Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat6 Jun 2019
Week 2 day 6 group D — Working with Restless Mind and Unpleasant Objects
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 23 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:23:08
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This group interview clarifies how to be aware of craving, restless mental chatter, and distressing memories. The teacher explains that the mind does all the work, not an independent self. Meditators are encouraged to sustain continuous awareness and accept all objects to cultivate wisdom.
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Transcript
EnglishYeah. So,
EnglishI've had a really, uh, interesting
Englishretreat because
Englishit has been a— since we came here for the first time,
Englishit came this really strong
Englishoverwhelming, actually, sensation in the body that
Englishmade me totally unable to even open my mouth. So, and very surprising.
EnglishBut, um,
Englishit has been so strong that I couldn't even, you know,
Englishapproach it anyway.
EnglishBut so I— I tried to do something else, and talking, you know, the chatting, you know, constant talking was, uh, very, very strong. And
EnglishI thought that maybe, maybe it's better if I don't go there because— because it's so strong that I, I went away all the time with it. And then right away when I
Englishunderstood that I'm there, the mind would, you know, the mind that understood that I'm there would start the chatting all the time, all the time. So I— but it was impossible to, you know, push it away. It was there. So I tried to breathe and walk and anything, but the chatting would be— would be there.
EnglishSo I thought that, okay, I'm not able to, you know, take a step back for that, so I will— I will stay with that. And I noticed that
EnglishI could
Englishtry to
Englishnotice when
Englishthis physical sensation came with the chatting. And it is the same kind, actually, that this big sensation I had, just smaller. And it was
Englishinteresting because, actually, I know that sensation. It's the— I know it. I just have been pushing it away so for such a long time that
Englishit feels that I understood that, okay, this has been there always when
Englishthere is something
Englishthat I don't want or that I want.
EnglishAnd because I felt all the time that I have to, you know, accomplish things and get things done, etc., I would, you know, push that sensation away, that bodily sensation. But actually, now that I've been able to, you know, just look at that sensation and notice it's just my body telling me
Englishto pay attention to that
EnglishI want or I don't want. Interesting.
EnglishWell, I don't have really a question. It just has been really
Englishinteresting this week. Yeah.
[Burmese segment]
EnglishYeah. So they're just options. Just things happening in the mind and the body, and we just keep watching and then we understand slowly more about them. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah.
EnglishUm,
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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.…