Q&ASpirit Rock Meditation Center Retreat28 Apr 2015
Group C · session 1 — Investigating Aversion, Observing Objectively, and the Role of Wisdom
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 32 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:32:07
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In this group interview, the teacher clarifies how to objectively observe aversion, sensations, and thoughts. Yogis learn that mental purification comes from right attitude, and are guided to maintain continuous awareness in daily life.
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Transcript
English
Okay.
English
Who will start it?
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Yes.
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So if I already feel have a feeling of love and kindness in my heart, can I do meta practice? I'm not trying to create it, but I am trying to sort of prolong it or amplify it as a good quality.
MY
Just be aware of the feeling of that time.
English
Continue to acknowledge matters present.
[Burmese segment]
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Matter will
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last as long
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as long as
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the momentum it has, which has to do with how strong it already is.
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So if it arises naturally, it will be about its momentum. Just be aware.
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If you want to go through the motions of
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then spreading matter, you know, going through the words and all that, do that with awareness. Know every word, every thought, every feeling as you do that.
English
Yeah. Recognizing that this is the activities of the mind that you are aware of.
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Coming back to the nature of mind.
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We can be aware of a version in the mind. And the activity of a version in the mind. Why not the activity of an actor?
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Next.
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Yes? Yes. I really appreciated what you said about wallowing in the object, because I'm a wallower. Wallow? What wallow?
[Burmese segment]
English
I'm just trying to explain. Wet gut balloons.
[Burmese segment]
English
The word in Burmese is something else. I tried to illustrate it by using all these adjectives, but wallow is a very effective one.
English
Because then effort drops off, he said. I just am curious about, you know, knowing the object and then at what falling into wallowing, I guess. I don't know if there's anything more to say about that. Because it, I think, it's insidious. The fine line. The fine line, yes.
English
Wallowing is a function of greed.
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Awareness is a function of, or observing clearly is a function of wisdom. . When we wallow, or allow ourselves to feel too much into what we are observing,
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our intelligence doesn't do so much work anymore. Our wisdom doesn't come to the fore. It's just, yeah, just we're giving in to the, to letting ourselves feel. Yeah. The word that is used in Burmese is "feel," but it doesn't sort of convey. In Burmese it means both. In English it doesn't quite convey the wallowing.
English
The whole purpose of. Being aware of observing is to learn. And if we are busy feeling, wallowing, indulging, all these things in what we are supposed to be observing objectively, the learning doesn't happen.
[Burmese segment]
English
There was this he one time he was in the Dharma Hall and, you know, saying this and that, and he said, "Do you know that
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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.…