Q&AMaui Retreat22 Nov 2016
Questions and answers — Awareness While Speaking and in Sleep
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 20 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:20:41
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AI-written summary
The Q&A covers maintaining mindfulness during speech, sleep, and daily activities. The teacher explains that recognizing the mind at work is sufficient rather than searching for awareness itself, and advises using samādhi skillfully to support open awareness.
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- 134 minMorning instructions — Maintaining Continuity and Momentum22 Nov 2016
- Viewing141 hr 21 minQuestions and answers — Awareness While Speaking and in Sleep22 Nov 2016
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- 1620 minMorning instructions — Being Aware of Thoughts and Restlessness24 Nov 2016
- 171 hr 11 minQuestions and answers — Suicide, Anicca-Dukkha-Anatta and Practicing at Home24 Nov 2016
- 1831 minLast morning instructions — Continuing Practice and Bringing Dhamma into Life25 Nov 2016
Transcript
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So this is the 7th day, 7th session of questions for Sayadaw U Tejaniya from the, uh, retreatant at Vipassanā Meta Foundation in Maui on November 22, 2016.
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I'm listening, yes.
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So, um, today the exercise in talking and listening was very beneficial, and I'm wondering, um, I will, uh, be
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leaving soon after a 1-month stay, and I'm wondering if Sayadaw could speak a little more to, um, advice, uh, upon leaving, and maybe, um, some help with, uh, facing the outside world.
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Mhm.
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Dark Room Meditation
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This is when we are aware. We basically aware of our mental actions, our verbal actions and our body actions.
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And of these three, the most important action is our mental ones. And he says, if we keep watching the mind and all its actions, he says, we will also notice what's happening in our speech and our body. That's what he did, he says, when he was practicing at home.
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Just kept watching his mind all the time. He says, when he started teaching, he, you know, yeah, he would help yogis. He would say, oh, you know, you can watch this or you can watch that, and so on.
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But in the end, he says, really, if you watch your mind all the time, everything will come together. . Because everything begins in the mind.
[Burmese segment]
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Wanting to speak, wanting to do, knowing our thoughts. He says, um, and if we have awareness all the time, he says then, um, of all this that's happening in the mind, he says then the awareness will also be continuous.
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. What, what is being known? What does awareness know? He says, it also encompasses what's happening in the mind.
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And in the mind, for the purposes of this practice, the most important activity is the awareness. So, um, keeping an eye on that, he found that everything came into that.
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So then everything, um, was known as he was thinking, as he was speaking, and doing.
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He says, at home we have so many things to do, we're so busy, that, um,
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that if, um, we had a priority on
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being aware of our
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inner world as we did things, he says, then you'll find awareness is present, and then everything else is known as well. Awareness . Because when you know awareness, you will know the mind. ? And through that, you also know what's happening in the body.
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? We just need to do it
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every day
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[Burmese speech]
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And, um, and noticing day to day that although the awareness is not perfect, that there are benefits from it. And that inspires the mind to keep, motivates the mind to keep going.
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The more we see the benefits of the moments of awareness, and how when we are not aware, you know, mis there are fallouts from moments of non-awareness. And if we notice these, he says, it, um, it motivates us to remain aware. Because even if we make mistakes when we're aware, we have the chance to learn.
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So just keep doing it, he says. That's all.
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. Wanting to. . Wanting to, wanting to be with the Dharma, is, is saddhā, is faith, is confidence. .
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Being able to
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be with the Dharma, being able to practice, that's samādhi. And actually being able to pract, actually practicing, that's awareness.
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And what keeps it going is right attitude. What keeps you practicing is right attitude. , anh nha. And knowing how to practice is wisdom.
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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.…