Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat28 Oct 2023
Questions and answers — Roots of Anger and Understanding Dukkha
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 32 min
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0:00−32:06
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The Q&A clarifies the root causes of anger and how to address irritation early. The Sayadaw explains mind-body tension and deeper insights into dukkha, emphasizing the need for equanimity to avoid falling into depression.
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Transcript
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Okay, roll. Uh, this group—this lady—said that I went to dosa arise, and I recognized that my mind is getting hottier, irritation.
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Yes.
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I watch it, then everything's "oh, fine." I just watch and think, "Calm down."
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Calm down.
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Calm down. But then it happened again.
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Yes.
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Yeah, okay. When it happened again in a different time, different occasion, I wonder what happened. Why? Why did it come down already? Why did it come back?
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Yes.
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Because of why this anger arising, huh?
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She knows that the anger arise, but—
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Because of wrong—because of ideas. Some thoughts. Wrong thoughts. If you are grasping this idea, still have grasping this idea, then object come, this idea come, then dosa come again. Because of idea. You already—you've not let go about this idea yet.
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You are watching the anger going down, but you don't know. You don't let go about your—you cannot change your view, idea, view. For example, when you—you think, "In the Dhamma hall, should not be taught, should not be taught," you hold this idea. Then someone talks, you angry.
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Then you watch your mind calm down. Next time, another one come, talk. So he angry again. Because he hold—holding his idea. He not let go yet.
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So the mind is idea.
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Idea. Mainly it's idea. Wrong idea. You hold the idea. You want—because of one thing. One thing, this idea.
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Yeah.
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Huh? They must be followed. If you know everybody—someone not follow, you angry.
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You cannot let go your idea.
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So the next question—
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Because of you don't have wisdom yet.
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Oh, wisdom, wisdom.
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You don't have wisdom. Some kind of wisdom. You cannot let go of wisdom about this idea. You cannot let go yet. You're only watching the calm down. Watching. That time you're not thinking about this idea. Right? So when you watch the dosa, you calm down. But you cannot get rid of cause yet.
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Cause is still there. So every time the object come, the thought come, boom. Object come, thought come, boom.
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Then you again, again, again.
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That's why I said I asked the yogi, "Why the anger come?" Because of you have ideas. Some—your one thing, your one,
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must be this. You have this idea. Must be this. That happened. I want this. But it must be this. You must follow. You cannot change this idea. Every time this object come, experience come, thing come again, again, again. Then you watch again and again. Finish.
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Not finish yet.
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So Sayadaw, the practice is to know why that anger arise.
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Yes. Yes. Why is not story line. Why is the inside your mind that a wrong idea. Why the mind—
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What the mind thinks so—
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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.…