Doing Good Deeds Without Limits ကုသိုလ်ကောင်းမှုကို အကန့်အသတ်မဲ့ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်း (Part 2)

2. Causing supreme karma (or) fortune

To cause supreme karma or fortune, we have to do good deeds without attachment at full extent. Everyone has the ability to do worldly deeds using any method. For example, we try to be educated through all learning methods and we try to do business using any way.

If we do good deeds with the utmost ability, the supreme karma or fortune will follow.

So also with “Bad Fortune or Karma “. For example, the Rivaling disciple of Buddha (Devadatta) tried to assassinate the Buddha by doing bad deeds as much as he could. As a result, he is still suffering seriously according to what bad action he had committed. It means the effects or consequences are entirely consistent with the causes that we create.

The greater the power of ability, the better we can work even on average common activities.

3. Doing freely

We do not need to take account of “time, place, situation & method “in doing good deeds. We try to foster the ability of doing good deeds by doing good deeds as much as we can.

Try to abandon having the idea (mind action) of paying attention to all created truths, such as “time, place, situation, method”.

The more we abandon the idea (mind action) of paying attention to created truths, the less the attachment to created truths will become. “Less attachment to created truths” leads the way to doing things freely (doing-only) without grasping anything.

At the beginning (Before abandoning grasping), we do everything with limited time and place (i.e, we are doing things with restrictions & limitations). For example, “Someone is doing something using some methods; doing like this & like that”.

“Emphasis “shall not be placed on the restricted & limited created truths such as: “time, place, situation ,method & person.”We are used to doing things with the idea of taking those created truths as reality.
For instance, “It is time to work”, “It is time to meditate”,” It is time to eat “,” It is time to sleep”, “ It is the working area, factory, hospital, home & meditation centre” using all those created truths with grasping as reality and real existence.

All created truths such as the “what, where, , who, when , how and their constraints “are not to be grasped and not to be paid attention to as reality but just to be abandoned.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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This article is directly based on the Guided Talk by Tsunami Sayadaw Rev Ottamasara at Than-lyin Natural Meditation Center(TMC) , Yangon.
at Oct – 2011.

Translated by Hnin Nwe Soe