Q&AInsight Meditation Society Retreat29 Apr 2012
Q&A group C 1 — Natural Process, Delusion and Open Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 52 min
Original audio: English
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In this group interview, the teacher discusses knowing awareness, natural mind-body processes, and distinguishing craving from skillful means. The teacher emphasizes maintaining right attitude, inquiring without halting experience, and developing a wide, inclusive awareness.
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Talks in this retreat
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
- 31 hr 58 minQ&A group B 1 — Observing the Thinking Process and Difficult Emotions29 Apr 2012
- Viewing41 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 we're going to ask Ms. Nguyen to go first; she has a medical appointment. Okay.
EnglishWhen I was practicing yesterday, um,
EnglishI would see— I would become aware that seeing was being known. And when the tension was stronger, I would
Englishthink, "Oh, I— I'm aware that I'm aware of seeing." You know, I know that's— I know seeing is happening. And I would feel like I was going up to a different level of— of awareness. And that was helpful this morning, that I should only go there when attention is strong enough. Attention. When awareness is strong enough, or energy is there. You're saying when the attention, yeah?
EnglishYeah. Yeah, because I keep hearing "tension." Attention. Because I was trying to go there more often, and probably when it wasn't skillful. Right. When I was there, when I was aware of the quality of awareness, um, it would feel like
Englishthe defilements couldn't stay. And that it— it couldn't be personal. Mm. And
Englishthat was exciting, but it was scary. Mm. You know, in a way. It's so powerful
Englishthat I— it felt I wanted to go there, but it felt like I was jumping off a cliff, because it's so powerful. Mm. Um, and so I should just, when the energy is strong, go there. When the energy is not so strong, just stay with seeing or knowing. Yeah. Is that— Mm. Do you want, um, me and our tea that will do?
EnglishTea maybe. We don't do— the tea I can't mind. Tea that— tea that will tea mine better, tea maybe. I don't know any taste I do. Not any taste. Not level to whom I look very near at that time. Maybe look feelings or something, but the tea tell me a lot less about, "Ah, yeah, any time I do a, um, gile— gile that," like they pip going.
EnglishHe says it's only scary because it's just the beginning. And it's not
EnglishYes. Yes. So yeah, just go with it. A little bit of what? Me and I tea that, the tea part, it'll see. So tea hour, you don't have to bother with it. But look, the thing is, when you're lonely, you're teaing it out. Yeah.
EnglishHe says, um, yeah, go with the flow. Just whatever's natural for the mind. And also, he says, um, remember that this recognizing of seeing and— and looking, he says, is a very powerful practice because that's what we do all day long, every day. So, you know, that really helps to bring awareness into our lives. Yeah. Me and you that, I'm yelling the DC, but I'll just say, but— wait, tahanlah, I'm a chillo.
EnglishThe tea I'll come and tipsy up here. To have a tip, right? When we recognize that see— you know, awareness of seeing, so you know that seeing is happening, and— and you can also be aware you— But me and I, me and I, I— Don't have to. Another me and the seeing it, it's a miserable. You don't have to try so hard to be aware because, well, there's awareness with every seeing, which is almost all the time.
EnglishAnd then if it's— it's more powerful, and then you're aware of the awareness, then that— again, that sense of it's being nature, yeah, not personal. Also, that— that insight. Me and I tea— me and I tea that when you're teaing it. Then in every awareness, wisdom is also working together. The insight is alive. Yeah.
EnglishMm. Okay. Me and you that, two chips out. Mm.
EnglishThat's—
Englishwell,
Englishbut I'm a chillo. So counting down.
EnglishUh,
Englishwhen I'm doing my yogi job, uh, I am, uh, noticing what I'm doing. And when I check the mind, what I notice is that
Englishthere's satisfaction in the mind. You know, so I'm noticing that. And then I'm also noticing this— this, uh, low-level, uh, tension. Yeah. And, uh,
Englishand then I'm also noticing that I'm noticing both the greed and the aversion. Yeah. You know, in the mind of— in the— you know, in this task that I thought I was enjoying. Yes.
EnglishAnd so— so then I— and then as soon as I notice the aversion and the greed, both, then there's just this relaxing that happens. Yes. There's just this, "Oh, okay." And then I'm— I'm doing the task. So it just— it's— I— it's a back and forth that I— I'm just— I'm just noticing that. And— and then it begins to relax more.
EnglishYeah. I'm enjoying that. Yeah. That's— that's good. Well, tea night, I go at that. The vajra tea night. Tea that wents, enjoy that seeing it, no? Yeah. That's right. You, um, you know, you might be thinking that you're enjoying it, but from the observation, then the truth is revealed. Mm-hmm. I don't think— I need to tea me about too late. So what difference does it make that there is awareness, that you notice all these things?
EnglishUh.
EnglishIt seems like— It seems like you're— Yeah, I do a lot of that. I do a lot of that. You're a lot of look your— Oh, oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. No, he— he said— he— he said, "So does it become better?" I said, "Yeah, you said it relaxed." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what happens. It— it's somehow, um, it— with— with the awareness, it's just not personal. Mm. And it's like it gets personal unbeknownst to me.
EnglishYeah. Me and I teaing it, I do a personal appeal. Me teaing to a me— me tea that when I do a personal appeal to you. To you. Okay. Right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm tea that I appreciate looking at. So that's why he wants us to learn to appreciate the benef— you know, the beneficial effect of having awareness. Tea like— tea like nyababa lah. Yeah. Every— every moment of awareness, he says, brings some wisdom with it.
EnglishMm-hmm.
EnglishYeah.
EnglishUm, yeah, I've— I've got a— a question about, 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.…