Q&AGaia House Retreat4 Jun 2015
Interview groups E and F session 3 with priority for group E to speak — Wisdom and Defilements
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 40 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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In this group interview, the Sayadaw clarifies grief, hindrances, and the difference between samādhi and tranquility. He emphasizes subtle intention, right view when facing defilements, and sustaining continuous awareness.
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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
- Viewing171 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
- 201 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
English
Thursday, June 4, at Gaia House, Sayadaw U Tejaniya. Session 3, group unit.
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Hello. Hello. Just got two questions, if I can. Um, grief is a defilement. Huh? Grief.
English
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Grief ? Grief. . He says, "Always check the quality of the mind. If the mind is suffering, a defilement is present." . Yeah, people who cry because— .
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Oh, okay, well. Okay. I'm trying to, um, translate the word "grief" as, um, "involves crying" in Burmese.
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. Grief . You joke me up. . If the mind is suffering, that's definitely a defilement. Yeah. And would grief be like aversion? Would that be— would that be— .
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Yeah. The mind can't bear that this has happened.
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And when one is further down the path, uh, and one is less likely to grieve even when sort of loved ones pass, would that be the case? Sorry, what do you— When one is more, uh, is deeper in the practice, and one loses loved ones from family and stuff, one would be less likely to be affected by grief, potentially, or quite likely, or— .
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. Yeah. Um, yeah, even when you're further on in your practice, in times of when there's not so much wisdom, we can still grieve.
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We might still grieve. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. . Nghe. . Yeah. When there's my person who's still— . It's less likely. . But when, you know, we have not mindfulness and wisdom, he said it can become quite strong.
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I just asked him about, um, the story of Visakha,
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she had a very strong—she was grieving very,
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um, loudly, I think. Something like that. She sobbed and wailed, or something like that. And, uh, the Buddha had to remind her, and then she regained composure. But she can't. Yeah. But she was supposed to be a sutta family. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. And the other question was around the hindrances.
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Um, what with, with this style of practices, how are the hindrances, uh, viewed? Um, what's the relationship between, between the hindrances and, and, and this practice? Um, are they just sort of as if we notice the arising of one, we just recognize it, and, and we recognize how the mind is with it?
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Is that simply it? Are hindrances, by the term hindrance, of course, suggests, uh, um, something that's, that's, um— An obstacle. An obstacle, yeah. I was just wondering.
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? In the sati Patana sutta, when you get to Jitana Vipassanā, the third and fourth foundations, Jitana Vipassanā, Dharma and Vipassanā, the hindrances become objects.
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So they're just another
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thing to observe. Uh-huh. Yeah.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Um, I would like to share something. I, um, had an experience sitting in the hall of the Dharma, and, um,
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it was, it was helped quite well. Everything okay. Um, calm. And, um, the eyes I had closed. I had the eyes closed.
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Um, then I opened them, and suddenly I had the impression, oh, it's cold. It's looking cold. And suddenly I had cold and freeze. And I, I really laughed because, uh, it's so funny, just looking. By looking, freezing. Before it, it has been everything okay.
[Burmese segment]
English
Yeah. So I was just—so you see the connection between the mind and the body. And, you know, when one mind suggests something, and if, if the—if then the mind believes, then, like, successively, then the mind follows that. Yeah.
English
Yeah. Very interesting. Yeah. Same with our account, yeah. And I have a question out of the book. Um,
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there is written that we have, or are able, to learn such a lot out of the nature, outside. And I don't know what, what you mean.
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Ah.
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I don't know what it said in the book. It's just a sentence, uh— Out of the nature outside? And I say outside. Yeah. There's a picture. Um, where— Is that the one? No. Can you find it? No.
[Burmese segment]
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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.…