Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat29 Apr 2012
Q&A group B 1 — Observing the Thinking Process and Difficult Emotions
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 58 min
Original audio: English
0:00−1:58:22
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In this group interview, the teacher clarifies how to recognize the thinking process as an object rather than getting lost in storylines. He guides meditators on maintaining continuous awareness with right view, balancing effort to avoid exhaustion, and observing difficult emotions as natural processes.
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Insight Meditation Society Retreat · 28 talks
- 154 minDhamma everywhere — Three Yogi Jobs and Right View in Daily Practice28 Apr 2012
- 21 hr 45 minQ&A group A 1 — Awareness Instead of Focusing, and Appreciating the Awareness29 Apr 2012
- Viewing31 hr 58 minQ&A group B 1 — Observing the Thinking Process and Difficult Emotions29 Apr 2012
- 41 hr 53 minQ&A group C 1 — Natural Process, Delusion and Open Awareness29 Apr 2012
- 546 minQ&A Monday morning — Not Focusing Too Much, Seeing Versus Looking, and Being Aware of Thinking30 Apr 2012
- 61 hr 56 minQ&A group D 1 — Working with Pain, Mental Feelings and Asking Questions30 Apr 2012
- 71 hr 47 minQ&A group E 1 — Seeing Everything as an Object and the Role of Wisdom30 Apr 2012
- 81 hr 47 minQ&A group F 1 — Removing Greed from Effort and Awareness1 May 2012
- 91 hr 48 minGroup A 2 — Functions of Mind and Dealing with Defilements2 May 2012
- 101 hr 55 minGroup D 2 — Investigating Strong Objects, Torpor, and Thinking Mind3 May 2012
Transcript
EnglishSo who are the ones who are listed to speak first, Venerable?
EnglishOkay.
EnglishSo please, you guys start.
EnglishYeah. So when
Englishyou notice that your mind has drifted and you're off on a storyline, before
Englishcoming back to
Englishpractice,
Englishis there anything you specifically recommend? To be remned on the diitthami, remned on the diitthami, kind of set amitoke, and then uziya, the kuku,
Englishlow kind, dashila.
Englishnamo, to be Around the name,
Englishshi mamo, the kuku
EnglishTi pila. Ti pila. He says,
Englishwhen you it's very important that you notice that you've drifted off,
Englishand it's not awareness of the story, it's awareness of thought, or the thinking mind, or the thinking process. He says you can take a moment to recognize that, and then
Englishwhatever else you're aware of, you can just continue to be aware.
EnglishSo you don't need to label it?
EnglishLabeling is not important. You already know it. You need to name it.
EnglishThank you.
EnglishTo be nepata na the same dhuma.
Englishso to be legend, java you go to be object That's why no
EnglishHe says, whenever
Englishwe notice the thinking mind, it's a good practice to actually acknowledge the thinking mind. Not look continuously at the thought, because that can become the story, and you can get lost in the thought. But to acknowledge thinking is happening. And then he says, to alternate between something else you're aware of that's more grounding.
EnglishIt could be a body sensation if you're used to that, or some other practice that you're used to, like some people do anapana, rising, falling, whatever.
EnglishAnd switch between the two. Because thinking might continue to happen, then it's a good opportunity to
Englishrecognize the thinking mind and come back to awareness of something else, and then come back. So you're looking at it, going away, looking at it. It's to enable you to
Englishbe aware of the thinking mind rather than the story that you're thinking about.
EnglishThank you. To object Once you recognize that the thinking mind is the object, not the story, that the thinking mind is once you come to grips with that, he says, then you can always recognize the thinking mind and not sort of get sucked into the story more easily.
EnglishTo be wuju, to be panyana no, si to be
Englishayo lo nada na.
EnglishTo be ayo lo nada na, you doa na mione. He says, the more you practice this, the easier it becomes to recognize thinking and not get sucked into the story. So you are seeing thinking as an object. You are taking it as an object.
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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.…