Adhisila: when the truth is there, directly known
[Little Hang] Ajahn, I've asked many times about sila but still not clear what I've heard, that adhisila, adhicitta, adhipañña sikkha are also the development of satipatthana. [Ajahn Sujin] We have to consider the truth of reality because you see that without a reality which can experience an object, can there be what we use the word sila? Sila is the behavior of the reality which arises and experience an object, otherwise how can we talk about sila and samadhi, adhisila and adhicitta and adhipañña? So now we are talking about the reality which arises to experience an object, otherwise the word sila doesn't have any meaning at all. There are many different characteristics of the realities which can experience an object: they arise together to be a moment of kusala or moment of akusala, or vipaka or kiriya. We can sum up the functions or the characteristics of realities as kusala dhammas, akusala dhammas, abyakata dhammas, and sila is the manner, the behavior of th...