Guided
Insight Meditation Talk by Venerable Sayadaw U Ottamasara
At
Chompaka Lodge, Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia
On
Saturday, 4th March 2012
Part
- One
We
are used to pay attention only to the created truth. All living beings, non
living beings, time and place are just created truth. All the causes that we
know are also just created truth. Our intelligence and all our knowledge are
also just created truth. Our mind is also just created truth. Because of
attachment to the created truth all our actions cannot go beyond the created
truth. Our mind is always connecting one created truth after another. All our
mental actions are concerned only with created truth.
Try
to change our mental action by paying attention the truth to use only, to
experience only, to do only, to know only. Use only means only using without
any idea of something or someone. Use-only means, using without grasping to the
created truth. In fact, we are using the created truth all the time but there
is grasping in all our actions.
Constant
mindfulness of use only intends to stop the habit of grasping. Remind the truth to use only intends the
grasping habit to become weaker and weaker. Try to remember the truth “use
only” without grasping. All actions including practicing meditation are to use
only. Our actions must be free from the
wrong idea of something or someone. All the effects, good or bad must be
experienced only.
Grasping
or using with the idea that something is wrong. The truth to use only is
something beyond our understanding. We are traditionally doing good deeds with
our normal understanding. Our intelligence is not complete that is why all our
understandings are not complete. All actions of doing good deeds must be
controlled by the middle way of using-only, experience only, do only and know
only.
Using
only with our intelligence is right but grasping is wrong. Understanding the
truth of use-only intends to stop the habit of grasping to our intelligence.
Our mind and intelligence are to use-only. By reminding of using-only, we try
to use our mind in an intelligent way. The traditional habit of mind and
intelligence is grasping something wrong. Continuous
paying attention to the truth of use-only, experience-only, do-only and
know-only intend to stop the wrong idea or wrong view from our mind.
Try to love the truth of use-only and stop the grasping
habit of our mind. The more you pay attention to the truth of use-only,
experience-only, do-only, know-only, the more you will be liberated from doing
something with the idea of someone or something. In this way, all your actions
will be free from wrong understanding.
To be continued