Q&AMae Hong Son Retreat19 Feb 2025
Morning session — Intention, Natural Awareness, and Recognizing the 'I'
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 27 min
Original audio: English · Vietnamese interpretation
0:00−1:27:50
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The teacher clarifies how intention drives bodily movements, encouraging yogis to maintain awareness in daily activities without striving. This practice helps wisdom recognize non-self without personal identification.
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Transcript
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Okay, I'll go first. Sayadaw wanted to ask about intention, more on intention. Can you explain more on intention—
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What intention?
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Intention. Just intention in general.
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So
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you want to know—
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Just intention. Yeah, yeah, yeah, intention. Because you mentioned intention and the movement comes together.
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Yes.
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Like, how to— how to see the function, how to recognize the function of intention compared to the action, like the movement. Because they arise together, right? So how to— what is the nature of that intention?
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Intention is mind activity. Yeah. The intention is the mind has some energy to move the body, right? So you want to do something, the mind has energy. There's something to push, to move, or energy— some energy coming. Then you can feel.
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Sometimes you want to do, but your action is not coming yet, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Intention is— if you— intention is small, then the body is not moving yet. But intention is very strong, then intention and action come together.
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Sometimes we have plan. Intention and plan come together, but not desire yet. Not desire yet, the action is not coming yet. But if you can see—
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have some intention started, your body has some— inside your body has some energy coming. Start to coming. You can feel this intention and action come
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happen together.
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The reason why I ask this question is because—
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So when you want to fight, what happens?
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Intention to hold the fight, right?
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Yes, yes. You escort, you can control the escort.
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Right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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You can know how energy comes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You can feel, right?
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Yeah.
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You silence up. You put the silence up.
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Silence.
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In the Dhamma hall, in the Dhamma hall, and you want to fight, then you want to make the silence up. Slowly.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Right? Outside, walking. Yeah, you want to fight. Boom.
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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.…