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Tsunami SayadawU Ottamathara’sInsight Meditation Method

Only one way to abandon the sufferings

at all truly

by SoeWinHtut

Tsunami Sayadaw’s Meditation Centre in Myanmar

45th street Meditation Centre, Yangon, Myanmar.

Ph: 01-298196

Pagoda Hill Meditaion Centre, (Thanlyin).

Ph: 01-724056, 09-5085212

www.mtsm45.multiply.com

by SoeWinHtut

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To follow & practise this way, you must have the rigid trust

(saddha) upon this way, advanced Insight meditation method. If

you won’t understand this way well, you’ll need the certain

period for 7 days or 7 months etc. to meditate regularly while

listening to the Sayadaw’s U Ottamthara Dhamma talks of this

method. You can get or download or listen to the Sayadaw’s

Dhamma talks of this advanced insight meditation method at

the web of www.mtsm45.multiply.com or audio CD from the

author. This method seems little bit difficult to understand for

beginners or some meditators who can’t understand yet what

insight meditation is. But if one will try to understand & practise

patiently & persistently, he will find out what benefits greater

and faster than other methods will come out by himself.

Author

Preface

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Direct Insight Meditation

Insight meditation is not doing something. Insight mediation

means not getting rid of the effects but erasing the causes of stress or

sufferings or unsatisfactoriness.

Knowing something, one permanet entity, ego-self, soul, think-

ing, feeling, pain, pleasure, someone, I, you, he, she, individual, some-

where, sometime is not real or unnatural but just the deceitful crea-

tions of ascribing minds in perceptual distortions.

Utimate reality we can believe or be mindful is just the natures

of the deceitful creations of ascribing minds in perceptual distor-

tions or actions of wrong classifications or identifying upon the van-

ishing nature in very high rate as I, you, he, she, something, mine,

yours, myself, yourself, my soul, my life, my mind, my heart, your

soul, your life, your mind, your heart, your soul because of not being

able to believe or understanding the nature of mental and physical

energies’ processes renewing & vanishing at the rate of billions per

second.

Insight meditation means to be being mindful or believing or

accepting continuously that the assumings of something such as pain

, pleasure, being seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking, ego, spirit, soul -

etc. is not real ,but just deceitful creations or illusory actions of ever-

new ascribing minds in wrong perception.

We must be remerbering, accepting, believing or being aware of

not being someone such as I, you, mine, yours, myself, yourself etc.

and , not being somewhere such as my country, your contry, my ward,

your ward. my home.

That means erasing or abandoning of the assuming or ascribing

or identifying nature of minds in perceptual distortions as something,

pain, pleasure, good, bad, ego, soul, mine, yours, self, one entity, some-

one, I, you, individual, somewhere, sometime.

We have assuming that the seeing, the hearing, the smelling,

the tasting, touching, sensing, pain, pleasure, feeling, perception,

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thinkings are existing for a while such as one second, one minute, one

hour-etc. within the certain period of contact with eye and visual ob-

jects, ear and sound, nose and odour, tongue and taste, body and touch-

able things, minds and mental objects.

These assumings that the seeings, hearings, smellings, tastings,

touchings, sensings, pains, pleasures, feelings, perceptions, thinkings

are existing for a while such as one second, one minute, one hour etc

is not real but just illusions or creations of ever-new deceiving minds.

In reality, there is no ‘ I, you, mine, yours, individual, entity, self-ego,

something, someone, pain, pleasure, sometime, somewhere but just

impermanent or vanishing nature (annica), unsatisfactory or stressful

nature(dukka), and the nature of insubstantiality, no-I, non-self, non-ego,

non-soul, non-entity, no-inner core, not-something, not-someone, not-

somewhere-etc (annata).

Buddha said, energies or atomic particles (rupa) is vanishing and

renewing at the rate of 50,000-60,000 millions within a very short instant

(the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) and minds or

consciousnesses (nama) are vanishng and renewing at the rate of 1,000 bil-

lions in this instant. Because the speed of disappearing and renewing

of the energies and minds in same qualities, is very high, we are deceived

to be seemed they are lasting for a moment such as one second, one

minute, one hour, one day, one year-etc.

For one simile, a fire flame in a candle. We are being deceived

to be seemed that one single flame is existing for one minute, one

hour or two hour above a wax rod. That is not true. In reality, a lot of

new heat energies or new flames are renewing, replacing at the posi-

tions of previous vanishing heat energies or flames consecutively,

repeatedly and immediately due to the wax fuel. So, it is not one sin-

gle flame. One single flame is not existing even for one second. It is

not somehing or one single flame but heat energies renewing and

vanishing consecutively, repeatedly and so rapidly within a milli-

second or one thousandth second.

You must decide or believe or remember or be mindful that the

knowing that breathing in or out, pain, pleasure, feeling or sensation,

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hearing, smelling, thinking are lasting or permanent for a certain time,

is not real but just the deceitful creations of ascribing minds in per-

ceptual distortions.Our perceptions are not always real or right with-

out practising insight meditation. Our perceptions are always in dis-

tortion.

If you have ever learned or understood ‘the relativity theory’

by Albert Einstein who is regarded as the greastest scientist or hu-

man being of 20th Century, you can easily understand your ascribing

as ‘pain, pain’ or ‘pleasure, pleasure’ is just a perceptual distortion.

If one having ever experienced or from very hot Sahara desert,

must stay in Kuala Lumpur, he won’t take the temperature of Kuala

Lumpur in sunny days as hotness for him. But if one from Canada or

USA must stay in KL at sunny days, he will take that of these days in

KL as hotness for him.

A normal man will jerk on the arm of a 16 years old lady by his

fist in certain degree of intensity, she will take such a jerk as pain but

if he will in again jerk on the arm of a heavy weight boxer as in same

degree in intensity as that upon the girl’s arm, the boxer will not take

it as pain.

If you compare yourself with one native black African , you

think you’re so handsome but you will assign you’re not handsome

in relative to the very popular Hollywood star such as Tom Cruise,

Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.

So also, in ascribing that time or distance is too long or short ,

Einstein gave his friends one example; ‘you will assign the five minutes

of standing on hot stove is too long but one hour of being or wining

together a young beautiful lady is too short’. And then he said to his

friends in humourning, “If you don’t believe this relativity, you can

test about it by standing on the hot stove for five minutes but I will

drink together with a beautiful lady.” That’s right!. Our minds is

always taking or ascribing that the difficult or painful period is too

long but the pleasant or sweet period is too short although these two

periods are equal in amount.

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The distance from Kuala Lumpur to Burma is very far for one

who has ever been travelling within his town if he has to travel this

trip but one who often travels to KL to USA, will take this distance is

not very far if he has to start this trip.

If one who always has the meal with too much hot chilli, must

eat a curry with chilli, his mind will not take it isn’t too hot, but if one

who has ever been having the sweet curries, must eat this chilli curry,

his mind will assign it is too hot.

You can easily understand our ascribing is not real but just a

perceptual distortion or wrong arbitrary decision of past experiences

if you can be aware of your tongue’s senses on the tastes. For example,

‘you’ drink half of a cup of sweet coffee or milk at first and then you

eat the some amount of sugar or some sweets. And then, drink the

left half cup of this same coffee again. You will assign or take this

coffee is not so sweet in relative to the previous time. Our minds assign

or take one same quality (same degree of sweet intensity) as two

different qualities (two different degrees of sweet intensity) in two

different time intervals.

These above are some practical similes to understand that our

thinking or ascribing or taking ‘something, someone, somewhere,

sometime’ or ‘good or bad’ or ‘pain or pleasure’ or ‘long or short’ or

‘ugly or beautiful’ or ‘hot or cold’ or ‘sweet or bitter’ is very far from

utimate reality, and in order to ascend the insight meditation level,

these notings or ascribings ‘pain or pleasure’like that is not enough

for ‘right understanding’ or ‘wisdom’ or ‘insight meditation’ to

understand the utimate reality of mental & physical energies’ natures.

In the insight level, it is most important to be able to leave or

abandon or erase them(takings sensations,pains,pleasures,something,

or someone are not real’)in order to arise ‘the passive detached observing

minds ‘or ‘equanimity’ or ‘insight’ of all sensations. Really, our ascribings

or takings ‘good or bad’ or ‘pain or pleasure’ are ‘not something’ but

just ‘our perceptual distortions’ or ‘creations (sankhara) of delution

(avijja)’ or ‘delusive decisions or trick creations of past experience’ or

just arbitrary taking far from reality with the wrong view of ‘I, mine’.

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That means if you assign or identify a certain drgree of intensity

in temperature or tightness or situation as good or bad or moderate,

the arising natures such as temperature or tightness which is not as same as

your specified or assigned them as good or bad or moderate, will be

automatically decided or assigned by your habitual minds as craving

or averse one.”Oh, these are not as same as my likings or my assignings

as good, so I dislike or want to push away them.” And then your

good or bad reactions will genarate and the effects of these reactions

with ‘likes, dislike and the idea of I’ will continue repeatedly and

endlessly.

That means that there is no real the God, but the assigning or

assuming minds that there will or may be the God in somewhere.

We have ever seen that there is a mirage on dry hot highway

road on a very hot day. The mirage seems to be a small lake. If you

have any previous experience about the mirage, your eyes will deceive

you to misunderstand that there is a small lake on it. In reality, there is

no real small lake on a highway road on a very hot day, the creations

of deceitful minds in optical illusion beacuse of not-knowing the real

nature of atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts

reflections of distant objects.

There is no real pain, but the ascribing or assuming minds that

this certain degree of tension or pressure is painful.

There is no real value, but the ascribing or assuming minds that

how much valueable this object is. For example, previous World Cup

football match, the ball missed in the penalty goal kicking by David

Beckham was bought at the more times value in larger than the original

value of it. That means he valued a normal ball as a precious one a by

himself or his minds. In reality, a normal ball is not a very precious

one.

For the one who is losting his way in the big desert and trying to

survive for tomorrow will value the food or the way of escaping more

than a lot of money, diamonds, golds or jewels.

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There is not real ‘mine, my blood, my kidney or my bone’ because

they are not ‘mine’ really, we can give or donate our bloods or kidney

to others or we can accept them from other if necessary or matched.

That means our ascribing pain or pleasure, assuming good or

bad, smelling for a while, mind is thinking or wandering for a moment

are not real as Buddha said that in ultimate reality there is no lasting

something or thinking or ascribing for a while, even for one second

and just the impermanet nature or vanishing nature at the rate of

billions per second of mental and physical energies’ processes but we

take, think or assume wrongly that something or pain or pleasure of

smelling or thinking or thoughts are lasting for a moment such as one

second, one minute, one hour-etc.

And then, how can we know the utimate truth by insight

meditation? The utimate truth of endless and repeated vanishing or

impermanent nature (dukkha sacca) is unknown by us due to the

ultimate truth of deceitful creations of illusory minds or ascribing

minds in perceptual distortions.

So, we can be mindful or remember or decide or believe that

there is just deceitful creations of illusory minds or ascribing minds in

perceptual distortions and then the knowing of something, someone,

sometime, somewhere is unnatural, not-real, but just imitations,

illusions, creations of deceitful minds in perceptual distortions.

This above being mindful, remembering, deciding, taking or

believing this reality (samudaya sacca) can be called direct insight

meditation.This insight meditation method is as same as watching

the horror film with believing or remembering or being mindful that

the events or seeings before eyes is not real, but just imitations or

creations of trick by director with the help of camera lens or computer

graphic program. By understanding, remembering or believing this

reality, the one who is seeing the film will be no more fear or worries

about the seeings or happenings before his eyes. If he forget that the

trick creations of director is real or the events he is seeing are not real,

he will involve in his seeings and he will begin to fear , be terrible and

worries about his seeings.

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In this method, while you meditate, if any pains or smellings or

hearings or sensations or thinkings arise, no need to note them as

mental saying as example; ‘pain, pain’ or ‘pleasure, pleasure‘or

‘smelling, smelling’ or ‘hearing, hearing’ -etc. . . but you must

remember or believe or be aware of the truth that the knowing that

something such as pain or smelling or thinkings or breathing or rising

or falling is lasting for a moment, is not real, but just deceitful creations

of illusory minds or ascribing minds in perceptual distortions. While

you are believing or remembering or accepting or being aware of this

truth, if any doubt or any worreies or craving or likes or dislikes or

thinkings arise, abandon or erase this wrong by remembering or

accepting or being aware of this truth (samudaya sacca) that is the real

cause of the truth of sufferings or stress of unsatisfactoriness (dukkha

sacca).

Practical Meditation Method

Nature in this message means nature of nature , not the nature

of something or someone. The action of creation is also just action or

creation only , there is no creator and nothing which is created.

Our mind is not perfect and that is why it is always busy with

endless works. Natural mind is perfect by itself and needs no creation.

By using this method, mind can be free from all limits.

Nature has two opposite qualities.One is ever new impermanent

nature and the other is the permanent nature. But only the wisdom

that understands the impermanent nature can fully understand the

permanent nature also.

Nature is just nature by itself only, not something, not someone,

not sometime and not somewhere.

Mind creates something, someone, sometime, somewhere and

mind is always busy with them like mother is taking care of her

children. It is beause of attachment in creation, our mind cannot live

without them.

Knowing about something , someone, sometime, somewhere is

unnatural.

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By following this meditation method , unnatural knowing will

not continue and the original impermanent nature will appear

automatically.

This meditation practice will allow one to let go or to loose one’s

limited mind and by doing so ,limitless natural mind will appear

automatically.

No one can be perfect by doing something. The real meditation

method is not doing something. It is not only stopping all actions of

mind, but also not to accept the idea of something (eye, ear, nose,

tongue, body , mind and so on ) as real. Meditation is not denying nor

accepting whatever happen, but to stop self-making or creating habit

of mind.

Eye , ear , nose, tongue and body are mind’s friends. They work

together frequently. All works of mind ,concerning with something,

someone, sometime, and somewhere are extra works. The aim of

meditation is trying to stop these extra works of mind, in this way the

original mind’s work will stay remained.

Something, someone, sometime and somewhere are not real ,just

illusions. Only the nature of nature is real.

Believing illusions as reality is the cause of all problems in ones

daily life. The purpose of meditation is trying to stop that misbelieving.

Accepting original reality as real is the right meditation method.

Meditation is making new causes continuously, in this way the

habit of making old cause will stop automatically.

Meditation is a mind clearance work. It is concerned only with

mind, not with our body and life.

Our mind is working all the time, and never takes any rest.

Every knowing is because of mind’s work.Without mind’s work,

there will be no knowing. Even the mind itself is just a creation.

Creation appears because of not knowing the real impermanent

nature and permanent nature. Nature is just nature and it is limitless.

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Three steps of Practical Meditation Method

The first step intends to destroy the attachment of all objects. It

needs continuous believing only in the action of creation. Forget about

everything except the action of creation.

The second step is removing the subject. Each action of believing

must be just an action only, without the subject (someone or

something). A lot of practices need to be done to be able to achieve

this step.

The third and last step is to believe the truth that the action of

creation is not the other thing, present action of believing without

subject itself is just the action of creation only. A quick and gentle

action of present believing itself is just the action of creation only. But

notice the fact that while there is believing, there is no knowing of

believing and while there is knowing of believing, there is no action

of believing. It only needs to believe (just action only) and do not

need to know; like traffic lights which make actions without knowing.

This believing practise must be carried on continuously. This habit of

pratice must not end in the first step. It must end only in the last step.

Continuously practising the last step is the direct way for the original

pure mind to appear for a moment.

The ability to continue the original nature of mind for some

minutes can permanently destroy a part of attachement concerning

our with unnatural or wrong knowing.

Not To forget- Overview, not normal onesided view.

- Don’t live for one, live for all.

- Selfcontrol , not control to others.

- Do not be selfish or selfless but stop the idea of self.

- Our mind has limit. Losing your mind means freedom from

all limits.

- Forget freedom of one and try to be free from one.

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- Taking care of something, someone, sometime,and omewhere

is the cause of losing original mind power.

- If there is cause, there is effect. If there is no cause, there will be

no effect. Effect is only the shadow of cause.

- Hoping/Expecting or attachement to the effect will weaken the

process of making more causes.

- Accepting or occupying one means losing the remainings.

- Something, someone, sometime, somewhere has limit. Not

something, not someone, not sometime, not somewhere has no limit.

- Beyond self is beyond everything, beyond everyone, beyond

everytime, beyond everywhere.

- Eternal truth has no limit.

- The seed or root of whatever happens is only established in our

mind. If we can lose our created mind, all the problems concerning

with something , someone, sometime and somewhere will also be

solved automatically.

- You will naturally understand these words with ‘I’, but

understanding without ‘I’ will be quite opposite with our present

understanding.

- Only with more practice, one can make clear of all doubts and

suspicions on this meditation method.

Contact Address

(a)45th Street Meditation Centre,Yangon, Myanmar, Ph:951-298196

(b)Pagoda Hill Meditation Centre (Thanlyin)

Ph : 01 724056, 09 5085212

Email-MTSM 45@ gmail.com

web: www.mtsm45.multiply.com

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The more your mind is empty (without judging

or ascribing anything as ‘pain or pleasure’),

the more it is pure and the more wisdom

will appear.

The only thing you need to be able to practise

insight meditation is

the courage to fully give up

all the views of ‘I, mine’ or

what you have learned previously with the idea

of ‘I, mine’.

Note: This direct insight medition method is based upon

Dhamma talks given by U Ottamasara from the web of

www.mtsm45an.multiply.com

For more information, you can visit these above web and

download or listen to Direct Insight Meditation method talks

by Sayadaw U Ottamathara.

You can also practise this technique while listening to Direct

Meditation method talks by U Ottamathara for a certain period

of any hinderance such as right understanding, heavy stress,

laziness or doubt. You can contact any help from meditation

teacher, U Ottamasara mtsm45@gmail.com via direct talking

in use of g-talk).

U Ottamasara