II. Building Foundation

Chapter 3

Perspectives And Opinion

B ace Eightfold, the path to liberation, nirvana, starting with the Chief is. So what is the right view? In Brahma Net trading ( Brahmajâla-sutra ), Buddha listed sixty-two views, all views are wrong because they are covered with the colors of the hated, by the popular illusions about self generated . It is important to keep in mind. The views, opinions often lead to debate, anger, anxiety, fear, create enemies, but not necessarily that they are right. How we can absolutely right when we were not attain enlightenment.

This does not mean we can not have opinions or perspective. But remember: opinions, views are just my habit of thinking about such problems, prejudices about the world we live in. We can not have no opinion, but opinion is important to remember that they are not absolute truth. Therefore, we can accept the views of others, but not taken to the controversy to win for themselves. We can say: "This is my opinion, and that's your opinion." Two views can be contradictory, but it does not mean we have to become angry, arguing, thinking that only their views are right.

Example. There are four of you go through a forest, among them, there is a botanist.He walked, hand carry books, write to write down the names of the plants, outline the shape of trees. He seemed very interested in the job. Another man who care protection. He just stared see a tree that has fallen to his being burned, to avoid spreading the disease to other trees. The third one is a protected environment, in the beginning he outlines recommendations to protect the forest for future generations.And the fourth is a dairy. In his first full attempt to see how much you need to cut down trees to build stables for his herd. Along a forest, but each has a custom look.If each of them determined to defend his point of view is correct, then surely they would not be friends for long. Everyone for their views to be true, while how many different perspectives about the forest, and they also think that they are right to look their way. Actually, everyone has something of his, but no one is completely right.Each perspective is created by the love, the hate of each one.

Buddha's right view is  samma ditthi , eighty. Right Understanding is the first step in the Eightfold Path, but also indispensable in different parts of practice. As a first step, right understanding leads us to the path, in the final phase, the district is becoming concentration, ie the wisdom of absolute truth. But before reaching the final step, we have to believe that the mind defilements can be purified, that all these afflictions, suffering is not external to us, not the fault of the outside world. Chief initial paving bricks that point in the spiritual path. Buddha's teachings into three parts:  sila, samadhi and panna .  Sila  is morality,  samadh i's and  panna  is wisdom. But the Noble Eightfold Path begins with intellectual as the door to the other door.

Another aspect of right now. All that we do, say, thoughts are creating mutual influence. When you have good thoughts, good words will follow, and from good words, will lead to legitimate action. Instant karma ( vipāka ) of the act, word, thought, This is peace, joy in the heart, help my meditation be easy, contrary to the meditation center in discontent, suffering . Meditation brings us peace and happiness, but I will not be meditation if we are in a state of suffering heart, discontent. Since only a calm mind can practice letting go well. Karma of our mind a great influence to my meditation. Remember, every time you have delusions or what action, as we are creating karma for themselves, but we do not stop delusions, thoughts day and night. Life is full of normal conversation. From time to time we encounter a few new ups and downs, great event. Often we only have to answer these questions is not very important, such as how I would react in this situation?Solving other requirements like? How do I overcome the other circumstances? Mind what I was thinking? My thoughts do not benefit? Nice not? All this choice, from morning to night, contributing to the creation of our karma. Though they do not create serious consequences, but they also affect the state of mind of our make meditation difficult results. Remember that each of our choices are important because it is my own decision. Do not let us be slaves to their emotions or be bound by his actions. Choice but also to create business.

Within the scope of karma, we do not have many choices. If my decisions more wisely, the more chance we. If we want our meditation can be the result, must remain mindful of all thoughts and actions. Right view helps us understand that we are all his career, that the personal opinions can not be absolute truth. Everyone has the right idea, just remember do not always true. If thinking like that, we would be less conflict with others when views, their opinions are not similar to ours. That is the first step on the path. The road leads us to the absolute truth about man that we call 'I', with the difficulties, joys, suffering, hope, dream, nostalgic own memories.Gradually we will realize that this man has feelings, thoughts completely different view of right understanding of it, because there is so much negativity in mind it.Want to get a peaceful mind, we have to change how your concept. And in order to understand ourselves, we need to calm the mind, the mind under control to be able to turn it out of the habits, prejudices of his people.

All we have to think about ourselves - about the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of them. All indications are that the views, not the absolute truth.Compared with the relative world we live in, we also have the right and the wrong.But on the absolute level, the absolute embraces the universe, all without any sense.Absolute truth is that everything is change (impermanence). All of us are just the embodiment of the continuous change in body, in mind. The four elements (earth, water, wind, fire) is composed of us, no element is essential. But the mind is difficult to accept these things unless meditation can bring us the peace, happiness totally dependent on external factors. Mind negativity can not accept that there is no one entity that is exposed to the suffering.

There are two ways to understand Buddhism: either absolutely or relatively. A relative is all of us must try to achieve concentration. On the absolute level, then there is none, the entity to try. To achieve absolute wisdom, we must rely on their relative reality. If I do not try, I can not achieve absolute truth. There are periods of reflection and awareness. We will not achieve the level of deep spiritual unless we have gone through the first phase.

In the first phase, the main character is only relative: we are aware that we can repair itself, have an understanding of karma, understanding that everyone's perspective we are only relative values team. Practice gradually Eightfold Path will help us reach the second level, achieving the absolute truth.

Another part of the Noble Eightfold Path is the right thought. It is extremely important on the spiritual path is to have the right mindset. Initially, we will be able to start with a selfish purpose, only care for their own liberation. We can already find the Way because a wrong purpose. But that could change. Through practice, thinking we can change to suit the Dhamma.

Buddha is his brother, Nanda. Nanda He could not decide whether to become a monk that made the world or stay married like everyone else. Because the Buddha, his famous brother, he also wants to become a monk Nanda. But according to their preferences, then he wants to get married. His parents Nanda too tired because of his reluctance. They went and asked his wife to marry him the day Nanda. Buddha was invited as guest of honor. After the meal, before the wedding started, the Buddha told him that Nanda, "Nanda, come, bring me a bowl of the monastery". Nanda He dared not refuse, because Buddha is the guest of honor, and is the most respected person in the clan. Oil no longer willing, he remains undiminished Nanda followed the Buddha bowl. When they arrived at the monastery, Buddha told him to sit down for a moment Nanda. He Nanda replied that he is very busy, can not stay. Buddha Nanda asked why he had to rush that. "Breakfast is now child's wedding day. Bhagavan has come to the party then." Buddha said: "Why do you want to get married? What's important in marriage?" He Nanda said: "She was so beautiful. I love her and want to marry her. I have to go now, venerable sir." Buddha replied: "If thou here with me, practicing my word instructions, you can have five hundred woman more beautiful." Nanda asked him: 'Really?' Buddha replied: "Yes". So he Nanda was at the monastery with the Buddha. Occasionally, he went to ask the Buddha: "Five hundred beautiful girls Buddha promised me where?" Buddha replied: "I have said before, when he initiates attained, he would see it. Now, back to practice more." He Nanda returned, holding precepts believe, attainment, and no longer asked about five hundred beautiful girls anymore. Actually what the Buddha promised him that if he practice Nanda attained, he will meet the devas beautiful how many times more beautiful women in the world. Clearly this is not a good reason to go tu, but in that moment, for him, only saying that Nanda new hold him off. Through meticulous cultivation, he changed his conception. In summary, Mr. Nanda had no plausible motive at first, but then he did achieve righteousness.

Thought must be coupled with the will to work practices, in meditation and in everyday life. Of these: right understanding and right thought is the first step on the path of the Noble Eightfold Path.

Buddha compare beings with four types of boats. Another type of bottom hole there.We want as many countries in this mode also, because it flows out immediately. For this kind of people, when they heard the Dharma, they heard this ear and out the other ear to. The second boat cracks. When one puts the Dharma into it slowly, slowly dripping out until the boat was empty as before. Type the third boat filthy water up to the boat. We can not manufacture pure water added to it, because they all become as stagnant water ponds. The boat is the only useful fourth boat, no holes, no cracks and completely empty. The empty here without negative connotations, but the implication is not to worry about the mind, fear or u mind, open mind to embrace that Buddhism into hearts. Mind does not contain stereotypes about people and the world we live in. If these views, my thoughts did not bring happiness, peace in our present life, it's best to let go of all that empty boat to carry over the river Buddhism.When the mind is filled with the Dhamma, we will gradually change to reflect in order to get the right view.

Once enlightened, liberated, that means we do not see anything important. Nothing good to grip, contained in mind. When the mind is without prejudice, it can observe things through the eyes of a child. For example if you look at a tree with preconceived mind, we will see that in just a glimpse of old trees and roots, my familiar. I do not really see life in that tree. We may like it because they think that trees bring us oxygen, or do not like because they think is possible to nest on it. Can we cultivate fruit trees since it was born to do. Or cut down the trees, because the trees do not grow vegetables, but we never really see what it is.

When the mind is no longer the prejudices, then we can see the world around us under another aspect. Completely different now. Everything is always changing. As he sat on the train, I felt like the landscape around us is moving. Actually the train was moving, but I could not see it. We, too, are sitting in a train moving away, but I thought his estate. It's a skewed perspective. But if we can look at everything around us, including ourselves again and, with the eyes without prejudice, we can come close to absolute reality, thereby developing right, inner wisdom. That's consistent with what Buddha taught to practice his self, that should not blindly believe. Only when we have the experience of ourselves, then we can come close to the truth, no matter what it is experience. And if we only talk about what I think, I believe, I only express their opinions, to present their views. And the more ideas, the more we hardly look right about the world around us, or is the purity necessary for meditation.

Interestingly, if we know that the eyes only see shapes, colors, ear just to hear the sound. All things remaining are the product of the mind. Do not have an absolute reality as what I've heard, or seen, but we always react in the ceiling units. When we hear the birds singing or barking dogs, the reality that is just noise. But the mind says, "Dogs barking. On noisy too, so they do not shut up, I need silence to meditate". Or "Fortunately, I'm not a dog." All that stuff is the reaction of the mind.When the eyes see colors, shapes, it decrypts them through the consciousness based on memories. It is wrong when we grasp an idea for it was his then, for it is the truth.For example, what we looked at was a block, a child may consider it a building. The difference is due to different maturity levels. My thoughts do not have to be the truth. They are just concepts, can be wrong and my feelings. Inner world and the outside world are not the same. Remember that perspective is just opinion, and on an absolute level, this whole world, including us, do not like to think.

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Chapter 4

Article Recovery Center

P sage brain sometimes arises due to four great instability itself, but mostly due to the mind. How the mind creates suffering for us, so we need to know for the mind.

Main attention makes us feel happy or miserable caste not because of any other reason. We often react instinctively in any situation, so we need to watch every minute of every hour center.

The best environment to do it is meditation. In meditation, there are two states: only (samatha) and bars (vipassana). If we can achieve to, if only for a short time, it proves that our meditation much progress. But if that concentration is still not used to develop knowledge, there is but a waste of time. If we are to mind, joy will arise, but we should remember that bliss in which only transient. Only wisdom has not changed. When the deeper, the more we can tolerate how negativity, obstacles.Beginning any noise, discomfort or any delusions may also be tempted to do, especially when the mind has not been set throughout the day.

Some time we also need to remember clearly about impermanence (anicca) of all things, not just while sitting in meditation. Mindfulness is the center point while meditate, to go on to. We can only spend a little time for meditation, but we can spend all the time left to contemplate his mind. That's where making things in this world happen to us. Nothing can exist outside the mind.

The more you observe the mind and see what the mind can bring to us, the more we need to take a little more for it. The biggest mistake of the mind we are despised. Do not know that the mind is capable of bringing joy or sorrow for me. Only when we can remain calm, peaceful, and oil to whatever circumstances happen, then we can say that we were somewhat in control of the mind. If not, it means that the mind is beyond the control of us, and then we are just slaves for intelligent thought.

Problems with the enemy causing enemies
to go with petitioners Or injustice in part
not by the harm of evil mind
Cause for me.
Not parents
Or relatives
Secretarial mind improved But
He has made me a better more .

- Dhammapada 42.43 (Dhammapada 42-43)

According to the teachings of the Buddha, nothing is more important than controlling the mind. But do not just need to subdue the mind during meditation - that is just one of the special practice. Just like when you learn tennis. You practice with a trainer this day, the last day, until you can find your balance, the guts to themselves alone. Mental battlefield to our daily lives is the envelope includes all the circumstances we face.

Mindfulness means of supporting our most powerful, which means we need to be present in every moment of life. If the mind is always being monitored, it can not create something disturbing about the world or friends around us, or makes us seek this thing, the other thing. All these thoughts in my head can occur constantly, but once we are mindful they all cease. Mindfully means are present in every moment, do not leave a man open to any ideas that might invade. When I was at the present moment, any force that is what walking, standing or sitting, feeling happy or suffering head- and maintain the attitude we know without judgment, distinction , 'only know'.

Clearly intentionally imply a judgment: for example say that we understand the purpose of thought, actions or his words, means that we know that they can not behave cleverly, can achieve what they desire. We need to create a gap so that we can evaluate themselves objectively, because if we attach themselves to a certain event, it is very difficult to maintain objectivity. Mindfulness coupled with clear intention to create a gap we needed it.

Any suffering to happen to me, though big or small, constant or momentary mind-made are working. Everything happens for ourselves because we are creating for yourself, no one else. All of us have played in the play 'life'. Sometimes other people happened to be on my side, so I think they are responsible for their misfortune. The fact that everything we do is because of my mental control.

As observed during heart meditate, the more we go on to enjoy. When we observe every state of mind at that idea arises, or when we stop chasing them, we will easily have more objective attitude. Delusions constantly come and go, like breathing in and out of me. If we cling to them, defilements will immediately arise. When it is believed that this thought of us, especially those negative thoughts, we will find a way to react, resist. This action creates sorrow and suffering.

The motto of the Buddha on the four immeasurable worth remembering me: "Do not let the malice arises, if it does not arise. Not bad if it's sustained attention has arisen. Motivated if not good will arise . Maintaining good will if it has arisen ".

The more quickly we practice these things, the more good for us. But that's only part of what we can practice while sitting. If we can practice letting go of the delusion arises while meditate, then we can also act like that for evil thoughts in everyday life. When we can stop the worry thoughts out to just focus on your breathing, then we can also use this method to protect our mind in any time. The more we have the ability to shut the door again to mind thoughts cause suffering heart, then my life even more pleasant. The ability to recognize and let go not synonymous with repression. Peaceful mind is the mind filled with compassion.

Suffering is caused by his own self for himself. If we really want to avoid suffering, one must always observe the mind. We need to go back to really understand what our minds want? Motivation for our response? How do we react? There are hundreds of thousands of motivation, but only two reactions. An amnesty is the attitude, the other is clinging, attachment.

Any circumstance can also be a good lesson for us. Today we have to wait a bit longer at the bank, it's exercise in patience for me. Oil the practice is successful or not, is not important. Reformation that my learning experience. Everything we do is a practice, and the challenge for us. That is the purpose of all human life, which is why our existence. We use the little time living on this earth is to learn, and grow.We need to look at your life like an additional classroom. All other purposes are wrong.

We are just the people living here, with the limitations of a hotel. If we knew how to use his time to find his own inner understanding - of what we love, we hate, the anxiety, fear of us- then we have lived a life well-deserved. Such a life requires us to have more live art. Buddha called it 'impatience' ( samvega ), makes us feel to practice it right now, but can not wait for the future, or a day when we have more time. These are all learning experiences, and the start time is now.

When we see suffering you familiar taker of all people- we ask: "Where are you from?" When answered, we must ask again near, and continue to deepen further.There is only one true answer, but not easy to find it soon. Sometimes we have to go through many answers to be translated before I finally realized it was due to my atta.When went to answer it, we know that we need not ask anymore, because it is the beginning of wisdom. Then we can observe why my self to create suffering for us.What have we done? What was the reaction? Once you find  out the cause, we  can let go of the erroneous views. Then we will see immediate causality of his actions, and I will never forget that. Every drop of water can fill the tank, each small modification to help us purify the mind. Deserves every moment of our labors.

The more we see every moment experience are worth our attention, even more diligent attention. No moment passed in vain, every moment is important, if we know how to use them wisely. Our mind becomes stronger. And just little moments that sufficient contributions into a life worth living really do.

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Chapter 5

Stupid

V box clever does not mean we do not have the knowledge. Ignorance in Buddhist language only a single infinitely intelligent meaning of the Four Noble Truths.Ignorance is the beginning of the wheel of birth and death ( samsara ), makes a stop can not stop reincarnation. Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the core. If a Buddhist without understanding the meaning of the Four Noble Truths, then we have missed the essence.

Maybe we already know about some aspects of the Buddha's teaching, we often see, nothing too confusing. Maybe when I heard about the Enlightenment liberation, we also see exciting. Or it felt exciting to discover that we do not need to react, when someone tells me impolite words. Or we also hope to be on the back of the long hours of meditation. All of the above are within the teachings of the Buddha. But if we are not able to master the basics, then we just go around the wonderful things of Buddhism. Since then the birth center or facilities. Forcing us to start wondering whether to continue meditating, continued to practice or to find a way to live happily, more pleasant.

The essence of life, as we know in this human realm, the dissatisfactions ( dukkha ).Nothing completely in life, on the contrary, life is full of sorrow for what the body and mind. Was born the same suffering, rather it is the beginning of all other suffering. If with all that we know, already, have experienced that we still see no peace, inner wholeness in, then we have no other way? Which way can open up for us?

The Buddha's answer is immortality or nirvana, that means no reincarnation back. Or is my purpose to be reborn in conditions better circumstances, more material goods, more friends, more health, more than intellectual? Or are we looking forward to be born in the heavens? That's what many people desire. They believe in a different world is always better than the world they live in. Can also correct. There are also things people can be very attractive in heaven. But if we know the truth that birth is suffering, whether in the realm of birth shall also be suffering.

How to have a 'not dead'? It is Nirvana, because no longer reborn there, and when they no longer have the element of birth, then how? If there is something immortal, not decay, and we know that birth is painful, we have no choice other than the path to immortality? But if only meditate ceaselessly, hoping to achieve another good luck, and partly just to learn about the teachings of the Buddha is not enough. Just enough to take in our heart uttered the words: 'There is no other choice than to attain nirvana liberation'.

And we can not have the strong belief that if we had not ever gone through every agonizing. Of course we do not wish that would happen to anyone, but we know only the traumatic experience can be the human transformation. There are many stories of the Buddha in the world about how the woman had suffered too much grief when loved ones lost, the family, to the point that they are no longer any other option. Today, in our society there are too many options. We can choose to go to the beach, or traveling through India, looking for a new relationship. In terms of this choice, sometimes embarrassed me, for I see every choice will bring tactile sensations (ceiling units), that is very evanescent, fleeting. We need a clear awareness that, if not the spiritual development of the obstacles we will encounter. In meditation there is a saying: "When you go, you go. When you run, you run. But do not be inclined to go down like that." So if we have chosen a path, go decent, stable destination.

In addition to liberation, the only choice left is the sensual. Buddha has a lot of warnings about the dangers of sexual desire. We can verify the words of the Buddha whether it is any truth or just interesting stories we have not heard the last. Path only exists in our interior. Dharma can not live only on the page or in the words of someone; we must live in our hearts. We must consider whether there is true joy was brought by touching, and all our misery is due to the lack of them or by touching with what we do not like.

We have two choices. One is that we are actually the sensual pleasure, is selected two strong path to help us escape from birth, aging, illness, death, escape from suffering. Surprisingly, very few people choose the second one. Suffering is also a way to help us prepare ourselves to choose the path, and try to practice prayer.

We need to have the courage to choose the path of Dhamma. Because if we choose the path of escape from suffering, we need to renounce attachment how, how transitory pleasures behind. That requires courage. We must let go of a lot of things that had been thought to bring happiness, wholeness for us. We need the courage to leave them to stand by itself. That does not mean you are struggling with your old friends or relatives have shunned the family. But as we begin to loosen the bond, cling to them. When we are aware there is nothing more important than to follow the path to liberation. At that time all the capacity, our priority for this purpose.

One can only succeed when cornered every effort into a job center. At that time all our experience ectopia life, unpleasant or not suffering vui- not we all know it is a part of things, and there is also a way to practice. If a certain unpleasant feeling arises, we recognize immediately: "It's an uncomfortable feeling, I'm react to it here, but I do not need to do that, I can let go of both reactions." Conversely, if the time was still immersed under ceiling units, then it can hardly be realized. Unable had Eightfold Path, the still immersed in lust. Moreover, the Noble Eightfold Path can also bring us some unpleasant feelings because it requires self-discipline, his self-employed, which means that the body must constraints.

Also one can not expect quick results. But we know his next destination. Once you have the direction, we do not have to choose, do not worry about the advice, which was filled with confidence. Then we can completely rely on the infinite wisdom of the Buddha, without the need to explore, to discover the path to spiritual awakening.I have inherited the clear teachings of the Buddha to leave in life.

Perhaps the most difficult remaining is how we know what is right for what we call 'I'. What's special about us? Yes year -a suffering and suffering is itself suffering the remaining four belong to the mind. There are four elements and thirty-two parts of the body. Nothing, no one is particularly better than anyone, everyone is the same.Each individual we do not need to see what is appropriate for them. All you have to do is choose between the pleasures of the senses of hearing or the destruction of suffering. The decision that will change our lives.

If we no longer neglect the Four Noble Truths anymore, but as they are central to our lives, then his wealth will gradually be extinguished. Then completely disappeared when we achieve true Tuesday: Extinction soles. That's when we have attained liberation, nirvana, to end all suffering. But before reaching that place, right now at least we can reduce our ignorance by considering the source of ignorance, which is approved Falling, Falling is my considered.

All the teachings of the Buddha are to help us firmly on the path. In a sermon, Elder Sariputta mentions several ways to help us grow the right view to help us further intellectual development. Most importantly, we need to boost our motivation talk, think, act like we did. When our relationship and who is not smooth, as they do not dissolve into one another like water with milk, we need to look at boosting motivation to do so. Not to find fault of others. Motivation is like a block of ice, one can only see the visible part. So if we do not practice ourselves learn a particularized way, we will never know all the action is due Self promotion. We need to reconsider the motives of his actions for the purification of the mind. Ask yourself, 'I act like this is for the good of others or because my atta? They are rooted in confidence or fear? We must rethink the dynamics, its purpose because we create for themselves now. "I do all my career, my career inherited".

Our moral foundation should be based on right speech, right action and right par.There is no measure of this model, all individual efforts were in vain. Our strength is not in the body, but depending on the confidence in us. This trust can only be when we know that clean, not guilt. Relying on others only makes us born weak, a dangerous job. Because others also unstable, always changing as we. Mother, father, husband, wife, children, monks -all will leave, change or not there when we needed them. We need to protect our own people, self-care every step of yourself.

Right effort, mindfulness and concentration should be firm in our toehold. Right effort means always apply what we've learned not only during meditation, but in all circumstances, at all times, everywhere. If one day we do not learn something new, or do not help anyone, not loving someone, then it's a waste of the past days. Time is very precious, each passing day may not find it. The past is past, the future is yet to come. Flights to can not landing, buses to the terminals can not shed. Right this moment is the moment to practice. As we exited through reserved accident, does not mean we will escape the danger. So, if we do not use their day perfect, a day to learn, to observe the inner, learn the doctrine, then we can not have right effort. Effort needs to be developed into a good habit for everyone.

Have been mindful in every moment is an ideal may have not thought of. But if we do not have the determination to develop mindfulness every moment, it is easy to forget you're religious, law enforcement is needed. Mindfulness is not just words or a sermon of the Buddha down, it is a meaningful mental state. It means we have to be right now, in this moment, know very well what is going on inside or outside of us. It means vigilance about the motives of his actions, practice modification thoughts, bad feelings, unhealthy to healthy thoughts. Mindfulness is a practice that over time interest will help us eradicated all suffering. It shows clearly nothing happens outside the operation of the five aggregates -sac, feeling, perception, and consciousness.Initially through mindfulness we no longer worry, fear the past, the future, and to help sustain us in the present. Mindfulness helps us to gradually have the right to self insight.

On the right concentration, all that we can do is try your best. Part of letting go of that, not chasing the sounds, colors, charming, smell, touch, and delusions. While normally I enjoyed the feeling of touch, and clinging on them intensely. You also need to have enough confidence in his ability to meditate. We need to achieve almost hard to reach.

In short, we need to prepare a solid interior to accept the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path as the focal point in our lives. Everything else is secondary. If we do not only learn the teachings of the Buddha because of curiosity, then we need to ramp wholeheartedly to live, to practice the truth then, the truths that we believe will help ensure that the way to Nirvana , rescue.

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Chapter 6

Is causal

T hập II predestined ( paticcasamuppad a) preceded by a Ignorance ( avijja ), through to, consciousness, and matter, six senses, contact, feeling, craving, capital, property, birth and ends with death. Following birth there must be death. During birth and death, the only one way out: between contact and defense. This is the karmic rebirth of beings.

But Buddha also taught about the theory of origin super Vietnam, nobler. Start by hard soles ( dukkha ). It is the awareness, knowledge of the suffering is unavoidable in human realms. Suffering should be aware of as they really are, is the beginning step of the journey of our spirituality. If you have never experienced the suffering, we have no reason to practice. If we do not realize exists hooded suffering on all things government, we will not have the desire to escape the bondage of suffering.

Identified as suffering, we no longer seek to escape them in the ordinary circumstances of the secular. I would not desire to be rich more, be more knowledge, owns more wealth, or to add a friend. Furthermore, knowing that we can not shirk suffering because it goes hand in hand with the existence of life, we will not see it being tame. For as we have accepted as a phenomenon of thunder can not shirk discriminant that there must be rain, thunder, can we grow trot- therefore unable to dispose of them. Likewise, we can not evade suffering. Without suffering, man can not exist. There will be no regeneration, damage, aging and death. Understanding this, we will no longer seek to escape suffering. So we will reduce suffering. The evasion, against which we can not accept suffering, and thus made us suffer even more multiplied.

There is suffering, we seek new Dharma charming, Buddhist sutras. Indeed, it is because of our affinity. There are countless beings never known Dharma. Even if they were born in the land of Buddhism, they did not have the opportunity to hear the French. There are also people who do not look to Buddhism because they believe they can find a way in the secular realm, but that is a wrong direction. But even for those who do not believe they can find true happiness in the secular realm, they also need to have good conditions, can be heard Dharma. Understand this, faith can accomplish.

Faith must be based on trust, trust. Otherwise, the path will be blocked entrance. We believe, as adult children holding hands crossing the street. Children believe that their loved ones will watch over vehicles, to avoid accidents that may occur. Because children are not yet able to judge safe time to cross the road, it believes in people who are experienced, wiser.

For the Buddha, we are like the other kids. With childlike spirit, pure of children, we completely rely on the teachings and methods of practice, holding the hand of my dharma to travel guidance. Life and our practice will become easier when we do not always hesitant, considering: "Maybe I should go elsewhere see how religious people." There are options, considering all measures, we will also not necessarily be good practice will be free from suffering. Sincere faith where Dharma helps us more steadfast attention. Then, through practice, can we experience are his teachings. If not, we will never know the truth.

If we keep insisting see suffering as a disaster, and we were not in the room for faith.Because we also always painful, disturbing, we forget that all of us due to karma brings, nothing more. Life is being done to his karma.

To understand the nature of suffering is clear, can we believe in the teachings that I have not practiced. That belief will bring us peace, whereas the path will be full of sorrow. Is an important element in the spiritual life, but at peace here does not mean that pleasure, excitement, thrill. Peace brought joy, liberation, for I knew that I had found the path to liberation from suffering. Sometimes people believe that holy man, devotees must have sad faces, gait dolefully. Yet no one recorded the Buddha had been crying, whereas he always illustrated with a smile always on his lips. "Sanctity 'does not mean sorrow, which means' perfect'. There is no joy, it's hard to have himself in, rounded integrity. The joy of inner confidence implies that the path we choose not wrong, that road will bring achieved attainment through righteousness methods.

We need to sit down and meditate with joy projector inside. Thus, all the process of meditation will be good results. Will give us a quiet confidence, because we are no longer around trying to find happiness outside of us, which rely stay within himself.No need to search for places where energy is not hard to do, all in me. The quiet that gives it a sense of the right time, right place. It makes the mind calm, and thereby to destroy the nested skeptical ( vicikiccha ).

Calmness makes easy to enter the center. Suffering helps us to find key is used for meditation position, if we really understand the nature of suffering. It should not escape suffering, treat it as a cruel fate or blame other people for their suffering caused. Right Concentration help more open mind. While heart obstinate, narrow, difficult to penetrate pollution subtle approach. It can hunch something super Vietnam than what is available, but can not get there. Unless the mind is fixed.

Concentration then can "be the nature of knowledge of things such as," The Buddha is a saying often used to express a very different way of looking at things with the eyes to see things by judge or by the pond wish we had something like this, like that.Until this moment, we already have a clear idea about what we do not like, such as the time of the incident caused the collapse of confidence in self, the one time you do not want to happen to us. But when they know and understand things by looking at the very essence of it, my mind becomes deeper. We will realize that in the world of impermanence, suffering and non-self, one can not hold anything, does a sustainable forever, and can bring us completely satisfied. No one, no possessions, no thoughts, no feelings at all. All nothing sustainable, so that we can definitely rely upon.

That's right view, different from normal everyday look. It is the result of the concentration, the attitude is not as painful as hostile and negative. Because when we seek to escape suffering by trying to forget it, flee it, blame others, sad as it is, or blame themselves, we only create more suffering. All the ways that are just as self-delusion. "Looking at things as their essence" is the first step on the path of inner;the rest is all the preparation work.

Sometimes understanding can be likened to the secret paintings children usually play. There are times when you find it, sometimes not. When there be knowledge of any aspect of France, one must often reflect back to that knowledge. If knowledge truly get it, suffering no longer be afflicting us, we accept them as other things have happened to us. The aging damage, illness, death, no longer do we have to fear anymore. What else to fear when we know that all things must pass away incessantly. I dated a corrupt body, mind is changing every moment.

No knowledge of this reality, our practice is not easy. In contrast to the lucid knowledge, the practice of one becomes the only thing we see needs to be done.Everything else is temporary, will make us neglect the practice. Thanks to such a clear knowledge, we are pleased boring start to every charm of life. All these meretricious gold bullion just banal of fools, to bring happiness to me this minute, then minutes later brought misfortune. The ceiling on the world scene easy to deceive me, but I still clinging to follow them, so that the long-standing habits. So we will continue to suffer until I looked out the truth.

In Australia there is a sign that reads: "Life: Let's integrate into it." Perhaps it is better to offer "Life: Take away from it". Life and our existence is bound by the constantly changing landscape of bare root -when exposed ceiling: hear, see, taste, touch, perception. Only when we have obtained a clear view of things, I know boring, then even the ceiling has wonderful scene where I did not budge. Demon Mara, who we do sin instance, will have to give up, because I was chasing him out the door. But remember, he would wait outside the gate, lying in wait for the first opportunity to be able to appear again, that would be true, but for sure that he will never be able to leisurely walked into my house half.

This knowledge gives us how faith makes our hearts feel contented made bags. I will hardly be dragged away from his path. When Ma Vuong longer beside me, and I have not been entirely peaceful. I also fear for other new things can forget our apprehension. However When you have got a clear view of the truth of things, we would have been pleased boring, we will realize the Buddha path lead us to liberation, peace, cessation of all suffering.

Actually is suffering most intimate friend, the most loyal. I hardly find that friends may help us much, if we have a correct view of suffering, not resist, do not resist it.Then we can use suffering as our thrust to cultivate, cherish, grateful whenever it arises. That makes my pain is no longer sharp, but suffering was transformed into the most precious experience for us.

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chapter 7

Malleable heart

T follower of Buddha's teachings, we often hear that 'mind workable, easy to change, easy to use but also very determined'. How the mind can have the same characteristics as contradictory? The center of the ordinary man, not knowing the characteristic religious bigotry. It always remember the hurt, pain, always compare the past with the present, and always clinging to the suffering. Moreover, we believe the majority are thinking, the estimated spill here in the center. Our mind is like being in a cage fence bundle, which contains all our knowledge.

Have you ever thought of anything new, no, nothing ever goes through my mind?There once we know to be a universal truth? Without these events, our mind is like a needle on the record trail turns old, just play a tune forever boring these days and months.

When we can focus, stop random thoughts, we can know that clarity of mind. At that time can be mind-bending into a new shape instead of rigid old pattern. Only when we discover something completely new in mind, we learned that the mind has the ability to think differently.

We should be careful to place these thoughts in mind throughout the day, because they have no true foundation; they are only shadows of the ego image, the desires, and habits from the life of me. They are not based on absolute truth. This does not mean that we can dispose of them at once, but we need to caution against them. They are habits, not anything nice, do not lead us to peace and happiness.

Once more we are aware of your thoughts, we will experience what it's like to control what we hear, we see, we feel - it is the discovery of a child, under the intellectual Adults. Childish mind not completely clean as we thought, but we feel things directly, are not affected by these thoughts as adults. Once mature, we can still feel like a kid thing, as if I had never heard, not seen, tasting, touching or thinking about it ever since. With a completely new perspective on your emotions, we can realize the truth as such - is only briefly oil.

When we pay attention, mindfulness, we can notice that the mind is dominated by the habit of frivolous, immature, naive, not naive. I will also realize that the mind is capable of change, malleable. Knowing How is our learned way back to the interior.

Buddha compares with yellow center. As a rough state, not yet hardened, in this yellow metal in the metal also has another. The dregs of this makes it brittle, fragile, so workers must first jewelry gold heat up, so that the substances can be extracted sediment filtered out. Then workers will use its instruments to shape a variety of gold jewelry. Buddha used this parable to only about five hindrances in our minds: it's greed, anger, agitation, drowsiness and chronic guests.

Mind can help us attain enlightenment, if it had been eradicated five hurdles, and become pure as gold. Then we will find peace for the mind, and live in harmony with everyone around.

The process of meditation can help us experience many states of mind, unlike our normal day-know mind. The idea of ​​selflessness must be very different from the idea we have ever known. If we had heard a lot about selflessness, we can advance to know about it, but nothing will change in the inner if we do not really practice selflessness. If anything arises in the mind, we will face it as if we had never seen or heard of it before, then -Airlines just minutes, when the mind completely sunk in meditation-making every episode old gas would dissipate.

If we can not transform, refresh the mind, it was just vicious life with blunt heart penguin. It is always just "me and what I want," or 'me and what I do not want'.Narrow mind, greed does not benefit to the happiness and joy. Since the new me how tiny! Compared to the vast universe behold, it was less than a pinhead. Always remember how to limit the expansion of the self.

When we have a completely new initiative, something we never thought of, our mind which was also developed. The new knowledge that is considered. However if we are not knowledge affect actions, our thoughts, which means we did not really understand the meaning of it, or understand is just another useless knowledge.

Liberal mind can observe everything around him objectively. Suffering, impermanence and non-self is the natural law of the universe, as well as loving and serving others. When we remember that, what we have experienced is not our own, there are no more dramatic. On the contrary, we should remember the covers of all things, to the relative reality that we live in. Until then - until we can identify and transform ways of thinking, actions of us- if we hardly can not step into the world of new experiences.

Tranformational liberal mind, can change, easily accepted by all legal. Whenever we detect a new conversion in mind, we need to maintain, keep in mind to be able to turn them into inertia, an instinct. One of the signs of the transformation that is less demanding facilities, less interested in the wealth, reduce libido or bigotry. Instead we can re-think about giving what, how to develop spirituality, to create good karma.Deeper, we can make a collective waiver of the individual, but to be part of everything around us, if only for a moment. For as I was getting into the body and mind your distinction, it is hard to find true happiness. As I locked himself in the prison of 'self', waiting for someone to liberation for us. While the key lies in our hands.

The mind disturbing bound by the following cankers, but if we do not claim to know the how, there would be no change can occur. We can not wait for others to liberate my mind. Emancipation ( mobbama ) and the wheel of reincarnation ( samsara ), both of which are in my heart. Sometimes, in these moments we forget his ego, while we absolutely do not care care of ourselves, we can experience fleeting state of Nirvana: that's when the 'me' of me not more importantly, when we do not have a prejudice in the beginning, when only awareness without the slightest craving yet.They probably do a new sense of self is not something we think think, and give it away.

For most of us give up the ego killing is not something easy to do, because I would think that we ourselves lose himself in the absence of self. Whereas in fact we are all spiritual teachings Any prior agree on that point. Anything that we use to identify themselves are our own prison. Letting go is liberating. When we experience moments of letting go sometimes, it's often confused by the situation or someone gave us. In fact, whenever we give up the clinging kill, we will be liberated. Take a little compromise, abandon something, that glimmer at the end of the tunnel, to signal tells us that freedom, liberation is real.

Nirvana and reincarnation are all in the mind. Reincarnation present misery as I am conscious of self, and nirvana, true happiness will arise when we can eradicate ego. Nothing in this world gate material wealth, glory, praise, honor, reputation or can brainer gives us the freedom and peace infinitely so.END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI 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.30/11/2016.