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Sayadaws 41st
Birthday PresentFor those only who want
to abandon sufferings permanently
Guided Insight MeditationTalk by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara
at Thanlyin Pagoda Hill
Natural Meditation Centre
(23.10.2010)
Translated by Hnin Nwe Soe ([email protected])Edited by Sayadaw U Ottamasara ([email protected])
& Soe Win Htut ([email protected])
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Preface
I am one of the Sayadaw's disciples who has been practicing meditation
under Sayadaw's guidance.
Actually,Sayadaw's boundless compassion for all goes beyond description.
I am translating this Guided Insight Meditation Talk by Sayadaw since I
would like to express my deepest gratitude and sincere appreciation to
Sayadaw for his incredible guidance and support to me in practicing
meditation regardless of situation.
I am particularly thankful to my mother who has given me the opportunity
to practice meditation.
In preparing this book, I have been helped by my dhamma friend, Ko SoeWin Htut. Special thanks to him for his indispensable role in shaping this
book, editing it with photographs and for his suggestions and creative
ideas.
I use plain language in order to help the readers to follow the teaching of
Sayadaw as closely as possible.
I hold myself responsible for any misinterpretation of the discourse if it
should occur.
With loving-kindness,
Hnin Nwe Soe
Contents
Page 3 ....................................Motto QuotesPart 7.......................................Guided Insight Meditation talk
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Motto Quotesby Tsunami Sayadaw, U Ottamasara
1. The more the anger,
the more the danger.The less the anger,the less the danger.Free from anger,free from danger.
2. The more the desire,
the more the discomfort.The less the desire,the less the discomfort.Free from desire,free from discomfort.
3. "Using with grasping and using with comparing " is wrong."Using only " is right.
4. "Action only " is free, flexible and powerful.
5. "Difficulty " is the first step towards " easiness "
6. If there is a will, there is a way.Your mind is the creator of your life.
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7. Belief is the fundamentalrequirement in practicingmedtation.-Even ' created belief '
has power to some limits.-'Real belief ' has powerto non-limit. (or)
Created belief' has limited power.Real belief' has limitless power.
8. Unlimited time, place, effort and
abandonment " are required toexplore the original wisdom.
9. The real meditation is tryingto abandon one's minduntil nothing to be left.
10. Try to practice meditation
regardless of busy life.
11. Practice meditation by freewisdom and desire.
Practice meditation without anyreason- how to do and what to do.
12. From free wisdomarises free action;from free actionarises free power ;from free powerappears limitlessresults.
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13. Nothing is permanent EXCEPT ever new impermanent natureand permanent nature.
15. The original truth has limitless power.The created truth has only limited power.
16. The real meditation is trying to stop the cause.There's no effect free from cause.No cause, no effect.
18. The real meditation is like" digging up an invaluable treasure well "
of good deeds.
17. The real meditation is tryingto inherit
the right understandingfrom Buddha.
Real good deed is sharingthat right understanding.
14. Nothing to take refuge inEXCEPT the original truth,(ever-new impermanent natureand permanent nature).
-The original truth is to be taken refuge in.- The created truth is to be used only.
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22. Problems are problems because of no connection with theoriginal truth.Problems are not problems because of the connection withthe original truth.
19. The surest wayto satisfy(fulfill)
one's mind
isthe fulfilling
others' mindsindiscriminately.
23. " Floating inthe unstable main stream
of modern ageand
depending on instability "
makes one's mindunstable and imperfect.
20. Try to do good deeds
continuously without
limitation and
hesitation.
21. " Helping to others "is helping to oneself.
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Guided Insight Meditation Talk
by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara
at Thanlyin Pagoda Hill
Natural Meditation Centre.
elax the whole body. Just close your eyes. Meditation is just to
meditate only. To be able to practice meditation only, the meditators have
to abandon in paying attention to the action (or) some actions of how to
do, what to do, whatever actions that can be understood or that can be
done .
It is not the real meditation or practicing only if you pay attention
to----
1. The idea of the meditation time (duration)--- such as How long to
sit ? or Sit as long as one can
2. The meditation method--- such as Practice one method or hearsay
methods and Practice many methods that have been heard as much
as one can
3. The place ---such as Practice at home or at the meditation centre
4. The being of individual, or someone for e.g, (what kind ofyogi,
the idea of regarding oneself as a teacher or as a follower and meditating
as one thinks).
Without paying attention to the meditation methods, time and
place, just practicing only makes the real vipassana wisdom (panna).To become like this, it is necessary to meditate only with the idea
that the meditation itself cannot be grasped.
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To use only means abandoning the
idea of paying attention to
something, time, place, situation and
life by not forgetting the original
truth, ever-new misunderstandingonly.
Meditation is just to meditate only
without paying attention to this life or
that life as we usually do__ such as
the idea of being a better life or a
certain life or stopping a life cycle or
samsara. Every meditator can meditatewith grasping automatically (naturally).
Everyone can obey the created law or
discipline, traditional or regional customs with grasping as usual. For
e.g, When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
The real meditation is not to reject the actions of obeying the
created law or discipline, but to abandon the idea of grasping and
misunderstanding them as reality.
Everyone does the studying with the idea of misunderstanding
about education and actions of learning or not as reality. Everyone
earns ones living (does business) with the idea of misunderstanding about
the money and actions of doing or not doing business as reality.
The real meditation must be meditate (doing or practicing) only.
Instead of meditating or doing things with grasping and misunderstanding,
the meditatiors have to abandon the idea of grasping and
misunderstanding of the actions as real importance. It will not be free if
one practices meditation with the idea of misunderstanding somewhere,
everywhere, sometime, every time, the whole life cycle, limited period,
limitless period until death as reality.
The attitude that --- How to practice--- this way or that way?
How to conduct--- like this or like that? Doing something or doing
nothing? is our programmed habitual practice (attitude). This
attitude makes us not free in practice meditation and whatever we
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do in our daily life. The ability of doing something or doing nothing
that everyone understands is the instinctive (inborn) ability that
everyone has. If you pay attention to it, you cannot go beyond the
created (instinctive or habitual) ability.
We always use our bodily, oral and mental actions individually.Due to taking the created person I as reality and identifying : I or You,
Self or Others, Man or Woman, Parents or Children, there will be
problems about social, gender and economic endlessly. Lots of social,
gender and economic problems occur endlessly because of the wrong
use (misuse) of I, You, Individual or Others as reality. Also the problems
between man and woman, parents and children are because of the wrong
use of man, woman, parents and children as if real importance.In fact, I, you, man, woman, parents and children are just labels
or created truths, not to think as reality. If we can use these labels without
grasping there will be no more problems. Everything will be ok if there is
no grasping or classifying them as reality. This is just to meditate only or
meditate freely.
This is just to meditate freely__ just to use life freely. Need to
understand that the real importance is to be a real freedom. The realmeditation is intended to emphasize on the real freedom.
It will not be free if one uses everything with grasping. The idea
of classifying that I or You, Mine or Yours, Right or Wrong, Good or Bad,
Life or Death as reality -etc makes us not free. If the concept of I is
being paid attention or if one makes distinction between I and You, it
will not be free. If the concept of death and life is being paid attention,
there will be worry about safety of life endlessly. If you use the things
with the idea of mine or yours -- worry about loss of things __ mine to
yours will happen endlessly.
The real meditation does not mean to stop the events
(happenings) of changing mine to yours or yours to mine, but it means
to abandon the idea of paying attention to these happenings,
grasping and misunderstanding them as reality. The process of
changing mine to yours or yours to mine is not the key point.
Not to stop this happening. The key point is to abandon the idea of
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grasping and misunderstanding of this process as real importance.
Not only in meditation, but also in whatever we do (worldly doing)
habitual daily work__ it is important to meditate freely or to be able to do
freely. It is difficult to be heard that even the worldly work can be done
freely. We will be able to meditate freely with the help of Buddha whodid meditation and propagation freely and who just used his lives freely
without the idea of grasping such as my life, your life, teachers life,
students life, parents life, childrens life, humans life, devas life,
brahmas life and animals life.
Practicing meditation only is the real cause of vipassana wisdom.
This method is not the created vipassana meditation but it is a real
vipassana meditation. This is to reveal the cause of becoming the realvipassana wisdom, not the created vipassana.
Practice, experience, time, place and hearsay methods in
meditation are just to use only (practice only) and to use freely
without the idea of grasping at this happening or that happening.
Just to do only. Just to be practicing only.
Dualities such as pain or pleasure, calmness or agitation,meditating for a long time or for a short time seem to be real in
meditation or in daily life. There will be some happenings such as __
pain or pleasure, calmness or agitation, meditating for a long
time or for a short time while meditating. Whatever happenings are
not important. The real meditation is just to use only these dualities
without misunderstanding them as reality. This is to be able to do
the real abandonment.
This is the real renunciation that any parents, any teacher or any
doctor cannot renounce in our worldly life. This type of renunciation has
never been heard or practiced in our daily life.
Try to use only meditation practice, place, life of yogi and life of
teacher without the idea of grasping and misunderstanding them as
reality. Meditation practice, life of yogi, life of teacher and places etc
are just to use only without grasping and misunderstanding them as reality.It is hardly been known that--- this is the real abandonment one can be
done and should be done.
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In fact, life can be used without misunderstanding as my life
or your life. So also are healthy life or unhealthy life, time and place
by not forgetting the original truth, misunderstanding only. Try to
be able to use only. The real importance is just to use them without
grasping and misunderstanding.There will be competition between competitors in life when life is
used with the idea of grasping such as my method, your method,
Im right youre right. For example _ (1) struggle for food in animals
(2) traffic accidents in overtaking for a place. If one car let the other pass
up, there will be no accident or problem about it. So also, there will be
competition or struggle in life - if life is used with grasping- such as my
life or your life. It does not matter if it is just for using only. The realmeditation method is intended to be meditation only (practicing only)
(using only).
The real meditation method is quite different from the
traditional meditation methods with which we are most familiar
such as--how to do?, how long shall I do?, where to do? Original
misunderstanding is taking the idea of being something or someone
as reality. Understanding misunderstanding of being something orsomeone as reality makes one free from original misunderstanding
temporarily. __ Not forgetting the original misunderstanding makes
one free from original misunderstanding temporarily.
I do
propagation of
Buddhas religion
(sarsana) andteach meditation
freely without
grasping the life
of monk. Just use
the monks life
freely. I do not
grasp at thedhamma talk as
my dhamma or
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Buddhas dhamma. I just address dhamma without the idea of grasping
and misunderstanding them as my dhamma or Buddhas dhamma. Just
use it freely with no more attachment.
So also in using places, it is important to use the places only with
no mistake such as this country or that country for the reality. To be freefrom grasping and misunderstanding the places as reality-- is of real
importance. It does not matter teaching dhamma at hospital or at home
or at the meditation centre. The real matter is only to have the idea of
non-grasping those places as reality or importance. All these places are
also just to use only. It is the same in teaching to the Buddhists or Non-
Buddhists. To be free from grasping and misunderstanding this religion
or that religion as reality is of the real importance.Non-grasping means non-grasping to oneself as well as to
others. Non-grasping is not only for oneself but also for others.
Using with the concept of non-grasping, we progress towards
harmony with everyone (all life). Because of the idea of non-grasping,
anyone can be friendly and associated with. One can live anywhere
and do anything with the power of non-grasping or non-attachment.
This is the ability of the power of abandonment.
The power of grasping and misunderstanding is our heredity
(normal habitual one). Paying attention to self or others or being self
or being others makes competitions between each country, each religion,
each other who emphasizing self or others.
Winning through competition is not the real win. It is the created
win.
No more competition, no more win.
Wisdom through learning is not the real one.
No more learning, no more wisdom.
Taking precepts (sila) intentionally is not the real
precept(sila). If there is no intentional taking, there is no precepts.
No more taking, no more sila.
So is the created kind-hearted mind. It is not the real one.So is the created abandonment. It is not the real alobha
(greedlessness).
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So is the created patience. It is not the real adosa
(hatelessness)_real metta (loving-kindness). No more compassion,
no more metta. When created patience cannot be done, violence
appears. No more tolerance, no more patience.
Have to abandon the idea of assuming this, that, something,everything, someone, everyone, sometime, every time, somewhere,
everywhere, endless life cycle, endless universe etc.. as truth __ by not
forgetting the original truth_misunderstanding only.
It does not mean to reject the place but just to use it freely. Not to
reject the life cycle (samsara) _ whether it is a second or a life or a life
cycle_all are to use only, without grasping and misunderstanding as real
importance .
It does not mean to stop (cut off) the life cycle (samsara)
with the idea of grasping and misunderstanding it as reality.
It means to abandon the idea of grasping it as reality.
It is also just to use only.
Parami(perfection) is also to use only. So is the cycle of rebirth
(samsara). Not to cling to the continuation ofsamsara with the concept
of taking it as reality. Not to grasp annihilation of samsara (uccheda
ditthi) with the idea of taking it as reality. It is just to use only. Life
Cycle_Samsara is neither for rejecting nor grasping. And also not
for taking it as reality. To use only means using life and death, I or
you, man or woman, parents or children, whatever religion and whatever
race without the idea of taking them as reality.
Whatever nationality, race, yogi, man or woman, parents orchildren will be, it is not important. Not to stop being someone or
something.
The real meditation does not concern with them. They are the
created truths (just labels) and they are just to use only. Created truth is
not to reject, accept and take as reality. Created truth is neither for
rejecting nor grasping, also not for taking it as reality. So there is nothing
to talk or criticize about the created truths such as _ social welfare, politicsand even about the meditation centers. Created truths such as life, place,
humans life, devas life, brahmas life_ all are to use only without
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grasping and misunderstanding. Therefore, nothing to talk or criticize
about them.
Try to use only them which are just for using only. It does not
mean using with usefulness or using with uselessness that we
understand. To use only means using in the right way. It means not tocompare like that __this life is better (or) that life is better , I am
better (or) you are better and my religion (or) your religion. Comparing
ones life with others leads to the problems.
It will be wrong
once you pay attention
to (grasp) the idea of
being something orsomeone. It will be a big
mistake as soon as the
idea of being something
or someone is paid
attention to (grasped). It
is not wrong about
something or someonebut original wrong. It is wrong because we use something or someone
which is just for using only with grasping and misunderstanding. Using
something or someone with grasping and misunderstanding as if it is
real, is wrong. It is not just an ordinary wrong.
It is the original mistake which seems to be not wrong or which
deceives us to be right. Pointing out the big mistake that one can hardly
be noticed or known as wrong.Good deed is also to use (do) only. It is not to use (do) with
grasping such as this good deed or that good deed, my good deed or
your good deed. Because of not knowing how to use it in the right way,
we are using it in the wrong way. The good deed is misused by not
knowing how to use it in the right way. Using in the right way __ using
only will lead to the real enlightenment .Understanding how to use it
rightly (using only) is the cause of the real enlightenment. Notunderstanding how to use it in the right way makes attachment on
someone or something.
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One cannot help doing something with grasping. So also even in
doing good deeds such as Dana (Generosity), Sila (Morality), Bhavana
(Meditation). For eg. (1) one can not stop offering things with grasping
on Dana. Eg (2) one can not stop taking precepts with grasping on Sila. In
spite of doing good deed and meditation --- doing with grasping on it orattaching to it is not right . The real meditation is just to do good deed
__ doing only without grasping, misunderstanding and taking it as reality.
Life is just to use only. Therefore, nothing to talk about the
real importance of it. Talking or not is not of the real importance.
Talking will be no problem if one has the ability to talk with no
grasping and misunderstanding. Buddha also talked about what he
did in which life or what happened in this life or that life but nograsping or attachment to that talking. Just talking only. Buddha just
used the words only__without the idea of grasping and
misunderstanding of past life, what had happened in that life as reality.
Talking or not is not of real importance, the real importance is
whether to be free or not from attachment or grasping upon it and
misunderstanding of it. It is really important to use only the events,
happening, situation, era and time etc; with no grasping andmisunderstanding.
Words (Speech) are just for using only, not for grasping as this
word or that word or my word or your word. Meditation is just to meditate
only_ just practicing only, not to pay attention to the actions that everyone
can do in habitual ways. Try to be able to do what Buddha wants us to do
.The main goal (target) is to be able to use (do) only which is just for
using only without grasping and misunderstanding. So do the meditationpractice and experience_ they are also just for using only, practicing only
and experience only.
The real meditation method is not to forget the
original truth, misunderstanding of body, speech,
mind and whatever concerned with thesesuch as
situation, time and place as reality.
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I have a lot of experience in doing good deeds but I do not grasp
and misunderstand them as reality. Just experience only. Just doing only
without grasping. Just to be using only. Not taking it as reality. Neither
reject nor accept it. Just doing only the good deed. Just to use the
world (lokha) only. So also to use the worldly conditions, vicissitudes __ups and downs only. To achieve the main goal __ to use only is not to
forget the original truth(creations of misunderstanding). This is the
middle way that Buddha has been trodden or discovered.
The middle way is not to forget the original truth, misunderstanding
of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind, visual object, sound, odour,
gustative object (taste), touching object, tangible object, mental object,
consciousness of six sense organs, whatever concerns with them suchas something, someone, somewhere, sometime as reality which can be
known as SamudayaSacca (the real creator of the mystery or the real
culprit). These creations of misunderstanding are ever-new impermanent
nature, arising and passing away continuously, the real Anicca, Dukkha
and Anatta.
It means not to
misunderstand thesehappenings such as
where you are, what
you are doing, whatever
happens, how long it
takes, whatever feeling
well or not as reality
while doing meditation.It means not to forget the original truth_ misunderstanding only
and its creations as reality _ the real creator of the mystery, the real
culprit. Creations of misunderstanding itself is also ever-new
impermanent nature. Understanding upon misunderstanding like this
is of real importance. Try not to forget or try to understand only this original
truth, misunderstanding (ever-new impermanent nature) with the help of
the teacher.
At first, the help of the teacher (who understands well the original
truth) is required to understand the original truth. But we must not end
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up our meditation in the teachers help. We should not be satisfied with
the teachers help.
Try not to forget the original truth, misunderstanding continuously
until the vipassana wisdom (original right understanding) appears.
Continuous right understanding leads to the real enlightenment. Themore continuous right understanding, the nearer the real enlightenment.
Vipassana wisdom & Magga wisdom is also included in ever-new
impermanent nature which can be known as Cita, Cetasika and Rupa
the original truth.
It is revealing the original truth. Not assuming what one thinks as
truth. Not taking what seems to be true as truth. Also not talking with
aimlessly, but using talking to point out the original truth by words. Sharing
the ability of using time, place, life, and every life in the right way _ to
use only them. One must not end up in the idea of this life, that life,
whatever talking, whatever time or place that everyone understands.
We should not be satisfied with those things. It is important not to forget
the original truth, misunderstanding_ that has the ablility of using only
what is just for to use only without grasping and misunderstanding.
Teaching is over.
-Translated by
Hnin Nwe Soe ([email protected])
-Edited by
Sayadaw U Ottamasara ([email protected])
& Soe Win Htut ([email protected])
*Vipassana wisdom means the original wisdom that
understands the original truth (paramattha sacca).
* To use only means using only which is not for rejecting,
accepting and taking it as reality by not forgetting the original truth,
misunderstanding only.
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The real meditation methodis quite different from the
traditional meditation
methods with which we are
most familiar such as--
how to do?, how long
shall I do?, where to do?
Originalmisunderstanding
is taking the idea of
being something or someone as reality.
Understanding misunderstanding of being something or
someone as reality makes one free from original misunderstanding
temporarily. __ Not forgetting the original misunderstanding makes
one free from original misunderstanding temporarily....
_ by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara
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The real meditation method is not to forget the original truth,misunderstanding of body, speech, mind and whatever
concerned with thesesuch as situation, time and place asreality. _By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara