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The Anatomy of Wisdom
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 3 min
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The teacher explains the understanding of the Four Noble Truths and the three characteristics of anicca, dukkha, and anatta. Wisdom can arise all at once or develop gradually depending on the individual. Practitioners must patiently accumulate continuous awareness until it becomes entirely natural.
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EnglishCan I ask a question about dukkha? When one understands dukkha, does one understand the four noble truths in one go? So when the dukkha is recognized, do you understand immediately all four? Yes, it's very powerful. Very powerful. One and four understanding, one understanding, four finish.
EnglishAnd if not, so how— Because understanding dukkha, when your wisdom arising, then the wisdom is—if your wisdom is the overview, why he know how the wisdom arising also. What state of mind the wisdom can arising. He know many thing how to be a wisdom arising. Because of this is the wisdom. He know how the wisdom growing.
EnglishVery well. So like this, if you understand dukkha, the understanding cause of dukkha. Okay, yeah, it's— And also free from the dukkha. Four noble truths immediately. So immediately. Yeah, I understand. If you want understand, four finish. I understand that this should be like this, yeah. Beginning is a suffering because of defilement. Suffering is
Englishwe learning before is suffering. And later we try all because of defilement, you are suffering. And we meditate, the suffering gone. Right? One by one, one by one. This is very low level understanding of dukkha, cause of dukkha, and the way to free from dukkha, and free from the dukkha. The basic is dukkha. That's why dukkha is the difficult to understand.
EnglishBut, but, but— Another also not very difficult. Another not too difficult. But it means that first would be anattā? Is it doesn't pull like that, first anattā, then anicca, then dukkha? No, you cannot say like that. Cannot so. Because it depends on your personality. The process cannot be like this. Yes. Some people, they start understanding anicca.
EnglishSome people, anattā. You cannot fix how to understand the whole thing. Anicca, dukkha, anattā, anyway.
EnglishSo, so— Some people, they want understanding three all together. Very powerful. Why is sometime the anicca or nicca finish? Sometime people dukkha, anattā finish. If you're very strong, you know some one, three already. Nicca, dukkha, anattā, together. Very powerful.
EnglishBut in the usual for normal persons, for not so strong persons,
Englishthe development is, yeah, sometimes dukkha is under some parts of dukkha is understood, some parts of anattā, some parts of anicca, in the process, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, that's why we need to collect many kind.
EnglishOne understanding not enough.
EnglishBecause of defilement over one again, over one again, over one again. So we need to allow the subtle many time, often.
EnglishLike awareness. Beginning, we cannot get the momentum. Awareness on, awareness off, awareness on, come back again, come back again, come back again. If you allow time, then awareness becomes natural.
EnglishYou no need to force to be aware. Awareness already there. If you forget to meditate, but awareness, no med, forget, not forget, awareness there. Because of become nature.
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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.…