Two extremes that the monks need to stay away from home.

Monks, who follow the path of enlightenment, liberation, need to have the right mind, away from these two extremes, know how to return to the middle path, to harmonize the body and mind to achieve Supreme Master Ching Hai Equiangular.

Body and mind are two important factors that are closely related to one another in a human body. If we are always aware of the day, the three senses are not enough to dress, sleep; Or rather, we must want less, know enough, eat just enough to care for the body, work, exercise properly, sleep to moderation, healthy body, Therefore, it is easy to let go of all attachments in life that achieve the Dharma. 

When the Buddha was in the world, he often taught his disciples as follows: Monks, there are two extremes that the left home should stay away: + One is immersed in desires, craving for low, It is a personality of a suitor, not leading to the virtue of the saint, not related to the purpose of practice, enlightenment, liberation. + Two are themselves squeezed body, extreme austerity, The body is painful, tired, the mind is not pure, wise, not worthy of the sage, not related to the purpose of practice, enlightenment, liberation. Monks, who follow the path of enlightenment, liberation, need to have the right mind, away from these two extremes, know how to return to the middle path, to harmonize the body and mind to achieve Supreme Master Ching Hai Equiangular. O bhikkhus, let us follow the path of the Middle Way as Tathāgata practice, enlightenment, able to endure hardship in all circumstances, have the wisdom to comprehend all things leading to peace, well Bliss, nirvana and liberation. Monks, the Middle Way, are the eight mysterious and righteous methods: Righteous Thoughts, Right Thoughts, True Sayings, True Behavior, True Career, True Effort , True concept and true meditation. This is the middle way, as the Tathagata knows as true knowledge by letting go, should generate wisdom, bring peace, happiness, enter Nirvana, liberation. This talk as Tathagata said when he came to Nai Garden to five brothers Kieu Tran Nhu. The Buddha affirmed that the middle way is the path that transcends the two extremes, sensual enjoyment and ascetic repression. Thus, enjoyment, absorbed in sensual pleasures that most people consider to be the highest happiness in the world, worldly ambitions, or extreme suffering, are not The right path, not related to the purpose of liberation. Enjoyment of sense pleasure is the way of life of the Buddha when he was a Crown Prince, He did not lack anything. Why did the Buddha give up everything, Then finally he was all. During the 49 years of Buddhism, only three Buddhas have a bowl, living here tomorrow, depending on the medicine, help people. With a strict ascetic asceticism, the Buddha had been ascetic as such for six long years; Finally, the body exhausted, resulting in fainting, thanks to her village cowherd to help the bowl of milk, so He reconsidered and recapture the practice of the past years; Finally, the Buddha found the middle way. This is also a guide for all Buddhists, especially the monk. Both extremes are inferior, subdued, indulged in sex, and suffering on their own, are not conducive to happiness, happiness and liberation. The path of worldly pleasures as we know it, in that joy is always accompanied by germs of suffering, but is impermanent, Fragile. Why? Because of love, far from suffering, hated met together suffering, the desire not to suffer and finally death suffering. The ascetic path causes the corporeal body to weaken, to weaken, to make the practitioner insufficiently clear, to cleanse the mind of the goal of enlightenment, liberation. It was the Buddha who lived through these two lifetimes, who really experienced the practice, not the theory of reasoning. Thanks to that, after enlightenment, the Buddha came to the Deer Park to show only his five fellow initiates in the past. From the distance, these five people saw the Buddha walking towards them, saying to each other,  "Gautama Gautama has followed the path of enjoyment, we should not go . " Although agreed as such, but when the Buddha arrived, people took water to wash feet, the person invited to sit and all bowed salute; And the Buddha said: "The middle way is far from two extremes, enjoying and squeezing the body . " Thanks to that, the five fellow initiates once attained enlightenment, liberation. Thus, to some extent, the Middle Way is the path to a balanced rebalancing, which makes the body and mind secure, harmonious, and knows how to aim at the goal. Want to be like this, we must have a clear vision, ie less want, know enough, eat enough to feed the body, so the body healthy, mind clear, so easy to practice to transform suffering, Pain into peace, happiness. In today's context, civilized people, advanced progress, rich socio-economic development material, so that the big Buddhist temple is built in modern architecture. The life of the monk is improved with more material facilities, high room glass doors, The surface and many other luxuries. Can we see it as a middle way of life? Therefore, we need to find out the Buddha's teachings clearly, maturely, to know how to apply to fit the middle way. Most importantly, the Buddha taught, his middle way is to know the righteous, righteous thoughts, true words, true behavior, true occupation, genuine effort, notion of the feet. Main and true meditation. Thus, we avoid the two extremes is to remove the obstruction is too elegant, luxury, because too many material facilities are difficult to cultivate. In general, we must know according to time, grace should not be so obstinate, to fall into the state of attachment, attachment, by wanting less, know enough. The essence of this path is attaining right understanding, understanding the principle of dependent origination, Impermanent, non-self, all body, mind and sight are all due to unreality. Therefore, we do not cling to, so not possess, but overcome all the attachment of the greedy-tham, so not attached to us and ourselves, to realize Nibbana, liberation. At the first extreme, while still in the palace of emerald, beautiful wife and good children, Prince Siddhartha enjoyed all the pleasures of this world, with the highest prestige, the highest authority in the galaxy. . With our normal eyes, everyone dreams and desires to be financially, beautifully, fame, eat well, sleep well, dress up, stay and work full of comfort and material. But to the Buddha in the past, he saw those things as traps of life, burying people in bondage, attachment, attachment, wife, children than shackles, Day out, Also enjoying sensory pleasure, loving wife and children, considered as captive forever from life to life there is no end. - At the first extreme, the life of the prosperity and the temptation of the five desires, such as money, beauty, fame, good eating, sleep, often cling to us, accept our self and ourselves. , Desire to possess possession of themselves. So, the more people become weak, weaker, less humble, and eventually will not have the time, the opportunity to practice that can enter the spiritual mind. - At the second extreme, he practiced ascetic penance with the five brothers Tran Tran as a six-year school, to the point where the body is only skin bones, dark spirit, mind is not clear. Introspection, lucid, should not find a way out. Body and mind are two important factors are always closely linked, Intimately together in a human body. If we are awake daily, the three senses are not enough to dress, sleep; Or rather, we have to want less, know enough, eat just enough to care for the body, work, exercise properly, sleep for moderation, healthy body, Therefore, it is easy to let go of all attachments in life that achieve the Dharma. In short, the Buddha in the past experienced two extremes, enjoyment and mortification, and finally, under his own determination, he went beyond the two extremes of attainment that led to the path Middle way.  The eightfold path is the eight true spiritual paths. The eight principles of the mystery are closely related to causality as follows: 1. Right view:  is the correct understanding, or know as true. Right  Thought : Thinking, considering, contemplating right. Right Speech:  Speak truthfulness, right reason. Righteousness:  Righteous action. 5. Right Livelihood:  Doing the right living. 6. Right Effort:  Cunning and genuine effort. Mindfulness:  True awareness through reflection, illuminated. Right Concentration:  Constantly focus the mind on the right way, not to shake anything, distraction, distraction. Speak truthful words, right arguments. Righteousness: Righteous action. 5. Right Livelihood: Doing the right living. 6. Right Effort: Cunning and genuine effort. Mindfulness: True awareness through reflection, illuminated. Right Concentration: Constantly focus the mind on the right way, not to shake anything, distraction, distraction.  Speak truthful words, right arguments. Righteousness: Righteous action. 5. Right Livelihood: Doing the right living. 6. Right Effort: Cunning and genuine effort. Mindfulness: True awareness through reflection, illuminated. Right Concentration: Constantly focus the mind on the right way, not to shake anything, distraction, distraction.  Hard work and genuine effort. Mindfulness: True awareness through reflection, illuminated. Right Concentration: Constantly focus the mind on the right way, not to shake anything, distraction, distraction.  Hard work and genuine effort. Mindfulness: True awareness through reflection, illuminated. Right Concentration: Constantly focus the mind on the right way, not to shake anything, distraction, distraction. END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.24/5/2017.