The Joy Of Giving
28 February 2014
Interview with Danish Yogi in Hpa An, 16th April 2013 (Last Part)
Interview
with Danish Yogi
in
Hpa An
16th
April 2013
(Last Part)
Q : About the Chinese
treatment Sayadaw is having at the moment … some people say disease is because
of defilements, is it so?
Sayadaw : From
my side, I see the desire (intention) of the physician. She has strong desire to help people with her
medicine. I can feel her mind, and this is why I accept the treatment. For me,
compared to the body, I understand that the mind is more important. If your mind is in good condition, it is useful. If your mind is not in good condition, it is
not useful.
This is why I accept her treatment, because of her
goodwill.
Q: But the question is if
the diseases are caused by kilesa?
Sayadaw : For
me, I can detach from all the suffering of my body so no problem for whatever happens
to my body. But because I have connection with the physician, in this way she
also has the chance to change to my side (follow my teachings, the Middle Way).
Now she is not on my side. If we have no
connection she will follow her way and I will go on my way. Because of
connection together it is possible for her to follow the Middle Way.
For me, I accept her treatment because…they have power,
created power, intending for long life.
They have strong attachment for that situation of having long life and
being healthy. For me a lot of people have desire that they get a long life and
stay healthy. Although they have desire,
it is not sure they will get a long life and be healthy.
As a physician though she has strong attachment for long
life and health, she also does a lot of good deeds. This is why I accept her
treatment because for my created life it is also useful to use her created
power. It means not for me, for other people, for everyone. This is also one of
the reasons why I accept her treatment. For my own desire (sake), no need
treatment for me. I can go on my way.
Being healthy or not cannot be the same or constant. So if I am healthy it is better. If I am
unhealthy I will feel more tired. If I
am healthy I will feel less tired. The
situation is different. This is one of
the reasons why I accept her treatment.
Q : So if you never take care
of yourself how can you be healthy?
Sayadaw : My
actions, my doing good deeds is causing my long life, save life of other people
and my life too. I am not a doctor, so I cannot cure by myself but I use the
power of detachment to help other people. Doing like this is also necessary for
me.
Q : What is the cause of the
disease?
Sayadaw : For
me, the food, the habit and the lifestyle.
What I am eating and my lifestyle is causing my disease.
Q : For everybody?
Sayadaw : Yes for
everybody but not only food, what they are doing is also the cause.
For concentration you can pay attention to the in and out
breathing (inhaling and exhaling) and also to the abdomen. But when you
practice concentration, you should try not to forget the truth, not to forget
the right understanding … ‘to do-only, to use-only, to be mindful-only, not to
be attached as reality and to be detached’.
Do not grasp or not pay emphasised attention to the
thought. If there is pain, do not pay emphasised attention to the pain too.
Just pay emphasised attention to the right understanding…‘to experience-only,
to be mindful-only, not to attach them as reality, and to detach them.’
Automatic emphasising will happen on the pain and on the
thought but what you must do intentionally is not to forget the right
understanding…to do-only, to experience-only. To be mindful-only.
Q : Experience-only means to
notice without taking it too seriously?
Sayadaw : To
experience-only means, you must try not to place central emphasis to yourself
and to people outside and your experiences. Because of cause, there will be
effect, this is why it happens. Whatever happens is to be experienced-only. Not
to be grasped as something real. Not to be experienced with the idea of someone,
but to be experiencing-only or mindful only. You must try to understand like
this.
You are used to experience with the idea of ‘I’, because of
that wrong habit, whatever happens to you, you accept it with the idea of
someone or of something. It is necessary to abandon that traditional habit in
order to be free from sufferings and attachments.
End of the interview.
(Note :
Questions are by Danish Yogi and answers are by Thabarwa Sayadaw U
Ottamasara in English language.)
27 February 2014
Interview with Danish Yogi in Hpa An, 16th April 2013 (Part - 3)
Interview
with Danish Yogi in Hpa An
16th
April 2013
(Part
– 3)
Q : I cannot meditate
very well yet because I still don’t know what to focus on?
Sayadaw : The
problem is that there is attachment to something. So you can focus on that
right understanding. You need something
because of attachment to something. You need someone, especially you, because
of attachment to someone.
Q : I think it will
take me long time to understand ... is there a shortcut?
Sayadaw : My
teaching is not only a teaching but it is combined with my actions of detachment.
Although I am establishing different center one after another, the base is
different from other centers. With the time, the difference between my centre
and other traditional centre will be more and more obvious. The weakness of
other centers is that there is attachment to something. In order to solve that
problem I made my centre like this.
And later I arranged it (my centre) not to be as the
traditional one because I know the weakness of the traditional meditation
centers.
25 February 2014
Interview with Danish Yogi in Hpa An, 16th April 2013 (Part - 2)
Interview
with Danish Yogi in Hpa An
16th
April 2013
(Part
– 2)
Q : I want to learn to
meditate but also clear up my mind but also I am reluctant to step in as it is
completely opposite from the entire fundamental I have been taught since child.
Sayadaw : Because
of our traditional habit, we want to grasp something, this is why if you are
not relying on your body you will rely on your mind. We are grasping our mind
as being our own.
If
you can accept that everyone is just created truth it will not affect you. And
then, every experience won’t affect you anymore. Whatever happens to you or to
other people will not be important.
When
the original wisdom appears, it is very powerful. That original wisdom knows
about the original truth and the created truth. Now we all are using the
created truth but we don’t know about the truth of the created truths because
there is no original wisdom.
If
there is original wisdom, the original wisdom will know the created truth as being
created. Also the original wisdom knows about the real impermanent nature and
permanent nature.
Now
you have to think about your life. If
there is original wisdom, no need to think about your life as real importance.
Because
of using the created wisdom you are thinking about yourself.
Everyone
is the same. Because the power of
created wisdom is very limited it thinks about oneself. The power of original
truth is very great. It can think about
everyone, it is quite opposite. Now you think about yourself but if there is original
wisdom and you will be thinking about everyone, and your understanding will change.
Now
you can think only about yourself. You
are ‘only one’. For the created wisdom you are only one. For the original wisdom
you become everyone. You will understand
like this. This is why you become very powerful. It is not only you but everyone.
You can help everyone.
Now
you think about yourself so you can work specially only for yourself. If you think
you are everyone, you can work for everyone. And if you can solve that problem,
you can also teach to other how to solve that problem, how to understand the
original truth.
My
work is specialized in teaching how to help others understand like this. Other
works are not so important. Although I am doing a lot of good deeds, my special
work is to help other people to have right understanding or connect with
original truth and original wisdom.
Q : About love, which is attachment
but may be it is still important?
Sayadaw : If
you can detach from that attachment, you can understand about real love, real
love means original love. Even the mother love is just created love. If you
don’t know the original truth you might think that the created truth is truly good
and bad.
If
there is comparison between created truth and original truth, you will know the
weakness of the created truth. The mother love is also necessary but compared
with original wisdom which knows about the original love, it is quite the
opposite. That is why detachment is necessary for everything. If you can detach
the created truths, that power of detachment can make connection with the
original wisdom which is complete and perfect.
Q : So in the original truth,
original wisdom there is also love … but not created love?
Sayadaw : Yes,
not a creation. All creation can be
destroyed.
Original
truth cannot be destroyed.
To be continued …..
24 February 2014
Interview with Danish Yogi in Hpa An, 16th April 2013 (Part - 1)
Interview
with Danish Yogi in Hpa An
16th
April 2013
(Part
– 1)
Q : What is the true nature?
Sayadaw : There are two kind of original truths in nature. One is ever new impermanent nature and the other one is constant permanent nature.
Because
of not knowing the original truth there is misunderstanding as my mind, we
think of ourselves as reality, we think our wisdom as real, we think what we
know (our knowledge) as real. This is because of not knowing the original truth.
In order to know the original truth we have to meditate, we have to use our
life and use our intelligence not for our sake.
Using our intelligence for our sake is not doing good deeds.
Using
our intelligence not only for few people but for all, not for a limited number
of people but for all who are doing good deeds. What we should do is to meditate,
to take precepts and to work for other people. And beside this, while doing so
we should not pay attention to the mind or to the body or taking them as
reality.
We
should not pay attention to the result, to the time or to the place. Paying
attention is because of attachment. In order to be free from any attachment we
should try to abandon our habits.
There
are a lot of habits in everyone. We are using our habits. We accept ourselves
and habits as being reality. This is a wrong idea.
We
should do good deeds. We should try to
be able to abandon our habits. In order to do so, we must not think about
ourselves. We must just use our life and our intelligence but without paying
emphasised attention to our intelligence, without grasping to ourselves and to
other people.
It
is possible for everyone to pay emphasised attention to the right understanding
and focusing on the right understanding. The right understanding is to do-only,
neither to be attached nor to reject. It is possible not to forget this right understanding
and to do good deeds as much as possible.
If
you forget the right understanding, you will do good deeds with wrong
understanding and with the idea of ‘I’. The truth is not something, not
someone. Just ever new impermanent nature. In order to know the ever new impermanent
nature, you must try to abandon paying emphasised attention to living beings
and non-living beings.
If
you watch your mental actions, you will see that your mind is working with
living beings and non-living beings and it is always busy with something or
everything, someone or everyone. That is our old habit.
While
doing good deeds you must not use your old habit and in this way you are doing
good deeds in the right way. Doing good deeds with our habits is not following
the middle way. Doing good deeds without placing central emphasis on someone or
something is following the middle way.
You
must control your mental actions and you must control the action of your mind
with right understanding. If you cannot control your mind it will use its old
habit which thinks everything as real, individual, emotion, feeling, thinking and
knowing as being real. This is not the right understanding.
If
you are doing good deeds without the right understanding, there is mistake. My
teaching is specialized in doing good deeds without mistake. In order to
correct your mistake you must try not to obey your desire. ‘I want to do like
this’, or ‘I want to stay here’. This is
our desire. It means that the mind is
grasping to the place and to the method. This habit is wrong. You can stay
here, you can do what you want but you must try not to grasp to something or
someone.
Created
truths seem to be real because of not knowing the constant impermanent nature. ‘I’, ‘you’, men and women, all are created
truths. They are alive because of not knowing
the original truth. We all are created
truth. We are living in a created life.
Created
one is not original. It will appear at one time and disappear at one time.
The
original truth is always the constant, no beginning and no end. The original
truth is always true, never changing.
23 February 2014
Teaching of Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara to Myanmars Living in Malaysia
တရားန႔ဲတြဲလုပ္ရင္
ဘာပဲလုပ္လုပ္
အဆင္ေျပမွာပါဟု
ဆရာေတာ္မွ
မေလးရွားေရာက္ျမန္မာ
မ်ားအားၾသဝါဒေပးပါသည္
အဆင္ေျပမွာပါဟု
ဆရာေတာ္မွ
မေလးရွားေရာက္ျမန္မာ
မ်ားအားၾသဝါဒေပးပါသည္
"Everything (all your tasks and
endeavours) will go smoothly if you carry out your tasks and endeavours with
dhamma in mind (be mindful of dhamma teachings)".
- Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara's teaching to Myanmar citizens in Malaysia -
(23rd February 2014)- Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara's teaching to Myanmar citizens in Malaysia -
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