Q&APauenhof Center Retreat30 Apr 2016
Group interview B3 — Mind as Nature, Wise Attitude, and Skillful Action
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 30 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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This group interview clarifies the nature of mind, recognizing awareness, and maintaining right attitude toward sensual desire and anger. The Sayadaw emphasizes skillfully using natural objects and cultivating balanced awareness in daily situations rather than rigid control.
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Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
- 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
- 121 hr 18 minGroup interview B2 — Gross and Subtle Objects, and Attitude Towards Sensations28 Apr 2016
- 1332 minMorning instruction day 7 — Noticing Intentions and Observing Present Experiences29 Apr 2016
- 141 hr 10 minGroup interview C2 — Experiential Understanding and Practicing Continuously29 Apr 2016
- 1549 minMorning instruction day 8 — Cultivating Awareness and the Process of Mind30 Apr 2016
- Viewing161 hr 31 minGroup interview B3 — Mind as Nature, Wise Attitude, and Skillful Action30 Apr 2016
- 1740 minMorning instruction day 9 — Practicing at Home and Working with Anger1 May 2016
Transcript
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Today is last. Last in the weaver, huh? Yes. Today is 29, huh? Yes, yes. Okay.
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Sorry.
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It's okay. She's a good young woman.
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Sorry. Oh, she's on a bottle.
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Okay, go.
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That goes wrong. Totally went wrong. We just kidding. We just kidding. Yeah.
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What do you talk? I have a question. Yeah? Um, can you tell a little bit more about mind? Because, um, I'm not used to concerts, and I was very much used to meditate on objects. Hmm. And then during, um, daytime I would use my breath to, to stay aware, but I always kind of, um,
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I felt it was me instead of mind. So, uh, the first five days, days I was completely lost. This mind idea was, uh, I was daydreaming all the time because every time I thought, uh,
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what's the mind doing, what's the mind thinking, I was, I was gone.
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And, uh, I still find it a very difficult concept to work with. Well, think, yeah. Okay.
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Uh, oh, tea and baba or what? Ah, baba. What, you know, what's the,
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the, the, the, the Do you know when you're thinking? Like now, are you thinking? Yes, I know. You know that you're thinking? Yes. Yeah.
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That's it?
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Yeah. So for the rest of the day, you know, whether you're sitting or walking around and all, he says, "Keep your breath as your anchor." Okay. Keep your breath, and then you notice that the mind is thinking, right?
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And if you notice, you acknowledge, but always come back to your breath. Okay. Always know your breath as well. But don't just go to the thinking. Focus to focus to low late, you know, not yellow, bottle on it. Yeah. We, we are not so skillful. Yeah. We're not so skillful that we can look at the thought and then we know what the mind is thinking, and we're gone into the thought.
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Yeah? But so long as we just notice and acknowledge the mind is thinking, we, we, you know, like now, that's enough. But it's also very confusing because, um, um, when during daytime I see, uh, a greed and aversion and all these, uh, defilements, uh, coming. How do you know?
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Um, I just know. I think about it. Yeah. You might feel it, or you might notice the thought. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing a thing now, feeling a thing now. I dig out, I define me a little bit, I feeling a little bit of me now. Yeah. Hands down a little bit of me. Yeah.
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So we know through our thoughts and our feelings, and, and often it's through our feelings. Right? Through our knowing, knows a little bit, meaning to me, cheap of a little. He says,
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"If you know that it's there, that's good enough. You don't have to watch or look." Yeah. You don't have to do more. See, see what's happening is enough. Yeah. Not so over- over- over- over- over- over- over- over- over- over-. Otherwise we tend to try too hard, do too much. focus a little bit over- a bit The mind is subtle.
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It's not like the body. Like the body is like you can sort of aim for it, but the mind, you can't aim for it. So when we aim, because we're aiming at nothing in particular, then you always off-aim. So, but if you know, that's it, it's already insight. It, it's already, you know, been. Been focused on. start start a little to change that, match key
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It's sort of like your spectacles, you know? When the power is right, you already see. So that's like when you know, just now, you know the thinking. So that, that's just the right power. And then if you put too much, you know, if there's, you go to the spectacle shop and they try the different lenses, it's too much or too little and you can't see. For love you know. Mm-hmm. Focus on me now, you know.
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Match key is all I'm going with. So once, once you've got the right, um, lens, you know, it's the right lens, you know because you know the mind. And that's already it. There's nothing more than that that you can see. And, and is the mind, the mind is awareness? It's also awareness. Also awareness. Yeah. Awareness is mind, rather.
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Mind, mind, do you know? Yeah. Mind is a lot of functions, right? A lot. Um, and you know, the practice we're doing is sati patana, right?
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So we're using sati as the lead, right? So remembering to be aware. And we are using awareness a lot so that awareness becomes very obvious to us. And awareness is in the mind. And because awareness knows, then if you know awareness, then it knows everything else.
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That, that's the way we want to go, right? Um, this is theoretically, but don't try to imagine it. If you just do the practice, you'll just get to it, and it's simpler than you think. Yeah. Try too hard. Yeah, try too hard. Uh, hold it. Too hard in it. Yeah. Too much energy in it. Now you know the sensation?
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Do you know the sensation? Yes. Do you know the touching, or do you know the knowing? Both. Okay. Why do you know this sensation?
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Because I'm aware of it. Yes. Yeah. Do you see awareness there? Yeah. For a few. Yeah. It's, it's as easy as that, actually. Yeah. Yeah. You can only do it like that. It cannot be much clearer than that. Okay. Yeah. But what can happen is when you keep just being aware continuously and over a long period of time, this same experience becomes more lucid.
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What's lucid? Lucid. It's like very clear. Okay. It feels much more, um, like, um, what's the word? It feels much more. Obvious. Yeah. It, it, it feels like now you thought it wasn't clear, but when he went through the steps with you, it's like, "Oh, yeah, okay, it's that simple. I do know." But when you keep practicing for a long time, it feels much more like you can hold it.
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Okay. Yeah. Now touching is more obvious, right? Knowing is, knowing is not obvious, but we know knowing there. Yeah. But not like a touching. Like you're, you're in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I know that. Yeah. Yeah. Experience. That's enough. Experience. You must. Yeah. It's enough. Wherever you are, that's enough.
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Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
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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.…