Q&ANirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Retreat14 Jun 2019
Week 3 day 7 group A — Being Aware of Seeing and the Sphere of Perception
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 1 hr 31 min
Original audio: Burmese · English interpretation
0:00−1:31:32
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In this group interview, the Sayadaw emphasizes maintaining continuous awareness in daily life over seeking calm. He also clarifies wholesome intentions and helps yogis recognize objects clearly to support wisdom.
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- 271 hr 45 minWeek 3 day 4 group F — Dealing with Anxiety, Strong Emotions, and Discursive Thinking11 Jun 2019
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- 301 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
- Viewing321 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
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So, first, a comment: yesterday morning I woke up
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and then I noticed how I started to hear the cars, or the road noise from the highway, and then I started to hear some birds singing. And when it started, it felt to me like somebody is sliding a volume up, so I think.
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I don't remember before having—like, there was awareness before I started to hear the sounds. So that was an interesting experience for me. 《》，，。《》，PV，。 ？ ，，PV。。 Yes.
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Maybe I could ask about practice after this retreat. Some yogis reported here that they had, during the retreat, the need to do some work-related things, and then they said that their kind of mind was somehow
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distorted after that, or it was kind of less calm. And I think I have a similar kind of experience from my some earlier retreat, that I needed to do something, and then kind of the external world
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was messing up the calm state. But then on this retreat I have been doing the sound things and also talking more, and
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sometimes checking my emails, and it feels like now it's probably much easier to go home. And still, the practice has been useful, but I don't think I will be able to, for example, go to work and be very aware there, because even doing this job here I feel that I am not very aware all the time, and it's much harder to do that at work.
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So actually I was thinking about future retreats. I can go maybe about 3 times a year for a 1-week retreat, and wondering if it would be
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more helpful for me to practice
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more in kind of getting into the calmer state, so not so much interference. Or would it be more helpful to have a little bit more distraction when the practices maybe doesn't go so deep, but then it's closer to
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normal life. Yes.
[Burmese segment]
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He said that He doesn't think
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. He said he doesn't think that it's very useful to just try to have more calm on a retreat. He said it's more useful to try to
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have continuity for long, extended periods of time. So, like, if you can learn to maintain a little bit of awareness, like. . Yeah, even if the moments are not so close together, but they, like, it's something that you do daily.
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And that sort of becomes very entrenched in your life. He thinks that will be much more useful when
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the habit of awareness becomes more entrenched in life. . He says, I mean, from your experience yesterday of waking up in the morning and how it felt, it shows that that natural awareness is starting to become kind of like seep into the mind, you know, and that's what you want to grow, the one that pops up spontaneously and does its own work.
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You want that to come up more and more.
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Yes. I think I can somehow
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extend the periods of awareness in daily life by doing daily formal meditation practice. So it feels that I have been able to
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be aware in less demanding situations than at work, like when using the computer. So yes, I think it's possible to try to extend bit by bit. But then maybe also the retreats are useful.
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Yeah, he says you have to do both. Formal Yeah. Do as much formal as possible, and but remember that the goal is to grow that
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habit of being mindful. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much.
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I don't think I have much to report at this moment. Just the sort of
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the gratitude of having these 3 weeks. Weeks of
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learning so much that I don't really— I'm not sure if I've ever learned this much in 3 weeks. Or at all, perhaps.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's it. My goal is to start another retreat. Sunday evening.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's it. If we do 3 weeks, we get 3 weeks' worth. And if we do it forever, we get forever's worth.
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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.…