Tips on How to Correct the Fallen Mind.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.27/2/2019.

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You set your own rules, rules and institutions. If other people break their rules, you will arrest them and punish them, but if you violate them yourself, you will ignore them. Geshe Sharmawa said, "Unless you notice your own weakness and self is your enemy, you will not receive any help." If you look at the feeling of I am the most important, no one can come to you. Even enlightened lama cannot help people who are obsessed with themselves, because their advice will be in conflict with your self-centered mind. In order to receive the guidance of teachers on the path of cultivation, you must first realize the mistake of loving-kindness. With loving-kindness, you have all the reasons to do bad things. Therefore, you must consider the reasons for your actions.

We must admit that we all have faults of the mind that falls in love - only the Buddha is not. We should recognize this mistake in ourselves and try to eliminate it. At the very least, if we realize that we have a loving heart, it is a great progress. When you listen to criticism, you should always understand that you created it with your own heart. If you don't understand this, you will be angry. If you are stabbed and you are angry, beat it back, who will lose? If you cannot tolerate small criticisms and unpleasant feelings in the present, how can you endure the suffering of rebirths in the lower realms?

Geshe Chenngawa said that we must develop a mind that is similar to the goal. When we hear the criticism, we will feel that we have set a goal. If there is no target from the beginning, no arrows will be fired. There is a saying, "You put your neck in a noose." If you are criticized, even if you do nothing wrong, it is because in past lives, you have looked down on others. For example, once a disciple of the Buddha became an arhat, escaping from the afflictions involving three types of vows, but some said that this arahant broke the world. , and they in turn act as false witnesses to oppose this position. The Buddha was sad and said that it was impossible for an arhats to break the world. Moreover, he will not see anyone who is a Buddhist, if they slander a highly enlightened disciple who has broken the world. Instead, He will see these people as a threat to Buddhism. Others ask why this arhata was accused. The Buddha replied that in this previous life, this arhata was once a gossip and slander of others, causing the king to exile the queen. Now this is retribution.

Criticizing, talking about and blaming others is destructive behavior, because they not only help your practice, but also hurt others and cause misunderstandings. It is said that only two enlightened beings can judge each other. We will accumulate bad karma, whether it is true or false criticism, or in the case of criticizing a Bodhisattva doing something strange, but with good reason, the outcome will still be negative.

Those who have a habit of always decrying others have a deep affection. It is believed that although some monks can hear many teachings, they do not apply them to practice, because the mind falls in previous lives. Harming your enemies is also a result of your loving-kindness.

Once, during the time of Buddha, a monk was dying and a monkey was missing at that time. When the monk took the medicine out of the stain, it seemed to have turned into a monkey meat pot. People blame this monk for stealing the monkey and slaughtering it. This monk was taken to court and punished. Some time later, this monkey reappeared and the monk was proved innocent. The monk asked the Buddha why this happened. The Buddha replied that because in a previous life, this monk blamed another monk for stealing a monkey.

We are very interested in having happiness and comfort, diligently working hard to accumulate money, so we turn ourselves into targets of thieves. There is a story about a person who put all his coins in a bag and tied it to the ceiling, because this person was very worried about losing. One day, the bag of money fell on his head and wounded him. This story is meant to say that our ego-mind impedes our immediate and long-term happiness. Since there was an affectionate mind in all previous lives, we could not destroy it immediately, though we could realize this was my biggest problem.

Therefore, we should try not to react to any criticism, knowing that it includes the mistake of others and one's own heart. A full awareness of self-esteem is beneficial for developing patience. We say that "fire is hot" is natural. There is nothing strange about this. Likewise, if a vocal critic and you can understand their criticism stemming from the feelings of both parties, it is only natural. Such knowledge will not create anger or madness, because it is not necessary to prove that the other person is wrong or completely at fault. The Great Mahayana Siddhartha said, "The mind that falls into self and others, destroys virtue." Anything we do as the act of loving-kindness will open the way for us to enter. lower realms, or hell.

Loving mind is wasting all the efforts that we have previously created, and stagnating our progress. It should be considered a poison, depriving the essence of life. Always try to destroy this self-love. Although practicing any practice, one should practice it to eliminate the mind of falling. A Kadampa Geshe says that whenever he reads a text, he sees all the bad qualities described in it, and all good qualities belong to others. Therefore, he struggled with the mind of falling. A person cannot have the quality of bodhicitta without minimizing the mind of self-falling. When bodhicitta and compassionate mind, elements that oppose the mind of self-love, become stronger, compassion will excel and establish a tree of goodness in us. If you practice compassion,

Geshe Potowa said, "In one area of ​​Penpo, no one is happier than Geshe Khamlungpa, and in another place, this is also true for Geshe Channgawa. It is because you have eliminated the mind of self-defeat. ”Geshe Channgawa is very poor, so he rarely has food, and only a patchwork leather dress to wear, but he still feels rich and says,“ Now, I can sponsor the whole universe. ”The ego-craving arises from attachment to true existence, and is the biggest obstacle to the development of bodhicitta. A text says, "The pearl is meant to have compassion for all sentient beings. Since we never realized this, we went astray. Instead of hatred and compassion for falling and accepting ego, we revere sentient beings as enemies, and see real enemies as our friends. ”Another text said,“ The biggest devil is not at outside,

With bodhicitta, we can destroy the mind that falls. Because the mind of selfishness, we become the one who is possessed by evil, making us resist criticism and abuse, becoming corrupt. With the goal of satisfying our own ambitions, we act with self-esteem and see that being satisfied is a major concern and our main project.

A person sometimes cannot avoid disobeying other people, but with the heart of self-esteem, we despise and harm others become the main activity, to satisfy ourselves. The craving heart creates many pride and envy. If someone achieves something, although you can say, "Congratulations," but you feel jealous because you don't have it. If there is no loving-kindness, then instead of jealousy, you will accumulate good karma by your loving heart, when you see what others have accomplished. Ego is the reason for creating discord in life. If you have a strong heart, you will be very defensive, create conflict with others, be less patient and feel that all others do is annoying, stressing you. Because of that defense there are many divisions between spouses, parents and children.

Another Kadam Geshe was a thief until he was forty. Despite having a lot of land to cultivate, he still became a bandit. During the day, he robbed passersby, night came, he broke into the households. One day, he changed his way of life, entered the spiritual path and destroyed the mind of self-falling. He said, "Before, I could not find food, but now, I have so many offerings, so much so that food cannot find my mouth."

For the development of bodhicitta, all these things are useful for us to ponder. It is useless to confine yourself in a cave with a crushing mind like the Tu Di mountain, but if you can reduce your self-love, living in solitude can be very beneficial. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.27/2/2019.