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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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    Motto Quotesby Tsunami Sayadaw, U Ottamasara

    1. The more anger, the more danger.

    The less anger, the less danger.Freedom from anger, freedom from danger.

    2. The more desire, the more discomfort.The less desire, the less discomfort.Freedom from desire, freedom 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.

    7. Belief is a fundamental requirement in practicing meditation.-Even ' created belief ' has power to a limited extent-'Real belief ' has power to a limited extent. (or)Created belief' has limited power.Real belief' has limitless power.

    8. No set limits regarding time, place, effort and abandonment "

    are required to explore the original wisdom.

    9. Real meditation is trying to abandon one's mind until nothingleft.

    10. Try to practice meditation regardless of having a busy life.

    11. Practice meditation with free wisdom and desire. Practicemeditation without any reasoning about how to do it and whatto do.

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    12. From free wisdom arises free action; from free action arisesfree power ; from free power appears limitless results.

    13. Nothing is permanent BUT ever new impermanent nature

    and permanent nature _ unchanging nature(Nibbana).14. Nothing to take refuge in EXCEPT the original truth,

    (ever-new impermanent nature and permanent nature).- Original truth is to be taken refuge in.- Created truth is to be used only.

    15. Original truth has limitless power.

    Created truth has only limited power.16. Real meditation is trying to stop any cause.

    There's no effect free from cause. No cause, no effect.

    17. Real meditation is trying to inherit right understanding fromthe Buddha.A really good deed is sharing that right understanding.

    18. Real meditation is like " digging up an invaluable treasure" ofgood deeds.

    19. The surest way to satisfy(fulfill) one's mind is fulfilling others'minds indiscriminately.

    20. Try to do good deeds continuously without limitation andhesitation.

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    21. " Helping others" is helping oneself.

    22. Problems are problems because of no connection with the originaltruth. Problems are not problems because of connection withthe original truth.

    23. " Floating in the unstable main stream of the modern age anddepending on instability " makes one's mind unstable andimperfect.

    24. Unmask your mind/ego. Transform it to be pure and wholesome.

    25. Let alone doing evil deeds, strives to do good deedsincessantlytill there is no time to even share your merits with

    others.26. Those who practice Vipassana meditation execute only what is

    deemed necessary because they are steered by Original Wisdom.

    27. Affairs of life denote/represent way of life/everyday life forthose who do not practice Vipassana meditation.

    Dhamma denotes/represents way of life/everyday life for

    those who practice Vipassana meditation28. Make use of Created Power to understand Original Power.

    29. Lord Buddha is the exemplary leader for those who discovered(who the genuine Lord Buddha is) because he truly is an unrivaledhero.

    30. Nothing should be done in haste.

    31. There will not be any worries for those who manage to abandonthem.

    32. There is no reciprocity in practicing Vipassanameditation.

    One should not anticipate direct outcome from it.

    33. Practicing Vipassana meditation is inheriting Lord BuddhasVipassana legacy.

    34. Materialistic has endless insufficiency. Contented soul hasceaseless surplus.

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    35. It is the gung ho mindset that makes the beings so bigoted.

    36. Do not live on your desires.

    37. It is important to be free from desires.

    38. Let your actions do the talking.39. Being alive today is to be departed one day.

    40. Do not carry out endeavours with attachment.

    Learn to detach them.

    41. It is important to have contented mind.

    42. Fictitious reputation is the result of being embarked oncreated power.

    43. Wholesome deeds steer one to be free from ailments, problems,worries, and struggles of life. (pleasant and favourableconsequences).

    Unwholesome deeds compel one to suffer from ailments,encounter problems, worries, and struggles of life (unpleasant

    and dreadful consequences).44. As all the traditional norms and believes are inconclusive and

    ambiguous, one constantly needs to strive to be free from them.

    45. Roof is the sky, Bed is the earth, Shelter is the atmosphere,This place is the Natural Meditation Centre.

    46. Be heedful of the Poison in speech, food, studying, sleeping andthe Dhamma.

    47 University of Nature --- ImpermanentNature(Citta, Cetasikaand Rupa) and Permanent Nature (Nibbana)Judge of Nature--- Magga Wisdom ( Real Enlightenment )Law of Nature --- The Four Noble Original Truths

    48. Trying to contact the Dhamma is the priority regardless oflifestyle.

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    Guided Insight Meditation Talkby 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, meditators have to

    abandon paying attention to the action (or) some actions of how to do,

    what to do, whatever actions that can be understood_that can be done.

    It is not real meditation_practicing only if you pay attention to--

    1. The idea of the meditation time (duration)--- such as How long to sit ?or to sit as long as one can

    2. The meditation method--- such as Attaching to one method or followingreputed methods and Following a variety of methods

    3. The place ---such as Whether to practice at home or at the meditation

    centre 4. The ideas of being on individual, or someone e.g, what kind of yogi.

    5. The idea of regarding oneself as a teacher or as a follower and meditatingaccording to ones own idea about practice.

    Without paying attention to meditation methods, time and

    place, just practicing only results in real vipassana_wisdom (panna).

    To become like this, it is necessary to meditate only with the idea

    that the meditation itself cannot be grasped.

    R

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    Meditation method and time (duration) is not of the central

    importance. For example (1) The attitude of no matter how long it takes

    is taking the time as reality or importance. (2) The attitude of whatever

    happens, is also taking what is happening as reality or of importance.

    (3)Taking particular meditation techniques as reality or of importance.This does not mean stopping actions and methods of meditation

    that we use. But just to use them only. Paying attention to actions and

    method does not make the meditation free or meditation only.

    Time and place have to be used in meditation. Meditation can

    be practiced any where. It does not mean to stop doing some actions.

    However, being preoccupied with the place, time, situation and method

    makes the meditation not free or practice only. Meditation Methods,time, place and life are just to use without grasping. If one can use

    them without grasping--- just to be using only, the original truth (the

    original citta, cetasika, rupa ) will appear as Dukkha, Samudaya and

    Magga Sacca which lay hidden behind the created truths.

    Real meditation is to be able to use only without the

    idea of grasping and misunderstanding something,

    everything, someone, everyone, some time, life cycle

    as reality or of importance.

    Practicing meditation with the idea of stopping the life cycle

    (samsara) is taking the life cycle (samsara) as of importance or reality.

    It is not real meditation (practicing only). It is not practicing meditation

    freely. Practicing meditation with the idea of being something is not

    free due to an emphasis upon getting a particular result.This does not mean stopping doing something. Neither reject nor

    accept doing something.

    It means paying attention to right understanding or right attitude. Just

    to be free attitude and to use only.

    To use only means abandoning the idea of paying attention to

    something, time, place, situation and life by recollecting the originaltruth, ever-new misunderstanding only.

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    Meditation is just to meditate only

    without paying attention to this life or that

    life as we usually do__ such as the idea of

    getting a better life or a paticular lifeexperience or stopping a life cycle_

    samsara. It is not rejecting every meditator

    will naturally follow their habitual familiar

    way of practice. Also eveyone automatically

    follows systems,rules and regulations,

    disciplines, traditions and regional

    customs.Real meditation is not to reject following rules and regulations

    or obeying the discipline, but to abandon the idea of grasping and

    misunderstanding them as reality.

    Everyone studies with the misunderstanding of education and

    actions of learning or not as reality. Everyone earns theirs living (does

    business) with a misunderstanding of money and actions of doing or

    not doing business as reality.

    Real meditation must be meditate (doing or practicing) only.

    Instead of meditating or doing things with grasping and misunderstanding,

    meditatiors have to abandon the idea of grasping and misunderstanding

    actions as of real importance. It will not be free if one practices meditation

    with the idea of misunderstanding something, somewhere, everywhere,

    sometime, every time, the whole life cycle, limited period, limitless period

    until death -etc; as reality.

    The attitude of --- 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 attitude towards practice. This

    attitude makes us not free in meditation partice and whatever we

    do in our daily life. The ability of doing 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.

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    We always use our bodily, verbal 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 endless

    problems about social, gender and economic issues. Lots of social, gender

    and economic problems occur endlessly because of the wrong use(misuse) of I, you, Individual or Others -etc; as if they are a reality. Also

    the problems between men and women, parents and children are because

    of the wrong use of men, women, parents and children as if of real

    importance.

    In fact, I, you, man, woman, parents and children are just labels

    or created truths, not to think of reality. If we can use these labels without

    grasping there will be no more problems. Everything will be ok if there isno grasping or classifying of them as reality. This is just to meditate only

    or meditate freely.

    This is just to meditate freely__ just to use life freely.

    There is a need to understand that what is really important,

    is real freedom. The real meditation is intended to emphasize

    real freedom.

    It will not be free if one uses everything with grasping. Classifying

    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

    to (or) if one makes distinction between I and You, there is no freedom.

    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.

    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 with grasping and

    misunderstanding them as reality. The process of changing mine to yours

    or yours to mine is not the key point. It does not mean to stop this

    happening. The key point is to abandon grasping and misunderstanding

    of this process as of real importance.

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    Not only in meditation, but also in whatever we do in terms of

    worldly doing or habitual daily work__ it is important to meditate freely

    or to be able to do freely. It is rarely heard that even worldly work can be

    done freely. We will be able to meditate freely with the help of the Buddha

    who did meditation and propagation freely and who just used his livesfreely 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 ofvipassana wisdom.

    This method is not the created vipassana meditation but it is a real

    vipassana meditation. This is to reveal the cause of the real vipassana

    wisdom, not the created vipassana.Practice, experience, time, place and 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. What happenings are not

    important. Real meditation is just to use these dualities without

    misunderstanding them as reality. This enables real abandonment.

    This is a real renunciation that any parents, teachers or doctors

    cannot renounce in their 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 that can be

    done and should be done.

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    In fact, life can be used without misunderstanding it as my life

    or your life. So also with ideas about 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) the struggle for food in animals

    (2) traffic accidents resulting from overtaking for a place. If one car lets

    the other pass, there will be no accident or problem .

    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 justfor using only. Real meditation method is intended to be meditation only

    (practicing only) (using only).

    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 or someone as reality makes one free from

    original misunderstanding temporarily. __ Not

    forgetting the original misunderstanding makes one

    free from original misunderstanding temporarily.

    I propagate the Buddhas teaching (sarsana) and teach meditationfreely without grasping the life of monk. Just using a monks life freely. I

    do not grasp at the Dhamma talk as my Dhamma or Buddhas Dhamma.

    I just address Dhamma without the idea of grasping and misunderstanding

    it as my Dhamma or Buddhas dhamma. Just using it freely with no more

    attachment.

    So also in using places, it is important to use the places only without

    taking ideas such as this country or that country for reality. To be freefrom grasping and misunderstanding the places as reality-- is of real

    importance.

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    It does not matter whether teaching Dhamma happens at the

    hospital or at home or at the meditation centre. What really matter is to

    only have the idea of non-grasping those places as reality or of importance.

    All these places are also just to use. It is the same with teaching Dhamma

    to Buddhists or Non-Buddhists. Freedom from grasping andmisunderstanding this religion or that religion as reality is of real

    importance.

    Non-grasping means non-grasping the concept of oneself as

    well as others. Non-grasping is not only for oneself but also

    others. Using with the concept of non-grasping, we progress towards

    harmony with everyone (all life). Because of the idea of non-grasping,

    It is possible to be friendly and associated with everyone. One canlive 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

    heritage (normal habitual one). Paying attention to self

    or others or being self or being others makes

    competition between countries, religions, because of

    emphasizing self or others.Winning through competition is not real winning. It is created

    winning.

    No more competition, no more win.

    Wisdom through learning is not real learning.

    No more learning, no more wisdom.

    Taking precepts (sila) intentionally is not real precept(sila). If

    there is no intentional taking, there are no precepts. No more taking,

    no more sila.

    So also with created kind-heartedness. It is not real kind-

    heartedness. So also with created abandonment. It is not real alobha

    (non-greed).

    So also with created patience. It is not real adosa (non-

    hate)_not realmetta (loving-kindness). No more compassion, no more

    metta. When created patience cannot be done, violence appears.

    No more tolerance, no more patience.

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    Abandon ideas that assume 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 rejecting the place but just to use it freely. Nor toreject the life cycle (samsara) _ whether it is one second or a life or a

    life cycle_all are to use only, without grasping and misunderstanding

    them as of a 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 or children

    - etc, will be, it is not important. Nor to stop being someone or something.

    Real meditation is not concerned with these. They are created truths

    (just labels) and they are just to use only. Created truth is not to reject,not to accept and not to take as reality. Created truth is neither for

    rejecting nor grasping, also not for taking it as reality.

    So there is nothing to say or criticize about the created

    truths such as _ social welfare, politics or even about

    meditation centers. Created truths such as life, place,

    humans life, devas life, brahmas life - etc,_ all are to

    use only without grasping and misunderstanding.Therefore, there is nothing to say or criticize about them.

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    Try to use only them which are just for using only. It does not

    mean using with usefulness or using with uselessness according to our

    views. To use only means using in the right way. It means not to compare

    __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 withothers leads to problems.

    It goes wrong once you pay attention to (grasp)

    the idea of being something or someone. It will become

    a big mistake as soon as the idea of being something or

    someone is paid attention to (grasped).

    Something or someone is not wrong. What is wrong, is to use

    something or someone which is just for using only with graspingand misunderstanding. Using something or someone with grasping

    and misunderstanding as if real, is wrong. It is not just an ordinary

    wrong.

    It is the original mistake which seems correct and deceives us.

    This big mistake is rarely pointed out or noticed or known as wrong.

    A good deed is also to use only_to 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 theright way, we are using it in the wrong way. Gooddeeds are misused by not knowing how to usethem in the right way. Using in the right

    way_using only will lead to real enlightenment.Understanding how to use rightly__using only is the cause of

    real enlightenment. Not understanding how to use in the right way creates

    attachment to someone or something.

    One cannot help doing things with grasping. 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 or attaching to

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    Life is just to use only. Therefore, there is nothing to say about

    the real importance of it. Talking or not is not of real importance.

    Talking will be no problem if one has the ability to talk with nograsping and misunderstanding. Buddha also talked about what he

    did in which life or what happened in this life or that life but with

    no grasping or attachment to that talking. Just talking only. The

    Buddha just used the words without the idea of grasping and

    misunderstanding of past life, or taking what had happened in that

    life as reality.

    Talking or not is not of real importance. What is important iswhether or not there is freedom from attachment or grasping talking and

    misunderstanding it. It is really important to use only the events,

    happenings, situations, and period of time etc; with no grasping and

    misunderstanding.

    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 everyonetends to do in habitual ways. Try to be able to do what the Buddha wanted

    us to do .The main goal is to be able to use(do) only which is just for

    using only without grasping and misunderstanding. So do the meditation

    practice and experience_ they are also just for using only, practicing only

    and experience only.

    Real meditation method is not to forget the original

    truth, misunderstanding of body, speech, mind andwhatever concerned with thesesuch as the situation,

    time and place as reality.

    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 them as reality. Neither

    rejecting nor accepting it. Just doing only the good deed. Just to usethe world (lokha). So also to use the worldly conditions, vicissitudes_ ups

    and downs only.

    it is not right . The real meditation is just to do good deed __ doing

    only without grasping, misunderstanding and taking it as reality.

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    To achieve the main goal __ to use only is not to forget the original

    truth(creations of misunderstanding). This is the middle way that the

    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), tangible object, mental object, consciousness

    of six sense organs, whatever concerns with them such as 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 realAnicca, Dukkha and Anatta.

    It means not to misunderstand thesehappenings such as where you are, what you aredoing, whatever happens, how long it takes,whatever feeling well or not as reality while doingmeditation.

    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 of 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 go beyond

    the teachers help. We should not be satisfied with the teachers help.

    Try not to forget the original truth, ever-new

    misunderstanding continuously until the vipassana

    wisdom (original right understanding) appears.

    Continuous right understanding leads to real

    enlightenment. The more continuous right

    understanding, the nearer to real enlightenment.

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    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. It is not believing the assumptions

    we have of what truth is. Not taking what seems to be true as truth. Alsonot talking aimlessly, but using talking to point out the original truth by

    words.

    Sharing the ability of using time, place, life, and every life-etc; in

    the right way _ to use only. One must not end up holding to 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 hasthe ablility of using only what is just for to use only without grasping and

    misunderstanding.

    The teaching is over.

    -Translated byHnin Nwe Soe ([email protected])

    -Edited bySayadaw U Ottamasara ([email protected])& Soe Win Htut ([email protected])

    NOTE:*Vipassana_wisdom means the original wisdom thatunderstands original truth (paramattha sacca).

    * To use only means using only which is not rejecting,accepting and taking as reality by not forgetting the originaltruth, misunderstanding only.

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    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

    The real meditation method is quite differentfrom the traditional meditation methods with

    which are most familiar to us such as--how to

    do?, how long shall I do?, where to do?

    Because of not knowing how to use it in theright way, we are using it in the wrong way.Good deeds are misused by not knowing howto use them in the right way. Using in theright way_using only will lead to real

    enlightenment.

    Try not to forget the original truth, ever-new misunderstanding

    continuously until the vipassana wisdom (original right

    understanding) appears. Continuous right understanding

    leads to real enlightenment. The more continuous right

    understanding, the nearer to real enlightenment.

    Original misunderstanding is

    taking the idea of

    being something or someone as

    reality.

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    Natural Meditation Centre

    Thanlyin Township, (Near Tar Wa University), Yangon,

    Myanmar. (95)056-22707, (95)09-5085212,

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    Sayadaws 41st Birthday Present

    The real meditation method is not to forgetthe original truth, misunderstanding of

    body, speech, mind and whatever

    concerned with thesesuch as situation,

    time and place as reality.

    _By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara

    GuidedInsight Meditation

    Talk by Tsunami Sayadaw

    U Ottamasaraat Thanlyin Pagoda Hill

    Natural Meditation Centre