Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat6 May 2012
Group D 3 — Continuity of Practice and Aversion
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 2 hr 3 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−2:03:10
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In this group interview, the Sayadaw explains maintaining continuity of mindfulness through mental reminders and recognizing intentions. He also guides yogis on keeping the right attitude toward defilements without judging mental states.
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- 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
Transcript
EnglishSo, this is a recording of Sayadaw U Tejaniya checking group D for the third time
Englishat the Insight Meditation Society on Sunday, May 6, 2012.
EnglishAnd with those of you who are speaking first this evening, please raise your hand to identify yourself.
EnglishLike 6. 7. 7, 8. 7, 8. Mm-hmm.
EnglishI do. I'm 6. 7. 7, 1, 2, 3. Oh, is he 7? You can do 2.
EnglishHe's getting back at me, I know. You
Englishthink I'm tough, yeah, that's right.
EnglishI know too. Last time she said, "Oh, you are one tough dude."
EnglishI was like, "Okay, tell me more details."
EnglishI have a question. It's about concentration again. And
Englishthe one question I have is, sometimes even in daily life I can have this feeling like I'm on a boat on choppy waters, and I'm not doing anything in particular to get that. I've been told it's an effect of concentration, but I just want to make sure that it's not something unwholesome or— You
Englishfeel like you're
Englishon physically. Physically. I mean, you wouldn't see it. But you feel it in your head. It's in, yeah. And you feel it even at home. Sometimes at home I'll be going through my day and then suddenly it'll come. You don't have low blood pressure on you.
EnglishI have low blood pressure, but it's not— it would not be that low, I don't think.
[Burmese segment]
English Nothing to do with that. Object or whatever. Yeah, just know that that's what happened. Experience or whatever. This is an experience, that's all.
English It's not happening all the time, right? It's just once in a while.
English This is, um, it can happen because of low blood pressure, and it can also happen when you have ear imbalances. Because that
Englishaffects your sense of balance, yeah. It's real, it's real the way you are. That's balance to your shoulder. This is just, you know, experience or just experience? It's just leave it as that, yeah, then it doesn't get complicated. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't like I wasn't feeding something.
English All these things happen.
English Sometimes, he says, it can be something brought up in the mind because, he says, for example, you know, you're doing walking meditation and like, maybe the road, what you're walking on, what you're seeing with your eyes as you're walking, that.
English I mean, it just keeps passing. Like at the center there, these wooden and they're like a path. And so you, as you're walking, you know, you keep seeing these lines going past you, and after a while you can feel it, you're, because you're stepping, right, and it can feel like you're going on waves like that, but that's like a.
EnglishHas that's really a projection of the mind, and that's somewhat related to concentration, yeah, but not ineffective as such. It's just
Englishcreating some projection in the mind. I'm try- I'm trying to, the reason I ask is because I want to, it started to happen when I was doing mental practice and doing Jana practice, and my teacher had said, "Oh, that's that, oh, sometimes that's how it feels for me," and it's, you know, it's just normal.
EnglishSo I just wanted to check if that was. Yeah. So if you were doing Jana practice, that's quite a lot of samādhi, and yes, when there is too much samādhi, you know, that, you know, when your mind projects things, like.
English You can see more real, and that's. He says the thing with samādhi, too much samādhi, is that when we don't know the mind, or what's passing through the mind, you know, the slightest thing can arise in the mind and then it will seem more magnified, and the mind will believe it, you know, yeah.
EnglishYeah. I
Englishforgot to mention that Sayadaw also would like you to start practicing
Englishlistening meditation while you're here in this room, and speaking meditation when you're speaking, and midway through the
Englishcheck-in today, he'll be checking on you to find out how it's going. And particularly what you're doing and what you're aware of when you're listening to or you're hearing them speak Burmese to each other.
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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.…