Q&AGaia House Retreat5 Jun 2015
Interview groups C and D session 4 with priority for group d to speak — Working with Anger and Daily Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 49 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:49:30
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In this group interview, the teacher explains how to work with anger and depression through continuous awareness rather than suppression. He emphasizes balancing effort, understanding mental processes, and integrating awareness into daily life so that wisdom can naturally develop.
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- 1330 minMorning Guided meditation — Cultivating the Wholesome and the Value of Sati3 Jun 2015
- 141 hr 31 minInterview groups A and B session 3 with priority for group a to speak — Working with Emotions and Thoughts with Right View3 Jun 2015
- 151 hr 48 minInterview groups C and D session 3 with priority for group c to speak — Recognizing Wrong Attitude and the Difference Between Goal and Expectation3 Jun 2015
- 1626 minMorning Guided meditation — Knowing the Awareness and the Object, Thinking, and Intention4 Jun 2015
- 171 hr 41 minInterview groups E and F session 3 with priority for group E to speak — Wisdom and Defilements4 Jun 2015
- 181 hr 46 minInterview groups A and B session 4 with priority for group b to speak — Observing Aversion and Watching the Mind Door4 Jun 2015
- 1922 minMorning guided meditation · intro to talking meditation — Being Mindful When Speaking5 Jun 2015
- Viewing201 hr 50 minInterview groups C and D session 4 with priority for group d to speak — Working with Anger and Daily Awareness5 Jun 2015
- 211 hr 28 minInterview groups E and F session 4 with priority for group f to speak — Wanting to Understand, Effort, and Knowing the Mind5 Jun 2015
- 2241 minClosing talk · daily life instructions — Maintaining Practice at Home5 Jun 2015
Transcript
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Friday, June 5, at Thai House with Sayadaw U Tejaniya, group CND session 4.
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20, 15.
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Yes.
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It's been very helpful, um, what you said,
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and that was repeated today, about thoughts that refer to the past and projecting to the future are happening now. It's been so helpful, not just in sitting meditation, but
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yesterday it happened about 3 times, and then this morning at breakfast where long-buried memories arise and the mind just notices and acknowledges the truth, "Oh, yeah, that happened," and not getting caught up in the storyline. And then, well, this morning particularly, I was eating my breakfast and it's really, "That happened," and then in just a few seconds, maybe 5 seconds afterwards, a really strong emotion, and that I could be with the emotion and not get caught up in that storyline.
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I don't know. Yeah, that's all. You know, not to be enthralled to that. That's right. So, um, the question that follows, sort of follows from that, is, you know,
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noticing a really strong desire to carry on with this practice. It's already, it just feels so beneficial. There's a line in the book, "Moha is darkness," and I'm just aware of this really strong aversion to going back to living in the darkness of only sort of partial mindfulness.
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And the question is, you know, so I feel like this, this strong desire that, is that Chanda? But if it is Chanda. Strong desire to. To carry on with this practice. Does this aversion that I'm also experiencing to not, to go back to not practicing, does that, does that sort of cancel out the Chanda?
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Does it? Yeah.
[Burmese segment]
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? Yeah, I said it's just because the mind has a good understanding. . A good understanding that this is the object, this is being known now. And because of that good understanding, the mind doesn't get caught in the story. Yeah. .
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It doesn't cancel it out. Just, just recognize the aversion. Yeah. Recognize the aversion and
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yeah.
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Yeah. He says, "I mean, the delusion, um,
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you, you know, you think of what's happened in the past and the way we were." He says, "But it's no longer here." So there's no need to fear it either.
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I, I notice,
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um,
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when I, when I pay attention to my attitude when I'm being aware, um,
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it, it feels like there's a choice to be, um, interested and curious.
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Um, and it's a choice to do that, which sort of, it feels like that's a wholesome way to use my mind. Um, and then I notice that the Vedanta of that
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is, is pleasurable. Um,
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and I feel like when I, when I stay in the present rather than stay in desiring, um, or the future, when I can just sit in that, that feels like the right place to be.
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Um.
[Burmese segment]
English[Not yet transcribed]
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Good. Second question, um. than question. Second
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question is, um,
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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.…