SCREENING  CENTER.

The root of  suffering  is what  we  called avijja-not  knowledge , or ignorance of  the truth  of  all things . Fundamental ignorance  is no true understanding. We suffer  because of the  concept and  is accepted , because the habits and  circumstances  that  we do not understand. We  live with the  daily life  of his own in the  state of  ignorance , not  knowledge  of such capital measures.

If you listen to yourself more,  sometimes  you can hear lines like "I should do this, but I should not do it. I'm doing this, but I should not be that way, "or  the world should change the  better ,  the parents  I have to like this or like that should not be like that and that and the other. So  we  have the verb tenses  especially  rang in  thought  us , because  we  have the  concept  of what should not be, or should be. With  meditation , listening to  ideas  within yourself for what should and what should not be-just listen to it.

The tendency of  us  is  trying to  become  something, and  we  set  goals , make  the ideal  for what  we want to  become . Maybe  we  think  society  should be  better  now; People  should be  honest ,  generous , not  selfish ,  sympathy  and  love , the  fraternity  should be, the government should  lead  the wise and  the world  should be peaceful. However ,  the universe  was still in moments like that with  time  and  space  still does. Because do not understand this so  we  fight . Listening to the  heart  of you with non-stop crying, "I am this, I am not like that," and pierced through this sentence, "I mean, I do not mean," with attention.

We  monitor  the  responses  and  accept  that all  conceptions "I mean, I do not is" the  truth . We  create ourselves as a  nature  person  associated with  our own memories. We  remember what  we  learned and what  we  have done, the usual things that are important,  we  forget trivial things. So if  we  do not work well,  cruel  and  stupid  , then  we  have memories  unhappy  looks  in life  to live,  we may  feel  ashamed  or  guilty . If  we  do good  or press  ethics, then  we  have good memories  of the life  lived  us . When  we  started this, the screening  we will be more  careful  about what  we  do and  we have  to say. If  we  lived  life  in a crazy, action with  promoting  the desires  correspond  directly or with  intent  to cause  damage , cause  disharmony  for others, mind  we  will be filled the memories  are not well  -being. Those who are led by living  selfishly  or drug addiction or the drugs used to  maintain  the hectic  routine  of them so they would not see the resurgence of memories  thoughts .

In  the process of enlightenment  of  meditation ,  we  bring attention to the  state of mind here and now knows where the  existence  of  consciousness  "I mean, I is not."  Enjoy  the  feeling  of the  pain any or joy-and any memories, thoughts, attitudes-such as  impermanence , anicca. Characteristic of  impermanence  , then  include  all the circumstances. How many people actually give  time  to  reflect this in the way can be like sitting, standing or lying? Contemplate  what you see with your eyes, hear with their ears, taste with his tongue, smell with your nose,  feelings  and  experiences  to the body and  mind  with  the idea .

Thinking  "I am" is a clause  impermanence . Thinking  "I'm not as" a proposition  impermanence . The  thinking , memory, attention on the mind and body, our emotion-all clauses are changed. In the  practice of meditation ,  we  must  completely  decent , brave and  courageous  for  the consistent  projection really,  brave  look into all  state  dissatisfactions  in life  live longer than seek escape in tranquility to forget everything. In Vipassana ( Insight ), the  practice is a  unique look at the  suffering , it is a major confrontation with  us , what  we  think of ourselves with memories and  emotions ,  joys and sorrows  or  indifferent . Alternatively, when this expression and  we  recognize  suffering  rather than  refuse  to receive, control  or ignore it,  we  should take the opportunity to  study it.

Suffering  is the master of  us ,  we  must learn by  studying  the  suffering . It always makes me  amazed  how when some people say that they never  suffer . They think, "I'm not  suffering , I do not know why  Buddhism  has always talked about  suffering  at all times. I'm  feeling  great , full of beauty and excitement, I'm  forever  happy . I  find  bizarre, experience,  enjoy , the  charms  and  pleasures of endless  life . "Those who  accept  the  one-sided of  life  and other kinds of things, because  we  do not can avoid the  sensual  intoxicate  us  and lose us-and  we  get to do nostalgia. The  lust  of  us  are in a  state of endless  sensual put  us  in all this  trouble , difficulties and  circumstances . The  suffering  is not only present in the offices of  importance as  cancer in  the period of  late or take a couple of people you  love . Suffering  can  occur  around  what is  normally nothing  serious  as four positions go, standing, lying, sitting.

We  monitor  breathing  normally , and  identify  the  normal this. To know the  existence ,  we  track  those  feelings , memories and  thoughts  to normal  rather than  clinging  to  thoughts  and  notions  illusion  almost know the extent of  the last  of  life . Thus  we  do not get in trouble with the  speculation  for  the purpose of  ultimately  about life,  God ,  the devil ,  heaven  and  hell , what happens when  we  die or  reincarnation . In  Zen  Buddhism , you  only have  police here and now, life and death  continue  in the here and now, is the beginning and  end of all things is  normal . The  thinking  begins when you  think  about the new birth, you think, "I was born," but it's the birth  great  body of which  we can not remember. The daily delivery of the "I" is  experienced . In everyday life is "I want, I want, I like, I do not like." This is the birth of the mind or the quest for  happiness. We  think  about the hell of  anger  hold their own ordinary, when  anger emerges,  antipathy ,  hatred  that  we  feel  in the heart of heated  body .When  we  think  about moments of  paradise  that  we  experienced,  state  of happiness, joy  joy , lightness, beauty right here and now. Or even where the  state of delusion  of  consciousness , this kind of prison can have  happy  or not with the silly staid and emotionless. In  meditation  Buddhism  we  only care  close  them inside  us . We're  thinking  about the  desire  of himself by the  control  with  the power and  authority ,  express  power over other people, become  famous , or  to become  a brilliant person. How many people, when you find  out  there is  talent than you, then you want to put them down? This is jealousy. What  we  do in the  practice  of meditation  of  us  is  to recognize  the usual envy, or the  hatred  that  we were able to  feel  for someone, who has lost the chance of  us . Heart of  us as an opinion, it  reflects  the universe  and you see the  reflection  there. Before  we  accept the  shadow  this is true then  we  become  enchanted , or depraved  indifference  to them. But in Vipassana  we  shop just  watching all the  reflection of this is the change in  status . We  started looking at us like objects that are not subject. But when the confusion  we pursued  and identified with them.

In  practice ,  we  look at  the world  as  being  reflected in the mind. It is not the  theme  of experience  for anyone; a  yogi  sitting here and  experience  all kinds of park lighting  diamond , color,  pictures  glamorous , Buddha, God-even  smell superb , heard  echoes  sacred-then  thinking , " the  meditation  amazing how! Looks  brilliant  dazzling how! The mystery as an  angel touched me and I feel the  state  is ecstatic. I've waited  a lifetime  for the  experience  of this. "Meanwhile people  next  is  thinking ," why is this always happen to me? I sat for hours in back pain, depressed and want it gone,  surprised  why the ground that I  present to all this depression. "People might say:" I can not stand with the people have  thought  foolish and arbitrary. They  hate  me, they just  manifest  heart  hatred and  aversion  terrible for me. I hate  pictures  Buddha sitting by the window. I want to smash it. I hate  Buddhism  and  meditation . "

So in three people over who is a  practitioner  of meditation  well? We  see the first showing of the roller dance  heavenly  realm  paradise , others are  worried ,  impassive ,  dumb  and others filled  hatred and  aversion  ? The dance of the Devas and hovering  angels  in the kingdom of  Heaven  is anicca-not  eternal. Sadness  is anicca-impermanence bored. So  practitioners  well as the  practice of  the method  correctly, see things  very often  in any situation.

When you talk to people who saw  Heaven  and the  experience  of light  brilliant that, you start  doubting  about the  practice  and  thinking of yourself, "can I not capable of  wisdom , can I not meditate  properly. "be  suspicious  itself is  impermanent  anything that  appears  and disappears. A  practitioner  right, who  realized  things  impermanent  for the  state  happy  and ecstatic or  experience staid, anger,  hatred  and  aversion , and the  reflection on things  impermanent for the  state  when walking, standing, lying, sitting there.

What are your tendencies? You are  positive  for all that? "I like the  people  here. I  believe  the teachings of  Buddha . I  trust  the French. "- It is a conviction of the heart. This shows that this consciousness can create and experience the  peace very quickly. Some  farmers  in Thailand, they are limited to any  knowledge of the world , they can be very  hard  to learn letters,  sometimes  they have  experience  in  state  of happiness , light,  heaven , and they  believed all that. When you  trust  devas, you see them. When you  trust  in the kingdom of light  Heaven  you will see them. you  believe  that  Buddha  will  protected  you,  the Buddha  will come  protected  you. What do you  believe  will be  present  with you. If you believe in  hell , heaven , demon, you can see what is there for your expression. But  they  still are anicca,  impermanence , quick and without ego.

Most of  us  do not  believe  in those  realms  as  gods and  heaven , and for that  belief  is naive. This type of  thinking  negative , of people  ambiguities ,  doubts and do not  trust  anything. "I do not believe  heaven  and  angels , I do not believe any of that, just help me a realm of  heaven . It's absurd! "So many  notions  skepticism  and  ambiguity  that never see.

There is  trust ; there are  skeptics , the  practice  of  Buddhism  as  we examine  beliefs  and  doubts  that  our  inner experiences  of thought  and  we  know that these are two kinds of  status  change.

I have  observed  in themselves of  skepticism  as a sign. I asked myself a question like, "Who are we?" And then I listen to the  answers such as, "Bhikkhu Sumedho." Then I  thought , "it is not the  answer , you really who is it? "I  recognize  the struggle, the  reaction of the  habit  to find the  answer  to the question. But I did  not accept to receive any concepts for the  reply . "Who was sitting here? What's this? What is this place? Who's  thinking  things? The  thinking  is that? When a determined mood or  suspect  wanted  expression , I just look at the unidentified and  suspected  as a sign, and  thought  stop there and goes blank, and the  manifestation  disappeared.

I found this very  effective  when empty  thoughts  by asking yourself the questions can not  answer  makes  skepticism  evident . Suspect  is a mood  of impermanence . Forms that we  perceive  is  impermanent , and not  realize  that is also  impermanent . Sometimes I go out to look  natural  and  observe  myself standing here, looking at the ground. I asked myself, "I was separated from the ground, right? When I leave this place I will not find it? They  are still here when I no longer see them? Who is  aware  of this?

I also do some experiments with  sound , because the object of the eye have a  particular  someone like this room, it seems  relatively  long , as you can see,  at least  it  exists  today. But  the sound  is  completely  anicca-try to grasp  the sound  off!

I  contemplate  the sound  in question: "The eye can not hear it? If I cut off your ears and your eardrums will also  sound  to? I can see and hear a  precision  like now? "All the  senses  and its objects are  impermanent , the  situation  changed. Now let's  think , "Where is your mother? Where is my mother? If I thought she was in her bedroom in California, it is a concept of  ideology . Even with what I  thought , "California is" over there ", that has been the  thinking  of the mind of" over there ". "Mother" is a concept right? So where my mother now? She is in  ideology : the word "mother"  is up , you think of it as a  sound  , and it creates an  image  in my head or be a memory or a  feeling of  like or dislike, or is priceless oranges. All of these concepts in mind that  we  see as  really being  observed. Identification of  these concepts  impact  on the mind. Note the  fancy  you any, of  thinking about certain concepts with not  fancy  , but other things were brought. You have the  prejudices  and biases of  competing  internationally, with all of the concepts and the  growth  concept. Men are the  views  and  prejudices  that of  women , and women have the  same opinion  and  prejudice  that about men. These are just the  characteristics  inherent heterogeneity.

But in  meditation , "woman" is a concept, and "man" is a concept, a  feeling , a  perception  of  ideas . So the  practice  of  Vipassana ,  we  delve into things with all states  or international crude. The  projector is  going smashed the  illusion with the concept makes  us  have  the illusion  that  they  are true. These concepts have  shown  organic; we  can not  terminate things  affect  the life  we live-like  weather , the economy, about  troubles  of  the family ,  knowledge , or do not have the opportunity to have a chance. But  we  observe  all  circumstances is  impermanence  and  non-self , this is  the way  super Vietnam ,  overcome  all  obstacles victims  with the  enlightenment of the  obstacles  that.

Buddha  is a master  teacher , he is inside  us  to remind  us to  observe  things  impermanent  in all  circumstances , and not to anything about them as real. When  we  act, what happened? We  have wars, the the  conflict , the battle and the  end  of trouble  occurred on  the world , because of the  existence  of  ignorance  makes the  situation  as real. They attached to  the body as a  characteristic  homogeneity. We  were  absorbed into the  symbols  and concepts, and with the  absorption  that  we have to birth and death in these  circumstances there. The  absorption  like  fasten  what is moving, such as the  greedy  and also leads to the  distortion  of it. So  we  live and die  about  it. But when  we  do not  tie  yourself into things  anymore  that  we  are far from  suffering  from the change and the  limitations  of the  status  change.

Like  the current , one might ask the question: "Do you live in  society  like this, if everything is vain?"  The Buddha  did the analysis between  true  convention  and  the truth  eventually  very  clear . In  position  convention  for the  existence ,  we use the  convention to bring harmony for  us  and for  the society  that  we  live in. Type  conventions  bring harmony yet? Do something good, something useful, do not do things that cause  disharmony  such as  theft ,  fraud  and the  exploitation of  others. There is  respect  and  compassion  for the  survival  of all species, attention,  seek  help: all these  conventions  bring peace to this life.

In the  teachings  of Buddhism , according to  the level  of the  convention ,  we live with encouraging  job  well and  curb  the harmful actions of body and speech. This is not like the kind of  world law  , "I do not want to do anything because it is an illusion" - which is also  an illusion otherwise. The notion  that the  conventional  world  is an  illusion  is  stuck  on a  concept  other.

 With  practice ,  we  see that  the concept  was  conceived . "The world is an illusion" is a  concept , "so  the world does not  have an illusion" is a  concept other. But right here and now  we  know that what all  of us  are  enlightened Chief now, son alive is rather  full ,  practice  diligently  and focusing on what you do or where you go, standing, lying , sitting or working. Whether you are male or female, is  secretary , housewife, janitors, people  practicing  any chief or someone,  show  efforts  with the  focus , should do good and  to restrain  the bad. This is the way that a  Buddhist  living between the morphology  conventional society . And you no longer be  deceived  by self and  society , and the things  going on  in my life  to live. Because a  Buddhist  is a survey and  study  the universe  in  a consistent  projection of his own body and mind.END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/2/2017.