Anatta Teachings - 02

Anatta Teachings

Anatta or Selfless Teachings or Motto Quotes

of Thabarwa Sayadaw U Ottamasara 

Part - Two

Your Good Deeds Should Be Energized

• What is important in life is to strive towards doing good deeds.
• What is needed to do is to strive towards doing good deeds.
• How to do it will need to overcome all obstacles standing in the way.
• Your good deeds should not be superficial and shallow.  It is necessary to perform in such a way as to lead to perfection of virtue.
• As you are doing good deeds, you should do it always, in continuity whether it is easy or difficult, irrespective of long or short duration.
• When you are doing good deeds there should be no excuses or exceptions.  You should do it with firm determination.
• You should increase and upgrade the momentum of all good deeds.
• When you do good deeds, it should be for merit only.  You should overcome and go beyond the negative extreme of personal self motivation and craving. 
• When you do good deeds you will gain merit. If the merit is boundless, then your benefits will also be boundless.
• You should also do unintended or unplanned good deeds frequently as much as planned merits.
• What you must do is good deeds. You should strive to do it, not considering whether you do it or not, whether you know it or not, whether you can know or reach the end of all your endeavors or not.

Kamma (Action) And Nyana (Wisdom)

• Action that is made is called action perception.  The insight wisdom arising out of abandoning action is called wisdom perception.
• Power of wisdom is far superior than power of action.
• When you are a victim of kamma action, and strive to become a victor by managing your own action based on knowledge power, instead of being dictated by kamma , then it is called true Dhamma doctrine.

True Understanding

• When you see truth as it is, then you have achieved true understanding.
• True virtue can be gained only by Dhamma virtue.
• True disciplinary practice is gained only be practical contemplation and meditation.
• It is not only necessary to have a true understanding of Dhamma law, but is essential to practice what you have understood.
• It is necessary to work to reach a true state of understanding, but is also essential that the fruition of true understanding must be reached.
• Because you don’t understand what needs to be done, you do what is prescribed.
• You should begin from doing what is prescribed, to enable you to do what needs to be done to reach the true path of fruition and realization.
• You must do in a way that can be done for the moment, but you must have the freedom to think.
• You become attached to other carnal desires and pleasures because you have not sensed  the real taste of true Dhamma.

• Unwholesome defilements (kilesa) or subjective sensuality are only bent on taking for self-enjoyment.  Wisdom knowledge is free from taking. Both defilement sensuality and true doctrine is concerned with the state of mind.
• You must strive to listen and understand what has been lectured superficially on the essentials of natural law.
• If you believe wrongly that you have reached the end of the road on what mundane knowledge you have pursued during your lifetime, you will never achieve true learning, insight knowledge and wisdom.
• Only true insight knowledge can make you understand true metta  lovingkindness.
• Only when you abandon your personal view and conviction, you will come to understand the viewpoint of other persons from their perspective.
• Only when you strive to be a true disciple, you will eventually find the true teacher.
• It will not be enough to be polite in conversation, good looking, good manners, and possess loving personality.  The more important virtue is your action, your state of mind, your true intellect and wisdom that really is important.
• It does not matter whether you are famous or not.  The important factor is your correct ability and proficiency.

The Correct Attitude

• You must learn not to be too dogmatic and not to be too grasping in your way of life.
• In your way of living you must learn not to hold too rigid and dogmatic. 

Dhamma’s Way Of Virtue To Overcome Difficulties

• Difficulties are meant to be overcome, not to retreat or surrender in defeat.
• Problems are meant to be solved, not to search for it and worry over it.
• Impediments are meant to be faced and cleared, with endurance and fortitude, not to be dissatisfied over it.

       

Belief, Faith And Conviction

• Your correct belief and faith must be borne out of abandoning greed (lobha), anger (dosa), and delusion (moha).
• Your correct belief must be based on true action (kamma), true sacrifice and abandonment. 

Words Containing Energy Of Performance

• Use more of ability to work rather than ability to speak.
• Don’t work with just speaking only. Speak with work.
• There is more power when you speak on what you can do, rather than speak on what you cannot do.
• You should speak, backed by the power of action (work) rather than speaking only without action.
• You need to have the power to work on what you speak, and the power to speak on what you can work.
• It is better to work and show rather than to speak out what to do. (Follow deeds with words rather than words without deeds).
• Create a virtuous world by virtuous deed and action.
• Towards a virtuous world through the power of supreme sacrifice and    abandonment.

Good Deeds Flock Together

Volition, will (cetana) flocks where there is volition (cetana);

Anger (dosa) flocks  where there is anger;

Greed (loba) flocks where there is greed;

Delusion (moha) flocks where there is delusion. 

The True Noble Creator

• Evil minds create evil creator, giving evil results.
• Good minds create noble creator giving good benefits.
• This universe is like a movie where all living beings of the thirty three worlds (Thirty-one Planes of Existence); men and women, animate and the inanimate, rupa loka (physical phenomenon or corporeality) play their role under the direction of the director (state of mind, mental state of consciousness).