Q&APauenhof Center Retreat26 Apr 2016
Group interview C1 — Mind Activities and Right Attitude Toward Emotions
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 30 min
Original audio: English
0:00−1:30:26
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This group interview guides yogis on maintaining awareness throughout daily activities and recognizing intention behind actions. The Sayadaw explains the difference between concentration meditation (samatha) and Vipassana, showing how right view helps observe feelings without clinging to concepts.
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Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
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- 538 minMorning instruction day 3 — Concept Object and Nature Object25 Apr 2016
- 61 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
- Viewing81 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
Transcript
EnglishHello? Yeah. I— I didn't think you'd go much. Oh. I— I learned a little by my daughter. Oh. And she is really— Brain do. I had to order a little bit, little bit practice.
EnglishAre you okay to practice now? Do you understand?
EnglishYes.
EnglishI hope I understand. So I— I want to know about your conditioning, then I can help you. So you need to tell me about how you're doing, or what you feel, what your experience— what happening. So you need to tell me. No. Yes? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
EnglishIt's very good. Very good. So I'm asking you. I— I— I hope to understand something, and, um. So you know the meaning? You know the awareness? Yes. Can you awake? I think so. I— I know it's— it's a right attitude.
EnglishWhen you're sitting time, what do you aware of?
EnglishUh, sometimes I aware of what I— what happens in the moment, and sometimes my, um, thoughts are going, um. Mm-hmm. Going, um, when the thinking comes, right? Mm-hmm. So what object do you aware? What physical object? Main object? Do you have main object? Main object? Yes.
EnglishSitting? Yeah, sitting time. I feel, uh, my feet, my, my body. Oh. Okay. Uh. Sensation, yeah? Sensation. You can feel sensation. Touching. Yes. And? And I, um, feel, um, a silence. Mm-hmm. Okay. Inside. Can also— yeah, I sign also object.
EnglishMm-hmm. Then
Englishsome main object, some physical object is important. Then you need more aware of the grounded. So you can use the touching, right? Your hand touching. Touching. Touching the floor. Mm-hmm. This all we have, right? Mm-hmm. So you need more attention about this, continue aware of this, and other object coming, then you notice. Or you can aware of your breathing.
EnglishBreathe in, breathe out. You pay attention here. Mm-hmm. Right? How do you feel? Air come in, air go out, you can feel, right? Or your abdomen is rising, falling, movement. When you breathe, the body is expand, right? A little bit
Englishmovement
Englishand touching.
EnglishSo this is all we have. So you need to be grounded about this object. Then, and the thinking come, you notice your thinking and come back.
EnglishOkay? Okay. Mm-hmm. Don't follow, don't try to intentionally think. Mm-hmm. And thinking arising, then notice, ah, the mind is thinking and now, come back. Police sensation. Otherwise, you are daydreaming. You're thinking, follow the thing.
EnglishThinking carry on you.
EnglishAnd walking also. Okay. Practicing walking meditation? Yes. What do you aware of?
EnglishI think I am walking. I can't walk slowly, eh? I have to walk, uh, a little bit. Naturally better. Mm-hmm. Not slowly. I don't like slowly. Naturally better. Mm-hmm. What do you aware of when you're walking time? You know you're walking? Yes. I, but I, uh, more I see the nature. I see the, uh, what the I don't, um, it's difficult for me to, to be aware of, of my body walking.
EnglishOh, you don't know your hand, your leg is moving? Or touching? Yes. Yeah. Step by step first. Mm-hmm. Your attention in must be your leg first. Mm-hmm. Huh? So step by step, you know your step. Mm-hmm. Every step, wherever you go, every step, try to this is a fast, this is a main object.
EnglishAnd slowly, the whole body. Mm-hmm. If your awareness is present, then you can know many sensations. Hand moving, body moving.
EnglishYou know your body is moving while walking time. If your mind pay attention to your leg, then you know touching or movement, right? Lifting, stepping, anything. If your mind pay attention to your leg, it's enough, huh? So you know something. If your mind may pay attention to your body, you know the body is moving or like this, right?
EnglishIf you pay attention to your head, then you can see, you can hear.
EnglishOkay? So try. Walking time also, medi walking meditation, sitting, eating also. Eating also. Eating. Can you aware your eating? Yeah.
EnglishTry to aware your eating, thinking, looking, smell, whatever. You have a, uh, eating time is, uh, your sense door is open. Sixth sense door is open. You look, you know you can look, right? Looking, seeing, also hearing, tasting, smelling. Try to know, try to aware this happening.
EnglishAnd chewing, and swallowing, and thinking, then how do you feel? Also, mental state, liking, disliking, it's happening? I think I don't know what that. Liking about food. Like to like. Like, like, huh? Oh. Like, like, or like or dislike about the food, taste.
EnglishMm-hmm. And you can recognize, ah, the mind's liking, or the mind's disliking, or smell like this. Mm-hmm. And taste also. How do you feel? And how do you know? How do you pay attention to your mouth, then you can know something, huh? Try to know.
EnglishOkay? Yeah. Try to know something all the time.
EnglishThis is the, this practice is aware yourself all the time. Pay attention to yourself all the time. No interest other thing, outside thing. You're more interest about yourself.
EnglishYeah. What you're doing, you know your hand moving. Your leg, your mo your leg moving, you know you, you must know your leg is moving. You know you're standing, you know you're sitting,
Englishturning.
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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.…