Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat13 Jun 2019
Week 3 day 6 group F — Seven Factors of Enlightenment and Effort in Practice
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 28 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
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In this group interview, the teacher addresses overexertion, attachment to thoughts, and the depleting nature of greed. The discussion also covers the Theravada perspective on death, maintaining effortless awareness, and how wisdom wisely guides action and balance.
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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
- Viewing301 hr 28 minWeek 3 day 6 group F — Seven Factors of Enlightenment and Effort in Practice13 Jun 2019
- 3143 minWeek 3 day 6 group G — Acceptance and Right Action13 Jun 2019
- 321 hr 32 minWeek 3 day 7 group A — Being Aware of Seeing and the Sphere of Perception14 Jun 2019
- 3352 minWeek 3 day 8 — Taking Care of the Mind in Daily Life15 Jun 2019
Transcript
EnglishFinally. I have stronger feelings coming,
Englishand I think it's the microphone.
EnglishIt's been quite calm, and
Englishthe effort I've tried to not use any—the awareness—is quite continuous and strong,
Englishso it's good.
EnglishI feel the practice happening itself; it helps with the right view.
EnglishBut still, there is some wrong view, I guess, or at least wrong effort, because
EnglishI still build up some tension,
Englishespecially if I sometimes go into the stories of my thoughts and then come back. I pull back too forcefully. Or one part of me—I notice this part of me that
Englishuses attention too—the attention goes too strongly. I really saw it happening, like
Englishblip, and then some kind of tension. So it's interesting. I really
Englishtry to—I really effort not to effort, but I guess it's really difficult. Try not to make effort.
EnglishTuo on se työskentelyä, että diggaa on reaalia. Kun ymmärrän mikrofonin kautta ne messaget, mitä pyydetään antelemaan. Ja sitten sanoo, että tuo on jengin retki, niin ajattelen että oh, worria. Tämä worria on minua petattunut, en edes tiedä mitä. Vaan se on tintin lailla. On tosi ikävää, että jokainen syö tuota. Jokainen pyytää, että saisiko tuon loppua
[Burmese segment]
EnglishIt's just notice that's happening. The tiny things that will help you. Yeah. So long as you notice this is what's happening and the result, over and over, the mind will adjust itself. So just notice it. Right. There's a little bit of worry, though. I think I've trained my mind with greed, maybe a little bit aversion.
EnglishI think it's happening a bit naturally, this tendency. I'm worried about, okay, here it's okay, mind is calm. I see it quite clearly. But back home, what's going to happen?
EnglishI think there is not enough wisdom
Englishfor home. Here it happens, but
EnglishI'm afraid that home I'm going to go back to my forceful, a little bit too effortful ways of practicing. Oh. Ei minä soin tua. Dimää. Sekään ei ole tuotu sen jarran, jarran. Humajaan tuo alue. Ei tuo saa viluta. Pian pian voi olla rauhallinen.
EnglishÄäni on. Odota, odota. Minä aloitin luvan myötä tuolla te-te-mi-maan myötä. Kunhan joudun työmaalle. Silloin ei tule lukittua. Alun ateemi löytää riitaa minulta. Yeah. He says, well, at home as well. He says, you just have to— Work at it, or the ritaa minulta. Notice that you're making too much effort. I don't talk that much. I talk the energy of the other one.
EnglishYeah, recognize it. Recognize when you're doing it, and then that gives you the chance to
Englishlearn about it. He says, at home it's almost like you don't have a choice, because it's not so easy to be aware at home. So the mind will make sort of more effort, but when the tension comes, you say, just— Tuo on se ratti on. Liikkeen määrä tuo on se teema. Tuo on teemalla. Yeah. He said, experience will teach you. You'll notice when you're in a hurry, and then you start putting in more energy and stuff like that, and you know.
EnglishOlen ollut siinä. Olen ollut luvan mukaisesti. Luvan mukaisesti. Luvan tielläkään. En löydä mitään. Yeah. He says, now you have the knowledge, at least theoretically. When we don't have it, then we kind of repeat patterns over and over. You have some knowledge now. You also have some consciousness that it's happening, so the mind is going to—it's going to be learning from that.
EnglishI have one more question. It's about hobbies or activities that require full attention outwards.
EnglishIs that bad?
[Burmese segment]
EnglishKielletään. Loi loi siihen päivään, kun on aika olla.
EnglishPaljon lepoa minun tiedän. Pelottaa paha, paljon lepoa minun tiedän. With what attitude do you approach the hobby? Is it unwholesome? Are you doing the hobby angrily or greedily? Or what's the intention? What's the motivation for doing the hobby? Is it to relax, to learn something? So the motivation.
EnglishAnd he says, whatever you practice in doing a hobby, he says, that sort of gains momentum in the mind. That will sort of work outside of that hobby time as well. So just recognize that. Kieletään. Loi loi ja tuota taustatyömaa. Tuo on sangen melu kettua. Yeah. So if it is something unwholesome motivating you to do the hobby, he says, then that will gain momentum.
EnglishBut if it's something wholesome, that will gain momentum too.
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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.…