Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Concise Guide to practice.


Many of you have to study hard and practice with me and then I noticed there are a number of problems arise as there are some who fear that if not near me, will not practice or practice improper way. If the people in Bangkok are relieved to see me more as a thing is not very difficult. But if you are abroad or in other provinces, it would feel very anxious. So they want a system instructions and simple to feel reassured that they may see it as the way to continue practicing the religion, while not seen me.
Some people have heard me speak but not understand or still have questions or have applied practice answers that I have to teach others, but often each of us to have a progressive or a manner consistent with various selves. Thus, the outcome of it no different than we drink to someone else's medication at all. So they want to get an overview of the practices that I have guided so that they can partially answer the questions yourself.
Another problem I know that some of you have cited the advice that I have said on several occasions, in different times to bring the debate with each other about the practice.

Therefore, I feel that I should summarize the main idea of ​​religious practice by the method that I recommend for you. In order for you to get an overview of religious practice a systematic way, from the basics onwards and to solve the problems mentioned above.
  1. Understanding the scope of Buddhism
But you have a little understanding of the basics of Buddhism to know that Buddhism is not a drug that can cure all kinds of diseases in the universe, nor is it the only tool that can living in society. Therefore, if you are a student, you do not need to abandon his academic work in order to study Buddhism as the knowledge in the world is essential so that you can live with it. These people also need to learn the Buddhist understanding of other scientific fields.
And do not misunderstand that Buddhism is something other than the pain research or practice in order to be free from suffering (in the center). Buddhism is not a religion for answers to these questions of superstition, fate, business owners, past lives afterlife or ghosts, angels and so on.
  1. Tools Dhamma practice .
As we all know Buddhism teach about suffering and the cessation of suffering. And it will be introduced and become familiar through the tools to practice. It is mindfulness or awareness (sati) and awareness (Sampajanna is the self).
I often recommend that we be aware that feelings are appearing in my mind such as disbelief, desire, anxiety, happiness or misery etc. This is to train us have awakened . Awakening is a tool to recognize the emerging mood and encourage us to recognize ourselves, not forgetting themselves, not get lost in the senses, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind that most of the lost through the eyes and heart units. It is lost in the world of the thought or the attention on emerging mood. The incentive for myself not to get lost in the senses or not too focused on it and the main effort was to train us with awareness , body and mind is always alert.
  1. Train Satipatthana
When we have the tools or "weapons" for the next practice I would recommend the Four mindfulness and advised us all that be watchful, alert and recognize the body, mind, feelings (the feelings are appearing in the body) and judicial (the contents of the mind), depending on each person and see fit to himself. For example, be aware of your body's posture, identify the movement during walking meditation, aware breathing in and breathing out. Initially, when the mind is no more energy, we can recognize it as we are practicing meditation (samatha). It means focusing on the body is aware that comfortably. After the center was invigorating, please realize that the posture, body movement or breath is just something to be aware, to be noticed rather than the mind. And it is not peace, it is suffering and selflessness. I will see it right in front of us.
Once we've done that, the center will add a lot of energy of mindfulness, awareness. Now, any spiritual element that appears in the center, we are able to recognize it. For example, happiness, suffering, goodness, evil arises in the mind, acknowledge that mental factors as an object that is identified like how we know that physical factors.
Those who have the capacity to recognize the spirit, I would advise them to continue to recognize them. Those who felt inappropriate to recognize that it can only recognize only physical well being.
When the mind is constantly aware spirit and matter, it will add the ability to awake. You will find that once the mind to recognize the elements of mental or physical, the mind will react as it will feel pleasant, unpleasant or calmly. I usually recommend that you be aware of the pleasant, unpleasant or her calm, until the mind recognize them, we will see that the pleasant or unpleasant it arise and lost like all both factors mental or physical. Then the mind will let go of the pleasant, unpleasant, and then the balance will arise. At first this balance can only come in a very short time and feel comfortable or uncomfortable reappears. But then it will grow more, attention will be increasingly more egalitarian. Let us recognize the balance of the mind, when the mind has a lot of energy, it can distinguish five khandha () a clearer way.
In phase equilibrium identification center, many intellectuals are often suffering two illnesses.
(1) The depressed incurred and not continue the practice.
(2) Generate the next suspect is the need to do something anymore, then start practice by not recognizing that instead of finding answers through the process of thinking .
The reality is that once we are aware of the interest of balance, just continue to recognize it. Then, once the power of mindfulness, concentration and wisdom completely full, it will center on their own progress.
This is the conclusion of a brief tutorial in the practice that I wish to impart to you to make reference to the practice in the future.
  1. Mistakes when practicing Satipatthana.
From guidance on when people start practice again encountered many different problems, mainly from the practice of mindfulness is incorrect.
Currently, the majority of us as practical as differences arose, as diligent practice is even more misdirected. What is wrong is instead we get to know what is actually happening in the present , we re going to create a new emotional and trapped in it.
This mistake occurs because some people felt too distracting, so they first think you need to practice meditation. When practicing meditation, they practice incorrectly. Instead of practicing concentration deviant practices they went to, is a kind of meditation there is awareness, is the focus on an object but to cling to its attention instead to be aware identify the That phenomenon calmly, knowing myself, do not forget her, not too focused on it. Mind recognize objects only one way until the center thancho average [1].
Once the evil we practice, attention will shift to cling to an object that you have created. When we stop the practice of meditation and start observing or practicing the four center mindfulness, we bring the mind that at that time was associated with a certain object to that observation, the kind attention this center can practice the four foundations of mindfulness are private because the mind itself that it was adhering to an object and which we ourselves also do not recognize the truth anymore.
The next common cause of the error is that, instead of recognizing the objects are generated simply and calmly, the more people will forget the fear that his (ie not recognize her), fear lose yourself too much over six senses. Especially the time to meet me or see me coming days, his mind began eagerly awake, restless and very carefully as any athlete athletics is preparing to step into that starting line.
Another reason is we tied the practice with desire. For example, wants to understand the teachings, want enlightenment quickly, want to be talented and intelligent, want how to be outstanding, wants to get approval or praise from a friend ... more many find it more desirable "increased diligence" , but instead to practice mindfulness and awareness naturally and continuously in accordance meaning of "increased diligence" they went to practice with full the strength and tension. If you look from outside, it looks like it's good practice within the center but there is no calm or happy at all.
Three reasons that made many of us forget ourselves and stick to an object, then thought I could recognize a clear mind, but really are not. Some have partly solved this problem. When we realize that our minds have created a spirit world instead it must recognize what is really happening then we will get rid of the state above and actually may concern, awareness by whatever is happening in the present.
There is a joke of a child and that, of her mind trapped in a spiritual object. I recommend that observe and recognize that the mind was stuck in an object, once aware of it, the mind will come back to the outside. Rather than focusing on inside the party itself acknowledge ngoai.Viec environmental exposure it will make the mind has trapped him escape. This brother was very embarrassed that I have taught you to heart out (forgetting themselves) but luckily he felt suspicious and asked again but if I brought this story that she told senior monks heard that I taught you to mind out, I would not have been driven out of the temple then.
The truth is to forget yourself and simultaneously create an object stuck in the spirit and it's like I turn my mind to the outside, is in addition to awareness. I tried to help her to see that her children had to mind out and created an object other spirits are not aware of himself. I have no intention of trying to teach her to talk to the outside.
Another issue that few of us face is to lose yourself in the mental objects such as light images (nimitta), light, color, sound or the twitch of body . When this situation occurs, which people are comfortable and have people feel uncomfortable. I used to comfort and guide them that watch and perception of comfort, discomfort of the mind and heart will return to balance itself rather than focusing on the mental objects that are contaminated due to heart craving (raga), aversion (dosa) and delusion (moha) a way unknown to me like that.
To avoid mistakes in the practice of law, we must adhere to the following principles in a coherent way. That is, "I practice to be aware of the pollution (kilesa) and desire (tanha) always took my heart. I practice for the mind has wisdom and strength rid of pollution and lust. "I did not practice because of anything else. If we practice because there are others such as the desire to know, want to see, want to become something, want to get something, want to highlight, wanted fame and even wanted to reach enlightenment, the ability to make mistakes when practice was very high. Because the mind tends to create a certain object instead perceive everything according to its true nature.
We should observe their own mind. If you feel that our mind is beginning heavy, or other unfamiliar with the surrounding natural environment, it means that the heart has lost her and cling to something. Because of the nature of objects inside and outside are no weight. We start our weight is because they took. We can try right now, relax the mind and observing surroundings. For example, buildings, furniture, trees ... We see that the object outside them gently, no weight because I did not take them. And if we go back to look inside your heart, I will find it at heart at light heavy. If we cling tightly to it will be very heavy, but if liquid would stick with less severe. Once the mind is separate from the natural and ordinary things, then that's the separation of redundant from his job and then we forgot to create it because I was not aware of the pollution.
Once aware of the above, please continue to observe that it was the reaction center with strange objects that look like? Pleasant or unpleasant? We continue to observe and perceive them until a neutral mind with all the objects. The nature of internal and external nature are equal, then the weight will no longer have to have to bear anymore.
Buddha taught that the five aggregates are heavy things that anyone carrying them will never be happy. His words are absolutely correct. Five aggregates are really heavy things that only those who "have eyes" can perceive.
Buddha taught that procreation, aging, sickness and death are suffering. Few people have heard this teaching and really understand. Most will know that I was born, we get old, we ill, we die is painful. No one really understood that the fact that the phenomenon of birth, aging phenomenon, the phenomenon of the disease, a new phenomenon is the other element of suffering, there is no "us" miserable . Only physical phenomena and spirit shown Tam Minister (Tilakkhana), that three characteristics of existence that is emerging, exist already lost, no control and can not control as they wish whoever.
Once mistaken for evil is that for that matter and spirit, body and mind as us. When physical and mental aging, illness and death, we try to avoid them. But as to avoid even more suffering, but it is even more suffering avoided. Instead we recognize the fact that there is only suffering exist without the suffering. When we practice until While we may be aware of the phenomenon of a primitive way, no animals, people, themselves, or they do it then we will truly understand the Four Noble Truths clearly.
From previous knowledge, so that the cause of suffering (samudayadhammam) is the desire (tanha) arising out of suffering, we will really understand clearly that is because we do not recognize the suffering is material and spiritual, material and we see this spirit that we should make our own desire to liberate themselves from suffering and achieve happiness. It was by a desire which has given rise to more pain in the heart.
The Four Noble Truths are profound teachings thoroughly, because not aware of the Four Noble Truths, all living beings reincarnation, rebirth endless. However, with the perception thoroughly miserable, cause of suffering will automatically drop. The cessation of suffering (nirodha-Sacca) will appear in front. Cognitive processes be hard to give up until the collective imperialism and anti-enlightenment is directing imperial empire - a single road leads to permanent freedom from suffering.
When we are aware of all these phenomena merely primitive, arise, survive and pass away. Is suffering, selflessness and uncontrollable, we will rise to the phenomenon that is only observed, just as aware, just seeing and no longer have any desire other phenomena anymore ( is the feeling that no longer have any thoughts arising inside the phenomena).END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGTHMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.1/10/2015.

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