Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat13 Jun 2019
Week 3 day 6 group G — Acceptance and Right Action
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 42 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−42:35
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This group interview clarifies that acceptance is a basis for acting with wisdom rather than passivity. Yogis discuss aversion to noise and cold, while the teacher explains that irritation stems from attitude and judgment rather than external sounds.
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Transcript
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Um.
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Don't have anything special. That's okay though. Yeah. There's no need to—there's no need to say anything. No. But I guess—but that is—it seems like,
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yeah, everything is quite ordinary, so it's just observing whatever is happening. So, yeah, I don't have anything. Okay. Yeah. No need to squeeze anything out. It's just—
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Okay. Just— Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay.
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No stress.
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Um,
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I started this talking experiment
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with Alexis, and
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it was
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after, when I went to sauna and it was so nice and calm and
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amazing sauna, that
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I noticed how I'd been feeling really pressured
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while talking
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about
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time. I was so aware that I have only 15 minutes and have to, like, really, you know, like, talk about everything important.
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And I didn't have so much, really, to say, so it felt really forced.
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And it didn't feel so good afterwards.
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Oh, and, well, not good. It wasn't not good. It was just like a—well, I could tell that I enjoy non-hurried
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human contact.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The Deep Tower Lodo
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Yes. Unhurried contact is better quality.
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Of course. Okay. Yeah.
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Uh, yesterday I was walking outside. It was a bit cooler. Um,
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and I already noticed. Wrong effort. So I was just, don't just, don't be aware. And still, I'm aware of something anyways. Um, so I kept going on that sense. And at some point I realized I was walking faster. Like, I walk at a normal pace, but even faster.
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And
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I realized because I kind of wanted to warm myself up. Um,
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and oh, wrong attitude. Like, dosa month. Like, kind of, I'm, I'm, I don't like the cold. I'm trying to fix the cold. Like, a little cold. And
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why am I trying to do that? Um, a thought came. Like, why am I trying to do that? I can't control the weather. It's just cool. It's—today is cool. And, but already, so I was saying dosa
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mind. With the weather. Dosa. Dosa becomes bigger dosa. Um,
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it was already happening. I was not liking the fact that I'm trying to fix something that I can't fix. Yeah. Um,
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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.…