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Wisdom understands everything clearly
Sayadaw U Tejaniya · 14 min
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The Sayadaw explains that mind and objects are new each moment, and wisdom clearly understands this rapid process. By knowing the mind door, yogis comprehend mind and matter, cultivating skill across all six sense doors.
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EnglishYes. Yes. Um, yesterday during lunch, experimenting with, "Can you know taste and the sound of chewing at the same time?" Mm-hmm. Okay. And the experience was that it can't. You know, a moment of taste. Oh. And then a moment of hearing.
EnglishOkay. And a moment of taste. Okay. And it's like a ping-pong ball. Okay. But very, very fast. Uh-huh. Um, but it, it— you can't hear one at the same time. Okay. Or one in the background. Um, and also,
Englishyou think you know the sound of chewing, but actually it's just one moment, and then you go to taste, and then you go back, and it's a completely different moment. Mm-hmm. So there's, there's no continuity to the object. Yeah. Each time you go back, it's a constantly new object. Right. Yes. Yes. Always. Every experience is all the time new.
EnglishObject also new. Mind also new. Right. Yeah. So. You cannot know all things two times. You— that's the one question. You cannot go into the stream two times, right? The same. Yeah. The mind, the process— the natural process is the same. You cannot come back. Right. Go back. You cannot go back. Yeah. Right. Every moment is new.
EnglishRight. New. Right. That understanding is very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Very new. Very interesting. Mm-hmm. And there's been a few moments where, uh, paying attention to multiple sensory inputs like that, multiple sense stores. Right. Um, and it's all just sort of happening. Mm-hmm.
EnglishUm, and it feels like there's very little cognition, like little naming. There's no time for naming. Yeah. No time for things to happen. Yeah. Some, some are only named, but reality process is you cannot name it. Right. All that's probable. Right. Exactly. Like, as soon as you name it, that's already— But some kind of wisdom knows clearly everything. Experience is so fast.
EnglishBut wisdom, if you have wisdom, he clearly understands every detail.
EnglishWisdom nature is that he can understand detail, every part, everything inside the process. Happening is so fast, like this. But wisdom understands everything.
EnglishNo need to think. This natural wisdom comes like this. If you think, "This is wow, wow, wow, this is amazing."
EnglishSo my question is, when in that place where multiple sense stores. Mm-hmm. Are perceiving— well, they're all perceiving, but awareness of multiple sense stores perceiving at the same time. Yes. Yes. Um,
Englishoften the feeling is of fear or scare, or, like, you know, there's some worry that there's not control, but then you realize there's no control anyway. So is it, uh, I— the question is sort of, why perceive so many sense stores at once rather than try and immerse in one? Because the mind is so fast, so quick.
EnglishAnd also, five-sense door and mind door is— it is a theory. Abhidhamma said, you know, five-sense door and mind door is happening like this. Two door altogether. That's why people, they try to focus only five-sense door object, physical object, then they go to this object, that object, one by one.
EnglishBut if you— someone who knows the mind door, he knows follow the object, then he can see the same time many objects there. Because of he's seeing the mind door, not physical door.
EnglishMind is so fast, so quick. Actually, the mind is happening one mind, one by one, but it is not we cannot see. We only experience is already flowing. A lot of things happening. That's why we can see— we can see simultaneously that many things already happen. Because of you seeing the mind door, not physical door.
EnglishIf you have only the object, physical object, physical door and object, you can see one by one. That's why this diet. When you know the mind, know your mind, then you regularize. And also, you can— five-sense, six-sense door become open. Same time you can know many things. That's why the one yogi, he said, he tried to practice focus, lively focus.
EnglishHe tried to aware his hand. Tried to take the bag. He very mindful and take the bag. And he put— he take the bag already, left hand is a paper already. But he not aware.
EnglishHe not aware. He, he tried to take a very mindfully only take time. The left hand, he already take the paper. But his awareness is only physical object, not mental. Cannot see in the mental. If you— someone seeing the mind door, he know everything.
EnglishAbout sometime, same simultaneously,
Englishyou do like this. Simultaneously, right? Can you know both?
EnglishYour awareness like this.
EnglishYou, you— which one you— which hand you focus.
EnglishOnly one you can do. Same kind of. This happening same time. If you focus the one hand. Mm-hmm.
EnglishIf you mind door. That's why if you— someone he can see the awareness. You can aware the awareness. He can see the mind door. He know same time many objects. That's why the mind can see the view, overview, and body and mind together, then relationship. That's why I ask. Because of this, my teacher asked many time.
EnglishHe, he used— he don't say need to investigate. He's just asking me, "Do you rise and falling? Do you know rise and falling?" Then I know, okay. I say, "Why rise and falling?" So he asked me, "Why your rise and falling happen?" Uh, this obviously because of breathing. Then he continue asking, "Why you breathing?"
EnglishThen I don't know. Then I think, yeah. I answer with intelligent level, not experientially understand. He said, "No, no, no. Go to practice." That meaning he teach me to how to investigate. But he never say investigate. He just asking why. That's all. Then I go to looking for this answer, right?
EnglishOne week, then cannot. Very tense. Because I want craving and try to looking for this. Oh. After one week, I like go, "Okay. Cannot." Then I forget. I forget about the this question. Just simply practice. But suddenly I understand because of intention to breathe and breathe is happen. The mind and body relationship like this.
EnglishIntention to breathe, the breathe happen. Intention to breathe out, the breathe out happen. Then I understand why. Because of mind and body relationship. You can see the both mind or mind, body physical also same time. Then you can see the right answer come. Then I ask a yogi,
English"Breathing, uh, why rise and falling? Why happening because of breathing?" Then I ask a different question. "Which one first? Breathing first or rising first?"
EnglishWhat do you think?
EnglishThe mind intention? No, no. Intention is the mind. I, I ask question is focus the breathing and rising falling. You breathing body is expand, right? Sometimes breathing is rising. Right? Breathing and body expand is rising falling, right? Because it's lower. No, no.
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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.…