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Right Understanding Leads to

Real HappinessTaken from Talk By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara

at March 2011, Penang, Malaysia.

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Preface

This booklet is taken from the direct talk of Tsunami Sayadaw U

Ottamasara at the trip of Malaysia_Penang at March,2011 with thehelp of Ma Hnin Nwe Soes transcript.

Sayadaw teaches that in order to get the real happiness or real peace of

mind, right understanding about the created truths and original truths

is necessary.

Created truths are just to be used only, be experienced only

and be known only. Original truth is not to be forgotten.

Continuous understanding the created truths and original truth in the

right way itself is the real meditation(only middle way) leading to real

happiness, real freedom and permanent nature.

To be able to practice the only middle way, we need the guiding help

of the teacher who knows the created truths and original truth directly

and very well.

To understand & to be able to practice his teaching_Dhammanupassanasuccessfully, we need to give enough time to listen to his teaching and

practice more & more patiently and persistently according to his guiding.

With Lovingkindness,

Soe Win Htut

The real meditation method isunderstanding the created truths as they areby not forgetting the Original Truth;

by the ability which doesnt takedoing or not doing as reality.

by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara

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Understanding Created TruthsCreated Truths are- Concepts, dualities _ pain & pleasure, likes & dislikes, Yin & Yang,

ideas, places, time -etc;- to be used only and not to think them as reality and of real

importance.- someone, everyone, somewhere, everywhere, sometime, everytime,

something, everything, feeling, emotion, sensation, thinking, mindand body that we understand.

- Created truths are not true anymore in comparing to originaltruths.

- Created truths seem to be real in our perceptions because ofignorance to original reality, the original truth.

(i.e. because of the illusive actions by the constant power of originaltruth_impermanent nature)

Everything around us is Created Truth - people, things, placeand time, male, female, young, old, sick, healthy, teacher, student,

parent, child. They are not real but seem to be real because of the

ignorance or creations of the original truth.Created Truth is to be used only, to be experienced only and to

be known only but not to view them as reality.

There are endless problems in life because we use life in the

wrong way. We live our lives with misunderstanding when we are

attached to the Created Truth - attached to this way, that way, to

be somebody, someone, some place or time. Actions are just actions;

experiences are just experiences; knowing is just knowing ; goodness

is just goodness , badness is just badness - they are not realities.

Original Truth and Created Truths :Right Understanding leads to Real Happiness

Talk By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara at March 2011, Penang, Malaysia.

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Created Truths are not to be attached, thinking that they will

give us ultimate happiness.

All experiences of meditation or lives are to be experieced only

without misunderstanding as reality. Whatever good or bad

experiences are to be experienced only and must not think them asreality.

Appearing and disappearing of something is to be experienced

only and must not think as reality. Whatever actions good or bad are

to do only and to experience only.

The truth concerned with our life is that we are traditionally

using life in the wrong way. Doing good deed is right, but thinking

good deed as reality is wrong. Just be good but must not think good

man & bad man as reality.

Just knowing hot & cold, good & bad is right. Thinking them as

reality is wrong. We are naturally using our mind & body in the wrong

way. The nature of mind and body is just to use and just to experience

only but not to think as reality. Whatever knowing good or bad is

also just knowing only. Whatever action good and bad is also just tobe done only and just to be experienced only, but not to think as

reality.

Whatever teaching are just to listen and just to speak only.

but must not think as reality. Using mind and body, time and place

with the idea of reality is wrong. Using only, experience only and

knowing only is right.

We are using our mind and body in our daily life but we areusing them in the wrong way. That's why we need to change our

understanding_ not our actions and not our life because ourtraditional understanding about life is wrong. What we are doing &

who we are is not important; whatever happening to our mind andbody is not important but just to be experienced only.

No need to say about mind & body_time and place which are

created truths. They are just to be used only and not to think themas reality. Now I m using mind & body _ time and place in the right

way. There is just using them without paying attention to them.


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Whatever situation good and bad are just to be faced and just

to be experienced only and not to think it as reality.

Buddha's desire is to correct our understanding. Doing or not,

eating or not, sleeping or not is not important. Life and death is also

not important because all are just to be used only. The truth aboutour life is just to be experienced only, just to be used only, just to

be known only.

Whatever causes are to be done only and to be experienced

only. Whatever effects good or bad are just to be experienced only.

Knowing good or bad are just to be known only. Not to think them as

reality. Just use life without thinking as reality. Instead of using

traditional wrong understanding, we need to use right understanding.What I'm saying is right understanding about created truths

and created life. If there is no right understanding, whatever good

or bad seems to be real. Life & death, time and place seem to be real

because of wrong understanding. Male & female, parents & children,

teachers & followers, seem to be real because of wrong

understanding.

Im not saying good or bad about life. But I'm just using life,I'm not saying good or bad about time and place but I'm just using

time & place in the right way. Using only is right. Using with the ideaof reality is wrong.

Only when you can correct your misunderstanding, you canunderstand about me, my teaching, about Buddha and his teaching

very well. My teaching comes from practice_ not from theory andnot from thinking.That's why only by practice you all can understand

my teaching. Try to use right understanding about the created truth

instead of using traditional understanding.

Just pay attention to the right understanding and not to pay

attention to our mind and our body. Our attention should be only to

the right understanding. Be courageous to abandon the traditional

wrong understanding and to change our attention from created

truths to original truth.


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Understanding Original Truth

There is two kinds of Original truth;(1) Impermanent nature (or) constant impermanence by nature

(dukkha sacca)

[Not the impermanene of something or someone]and(2) Permanent nature (Nirodha sacca)

The impermanent nature has two kinds of power.

(a) the power of creation_action to think unreality as reality.

(b) the right understanding the original truth and created truths.

Not only knowing about created truth but also knowing aboutoriginal truth is important. Original truth is beyond life, mind, timeand place which are created truths. Original truth is forever andalways the same. Original truth is beyond our mind. We can't directlyunderstand about original truth & original wisdom.

What we can directly understand is only created truth andcreated wisdom.

We can indirectly understand about original truth with the helpof Buddha and his followers.

There are two kinds of Original truth; impermanent nature

(constant vanishing by nature_ constant impermanence by nature)

and permanent nature.In this way, you can understand me and my teaching about the

original truth.

Impermanent nature has two kinds of power. One kind is

power of creation to misunderstand unreality as reality. That

power is forever. That power create to misunderstand unreality

as reality.

Another power of impermanent nature is original knowing ororiginal wisdom concerned with original truth.


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Our attention should be only to the original truth; the powersof impermanent nature (i.e. original power of creation_action to thinkunreality as reality and right understanding of impermanent nature.)

Because of attachment to the created truths, it is difficult tochange our attention to original truth.

We are used to pay attention to created truths. We are usedto take care of our mind and body.

Because of that habit, it is difficult to pay attention to originaltruth: impermanent nature (constant impermanence by nature) and

its original power of creation to think created truths as reality andits original understanding of the original truths.

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Real meditation is to correct our understanding about life,action, experience and knowing that we traditonally takeas reality.

Only original wisdom can understand original truth.Original truth is beyond created truths such as time, place,

body and mind. _By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara


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Real Meditation (Only middle way)

Real meditation is to correct the original mistake which iscreating all problems, stresses, suffering, worries and questions. We

need to correct our understanding about our life.Real meditation, only middle way is the bridge between created

truths and original truth. Only middle way is not to forget the powersof constant impermanent nature (as mentioned above) all the time.

By not forgetting the power of constant impermanent nature,its illusive creation, its right understanding, we will be able to usethe created truths in the right way_(using only).

Then, in order to be able to 'use only' the created truths, thepower of constant impermanent nature must to be remembered (or)believed as much as you can.

If we practice meditation, we are traditionally practicingmeditation with the idea of reality. In fact, all actions are just to do(i.e.. Just to do either this kind of action or that kind of action) andjust to experience only.

Tranditionally we can't understand beyond our mind. Realmeditation method is to practice beyond the quality of our mind.

In this way, the quality of our mind will improve. In fact, mindis to use only and not to be paid attention to and not to think it asreality. More and more practice is necessary to be able to payattention to original truth which is beyond our mind.

That's why if we can't go beyond our mind, we can't understandoriginal truth. We are using our mind in the wrong way with the ideaof thinking as reality.

To be able to use mind in the right way, it is necessary to payattention to the original truth which is constant impermanentnature_impermanent energies_ impermanent power which is beyondsomething, time and place.

That's why our mind can't directly understand original truth.The ability or quality to go beyond our mind is necessary tounderstand about original truth.


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Impermanent nature is not the impermanence of something

and someone. Just about the original truth,

constant impermanence by nature.

All lives or Created truths are to be used only- to beexperienced only and not to think them as reality.

The most importance is not to forget or believe only the powerof impermanent nature which are beyond our understanding.

There are two kinds of power ;

-One is the power of creation to think unreality_created truths as reality and

-The another power of impermenant nature is orginal knowing or

original understanding about original truth.

I'm using my mind and body in the right way because of thatquality of using created truths in the right way, I can sucessfullyexplain about the original truth which is not something and someone.

That's why it is very difficult to explain the original truth bywords. Try to be free mind and life.

Only when our mind is fully free, we can have direct connectionwith the original truth. If our mind is not free. We can connect onlywith created truths. I'm using mind and life freely in the right way.

Just practice only. must not think experience, time and place,teachers and followers as reality.

All lives are just to be used only and not to think as reality.

That's why we need help of Buddha or his follower who canunderstand the original truth & created truths well.

More and More indirect understanding well make to appeardirect understanding about the original truth.

Because original truth is difficulit to understand, we naturally

misunderstanding something, someone as original truth.Only when we practice to improve our mind quality, that

qualified mind can help connection with original truth.

Summary


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Applying the right understanding in all kinds of fields;

Our tratidition mind is always busy with something, everything,someone, everyone, time and place.

By paying attention to everything, everyone, time and place,

the quality of our mind will be within limits. That's why it is importantto understand original truth that concerned with creative truth andoriginal truth.

If our mind is not free, our mind cann't help direct connectionwith original truth and original wisdom. Our mind is always busy withcreative truth. So our mind has no connection with original truth.

We need to change the habit of our mind. Need to change ourattention from creative truth to original truth.

Creative is unstable. Original truth is stable.

More and more understanding to original truth will make ourmind more and more stable and more and more powerful. If our mindis free and powerful, all our desire will be fulfilled by the powerfulmind. If our mind is powerful no need to depend on our body, no need

to depend on ourselves. Because our mind is not free and not enoughpowerful, we have to pay attention to everyone.

If we can change our attention

from Created Truth to Original Truth,

our mind will become more and more powerful.

In this way, our life will be controlled by Right understanding

which leads to real happinessand real enlightenment. So, our lifewill also become perfect through right understanding and rightpractice.

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