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Understanding Dukkha is Freedom
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 8 min
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The Sayadaw clarifies the genuine understanding of dukkha. Suffering is not merely painful feelings, but the ungraspable nature of arising and passing phenomena. When wisdom truly understands dukkha, the mind lets go, becomes free from defilements, and experiences genuine peace and freedom.
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EnglishDukkha is more easy to understand. People think about the dukkha as suffering. If you're not suffering, you cannot understand dukkha.
EnglishHow to see the experience? Dukkha experience, how to see it?
EnglishWhat is the dukkha experience? Constant, nonstop, arising. Huh? I'm sorry. Constant, nonstop, arising and passing away. That's happening all the time, like a river. This is the dukkha? It's the understanding of the dukkha. Understanding dukkha is different, right? But you can see it nonstop. It's nonstop leaking, coming and going, coming and going.
EnglishSo if you understand the dukkha, it's okay. But you cannot say suffering. I would understand it as if I know that if there is attachment, then
Englishthere is dukkha. It doesn't— It cannot attach. Cannot attach. Oh. Cannot hold. Cannot hold on. Cannot hold on to it. Cannot hold. Yes. Many ways. But important is understanding the dukkha.
EnglishWhen you understand the dukkha, how do you feel? That is more important.
EnglishThe mind state must be changed. Because of understanding comes the nature of the mind state must be changed. Maybe you can see this freedom. Freedom. And
Englishlet go. Attachment less. So more peaceful, more neutral, more economy. Not suffering.
EnglishHow to see the dukkha experience? People can see that suffering feeling. But how to understand the
Englishsamādhi, pitti, pasadhi? How do you understand it? This is dukkha.
EnglishVery nice feeling.
EnglishPeaceful, very peaceful, nice feeling. Joyful, very nice feeling. Tranquil, very nice feeling. How do you understand this is dukkha? You cannot have experience. This is understandable.
EnglishRight? In permanent, you can say rising and passing away.
EnglishAnd that is the problem. People, they try to see. They want to see the rising and passing away. That is the problem. Naturally, which time is increased, the mind can know it's changing. And also, all the time different.
EnglishMost of the scriptures or the teachers, it seems as they say, you go see this rising and passing. That's the problem. So people get in the idea. That is true. We also, before, we follow this rising and passing all the time. But I know my mind is not changing. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So it's good that we talk about that. Yeah, you're not changing. Definitely same. Every time I saw this, I'm very happy.
EnglishOh, I know, I know, I know I'm in permanent. But actually, not.
EnglishYeah, yeah. So you don't need much concentration. It's not a target. The teacher said, you must see the rising and passing away. So yogi is not understand very well yet.
EnglishSo they think, I must see. I need to see. So the expectations are, because I'm not wisdom yet. So wisdom object and concentration object different.
EnglishActually, it looks right that even yogi by concentration, he can. Concentration is can help you to understand a rising. Yes. He can really see moment by moment the rising and passing away very quickly. Still, that doesn't mean the real understanding, right? Moment by moment.
EnglishSee, only experience. You cannot say. How do your mind change? I ask you. This is more real.
EnglishAnd also. How do you feel? How the mind happen? After you see this, what changes?
EnglishAnd another teacher said that the dukkha is. So the people say suffering is dukkha. And so people, they try to see the changing is suffering, changing is suffering. They see the changing. But they contemplating changing all suffering, suffering, suffering. Slowly, they very suffer.
EnglishAnd cry.
EnglishUnderstanding of crying. I saw many yogis,
Englishblah, very strong crying. It's a creative suffering feeling. The mind create the suffering called suffering. Because she only know the feeling suffering is suffering. So she feel it. She feel this feeling as very strong as suffering. True suffering. True suffering. Then explode. Boom.
EnglishThen she cry. Ah, very cry. Ah, very difficult. The whole in the Dhamma hall, everybody is shocked.
EnglishSo dukkha is not like this. What teaching is described like this? The dukkha, the. Because of translation. The ultimate reality of dukkha, yes. Oh, happiness. Happiness also. You need to know about the yogi idea. They cannot understand too much. Then what you say, they think. How they think?
EnglishWhat they have, they understand already. They have knowledge. They can think what they wish. Not real nature. They cannot think. They can't imagine the real nature. They listening and they think what their way. It's not real. Then they exaggerate that they follow what their way. It's already wrong.
EnglishSayadaw, I just want to ask, if my understanding of dukkha would be that when mind is understanding dukkha, then it is understanding that the process has
Englishno real value. So it chooses. No meaning. No meaning. All satisfied. So it chooses not to get involved. And this is the reason. Nothing to use. Yes. Yeah. This is asuka also. Dukkha is dissimilar.
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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.…