Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat5 Jun 2019
Week 2 day 5 group A1 — Recognizing and Acknowledging, Existence of Objects, and Right Attitude
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 42 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:42:21
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A group interview clarifying how to recognize craving and conceptual thoughts. The teacher explains that knowing the presence of awareness itself is sufficient without grasping at object details. All perceptual processes arise according to conditions and natural laws.
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Transcript
English
The timer starts now. Dude, put some pressure on. Yes, there's pressure, definitely. If I need to speak quickly.
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I'm feeling quite tired, so the thoughts are not... not fast.
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I think one of the motivations is that when I speak, I want to practice reporting.
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In the previous sitting, there was
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tiredness, and then there was some quietness. And, uh,
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if there was nothing much happening and no kind of lost— not lost in thought— then I would hear the sounds, if they are loud. And then the sense of tiredness was
English
there when trying to observe the tiredness or the heaviness. It was not... it might disappear a little bit.
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And, um,
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there was something I wanted to say that I don't remember at the moment.
MY
[Burmese speech]
English
there would be this kind of the narrative about what's happening, going on, part of the time. And then there would be this kind of thoughts coming up. But I suppose because of the tiredness, they might be nonsensical in the end, so they would collapse, kind of.
MY
Doesn't make any sense. Yeah The thought Yeah
English
Yeah. Yeah, maybe that's about it. In general, there has been this tiredness, but— Tired, tired, honest. —I don't sleep that much during two last nights, and then I can't sleep during the days. But I'm calling lonely. Because I have restless legs.
English
If I try to sleep, then I have these sensations, and I can't sleep during the daytime. "Restless legs" .
MY
"Scared gets it sometimes too," he said. "Not so bad yet."
MY
Yes. Anyway, in general, the practice is okay so. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Keep going.
English
Speed.
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So there's been some dosa,
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and I've been keeping very simple practice. I go back to neutral object.
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I've been
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exploring and experimenting with
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seeing and looking,
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and also contemplating
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right attitude. And I found that
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when I was practicing earlier at Shwe Oo Min, it was like I had some deeper understanding of that, so it feels like I need to refresh it, almost. So I've been contemplating right attitude
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now for a few days, and I found it really helpful to kind of disidentify from the object and
MY
Kind of being more accepting with the present moment and so on. yoy only neutral eye on u experiment
[Burmese segment]
English
Yes. And,
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um,
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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.…