Close your eyes gently . Keep your waist and head straight . Relax the whole body . Do not grit teeth . Do not be tense . Don't scowl . Do not Blink . Do not accept all your Desires . Doing meditation is not for your desires . Obeying your desires is running away from Dhamma . Our mind is ordinary . Doing as we view ourselve wrongly . Doing as we perceived(which is wrong ) . Obeying mind is not Dhamma . our ordinary mind is not Dhamma . Our knowing mind is not Magga . Just Ego = Atta mind ,breeded mind . Against intimate mind and against habitual .
Mind is Dhamma work . Attached as me, my body and mine is not Dhamma mind . This is being attached to your mind . Break up your attachment mind . Don't accept your mind as truth . There are hair, finger nails, toe nails . But no feeling . No feeling in mind even cut hair . No feeling in mind like making baldhead .They exist . But there is no connection with nerves . Being separate with nerves . Keep separate your mind . Don't connect with craving . Mind may do whatever it likes . But don't take like that is mine this is mine…. Don't see "I" of your worries or doubt or whatever . If you accept those things , this is attachment . Ignore what is happening in your mind . But don't attach to them . You will hear something . If you know hearing something , this is attachment . leave it .
The world is rotating . But when you don't know it , you can't feel dizzy . like … if your know Rotor is rotating , you will be dizzy . like … When you taking bus , at that time you know this is going bus . So your mind is feeling . This is cause of attachment on static . That's why can't accept for moving . like that … If you are getting more moving ,you will be rich . If you wear pants, you will attach pants, also longyi / Myanmar jacket/ blouse . If you wear no clothes ,you will attach naked . All happeing mind are attachment mind . Accepting mind with "I". You must give up . Just accept those giving up mind . No taking mind = accepting those happeing things . But do not attach in mind .
Just accept sound . There is some sound/voice by theirself . But don't accept and listening in your mind . Don't accept and listen that is what sound . No need to cover your ears with hands. But don't be curious on those things . Like turn on Radio or TV . broadcasting by itself . If you are aware of that , you will hear those sound . You know what the sound is . Your mind always open like Radio, TV, eyes, mouth.Just against those opeing mind . Like close your opeing eyes . Also against mind . Don't be curious on sight/seeing/appearance , sound, smell, taste . Must not interested . Break up all attachment in your mind . Don't ask what mind is . All happening are mind . Something thinking , knowing , worrying all are mind . All knowing things are attachment in mind . Knowing for five groups of existence 's happening . Cut all attachment for those knowing things . There is no problem whatever happening . Talk as your wish . But not interesting for all . Cutting all attachment off . There is not accepting on sound . There is no listening on every hearing . As for sound … no need to cut off for we can't hear sound . Just cut off present hearing sound . Must break up not to attach . Even hearing sound is attachment on sound . If you know something hearing , that is can't cut attachment off . Must break up to cut off . No need to know in your mind for that is what ,this is what . No add by accepting appearance . As for appearance … no need to cut off appearance that we can't see things . Just cut off present appearance in our sense . No add by accepting words . Don't read for every words ,even i am from the education field . In all over the world is attack / clean for the others. Like cleaning out attacking and killing Hitalar, also Binlardin ,also like some religious like some nationalities . There are others by thinking and accepting . So have to take off thinking others .
Dhamma work is taking off wrong thinking others have. Taking off our mind . Cutting attachment off our mind . You know all happening in hair,teeth,toe nails , finger nails, flesh, blood,nerves, 'cos connecting with mind and those things . Like connect mind and tongue . Like connecting mind and eyes,norse,head,finger nails ,toe nails . feeling attachment . Can't apart each other. Like marriage . So must separate that marriage . Leave it . No hurt like hair, finger nails , toe nails . 'cos no connection . Like dying people in the world . No need to suffer/feel on unknown people in the globe . But if some relatives die, you will suffer on it,'cos connection each other . The different feeling for disconnecting or connecting people . Like that .. leave on 5 groups existence . Don't connect . try to get not connecting five aggregates of body each other . Like when tooth take out ,injection local anaesthetic.
The mind can't know to hurt even hurt ,after cutting off tooth and nerves of tooth . 'cos disconnecting . You must disconnect like that . No try to stop sound . But just only cut off attachment of sound . No destory appearance . Not break up by "I".just break up by five groups of existence . Just breaking up . Just giving up . just accept for those giving up five groups of existence . accept only mind have . Making "I" lookif you accept and grasp there is human , Jesus ,Buddha,I,woman,man,somehitng ,you will never know the truth of Nature .
If quoting from page numbers and books , it is accepting books . It is not Direct knowledge without books , without person , without author and without reader . It is Just to know Dhamma as it is without I . The Truth of non self should known without I .`The Knowledge without I is permanent knowledge . I learn for I forget . I possess for I to lose . I Live is for I die . I young is for I old . The aim of practice is to replace knowledge learned from books by Spontaneous Knowledge , Own Knowledge and True Knowledge . It is more important to know the Truth directly than knowing through words . You were friendly things with “I,I,I”=ego ,that your creation things which are bones, flesh, nerves, blood and this and that places and times , who and whom,which daughter and daunghter ,which sons and sons,relatives,friends,are much shorter-lasting .than your seeing the nature things . BUT THE MOST SAFE IS MIND, MENTAL CONTENTS AND MATTER. WE CAN’T BREAK UP THOSE NATURE THINGS . There is so much changing and impermanence . There is no safety in anything because all things are ever-changing. **In your mind there is everything . You know everything via words . Most people are knowing from learning, they are knowing what they are told, human to human . Doing meditation you can know automatically without words . If you know something from the others, this is only copying to the others . You know what the others know . It is not your own knowing things . The own knowing is no person to tell something . automatically know .All are conventionally acceptance . we have to destroy all knowledge,which are created by greedy, angry,ignorance mind . after you lost those things , you will know the real truth . like any other person's mind . Must try to appear unattachment mind . Man is man . But not friendly nuns and men or women . Like friendly each other between nuns or monks . Now .. our present mind is adding each others in mind . Our present mind/present five groups of existence is adding each other . Appearance means body . Body is relative with five groups of existence . Feeling , Stimulation and so on are actually accepting and connecting . Cut off these connections . Leave them alone . Leave feeling alone . Leave actions alone . Memory alone is not a problem . But ignore it .
You would get involved if you know "heat , pain and tingling " . Being attached to each other is actually attachment between 5 aggregates . What is becoming is 5 aggregates . Knowledge is 5 aggregates . Discard attachment . It is like separating a couple who are against the wishes of parents . Just cut out the attachment . Now the events are not destroyed . Also knowledge is not destroyed . Just cut the attachment . Attachment is following up . We know what is happening to the people we care . We are not aware of strangers . We are aware of the ones we attach . Cut the attachment . How to cut it is easy . Just say it is nothing . Know that everything is nothing . If you are aware as something , then it is attachment . If you are against that knowledge ,then attachment is cut . Cutting action will make sure , it is cut forever . I(sayadaw) is not talking about mind . Mind is not of interest and also feeling , memory and stimulation aggregates are not of interest . Physical aggregates and how many kinds of physical properties and aggregates are not of interst . These are not of interest . These are not off interest and shouldn't be attached . If attached to human abode , then stories of who done what in the past would become prominent . These attachments must be severed .
If knowledge is still present ,then it is knowledge of attachment . Sensation of pain arises if attachment to pain still persists . Same with fear . Don't accept it . Just say it is nothing . In short , just follow Buddha's advice . It is similar to getting married to the one chosen by parents not choosing the one you like . Now the same . Buddha's advice is not to attach anything . That is why not to attach anything . All sensations and mind leave them as nothing . That is the way to follow Buddha's advice. ..By saying It is nothing,follow Buddha's advice . Buddha sai all effects created by causes are impermanance,Suffering and nonself . That means "NOTHING "NOTHING is Impernance, suffering and nonself . Absence of NOTHING if Nibbana . Nibbana is real . Mind aggregates and physical aggregates are not real . these are just happening . Don't make happenings real . If You aware of pain or tingling , you are making happenings real . Agaist the wish of Buddha , impermanance ,suffering and nonself are made into permanance , bliss and self. Listen to Buddha . If you are watching form/death , then advice of Mogoke sayadaw . Knowledge of form/death is advice of Mogoke sayadaw . Now just take things as NOTHING . If form/death , then attachment is to form/death . Life is Birth and death . Attached to life and death . Celebrating Birthdays means enjoying birth . Attachment ofBirth/death make birth enjoyable . Even death becomes enjoyable except nearest relatives . Even Death of sanga become a celebration . For a gambler , other people's death is his opportunity . ..Birthday means enjoyment of birth . Death means enjoyment of death . That is why I daren't use any names . If named , attached to names . No names means NOTHING . If knowledge of form and death persists , attachment to form/death persist . I was the same . Even in death , Death like Bogyoke Aung San is better than being alive .. It is attachment to form /death . If still attached to death , Death would surely come .I f form/death , then attachment would persists Therefore , NOTHING . In NOTHING , no place to craving and attachment to hide . Craving and attachment is like disease . If there is blood , Leukaemia , Heart , Heart disease and Computer , computer virus . If there is something , Craving and attachment would occur. Only safety is in NOTHING . That is why NOTHING. Don't accept anything . If anything is accepted , then attachment and craving would occur . Even attachment and craving can occur to words which are not real . If used to word form/death,then you would think only FORM/Death is Dhammam Without Form/Death , you would not accept as DHAMMA .
This is attachment to words . Leave alone Reality . God is only a word but attachment to it occurs . Obseesion occurs . Attachment and Craving is very powerful . If just words, attached to words . Truth as a word, then atrtached to this word . Attached to word True LOVE , then look for true love . If desire to love is there, it is not TRUE LOVE . It would never be found.If needed to be created , it is not TRUE LOVE . Loving kindness arises from giving up . If True , no need to be changed . If True Goodness , No need to go bad . True Love , no need for Hatred . True bliss is free from suffering . People don't know Truth . Truth is looked for. Truth would never be found . If still looking , never would be found . It is the characteristics of Craving and attachment . If there is bone , will be . Would be contented with words happily biting the bone . If hope , attached to hope . Attachment cannot occur to NOTHING . Disease cannot occur alone . Disease need to be attached to something . Liver disease to liver . Mad cow disease to cow. Needed to be rely on something . Craving doesn't have its own quality . Attachment would die if nothing to rely on . So NOTHING means cutting off attachment . Knowledge of something is allowing attachment and Craving dictating you .
Teaching By Tsunami Sayadaw U Ottamasara
Translation by Ma May Thet Win (internet,Myanmar)
Edit by Ko Tint Oo (UK)
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