Q&APauenhof Center Retreat25 Apr 2016
Group interview B1 — Practicing Continuously and Using Intelligence
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 30 min
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In this group interview, the teacher clarifies maintaining natural awareness throughout daily life rather than forcing fixed sitting sessions. He guides yogis to allow multiple objects, relax excessive focus, and investigate the relationship between mind and body with right attitude.
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Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
- 21 hr 23 minGroup interview a — Attitude, Defilements, and Observing Mind and Body23 Apr 2016
- 338 minMorning instruction day 2 — Object and Awareness24 Apr 2016
- 41 hr 54 minGroup interview d — Attitude Toward Sounds and Aversion, and Seeing the Nature of Mind24 Apr 2016
- 538 minMorning instruction day 3 — Concept Object and Nature Object25 Apr 2016
- Viewing61 hr 30 minGroup interview B1 — Practicing Continuously and Using Intelligence25 Apr 2016
- 743 minMorning instruction day 4 — The Value of Awareness and Nature of Mind and Body26 Apr 2016
- 81 hr 30 minGroup interview C1 — Mind Activities and Right Attitude Toward Emotions26 Apr 2016
- 940 minMorning instruction day 5 — Recognizing Mind and Continuity of Awareness27 Apr 2016
- 102 hr 10 minGroup interview A2 — Meditation as a Learning Process and Working with Defilements27 Apr 2016
- 1134 minMorning instruction day 6 — Eight Conditions for Dhamma and Awareness in Speech28 Apr 2016
Transcript
EnglishI'll just check, um, yeah, okay.
EnglishJust open something.
English11 only? Or 12? 12.
English12? My crew must be 12, right? Hmm, yes. Check. Wait, wait, where? Come on. Maybe.
EnglishSo, interview means is, try to tell me your experience.
EnglishHow do you feel? What are you doing? Then we can talk about this, this kind of, you know, experience.
EnglishDo you mind if we open a little bit the window? Pardon? Yeah.
EnglishSo I don't have much experience as a meditator. Okay. So how do you, how, how about your experience? What do you have? Um,
EnglishI feel pretty calm. Mm-hmm. Settled. Okay. Most,
Englishum, mostly catch what's happened a few seconds after it's happened, when I reflect. So I notice something maybe 1 second or 2 seconds after it's happened, a thought or a feeling. Follow the thought. So, yeah, I, I catch the thought. Oh. A little late. A little bit late.
EnglishYeah. Not, not as it's happening, but the. Yeah. Beginning, like this. Awareness is not fast enough. The thinking has become a habit, automatic. But awareness now starts to be aware. So he, a little bit late. If you day by day you practice, awareness becomes faster. Then you can catch it maybe immediately, or more faster to catch the thoughts.
EnglishImportant is to follow the thoughts. Just recognize the thought. In the beginning, we just recognize the thought and come back to your body sensation. It's more easier to ground it, right? So you aware of the more easy to more obvious, obvious object of your body. Understood. Which object is your main object?
EnglishI think my body, mostly. Oh, the body. Your whole body. Mostly. Okay. Breathing. Yeah, breathing. Physical. Okay. You use your body as an object. So whatever happening, you notice. I'm walking. I, I can know that I'm walking when I'm walking. Okay. Sitting time, sitting time. I'm sitting then. Also my body.
EnglishYeah. Mostly, but thoughts sometimes. Right. Yeah, okay. So main object means it should be the physical object. Easier. Then the thought comes, you notice your thought and come back to your body sensation. Okay, that's good. You're doing good.
EnglishAnd then? Um. Walking? Sorry? Walking meditation? Yeah, walking, uh.
EnglishWhat are you aware of? It's interesting. I, uh, when I start, I, I just concentrate on re-remembering or knowing I'm walking. Okay. And then I can know I'm walking and feel the sun. Yeah. And then I can know I'm walking, feel the sun, and hear the birds. Mm-hmm. I hear the sound.
EnglishUm, temperature, aware of the temperature, aware of the sound. Feel the wind. Okay. Yeah, right. So. Um, and see the trees. Right. So I, for short times, I can hold these thoughts. See the trees is, we are not paying attention to the what we are seeing things too much. We just recognize we are seeing. That's enough. Or looking. Because seeing things is a concept.
EnglishTree or cow or whatever. Cow. This is a concept. We try to recognize seeing is happening. Understand? Yes. Just seeing everything. Seeing? If you close the eyes, you don't see, right? Open the eyes, you see. Just. Just notice. That's all. That's all. If you're seeing things, we start to think about this object, right?
EnglishNow we are aware the object means is sight. Sight means is seeing happening. Hearing the sound also, no, which bird or whatever, not important. The meaning is not very important. Already there. What sound? Car sound or bird sound, but we try to aware the hearing. That's enough. And now we try to know about your sensation.
EnglishTouching, movement, warm, warm, uh, temperature. That's enough. Yeah, it's good.
EnglishAnything? The, the, the other thing today, um, I have, I've had a question in my mind. Quite a big personal question. Right. Uh, for a long time. Oh. Uh, about. About what? Uh, it's a, it, what is it? It's, uh. Well.
EnglishA sense of being worthless. So quite a, a profound feeling. It's that sits underneath everything. Okay. And I was interested to this afternoon, I think I've found some
Englishconnections, some understanding of that thought. Okay. Yeah. So I spent some time. Take your time. Sit. Asking myself. If your thumb question comes, we not get immediate answer. This question is very good for interest about the present moment. That's okay. Sometimes we need to investigate. If your, the mind is awareness continuously and the mind settle down, that time, sometimes we need to investigate about this nature.
EnglishWhat is the object? What is the mind, right? What is awareness? What? Awareness. Awareness. Slowly, we try to, uh, investigate about the process. First, we try to cont maintain the awareness moment to moment, moment to moment. Okay.
EnglishYes. That's all good. Anything? Try to say something? Okay. It's good.
EnglishSo you feel anything?
EnglishI was told
Englishearlier that we should
Englishconcentrate on breathe. Mm-hmm.
EnglishBreathe. Breathe. If your breathe means is what, which object? Which object do you aware? Okay. Breathe as an object. It's going. Just breathing. Just breathing. In and out of. Like, like Annapana. Like Annapana means is, sometimes people, they try to follow the direction. In, out, in, out, right? Mm-hmm. And also, but in, out is direction.
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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.…