พระอาจารย์ชี้ว่าธรรมชาติ 3 ฝ่ายพิสูจน์ได้จริงแม้กับผู้ไม่มีพื้นฐานพุทธศาสนา และอธิบายว่าไตรลักษณ์ถูกนักวิชาการเอามาบิดเบือนกันธรรมชาติฝ่ายกุศลอันเป็นนิจจัง สุขัง อัตตา ซึ่งแท้จริงคือส่วนของโลกุตตระPra Ajarn points out that the three natures can be proven even to those with no Buddhist background, and explains how scholars have distorted the three marks — turning the wholesome nature's true qualities of permanence, happiness, and self, which actually belong to the transcendent, into something else entirely.
Someone asked: Pra Ajarn once taught about the three natures blended together within us — how can we explain this so that people will believe it?
The three natures can genuinely be proven, and even foreigners with no Buddhist background at all come to accept it, because Pra Ajarn demonstrates it directly. Recently a monk from another temple traveled here to practice for just one hour before continuing his journey elsewhere. After talking and meditating together, he was deeply moved by how the three natures shape the innate s of all beings — even after twenty years as a monk, he had never heard a teaching like this, and it changed his life.
Proof comes through everyday stories everyone has experienced — for instance, a man being bullied and growing furious: the inner voice urges him to retaliate, while voice restrains the matter from escalating. Everyone has heard both voices since childhood. The unwholesome guides us into mistakes; the wholesome guides us toward what is right and good, and restrains those mistakes. The same holds for the neutral nature — suddenly there's a voice inviting us to play games, watch a film, or listen to music, arriving together with a feeling, rather than the feeling simply appearing on its own.
In Buddhism, at every temple's funeral chanting, monks recite "kusalā dhammā, akusalā dhammā, abyākatā dhammā" — evidence this teaching truly exists, found in the Abhi, the ultimate teaching and heart of Buddhism. But because no one traces it back to its root, people mostly speak only of its tools — such as the three marks (trilakkhaṇa), the three characteristics of truth, which are actually a characteristic of nature itself. It uses impermanence, suffering, and non-self as a shield to prevent tracing back to its own source. Meanwhile the wholesome side's true qualities — permanence, , self — get dismissed by scholars as the world's clinging and attachment, when in truth permanence, happiness, and true self belong to the transcendent, to nibbāna: truly permanent, supreme bliss, unchanging, and the genuine self behind us all. This truth has been distorted in various ways over time and people have simply believed what was passed down. But we can gradually correct this understanding, one person at a time — as with the monk who, after just one hour of listening, had his life changed.