Q&APauenhof Center Retreat24 Apr 2016
Group interview d — Attitude Toward Sounds and Aversion, and Seeing the Nature of Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 53 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:53:48
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In this group interview, the teacher explains how to maintain right attitude toward noise, pain, and mental states. He advises being aware of feelings and mental reactions, while sustaining natural awareness in daily life.
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Pauenhof Center Retreat · 17 talks
- 155 minMorning instruction day 1 — Cultivating the Mind and Continuous Awareness23 Apr 2016
- 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
- Viewing41 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
- 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
- 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
Transcript
[Burmese segment]
EnglishThat actually works. A friend of mine once said to me, she said when you—well, in Burma one day when it was cold, she was like, and that's what the Burmese do because they're not used to cold weather, they go to bed with all their sweaters and everything on. She's like, "Don't do that." She said, "Go to let the blankets keep you warm when you—as soon as you get out, put on your sweaters.
EnglishOtherwise the sweater will never feel warm when you get out of bed." And I was like, "That's true." That makes sense. But to keep your house cold, so you have it warmer in other houses? In a room.
EnglishI come down and I feel cold. Okay. You could go outside also. You could go outside also to get that same effect. Yeah, I did get it just now. Earlier I went for a walk and I came back and it was so hot.
EnglishNow the effect is gone.
EnglishDo you know if there's another tour
Englishin planning? No. No planning until the end of 2017, exactly.
EnglishYeah, I think it was because the plans were getting so extensive. He said he felt like the schedule was eating him. Yeah.
EnglishSo that's why he doesn't want another schedule done up now. So nothing next year and then maybe 2018 or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. He said he'd decide at the end of 2017. So where are you going after here? Finland. And then after that? Switzerland. And then back home.
EnglishWhich will be when? 13th of May. Okay.
EnglishYou're already looking forward to it.
EnglishWho decides then which countries to go? You get invited, or? Well, people are inviting him all the time. He decides which ones he wants to accept. Which he chooses. Yeah. Okay.
EnglishYeah.
EnglishIt depends on the weather. Sorry? That depends on the weather. No. Sorry. Clearly not.
EnglishJust him coming this time. He's even gone to Finland. Yeah, Finland doesn't strike me as good. No, he loves Finland.
EnglishHe's gone to Russia.
EnglishYeah. But I didn't go, thank God.
EnglishThose three are looking like the defilement mice in the book. The mice?
EnglishI kept thinking they were trees. But you're right. Striped mice.
EnglishThat's true. Tibetans. Yeah. Nice. Very cute. It's true. The same spines. With a little tail. Yeah.
EnglishAnd then the nose is sticking out.
EnglishI hope somebody edits the recording.
EnglishIs it already on? Yeah. Yeah, it's already on.
EnglishWell, we could start. Tomorrow. No, the rest of them. The
Englishlast ones we didn't record. Yeah. Two weeks.
EnglishYeah. It's 28 of May. And the answers are right. So it takes—it just takes a while for the helms to go out to good again. Does it go away? It was cracked. And so it doesn't take as long.
EnglishIt feels sometimes like it's like there's something broken. Yeah.
EnglishIt's a bad word, huh? Yeah.
EnglishThose aren't my mum's helmet. Nope. They're team mates.
EnglishOh, with the lesson as in piano and viborgianess, they are being like it. You feel it? Do you feel it? They're being anger. Anger. Anger. Anger and doing this. Yeah. They're being like it. You feel it?
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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.…