Four things to cover.

The Buddhist monk, whether at home or home, regardless of any method of practice, mental peace and light is an important goal to achieve in the religious life. However, in practice, even when trying hard but his mind is not calm at the time, his mind when morning when dark.

We often blame everything on our karma. Right is all due to karma, the past from the past to the near past, karma is creating in the present, karma in the future make the mind confused. But what kind of kamma? The teachings, due to "greed, anger, delusion" benefits mask our mind.

"A Buddha in the Saree, the forest of the United States, the Garden of Herbs.

Then the Sun told the monks:

- Now the sun, the moon has four heavy cover can not light. Which four? Clouds, dust, smoke, and ash, causing the sun and the moon to be covered with no light. That is, monks, sun, moon have four things covered, so that the sun, the moon does not light up large. This is also the case, monks have four cover the heart of people are not open. how is four? Do not cover up the mind of the people are not open, courtyard, ignorance and benefit cover the mind can not open.

That is, this monks, there are four people cover the mind can not open. Please bridge this means destroy four. Thus, the monks, should learn this.

Then the monks listening to the Buddha finished, happy to do.

In the four dishes "greed, court, si, interests" cover the mind that the Buddha taught, the three poison (greed, anger, si) is the basis of affliction, is the nature of beings, born in life is already Available in the mind and heavily influenced by them. To dispel the cover of the three poison, must use the insight light of "no greed, no yard, no delusion." But this is not an easy thing to do, especially for thin people like us.

The last dish, which is beneficial, though not the basis of affliction but also very difficult to remove. Folk often say, the benefit is dark eyes, it is inherited deeply this sense of the Buddha. Because of the little profit that closed eyes, the grace of multiplication, causing the loss and suffering. In order not to be blindfolded, we often need to awaken, to use the wisdom of impermanence to contemplate the benefits of illusory, there is no, to keep the mind relaxed, gentle.

The motto of the Buddhist school is "intellectual property market", must achieve insight. We used to practice long time that insight is not revealed because the mind is dust dust "tham, yard, si, benefit" cover. Drilling refers to greed, because only a "benefit" that has caused the island crazy. Not only the people, but even the cultivator if not skillfully fell into this accident. So, let's start from the easiest, let go of the benefits to step by step open wisdom, self at leisure.

Sinking wealth, is clearly against the direction of liberation. The practitioner who is entangled in the reputation of the more and more the mind is covered and overcast as heavy, as the Buddha taught, "four men cover up the mind can not open." Since ancient times, the Buddha was earnest: "Monks, please pray for the means to destroy these four. To this day, looking at the status quo practice of four disciples, his teaching is still urgent, all around us.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/6/2018.