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Observing Life In Life.

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C basil have many kinds of feelings: Lac pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling. Feeling here must be understood as mental sensations. When the pain you feel pain, and mental sensations known Paa.li called "vedanaa" . Whenever it comes to vedanaa you must understand that it is pleasant feeling, unpleasant and neutral feeling. Yogis observe or record the suffering, the lost and the feeling is neutral of meditation observing sensations.
The Buddha taught:

This and the master monk, teacher monk in life expectancy observed how?Here is the master monk, when pleasures, teacher monk said: "I have lost life." When there are unpleasant, teacher monk said: "I have a hard life." When life has neutral (neutral sensations), master monk said: "I have no life sign." When a worldly pleasures, master monk said: "I have worldly pleasures." When a non-secular pleasures, master monk said: "I have a non-secular pleasures." When a secular unpleasant, teacher monk said: "I have secular unpleasant". When a non-secular unpleasant, teacher monk said: "I have the unpleasant non-secular". When a neutral secular life, master monk said: "I have a neutral secular life". When a neutral non secular life, master monk said: "I have a neutral non secular life".

Sensation arises student must also acknowledge and observe. It was introduced by the Buddha about Vipassana meditation. When you feel pain or stiffness in the body, you have to focus on where the pain and recognize the pain or stiffness by inner recitation: "Pain, pain, pain" , or "numbness, numb, numb " . When you feel good, you feel happy anniversary: ​​" fun, fun, fun " or " good, good, good " . Yogis know the feeling hardly neutral. Feeling neutral but know another student with neutral feeling that people do not know meditation. Although a good feeling when you know that you are feeling good, and feeling bad when you know that you are feeling bad. But that does not necessarily Vipassana meditation. Vipassana meditation yogis see or observe the feeling is just feeling alone, not the feeling of a person, not a permanent, unchanging feelings. Like meditation while watching the go, have noted: "go, go, go" ; Here students have been recognized "feeling, feeling, feeling" . The understanding of the student completely different understanding of people do not meditate. Of non-meditating mind inseparable from the concept of a being or the notion of the self; so their understanding is not Vipassana. Meanwhile heart of yogis may find that only the feeling only. Only feeling happy or feeling unhappy that no one feeling at all. Can not say that this feeling of being someone or do. Yogis also know that this feeling did not survive long.
When you feel pain and you recognize "pain, pain, pain," then you need to record from ten to fifteen minutes. There then will you find that this pain is nothing permanent basis. Not only a block pain. A This pain comes and goes; Other back pain comes and goes. You see the pain is not something continuous that the pain constantly changing. When you're looking to penetrate the continuous, meaning that you do not see what there is continuity ie you have seen the impermanence of things. The reason you do not see the impermanence because the illusion of continuity has concealed the impermanence. When the illusion of continuity dominated, you will cling to the notion of everlasting and enduring things, things that lasting and sustainable. When the notion of continuity is removed, you will see that things appear and disappear, and falling constantly.
Are you optimistic life conjoined with things that you close or reach in life: every form, sound, smell, taste, thought and what you think they are your property, such as spouses, Us kids ... life depends on the worldly things should be called "secular pleasures." When there is this kind of feeling lost, you must be aware of and acknowledged: "fun, fun, fun" or "Good, good, good" .
Sometimes you have the unpleasant feeling as you feel sad, depressed; when the losses, shuns the possession or valuable belongings, you feel regret, sadness or anger. These are unpleasant mundane. This can also happen when yogis for yogis think what is happening is not good for you. When there is a feeling like that happens, students have mindfulness and noted: "regret, regret, regret" ; "sad, sad, sad" or "angry, angry, angry" .
Neutral feeling life is not happy, not miserable. Sometimes it is meditation, meditators exposed objects with the mind senses unhappy, not suffering and can not dispose of such objects. This was the neutral comes with craving arises in the yogi. Feeling so-called "neutral secular life," also called equanimity depending on worldly things, or equanimity comes with delusion. Dictionary Paa.li call this sensation is a ~ naanupekkhaa, means "any discharge tri" (discharge due to unknown).
You can also have the "pleasures, unpleasant and neutral non secular life". These are the sensations arise while you are meditating.
What is "non-worldly pleasures"? When meditating, you can have good concentration see the arising and disappearing of things you came to feel cheerful amusement. You feel so happy that you want to stand up and say let people know that you are feeling so excited. You can not tame these feelings. Such feelings can come with yogis, especially when the student reaches the floor can be seen the birth and death of phenomena. Students should not have the feeling that came with craving. Students must consciously and mindfully sensations before this. If you cling to this feeling, the student will stand forever here without any more progress.
What is "non-secular unpleasant"? Sometimes yogis meditate can not nice at will. Although it tried, but the mind can not be located on the student section was. At that time the student feel depressed or frustrated. It is non-secular unpleasant. Sometimes yogis meditate to achieve a certain floor and then crashed down to feel sadness or regret. When there is the feeling of this, students have been recognized: "sad, sad, sad" or "regret, regret, regret" and tame it.
The story of the elders following shows the "non secular unpleasant" to be an obstacle in your meditation:
A very wise elders classics. Eighteen teacher pupil groups. As many as thirty thousand monk practicing the teachings of the elders that attained Arhat. One of his pupils, one day, review the properties of their precious then think of teachers and find out what his teacher did not enlightenment. See thee still secularists should the student came to me for help. Student to see, the teacher asked:
- Master What have you come?
The student replied:
- I want to hear him preach.
- I do not have time. Thay are very busy.
- The legal only when he entered the village asked for alms.
- No, there will be many people together to ask you in that time, so he does not answer.
The student continued to ask his teachers to meet at other times, but the suggestions of the game were he to refuse for reasons of busy work. Finally the student told the teacher:
- Bach teacher. Sets do not you get a little bit of time even just a few minutes all? If the teacher does not have a moment, then perhaps he would not have time to die. Thay always busy. Teacher is like backrest of the chair. Teacher just let others leaning against the teacher, but the teacher does not rely yourself.
After saying that the pupil leaves. Teachers feel vibrations mind and decided to meditate. Do you think that he could become an arahant in two or three days. Think so, but he did not tell anyone. But the days went by he has yet to reach attainment arahant. Teacher to end the period down to meditate, but until the end of the teacher has not achieved anything. Master teacher should feel sad crying. Master continued to meditate for twenty-nine years, but by the end of the thirtieth teacher down not see the truth. Thay are very sad and cried. At that time, a place he first approached then also cried. Seeing first geo crying, he asked:
- Who are you?
- I am a first place.
- Why is he crying?
- Seeing the teacher cried, I think I just need to cry alone can achieve one or two holy fruit.
Master monk heard this professor utmost sorrow and said to myself: "Now, even the first geo also ridiculed us. So we should not be sad or disappointed too". So Elders discard any sad disappointment. Elders actively diligent meditation to calm the mind, comfort should soon attained Arhat.
Although these elders recite the Tripitaka, but I have spent thirty years arahant attainment of enlightenment. Disappointment his grief as "non-secular unpleasant". Africa secular unpleasant arise during meditation elders are to be a hindrance in his attainment of enlightenment.
What is "non-neutral secular life"? It is neutral while meditating Life, also known as "non-secular life discharge" or "non-secular mindfulness expectancy discharge", occurs when yogis achieve higher wisdom and insight meditation life is feeling flush. At that time the student does not need to make an effort to observe diligently and still heading in a good way. Effort to yogis spontaneously, so students feel unpleasant. This feeling is called "non-neutral secular life" or "non-secular life discharge". When "non-secular life discharge" arises, you have to be mindful and noted: "Life discharge, discharge of life, discharge life" . In this way the student will become aware of the birth and death of all sensations arise. Following that yogis will achieve higher wisdom until completely enlightened.
Students should try to recognize every feeling. When yogis recognized sensations arise, yogis will see the birth and death of this feeling. Yogis also see that because of the pain, you have these feelings of pain. Because there are so comfortable enjoyment new excitement, etc .. How comfortable are yogis were aware of "the uprising of feeling", "the cessation of sensation" or perception both "the arising and cessation of feeling". Yogis can "observe the inside", on his feelings and "external observation", on the feelings of others or "observe inside her own feelings and sensations observed outside of the other". It is the method of mindfulness of feelings while meditating by consciousness and awareness of sensations.
Once you see the arising and passing away of sensations yogis attachment will no longer cling to the feeling again. When there is no attachment, the attachment, the enlightened yogis truth.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/2/2016.MHDT.