Dhamma talkMae Hong Son RetreatFeb 2025
How to know mind is reality
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 7 min
Original audio: English
0:00−7:30
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The talk discusses the nature of mind as reality through its characteristics, functions, and causes and effects. The teacher explains that awareness and mental states arise from past conditioning rather than a personal self. Seeing this conditioned process reveals the mind as a natural reality.
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- 327 minQuestions and answers (morning) — Recognizing Seeing and Mind State13 Feb 2025
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- 61 hr 13 minQuestions and answers (afternoon) — Fear, Right Attitude and Dealing with Expectations14 Feb 2025
- 71 hr 4 minQuestions and answers: investigation — How to Ask Questions to Investigate and Understand Mental Processes16 Feb 2025
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- 91 hr 28 minMorning session — Intention, Natural Awareness, and Recognizing the 'I'19 Feb 2025
- 105 minFinal day · advice — Practicing Together and Knowing Your Own Mind20 Feb 2025
- Viewing118 minHow to know mind is realityFeb 2025
- 126 minQ&A — Right Attitude Towards Pain and Why Awareness Comes BackFeb 2025
Transcript
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The four factors, yeah, can you—
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What is the sign?
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The sign—
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The first sign, yeah. Second one is case.
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Case, yes.
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It's his job.
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The job. Case means job.
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Job, job, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Lekhana, yatta. Lekhana means sign.
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Yeah.
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Yatta means case. Case, his job.
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Yeah.
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And number three is cause and effect. Understanding cause and effect. Four also, cause and effect.
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Near cause and effect, and far away cause and effect.
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Okay. The third one is near cause and effect.
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Near cause and effect.
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Yes, yes.
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The fourth one is further cause and effect.
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Far away cause and effect.
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Far away cause and effect. Whatever you understand, cause and effect is okay.
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Yes.
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Can you give—
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For example, cause and effect is
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when you understand something about process. Because of this, for example, if intention and action, you know this, that becomes nature. No body there, right? That's because you see the, you know the reality.
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Because of this, because of that.
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Yeah.
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Understanding cause and effect is, that's nature.
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Yes.
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Reality.
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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.…