Avoid the Buddha Teach Away two extremes.

  Buddha spent the past two extremes of enjoyment and mortification, and finally, under the courageous determination of himself, he took out two extreme lifestyle that achievements middle path.

When Buddha in the world, he often teaches his disciples as follows:

    _ O Bhikkhus, there are two extremes that people need to stay away from-home:

    + One is captivated the passions, desires vile, vulgar, with continuous electronic ordinary personality, does not lead to virtuous saint, not related to the purpose of practice, enlightenment, liberation.

   + Second himself mortification, excessive austerity, do body pain, fatigue, heart is not pure, lucid, not worthy of being wise Scripture, not related to the purpose of practice, enlightenment, rescue.

   _ Hey monks, who practice the religion of enlightenment, liberation, should have right knowledge, away from these extremes, the practice known back middle, make body and mind in harmony to achieve Supreme religion Enlightenment.

   _ Hey monks, let us follow the Middle Way practiced by the Tathagata, enlightened, able to withstand the rigors of every situation, there is wisdom comprehended all things lead to peace, happiness, Nirvana and enlightenment.

   _ Hey monks, middle path, is 8 miraculous method, righteousness: Conception true, true thinking, words true, righteous acts, true professional, sincere effort main, true idea and genuine meditation. This is the middle path, known by the Tathagata seen as they truly are by being let go, the intellectual should arise, leading to peace, happiness, be nirvana, liberation.

     These talks Exalted Tathagata said as to the Deer Park to the years he Parivrajikas. Buddha affirmed middle path is the path beyond the two extremes of sensual enjoyment and asceticism mortification.

    Thus, enjoyment, according to the feelings passionate sense-pleasures that most people give it the highest happiness on Earth, worldly ambitions, or take a difficult path of excessive cultivation, are not is the right path, not related to the purpose of liberation.

    Sensory enjoyment is the life of the Buddha when he was Crown Prince, he did not lack anything. Why Buddha has abandoned all, and finally he was all. During 49 years of teaching the students, only three medical Buddha a bowl, vagrant life, depending on the disease to drugs, to help people.

    With ascetic way of mortification, Buddha had such austerity lengthy six years; finally, physical exhaustion, leading to fainting, unfortunately, thanks to help village women to bowl milk cow, so he regained consciousness and contemplate the practice in recent years; finally, the Buddha has found a middle path. This is also a practice guideline for all Buddhists, especially household goods.

   Both extremes are lowly, inferior, passionate in their sexual self-mortification and suffering, will not lead to peace, happiness and liberation.

    The road worldly sensual enjoyment as we all know, in the fun that is to accompany the sow misery, but impermanent, transient and fragile. Why? For the love that shuns the suffering, hatred met suffering and seek not suffer and finally die hard. Ascetic path for bodily mortification as corrupt, weakened, as the practitioner is not smart enough, lucid, to direct attention to the purpose of enlightenment, liberation.

    Buddha himself spent two lifestyle that he has actually experienced in practice, not by theoretical reasoning. Thus, after enlightenment, the Buddha came to Deer Park for five friends only when the old fellow.

   From a distance, this year people are going to see the Buddha, they said one to another, "ascetic Gotama has practiced style and enjoyment, we should not continue". Notwithstanding such agreement, but when Buddha came, he took water, washed the feet of people who are invited to sit and they all bowed in salute respectfully; and Buddha said, "middle path is separated from the two extremes of enjoyment and mortification". Thus, the year when the old fellow brothers attained enlightenment, liberation.

    Thus, in some extent, the middle way is the path reestablish equilibrium, make body and mind are at peace, harmony, and knows how to care about purpose. Want to be so, we must have a clear vision, that is wanted less, know enough, enough food to feed the body, so the body healthy, the mind is clear, easy to practice to transform suffering, pain into peace and happiness.

   In today's context, the human civilization and progress were insurmountable, social economy development abundant material, whereby a large Buddhist temple to be built in accordance with modern architecture. Home person's life is enhanced with material comforts, high room windows, plush, superficial world, and many other luxury needs. We can see it or not lifestyle middle? So, we need to understand the Buddha's teachings for clarity, maturity, to know how to apply as appropriate to a middle path.

   Most importantly, the Buddha taught, his spirit is find the middle way to know the true, true thinking, speech, true, righteous acts, true professional, genuine effort, the notion of truth and the true meditation. Thus, we shun the two extremes is cutting down the obstacles that outrageous character, luxury, because too much physical comfort is hard convent. In general, depending on the time we have to know, depending but should not be too stubborn, to fall prey to craving, clinging, by want less, know enough.

    The essence of this path is accomplished right view, insight is the principle of dependent origination, impermanence, selflessness, all body, mind and landscape are conditioned by absence of truth there. Therefore, we are not ego, it does not possess that overcomes all the constraints of participation-yard-si, so do not be attached to the I and mine, should realize Nibbana, liberation.

    In the first extreme, while still in their palaces, his wife and child, Prince Siddhartha was fully enjoying all the pleasures of this life on earth, the fame, the most powerful of the earth summit . With the eyes of our ordinary, everybody dreams and desires for wealth, beauty, fame, good food, a warm bed, dressed to, and work in a well-equipped, materially.

    But for the ancient Buddhas, he saw things that are pitfalls life, people buried in the binding, by craving, craving his wife and children, than shackles, dungeon, because when they have expired day out, and sensory enjoyment of our attachment to his wife and children, as imprisoned forever from lifetime to lifetime alone it has no end date.

    In the first extreme, avaricious life and the lure of sensual pleasures like wealth, beauty, fame, good food, sleep a lot, often do we cling, cling to the self is me and mine, should arise about his desire to possess. So, man becomes effeminate, weak, lowly more, and eventually there will be no time, opportunities to practice that can enter wise spiritual man.

    In the second extreme, his asceticism and mortification with five brothers Kieu Tran Nhu uninterrupted for six long years, to the emaciated body was skin and bones, dark spirit, the mind is not sharp , wisely, should not find the way out.

    Body and mind are two important factors are closely related, closely together in a human body. If we are always mindful every day, often not aware of three things is enough to dress, to sleep; or more properly speaking, we should want less, know enough, eating just enough to survive, work, physical activity, sleep for moderation, so a healthy body, clear mind, its so easy to let go of all attachments in life that religion achievements.

   In short, when the ancient Buddha has experienced the two extremes of enjoyment and mortification, and finally, under the courageous determination of himself, he took out two extreme lifestyle that success path middle.  

   Eightfold Path is the path of spiritual eight genuine mystery. Eight principles have mystery causal link closely together as follows:

1. Right: the correct understanding, or see as they really know.

2. Right Thought: Thinking, consider, contemplate right.

3. Right Speech: Say true, correct reasoning.

4. Right Action: Action genuine.

5. Right Livelihood: Working righteous living.

6. Right effort: Need introspection and genuine effort.

7. Mindfulness: The sense of genuine thanks reflection, illuminates.

8. Right Concentration: steadfast focus the mind on the right path, not to anything budge, daunting, distracted.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.5/12/2016.