Q&ASpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat3 May 2015
Group A · session 3 — Wrong View, Stories, and the Sense of Self
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 38 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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In this group interview, the teacher addresses judging minds, greed, and misconceptions about the self. He advises maintaining natural awareness and utilizing concentration or metta when defilements become overwhelming. The goal of practice is not to eliminate thoughts, but to comprehend their true nature.
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- 192 hr 3 minGroup F · session 2 — Seeing and Looking, Right View, and Investigating Aversion2 May 2015
- 2040 minMorning instructions day 8 — Observing the Nature of Mind and Defilements3 May 2015
- Viewing211 hr 39 minGroup A · session 3 — Wrong View, Stories, and the Sense of Self3 May 2015
- 221 hr 46 minGroup B · session 3 — Working with Defilements and Nature of Mind3 May 2015
- 2329 minMorning instructions day 9 — Wisdom, Concepts, and Ultimate Realities4 May 2015
- 241 hr 34 minGroup C · session 3 — Building Awareness and Managing Defilements in Daily Life4 May 2015
- 251 hr 46 minGroup D · session 3 — Working with Defilements and Practice at Home4 May 2015
- 2636 minMorning instructions day 10 — Bringing Dhamma into Daily Life and Continuous Mindfulness5 May 2015
Transcript
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This is Sunday, May 3, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
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Group A, third session.
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After my confusion last week about object, I went back and read a bit more, and
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saw that it also can sometimes be used as
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experiencing or experience. What can? Object. What can be used as? It's said the object is often used to mean experience, and that helped me a lot, really, because experience is body as well as mind. So it helped me very much on that.
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Just appreciate that.
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I just want to add one thing, and that is the announcement last night about the ticks, and in the middle of the night I woke up convinced that I was covered with ticks. So the mind goes both ways on this thing, you know? tick tick.
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That kind of borrowed in your mind.
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It's been caused for a long—
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Yes. Yes.
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. Will you come in front here?
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Will you come forward here? See, I almost said yes. I think the line is— If you want to talk, you come on. .
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Nghe anh . Yeah.
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I just want to relay an experience.
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I was walking, and I've been trying to stay open with a vision, a scene more, because it's hard to have separation between experience and object for me. So I was walking in the hills, just taking in— Sorry, you said hard to separate experience and object? Yeah, I'm just so closely bonded to
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things, to vision. To the things that you see? Yes.
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So I was walking and
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having a soft awareness, and suddenly my attention was grabbed by this really bright purple flower. So my focus went directly there, and I could observe it and see how beautiful it was and all of this, and then suddenly I felt like I needed to take a picture. And so I immediately could identify that with greed.
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And I thought, well, that was greed for something beautiful, but
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it wasn't. Another layer of greed came through, and it was
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actually the greed for the energy, the experience that it was giving me, that little kick of exuberance, you know, when you see something very beautiful. You want to keep that with you. Yes, and so that was the greed that I was actually feeling. So I stepped back from that and went back to soft awareness, and at that point I could feel a little bit of that greed everywhere.
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You didn't watch the greed. No, I just—no. I could feel the greed in all forms. So it was more general. Pervading, pervading experience. It wasn't the specific flower, it was everything. It was all form, everywhere, including my form.
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So I could feel
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that it wasn't the greed to possess, like we normally think of greed as
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getting this or that. It was more of the greed for the experience. It's to keep. To be. To be. Yeah.
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Just to have forms. Just forms. Everything that I know is a form. And that was it. That was—
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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.…