Right understanding of realities
Question: It is difficult to have right understanding of realities when
one is a beginner.
Answer: There must be the intellectual understanding of the
mental phenomena and physical phenomena which are the object of
understanding and one should know how to develop understanding. One
has to know that it should be developed naturally in one’s daily life.
Many people just want to sit and concentrate on breathing, but they have
to consider themselves whether this is the way to know the realities of
one’s daily life. Is this the way to know seeing, hearing and all the other
realities, and to know the clinging which arises on account of the
experience of the sense objects? Defilements cannot be eradicated if
one does not realize them as they arise in one’s daily life. Right
understanding of realities can be accumulated little by little if one develops
it naturally, without trying to make particular realities arise, without trying
to control realities. They arise already because of their own
conditions. Also understanding can only arise when there are the right
conditions, one cannot control it.
Topic 57
6 Jan 2012