Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat8 Nov 2023
Questions and answers — Seeing Consciousness, Feeling and Effort
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 49 min
Original audio: English
0:00−49:11
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The interview explores the process of seeing, mental activities, and the nature of anatta through the teacher's surgical experience. The teacher clarifies the distinction between reality and concepts, while guiding yogis to let go of the idea of self behind personal effort.
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Transcript
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This is the—
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This is the right attitude, my object.
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Your object?
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I saw that, uh, that the—
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Ceiling.
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Huh?
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The ceiling.
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Not ceiling, this—
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The object.
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See, see, this groin, and I feel this go, the chair like this, don't.
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Bumping.
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That's it.
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Bumping the floor.
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Yeah.
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Bump, bump. So you lie down, right?
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Like, lying down, then the injection. Breathe, hmm, one, two, and three I forgot.
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Then the— I wake up, already finished.
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Mm-hmm.
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No more dizzy.
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How long is that, like 3 hours?
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Yeah, 2 hour or 3 hour. Forget.
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3 hour, like that?
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Yeah, 2 hour or 3 hour. This, this one.
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When I become outside the operation this and, uh, colon cancer, right?
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Yeah.
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When I come out to the
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operation room, doctor said, "Your face become like this." Then I noticed, and then I'm more relaxed.
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Oh.
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More relaxed. But the, the outside the operation room, they waiting. I come out the outside the operation room, my, my, my head, my face like this.
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Oh. Your face, 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.…