Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat22 Nov 2023
Questions and answers — Awareness as Mind Function and the Idea of Self
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 46 min
Original audio: English
0:00−46:01
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A Q&A clarifying that mental processes and awareness are conditioned, not a self. The teacher explains the three levels of suffering (dukkha), the role of letting go, and right view in recognizing the illusion of ego.
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Transcript
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I'm going to ask for confirmation on my understanding. I think I understood why you said my mind and thoughts are not really mine. So, um,
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yesterday I was maintaining sati a little bit long time, and then I realized the sound was there, but I was hearing— but it's not my hearing, it was just kind of recognition. And the sound was there, the recognition, this process, it doesn't belong to me, it's just happening.
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I realized that.
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Mm-hm.
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So this morning I was doing the meditation, I was thinking, why is it I always said, "These minds are—" my thoughts are there and not mine. And I realized this way, that there was some kind of conditions
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fulfilled, then some mind pops up.
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Yes.
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It's not me, I'm creating, and it's not— it disappears, so I cannot even grab it.
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Yes.
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So this whole process is actually— it's happening in me, but it's not mine. I cannot create it. Is that—
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Happening, yeah, happening. The process is the process is exist. The idea is me, idea is only idea, not exist.
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Me or self is idea only, uh, how do you say, yeah, idea. Process is exist. The process is happening, but we believing this is me.
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So the recognition.
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Yeah,
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recognition.
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Awareness.
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Yeah, awareness, recognizing, yeah, recognition, awareness is
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what?
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What is I?
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Huh?
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Who is doing that recognition?
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Recognition is also one kind of function of the mind.
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One.
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This also one— that's why we try to aware the mind process. This is the one kind of function of the mind, awareness, right? So the mind is experience is also not me, right? But awareness still has me, right? We believing this awareness, I am aware, right?
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Yeah.
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But actually awareness is mind quality, mind function.
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Sorry, mind function.
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Function.
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Function, function, function of mind.
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But just that's enough, enough. Now you recognizing this is— but now you believing this and still I'm me, right? I'm meditating, right? Or now you have a doubt on who is this, 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.…