Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat26 May 2019
Week 1 day 2 group B — Wrong Attitude and Working with Worried Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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In this group interview, the teacher explains how to maintain right view with wrong attitudes, worried minds, and attachment to samādhi. Guidance covers staying mindful during speech, practicing with open eyes, and acknowledging hidden emotions without reacting.
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Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat · 33 talks
- 146 minWeek 1 day 1 — Cultivating Wholesome Qualities and Right View25 May 2019
- 21 hr 34 minWeek 1 day 2 group A — Working with Greed and Aversion26 May 2019
- Viewing31 hr 1 minWeek 1 day 2 group B — Wrong Attitude and Working with Worried Mind26 May 2019
- 41 hr 20 minWeek 1 day 3 group C — Recognizing Mind States, Handling Confusion and Cultivating Wholesome Qualities27 May 2019
- 52 hr 9 minWeek 1 day 4 group A — Differentiating Functions of Mind and Reality vs Concept28 May 2019
- 655 minWeek 1 day 4 group B — Wisdom, Specific Characteristics, and Natural Awareness28 May 2019
- 71 hr 33 minWeek 1 day 5 group C — Cause and Effect, Right Effort, and Letting Go of Expectations29 May 2019
- 82 hr 20 minWeek 1 day 6 group A — The Meditating Mind, Balancing Effort and Observing Defilements30 May 2019
- 91 hr 4 minWeek 1 day 6 group B — Superficial Awareness and Observing Reactions to Suffering30 May 2019
- 101 hr 53 minWeek 1 day 7 group C — Recognizing the Mind at Work and Working with Lobha31 May 2019
Transcript
English
Okay, so first of all, I'd really like to thank Sayadaw. I discovered his teachings 4 years ago and it really changed my life, I must say. I had also a small form of depression, and just asking the question, "Is it necessary?" helped me so much. So, but related to the practice now, I'm trying to find out a little bit more about right attitude.
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And actually, every time I check—and I check very often—I always had a wrong attitude. Always wrong. So it's like either greed, delusion, I mean, everything is there, and the crazy mind, I mean, it's really— So I was rereading yesterday a little bit out of this wonderful book, and it was said at one point, well, you shouldn't change your— you have wrong attitude, and you shouldn't try to have right attitude.
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And I see the point. What I'm trying to do, actually, is try to bring in some curiosity. Every now— but that would be tricking, isn't it? I mean, it was like trying to change from
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wrong attitude to right attitude. Or— so that would be my first question.
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is it necessary
[Burmese segment]
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. Yeah. So I was just, you know, there's always this dichotomy in the mind, between the mind that's watching everything else and the minds that we notice, and those are the objects, right? And so I was just, when he says we need to have right attitude, it's only about the mind that is watching.
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So when we check if the mind that's watching has the right attitude and it's wrong, so I was just, then we just— it becomes the object. You know, and we notice, okay, this is wrong attitude. And we don't have to change it, but he says we can be curious about it, like, what— what is this like? And that's not changing it, it's just, yeah, asking more questions about it, observing it a bit more carefully, or whatever.
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Yogi yogi yogi . Yeah. And he says when, you know, as we meditate, he says the work we do is from the side of the observing, right? We're observing. He says what we— what we observe, then
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that's what we don't change. When we've noticed something, we don't try to change what we've already noticed. He says, but remembering that having noticed what is happening as it is, that's already right view. So when you know there's wrong attitude, well, there's wrong attitude that's right view already. . So seeing— seeing that that is what is happening in the moment is already a gain.
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You know, it's a profit, you— you see what's happening as it is. You're not, like, deluded about it, you're not tricked by it, you see. . And it's important to see that, you know, that if— if, you know, if it's happening right, you know it's happening this way. If it's ha— something is unskillful, you know it's unskillful. That's helpful to recognize.
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Yeah, the second question. Thank you. The other thing is, well, I find, for instance, to be mindful of seeing it's incredibly helpful in real life, and just hearing, and it was, like, wonderful. The only thing, my job is to talk, and that— where I'm lost when I start talking. To be mindful while I talk is so difficult, really.
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I try very, very hard. I can do it perhaps 20 minutes, but then I see that's it.
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Just practicing.
[Burmese segment]
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Yeah, just keep trying. . Not— notice especially, like, have an intention to notice when your mind becomes eager to speak, because it's eagerness when we get involved in, or, you know, really, really wanting to get a message out, that that's when we lose the mindfulness of— of ourselves.
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. And he says when— if the mindfulness is really stuck to you, you'll be very conscious of that energy, you know, and it can't run away with you. But, you know, if it does, because of habit, we— you do want to know it, so you can set up the intention so that you start noticing. .
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. Practice . Yeah, so it just— . Yeah, he says that you have to practice every time you speak, and if you speak a lot, that's— Whoever. You have a lot of— You don't have to. Opportunities, yeah. . Yeah. He says we all need to set up a habit too, and an intention to be mindful of the speech.
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clip . When we— . Become skillful in speaking, he says, then, you know, our work gets done, you know, we need to speak with the speaking gets done, he says, we learn to speak more skillfully, we learn. It doesn't happen right away. We learn to speak more skillfully.
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And he says mindfulness also happens, so everything gets done.
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Okay, thank you.
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I think this came answered already, but I still ask. I have lots of worry in my mind when I check my what's going in my mind. So does it— does the same thing apply, that I just still just keep noticing it? worry .
[Burmese segment]
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So I was just, you need to— . You need to remember the— the your motivation for observing the worried mind. So I was just, we don't watch it so that the worried mind will go away, right? But you need to remember that
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there's— there's two things. worry , yeah. So the first thing is, I was saying, when we are
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properly being mindful, we are not giving any energy to the thoughts of the worried mind. You know, we don't, like, believe them, we don't give them more energy to think. So when we don't give the mind energy to think, those thoughts start to lose energy.
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They— they— they start to not be able to think so much, or influence us so much, because it's the continuous thinking that influences the mind. So by being mindful, you know, by being mindful, he says, the worry can get less, just because another activity is taking its place, although it's still there. They're— they're kind of competing, right? And the second thing is that now this— this mindfulness, its job is to actually notice the worried mind, and also to get some information about what worried mind does.
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So what do you know about worried mind? So what does it make you feel? How does it feel when there's worried mind? What are the sensations? What does it do? How does— how do those thoughts, you know, you're not giving them power, but how do they trick you to notice that as the mindfulness continues, you know? And,
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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.…