The Buddha as "one who knows" in Thai tradition

[Sutiro]

' Poo Hoo bor wah, Poo wah bor hoo' is a saying Loom Por Chah would often use in Lao, which was his native language. I'll put the translation underneath.
'The One who Knows doesn't say. The one who says, doesn't know.'

Sutiro

[Mr Man]

Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

I think you have misunderstood.

[Cittasanto]

Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

I think you have misunderstood.

care to elaborate?

[Mr Man]

Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

I think you have misunderstood.

care to elaborate?

When the noting commences, one has moved away from the knowing,

[Cittasanto]

I did say similar not the same as. I was pointing to a similar level of cognition.

[Sutiro]

To learn more about Poo Roo, or Poo Hoo and how Loom Por taught it have a good read of his "Collected Teachings". I fortunately had first hand experience with him. It really isn't so complicated and no need to think about it too much. It is a platform, an observation point in our meditation reached when sati (mindfulness of mind) and sampajanna (mindfulness of body) come together as total awareness from where you can watch the whole performance of mind.

Sutiro