Understanding knows more than the mere perception since this can
just classify as 'blue' or 'round'... Only Understanding can dig out
and penetrate into abstract characteristics of the object such as:
Impermanent, Miserable and Impersonal... While perception is like
a child, and thinking is like a
villager, then Understanding is like an
Expert, who knows far beyond both the childish perception and the
naive villager-like logical thinking...
Penetration into the particular individual essence significant for
only that special object is the characteristic of
Understanding!
To eliminate the darkness of delusion & doubt by illuminating the
object, as if from all sides, is the function of
Understanding!
Certainty, assured knowing, beyond all doubt, fully comprehending
without deluded confusion is the manifestation of
Understanding!
The proximate cause of Understanding is
Concentration, since only
that quality can anchor consciousness long enough on the object so
that analytical thinking can drill into it & penetrate into the core!
When the object is experienced as if from inside, it is Understood!
Understanding is always accompanied by clear Joy
or Equanimity!
Understanding prevents disadvantageous
states from arising and
eliminates all these detrimental states, if already
arisen & present!
Understanding initiates the arising of
absent advantageous states,
& refines, expands & perfects these good states if
already arisen!
There is Understanding gained by
Hearing & Learning from another.
There is Understanding earned by Thinking and Rational Reasoning.
There is Understanding won by Development through
Meditation.
Who Knows? There is NOT an 'I, Me, or Person' who understands!
Rather the Event of
Understanding occurs exactly when the Ability
of Understanding is in the
State of Understanding... It is therefore
Understanding itself!, that
Knows, Comprehends and Understands...
