ISN’T THE ‘I’ WRONG VIEW?

Swiss Retreat 2019 Interviews 3 (1:09:35-1:17:02) with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

Yogi: I’m often challenged with right view in my job, especially when supervising people and telling them ‘I want you to do this and that and you do what I say’. Isn’t the ‘I’ wrong view?

Sayadaw: Everything that this mind knows, we consider it to be ‘me’, but in fact, it’s just those minds at work.

We use the word ‘I’ in daily life to refer to almost everything that comes up in this mind and what it wants to manifest, but we need to recognize that the ‘I’ is only a mask for the quality that is being expressed at that time and understand which quality it is, whether it’s a wholesome or unwholesome quality.

It is important to check what is the mind referring to when we refer to ourselves and use the word ‘I’ like ‘I need to do something’ or ‘I want to go somewhere’?

Is it greed that needs to go or is it necessity that needs to go? What is it that is manifesting; that’s what we need to check.

When we say ‘I’m meditating’, are they effort and awareness at work? We need to check the components other than get lost in the ‘I’.