Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat6 Nov 2023
Questions and answers — Changing View from Wrong View to Right View
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 46 min
Original audio: English · Vietnamese interpretation
0:00−46:00
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The Q&A clarifies the essential role of right view and wisdom in transforming wrong view and defilements. The teacher explains the distinction between concept and reality across meditation objects, emphasizing that non-self (anattā) is an ongoing natural process of cause and effect.
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Transcript
Tiếng Việt
Chào chị Minh.
English
So the actual cause is the wrong viewpoint, right?
Tiếng Việt
Không, bác sĩ ạ, không có gì đâu.
English
Okay.
[Burmese segment]
English
Ignorance.
English
Um, uh, ignorance.
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Obviously.
English
So ignorance and wrong views are very connected.
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Yes.
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The same.
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The same.
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Yes. It's the same mode.
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Yeah.
English
Which side is basically? Basically it's you.
English
Mm-hmm.
English
Which side is right view?
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Yeah.
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Samādhi.
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Samādhi.
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If I'm a, uh, moha in wrong view, you're believing I, I can take it, you know, like a person. But nature is as it is. Nature is a cause and effect. There's no, no attack. No attack. No self.
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No self.
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No self. Because of self, all defilement increases.
English
Now, we try to fight it only with, uh, increasing the view becomes change. The view change. Wrong view becomes right view.
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In other words, Sayadaw, if there's no wisdom, no way, no way you can change the, the, the—
English
Yes. Wisdom and ignorance is opposite. Black and white. Dark and light.
English
That's like the wisdom up here, darkness, God. Opposite. Nature is totally opposite.
English
Yes. I, I, I noticed this also. I noticed if, if there's no wisdom, no way the mind can change. No way.
English
Yes. That's right. That's why we practice. The view change.
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Wisdom arrives before our mentality. Mentality is the purpose is wisdom grows.
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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.…