Right View and Wrong View - Part 5

Right View and Wrong View - Part 5

About Right View And Wrong View

"Doing action or not" must be "doing only" and "not doing only". "Doing or not" is not of real importance.  What is important is whether or not there is freedom from attachment and wrong understanding.  To be able to do like this, it is necessary not to forget Original Truth- Impermanent Nature and two qualities of Impermanent Nature; Original Creation and Original Understanding.  If there is wrong understanding, everything is important and every single detail becomes alive.  If there is no wrong understanding, nothing is important and all Created Truths are just to be used, just to be experienced and just to be known only."

Understanding to my teaching or not" is also just to be understanding only and just to be not-understanding only.

It means not to change our lives, actions and situations but just to change our view or understanding.

"Doing or not" is also not important. If you have a chance to do it, just do it.

If you don't have any chance to do it, just don't do it.  There will be no more problem concerned with "doing or not".  I have a chance to teach Dhamma in Malaysia.  So I just come and teach Dhamma here. "Coming or not", "Teaching or not" is not important.  “To have right understanding like this" is important.

We must try to go beyond our understanding since our understanding is controlled by wrong understanding or misunderstanding.

Real Meditation

Real meditation is trying to be free from wrong view. Right view is free view, knowing only and understanding only.  We are traditionally paying attention to the actions of our mind, and body, our life and situation.  It is wrong to do like that and there is no end in doing so.

It is necessary just to change the controller;

from wrong understanding to right understanding,

not to change our life and our mind.

If we can change our wrong understanding, our mind and life will become perfect.  All of your dreams will come true and all of your desire will be fulfilled by that quality.  Only by paying attention to the right understanding, attention to Created Truths, people, time, place and situation will become less and less.

Due to paying attention to Created Truths, attachment becomes bigger and bigger.  By changing our attention from Created Truths to Original Truth, from wrong understanding to right understanding, our traditional attention to Created Truths will become less and less.  So try your best to pay more attention to right understanding and less attention to Created Truths.

Our mind is traditionally controlled by wrong understanding and so it is always busy with "likes and dislikes", "love and hatred", or "happiness and unhappiness".   If wrong understanding is controlling in whatever we do, our mind is not free, our action is not free and so our mind quality will not be free.

That is why we can copy each other whose mind quality is not free but we cannot copy Lord Buddha whose mind quality is free since we have strong attachment to ourselves and to tradition.

For me, "Who I am, what religion I am and what I am doing" is not important.  Therefore, "who you are, what religion you are and what you are doing" is not important.  So I can help people to change their wrong understanding.

To be continued

Right View and Wrong View - Part 4

Right View and Wrong View - Part 4

Impermanent Nature of  Something and Someone

We must not accept Impermanent Nature of everything and everyone as reality.  The nature of everything and everyone that we understand is just to be used only, not to be taken it as reality.  That's why impermanent nature of something and everything is just to be used only, but must not think it as reality.

Original Truth is forever and permanent. Created Truths are not forever.  We can understand easily nothing is permanent or everything is impermanent.  But everything and something are just Created Truths, and thus our understanding of impermanent nature is also just created truth.

All of us and our perceptions are just Created Truths.  Whatever actions and feeling, good or bad, life or death, are just Created Truths and so they all are just to be used, just to be experienced and just to be known only.

In using created mind, body, time and place it is necessary not to forget Original Truth- Impermanent Nature and its illusive power to think unreality as reality and its right understanding about the original truth and created truths.

To understand about Original Truth in the right way is important.

We all generally know that "Nothing is permanent.

Everything is impermanent."

We all think that kind of knowing is right.

But this kind of knowing of impermanent nature is

not for real meditation or only middle way.

Impermanence of everything and everyone

is concerned only with Created Truths

In fact, our knowing about impermanence of everything and everyone is concerned only with Created Truths but not concerned with Original Truth or Ultimate Truth.  If our understanding is wrong about Original Truth, we will think Created Truths as Original Truth.

We can use time, place, mind and body but we must not forget Original Truth- Impermanent Nature and its powers.

We can do anything using our mind and body but we must not forget the original illusive action of Impermanent Nature to think Created truths as reality.

You can know whatever saying by yourself and by others but must not forget the original knowing of real Impermanent Nature.

In this way, we will be able to use our life,

action and knowing in the right way

without misunderstanding of thinking them as reality.

Compared with Original Truth, Created Truth is not true anymore.  Because of not comparing with Original Truth, all Created Truths seem to be real.

To attain the real happiness or freedom or permanent nature, it is necessary not to forget the powers of Original Truth, Impermanent Nature, Original Illusive Action and Original Knowing of Impermanent Nature.

Our present knowing about Original Truth is created knowing only.  We have to make a practice of having right understanding as mentioned above.  More and more created knowing is the cause of appearing original knowing.

To be continued

Right View and Wrong View - Part 3

Right View and Wrong View - Part 3

Real Cause Of All Problems

Real meditation is using mind in the extraordinary way.  We are using "lives of male and female, life and death" with the idea of taking them as reality.  So there is attachment in our mind concerned with lives of male and female, life and death.

Because of that attachment,

lots of problems concerned with those

occur in human society.

We have strong attachment to Created Truths because of wrong understanding (taking created truths as reality).  If there is no wrong understanding, there is no attachment.  Because of wrong understanding, we need to make a practice of correcting our understanding.

You will need to understand and accept as mentioned above or as I guided you for a certain enough period of time.  In fact, more and more time and practice is necessary to have right understanding as I guided you.  In this way, attachment to wrong understanding will surely become less and less.

The Real Right And Wrong Understanding

The real right and wrong understanding is concerned with Original Truth.

There are two kinds of original truth :

1) Impermanent Nature and

2) Permanent Nature.

(Note : Impermanent nature does not mean the impermanence of something or someone but the real impermanence by nature which is constant and forever.)

Impermanent Nature Has Two Kinds Of Quality Or Power

1. Original power of creation or action to think unreality as reality.

2. Original knowing or understanding about Original Truth and Created Truths.

To be continued

Right View and Wrong View - Part 2

Right View and Wrong View - Part 2

The Help Of The Teacher Who Has Right Understanding

I am using all Created Truths - mind, body, time and place without misunderstanding but with right understanding, without any attachment to my life, lives of other people, my actions, actions of other people, my knowing and knowing of others.  Therefore, all my actions are just actions and all my knowing are just knowing only.  That's why I can help everyone to change their wrong understanding through my right understanding.  You cannot directly understand about right and wrong understanding by yourself.

Trying to have right understanding like me

 is changing your traditional understanding.

You need to try to understand and accept like me in order to have right understanding.  In this way, your attempt to accept like me will cause or will condition your traditional wrong understanding to be right understanding.

We need to change our understanding.

If we have strong attachment to wrong understanding,

it is difficult to correct our understanding

and it will take long time.

At first, we must accept the idea that our mind and body are controlled by wrong understanding.  Because that wrong understanding is concerned with our inner mind, we need to change our understanding and attention in order to remove wrong understanding from inner mind. 

We should only pay attention to wrong and right understanding, not to our mind, body, time, place and whatever actions concerned with mind and body which are just Created Truths.

In fact, all created truths are just to be used only but not to be paid attention to. What I am saying is not our traditional understanding.  Try to understand or accept like my understanding and then your mind power will become higher and higher.  This practice is mostly concerned with our mind.

"Mind Only Or Free Mind" Can Create And Do Everything

In fact, mind is free and it can create and do everything.  You can understand and accept like my understanding through right practice.  The more practice you make, the less the traditional mind quality (defilements) and then the stronger the power of mind quality will become.  In this way, our traditional understanding or wrong understanding (defilements) will become less and less and the power of right understanding will become higher and higher.

This practice is intended to go beyond traditional mind quality and to become free mind.  Since we are strongly attached to our traditional wrong understanding, it is difficult to understand like Lord Buddha and his followers.

However, this is the only way of trying to copy the Lord Buddha's understanding and thus sooner or later your mind will be more and more free and powerful.

To be continued

Right View and Wrong View - Part 1

Right View and Wrong View - Part 1 

This teaching (write-up) is directly based on the Guided Vipassana Insight Meditation Sermon (talk) by Ven Ottamasara at Bodi Heart Sanctuary (BHS) in Penang during his Dhamma Trip to Malaysia in March 2011.

"Having Right Understanding" Is Of Real Importance

We all are doing good deeds.  We can differentiate goodness from badness.  Whatever happenings and whatever feeling, good or bad are not important.  To know about right understanding or right view is important.   At the beginning, you can know about right understanding and wrong understanding by listening to my teaching- with the help of me.

Role Of The Help Of A Teacher Who Has Right Understanding

My mind has the power to change understanding from wrong understanding to right understanding.  It is difficult for you to change your wrong understanding by yourself.  But it is not difficult for me. You can copy my right understanding.

In this way, you can indirectly understand about those understandings.  But those indirect understandings are not enough and perfect to become direct understanding about right and wrong understanding.  What I am saying is not about someone, something, time and place, but just about right and wrong understanding.

Traditionally we are using mind, body, life cycle, life and death, time (past, present and future), everything, everyone, places, experiences and situations with the idea of taking them as reality.  In fact, all of them are just created truths. All created truths are just to be used, just to be experienced and just to be known only but not to be taken them as reality.  We are naturally using those created truths with wrong understanding.

What I am talking about right and wrong understanding is not created truth such as time, place, something and someone etc. 

All our knowing or understanding concerned with our mind are just to be known only but not to be taken them as reality.

"Understanding to my teaching or not" is also just to be experienced only and not to be taken it as reality. Our understanding is naturally wrong and so we need to change our understanding.

 

Understanding Is Concerned With Inner Mind

Understanding is especially concerned with inner or unconscious mind.  Generally we are using our outer mind or conscious mind.  Wrong   understanding or misunderstanding is mostly concerned with our inner mind.  By using our outer mind correctly, we must try to remove misunderstanding   from inner mind.  It is necessary to understand or accept like my understanding.  In this way, you can change your understanding from wrong to right.  This understanding is necessary to change our traditional misunderstanding about created truth.

Changing Wrong To Right Understanding

We are using all created truths with wrong understanding and so all our knowing and actions are controlled by wrong understanding.  Therefore, we need to change our understanding (controller) from wrong understanding to right understanding.  Even in practicing meditation, we are habitually practicing, knowing and experiencing with wrong understanding, with the idea of thinking them as reality.  e.g. This is right, that is wrong, practicing meditation is right, doing this good deed is right.

In fact, our practice and action should be controlled by right understanding.  Practicing meditation should be practicing only without wrong understanding, without taking the idea of practicing meditation, as reality.  If there is wrong understanding, our practicing will not be free and we will think like that "Someone is practicing meditation."

In fact, no one is practicing. Practicing meditation should be “practicing only”.  Meditation, time, place and experience seem to be real because of wrong understanding. We are using them with wrong understanding with the idea of taking them as reality.

To be continued

Motto Quotes of Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara

Motto Quotes of Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara

(Extracted from e-book "Right View and Wrong View")

Created Truths are
To be used only,
To be experienced only,

To be known only and

Not to be taken as reality.

Because of wrong understanding, we need to make a practice of correcting our understanding.

Real Impermanent Nature has the power to misunderstand Created truths

as reality and as of real importance.

In using created mind, body, time and place, it is necessary not to forget

Original Truth, Impermanent Nature and its illusive power to think unreality as reality.

If there is wrong understanding, everything is important and every single detail becomes alive.

Due to paying attention to Created Truths, attachment becomes bigger and bigger.

If we have strong attachment to wrong understanding, it is difficult to correct our understanding and it will take long time.

Created Truths are not true anymore compared with Original Truth. Created Truths seem to be real because of ignorance to the original reality, the Original Truth.

The more attention to Original Truth, the less wrong understanding become.

The less the wrong understanding,  the more the right understanding.

There is nobody behind knowing like this or not.

Original Truth is perfect. Right view or free view is perfect.

By remembering or not forgetting the power of constant impermanent nature; original illusive creation & original knowing of original impermanent nature, we will be able to use the created truths in the right way using only.

The real impermanent nature has two kinds of power.

(1) Original power of creation  to think unreality as reality (Samudaya Sacca).

(2) Original knowing or understanding about Original Truth & Created Truths (Magga Sacca).

Created Truths are to be used only,