Q&A · Session 1Mae Hong Son Retreat13 Feb 2025
Questions and answers (1) — Recognizing Awareness and Mind States
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 15 min
Original audio: English
0:00−15:59
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The Q&A clarifies the cause-and-effect process in thoughts and mental reactions. The teacher explains that being aware of awareness simply means recognizing that awareness is present without straining. Meditators should notice both the object and the reacting state of mind.
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Transcript
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They're not very interested.
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Yeah.
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They're more interested about future and past.
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Yeah, yeah. But it also shows me the cause and effect, because in the past when my aquarist in house said, "No," I don't see the
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idea motivation. For sometimes when I feel uncomfortable I go to specific coffee, but I don't know, I don't know. But right now I realize that the idea of how say—
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Idea of—
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Enjoy the present.
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Okay, enjoy the experience.
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And—
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And you have— you can see that you are planning.
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Yeah, yeah, plan and—
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Your thoughts, your thoughts.
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My thoughts, and it shows me that, oh, what if I don't know why.
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Thoughts and effect.
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Yeah.
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Then you can understand it more, can see the whole process.
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Yeah.
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Then you can understand the cause and effect.
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Yeah.
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It should be.
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Yeah. And the cause and effect is maybe a long time.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's—
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But whatever the future is coming.
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Yeah, yeah. Whenever the condition in the future is fulfilled, the— how say— the mind try to—
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Plan with the future.
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Yeah.
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Future is not exist.
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Yeah.
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Not yet, right?
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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.…