Tsunami Sayadaw

U Ottamathara’s
Insight Meditation Method

Only one way to abandon the sufferings

at all truly

by SoeWinHtut

Tsunami Sayadaw’s Meditation Centre in Myanmar

45th street Meditation Centre, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph: 01-298196
Pagoda Hill Meditaion Centre, (Thanlyin).
Ph: 01-724056, 09-5085212 by SoeWinHtut
www.mtsm45.multiply.com

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 Preface
To follow & practise this way, you must have the rigid trust
(saddha) upon this way, advanced Insight meditation method. If
you won’t understand this way well, you’ll need the certain
period for 7 days or 7 months etc. to meditate regularly while
listening to the Sayadaw’s U Ottamthara Dhamma talks of this
method. You can get or download or listen to the Sayadaw’s
Dhamma talks of this advanced insight meditation method at
the web of www.mtsm45.multiply.com or audio CD from the
author. This method seems little bit difficult to understand for
beginners or some meditators who can’t understand yet what
insight meditation is. But if one will try to understand & practise
patiently & persistently, he will find out what benefits greater
and faster than other methods will come out by himself.

Author

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 Direct Insight Meditation

Insight meditation is not doing something. Insight mediation

means not getting rid of the effects but erasing the causes of stress or
sufferings or unsatisfactoriness.
Knowing something, one permanet entity, ego-self, soul, think-
ing, feeling, pain, pleasure, someone, I, you, he, she, individual, some-
where, sometime is not real or unnatural but just the deceitful crea-
tions of ascribing minds in perceptual distortions.
Utimate reality we can believe or be mindful is just the natures
of the deceitful creations of ascribing minds in perceptual distor-
tions or actions of wrong classifications or identifying upon the van-
ishing nature in very high rate as I, you, he, she, something, mine,
yours, myself, yourself, my soul, my life, my mind, my heart, your
soul, your life, your mind, your heart, your soul because of not being
able to believe or understanding the nature of mental and physical
energies’ processes renewing & vanishing at the rate of billions per
second.
Insight meditation means to be being mindful or believing or
accepting continuously that the assumings of something such as pain
, pleasure, being seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking, ego, spirit, soul -
etc. is not real ,but just deceitful creations or illusory actions of ever-
new ascribing minds in wrong perception.
We must be remerbering, accepting, believing or being aware of
not being someone such as I, you, mine, yours, myself, yourself etc.
and , not being somewhere such as my country, your contry, my ward,
your ward. my home.
That means erasing or abandoning of the assuming or ascribing
or identifying nature of minds in perceptual distortions as something,
pain, pleasure, good, bad, ego, soul, mine, yours, self, one entity, some-
one, I, you, individual, somewhere, sometime.
We have assuming that the seeing, the hearing, the smelling,
the tasting, touching, sensing, pain, pleasure, feeling, perception,
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thinkings are existing for a while such as one second, one minute, one
hour-etc. within the certain period of contact with eye and visual ob-
jects, ear and sound, nose and odour, tongue and taste, body and touch-
able things, minds and mental objects.
These assumings that the seeings, hearings, smellings, tastings,
touchings, sensings, pains, pleasures, feelings, perceptions, thinkings
are existing for a while such as one second, one minute, one hour etc
is not real but just illusions or creations of ever-new deceiving minds.
In reality, there is no ‘ I, you, mine, yours, individual, entity, self-ego,
something, someone, pain, pleasure, sometime, somewhere but just
impermanent or vanishing nature (annica), unsatisfactory or stressful
nature(dukka), and the nature of insubstantiality, no-I, non-self, non-ego,
non-soul, non-entity, no-inner core, not-something, not-someone, not-
somewhere-etc (annata).
Buddha said, energies or atomic particles (rupa) is vanishing and
renewing at the rate of 50,000-60,000 millions within a very short instant
(the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) and minds or
consciousnesses (nama) are vanishng and renewing at the rate of 1,000 bil-
lions in this instant. Because the speed of disappearing and renewing
of the energies and minds in same qualities, is very high, we are deceived
to be seemed they are lasting for a moment such as one second, one
minute, one hour, one day, one year-etc.
For one simile, a fire flame in a candle. We are being deceived
to be seemed that one single flame is existing for one minute, one
hour or two hour above a wax rod. That is not true. In reality, a lot of
new heat energies or new flames are renewing, replacing at the posi-
tions of previous vanishing heat energies or flames consecutively,
repeatedly and immediately due to the wax fuel. So, it is not one sin-
gle flame. One single flame is not existing even for one second. It is
not somehing or one single flame but heat energies renewing and
vanishing consecutively, repeatedly and so rapidly within a milli-
second or one thousandth second.
You must decide or believe or remember or be mindful that the
knowing that breathing in or out, pain, pleasure, feeling or sensation,
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hearing, smelling, thinking are lasting or permanent for a certain time,
is not real but just the deceitful creations of ascribing minds in per-
ceptual distortions.Our perceptions are not always real or right with-
out practising insight meditation. Our perceptions are always in dis-
tortion.
If you have ever learned or understood ‘the relativity theory’
by Albert Einstein who is regarded as the greastest scientist or hu-
man being of 20th Century, you can easily understand your ascribing
as ‘pain, pain’ or ‘pleasure, pleasure’ is just a perceptual distortion.
If one having ever experienced or from very hot Sahara desert,
must stay in Kuala Lumpur, he won’t take the temperature of Kuala
Lumpur in sunny days as hotness for him. But if one from Canada or
USA must stay in KL at sunny days, he will take that of these days in
KL as hotness for him.
A normal man will jerk on the arm of a 16 years old lady by his
fist in certain degree of intensity, she will take such a jerk as pain but
if he will in again jerk on the arm of a heavy weight boxer as in same
degree in intensity as that upon the girl’s arm, the boxer will not take
it as pain.
If you compare yourself with one native black African , you
think you’re so handsome but you will assign you’re not handsome
in relative to the very popular Hollywood star such as Tom Cruise,
Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.
So also, in ascribing that time or distance is too long or short ,
Einstein gave his friends one example; ‘you will assign the five minutes
of standing on hot stove is too long but one hour of being or wining
together a young beautiful lady is too short’. And then he said to his
friends in humourning, “If you don’t believe this relativity, you can
test about it by standing on the hot stove for five minutes but I will
drink together with a beautiful lady.” That’s right!. Our minds is
always taking or ascribing that the difficult or painful period is too
long but the pleasant or sweet period is too short although these two
periods are equal in amount.

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 The distance from Kuala Lumpur to Burma is very far for one
who has ever been travelling within his town if he has to travel this
trip but one who often travels to KL to USA, will take this distance is
not very far if he has to start this trip.
If one who always has the meal with too much hot chilli, must
eat a curry with chilli, his mind will not take it isn’t too hot, but if one
who has ever been having the sweet curries, must eat this chilli curry,
his mind will assign it is too hot.
You can easily understand our ascribing is not real but just a
perceptual distortion or wrong arbitrary decision of past experiences
if you can be aware of your tongue’s senses on the tastes. For example,
‘you’ drink half of a cup of sweet coffee or milk at first and then you
eat the some amount of sugar or some sweets. And then, drink the
left half cup of this same coffee again. You will assign or take this
coffee is not so sweet in relative to the previous time. Our minds assign
or take one same quality (same degree of sweet intensity) as two
different qualities (two different degrees of sweet intensity) in two
different time intervals.
These above are some practical similes to understand that our
thinking or ascribing or taking ‘something, someone, somewhere,
sometime’ or ‘good or bad’ or ‘pain or pleasure’ or ‘long or short’ or
‘ugly or beautiful’ or ‘hot or cold’ or ‘sweet or bitter’ is very far from
utimate reality, and in order to ascend the insight meditation level,
these notings or ascribings ‘pain or pleasure’like that is not enough
for ‘right understanding’ or ‘wisdom’ or ‘insight meditation’ to
understand the utimate reality of mental & physical energies’ natures.
In the insight level, it is most important to be able to leave or
abandon or erase them(takings sensations,pains,pleasures,something,
or someone are not real’)in order to arise ‘the passive detached observing
minds ‘or ‘equanimity’ or ‘insight’ of all sensations. Really, our ascribings
or takings ‘good or bad’ or ‘pain or pleasure’ are ‘not something’ but
just ‘our perceptual distortions’ or ‘creations (sankhara) of delution
(avijja)’ or ‘delusive decisions or trick creations of past experience’ or
just arbitrary taking far from reality with the wrong view of ‘I, mine’.
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 That means if you assign or identify a certain drgree of intensity
in temperature or tightness or situation as good or bad or moderate,
the arising natures such as temperature or tightness which is not as same as
your specified or assigned them as good or bad or moderate, will be
automatically decided or assigned by your habitual minds as craving
or averse one.”Oh, these are not as same as my likings or my assignings
as good, so I dislike or want to push away them.” And then your
good or bad reactions will genarate and the effects of these reactions
with ‘likes, dislike and the idea of I’ will continue repeatedly and
endlessly.
That means that there is no real the God, but the assigning or
assuming minds that there will or may be the God in somewhere.
We have ever seen that there is a mirage on dry hot highway
road on a very hot day. The mirage seems to be a small lake. If you
have any previous experience about the mirage, your eyes will deceive
you to misunderstand that there is a small lake on it. In reality, there is
no real small lake on a highway road on a very hot day, the creations
of deceitful minds in optical illusion beacuse of not-knowing the real
nature of atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts
reflections of distant objects.
There is no real pain, but the ascribing or assuming minds that
this certain degree of tension or pressure is painful.
There is no real value, but the ascribing or assuming minds that
how much valueable this object is. For example, previous World Cup
football match, the ball missed in the penalty goal kicking by David
Beckham was bought at the more times value in larger than the original
value of it. That means he valued a normal ball as a precious one a by
himself or his minds. In reality, a normal ball is not a very precious
one.
For the one who is losting his way in the big desert and trying to
survive for tomorrow will value the food or the way of escaping more
than a lot of money, diamonds, golds or jewels.

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 There is not real ‘mine, my blood, my kidney or my bone’ because
they are not ‘mine’ really, we can give or donate our bloods or kidney
to others or we can accept them from other if necessary or matched.
That means our ascribing pain or pleasure, assuming good or
bad, smelling for a while, mind is thinking or wandering for a moment
are not real as Buddha said that in ultimate reality there is no lasting
something or thinking or ascribing for a while, even for one second
and just the impermanet nature or vanishing nature at the rate of
billions per second of mental and physical energies’ processes but we
take, think or assume wrongly that something or pain or pleasure of
smelling or thinking or thoughts are lasting for a moment such as one
second, one minute, one hour-etc.
And then, how can we know the utimate truth by insight
meditation? The utimate truth of endless and repeated vanishing or
impermanent nature (dukkha sacca) is unknown by us due to the
ultimate truth of deceitful creations of illusory minds or ascribing
minds in perceptual distortions.
So, we can be mindful or remember or decide or believe that
there is just deceitful creations of illusory minds or ascribing minds in
perceptual distortions and then the knowing of something, someone,
sometime, somewhere is unnatural, not-real, but just imitations,
illusions, creations of deceitful minds in perceptual distortions.
This above being mindful, remembering, deciding, taking or
believing this reality (samudaya sacca) can be called direct insight
meditation.This insight meditation method is as same as watching
the horror film with believing or remembering or being mindful that
the events or seeings before eyes is not real, but just imitations or
creations of trick by director with the help of camera lens or computer
graphic program. By understanding, remembering or believing this
reality, the one who is seeing the film will be no more fear or worries
about the seeings or happenings before his eyes. If he forget that the
trick creations of director is real or the events he is seeing are not real,
he will involve in his seeings and he will begin to fear , be terrible and
worries about his seeings.

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 In this method, while you meditate, if any pains or smellings or
hearings or sensations or thinkings arise, no need to note them as
mental saying as example; ‘pain, pain’ or ‘pleasure, pleasure‘or
‘smelling, smelling’ or ‘hearing, hearing’ -etc. . . but you must
remember or believe or be aware of the truth that the knowing that
something such as pain or smelling or thinkings or breathing or rising
or falling is lasting for a moment, is not real, but just deceitful creations
of illusory minds or ascribing minds in perceptual distortions. While
you are believing or remembering or accepting or being aware of this
truth, if any doubt or any worreies or craving or likes or dislikes or
thinkings arise, abandon or erase this wrong by remembering or
accepting or being aware of this truth (samudaya sacca) that is the real
cause of the truth of sufferings or stress of unsatisfactoriness (dukkha
sacca).
Practical Meditation Method
Nature in this message means nature of nature , not the nature
of something or someone. The action of creation is also just action or
creation only , there is no creator and nothing which is created.
Our mind is not perfect and that is why it is always busy with
endless works. Natural mind is perfect by itself and needs no creation.
By using this method, mind can be free from all limits.
Nature has two opposite qualities.One is ever new impermanent
nature and the other is the permanent nature. But only the wisdom
that understands the impermanent nature can fully understand the
permanent nature also.
Nature is just nature by itself only, not something, not someone,
not sometime and not somewhere.
Mind creates something, someone, sometime, somewhere and
mind is always busy with them like mother is taking care of her
children. It is beause of attachment in creation, our mind cannot live
without them.
Knowing about something , someone, sometime, somewhere is
unnatural.
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 By following this meditation method , unnatural knowing will
not continue and the original impermanent nature will appear
automatically.
This meditation practice will allow one to let go or to loose one’s
limited mind and by doing so ,limitless natural mind will appear
automatically.
No one can be perfect by doing something. The real meditation
method is not doing something. It is not only stopping all actions of
mind, but also not to accept the idea of something (eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body , mind and so on ) as real. Meditation is not denying nor
accepting whatever happen, but to stop self-making or creating habit
of mind.
Eye , ear , nose, tongue and body are mind’s friends. They work
together frequently. All works of mind ,concerning with something,
someone, sometime, and somewhere are extra works. The aim of
meditation is trying to stop these extra works of mind, in this way the
original mind’s work will stay remained.
Something, someone, sometime and somewhere are not real ,just
illusions. Only the nature of nature is real.
Believing illusions as reality is the cause of all problems in ones
daily life. The purpose of meditation is trying to stop that misbelieving.
Accepting original reality as real is the right meditation method.
Meditation is making new causes continuously, in this way the
habit of making old cause will stop automatically.
Meditation is a mind clearance work. It is concerned only with
mind, not with our body and life.
Our mind is working all the time, and never takes any rest.
Every knowing is because of mind’s work.Without mind’s work,
there will be no knowing. Even the mind itself is just a creation.
Creation appears because of not knowing the real impermanent
nature and permanent nature. Nature is just nature and it is limitless.

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 Three steps of Practical Meditation Method

The first step intends to destroy the attachment of all objects. It

needs continuous believing only in the action of creation. Forget about
everything except the action of creation.
The second step is removing the subject. Each action of believing
must be just an action only, without the subject (someone or
something). A lot of practices need to be done to be able to achieve
this step.
The third and last step is to believe the truth that the action of
creation is not the other thing, present action of believing without
subject itself is just the action of creation only. A quick and gentle
action of present believing itself is just the action of creation only. But
notice the fact that while there is believing, there is no knowing of
believing and while there is knowing of believing, there is no action
of believing. It only needs to believe (just action only) and do not
need to know; like traffic lights which make actions without knowing.
This believing practise must be carried on continuously. This habit of
pratice must not end in the first step. It must end only in the last step.
Continuously practising the last step is the direct way for the original
pure mind to appear for a moment.
The ability to continue the original nature of mind for some
minutes can permanently destroy a part of attachement concerning
our with unnatural or wrong knowing.
Not To forget
- Overview, not normal onesided view.
- Don’t live for one, live for all.
- Selfcontrol , not control to others.
- Do not be selfish or selfless but stop the idea of self.
- Our mind has limit. Losing your mind means freedom from
all limits.
- Forget freedom of one and try to be free from one.
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- Taking care of something, someone, sometime,and omewhere
is the cause of losing original mind power.
- If there is cause, there is effect. If there is no cause, there will be
no effect. Effect is only the shadow of cause.
- Hoping/Expecting or attachement to the effect will weaken the
process of making more causes.
- Accepting or occupying one means losing the remainings.
- Something, someone, sometime, somewhere has limit. Not
something, not someone, not sometime, not somewhere has no limit.
- Beyond self is beyond everything, beyond everyone, beyond
everytime, beyond everywhere.
- Eternal truth has no limit.
- The seed or root of whatever happens is only established in our
mind. If we can lose our created mind, all the problems concerning
with something , someone, sometime and somewhere will also be
solved automatically.
- You will naturally understand these words with ‘I’, but
understanding without ‘I’ will be quite opposite with our present
understanding.
- Only with more practice, one can make clear of all doubts and
suspicions on this meditation method.

Contact Address
(a)45th Street Meditation Centre,Yangon, Myanmar, Ph:951-298196
(b)Pagoda Hill Meditation Centre (Thanlyin)
Ph : 01 724056, 09 5085212
Email-MTSM 45@ gmail.com
web: www.mtsm45.multiply.com

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 The only thing you need to be able to practise
insight meditation is
the courage to fully give up
all the views of ‘I, mine’ or
what you have learned previously with the idea
of ‘I, mine’.

The more your mind is empty (without judging

or ascribing anything as ‘pain or pleasure’),
the more it is pure and the more wisdom
will appear.
U Ottamasara

Note: This direct insight medition method is based upon

Dhamma talks given by U Ottamasara from the web of
www.mtsm45an.multiply.com
For more information, you can visit these above web and
download or listen to Direct Insight Meditation method talks
by Sayadaw U Ottamathara.
You can also practise this technique while listening to Direct
Meditation method talks by U Ottamathara for a certain period
of any hinderance such as right understanding, heavy stress,
laziness or doubt. You can contact any help from meditation
teacher, U Ottamasara mtsm45@gmail.com via direct talking
in use of g-talk).

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