Nature's Meditation Notes and Monkey Parable
Summary
The Chinese server shares insightful meditation notes from Sayadaw U Tejaniya on handling workplace challenges. This teaching emphasizes turning attention inward to observe mental states like aversion rather than fixating on external stressors. It is a vital reminder for our community that true peace comes from managing one's own mind, transforming how we perceive difficult situations in daily life.
```Sayadaw U Tejaniya “Turning the mind Inward: The Object must be your mind, not your Boss” 9th Jan 2026
Yogi: My meditation object has become my boss. She constantly yells at me, and it dominates my mind.
Sayadaw: This is the wrong idea in practice. Your object should be the mind itself , not an external object.Your boss is merely a condition, not a true object of meditation.Whether you fixate on her or not, her behavior may not change. Your task is not to manage her, but to aware your own mental state. You must turn your attention inward.
Yogi: When she’s angry, she stops texting and sends long, intense voice messages. I’m still learning how to handle it.
Sayadaw: You just need to be aware of yourself and know about yourself. Have to deal with the internal defilements instead of dealing with external objects. Why do you make an external concept your object?. That is unimportant. You just said “my boss is my object” this is a totally wrong idea. Aversion is your object. Disliking is your object. You have to take care of the disliking mind because you can not handle this boss. Can not change him.
When something happens people always look in the wrong direction.They show interest in outer, conceptual problems, but neglect the inner defilements that actually cause suffering. All the time take care of your mind, watching your mind. If the mind is undisturbed, then no situation can disturb you. The whole world becomes zero problem. “There is no problem only solution”```
