Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat18 Nov 2023
Questions and answers — Wisdom and Lobha in Decisions, Illness and Visions
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 52 min
Original audio: English · Vietnamese interpretation
0:00−52:02
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In this Q&A, the teacher explains how greed (lobha) can arise right after wisdom, and emphasizes right attitude toward illness and memory loss. Body and mind operate according to conditions, belonging to no one. Meditators should keep the mind calm, without clinging to experiences or samadhi visions.
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Transcript
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Today there was a teacher in Vipassanā, a woman, he wants to know another future. Appear again for you to know the past.
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Say again?
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There was no future.
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No future, yes.
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Yeah, in world there is no future, and then by the way he thinks, the future appears.
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What?
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By the way the mind thinks, the future suddenly appears.
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Appear?
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It's like—
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Because of thinking?
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Yeah, the way he thinks too, he appears. And then he wants to know what happened. The moment he wants to know, boom, another future appears. It's like it just appears.
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Oh. Pleasant on the day though.
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Yesterday the one yogi, the folk in filming, I go to
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interview in filming yesterday. One yogi, the folk is very good. She also very—fly just long time. So she, she noticed about she wear the clothes, how do, how do he feel.
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Okay, how she feel.
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And then she know very well about the—he choose the clothes, thin and light. Then he choose this dress, then this clothes, then he more relaxed, more comfortable, more easy to stay. So then what happening? The mind liking. Right? First the wisdom choose this way, ah, this is, this is beneficial.
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Then he—also the, the benefit is coming. Then lobha is coming.
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Lobha, okay.
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Yeah. So that's why I, I notice about this. I reminding the yogi,
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when people sick, very mindful, very awake, right? When they are
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very well, no sick, what, what they do?
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Enjoy. He forget. So that's I notice long time. Every time I wake up, you need to practice when the experience as a present also you need to, uh, awake. Otherwise if not awake, you are not wisdom, then you—the, the, the losing there, he enjoy.
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He enjoy. When they do, when this coming, the benefit, the effect when they coming, the when they sick, the mind resist it, it stop. Because every time they notice about present, they enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
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So that, that's why people sick, they very upset. So if you are—every time you notice about you are very well, then the mind has wisdom present, and the mind not attach. So when you sick, also the mind, ah, that's all.
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And this not, not very different. Because this also object, that also object. Every time I wake up, I'm only, I will always checking my mind. Ah, body sometimes fixed very good. Like I've, the body also a lot of energy. The mind quality very good. And every time the mind say, "Oh, nice."
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Then wisdom not allow. What is my weakness? Then the mind wake up, then this also I aware this as object. So you cannot involve to the this, this
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craving cannot enjoy the, this experience. Every time you do this, when you are sick, this understand come. This is the, the way it, the connection happen. So I want to remind you, if you are very, you can feel everything is you good, be awake. And also every time the minds are good, it's a delusion.
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Just the next moment it's an illusion.
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That time everything is, you think good, the mind feel good or think good, it's a delusion. No wisdom.
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Buddha said there is a no-sukha. Always dukkha.
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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.…