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Seeing Change versus Understanding Impermanence
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 3 min
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The teacher distinguishes between searching for change and truly understanding impermanence (anicca). When the mind lets go of force and control, genuine insight can arise naturally on the basis of prior contemplation.
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EnglishHi, I— I have a question about what we were talking about before, um, when you were saying how beginning yogis try to look for the characteristics and, um, and so— and then, you know, it creates craving and, uh, and not seeing. But I remember, uh, one day when I was doing that, I was the happy yogi that you were talking about, looking for change, and I was like, "Change, change, change."
EnglishVery happy seeing change everywhere,
Englishand, um, it feels like a game. Yeah. And then I was walking in the floor, I kind of forgot about it, but I was— I was directing my mind all day to change. Yeah, right. Because I just read that the Buddha had said if you spend one day seeing knowing change, it's better than a hundred— Not seeing, knowing, change. Understanding is permanent. Yeah. Yeah. It's very different.
EnglishYeah. I can see many changing every day. Yeah.
EnglishBut it's— it's different because of you, you— you're talking with yourself. If you see the change in one day, right, see the changing. But actually, he want to say is that you understanding the one time impermanent, understanding impermanent one time. Mm-hmm. Now, it's better than normal, normal people and your many life.
EnglishYou— you long life and you one day you understanding impermanent one time. Mm-hmm. It's more beneficial for other life, other years that you live. Mm-hmm. Without understanding impermanent. Right. What he's meaning, not to see the changing. Okay. Yeah. Totally. And, but so what happened, interestingly enough, is that there was, on that day, one I had actually kind of forgotten about it.
EnglishMm-hmm. So maybe that's why. Mm-hmm. I was walking in the forest and it was a really strong understanding of that, but on an experiential level. Right. You know? Yeah. So when I was thinking cause and effect, I'm like, well, I was directing my mind all day. Yeah. To see that in an artificial intellectual way. Right. Yeah. Too much, uh, artificial. Yeah. Making, controlling too much.
EnglishTotally. But afterwards. And you forget everything, just simple practice. Yeah. That time is work, right? Yes, but I wonder if that preparation before. Right. What? Preparation what? I wonder if that directing of the mind beforehand. Yes. Yes. Helps that come. Yeah. Because of before you use a lot, right? Then you forget.
EnglishEven if it was. But in unconsciously you don't forget. Yeah. Unconsciously there. That's why some question we use the question we try to find out the some solution that your difficulty in daily life, we try to think, think how to solve. Cannot get and forget, okay, it's leave. And wake up and sometime we get the so-so solution in time.
EnglishMm-hmm. Because of this unconscious level, the question is already there.
EnglishI said many times about Akimidi.
EnglishAkimidi. You know Akimidi principle? Yes. Yes. Akimidi principle. Mm-hmm. You know you don't know Akimidi principle? Yes. You need that? You need that? Akimidi principle, the volume and the water, you put the volume how much? Yes, exactly. Mess with the water, the water come out. Remember that.
EnglishHe's six days, he— he tried to solve that this problem, but because of his fear, the wisdom not coming. So last time, last day, seven day, the kid was kid-kid, he accepted whatever happened. So I want to shower. So the mind forget everything and he shower, he sink to the bathtub, the water come out, then he understand.
EnglishBecause of him forg but because why this answer coming? Because of question is already there.
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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.…