Luang Por Liem: The Ways of the Peaceful - Wat Pah Nanachat

nine types of higher knowledge arising from insight 34 . These
insight-knowledges are about nothing else than the Three
Characteristics .
The Three Characteristics are like a bright light that enables
us to see things in a way in which we don’t need to get involved
with or attached to or need to hold on to things. The mind is
simply the mind, whether it is wholesome or unwholesome. We
should not approach it in a way that causes attachment and
grasping.
In relation to the objects of the mind (dhammas), we need to
be possessed with wakefulness and insight – free from the five
hindrances 35 . We shouldn’t allow the hindrances to be present. As
long as they are, we are still in a state of being incapable of
growth and progress. The hindrances are a barrier that restricts
growth, just like a tree that is hindered by some structure is unable
to sprout. We shouldn’t allow ourselves to live with the
hindrances. We ought to live a life free from the hindrances.
We must endeavour to put forth effort, with diligence and
mindfulness – living as one who is awake. Being awake gives rise
to Right View and feelings of peace. When one has Right View
34 Knowledge of contemplation on rise and fall; Knowledge of contemplation
on dissolution; Knowledge of the appearance as terror; Knowledge of
contemplation on disadvantages; Knowledge of contemplation on dispassion;
Knowledge of the desire for deliverance; Knowledge of reflective
contemplation; Knowledge of equanimity regarding all formations;
Conformity-knowledge and adaptation-knowledge.
35 nivarana (Pali): 1) sensual desire, 2) ill-will, 3) sloth and torpor, 4)
restlessness and agitation, 5) doubt and uncertainty.
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