Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat9 Jun 2019
Week 3 day 2 group G — Building Momentum and Understanding the Mind
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 27 min
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This group interview explores continuous awareness without identifying with effort or self. Yogis learn to recognize thoughts and defilements with right view.
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Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat · 33 talks
- 211 hr 55 minWeek 2 day 5 group A2 — Recognizing Conditioning, Right Attitude and Subtle Defilements5 Jun 2019
- 221 hr 23 minWeek 2 day 6 group D — Working with Restless Mind and Unpleasant Objects6 Jun 2019
- 2324 minWeek 2 day 6 group E — Agitation and Cultivating Interest in Practice6 Jun 2019
- 241 hr 31 minWeek 3 day 2 group F — Purifying the Watching Mind and Meeting Experiences with Equanimity9 Jun 2019
- Viewing251 hr 27 minWeek 3 day 2 group G — Building Momentum and Understanding the Mind9 Jun 2019
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- 271 hr 45 minWeek 3 day 4 group F — Dealing with Anxiety, Strong Emotions, and Discursive Thinking11 Jun 2019
- 281 hr 23 minWeek 3 day 4 group G — Attitude Towards Defilements and Working with Restlessness11 Jun 2019
- 291 hr 45 minWeek 3 day 5 group A — Doubt, Maintaining Balance, and Skillful Effort12 Jun 2019
- 301 hr 28 minWeek 3 day 6 group F — Seven Factors of Enlightenment and Effort in Practice13 Jun 2019
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EnglishI'm not sure what I'm supposed to say here too, but— Okay. I don't have any sugar left. So if you just tell him how you're practicing, whether you're trying to be aware, whether you can be aware, whether there's any confusion or doubts. Okay.
EnglishWell, basically I enjoy very much meditation, and
Englishit has given me a big relief. I started it when I had difficult times in my life, and obviously that was, I think, maybe the biggest thing which helped me to continue
Englishsomehow
Englishfrom the difficulties. But of course I've been more or less beginning. I've been meditating like 3 years, around.
EnglishYeah, the pleasure is maybe the most important thing, but sometimes, of course, I notice that my mind is very vivid and very
Englishunconcentrated.
EnglishHere I have enjoyed very much the idea of lightening, of making the practice lighter.
EnglishI think I've been struggling. To make it lighter? Yeah. I've been struggling maybe too much sometimes with the practice. Here.
EnglishTo Atthura Thomie, she went to Sā Atthura, Sindhukāyā Lod. To Vyomma Suvinade, Teyā Jyō, Teyā Chizō, Jaumbālī, to Siddhartālaya Lod. Nametuku, to beginner lobby of the Bodhisattva Dongbe. To Dhimā, to Seika, the Suzimumashin. To Nene, struggle, she's a little bit pure.
EnglishYeah. Teyā Nye Tongyanosui, Sūlawali. Teyā Rūsis, nobody, you know. Saba ima elewa. Everybody in the beginning is like that, struggles a little bit, and that's normal. He says, you know, just when you remember to be aware, come back to being aware of the present moment in the mind and body, over and over, as much as possible.
EnglishIf you forget, never mind. When you remember, you start again. Yeah, he'll be sleepy. You get lost in thought. That's normal for now. And just, you know, the awareness is not so good, the stability of the mind is not so good, but it will grow because now you're trying to do it.
EnglishTeywa ji, Teyā Nye Tongyanosui, akawa na wazo. So after 2 or 3 days, you might find it's changing a little bit. Okay.
EnglishThank you.
EnglishYep.
EnglishI think recently I feel like sometimes I don't really know if I'm practicing or not, because
Englishit's like the awareness is like I'm aware of something, like, you know.
EnglishYeah, so, but, so maybe it's not knowing, like, whether it's enough effort there, or it's just become a bit more natural. So, yeah.
EnglishSo that's one thing. Go to a guru a lot. Atthura Matthūla Mteyā Ure, to Amate Dhorāla, Tey Mtirala, Mhōi Dhabbāwa Pocharala, Mtivaso Teya. I don't know if you're going to share my teyama, but go to Seika, I'm the guru of teyama. Teyā Rūsis, yes. I'm going to concerned nature with Kōbi.
EnglishKōbi teyama. I will work. Nichiren's is the teyama to me. Teyā Rūsis, if you're unsure, he says, you know,
Englishcheck. Like, he says if the awareness is, if the awareness is present, then you must know what the awareness is aware of. Right? So clearly there is an awareness and the object that it's aware of. And then you differentiate whether the object is a concept or a reality. Right? So, so notice that when you feel confused, you're wondering, am I aware?
EnglishThen check into that.
EnglishI want the yogic signal, yoga pinna, yoga signal, yoga sensation pinna. Na seizo lengo wa see feeling Dhamma, Dhatt, and Hu. Yeah. So if
Englishthe objects are just mind and body, right? If it's in the body, it's the sensations or the senses. If it's in the mind, it's either the mind is feeling or the mind is thinking.
EnglishI think it comes back to kind of just always wanting something else to do. Like, this can't be it. You know, even knowing that just the practice just to continue to be aware. But when there's not nothing special happening or like, then, yeah, then I will be wondering, oh, is this practicing enough?
EnglishYeah. Yeah. The kugu uloje nde lobe, see pia ita dere. But ukiwama tu tu, ita dere mapema udhibi wa taani ya roho. The Atthura teyama lobe see pia ita dere. Pitta ina, see it's going to the kaula makaula chanchila. Dhābu yuji, Teyā tungi see it's going to the taala level, no? Then what you need to be checking is a more macro level.
EnglishLike if you're practicing, if the mind is being mindful quite steadily, then you want to check, is the quality of the mind getting better? You know? Does it have. If hii ya tuzo zana za ushawa. Yeah, not something strange or wonderful. Just, you know, in general, is it more wholesome, more positive, more, you know, is it seeing things more, more reality? Yeah.
EnglishBoamya amesema, Karajipendo amesema, quality ya taala hawa. The dhyani taala, the mali taala, taala. Because we're cultivating those wholesome qualities, right? So the awareness at least should be growing. The stability mind can be growing. The wisdom can be growing. So you can check any of that. But does it mean
Englishif there's still a lot of suffering going on, or at least turbulence is in the mind, but does that actually just mean the practice, you know, the quality of the awareness is, or the quality of the mind is not good? Like. Seika, huwa rishi, dera bo, see it's chama ya kugu.
EnglishShiri la yoshi, shuri la bo. Suffering ni pinna, in seika blood we end love them a lot. Taala to naletepo mamudivyo reaction ya neema ya miyama bo. Yeah. It just shows that we don't understand enough yet. Right? If there's still stuff that comes up in the mind, it's just another opportunity to learn more. That's, that's the bit that the mind doesn't understand yet.
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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.…