Sayadaw U Tejaniya

Doubt / wrong views /
wrong attitude (1)

• Trying to understand through thinking   

• Wrong attitude towards impermanence, suffering and non-self

• Ego          

• Attachment to the idea of self

• Mind still thinks there is ‘I’          

• Difficult to dissociate the sense of self

• Delusional identity            

• Idea of self            

• Noticing the idea of self            

• Understanding cause and effect

• How to recognize delusion            

• No time to be aware all the time

• Why yogis cannot improve

• Lobha, dosa, moha            

• How to watch the worrying mind

• Doubt whether the practice truly purifies the mind            

• Various thoughts            

• When meditation stops, defilements increase            

• Numb mind            

• Mind weak not due to aging but delusion 

Doubt / wrong views /
wrong attitude (2)

• The nature of delusion

• Wrong thinking

• Don’t think too much about an understanding

• Belief is reinforced ideas

• Exertion is wrong practice

• Wrong effort, check attitude

• Energy of defilements

• No need to force right view

• Disappointed with teacher disrobing

• Mind doesn’t go anywhere — the paying attention mind arising and passing away 

• Defilements arise from wrong view

• Struggling because not skilful

• The trap of attachment

• Automatic reactions are delusional

• Defilements grow due to the idea of ‘self’

• Major trick of defilements

• Sudden disinterest to be mindful

• Wrong ideas make meditation difficult