Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat5 May 2012
Group A 3 — Cause and Effect, Intention, and Metta
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 59 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:59:34
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In this group interview, the teacher clarifies the law of cause and effect operating without an overseeing self, highlighting the roles of intention and right view. Topics include working with aversion, delusion, neutral feelings, and distinguishing attachment from unconditional loving-kindness (mettā).
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
- 101 hr 55 minGroup D 2 — Investigating Strong Objects, Torpor, and Thinking Mind3 May 2012
- 1140 minDhamma everywhere — Object, Awareness, and Right View3 May 2012
- 121 hr 59 minGroup E 2 — Working with Defilements and Nature of Objects4 May 2012
- 131 hr 41 minGroup F 2 — Bringing in Right View and Understanding Dukkha4 May 2012
- Viewing142 hrGroup A 3 — Cause and Effect, Intention, and Metta5 May 2012
- 151 hr 56 minGroup B 3 — Practicing Mindful Speaking and Letting Wisdom Lead5 May 2012
- 161 hr 56 minGroup C 3 — Awareness of Mind, Sleepiness, and Rushing at Work6 May 2012
- 172 hr 3 minGroup D 3 — Continuity of Practice and Aversion6 May 2012
- 181 hr 47 minGroup E 3 — Investigation, Continuity, and Natural Working of the Mind7 May 2012
- 191 hr 49 minGroup F 3 — Seeing Object as Nature and Right View7 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishOkay. So this is Sayadaw U Tejaniya checking in with Group A for the third time on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Insight Meditation Society.
EnglishAnd would the eight of you who are speaking first please raise your hands so that you can be identified?
English "" So Saidam is going to start the talking bit of the meditation, but he's going to start slowly, so he wants to encourage you to be mindful while you speak during the interview.
EnglishOkay? Okay.
EnglishThis is really, really applying in your life.
EnglishSo who starts?
EnglishSo if all there is, is awareness and the objects of awareness, and we don't take responsibility for this process that we're watching, how about intention? It sounds fine not to take responsibility during our sitting meditation, but out in the world we have to act and we have intentions.
EnglishSo how do we hold, how do we view intention, chayta? Is this
Englishjust another object of awareness? So we observe it? Yeah. It's very important to know the intentions, right? Yeah.
EnglishTake responsibility now. You are not responsible for none of that.
[Burmese segment]
EnglishSo just to explain
Englishresponsibility and self, okay, because I think the mix-up happens when we think of it as I'm doing things. So,
EnglishI mean, as far as meditation is concerned, yes, they're all objects. Yes. But he says it is a process of cause and effect. Yes? So every cause in the present moment gives rise to another effect.
EnglishSo
Englishalthough there is not a self responsible, but any
Englishintention, cause, condition in the present moment, it's going to give us result. Yes? So, and then although there may be
Englishone set of conditions here and another set of conditions here, and they interact, in the interaction there is cause and effect again. Yes? So although a self is not responsible for it, there are resultant effects. You cannot escape those.
EnglishDoes that answer your question? No, no. No, baby. Yes.
EnglishHe says if we believe that
Englishwhatever
Englishoccurs in the present moment and has no effect in the future, he says that's one wrong view. If we believe it's
Englisha continuous, permanent, lasting,
Englishand we give it the name of self to it, he says that's another extreme of wrong view. He says the only thing that explains that can
Englishexplain the. The relationship. I'm trying to find the word. Yeah. The only thing that can explain what is truly happening is the principle of cause and effect. Yeah? Which explains the relationships between
Englishdifferent processes and one person. Yeah. So at a gross level, if. Senseless. So at a gross level, if we think of it as a person, so the reality is a process of cause and effect, nama rupa, related by cause and effect.
EnglishIf we think of it as a person at a gross level, he says if we think that the person dies and that's the end of it, that's one kind of wrong view. If we think that the person dies and
Englishthere is a next life and it's the same person being born again, that's another wrong view. So the odd thing is that there is
Englisha chain of
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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.…