I want to emphasize the practice of compassion is the heart of the entire path. All other practice would be the preparatory practice or as a platform for religious or loving heart is the practice behind this core practice. I also want to point out here that there is a general consensus among Buddhist sects, the sects of Mahayana and non-Mahayana, on this point. Thus, compassion lies at the root of all the teachings of the Buddha, but only inside the bodhisattva ideal we can find a special emphasis on the coordinated development of a loving heart through cultivate the Bodhi mind.
EIGHT PERFORMANCE CENTER storytelling
The will achieve supreme interests
With children, all living beings
More than Bao Chau Nhu Y
Prayer often always keeping important patriotic.
In this verse, you vow to view all beings treasured because they are the foundation to help you achieve the highest purpose, which is beneficial for all beings. This goal also transcended all the gems as miraculous, as that gem as the ink but very rare but it can not bring the highest spiritual attainment. Here also mention compassion beings. It is because of them being that you can develop compassion, spiritual principles highest, and also by beings that you can develop the Bodhi mind, selfless wish. So basically depends on your treated with other people that you may attain the supreme spiritual realization. On this view, our compassion born mother so deeply.
When nurtured keeping in mind always treasured beings, it is important to understand is that you do not nurture emotional kind of pity that sometimes we, or for those less fortunate than themselves. With compassion, you will tend to underestimate the audience's hearts Tuva have little sense of their view above others. Keeping others cherish actually mean opposite things. In practice, when notice of compassion for his people and they understand the necessity of the stars on the spiritual path, we cherish the great importance and their influence, and because that, in my mind they will implicitly considered in their higher status. Because thinking about the direction of such beings, you will always preserve your glass and love them. So Monday stanza says:
When linked up with anyone
See the figure below all
Heart, ask him honor
May the loving practice of reverence.
This stanza views I have just expressed. Always see yourself below others should not be mistakenly understood to be denying themselves, ignoring their own needs or feel like a hopeless thing. As I have earlier commentaries, comes from a powerful state of mind where you can connect with others, fully aware of his abilities that help them. So you do not misunderstand this point. What I want to point out here is that you need to be truly humble.
I want to tell you a story to illustrate this. Have a great yogis how we live several generations, he called Dza Patrul Rinpoche. He is not only a university degree but also realization numbers are very large maps. He often faculty teachings to thousands of disciples. But as a meditator should he often disappears in the retreat in such a place. His game or running any teacher seeking description. In a period of pilgrimage, he resided for several days with a particular family, like many pilgrims often did; They often seek refuge with the family on the way Tibetan pilgrims and parts they do this and that in exchange for meals. So Rinpoche Dza Patrul help a lot of families there, including the lifting of the mother is for him to do very often. Eventually some of his disciples to be the area well and listening is Dza Patrul Rinpoche was staying around here. Some monks eventually be home to this and asked the mother: "Do you know Dza Patrul Rinpoche anywhere?" The mother replied: "I do know Dza Patrul Rinpoche have here!" The monks new time describe his appearance to her and added that: "We heard he was staying in her home as a walking pilgrimage." The grandmother exclaimed: "Oh, is Dza Patrul Rinpoche then okay! "Right there at the right time, Dza Patrul Rinpoche is a bedpan for the lady. She too scared he ran away.
What this story mean, even a great lamas as Patrul Rinpoche, the Master has thousands of thousands of disciples, who often legal ban on the lofty throne surrounded with many monks, have humility destination real. He will not hesitate to do a job like bedpan for the lady.
There are some specific methods you can practice your view below him. Take a simple example, all of us know from experience that when focusing on an object or a specific individual, depending on the perspective, we will have different views. In fact, this is the essence of thinking. These thoughts can select only the properties of an isolated object at a certain point, thinking people can not afford to fully recognize the entire object. The essence of the thinking that there is screening. When we realize this, you may find yourself less than other beings from a certain degree, even in compassion with a tiny insect. I compared his example with an insect. I was a disciple of the Buddha and an air-thinking abilities, can assume the judge is right and wrong. I also have some knowledge of the basic teachings of Buddhism and theoretically, I pledged to practice this teaching. However, as noticed negative tendencies arise or when artifacts are not good act comes from the engine, if such standpoint, I find myself cases inferior to an insect . After all, an insect no ability to judge right and wrong way of humans, it would not have the ability to think far away and unable to understand complex things in the spiritual injunctions, so from the Buddhist perspective, whatever insect artifacts are the result of the collective and of industrial orders. In comparison, humans have the ability to decide their actions. So if we act negatively, they may argue that we are losing the insects! So when contemplating this perspective, there is basis to see their true lower than other beings.
Tuesday verse writes:
Interested himself in every act
Delusions, just negativity arises
Causing harm to themselves and people
Prayer seeks to eliminate immediately.
This verse indicates that, although all of us - the spiritual practitioners, wishes tame impulsive feelings, thoughts and negative emotions that arise from the inherent habit, many tend estate friendly as well as insufficient due diligence in applying the law of value to crush them, so the emotions and thoughts filled with negativity and just wear jewelry rather intensified arises in us. In fact, they are so strong that we often incorrectly treated by the unwholesome tendencies. Verses encourage you to perceive this to stay sober. To regularly control yourself and notice the evil tendencies emerged. If you do so, you will not compromise with them. You can watch over and away from the trend. This way, you're not home and force them to avoid the outbreak of strong emotions, negative words and behaviors they promote.
But overall, this is not so. Even recognizing the disturbing emotions, but very harmful if they are not too tense, you would go, "Oh, this case is probably acceptable but." You tend to overlook them. The problem is that as long as magic set with negativity as long as you will be more easy for them to recur and the easier we make concessions. This indicates that the negative will repeat. So mindful extremely important, for any moment when emotions emerge defilement, you may face and stop them instantly, as verses urged us .
Very important, especially for people who practice the Buddha, to regularly check themselves in daily life, recheck thoughts, feelings and even, if possible, even in his dreams. When pure mindfulness and awareness training, gradually you will be able to apply mindfulness more and more frequently and mindfulness will become a more effective tool.
The next verse says:
When you see evil beings temperamental
Being oppressed fierce curse,
As having been hard to find treasures
I am determined to bring you their love.
This verse refers to the special case when there are people who were separated from the community may act either by their appearance, or because of poverty or disease state. Anybody practice Bodhi mind would be in favor of special objects such as if the encounter them, you have found a real treasure. Instead they feel rejected, a genuine practitioner to practice altruistic mind and generous commitment to take the challenge to empathize with them. In fact, how you come in contact with these objects can help create a big boost in spiritual development.
I am delighted to hear that some Buddhist centers are beginning to apply the ethical guideline of Buddhism in social life. For instance I have heard the Buddhist center has organized form certain spiritual education in jails to preach and advice. I think this is a great example. Obviously extremely unfortunate when people, here are the prisoners, being socially rejected. Not only extremely painful for them but on a broader level, this is a loss for society. We do not give them the opportunity to contribute positively to the community while they actually have the potential to do this. Therefore, I think it is very important for the whole community is not rejecting these individuals, please welcome them and recognizing the potential contribution they can bring. There is such a feeling of new inmates found refuge in the social community and begin to believe that they too have something to donate.
The next verse write this:
There are beings so jealous center
Irrational scolding, defamatory children
Please get off part of his lost
Prayer beings dedicate the victory.
Scores want to say here is that when someone provokes angers you without any reason or thwarted by injustice, instead of reacting in a negative way, you just endure them as a practitioner being Practice generous altruistic mind. Keep calm mind before such behavior. In the next verse, you will learn that we are not only patience with such people but to see them as spiritual masters as well.
For the individual aid
Or children have low expectations
Suddenly wrongfully harmed children
Prayer see them as you heal Teacher.
In works Enter Bodhisattva Shantideva his, part discussion on a wide range of development methodologies and how this mind how could really learn to see the damage for himself as the spiritual master. In works Enter Madhyamaka his Xứng Moon, too, have the full teaching part inspired and infallible method to cultivate the qualities of humility and patience.
Saturday verses summarize all the practice has discussion. Shelves writes as follows:
In short, directly or indirectly
Down all the benefits to his mother
The pain of her injury
Prayer receive all of their secrets.
Verses express a special practice of Buddhism called "The practice of giving and receiving," also known as Tong-len . By contemplating to go and get back you practice vabinh conversion method tha fall class.
The practice of "Convert and down tha equality" should not be interpreted directly as turning to other people and other people of his turn. Not doing so is. Here meant to be understood as the reverse his attitude often have to yourself and to others. We tend to see the so-called "I" as the core precious place of the existing center, something truly worthy of nurture her, to the extent we are willing to abandon all happy other people. Our attitudes towards them, often indifferent, at best we can have some attention to them, but even this is simply emotional level and feel only. Overall, we are indifferent to the welfare of people and never taken seriously. So focus point of this practice is the reverse that attitude to reduce the intensity of greed, attachment to which we devoted ourselves seriously and efforts of other people happy.
When approaching the Buddhist practice in this way, with the idea that you should be exposed to danger and suffering for myself, I think you need to look carefully at this and understand advice that the correct language is extremely important canhla. Article here really wanted to mention is: if in the course of practicing the path of spiritual practice, you go to the plight suffered hardship or even passion then fully prepared for this. Instruction does not imply that you have hated or wronged themselves, or where it wants to hit his suffering as punishment. Very important when you understand that the significance of this is not so.
Another example that you should not misunderstand is a famous saying of the Tibetans: "May you have the strength when you need to increase the pressure experienced a lifetime, countless lifetimes inside the deepest level of hell. "The point here is to point out the courage of your brave right to the extent that, if you need a part in the process of engagement for the benefit of all sentient beings, you must have the willingness and determined to accept it.
Understand exactly what this statement is extremely important, because when misinterpreted, you can use them to join forces to any feelings of hatred themselves, thinking that if the self is the embodiment of selfishness, they must abandon ourselves into oblivion. Do not forget that, ultimately, the motivation behind the aspirant embarks on the spiritual path is to attain ultimate happiness, so when an individual find happiness for yourself is also being sought happiness to other beings. Even on the plane of reality, to someone developing genuine loving heart to others, first of all he must have platform to cultivate loving kindness and that platform is the ability to connect the left its own contact and care for their own happiness. Without the ability to do this, how you can connect with other people and care about them? Caring for others requires attention to yourself. The practice of Tong-len , giving and receiving, the acquirer practice kindness and compassion mind: practice giving emphasis practice loving kindness practice while receiving the focused practice compassionate heart.
He Shantideva give an interesting approach to this practice in the commentary Enter the Bodhisattva. It is the visualization to help us get out the deficiencies of selfish interest and teach us the ways to treat it. On the one hand you visualize his usual self, ego hard inert with other beings happiness and is the embodiment of selfishness. This is what worries down only know their own interests, often worry so much that it is willing to take advantage arrogantly others to get what she wants. Next, on the other hand, you visualize a group of other beings are facing hardships that no one shelter or refuge. You can focus on specific individuals if desired. Suppose, if you want to visualize someone you know and love and people that are experiencing hardships, you can see that person is subject to specific visualization and practice his whole practice let go, get back to him. Third, you see yourself as an individual neutral or impartial observer is attempting to assess the benefits of the more important one here. Isolate yourself in the position of a neutral observer will help you easily recognize the limitations of the ego mind and selfless charity enlightened that would be fair and reasonable as far more interested in happy joy of other beings.
The result of this visualization is that you will gradually begin to feel sympathy for others and empathize with their suffering. At this point, you can start really meditation on giving and taking.
To practice meditation to go, practice a different visualizations are also benefits. First of all, you focus on living beings are experiencing hardships and trying to develop and increase compassion for them, to a point where you feel their suffering almost unbearable pot. Yet at the same time, you find yourself actually not do much to help them all. So the motive of compassion, to train ourselves to become more efficient, you visualize yourself burden of receiving all their suffering, the cause of suffering, these thoughts and feelings Their negative etc ... You can do this by visualizing their suffering and the negative was like a black cloud of smoke, you shop for the black smoke that dissolved into himself. Within the scope of this practice, you can also share their faith with their charity. You may recall the great things he has done, any positive potential hidden within you as well as any knowledge or spiritual insight, what you've accomplished. Keep sending these accomplishments to other beings, that they also enjoy the same benefit. You can do this by visualizing his qualities in bright light thedang or a white light passes through the lens of other beings and imbue in them. This is the visualization practice to go and get it.
Of course, this kind of meditation is not beneficial for the specific material beings in the form of visualization for it, but practice can help enhance your concern for others and empathy for with suffering and at the same time help reduce the power failure selfishness in our heart. These are the benefits of this practice. This is also the method of training the mind to cultivate pure aspiration to help beings. Once this trigger aspiration and desire aspirant attain perfect enlightenment, you actually witness Bodhi mind, the mind of compassion want achievements full enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.
The last verse says:
All top eight voluntary measures
Do not contaminate wandering mind
He knew the law as illusory
May the binding attachment liberation.
Two lines of verse oil is extremely important for those genuine practitioners. Eight worldly concern generally is the subversive elements of our lives. They make us happy to be praised, depression when offended, happy to be successful, it failed miserable, happy that wealthy, depressed as poor, famous and satisfying when bored when no one recognized. A genuine practitioner must assert mental culture being selfless generosity defilements because of worldly concern there. For example, when the teaching is this, if I just had a fleeting thought little hope to the audience admired the engine that shows my lecture was tainted because of secular thinking, what which Tibetans call "the eight worldly concerns." Very important when you're judging ourselves to make sure I had not been so defiled. Similarly, a yogi practices generous altruistic ideals in daily life, then immediately eight worldly concern has defiled his practice. Similarly, if a practitioner hopes "people will admire my work," looks forward to the praise of the efforts to practice diligently. All this is the fame avaricious calculation that will destroy the practice of a practitioner. Make sure things like this do not happen is very important to help you maintain purity in practice.
As you have already seen it, the instructions in the teaching lo-jong of transforming the mind is extremely powerful. These instructions require you to contemplation. For example, there is one paragraph stated as follows:
"May I always happily he was despised and never happy to hear praise. If I was glad to be commended, immediately interested arrogance, arrogance and envy will flourish more in me; While if I am happy to hear blasphemed the least so I knew his shortcomings . "
A very strong point!
Horizontal here, we had discussion on all measures relating to sustenance "relative Bodhicitta" compassionate desire aspirant achievements perfect enlightenment to the students. Now, the last two lines of eight verses referring to practice cultivation Salvage Bodhi mind, implies the development of an insight about the ultimate nature of reality. Although intellectual development is part of the bodhisattva ideal, embodied in six perfections perfect happiness, as mentioned earlier, generally have two points on the path essence, it is the means and location Property. Both are within the definition of enlightenment, ie duality of perfect form and perfect wisdom. Practical wisdom or insight correlated with the perfection of wisdom while practicing skillful means or method correlated with the perfection of form.
Buddha's teachings are often expressed in a common framework known as Performance Based Religion. First you cultivate knowledge about the nature of reality with two level of realism, it's true relative and absolute truth (nd: The custom insole and heel) , this is the foundation. Next, on the real path, you gradually coordinated practice of meditation and spiritual practice as a mass media and intellectual. Final results tu tu main road is duality between perfect form and perfect wisdom.
The last two verses wrote:
He knew the law as illusory,
May the binding attachment liberation.
Two of this verse actually indicates cultivate practice insight into the nature of reality, but if you glance over the surface, it seems that this verse how cultivator expression associated with life outside the stage Exhaust meditation. Buddhist doctrine explaining the ultimate nature of reality, there are two important time assigned: One is the meditation, while you keep the mind is and the other is the discharge of meditation, your time back real good life. So here, this verse two lines associated with a cultivator directly connected to the world outside during exhaust meditation. That is why the verse refers to reality as illusory, because this is how you must feel the character at the end of meditation.
According to my reasoning, these two verses gives a very important point, because sometimes one thought during meditation, the most important thing is to maintain single-mindedly. They are less interested to notice how this experience can be applied in the discharge time of meditation. I suggest that the discharge time is very important in meditation. The whole essence of the meditation on the ultimate nature of reality is to ensure that you are not deceived present situation and realize the difference between the way things really are out and them. Buddhism is often argued that the current situation is illusory. With deeper comprehension of reality, you can overcome the current situation and recognize the way things look correct, efficient and realistic.
I often give the example of how we relate with neighbors. Imagine you live in a certain area in a city where you can not communicate almost anything with their neighbors, yet if you can communicate with them better still duocthi ignoring them. Do this wisely will depend on you to understand the personality of a neighbor to any size. Suppose, if the neighbors next door are very resourceful and friendly communication with him will be beneficial to you. Also, when you look carefully, you also noticed this neighbor have quite cunning nature, the understanding that becomes very valuable if you just maintain friendly relations but also medium to alert not being taken advantage of. Also, once you have a deep knowledge about the nature of reality, in the discharge of meditation, while living in the real world, you would contact with people and things in the right way and reality than.
EIGHT PERFORMANCE CENTER storyteller (1)
The will achieve supreme interests
With children, all living beings
More than Bao Chau Nhu Y
Prayer often always keeping important patriotic.
When linked up with anyone
See the figure below all
Heart, ask him honor
May the loving practice of reverence.
Interested himself in every act
Delusions, just negativity arises
Causing harm to themselves and people
Prayer seeks to eliminate immediately.
When you see evil beings temperamental
Being oppressed fierce curse,
As having been hard to find treasures
I am determined to bring you their love.
There are beings so jealous center
Irrational scolding, defamatory children
Please get off part of his lost
Prayer beings dedicate the victory.
For the individual aid
Or children have low expectations
Suddenly wrongfully harmed children
Prayer see them as you heal Teacher.
In short, directly or indirectly
Down all the benefits to his mother
The pain of her injury
Prayer receive all of their secrets.
All top eight voluntary measures
Do not contaminate wandering mind.He knew the law as illusory
May the binding attachment liberation.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.3/12/2015.
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