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I could—I could see the believing mind was also arriving, rising, believing the thought.
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The mind just arising all by itself. Mm-hmm. As I was coming here, I noticed
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there's also the self arising. Self, oh. Yeah, which is—which is quite different. And, uh,
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as I know, the self is actually a delusion arising. Mm-hmm. So there's a lot of—there is difference between the delusion arising mind and
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mind just arising by itself. Mm-hmm. What mind?
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Experience or object or awareness? The other mind. As I see—as I see something, as a seeing arising, as I see something other mind arising, saññā. Oh, object or— Objection, yeah, arising. Mm-hmm. So they just arise—arise by itself. Mm-hmm.
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And it's actually beyond my control.
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Mm-hmm.
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Then?
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There's—I—I think the knowledge of suffering,
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that there is this knowledge of suffering, but it's not there. But I could see the non-controlling
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characteristic of mind arising, which is— This is non-control, but they have own cause and effect. Yeah, it is. If your awareness is strong, then the mind
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process is different. Yeah, I think so. Not everything is not let them.
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No con—Vipassanā cannot control there. They have their own cause and effect, huh? Yeah. Huh. Not like a big
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kiosk. Everything comes in cause and effect. Yeah, it does. I see something,
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mind arising. It was not— Arising is okay. A mind arising, you know the mind is arising. Okay. That's okay.
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Arising or passing away or changing or different, whatever, we need to notice.
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Okay. That's okay.
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Then?
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I notice that the mind is not very skillful at maintaining momentum. Maintaining the? Mo-mo-mo-momentum. Momentum. Oh, okay. It's not very skillful, so the mind has to sort of start again. Sometimes decrease, right? Yeah. It sometimes decreases, so— So every time the mind decreases, just see the process and try to understand why.
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If you can see why this awareness decreases, why the awareness increases, it's also this need to know. If you can know, it's better.
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At first,
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it was doing something to—it once—it thought that it can do something. But then it realized that you just have to recognize
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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.…