Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat9 May 2012
Group C 4 — Guarding Sense Doors and Staying with Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 52 min
Original audio: English
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The group interview explains the role of right view and awareness in preventing defilements. The teacher clarifies how to work with comparison, cravings, and intense sensations while maintaining awareness. He also guides resting in awareness as a refuge.
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Talks in this retreat
Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
- 191 hr 49 minGroup F 3 — Seeing Object as Nature and Right View7 May 2012
- 2012 minTaking practice into life7 May 2012
- 211 hr 44 minGroup A 4 — Recognizing Wisdom and Checking the Observing Mind8 May 2012
- 221 hr 38 minGroup B 4 — Observing Defilements, the Illusion of Self, and Cause-and-Effect Chain8 May 2012
- Viewing231 hr 53 minGroup C 4 — Guarding Sense Doors and Staying with Awareness9 May 2012
- 241 hr 47 minGroup D 4 — Working with Wanting, Aversion and Awareness9 May 2012
- 251 hr 10 minDharma teachers group — Right Attitude, Interviewing and Sharing the Practice9 May 2012
- 261 hr 49 minGroup E 4 — Mindfulness of Speech and Noticing Greed in Experience10 May 2012
- 271 hr 51 minGroup F 4 — Maintaining Awareness in Daily Activities and Dealing with Pain10 May 2012
- 2824 minAdvice for taking awareness home11 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishHello, this is a recording of Sayadaw U Tejaniya checking group C for the fourth time at the Insight Meditation Society on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
EnglishAnd would the eight of you who are reporting first identify yourself by raising your hands to matte?
English7, 15, 24, 6, 8, yep.
EnglishI've been watching, um, the absence and the presence of, specifically, dosa. And I'm watching as I'm sitting in the hall, my
Englishjudgmental mind comes up and I start commenting on people that come in the hall, and there's—that's kind of a habitual thing for me to do. And then, in
Englishthe last few days, when I've had a lot more right attitude and acceptance in my mind, I all of a sudden noticed that
Englishpeople were coming into the Dharma hall and there wasn't a judgmental mind there, it was gone. And so I was noting that, and then later in the day I was sitting there noticing, oh, there's judgmental mind here again, and then from that point checking to see what my attitude was at that point.
EnglishAll right. To
EnglishDodao Shira, number Shira, to the Dita Mini, there.
EnglishUm, uh, nanali atul—pareizo in lulia dhamma yonea wewe like twelve lifes, and si kama, nani? Nani amechaiwa? Baba nyanya pyorere era. Tua, aini ya the more time, manera. Tuchine, lulia wewe like twelve alone era, but ame—tu si kama lofu. Um, na bro, nile lau ya bro, si kama ya alone hivi.
Englishpositive pia, negative He says when the mind has the right attitude, the right, you know, thought, right understanding, it's like being in the right mood.
EnglishHe says then whatever happens, the mind won't feel negative about it. Ah, mature pia, inchele. That's when the mind is feeling mature. Pia He says for, um, you know, there's lots of things always, um, in our experience, he says, but, um, once there's understanding, um, that has arisen from the practice, he says, then the mind doesn't react so much anymore to the experiences.
EnglishAnakuu tu hapa, blue toa hapo. And that's really for ourselves. For it's for our own peace of mind, nobody else's.
EnglishI also noticed that, um, when I had a longer period of right attitude, that, uh,
Englishthat habitual—had habitual defilement didn't come up, and for a long, long time, and I was—I didn't really note that until after I kind of went, oh, after I had not seen it for a long time, went, oh, I haven't seen that for a while.
EnglishThe more time man era, uh, pia ni jackili that, um, mapevu, na roho icha ama the Dita Mini, oh, mapevu. Mapevu ya Dita Mini, mimi naamini. That's good. The mind's even forgotten about it because it's not been arising, yeah.
EnglishUm, and then one more piece, um, when I was in. Hiyo duka ni mapita, hiyo duka ni mapita. He says the recognition that because of the awareness and the understanding of the right attitude, how extra suffering is not with us. Yeye naye amelou that duka hiyo. Yeah. Mapigil pini ya duka hiyo.
EnglishYeah. Unnecessary suffering that, that comes because of delusion when we're not aware and there's no understanding.
EnglishAh, blood that arise, toto that arise. He says it's, it's a huge relief. That's, that's. Mapiga ni wewe, mimi ayona ta, ayona ta, naenda tu, tomya no ma. That's how much the practice gives us, you know. He says if we didn't have the awareness which brought the understanding or the right attitude, he says then, then. Mimi namia chana, miye namia ako.
EnglishUnrecognized, you know, we are bombarded with all our reactions to everything around us, over and over again.
EnglishSo, in fact, so again, it shows how the mind is the most important thing. Not the things we experience, but, you know, the reactions of the mind, state of the mind.
EnglishWell, when I was also in, in right attitude, really accepting, I also noticed, uh, that one of my defilements that I kind of habitually go to floated through my mind, but it didn't attach, I didn't react to it, and it just kind of came and left. Yeah. Na bro tu, karai pini jackili that, kuwa pete that, the D ya akaun ra, atingire.
Englishno. So now the, the awareness is like a real, um, security guard, he says. So the defilements come and they go, but they're not allowed to enter and affect us.
EnglishPia pide uboma wewe. Yeah.
EnglishPia anga na uboma pine, the D ya san. He says that's how, um, the Buddha described awareness as a, a security guard. Yeah.
EnglishHe says, um, I mean, in, in the, the scriptures it's just, you know, we're told about
Englisheliminating the defilements. But he says the elimination of defilements
Englishis done by the, by not even allowing, by preventing them from arising
Englishwhen awareness and wisdom have taken the place of the, the usual place of the defilements. So the habit of the mind is awareness and wisdom rather than defilements, so that's how they're eliminated by, by the very prevention of their arising. But he says once a defilement has arisen, there is no, uh, question of trying to eliminate it, you know, intentionally.
EnglishThere has to be done the, the learning process. Yeah.
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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.…