20 difficult things (P.2)

The lust for lust is very intense, because it is the second strongest instinct of man. The first is to live fear of death. The second instinct is enjoyment that always urges people to seek pleasure; The highest pleasure is male sex. The Buddha said: "If there is a second attractive as lust, then we can hardly be enlightened, liberated."

4. Understanding and through the Buddhist scriptures is difficult

The Buddhist scriptures here are only for the Tripitaka, which belong to the Buddha's teachings, including the Sutra, the Law, the Prophet and even the teachings of the magi and the lay people. Understanding the Buddhist scriptures is a very difficult thing, because the Buddha according to the basis of everyone that only taught so many different types of business are not similar.

Those who want to enlighten, liberate the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths, twelve conditions. Wanting to become a Bodhisattva, the practice of the sixth degree of happiness, moral, patience, meditation, patience and wisdom. Wanting to make a living back to life with moral virtues, the Buddha advised refuge Three Jewels and preserve the five virtues is not killing, not stealing, not sexual mischief, do not lie to people and do not drink alcohol Drinking or using harmful substances such as drugs, drug addiction. Whoever wants to be born in the heavenly enjoyment of anything, the Buddha taught ten good good and meditation.

The teachings of the Buddha teach only three purposes: one is for the renouncing of life and death. Two is the Bodhisattva practice until the new Buddha. Three is still in the birth of samsara life blessings heaven.

In short, understanding the Buddhist scriptures must be a difficult thing, we just need to master the three weak points, when reading Buddhist scriptures easily recognize its deep sense. And we will not be shocked when there are so many types of business, all just because of dependency for drugs of everyone. Sentient beings have many diseases, the Buddha has many drugs to treat, who match with any medicine quickly healed. So it is difficult to understand Buddhist scriptures.

Being born with the Buddha and meeting Buddha is difficult

  

Being born in the Buddha's time is very difficult and meeting the Buddha to learn his teachings is even harder. Buddha was born over 2600 years. The Buddha is enlightened person, completely awakened not to be afflicted by greed-at-the-si. He teaches people not tired, boring. He is a human in the flesh like all of us. He is a great man on the great man. He is not a divine god blessing, blaming.

He is the only teacher who leads the path of the people who go to help us know the truth of life, he is good to be blessed, he did evil to suffer. So, born in the same time with the Buddha and met the Buddha is a great blessing that few people have good conditions. Therefore, we continue to bear the cycle of birth and death.

The birth and the appearance of the Buddha was rare, but the grace to meet the Buddha is even more rare, because if not enough grace as the old lady kept the warehouse for the Chief Hereditary, though birth to the same time Buddha without the Buddha. Meanwhile, both the family and the clan of the eldest one can see the Buddha and so all of them live virtue from all virtue because of deep knowledge of the cause and believe in yourself.

6. Rings to be sexual is difficult

Rings are not limited to endurance, denunciation or criticism or slander. Forbearance here is more meaningful than not passionate, not attached to the contamination of money, beauty, reputation, eat well, sleep more.

The life of the patient is not tolerated, not angry, the opposite of impatient tolerance of tolerance without resentment or expressing sadness. Forbearance is so considered to have high level of rings already, but not a noble ring. Called the ring is patience for sexual desire. The eye sees the color that is not attracted to vibrate and enslaves the rúpa.

The lust for lust is very intense, because it is the second strongest instinct of man. The first is to live fear of death. The second instinct is that enjoyment always urges people to seek pleasure; The highest pleasure is male sex. The Buddha said: " If there is a second attractive as lust, then we can hardly be enlightened, liberated ."

As a girl doing at a large hotel, when seeing a guy dressed in cool, elegant noble style makes her heart vibrate when first met. In her heart is always sobbing at the call of the heart, she does not know how to get used to that guy. Finally, she also found the book accidentally fell into the heart of the guy, and then that night she did not control herself so she gave her life to the guy. The habit of enjoying sexuality makes people always hungry, always nostalgic and feel uncomfortable when remembering it.

And the important thing in our lives is that sex becomes a high demand in many people, so difficult to overcome. The bond of sexual desire is as varied as that of an octopus. In the text refers to the bond between man and woman is the bondage through beauty, through laughter, through words, through singing, through tears, through clothes, through gifts, through contact touch.

The Buddha was very compassionate so he did not hesitate to speak out our delusions. We are always affectionately tied up forever without a day off! So we see the beauty, we want to look and take, followed by the words, laughter, voice, tears, clothes, gifts and touches softly, let us continue to be absorbed in the temple. that kind of love.

" Even in death, a woman is still attractive to men ." So that is called ring to be sexual is difficult. Forbidden to be lustful, the divine path opens, so we must close the door of love to rise up through the trap of life.

As we all know, the harm of sexuality can ruin the moral character of a human when we are passionately attached to it. Here, the ring is lusted to control, the end of the green base, not to be infected as eyes see the beauty to enjoy watching and appropriation, the voice of the girl's heart hungry and hungry. nostalgia, nose smell the fragrance of the fragrance, the tongue tasted the sweetness of the love, the body touch smoothly soft and the meaning of life received nostalgia.

A gurus who have enlightenment should say: " See the sound as a flower grown on stone ." Seeing the beauty of the woman's voice in the heart felt like planting flower on the stone, so where is attached to lust. Flowers can not be planted on the stone, if not grown, then the same lust, there is nothing to worry about.

Therefore, the ring of lust is a rare thing that few people in the world can accomplish. Except for the monks and novices to escape this reincarnation or the great Bodhisattvas or the new Buddhas overcome. However, the Bodhisattva Buddha can do it, we will also do, we have the courage, the courage to let go of bad habits and not only and try to do good things good.

Seeing good is not demanding is difficult

Beauty is one of the elements of aesthetics. Beautiful in the conventional sense is the label, which makes a good impression for viewers, readers. According to the Buddhist philosophical point of view, beautiful are the values ​​of convention, depending on the view of man, of customs. There are things here that are considered beautiful but in another place they are considered bad.

Seeing good is to see beautiful people, good things, good work, generally all that satisfies the desire, suitable for the needs of his. Whoever sees beautiful also wishes that beauty will be his, and everyone wants to possess it. Because everyone is hammered good things, good things are objects to argue, win fighting each other kill. Because of the desire for good things, when we encounter something bad we are born dissatisfied, frustrated, and struggling to eliminate it, so life becomes confused and afflicted unhappiness.   

But in general, beauty, it has a certain value according to people's view, is also a rose that some people think is beautiful but others think bad. And based on its value, beauty is still attractive, appealing to human beings wanting to possess it. Look at a beautiful flower, although the flowers accidentally, but it still impresses passionate in the viewer. The self of beauty does not exist at all, is determined by human assertion. But if we look at it with a passionate glance of greed, that beauty becomes the bond of our liberation.

People see beautiful without the desire to see the danger of beauty, and that beauty is also temporary impermanent, so they do not expect the good that only grace. Thanks to the wisdom of contemplation, we are deeply aware of things, and it does not last forever, so we can master the psychology of our expectations. But few have the wisdom to overcome the usual temptations. So called to see beautiful, see good not ham as the hard.

We see the multitude of things with an insight, knowing that it is not reality, its presence is only the clutch of conditioned, because of its nature is impermanent, not self. Its beauty is only temporary, not long it does not have a fixed value.

Recalling the 1980s, we were working on the exploitation of the molluscs in Binh Phuoc province. I had a friend named Trang who used to go to the Tu family to talk about singing and drinking. But grief at that time my friend wears a beautiful watch citearen eyes worth about 5 gold. The greed for wanting to grab the copper that Tu and his family beat my friend and wife, married with his daughter and stripped the watch.

You see not because of beautiful ham and have, to show with the galaxy that people have such heartless heart. Especially the girls now like to wear jewelry to make themselves beautiful and charming with the galaxy. The wards take advantage of that place, which, as a matter of robbery, causes suffering for many of the losers of those who are guilty of sin and prison.

On May 1, people stood waiting for the car to go to Chanh Phu Hoa Social Protection Center in Binh Duong province. A girl is waiting for the car at the fork of green goods, there is a honda carrying two people embarrassingly jerking the necklace girl wearing. Because of the girl's regret, she had to pull the pendant, dragging her along the sidewalk, unexpectedly meeting a knight running across for a rolling bicycle, he controlled two robbers and handed over to them. Neighborhood police.

In order to transform the mind into a beautiful one without any desire, we have to look at all phenomena of things and people in accordance with its nature. From then on, the dear ones are beautiful but still maintain a calm attitude. Take it in, take it, do not make it into my possession. We know that it is present without being, beautiful as not beautiful, so we do not attachment, so do not cause suffering for yourself and people.

8. Being humiliated is not easy

Humiliation is the abusive behavior of others that makes us feel uncomfortable. It is derived from jealousy or jealousy by anger because it does not control itself. Humiliation, if expressed in words, is a distortion of words, by cursing, swearing at the hatred of the extreme to make people insulted suffering, gulping as cut off each intestine . If shown by the action of the body, can use limbs to punch the stone to injure the object. If manifested by consciousness, the insidiousness harms the person blatantly and openly despite all its consequences. All three give others anxiety, fear and suffering by anger, anger and hatred.

In the face of humiliating humiliation, people often resent animosity, sometimes reacting by responding fiercely to non-cultural language, or worse than beating or killing. harm.

Only those who have actually practiced the transformation understand the harmful effects of it, so do not fight back but use the metaphor to calm down the conflict. If hatred to kill hatred, the more hateful the more pile up. Only love can be transformed into hatred. Being slanderously humiliated for some bad deed, we feel afflicted because of our character, we are angry and we feel very hurt.

In the past there was a monk who raised the virtue of raising nearly 500 of them, until old age weak and sick, but have not chosen the heir. In search of the law of gas in the meditation, the new monk set up the tigers of the lion who spread the information stolen money of the Three Jewels, making in them everyone is suspicious of each other. One day they were sleeping at noon, the high monk shouted: "Steal, steal."

People panicked run after a shout, a large disciple ran in, the monk immediately climbed the collar that said, caught the thief. "Teacher, no, I'm not a thief," said the disciple. "I heard the thieves scurry and ran away so that the teacher could steal." The evidence of palpation could not be denied. , fraternal disciples in them, everyone clearly see his teacher hands brocade collar brother that la stolen, stealing.

So the large disciple was expelled immediately away from the temple immediately, not to be unjustified interpretation of any. When he finished, he also wrote the paper to other pagodas not contain teachers, because of the crime of stealing items of the Three Jewels. This disciple was raised by the Sangha in the pagoda, who taught the Sangha. Suddenly this meal was named the thief, personally written by the teacher to clear and declare in front of the mass. Only in a moment, how many bad voices had fallen on the monk and despised by everyone for stealing.

Who in that situation is very poor for the brother, the road is also a monk who is solemnly admired, having dignitaries in the pagoda who now swallowed painful bitterness, before a I can not believe it.

Being so ridiculous teacher in front of the masses, how much prestige from the old to now suddenly shattered by the smoke. But this big disciple does not have a bit of anger to express his face or express his hatred for the teacher. We still have a respect and respect, please be merciful to sleep outside the gate is also possible, so that every day to learn and help them to work, but he also refused to say If you are there, pay it.

Although the teacher humiliated torture to make difficult things enough but he still respects the teacher diligently diligent practice. Such a time lasted nearly three months, the disciple was still a devotee, not a whine or blame for something.

In the end, the monk also found the legacy, and he announced in public: "I have now found a successor, hope the mass later when I die, listen to the words. Just teach your brothers. " Finished master said goodbye to the mass, and then go away.

In the history of humanity, there are so many great men and women who are often slandered, but they still calmly prove their pure life, the material of compassion and innocence. Selflessness. That disciple, if not harsh, does not know how his disciple has overcome the real winds and let all the people have enough faith to take refuge in the practice. If you meet the teacher is too weak, when slandering such price, probably will resent his master throughout his life.

Thanks to that, the teacher knows that his disciples passed the eight winds, lost, praise, the name of the scent of bad and grief. Adversity or predicament for the human mind is just a challenge, so they are calm and calm when they are wrongly dishonored in front of people. Assuming we were in this situation, maybe I would get angry and resent my teacher, and leave without saying a word. 

The Buddha said, " Being humiliated is not difficult ." Those who suffer such adverse circumstances without anger or hatred are considered to have attained the dharma.    

9. It is hard to trust

The difficulty here is a dilemma, worth the weight of ink, the leaders, need to think more contemplation. Often, those who have high authority or power, empower the underling to pay tribute or press in many forms.

In social life, critical literary lines in our country have written down the history of the attitude and the oppression and injustice of the powerful politicians who bully people from ancient times. It is a consequence of feudalism with very arbitrary views, I am the center of the universe, I have the right to live in my hands with the power of the superior. But the most dangerous aspect of supremacy lies in the dictatorship.

They are fanatical, domineering people who can not hear voices from the hearts of the oppressed, unjustly and innocently. They live on the pain of many others. From there, they more and more resent the enmity of the innocent. The laws of the king, the irrational irrational, unfair, but once made the people in the country, or children in the family, ie the low-necked baby mouth must bite the teeth bear the harsh policies , forcing people to endure without dare to cough anything.

So, there is power that does not depend on the power, not the prestige, that we have created ourselves a life style of life, the karma, not sowing any karma to anyone. And such people are useful people for social groups, who know the direction of good, always benefit many people. Yes, it is indeed precious.

10. The mind is not moving

The mind moving is the first step to come to the heartless, meaning no longer attached, immersed in money, beauty, fame, eat well, sleep or shape, things to headphones, nose smells, tasting tongue, touch body, the charm. People find money is not engaged, stick is difficult indeed is because money is the means to feed themselves and their families. For all forms, just see the thought of passion, then the preferred idea of ​​visual identity, so that the greed in the feeling of feeling bad and attached to it. If the mind grows stronger, then the mind of the Bodhi is blurred, so that triggers the affliction of mind is not calm.

Not only with regard to nature, the love of color has such harmful effects, but the pursuit of it or the soft attachment to it, chasing aromatic taste engraved on it, following the sweet taste pleasurable, body The touch is gentle and the impact on it, there are similar effects.            

The person who sees the color is not sharp, but the eyes see that the mind is still in mind, so do not run in the sense of pleasant feeling or unpleasant feeling. Did not follow the feeling of the mind is not attached to the color. To see how good it is received. In the beginning, mindfulness, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind do not arise. One day, Venerable Phu Lau Na came to pay homage to the Buddha, saying: "Lord, I want to go to a quiet place to cult. Please teach the method to teach simple methods to remember, so that children go to cultivate quickly to achieve.

The Buddha said: " Eyes are not infected before, not attached to the achievement of the Dharma, ears to hear, nose to smell, tongue tasted, body contact does not infected before, not attached to the achievement of the Dharma. On the contrary, if infected before, if attached to forget the object. 

The Buddhist teachings are very simple. Why does the eyes see the prevalence of attachment to the world? Does our eyes see the shape, the look is the same? If there is contemplation on the inside, then only see, things like how it is clear as if, if the distinction is beautiful, then the mind stick starts.

For example, there are four people in the shop to buy fabrics, many of the same type of cloth but different colors: white, blue, yellow, red, black, purple, blue, pink ... When choosing goods, people choose white People choose blue, others choose yellow, people choose pink according to their preferences, but choose different colors. People choose white for beautiful white, who chooses blue for beautiful blue, who chooses yellow for beautiful yellow, who chooses pink for beautiful pink. Each person has different perceptions, interests. So what color is beautiful? If anyone thinks that the color they like is the best, then there will definitely be quarrels.

So if you see the color attached to it, then the infection first, then protect your view. By defending one's self, one who speaks differently, then one's opposition. From that birth defilement anger, which causes much suffering for each other. So the mind is not moving is difficult, because we have the view of the realm.

Listen too, many people listen to a piece of music, praise people or people do not. If two people complained about the dispute, they would quarrel! To smell, usually the smell of the nose, who also note the smell, smell the nose everyone knows foul. However, there is this person who compliments, others cringe. For example, people who have never eaten durian can complain of their own durian; The familiar durian eat the aromatic aroma. Fragrant or foul according to the preferences of each person, it is not fixed.

Next is the tasting tongue, the taste is the same? Eat a dish that compliments the bad guy. For example, the chef used to eat salty food, cooked her food to fit her taste. When the rice is served to the customer far from eating salty. Speaking salty people, who say eat, so who's right?

Now touch the body. Body touch is not the same anymore. For example, in winter, people with a stout body and lean body are in the same room. People with chunky body feel cool and thin feel cold. In the room how many windows of sick people are closed to keep warm. When closed, fat people feel uncomfortable. Let us see that the touch is not the same, so depending on the location of each person that the touch feels different.

In short, it is difficult for those who do not know how to cultivate the mind, and who have little effort to master the charm, but there are times when the illusion is expected to make the Bodhi mind dim.

11. Studying, studying is hard

Broad study, research is to learn, understand, dissect the problem to the place. It belongs to the wisdom of the Buddhist monk. A student who wants to pass high is hard-working, persevering and persevering, and then use his mind to look at his learning so that he will succeed in the future. Also, the learned enlightened, liberated on the bridge to Buddha under the salvation of sentient beings, can not ignore the study wide study. It must be accompanied by a new religious message that helps us to achieve fullness.

In the construction of modernization of our country today, our society is growing and progressing fast. Along with that is the level of knowledge and extensive study is indispensable for everyone. Learning is the activity of absorbing the knowledge of mankind has been summarized through several thousand years of history. We can study at school through the transfer of teachers, learn from friends; self study in books and real life.

Study extensively to improve your level of understanding. For example, a doctor will take the knowledge gained during a six- or seven-year training at a university to apply for healing. Architects and construction engineers have learned to design and execute many projects such as factories, hospitals, schools and parks to serve human life.     

The ultimate goal of broad study is to serve all the work that is more effective. If you learn the theory no matter how high it is not put into practice, then learning it only takes time, effort, money in vain because it does not help anyone.

Because in the work people need, the top concern is the product of the results of labor, not theoretical knowledge, if not reach the target, no matter how much study to study. It will be worthless. As a student studying very well, the civics score is always high, so when an old lady begs to fall down the road, not only does not help but the opposite expresses her disdainful disgust. The above example illustrates the harmful effects of extensive study that do not help anyone. On the contrary, if we bring our understanding to help the savior, how much benefit?            

Being a student while studying at school, we need to work hard to study well is far more difficult. Learning includes culture, literacy and life experiences to improve knowledge in all aspects, and to have the opportunity to serve the family and make practical contributions to society. It is enough to see how much study and valuable research is worth! It is because of the wide study that the true Buddhist knows things or things and understand the truth of life. What is wrong, what is wrong, what is wrong, what is wrong, what is wrong, wrong and what is wrong. Where is the path leading us to go through the journey to achieve the Dharma.

A wide-ranging study of nature has become a guide to the practice of our path, it is a map, a necessity for all areas of our lives. Therefore, we need to cultivate our knowledge, improve our level by learning a lot, to bring good success in the present and tomorrow.

12. It is difficult to kill the mind of the high culprit

The nobleman is the one who values ​​his self first. It is the expression of aggressive mind, arrogance, high sewer, lack of courtesy, lack of humility and not tolerate any one. Privates are often accompanied by persistent, conservative and authoritarian psychologies.  

High tribute to contempt is the child of this self-attachment is true and mine. Its use is to always respect yourself or despise to disparage others. Although he is more than enough in all aspects. But because self-attachment heavy self, so they always find themselves better than other people, so easily defame others.

The high tribe who succeeded in doing a successful job, they face up as if they are the most talented person. They find themselves a great workmanship, then despise close to others should lead to many people do not like. It is they are suffering from severe "god" disease without knowing. And from there, people will find ways to shun and hate them. This is the result of high tribulations caused.

As we know, conceit is one of the six basic defilements, namely, greed, illusion and evil. It has deep roots from ignorance, but not everyone can easily eradicate it. To get rid of it, the only way we have to try to exert effort in the practice of letting go where each idea when emerging can be converted to them. The main thing is that we have to be aware of each moment, reflecting on its nature, to see that its self is inherently non-existent.

If we do not take vigilance, enslave it, then the consequences are very damaging. Having mindful awareness, we can clearly identify it. And so, it can not harm us. It is due to the will to strive hard, using the practice of each person whose eradication it fast or slow only.

In the Buddhist scriptures put out three types of psychological condemnation:  "Young self-insensitivity, ill concealed disease and concealed life." Young age is a subjective attitude, aggressive conservative mistakes. No-illness is not easy to give birth is to rely on the body. To live life is to live long, but do not work on the three Karma, mouth, mind. These three kinds of conceit make people infected, fall into the negative karma. Because conceit is clinging, is high sewer, is the most accepting, so the offspring will escape all constraints, implications. 

The Buddha says, " O bhikkhus, whoever removes the mind from self, cut off the root, makes no longer exist, he is the holy man who lowered the flag, put down the burden, no longer just one implication. Therefore, it is hard to do except to conceal the mind .

13. Disrespectful when people are not learning is difficult

Article 11, Buddhist teaching wide study is more difficult. Article 12, the Buddha taught, need to cut the heart of high tribulation is difficult. Combining these two things we find that if a wide-ranging study of high mindedness arises, then much of the research that has been studied will not benefit everyone. Because he is a highly arrogant scholar who only likes to criticize, criticize others who do not contribute much to his or her education.

If the study is wide, without the mind of conceit, that knowledge will be spread widely, benefiting many people, the society is really progressing. By this 13th, the Buddha taught not to despise the elementary school is a difficult thing. This teaching also implies that high talents often have the disadvantage of " lowered meanness ", which means that there is no one under the eyes of one who despises the less. Another point is that indirectly advised us to learn more, the lower humility humility for everyone, our quality and value is greater.

It is often said that knowledge without virtue of virtue is more dangerous and harmful, more than evil ones without qualifications. Studying the Buddha's teachings " do not despise the uneducated, " we find that compassion for human beings in the Buddha's life is manifested in every case. 

And this teaching is also meaningful with selfless selflessness, praising the Buddha-nature equality of the Unconditional Bodhisattva in the Lotus Sutra: Despite being cursed, beatings but he does not show anger , complaining to someone. He also said: " I do not dare to despise you, because you will all become Buddhas ." END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.19/11/2017.