Q&ADhamma Vibhajja Retreat25 Feb 2024
Questions and answers — Bad Thoughts Toward the Teacher and Identifying with Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 21 min
Original audio: English · Vietnamese interpretation
0:00−21:41
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In this interview, a yogi reports tension from a mind constantly rehearsing reports and fear of bad karma due to involuntary unwholesome thoughts. The teacher explains that these are merely natural mental and defilement processes. Not identifying with them prevents guilt and worry.
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Transcript
English
Sayadaw, he has a question.
English
Okay.
English
Not a question, I just want to share the— My experience, the last two lines are my experience.
English
Okay, okay. Your Dhamma?
Tiếng Việt
Niết bàn bồ-đề-đà. Của nhà Bồ-khe-dà.
Tiếng Việt
Hả?
Tiếng Việt
Niết bàn bồ-đề-đà. Của nhà Bồ-khe-dà.
Tiếng Việt
Ê, của nhà Bồ-khe-dà, cứ lùi vào kia một tí.
English
All right, Mr. Sayadaw, yes, I'm very happy to be here. To meet you is one of my dreams in my life.
English
Hmm.
English
Yes?
English
Did you come here before? No?
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Never.
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Never?
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Yes.
English
That's sad.
English
Oh. But I read a lot of your books, and I practiced your teaching through books, so, uh, yes. I'm very happy to be here to meet you.
English
Okay.
English
And, um, now I want to tell you, uh, share my— some of my experiences in recent days. From, um,
English
uh, yesterday. From the day before yesterday. And, uh, the mind knows many objects, as usual. Uh, the sensations in the body, the unpleasant— some wandering thoughts, judgment, the wanting to be loved, to be accessed well by others, that's what my—
English
What, what, what?
English
The wanting, the desire to be loved by others. Yes. Uh, beside the objects, the mind has the thinking, reporting these processes to Sayadaw, in English, my mind.
English
Oh.
English
Uh, so the mind awares of some objects. Immediately it reports the process to Sayadaw in my head. Uh, and that happens from a few days before the flight, and becomes more strong, becomes stronger when I arrive here.
English
Mm-hmm.
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Uh, and the mind getting really tense.
English
Hm?
English
Tense.
English
Tense, tense.
English
Tension.
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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.…