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RIGHT VIEW
&
WRONG VIEW

This teaching is directly based on the Guided talk

by Tsunami Sayadaw Rev Ottamasara
at BHS in Penang, Malaysia Dhamma Trip,
March - 2011.

By Hnin Nwe Soe

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About
the teaching of
Sayadaw
Rev.
PREFACE Ottamasara

Sayadaw's teaching provides a practice to overcome the difficulties

of the present day meditators. His teaching is mainly focused on what actually
is the middle way that Buddha had discovered; having right understanding
about the Created Truths and Original Truth.
Original Truth is beyond all limits and Created Truths such as mind,
body, lives, actions, experiences, places, time (present, past & future).
Sayadaw's teaching is beyond all those Created Truths and all limits.
If one were to follow up to the end of middle way that Buddha had
trodden, there is nothing for us to do but abandon or renounce our
traditional wrong understanding and pay attention to the Original Truth -
1) Real Impermanent Nature and
2) Real Permanent Nature.
(The powers of real impermanent nature which will be explained afterward.)
It is not quite an easy way to be practiced by ordinary lay people as
we are strongly attached to our traditional wrong understanding.
Since we are attaching ourselves strongly with Created Truths and
how we should practice to be free from those attachment and to have right
understanding about Created Truths and Original Truth.
Firstly, we need a lot of practice and courage to go beyond our
traditional understanding and change our attention.
Even though, real meditation or the only middle way discovered by
Buddha (Sayadaw's teaching) is not so easy, we can at least copy the
understanding of the Buddha and his followers who understand well the
truth about Created Truths and Original Truth.

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Sayadaw's teaching (having right understanding) is intended to any

religion and all classes of people _ the rich and the poor, the young and the
old, men and women - without making any discrimination between them. His
teaching is free and open to all people and everyone can practice and
follow it.
How will people practice meditation in their workaday life?
Can meditation be practiced in our days of speed and stress?
We can not avoid our daily problems of life. We keep on doing with
our work in daily life by having right understanding through right practice.
It is not an easy way to practice by ourselves that's why the help of the
Buddha and his followers who know well about Created Truths and Original
Truth is absolutely necessary. By only paying attention to Original Truth -
Impermanent Nature and Permanent Nature with the help of the Buddha
and his followers, slowly or quickly but surely we can walk the only middle
way and realize the true essence of it.
In this teaching, it is necessary to copy the understanding of the
teacher and try to accept his understanding.
This teaching is directly based on the Guided talk by Sayadaw at
BHS in Penang, Malaysia Dhamma Trip, March- 2011. I have kept as close
as I could to the original teaching of Sayadaw and have tried to make my
writing easy and readable.
I'm really glad to have this chance to express my sense of heartfelt
gratitude to Venerable Sayadw, U Ottamasara, who indeed helps me to
practice meditation; for all the guidance and encouragement during my
workaday life of speed and stress. Without Sayadaw's extreme support,
my understanding to Sayadaw's teaching could not have been improved .
I would also like to extend my special thanks to my dhamma friend,
Ko Soe Win Htut from Malaysia, for his patience and help me in preparing
this book presentable.

With loving-kindness,
Hnin Nwe Soe
(27.5.2011)

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SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
TO THE GUIDED TALK

Two kinds of
Original Truth
1. Impermanent Nature
- Constant impermanent energies
- its original creation or action
to think unreality as reality.
- its original understanding or
knowing about
original and created truth
2. Permanent Nature

Created Truths
- Something, everything, someone,
everyone, mind and body that we understand
- Concepts,dualities-pain/pleasure, like/dislike,
Ying/Yang, ideas, feelings.places and time, etc.
- To be used only and not to think of them as
reality or real importance.

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Understanding Created Truth

All living things and non-living things (e.g - male & female, the young
& the old, someone, everyone, parents & children, teachers & followers,
something, everything, time and place.. etc) are just Created Truths. Body,
mind, whatever feeling (dualities) and whatever actions concern them such
as good or bad, right or wrong, life or death are just Created Truths.
Created Truths are limited, not perfect and not permanent. They are
just temporary and not forever.
Created Truths are to be used only, to be experienced only, to be
known only and not to be taken as reality. There are endless problems in
life because we all are traditionally or naturally using life in the wrong
way. We live our lives with misunderstanding when we are attached to the
Created Truths- attached to this way, that way, to be someone,some place
or time.
Actions are just actions, experiences are just experiences,knowing
is just knowing, goodness is just goodness, badness is just badness _ they
are not realities. Created Truths are not to be attached , thinking that they
will give us ultimate happiness.
Created Truths are not true anymore comapred with Original
Truth. Created Truths seem to be real because of ignorance to the
original reality, the Original Truth.

Created Truths are

to be used only,
to be experienced only,
to be known only and
not to be taken as reality.

By Ven. Ottamasara

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Recognising Original Truth

Only Original Wisdom can understand the Original Truth. Original
Truth is beyond Created Truths such as time, place, body and mind.
Original Truth is limitless, perfect and permanent. There are two
kinds of original truth_
1). Real Impermanent Nature which is constant & forever (Dukkha Sacca)
2) Real Permanent Nature (Nirodha Sacca)
The impermanent nature has two kinds of apparent quality or power.
(1) Original power of creation or action to think unreality as reality
(Samudaya Sacca).
(2) Original knowing or understanding about Original Truth & Created Truths
(Magga Sacca).

Real Meditation (The Only Middle Way)

Real Meditation is to correct original mistake which creates all
problems. Real meditation is to change our attention from created truths to
original truth. Real Meditation is the bridge between created truths and
original truth. Real meditation is to correct our misunderstanding of life,
action, experience and knowing that we traditionally take them as reality.
The only middle way is not to forget the power of constant
impermanent nature (as mentioned above) all the time.

By remembering or not forgetting the power of constant

impermanent nature ; original action or creation & original
knowing of original impermanent nature, we will be able to
use the created truths in the right way - using only.

We can indirectly detach the created truths by only paying attention

to the original impermanent nature.

Middle way is just to practice only, just to follow only. If you can
successfully use the middle way in the right way, the quality of your mind
will become greater and greater. Finally, you will have direct connection
with the original wisdom which understands the original truth.

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RIGHT VIEW
&
WRONG VIEW
This teaching is directly based on the Guided talk
by Tsunami Sayadaw Rev Ottamasara
at BHS in Penang, Malaysia Dhamma Trip,
March - 2011.

"Having Right Understanding" is of Real Importance

We all are doing good deeds.We can differentiate goodness from
badness.Whatever happenings and whatever feeling - good or bad are not
important. To know about right understanding or right view is important. At
the beginning, you can know about right understanding and wrong
understanding by listening to my teaching- with the help of me.

Role of the help of a teacher who has right understanding

My mind has the power to change understanding - from wrong
understanding to right understanding. It is difficult for you to change
your wrong understanding by yourself. But it is not difficult for me. You
can copy my right understanding.
In this way, you can indirectly understand about those
understandings. But those indirect understandings are not enough and
perfect to become direct understanding about right and wrong
understanding.What I am saying is not about someone, something, time and
place, but just about right and wrong understanding.
Traditionally we are using mind, body, life cycle, life and death,
time (past, present and future), everything, everyone, places, experiences
and situations with the idea of taking them as reality. In fact,all of them
are just created truths. All created truths are just to be used, just to be

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experienced and just to be known only but not to be taken them as reality.We
are naturally using those created truths with wrong understanding.
What I am talking about right and wrong understanding is not created
truth such as time, place, something and someone etc;
All our knowing or understanding concerned with our mind are just
to be known only but not to be taken them as reality.
"Understanding to my teaching or not" is also just to be experienced
only and not to be taken it as reality. Our understanding is naturally wrong
and so we need to change our understanding.

Understanding is concerned with inner mind

Understanding is especially concerned with inner or unconscious mind.
Generally we are using our outer mind or conscious mind. Wrong
understanding or misunderstanding is mostly concerned with our inner mind.
By using our outer mind correctly, we must try to remove misunderstanding
from inner mind. It is necessary to understand or accept like my
understanding. In this way, you can change your understanding from wrong
to right. This understanding is necessary to change our traditional
misunderstanding about created truth.

Changing wrong to right understanding

We are using all created truths with wrong understanding and so all
our knowing and actions are controlled by wrong understanding. Therefore,
we need to change our understanding (controller) from wrong understanding
to right understanding. Even in practicing meditation, we are habitually
practicing, knowing and experiencing with wrong understanding-- with the
idea of thinking them as reality.
e.g, (This is right, that is wrong, practicing meditation is right , doing
this good deed is right).
In fact, our practice and action should be controlled by right
understanding. Practicing meditation should be practicing only without
wrong understanding ; without taking the idea of practicing meditation as
reality. If there is wrong understanding , our practicing will not be free
and we will think like that " Someone is practicing meditation."
In fact, no one is practicing. Practicing meditation should be
“practicing only”. Meditation, time, place and experience seem to be real

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because of wrong understanding. We are using them with wrong

understanding with the idea of taking them as reality.

The help of the teacher who has right understanding

I am using all Created Truths- mind, body, time and place without
misunderstanding but with right understanding - without any attachment to
my life, lives of other people, my actions, actions of other people, my knowing
and knowing of others.Therefore, all my actions are just actions and all my
knowing are just knowing only. That's why I can help everyone to change
their wrong understanding through my right understanding. You cannot
directly understand about right and wrong understanding by yourself.

Trying to have right understanding like me is changing your

traditional understanding
You need to try to understand and accept like me in order to have
right understanding. In this way, your attempt to accept like me will cause
or will condition your traditional wrong understanding to be right
understanding.

We need to change our understanding.

If we have strong attachment to wrong understanding, it is difficult
to correct our understanding and it will take long time.

At first, we must accept the idea that our mind and body are
controlled by wrong understanding. Because that wrong understanding is
concerned with our inner mind,we need to change our understanding and
attention in order to remove wrong understanding from inner mind.
We should only pay attention to wrong and right understanding, not
to our mind, body, time, place and whatever actions concerned with mind
and body which are just Created Truths.
In fact, all created truths are just to be used only but not to be paid
attention to. What I am saying is not our traditional understanding. Try to
understand or accept like my understanding and then your mind power will
become higher and higher.This practice is mostly concerned with our mind.

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"Mind only or Free mind" can create and do everything

In fact, mind is free and it can create and do everything.You can
understand and accept like my understanding through right practice.The
more practice you make , the less the traditional mind quality(defilements)
and then the stronger the power of mind quality will become. In this way,
our traditional understanding or wrong understanding (defilements) will
become less and less and the power of right understanding will become
higher and higher.
This practice is intended to go beyond traditional mind quality and
to become free mind. Since we are strongly attached to our traditional
wrong understanding, it is difficult to understand like Buddha and his
followers.
However, this is the only way of trying to copy the Buddha's
understanding and thus sooner or later your mind will be more and more
free and powerful.

Real Cause of all problems

Real meditation is using mind in the extraordinary way. We are using
"lives of male and female, life and death" with the idea of taking them as
reality. So there is attachment in our mind concerned with lives of male and
female, life and death.
Because of that attachment, lots of problems concerned with
those occur in human society.

Because of
wrong
understanding,
we need to make
a practice
of correcting
our
understanding.

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Ottamasara

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We have strong attachment to Created Truths because of wrong

understanding (taking created truths as reality). If there is no wrong
understanding, there is no attachment. Because of wrong understanding,
we need to make a practice of correcting our understanding.
You will need to understand and accept as mentioned above or as I
guided you for a certain enough period of time. In fact, more and more
time and practice is necessary to have right understanding as I guided you.
In this way, attachment to wrong understanding will surely become less
and less.
The real right and wrong understanding
The real right and wrong understanding is concerned with Original Truth.
There are two kinds of original truth_
1) Impermanent Nature and
2) Permanent Nature.
(Note : Impermanent nature does not mean the impermanence of something or
someone but the real impermanence by nature which is constant and forever.)

Impermanent Nature has two kinds of quality or power.

1. Original power of creation or action to think unreality as reality.
2. Original knowing or understanding about Original Truth and Created
Truths.

Real Impermanent Nature

has the power
to misunderstand
Created truths
as reality and
as of real importance.

_By Rev. Ottamasara

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Impermanent Nature of something and someone

We must not accept Impermanent Nature of everything and

everyone as reality. The nature of everything and everyone that we
understand is just to be used only, not to be taken it as reality. That's why
impermanent nature of something and everything is just to be used only,
but must not think it as reality.
Original Truth is forever and permanent. Created Truths are not
forever. We can understand easily nothing is permanent or everything is
impermanent. But everything and something are just Created Truths ,and
thus our understanding of impermanent nature is also just created truth.
All of us and our perceptions are just Created Truths. Whatever
actions and feeling -- good or bad, life or death - are just Created Truths
and so they all are just to be used, just to be experienced and just to be
known only.
In using created mind, body, time and place it is necessary not to
forget Original Truth- Impermanent Nature and its illusive power to think
unreality as reality and its right understanding about the original truth &
created truths.
In using created mind, body, time and place,
it is necessary not to forget
Original Truth- Impermanent Nature and
its illusive power to think
unreality as reality.
_By Tsunami Sayadaw

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To understand about Original Truth in the right way is important.

We all generally know that " Nothing is permanent.
Everything is impermanent."
We all think that kind of knowing is right.
But this kind of knowing of impermanent nature is not
for real meditation or only middle way.

Impermanence of everything and everyone is concerned only

with Created Truths
In fact, our knowing about impermanence of everything and everyone
is concerned only with Created Truths but not concerned with Original
Truth or Ultimate Truth. If our understanding is wrong about Original
Truth, we will think Created Truths as Original Truth.
We can use time, place, mind and body but we must not forget Original
Truth- Impermanent Nature and its powers.
We can do anything using our mind and body but we must not forget
the original illusive action of Impermanent Nature to think Created truths
as reality.
You can know whatever saying by yourself and by others but must
not forget the original knowing of real Impermanent Nature.

In this way, we will be able to use our life,

action and knowing in the right way
without misunderstanding of thinking them as reality.

Compared with Original Truth, Created Truth is not true anymore.

Because of not comparing with Original Truth, all Created Truths seem to
be real.
To attain the real happiness or freedom or permanent nature, it is
necessary not to forget the powers of Original Truth_Impermanent Nature
__Original illusive action and original knowing of Impermanent Nature.
Our present knowing about Original Truth is created knowing only.
We have to make a practice of having right understanding as mentioned
above. More and more created knowing is the cause of appearing original
knowing.

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About Right View and Wrong View

"Doing action or not" must be " doing only " and " not doing only". "
Doing or not" is not of real importance. What is important is whether or not
there is freedom from attachment and wrong understanding.To be able to
do like this, it is necessary not to forget Original Truth- Impermanent Nature
and two qualities of Impermanent Nature; Original Creation and Original
Understanding. If there is wrong understanding , everything is important
and every single detail becomes alive. If there is no wrong understanding ,
nothing is important and all Created Truths are just to be used , just to be
experienced and just to be known only."
Understanding to my teaching or not" is also just to be understanding
only and just to be not-understanding only.
It means not to change our lives, actions and situations but just to
change our view or understanding.
"Doing or not" is also not important. If you have a chance to do it,
just do it.

If there is wrong understanding,

everything is important and
every single detail
becomes alive.
__By Tsunami Sayadaw

If you don't have any chance to do it, just don't do it. There will be
no more problem concerned with "doing or not". I have a chance to teach
dhamma in Malaysia. So I just come and teach dhamma here." Coming or
not", " Teaching or not" is not important." To have right understanding like
this" is important.
We must try to go beyond our understanding since our understanding
is controlled by wrong understanding or misunderstanding.

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Real meditation
Real meditation is trying to be free from wrong view. Right view is
free view-- knowing only and understanding only. We are traditionally paying
attention to the actions of our mind,and body, our life and situation. It is
wrong to do like that and there is no end in doing so.
It is necessary just to change the controller__
from wrong understanding to right understanding,
not to change our life and our mind.
If we can change our wrong understanding, our mind and life will
become perfect. All of your dreams will come true and all of your desire
will be fulfilled by that quality. Only by paying attention to the right
understanding, attention to Created Truths__people, time, place and
situation will become less and less.
Due to paying attention to Created Truths, attachment becomes bigger
and bigger. By changing our attention from Created Truths to Original Truth:
from wrong understanding to right understanding- our traditional attention
to Created Truths will become less and less.The more attention to right
understanding, the less attention to Created Truths.
Our mind is traditionally controlled by wrong understanding and so
it is always busy with " like & dislike", " love & hatred", or "happiness &
unhappiness". If wrong understanding is controlling in whatever we do,
our mind is not free, our action is not free and so our mind quality will not
be free.

Due to
paying attention
to Created Truths,
attachment
becomes bigger
and bigger.

By Tusnami
Sayadaw

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That is why we can copy each other whose mind quality is not free
but we can not copy Buddha whose mind quality is free since we have
strong attachment to ourselves and to tradition.
For me, " Who I am , what religion I am and what I am doing " is not
important. Therefore, " who you are, what religion you are and what you
are doing " is not important. So I can help people to change their wrong
understanding.
If your understanding is right, your action will become right and
thus your mind will become more and more pure and powerful. If your mind
is pure, you do not need to depend on other people, body, situation, money
and food. As our mind is not free and pure ; our mind is controlled by
wrong understanding - our mind is always starving for everything and there
will be endless desire in our mind.
You cannot copy and understand my teaching since your mind is not
free. Try to have right understanding like me and it is the way to be free
our mind.
My view is free view. It is neither created view nor created
understanding but original understanding. What I am guiding is the right
cause for your mind to have direct connection with Original Truth and
Original Wisdom. Traditionally, using mind - with the idea of taking mind
as reality will never have direct connection with Original Truth and Original
Wisdom.
Every life, experience and knowing including life, experience and
knowing of Yogi_meditator are just to be used, just to be experienced and
just to be known only, must not take them as reality.
To be able to do like this, it is necessary not to forget Original
Truth, Real impermanent Nature and its two qualities_

(1) original creation to think unreality as reality and,

(2) original understanding about Original Truth and Created Truths.

You have to practice meditation but you must not forget Original
action of Impermanent Nature to think unreality as reality so that your
practicing will become practicing only without misunderstanding it as reality.
There will be a lot of knowing and experience about meditation, but all
knowing must be just knowing only and must not think it as reality.

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In order to be like that, you must not forget “original knowing of

Impermanent Nature." Knowing someone and knowing mind" are just Created
Truths, they are just to be used, just to be known only and not to be taken
them as reality.
Even life of yogi(meditator) is also just to be used only and not to be
thought as reality. To be able to do like this, we must not forget Original
Truth__Real Impermanent Nature which is beyond someone and something.
In this way, we can use our life in the right way with right understanding.

The more attention to Original Truth,

the less wrong understanding become.
The less the wrong understanding,
the more the right understanding.

In this way, right understanding has become replacing wrong

understanding." Knowing like this or not " is also " just knowing only "and
"just not knowing only".

There is nobody behind knowing like this or not.

Original Truth is perfect. Right view or free view is perfect.

There is no need to be worried about the others, no need to be proud

of ourselves.There is nobody who knows or who does not know.There is no
person who has escaped and there is no person who has trapped.
There is only wrong understanding and right understanding.If wrong
understanding is controlling our mind,all Created Truths- everything,
everyone, time,place, situation and the whole universe become alive and
real.
If there is no wrong view or wrong understanding, nothing is alive,
no one is alive, no time and no place.
There is only Impermanent Nature and Permanent Nature.

Teaching is now over.

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RIGHT VIEW
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WRONG VIEW

This teaching is directly based on the Guided talk

by Tsunami Sayadaw Rev Ottamasara
at BHS in Penang, Malaysia Dhamma Trip,
March - 2011.

By Hnin Nwe Soe

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