Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat28 May 2019
Week 1 day 4 group B — Wisdom, Specific Characteristics, and Natural Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 55 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−55:08
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This group interview explores how mindfulness and wisdom cooperate to understand mental and physical characteristics. Sayadaw advises knowing natural objects without force, easing tension and letting go of expectations so practice stays effortless.
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Transcript
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Okay.
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So, um, I had a very interesting discussion with my buddy— Your body? With my buddy. He said that, man, you're getting older every year.
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So
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that's the— that's the anicca.
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Uh, one question to Sayadaw: you have said that
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awareness is not enough, so could you— you need wisdom and understanding. So, could you explain more about that process when awareness is changing into wisdom and understanding? It doesn't change. It just starts including it.
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Tuo, öh,
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tuu kana kua— tuu selline discussion loppu, se jää pilavi loppuun, niin tää ei oo ollaavi voli. Tää ei oo Dhammapyura. Ei saa loppua? Ei saa loppua. Joo. Joo, joo. The D— Tamil? Niin, the Dhammapyura.
[Burmese segment]
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Every time you are mindful, the five faculties— you know the five faculties— they work together. Yes? Ero? The D-että Maria-uria-että-tha-te-pe-ja-e. You going over a little about arthritis-epimelon. Voinko mä the D-tha-tha-te-te-te-tehden kuin joku?
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Joo. Ja ateemisidekään, joo. Teidän atomi, teidän ateemisi...
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ati-ni-am-fi-nai-moon.
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Knowledge is one of them. Knowledge is— so whenever we are mindful, five faculties, you know, the sati, the viriya, samadhi, saddhā, and paññā, they work together. And he says, if we don't have any understanding of the Dhamma at all, if we don't have any knowledge of the Dhamma, Sayadaw says, then although we may be aware of something,
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it won't necessarily give rise to insight or more understanding of the nature of things. So we do have to have some background information.
[Burmese segment]
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So he says, and paññā, the, you know, the part called paññā, he's— you know, it's— paññā can be learned wisdom, it's our own innate wisdom, and then it is— sorry, not learned. It's— first it's just like third— secondhand knowledge, right?
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Like what we read and what we hear and so on. And then there is our own innate wisdom, and then there is the wisdom that we learn from experience and from insight. And Sayadaw said that it's the second one, our own innate wisdom, or we might call it intelligence.
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Sayadaw says that it inevitably— it works with awareness, right? Because we have it. So when we're being mindful, it works together with mindfulness. And
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to help us to learn to
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be more skillful when we're being mindful, right? To be more skillfully mindful. And
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so
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the more that quality is strong in a person, Sayadaw says,
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the more curious that mind is, then that mind tends to, you know, whatever experience it has. He says, it's like if you ask someone to do something once, twice, three times, or more times, someone who has a curiosity about that, if their wisdom is about that, that person will start becoming more skillful in it, maybe more efficient in it, maybe they'll discover ways to do it better.
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You know? So that's how wisdom comes in and works
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for a person. So whether it's in mundane things or in awareness. And he says, you'll find that some people will just follow instructions and, you know, they'll just keep doing the same thing but not
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expand on their— on their territory, you know, with their own understanding of things. So, yeah, that's. The D-tha-tha-te-te-te-te-te-te-te-te-te-te— tuo tuo
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tuo tuo— pian lokaaman, the D-tha-tha-te-te-te-te— the D-tha-tha-tha-tha-te-te— luki— et juusimisi luvat lampoilla, tento metos venäjä— no, keep it to a parental. Yeah. So this understanding of whether something is necessary or not, whether it's beneficial or not, whether this is useful, whether this is the right thing to do, you know.
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Sayadaw says all that
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is explained, they're categorized as something in Pali called the sampajñās, the clear comprehensions. And so when there is clear comprehension and it works together with awareness, then also it paves the way for
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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.…