Wisdom Insight Letter No. 217
Mind and Mind factors (Citta and Cetasika) 21: Saññā (perception) 5-Understanding Anatta 10
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To practice is to abandon wrong views. The beginning of the Eightfold Path presented in the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths as the path to the cessation of suffering is ‘right view (Samma-Ditthi).’ Suffering arises because views are not right.
So, what is the cause of wrong views?
‘Distorted perception,’ that is, remembering and accumulating things in a distorted way, and interpreting them with one’s own views. It is not a state of open mind. It is not trying to see with an open mind the other causes and conditions that may or may not be the case.
As a practical method of practice, you should practice looking at the object objectively at every moment through Vipassana meditation. When your mind recognizes an object for a moment, you should cultivate the mind to ‘objectify’ it and observe it from a distance.
In the Samsutta Nikaya (5:9), the four distortions of perception are explained.
Thinking that impermanence is eternal, not knowing that suffering is suffering, thinking that non-self has a self, and thinking that something disgusting is beautiful. This is the distortion of perception, mind, and view.
The state where there is no distortion of perception, mind, and view, and where false views are eliminated, is called the first enlightenment, ‘stream-enterer (Sotappana).’
Even in the state of complete enlightenment, the state of Arahan, one recognizes and lives through concepts, but there is no false view there. Since there is no false view and the source of defilement is completely eliminated, one will no longer be born as any other being.
Even if you do not think of enlightenment in a grand way, in order to maintain a light and bright mind as you live each day, I hope you will practice letting go of your stubbornness little by little, eliminating negativity, and looking at objects objectively with an open mind.
May a good heart be developed through right awareness (Samma-Sati), right effort (Samma-Vayama), and moderation!
May you develop the wisdom insight through Vipassana!
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Ayya Kosalla
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May the Buddha’s teachings last a long time!
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May everyone be led on the path of peace and blessing!!
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