Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat10 Jun 2019
Week 3 day 3 group A — Nature of Concentration, Delusion and Awareness
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 56 min
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A group interview explores maintaining awareness with a relaxed mind and distinguishing samadhi from tension. The teacher explains that when the mind is settled and free of preference, wisdom works together with samadhi to recognize realities naturally.
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EnglishYes. Um,
Englishtwo days ago. That was like a holiday for me in a way, because there were no interviews, so. Then I didn't have so much to do, because sitting hasn't— has been difficult. So I was walking a lot on that day.
EnglishAnd in the evening I was walking, and then I started to have this kind of frustrating, or doubt-related thoughts about the practice. During that day I had still been applying awareness, kind of putting effort to keep the awareness going.
EnglishAnd I was on a very long walk, it was late in the evening, and I started to have all kind of dark feelings there. And
Englishit lasted for quite a while. Then when I was approaching this in again, there was at one moment in the mind, um,
Englishkind of a thought, or very
Englishimpolite words, like, "Go away." And then the whole doubt feeling, it kind of subsided away, which was a bit surprising. Like there was— it reminded me of we were at some point discussing about the sutta, where there was this crushing the mind with mind.
EnglishSo there was kind of this one thought that was pushing away the feelings and sensations. Actually, the feelings also, I was observing at some point how it felt to have this frustration, and realized that the emotions, they were not very well
Englishpresent for me. So even though it was strong in a sense, but still emotional content, it's just blocked for me, so. Yeah. The sensation is not so obvious. Yeah. So it was clearly frustrating and
Englishunpleasant, but in a way quite close to neutral, because the emotions were not felt. Felt. Felt, yeah.
EnglishUm,
Englishyesterday
EnglishI slept a bit better. So it was in a week, first time when I woke up to the bell ringing. And also feeling quite good. There was the interview, and in the interview I've been thinking what could be a good way to stay aware.
EnglishI haven't found, like, any anchor that would work for a long time. So then I just, because of having put the effort so many days in a row, I started to try to relax. And in the first interview it felt like it worked pretty well.
EnglishSo just trying to relax all the time, and it was easier to stay aware doing all the normal things that I need to do here.
EnglishYeah, maybe if you can. Okay. So to look at the interview, you try a holiday if you're neighbor. Time near two to a time now, booked to lunch out to our land, near each other, earlier lunch if you are shelter. To a PM, to show in a to say that
Englishfrustration if you're doubting whenever. To yeah, about feelings, to pitta kanzamuro, kanzamu surabiya, to toa toa below kanzale surab, pinne deha utille, dame makanzau.
Englishso in a yeah. Yeah. Era toa to doubt, to frustration doubt, but era to
Englishmayo below toa
Englishbale, kangi yan yan san zayin ne zegare byo re to to cha seko, go away lo elomyo yan yan san zayin ne byo light ho seka ning ware. E tu a o ware, ho to dame mai itad lo we re seite kua, now seite kuo ho below kame. Don't ho like the bore, elomyo to kanzale, dame tu eima to byo re seka to di sei pitte lo byo be me toa ai seko kanzale ro maho kanzamu ne to.
Englishshide, neutral or
Englishwhat you explained as that you know what's happening, but you know the mind is not, yeah, the mind doesn't feel it. So it feels neutral even though you know it's a frustrating, yeah, feeling. Yeah. And then, um, second bit, oh yes.
EnglishNot kua tu di dimatai biro.
[Burmese segment]
EnglishEto ina shida, pinne pia kitu haiwo. Yeah. So if when you keep trying to relax and you find that your mind can, you can stay with the awareness, sayadaw says then you know the mind. That's what's happening. So chini ayo kitu haiwo. So chini to kajanja chini ne dare ayo nga. Your object has become.
EnglishChinene lo byo re yeah. The mind. He says knowing the mind even, um, grossly, sayadaw says the mind has become the anchor for your mind. I see ku chini era boyo wa pitte. Bale the chapan chini wadui see the miumiu tuine na. He says when you know the mind, he says you can know many functions of the mind.
EnglishOkay.
EnglishTwo more things.
EnglishSo yesterday I went up to the hill there, and I was after lunch lying in the sun there. It was quite windy, but the sun was shining, so it was a little bit cold. But then at some point there were a couple of times when it started to feel pleasant when the wind went down and the sun was warming the body, and I felt relaxed.
EnglishAnd then there was the combination of feeling
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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.…