Q&A · Session 2Mae Hong Son Retreat12 Feb 2025
Questions and answers (2) — Right Attitude Toward Pain and Awareness Habit
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 6 min
Original audio: English
0:00−6:07
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A yogi asks how to practice with intense pain and trauma after an accident. The teacher emphasizes that right attitude—seeing everything as nature—reduces the mind's resistance. He also explains that opening the eyes supports wakefulness and that awareness returns suddenly due to the momentum of accumulated practice.
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Transcript
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Accident.
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Accidentally? After the accident, she injured her spinal cord, and after that, after that, right, she cannot walk anymore.
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Oh.
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Yeah, and it's very painful.
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Very painful.
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Every moment is very painful.
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Okay.
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So she asks for advice from you how to—she used to practice also, and sometimes it has wisdom also. So now she's asking you, like, how to practice because of this kind of intense pain. It's like every moment also pain. Because when she want to try to walk also, the doing therapy, and when she try to walk, also have the trauma of her falling down because of the accident.
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Yeah, that, that, that fear arise. Intense fear arise.
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Yeah. But the important first one is the right attitude.
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Everything is nature. You first think this is within, otherwise the mind already resists, resists. If your pain come, come—if you have right attitude, pain becomes object.
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The right attitude is first important point. Whatever happening, this is not yours, this is nature. Then this attitude come, then the mind not resist immediately.
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She mentioned she noticed a lot of, you know, thoughts, "Last time I can walk, now I cannot walk."
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That's correct.
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All these negative thoughts.
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Yeah. Everything also, negative thought also, not—they acting as a nature. Don't identify. Every time identify come also, "Oh, this is identify." Recognize this. I said, it's okay. Just notice and recognize it. You cannot get rid of it immediately.
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And she said sometimes—
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Just know it's okay. But disappear is difficult.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you can do is, only thing you can do is right attitude and recognize it. That's all.
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She says sometimes even the mind is like, don't have the energy and stability to introduce awareness to wash the pain.
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So first we need to think about this meaning of nature.
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Think first.
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Everything happening, your body and mind, is nature. Think. Think the meaning. If depend on your understanding level, the mind resist less and less. The pain must be there.
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Sayadaw, uh, may I ask that? Because sometimes the mind know Dhamma, and what I do is I try—
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No, no, I mean Adhama.
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Yeah, Adhama.
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I try to do something to make the mind think about Dhamma. Is that—
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That is the Dhamma. That thought is the Dhamma already.
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Yeah.
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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.…