Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat5 Jun 2019
Week 2 day 5 group A2 — Recognizing Conditioning, Right Attitude and Subtle Defilements
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 54 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:54:36
Uses compressed audio.
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In this group interview, Sayadaw explains how to sustain awareness with right view amidst changing emotions, physical pain, and external circumstances. Yogis are advised not to dive into objects but to recognize the mind itself, balance effort flexibly, and use challenges to grow wisdom.
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Transcript
English
There's not much I actually want to say, or need to say, actually. Um,
English
this is the last meeting for me, I'm leaving on Saturday, and I just want to—
English
to express my gratitude for the teaching, the instructions, and also for the, the opportunity which was offered to practice in this way, which has given me
English
an enormous amount of information and experience, and which will allow me to, enable me to, to continue practicing. It feels like I have received what I need at this stage, and so now it's for me to take it home and to apply.
English
And I have all the intention to, to really do that. Yeah. So I would like to thank the teachers and also the interpreter.
[Burmese segment]
MY
Yeah, he says that's what we have to do. We have to practice the dhamma as part of our lives.
English
Yeah. Life
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can be Dhamma. Otherwise life is hard. Life is life. .
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Life is come out . Yeah.
English
Okay. So
English
I— I have, uh, more things than before, so I wrote it down a little bit.
English
So, uh, so there is a lot of interest in the practice, and I— I like practicing very much.
English
Uh, I don't sleep very much. I sleep like four or five hours. Four or five hours. And I— I wake up naturally. I don't try to wake up, but naturally I wake up. Yeah. 1. . No bi. . I'm also used from the work, because at work I— I wake up at 3:45.
English
English
So most of the time I do formal practice. I do walking and sitting, and
English
I experience quite, uh,
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quite, uh, a lot of peace and
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stability.
English
In sitting and in walking also.
[Burmese segment]
English
Yes. There— there is very little reaction to the object.
English
So, uh, objects are coming, but there— there is like, uh, very little reaction. So very little, little anger. Very little.
English
And
English
when there is some kind of judgment, which has like, uh,
English
uh, angry character,
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it doesn't have like emotional charge. It's only just the thought. And this thought, it's just one. Not many. Just one, and then it's finished.
MY
[Burmese speech]
English
Also, in this— when there is this angry judgment, there is meta behind it. Because there is like seeing that this judgment is impersonal, and it doesn't belong to me, it's just conditioned. And then behind it there is like meta towards the person.
[Burmese segment]
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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.…