“What is the truth which can give rise to the real blessing and freedom?” (Part-2)

Do you know that we are using life in the wrong way?
In brief, we are traditionally using and living the life with misunderstanding. Taking the mind and body or life as reality and as of real importance, attachment with likes and dislikes concerning the mind and body are happening endlessly. Grasping with likes and dislikes is creating the problems and miseries.
So, there is endless problems in life just because we are using life (mind_body) in the wrong way.

Pic-1: cage fight

We are using mind and body in the wrong way not only in daily life but also in meditation practice – we practice meditation and we are mindful of the mind and body thinking them as reality.
Including the life and the actions of meditators or layman, all experiences therewith, good or bad experiences – just to be used only, but just to be experienced only and must not taken as reality.

In fact, any practice, any action, any time and place is
to be known only, to be done only and to be experienced only
but not to think it is reality and not to view it as reality.

Whatever actions, experiences, speeches, thinking, memories, or judgment are just created truths which are for using only and experiencing only.
Rather than changing our action, our experience or our life, changing our understanding is the most important. If our understanding is changed in the right way, our action and our life will automatically change.
Correcting the misunderstanding itself will give rise to
the right understanding of the original truth.

Pic-2: Group Meditation

Understanding Doing and Not-doing
Doing good deed is right, but thinking it is reality is wrong. Not doing bad deed is right, but think it is reality is wrong.
Just be good and must not think good or bad man or individual as reality and as of real importance.
Whatever _actions or inaction of body and mind are to be done only and be experienced only – not to be taken them as reality or mine.
Doing or not doing, sleeping or not sleeping, life and death – all these are not so important, it is for use only, and experience only. Using is right. Using with the idea it is reality is wrong.
Doing only is right but doing with grasping, likes and dislikes is not right.
Not-doing only is right but doing with grasping, likes and dislikes is not right.
Actions must be just actions; experiences must be just experiences; knowing must be just knowing ; goodness must just goodness without thinking them as realities and without grasping with likes and dislikes.

Pic-2a: A water drop at a orchid garden

If you don’t understand the truth in the right way, its power will effect you.
When there is misunderstanding or ignorance of the true nature, There will be surely the illusive effect of that true nature.

Here a simile about ignorance or unknowing about the true nature. Have you ever seen a “mirage” in hot season? It seems to be a water surface. In reality, a water surface is not real but it is just a atmospheric refraction/reflection by a layer of hot air distorts.
Nevertheless, when our eyes cannot see its real nature correctly, something which is unreal seems to be real in our perceptions.

Pic-3 : Some photos of mirage appearing.

On account of unknowing or ignorance of the real nature, the real nature create us to misunderstand unreality as reality.
Another simile is the case of rotating of the electric fan in the power of current. Our eyes will see one circle plate in that case. In fact, there is no circle plate but there is just the three/four hands which is rotating continuously and rapidly. But our eyes cannot see the true nature of this event, something which is unreal seem to be real in our perceptions.

Pic-4 : electric fan

There is the natural law.
If one can’t understand the original reality_the real nature in the right way,
the natural power arises constantly to create him/her to misunderstand unreality as reality, unimportance as real importance, and non-being as being(individual).

Pic-5: Viewpoint from the base of the trees

Understanding the Created Truths correctly
Understanding created truths in the right way is important so that the right understanding upon them can give rise spiritual development_insight for real happiness and freedom.
Everything around us such as – people, things, place and time, male, female, young, old, sick, healthy, teacher, student, parent, child. etc, is Created Truth
Concepts, ideas, places, time and dualities _ pain & pleasure, likes & dislikes, hotness & coldness, agitation & calmness, tightness & looseness, rising & falling, inhaling & exhaling, Yin & Yang-etc; are created truths too.
Something, everything, someone, everyone, sometime, every time, someplace, every place, mind and body that we understand are also created truths.
Created Truth is to be used only, to be experienced only and to be known only but not to view them as reality and as of real importance.
Created Truths are not to be attached, thinking that they will give us ultimate happiness. Created truths are not true anymore in comparing to original truths. Created truths seem to be real in our perceptions because of ignorance to original reality, the original truth.
If we can’t accept and can’t try the right practice to be able to accept as mentioned above, it is totally sure that there are endless problems in life because we will use life in the wrong way.

Pic-6: an angry monkey

Moreover, we will attach the created truths with likes & dislikes. Then, when we are attached to the Created Truth – attached to this way, that way, this religion, that religion, to be somebody, someone, some place or time, we will live our lives with wrong understanding (Avijja) which is creating the endless debating, quarreling, worries, stress, hatred, jealousy, grasping, grief, misery, diseases and problems -etc.
In order to accept as mentioned above and not to grasp the created truths with wrong understanding, we need to understand the real meditation, only middle way which is concerned with the original truth and we need to practice it more patiently and persistently.

Pic-7: Earthquake in Myanmar 2011

To be continued….