Right Understanding Leads to Real Happiness

This booklet is created 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 successfully, we need to give enough time to listen to his teaching and practice more & more patiently and persistently according to his guiding.

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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, every time, 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 of the original truth_impermanent nature)
  

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 original power of creation to think unreality as reality
(Samudaya Sacca)
(b) the original understanding the original truth and created
truths. (Magga Sacca)

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 about the original truth, 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 powers of constant impermanent nature must to be remembered (or) believed as much as you can.
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.

The real meditation method is “understanding the created truths in the right way”
by not forgetting the Original Truth;
by the ability which doesn’t take “doing or not doing” as reality.
_by Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara