Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat4 May 2012
Group F 2 — Bringing in Right View and Understanding Dukkha
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 40 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:40:42
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The group interview clarifies the difference between superficial and proper awareness, stressing the essential role of wisdom and right view when facing fear or defilements. The teacher also explains the nature of mind, Vipassanā samādhi, and understanding dukkha beyond mere feeling.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
- 91 hr 48 minGroup A 2 — Functions of Mind and Dealing with Defilements2 May 2012
- 101 hr 55 minGroup D 2 — Investigating Strong Objects, Torpor, and Thinking Mind3 May 2012
- 1140 minDhamma everywhere — Object, Awareness, and Right View3 May 2012
- 121 hr 59 minGroup E 2 — Working with Defilements and Nature of Objects4 May 2012
- Viewing131 hr 41 minGroup F 2 — Bringing in Right View and Understanding Dukkha4 May 2012
- 142 hrGroup A 3 — Cause and Effect, Intention, and Metta5 May 2012
- 151 hr 56 minGroup B 3 — Practicing Mindful Speaking and Letting Wisdom Lead5 May 2012
- 161 hr 56 minGroup C 3 — Awareness of Mind, Sleepiness, and Rushing at Work6 May 2012
- 172 hr 3 minGroup D 3 — Continuity of Practice and Aversion6 May 2012
- 181 hr 47 minGroup E 3 — Investigation, Continuity, and Natural Working of the Mind7 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishOkay, so this is a recording of Sayadaw U Tejaniya meeting with the F group for the second time on Friday, May 4, 2012, at the Insight Meditation Society.
EnglishAnd with those of you who are speaking first, raise your hand so Mathep can identify you.
English1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10.
EnglishSure. Hmm, do you see my hand? Okay. Um, thank you
Englishfor, um, the practice in this way. It, it feels richer, it feels— and thank you as well. Um, I'll go directly to her questions instead of saying how my practice is going. It's kind of long. Um, if I could hear, if we could hear more about, um, what was the term used?
EnglishProperly aware and superficially aware. Hmm. Did you say what is that one she, apoyantiv? If there's no interest in, then you're superficially aware.
EnglishSometimes the mind is just, um, it's just— Awareness and awareness, ano ba? Awareness and awareness, diyan. It's just going through the motions, you know. It's keeping— hindi rosas ang laban, Tejaniya. So, there is an awareness, you know, that there is still— May follow-up pa ako, Cheryl.
EnglishThere is still, I mean, it, it, you know, it might be continuous or whatever, but sometimes the mind is just sort of doing it. It's not really engaged fully, and, um, then it can feel seem a little bit superficial. It's just talking about the quality of the awareness. There are times when it's like this or like that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Thank you. I thought it was much more complex than that.
EnglishOo, hindi na push. Puro kaunti. Oo. Totoo? Two little sounds out loud.
EnglishMagti-tiwag niyan ba ay na Tejaniya po? So when there is awareness and there is some understand, some wisdom or understanding, um, you can say you're properly aware. Niya alam lang nila niya, saan mangyayari nila niya, alam lang nila sa lahat. Hindi nila aakam ng yun. When there's interest, you'd say wisdom is there— Hindi aakam ng sa lahat.
English
Englishhe's always, um, talking about how good awareness is not like, does not mean you're strongly focused into the object. It, you know, it's just this interest and this— Oo nga. Con- connectedness, yeah. Oo. Feeling properly.
EnglishHindi. And he says. Hindi So he gives an example of someone who's focusing. So he was picking up a, a pen, focusing on his hand picking up the pen, and not— and then after picking up the pen, wondering how he got the piece of paper in his left hand.
EnglishSo, yes, not this, yeah. Gusto ko pa nga, niya niya tingnan yung lalaki man, Tejaniya, diyan. The mo. Yeah. So just knowing one or two things about yourself. He says you can't say it's a good awareness. He says it's when you're aware of your being in the present moment as much as possible, that you would call that being in the present moment.
EnglishYou might be knowing
Englishbody sensations or feelings, things happening in the mind, as much as possible. Whatever is possible. Yeah, then you, you know that you're in the present moment for yourself.
EnglishSo it's, it's not really focusing so much on being aware of the awareness. Ano, Tejaniya, diya.
EnglishHe says yes, not that alone. Not that could, that could be one of them, but not that alone. That's a slightly stronger awareness with wisdom.
EnglishOkay.
EnglishUm,
Englishmy practice seems to be building up some momentum. Um, and at times
Englishit feels like there's a natural flow between, um, objects and, um,
Englishreflection on the, on the objects, um, without me having to work so hard for that to happen. But sometimes, um, today, what's I've been experiencing is that, um, it's almost like the, uh,
Englishthe reflecting part, um,
Englishlike there's almost too much interest in the reflecting part, and it gets a kind of, um, obsessive quality to it, like it's being driven by something, um. So you're not just aware of the reflecting now. There's a lot of reflecting going on. A lot of reflecting at times, and then it, um,
Englishthe same question will come up over and over in a kind of obsessive way. Yeah. And, um,
Englishwith progressive agitation in the mind, and I'm wondering what would be the best way to work with that, because at that point, I think that there's some, um,
English that I'm not
Englishaware of, and it, I feel like I can't, I can't really trust the mind because it's driven by something that's not wholesome. So I don't know where to go with that. Okay. Well, the diy ano siya yung lalaki who tila ulit to, ulit ate so, so sabi mo, "Sendiy mo ang paa nila," eh.
EnglishMm. Ano raw, isipin niya, "Mag-teacher ako." Ay,
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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.…