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The Many Faces of Craving
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 3 min
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The teacher clarifies the subtle aspects of craving and defilements. Meditators should distinguish between natural bodily needs like hunger and the craving that exaggerates them. Defilements distort reality and exaggerate problems, prompting the mind to overreact to unpleasant feelings.
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EnglishOkay. Last week, I think it's less— less aversion, but more grief. More grief. Grief, okay. Especially last days, like— very strong grief. Okay.
EnglishAnd— Definement is many fees, no? Grief is many fees. Grief, I haven't seen it so clear yet, I think. When— when I remember you said this word, I remember one Italian guy come. He also— very interesting, very intelligent. He said he looked at— he checked his craving all the time, so he learned something about craving.
EnglishFor example, he said,
English"You like things, many things, right? Ten things you like, but you stop ten things. Every thing you stop, uh, uh, object." The mind liking this object, this object, this object. Ten object, right? Then now you stop this object the mind cannot like.
EnglishUnderstand? How? How do you say it? The craving, the liking, one thing, one thing, this object. Happens. Several objects. Now you come to meditation center, you stop the object, you cannot do anything, right? You need to, uh, eat pizza, or you cannot follow this object.
EnglishSo craving cannot come in. So you stop the object, right? Ten, but if you have ten objects, you stop, but three objects you allow. Do craving come? Is craving— all energy craving come with it? Only one. One!
EnglishUnderstand me? The craving is very smart. Yeah. So like, like, like, um, like what is— like hunger and greed is not the same. Not the same. Hunger is very simple. This is natural. Hanger, hanger is, uh, hanger is a physical object.
EnglishBut it's, it's so intertwined, like. Yeah. Hanger and one intention to eat. This is natural. Natural intention to eat because of hanger. It's greed. Aversion, uh, craving is different. But hunger can be painful as well. Yeah. Yeah. Pain. Hunger also not unpleasant feeling. Not pleasant feeling.
EnglishSo? Yeah, like to, to see the difference is very
Englishdifficult. Yeah, right. You should know about this difference, right? Get, get, get lost. Like if he is, like, um, starving and relentless, so many thoughts, then I believe it. Like I— if I don't get something to eat, I will die in one hour.
EnglishYes, exaggerate. Yeah, yeah. Craving. Every, every defilement makes exaggerate. Craving also, angry also. When you are angry, the pain becomes— because it's very big, and you think, "It's next hour I will, I will die." I guess.
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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.…