Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat9 May 2012
Group D 4 — Working with Wanting, Aversion and Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 47 min
Original audio: English
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In this group interview, the teacher addresses integrating practice into daily life, understanding the changing nature of awareness, and examining defilements. He explains how excess effort brings sleepiness and guides yogis to investigate craving, aversion, and quiet mental states without identifying with them.
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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
- 231 hr 53 minGroup C 4 — Guarding Sense Doors and Staying with Awareness9 May 2012
- Viewing241 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
EnglishSo, this recording is of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, checking Group D for the fourth time at the Insight Meditation Society on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
EnglishAnd with the aid of you who are going to report first, please raise your hands to identify yourself too.
EnglishYes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Where is 8? I already talked last time.
EnglishOkay. If they're tired, it's fine. Who is number 8?
EnglishSays the 8th person.
EnglishHold up. Hold up. Again. All 8? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And you? Oh, 7. Me?
EnglishOkay.
EnglishI'll go first. Yeah.
EnglishI very much appreciate this practice that we've been learning and had so much opportunity for so much experience with it, the Renee's retreat, for a couple of reasons. One is that it makes use of my already well-developed interest and skill in investigative systematic problem-solving, so it feels very comfortable to me.
EnglishAnd also because it doesn't require a specific practice environment or a dedicated time to do it, so that suits my life very well. All that means that I'll actually do this practice rather than some other ones that I've learned that just didn't work for me.
EnglishBut that said, and I have had some good experiences keeping aware during the small speaking that we've been doing the last couple of days, I do have some concerns about taking it into the outside world, where it's much more fast-paced, complicated, multiple responsibilities, and filled with people that don't have right view, don't have awareness, don't have right speech, don't have right action.
EnglishSo I am looking forward to taking it out there, but I'd like some suggestions about how to take it to that different kind of environment.
EnglishTo a local. Very well. To some
EnglishZen or systematics or ascended jago, no? Eller some Zen or another home. The what? Vietnamish, you know? To a
Englishlow down, no? Or
Englisha Zen low down, like Yankai Devo. No? Then they are like Miyue, Aching like Miyue, Aching like Lulu Yariha, so that angle you are going to borrow, so you can ascend them better. And you know I told you the choice of namakai, to a low nice way. That matters quite a bit to be already ma. I told her to the Ga, be already kind of sanchi, yeah?
EnglishI said, "The vow chart, it doesn't matter any ma so in a saga, or any ma mode, low ma so in a saga, be already a myan le myan, better be like myan le no bro, lurea le the D machine, ya machine. Saga be already like ho, lurea be already gili dane. Maho done be already low ma so like Lulu any of.
EnglishOr a wake to be to meow ching good mandiri pukong. He says, "So all that unskillful stuff outside yourself," he says, "should awaken you to become more awake to yourself." So what are you teaching them? He says, "You see a madman, do you want to be a madman?"
EnglishYogi deyasi, "Byao bule," to me sani dynna forma to sani, to see man beyond no man sani, the real sani. To me like to the young guy. He says, "A yogi once said to me." What are you teaching them? He was in the dining hall and he saw another yogi eating, and he could see the greed with which that yogi was eating, and suddenly it made him so much more mindful.
EnglishBecause he didn't want to be like that. Being in the rikku, the deep being. Because he could see. Not the young one here, the deep being, the mind being. They're reminding you. They're reminding you and they're giving you a Dharma talk. They're saying, "Don't be like this."
EnglishNo deh. They are the deep, they get bored them adulalu, pangunji, pelaying jadam and the adulalu. Go away, pee ma, love pee ma, mo go so on. Yeah, he says it's true. So like lada. That practicing the Dharma in life is a bit like,
Englishlike you mentioned, he says, "It's like being among the blind." They're just walking about. So if you're not awake and alert, he said, "They're just going to bang straight into you."
EnglishAll right. Thank you. Go a love pee ma, mo go so long. So you must be alert otherwise. Go away, and you know a blind will kiss them if you go so do so go so. He says, "I mean, if you're blind as well, it doesn't matter so much. Everybody's bumping into each other." And then when you can see, then you know you have a choice to. Go away, no chani, go away, the deep talo. Yeah.
EnglishSo because you're awake now, you have to be the one who's careful. But why I told them lal myalu me yogi? Yeah. But why my ma? I told you the machine. That's what I told you. Lal myalu a go away, the deep little pee ma, go away, gili dan pee ma. Go away, laling, gili dan laling. I know what me yogi yo. He says, "People who practice in life," he says, "they don't trust any not trust, I won't use the word trust.
EnglishThey don't easily get drawn into everybody's story." He uses the words, "You don't believe people anymore." But he means just get involved and feel safe and get lost in it. So you're always alert because they come with defilements and if you're not careful, it's going to infect you.
EnglishSo you're always alert and in that way, you sort of always got that wariness of, yeah, awareness, bewareness, whatever.
EnglishYou have to build a right speech, pee ma. You have to build right speech. That was in Sagarjuna the deep talk, right speech, pee ma. Yeah. And then, I mean, you mentioned that people don't always practice right speech, right action, and so on. He says, "Yes, but that's why you have to practice right speech and, yeah, awareness."
EnglishYeah. Okay.
EnglishGo.
EnglishThank you so much, Sayadaw. I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about effort and around continuity and around right view. I notice sometimes I have a lot of motivation and
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