Q&AMae Hong Son Retreat16 Feb 2025
Questions and answers: investigation — How to Ask Questions to Investigate and Understand Mental Processes
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 4 min
Original audio: English · Vietnamese interpretation
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The interview clarifies how to investigate the mental process and defilements such as anger, delusion, and craving through questioning. The teacher explains the connection between intention and action, emphasizing the role of wisdom rather than simply seeking calm.
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Transcript
English
What are you doing? I need to do hold. Then look at me like this.
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So I look at the Udayika face, very red. He become angry.
English
Do you think it's more beneficial for Dhamma talks or to discussing or something, to ask something? But don't say anything. Why you come here?
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He come to waste my time.
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Don't think I also very angry person.
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That's why he said if he not become monk or he not understanding Dhamma, he going to die, or going to meth, or in going to jail.
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Jail? Jail meth?
Tiếng Việt
Điên á.
[Burmese segment]
English
Stubborn. He very angry person, he said.
[Burmese segment]
English
Angry person.
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But the way he is sharing very skillfully.
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He sharing only the book and Dhamma talks. But before he met every day. You come and discuss. Appropriate. Somewhere. That time he allowed to come, people to see me. A lot of people come and discussion. Talk and argue also. Some people come and argue.
English
Funny, funny.
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And later he stop to meet the people. It's also a lot of disease. If people come, they come cold and miss or something. And he has a lot of disease. So he don't want to see people.
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People are a lot of departments.
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Sayadow, how do you see the difference between foreigner and Asia people when they do the report, the Dhamma?
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Oh, foreigner they talk a lot.
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Foreigner they want to be talk. Even though talk, some question they what they have. Discussion is time. In the Europe and America, in the view time, everybody talk.
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Share, share, they share from.
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No, share maybe they telling their experience. And they want to know my response.
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And this guy also all question there for practice. They not understand or confused.
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So that good, right?
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Yeah, this is in the view time. We meet in the view time.
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Asia people is shame.
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Shame and shame to talk. For Westerner people no shame. Who want to ask them time coming.
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How about Chinese yogi teaching?
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Chinese also talk.
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But Chinese is some, some. Not everybody.
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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.…