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Right Thinking and Wrong Thinking
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 6 min
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The teacher explains the difference between right and wrong thinking, noting that right thought arises from understanding and wisdom. Instead of trying to stop continuous thoughts, meditators should recognize them as natural mental objects to be aware of. Knowing thoughts means knowing the mind.
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EnglishBecause not wrong thinking is right thinking.
EnglishSo that's— I cannot explain easier. Wrong thinking means if you think with the deluded,
Englishthinking with the craving, thinking with the defilement, and all are wrong thinking. So right thinking means the mind thinking with knowledge or wisdom. That means right thinking. Right thought, right view, right thought is wisdom. But you know Nova Effort Park?
EnglishDo you know Nova Effort Park? Right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right awareness, right? Right view and right thought is wisdom. Very important. That's why first, one, and two is right view and right thought. This is paññā. Right living hope, right speech, right action is sīla, morality.
EnglishRight awareness, right samādhi, right effort is samādhi first. So sīla, samādhi, paññā. So right view and right thought is wisdom. So
Englishthought, thinking is
Englishmust be have some right. But how do you know right?
EnglishWe start with the knowledge first, right? Nobody before we don't know. Then the Buddha come, he's the master, he's talking, explaining what is a rupa, what is a dharma, then we start with listening. Because he give me the— we give us the right information. So we hear, then we start to think, and we start to practice.
EnglishSo we— right means is wisdom. So where the come from wisdom? Only knowledge we started. Knowledge and intelligent, I said information, intelligent insight. So this grow the wisdom. So we start with the information.
EnglishKnowledge. Knowledge we have a right information have, then we can think right way. Right? That's why we need to listening, read the book like that. The discussion also, this is right information come, right? Then when we hear that this right think information, then when we apply this, we can apply.
EnglishThat's the right thought.
EnglishOkay? Yeah. But most of the time our mind, untrained mind, our thinking is not all the time right thinking. Sure. It's always wrong thinking. That's right. A lot of useless chatter. Yes, that's true. That's true. That is true. How to abandon— That is true. That's why you need to know about your thoughts. Don't believe your thoughts.
EnglishWe don't believe, but it comes keep on playing the same game. Yes, but you not follow. Now, before whatever the mind say, you already don't do, right? Yeah. Yeah. Now watch again. Who are you? Are you okay?
EnglishChecking, checking. Now you have awareness, right? So when they come, they talk, check again and look again. Before we not checking, we all the time following. But they come all the time. That's right. Now we try to aware our thoughts.
EnglishThat's why difficult. So can we deliberately inject right thinking? Only you must have how much you understand already. If you have some wisdom, your mind understand something, then you can apply this.
EnglishThat's why beginner we just applying the secondhand knowledge. Now you listening many what we are saying, then you start to think. This way in practice. And later and later you become the mind become more understand, "Ah, this is right." So wait, take the time. Cannot change immediately the mind.
EnglishBut sometimes the thinking is so continuous that— And forget about this. Okay, so I— they do their job, you do your job.
EnglishIt still coming, this thought. Yeah, coming is no problem. Let it be. Like someone talkative. Ah, non-stop. Right? Non-stop. Don't care about him. You do your job, right? When they're tired, they stop.
EnglishPlease. Panjabo.
EnglishWhat? The talkative woman come and talk. How to do? You cannot stop her. So don't care about her.
EnglishSo, Sayadaw, is it okay like sometime you cannot stand it anymore, all the talking? So I just tell the talking mind, say, "Okay, I will let you listen to me." So then I will start thinking about maybe the, you know, the blessing, thinking about the— But this is not— The 38 blessing.
EnglishBut don't care— Just stop it from thinking for a while. Don't try to stop. If you want to stop, it's wrong.
EnglishDon't try to stop. This become their nature. You need to understand. This is thought. Also object, just knowing what they happening. If you know your thought, means you are knowing the mind. This is a part of practice, meditation. So why you are complain about the thoughts?
EnglishThis is a mental object, right? It's not bad. We can use this. Why you want to get rid of this? Later and later you more aware of this, and we can go to the deeper in the mind state with beyond the thoughts. First you need to scare how to use the thought like as objectively, as object like this.
EnglishSo you need to practice. So thought is no problem. Thought is a mental state. The mind object. Okay? This not, not, not don't judge about this bad. It is nature. Okay? If you think this way, then you can accept this thought.
EnglishYou, if you know that your thought means you are aware of the mind, right? This is very, very important to learn about this. Okay?
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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.…