Inner Bath. I. INTRODUCTION. Bathing is essential for keeping the body clean. People who work in offices with air conditioning, or people who work outdoors, or people who do nothing all day. Whoever they are, they have a need to shower at least once or twice a day. Water and soap help to clean the dust that clings to the hair, ears, skin and wash away the sweat secreted from the body. After a tiring day of work, when coming home to have a meal with family members in a fun, comfortable and delicious way, one needs to take a bath to clean himself. Or before lying down on the bed to rest, people often have to take a shower to keep the body clean and cool. Try not to bathe for a day, people will feel dirty body, angry mind, uncomfortable. Therefore, bathing and cleaning the body is considered a necessary job, not inferior to the fact that one must eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, rest when tired, or have to go to a doctor when sick. It is about the body. But for a person to be considered perfect, he or she must have two complete body and mind. The body is the physical part, which has a form, so it can be seen and touched. The mind is the spiritual part, the spirit is metaphysical and cannot be seen or touched by anyone. Although metaphysical, the mind is the knowing, the consciousness, the subject that commands the body to work according to its will. When the heart is sad, the eyes shed tears. When the mind is uncomfortable, the face is wrinkled. The angry mind is red in the face, and the eyes are sparkling. The heart is shy, the face is shy. When your heart is happy, your lips will smile. If the mind thinks well, the body acts well. If the mind thinks bad, the body acts bad, etc. In other words, the mind is a part of human life. A person who lives without knowing anything is as good as dead. Yet most people live in this world, seeming to forget the spirit, forget the mind. They forget that the mind has the same need for care and hygiene as the body! If someone mentions the care and washing of the mind, someone will say that the mind without form is not dirty, or that the mind without form has something to wash and clean. II. POINTED MIND, MULTIPLE DISEASES TO BE CLEANED Zen masters who practice according to the Buddha's teachings insist that although the mind has no form, we can distinguish when the mind is healthy and when the mind is sick. In Buddhist teachings, A sick mind is when the mind is contaminated by defilements. It is necessary to take a bath to remove these impurities, then the mind will be peaceful and healthy. Those pollutants are the diseases named habit, gonorrhea, fetter, fetter. These diseases contain passions, hatred, and hatred, which bind people to greed, hatred, delusion, pride, doubt, and wrong views. Even more serious is the disease of self-grasping. Because of self-grasping, it gives rise to other complications such as self-cherishing, self-cherishing, self-view, and self-grasping. Because of the subjectivity, the mind is often distorted and always has prejudices, prejudices, and biases. In addition, the mind also has a disease of being infatuated with the five sensual pleasures such as talent, form, fame, food, lobes, which causes feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness to fluctuate, pushing people to look at life with a selfish, discriminating mind. duality of good and bad, love and hate, like or dislike, want this one to be yours, the other to be yours v. v… From the evil thoughts in the mind that lead to actions and words, hurting yourself and those around you, and creating countless unwholesome karma. Due to such constant disturbances, people's minds are always restless, their spirits are never stable. In order to put an end to this situation, the mind needs to be cleansed and sanitized to cure the diseases that afflict people. In the past, Than Quang, later the Second Patriarch Hue Kha (Zen Tong, China), did not hesitate to cut off his arm as an offering to Bodhidharma to pray for the "peace of mind" meditation. Back to bathing to clean the body, anyone can do it, just use soap, water, and rub hands all over the body. Dirty substances will be washed away by water and soap, leaving the body clean and fragrant. But bathing the body in Buddhism is not a daily bath for the physical body to be clean, but bathing the body here is like taking a bath for inner hygiene, a practice to keep the three bodily karmas. , speech and mind are pure. So washing body and mind is not only once or twice a day, nor is it necessary to use soap or clean water to bathe, but to practice methodically. And the practice is not just one meal a day is enough. A diseased unclean mind is a mind that accumulates everything as mentioned, showing that this mind is always fluctuating, as soon as one thought ceases, another arises. Just like that, it ceases to arise and then dies, ceases to cease and then arises, and is never quiet, so the Buddha called this mind the mind of birth and death, and the Patriarchs classified it as the hopeless mind. In order for the mind to return to a state of pure silence, unborn and immortal, or the true mind, it must be practiced by that mind. slowly let go of the things that it has stored, a long time to become karma. III. MODE OF TRAINING The Buddha's teachings have four cultivation methods, which are Quantitative, Only, Concentration, and Hue. These methods, if practiced to the right place, can wash away the defilements in the mind. - Cultivate or meditate to understand clearly the characteristics of all things as impermanent, suffering, and not-self, and accept it. Accept it because you know for sure that everything will come and go, nothing is sustainable in this world. Money, fame, or the love of father, mother, wife, children, house, vehicle, happiness in hand seems to be extremely stable, but one day there will be all the things that we love. that will slip from the palm of my hand. Those are things outside the body, just don't discuss! So what about the human body of the five aggregates? When people are young, they are healthy and love life. But as time passed, youth goes to old age. One day, one year passes health, the wisdom of young people also gradually goes to sickness, old age, weakness, the mind is no longer as sharp and sharp as when it was young. In the Samyutta Nikāya, the Buddha describes the impermanence of his own body as follows: "Indeed, Ananda, old age replaces youth, illness repels health. , death stops life. My skin color is not as bright and clear as before, my limbs are weak and my skin is wrinkled, my body is leaning forward, the change is also evident in the senses…” . Thus, everything in this world will change according to time and space. Therefore, we must contemplate clearly and understand the "impermanence, suffering, and non-self" of all beings. so that the mind is not attached to sadness when things suddenly change unsatisfactory. - Meditation is just a practice method to help the mind stop, not to wander while walking, standing, lying down, sitting, eating, drinking, or admiring the scenery, etc. Tu Chi helps the mind gradually get used to a quiet state of mind. When the senses come into contact with the sense objects, they don't let the mind run after seeing, hearing, or touching, causing the mind to fluctuate. In the sutras, this dharma is called "collection or protection of the six senses". - Meditation is a practice method, focusing on an object to keep the mind quiet. For example, using "in-and-out breath" as an object of concentration, so that delusion or the five hindrances of greed, anger, lethargy, sedation, and doubt have no chance to arise. When the meditator enters deep samadhi, the mind waves are calm and steady. The sutras describe the state of mind at this time as "concentrated, pure, unblemished, free of afflictions, pliable, beyond theory…”. This shows that meditation is a method of bathing and cleaning the polluted mind, curing diseases that cause afflictions and samsara. - Meditation Hue, the first step is Vipassana ie "insight insight". Always keep mindfulness, which is "knowing as it is", when it comes to contact with objects, the mind is here and now, that is, the mind does not return to the past, does not imagine the future, and is not attached to present desires. Practitioners can practice according to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Sutra. It is contemplating the four bases of Body, Feeling, Mind, and Dharma. What happens to the Body, Feelings, Mind, and Dharma during zazen, that's all the meditator knows. This knowing is knowing without words, which is self-knowledge. The mirror-like knowing that notices how the object appears to the mind, proceeds, and ceases knows the same way, without any intention to interfere. - Wisdom of Prajna (Panna/Prajna) is the knowledge of intuition. When the mind dwells in deep concentration, spiritual wisdom is spontaneous. This mind understands all things, all events in the universe without learning or thinking judgment at all. At this stage awareness, or Buddha-nature, or potential for enlightenment arises spontaneously. Prajna wisdom is the wisdom that is masterless, no longer distinguishing dualities, no longer subject and object. This is a kind of transcendental wisdom of arahants, bodhisattvas have crossed the "other shore" (paramita) which is the shore of enlightenment, and it also promotes unsurpassed perfection called perfect enlightenment. , is Buddha. BECAUSE. FIRST STEP OF PRACTICE Depending on the basis that we choose the appropriate method of practice to make it easier to progress on the path. But no matter which method we choose, we must first follow the Buddha's teachings. To study and think about Buddhist teachings, to have Right View, that is, to have a sense of knowing what is right and what is wrong. Anything that hurts others and suffers for yourself should be avoided. Whatever brings happiness to you and hurts others, you shouldn't do it. In the sutras often refer to the short verse "Do not do evil; Yes do good works; Purify the mind". Thus, the Buddhist doctrine teaches that sentient beings, before practicing towards enlightenment and liberation from samsara, must aim at three cultivation goals as follows: First, there are no evil actions that harm people or harm others. themselves, or benefit themselves but harm others. In the sutras it is called unwholesome action. The second is diligently doing good deeds to bring peace and happiness to sentient beings and to ourselves. In the sutras it is called a good deed. The third part is the cultivation of the mind, practitioners practice the methods of practice so that the mind achieves calm and awakening. Practicing the practices that benefit sentient beings, Practitioners increasingly develop loving-kindness and compassion. Thanks to the heart of compassion and love for sentient beings, the meditator generates compassion to do good deeds, to give, to help and to comfort people. And because I am new to practice, my consciousness always tells me to keep good thoughts and stay away from bad thoughts. Although the mind is still discriminating, it still chooses duality, but by choosing a wholesome mind leads to wholesome actions. As a result, people are helped to be happy, from which their minds are also happy. If you want to go further on the spiritual path, you take one more step. That is the contemplation of Patriarch Hui Neng's question "do not think good, do not think evil, what is the "original identity" of Venerable Master Minh? ". The original is the old, the item is the real face. When the mind does not give rise to good thoughts, nor does it give rise to evil thoughts, then the mind falls into no-thought, that is, no thoughts arise at all. When the mind has no more thoughts, the mind is empty, there is only the stream of non-verbal awareness that is the "original face" which is the true face, the true mind, the awareness, or the Buddha-nature. At that time, the practitioner's mind is in the state of Equanimity (no-thought or no-mind) ie the mind is quiet but awake, no longer attached to anything in this world. VII. In the Mahayana sutras, the practice of "six lands" is taught, including: Generosity, Precepts, Patience, Effort, Meditation, and Wisdom. Practitioners can bathe and clean both body and mind through the practice of "Six Lands". - Practicing almsgiving: Helping the needy and poor with material wealth, with comforting words, with spiritual support, etc. happiness, ease the anxieties and fears of sentient beings. Cultivating the practice of giving helps yogis eliminate greed, level jealousy, envy, develop more and more loving-kindness and compassion. - Precepts: Buddhists observe the five precepts: Do not kill the life of people or animals. Do not take what do not give. Not evil. Do not lie. Do not use intoxicants to cloud your mind. Keeping without breaking the precepts helps the practitioner to stop before the dividing line between morality and evil. As a result, practitioners do not commit mistakes, keep the three karmas of body, speech, and mind pure. - Patience: It is the practice of enduring difficulties and obstacles, determined not to back down on the path of cultivation. Do not generate thoughts when in contact with the scene. Those who practice patience will eliminate anger. Anger is considered a dangerous poison in the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion. - Diligence: Having the will and energy not to back down from the adversities on the path of cultivation, determined to diligently strive to practice crossing the sea of ​​birth and death to reach enlightenment. Diligence is the necessary fuel to support the continuous practice without the distraction of laziness. - Meditation: Focusing thoughts on an object to keep the mind quiet, not a single thought arises in the mind. A Zen master's definition: "Zen is the outer being free of attachment to the world, concentration is the inner silence" is correct. Meditation is a method of cleansing the polluted mind into purity and clarity, an effective remedy for diseases of body and mind. Thanks to the firm concentration, the mind is calm before all the storms of life. In short, meditation helps to keep the mind clean, quiet (pure). Purity is the means to the end, which is wisdom. - Wisdom of Prajna: The Buddha is the unsurpassed enlightened one, the teacher of gods and men, Therefore, the Buddha's disciples also aim for liberation and enlightenment like him. Bat Nha wisdom is transcendental wisdom, grasping the truth of all dharmas. This is the wisdom of bodhisattvas and buddhas. "Six degrees" are six ways of practice. Although the Patriarchs divide like this, all six dharmas are closely related to each other. When practicing this dharma, the other five are there to help. Note: In the Development Sutra, there is also the teaching of the "Six Paramitas". The six degrees of perfection are also six methods of practice like the six degrees of practice, but this is higher for saints and arahants. At present, we are still ordinary people, so we should initially practice the "six continents" to transform the ordinary mind into the holy mind. And then progress from there. VIII. CONCLUSION In short, human beings have two parts, body and mind. Both body and mind are equally important. The mind attaches to the body to exist. The body is guided by the mind to behave and act. On the path to liberation and enlightenment, the Sutra teaches that "perception and behavior" must be pure, that is, the body and mind must be pure. Because the wisdom and capacity of sentient beings are different, the Buddha presented many practices. The practice is different, but every dharma reminds sentient beings to keep their minds straight and pure. If the mind is pure, then the behavior is pure. So the core of the practice to bring the body and mind to a place of purity is to meditate and meditate on wisdom. We would like to copy the Buddha's Teaching (Dharma Sutra) through the Two Compendiums below to pause the article with the topic "Inner Bathing". 1) Of all dharmas, the mind takes the lead, the mind dominates, the mind creates, if you speak or do it with a defiled mind, suffering will follow karma like a wheel that follows the trail of an animal pulling: “Mind leads all dharmas. Italian master, mind-created If with contaminated mind Speaks or acts Suffering follows behind Like a cart or cart. 2) In dharmas, mind takes the lead, mind dominates, mind creates. If you speak or act with a pure mind, happiness will follow your karma, like a shadow following a picture. “The mind leads the dharmas, the mind masters, the mind creates If with the pure mind Speaks or acts Peacefully follows like a shadow, never leaving the picture. (Dharma Dhammapada - Two Essentials) Namo Master Sakyamuni Buddha . the fun will follow the karma to come like a shadow in the picture. “The mind leads the dharmas, the mind masters, the mind creates If with the pure mind Speaks or acts Peacefully follows like a shadow, never leaving the picture. (Dharma Dhammapada - Two Essentials) Namo Master Sakyamuni Buddha . the fun will follow the karma to come like a shadow in the picture. “The mind leads the dharmas, the mind masters, the mind creates If with the pure mind Speaks or acts Peacefully follows like a shadow, never leaving the picture. (Dharma Dhammapada - Two Essentials) Namo Master Sakyamuni Buddha .END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/12/2022.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.