Right Understanding Leads to

Real Happiness
Taken 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 the
help of Ma Hnin Nwe Soe’s 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_Dhammanupassana
successfully, 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 is

“understanding the created truths as they are”
by not forgetting the Original Truth;
by the ability which doesn’t take
“doing or not doing” as reality.
by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara
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Right Understanding leads to Real Happiness
Talk By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara at March 2011, Penang, Malaysia.
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Understanding Created Truths

Created 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, mind
and body that we understand.
- Created truths are not true anymore in comparing to original
truths.
- Created truths seem to be real in our perceptions because of
ignorance to original reality, the original truth.
(i.e. because of the illusive actions by the constant power of original
truth_impermanent nature)
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Everything around us is Created Truth - people, things, place
and 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.
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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 as
reality.
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 to
be 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 are
using them in the wrong way. That's why we need to change our
understanding_ not our actions and not our life because our
traditional understanding about life is wrong. What we are doing &
who we are is not important; whatever happening to our mind and
body 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 them
as 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 about
our 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.
I’m 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 idea
of reality is wrong.
Only when you can correct your misunderstanding, you can
understand about me, my teaching, about Buddha and his teaching
very well. My teaching comes from practice_ not from theory and
not 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.

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Not only knowing about created truth but also knowing about
original truth is important. Original truth is beyond life, mind, time
and place which are created truths. Original truth is forever and
always the same. Original truth is beyond our mind. We can't directly
understand about original truth & original wisdom.
What we can directly understand is only created truth and
created wisdom.
We can indirectly understand about original truth with the help
of 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 or
original wisdom concerned with original truth.
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 Our attention should be only to the original truth; the powers
of impermanent nature (i.e. original power of creation_action to think
unreality as reality and right understanding of impermanent nature.)

Because of attachment to the created truths, it is difficult to

change our attention to original truth.

We are used to pay attention to created truths. We are used

to take care of our mind and body.

Because of that habit, it is difficult to pay attention to original

truth: impermanent nature (constant impermanence by nature) and
its original power of creation to think created truths as reality and
its 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 take
as 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

Natural Meditation Centre

Thanlyin Township, (Near Tar Wa University), Yangon,
Myanmar. (95)056-22707, (95)09-5085212,
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Real Meditation (Only middle way)
Real meditation is to correct the original mistake which is
creating 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 powers
of 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 use
the created truths in the right way_(using only).
Then, in order to be able to 'use only' the created truths, the
power of constant impermanent nature must to be remembered (or)
believed as much as you can.
If we practice meditation, we are traditionally practicing
meditation 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) and
just to experience only.
Tranditionally we can't understand beyond our mind. Real
meditation method is to practice beyond the quality of our mind.
In this way, the quality of our mind will improve. In fact, mind
is to use only and not to be paid attention to and not to think it as
reality. More and more practice is necessary to be able to pay
attention to original truth which is beyond our mind.
That's why if we can't go beyond our mind, we can't understand
original truth. We are using our mind in the wrong way with the idea
of thinking as reality.
To be able to use mind in the right way, it is necessary to pay
attention to the original truth which is constant impermanent
nature_impermanent energies_ impermanent power which is beyond
something, 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 to
understand about original truth.
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 Summary
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 be
experienced only and not to think them as reality.
The most importance is not to forget or believe only the power
of 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 that
quality of using created truths in the right way, I can sucessfully
explain about the original truth which is not something and someone.
That's why it is very difficult to explain the original truth by
words. Try to be free mind and life.
Only when our mind is fully free, we can have direct connection
with the original truth. If our mind is not free. We can connect only
with 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 can
understand the original truth & created truths well.
More and More indirect understanding well make to appear
direct 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.
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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 important
to understand original truth that concerned with creative truth and
original truth.
If our mind is not free, our mind cann't help direct connection
with original truth and original wisdom. Our mind is always busy with
creative truth. So our mind has no connection with original truth.
We need to change the habit of our mind. Need to change our
attention from creative truth to original truth.
Creative is unstable. Original truth is stable.
More and more understanding to original truth will make our
mind more and more stable and more and more powerful. If our mind
is free and powerful, all our desire will be fulfilled by the powerful
mind. 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 enough
powerful, 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 happiness and real enlightenment. So, our life
will also become perfect through right understanding and right
practice.

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