Q&ALing Shan Temple Retreat29 Apr 2018
Group 14 — Concept and Reality in Meditation
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 2 hr
Original audio: English · Chinese interpretation
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In this group interview, the Sayadaw clarifies the role of thoughts and perception (saññā) in daily life. Understanding both concepts and ultimate reality allows continuous awareness without emotional entanglement.
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Transcript
ZH
好，我们可以开始了。
English
Today I try to practice walking and sitting meditation with the thought or without the thought, and
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if I feel tired I just walk. If I feel tired, very intense with the body, then I just walk without thought, just knowing, knowing, seeing, seeing.
English
But practice with the thought also is very important too. I realized it because I needed that function. When I walk in, it may change the decision according to the situation. For example, when I walk, walk, and try to make a decision whether should I walk in the area, in the outside area, or here.
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But once I make a decision, the area, the outside the area, the yard, comes into the thought. Then I am about to make a decision to walk there, but immediately the mosquitoes' sight come out. Then my body with the itchiness sensation calms. And the last picture is my body full with the pimple of the mosquito bite.
English
Then I make a decision not to go there. Then I change my mind, the walking meditation area. So I realized actually thought is also very important to function my daily activity too. Yeah, so our attitude is concealed behind the thought.
English
Yeah.
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But, you know, it's still kind of
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a, can you be able to, like, let the thought just moving on, still doing your current thing? I'm kind of wondering. Just let the thought, one by one, trigger one the other. It's kind of easy to get lost sometimes if I allow that. If your awareness wisdom weak, you can lose the thought. If your wisdom is strong, then thought also happening itself.
English
Awareness also happening itself. Oh, okay. So
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am I practice wrong sometimes because if I have a temptation of the thought coming, then I just close it? Oh, no, no, no. Don't do that. Just the flow. Let the mind flow happen. Should I look at more if my awareness. If you watch the mind, you know the awareness.
English
So thinking also happening, awareness also happening, like this. Okay. So finish. Okay. All right. Thank you.
ZH
三月份的时候，我弟弟往生。弟弟，弟弟。那刚就是特别好他的那个视频。比较心痛的是23天后发现他的大体。他是在他的自己的房间，一个人的时候，好像睡觉的时候往生的。然后去年12月的时候，他来找我，来台湾找我，然后住了一个礼拜。但是约好三月份我会去找他，但是在这个三月份我去的时候，竟然是要收拾他的大体。然后这个是让我非常痛的一部分。然后他的，我就是好好的一个人，然后就我去火，就是火化他的骨头，尸体。然后抱在我手上是他的骨灰。然后那种生命的那种无常，那时候深深的体会到。当时是，我们也有念死随念，生命是无常的，死亡是必然的。但是没有那种深刻的体会。但是这一次是真的让我知道说，这个生命真的是，真的是很无常。不管我们怎么健康，怎么怎么样。那个时候，这个是我的一个感受到很深刻无常的一个分享。那有一个，所以当时那个时候拿骨灰的时候是我有观。还好，真的很感恩这个法。我有观那个身体跟情绪。情绪那个时候我是用标记的，所以来不及。那个情绪一上来是会爆掉的，是来不及。然后我拿到他的骨灰的时候，然后他是用树杖的，用米混那个骨头粉，然后就撒在山上这样子。然后那个时候就感受到那个，好像他消失了这样子。然后来不及，那个时候是来不及观，标记来不及观，只能观身体。然后那个情绪上来的时候，我只能观到我的那个胸口，胸口的那种撕裂的痛，还有石头那种痛，热啊，那种刺啊，那种非常非常的痛的拉扯的，只能观这个。情绪像那个禅师讲的那样，情绪没办法观。如果观了，根本没办法控制，所以只能观这个当时。可是也很感恩说，还好我有这个。但是现在那个非常感恩的是，那个Sayadaw讲，教我们的这个法，是真的是在生活上非常非常对我们的生命，尤其是这种突发的那种，根本就不知道什么状况，这种无常的状况是非常非常有帮助的。真的是持续下去的话。然后还有一个，因为我要很快的讲，还有一个问题是，如果我们现在持续觉知，觉知，觉知的，最后往生的那一刻，那一刻会不会到散去？最少，最少会到散去。因为。
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Okay, so she's saying that
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last month her brother passed away accidentally, nobody know. So her brother visited her in last December, and then she told him she will visit him in March. Then what happened is she died alone, nobody know. And many days later, people find out. So she ended up actually
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going to the funeral and then not seeing him alive. So she said when she's spreading the ash in the mountain, there's so much emotion coming up. And then she can't even label. She can only know the body pain.
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She said she doesn't think that she could control the emotion, but she's mindful of the physical feeling, the heart, the tightness. So she said now she's grateful that she learned this way, so she can practice in daily life.
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Also more skillful in aware in the emotion and thoughts, instead of just the body and labeling. Yes. So if you can watch the mind directly, the feeling directly, the mind, emotion is moved faster the
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home. Otherwise, the body mind happening, the relationship happens, so the body also happens. Beginning you watch the mind, but sometimes
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you watch the body, sometimes the mind is still continue thinking, the emotion not go away. It's a result. Right, yeah, it's a result. So result is not effect is not effect and cause and effect, you need to more aware of the cause. Then easy to handle the situation.
ZH
禅师说的就是关于情绪，就是你刚才举的那个例子呢，就是身体的感受呢，其实是一个结果。那个因是自己的心，心里这个丧失的这个痛啊。所以如果就是练习之后你熟练了，你可以观情绪，就观心理现象，因为它是因。如果你虽然能观身体，那个心不会掉到那个情绪里面。但是呢，如果，但是它还是结果，心要是不停的在想，那个悲痛还是在的。所以有能力就是去观察那个因，好不好观察那个果。 So 等一下我把后面那个也翻译。
English
So she's asking
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if she keep mindful practice continuously when at the last, if she's maintaining mindfulness at the last breath of this life,
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will
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there be some guarantee that she'll reborn in Kusala RAM? Yeah, if your awareness becomes automated.
ZH
禅师说如果就是我们持续的练习，临死的时候我们的觉知是持续的，就是自动的，那我们是可以就是轮回到这个善趣。
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One level, the awareness becomes automated. You no need to try to aware become momentum and
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become habit. At that time, the awareness is doing its job.
ZH
所以在某一层面来讲呢，就是我们的这个觉知呢，就是已经是一个自动化了，就是惯性了，你都不用试，它已经自然在那边了。
ZH
我学习佛法学了很多年，然后大部分都是标记。然后禅坐禅的时候，那个观腹部，那情绪妄想什么，很快就可以观。但是在生活上的时候，标记就来不及，那情绪真的来不及。第一次标记，已经它那个情绪已经上来，再标记又上来，真的是来不及。所以我觉得这一次我真的是非常。
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