Practicing At Heart.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

(The mind must practice according to the religion)

Scriptures:

Han Van:  Buddha language: "Sa-keeper practice, as a ghost, but despite the practice, the mind is unmanageable. The mind is inferior, the path of practice?"

Translation of Meaning:  The Buddha taught: "The step of Sa-monk Do not act like a buffalo, but the mind does not follow the Dao. If the mind follows the Tao, what does it need to practice?"

Lecture:

The forty chapter clearly states that Taoism is in the mind and not in its form. If we don't put all our hearts into the Tao, we only focus on showing off on the outside, then we will be like a buffalo pulling a table - all day the buffalo keeps going around the mill, drawing and pulling back and forth, no the clown leaves the mill.

The Buddha taught: "The step of Sa-practice Dao is not like a buffalo pulling a grinding table." Bhikkhu-khưu Austerities should not be like a buffalo pulling a grinding table - linger in the mill but pull back and forth, wandering around the mill, never coming out.

"Although the practice itself, but the mind does not follow Dao." Although outside, your body will still practice the Tao - prostrate to the Buddha, recite Sutras, recite the mantra, but inside your mind will neither do nor pay attention to those deeds.

"If the mind follows the Tao, then it needs something to practice." If your mind really wants to cultivate the Way, if you can cultivate the Way in a unique way, without any delusions, and if you can always be in Jhana, then what do you need to do the Way? In this case, you are not cultivating the Tao as well!

It implies that you have found your mind. If your heart no longer arises delusions about sexuality, then your mind has been subdued. And if you continue to start delusions about lust, though outwardly appear gentle, honest, but inside are not honest, just keep thinking about sexual lust; like that, no matter how good the appearance is, it doesn't help!

Therefore, spiritual practice needs to focus on the mind. The goods for his mind will prove to be very quick. If you are unable to overcome your mind, just start your thoughts about lust, then you are like a buffalo pulling a table - just hang around the mill and pull back and forth, struggling hard but running Don't escape, don't get out of the mill! END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/8/2019.