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Bhikkhu Brahmavamso
Introduction: Venerable Brahmavamso is the spiritual leader of the Buddhist Association of Western Australia, and the abbot of the monastery Bodhinyana district Serpentine, Western Australia, Australia.
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The Buddhist meditation masters have said a lot about how to practice the four foundations of mindfulness France (Satipattana), except this monk. So, in short sermon today, I would like to follow this trend in order to present a few observations about the meditation practice it, which is a legal discourses of the Buddha which probably had many misconceptions in Buddhist yogis row.
What you have been involved in the Buddhist center, the teacher must have heard many claims that France Satipatthana is "only one way" to reach enlightenment. Although this statement seems to affirm and attractive, but actually, it is not the proper interpretations of the classic original and is also inconsistent with the teachings of the Buddha in the other texts. Pali phrases "Ekayana Magga" in all of the 10 (Sutta) in central Beijing is usually translated as "only way" is also used in all of the 12 (Meeting the Lion Roar) and mean apparently meaning "a path with a single purpose." There are many different paths but unity of purpose. In fact, "the only way" was Buddha mentions, not the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, which is the Path of Eight Chief (Eightfold Path), as in the Dhammapada:
"In every way, the Path Eight chief is the most wins (...)
This is the only way, no other way to go to pure knowledge "(...)
(Dhammapada, 273- 274, abridged)
Thus, "the only way" to enlightenment, as all Buddhists are already aware, the Eightfold Path. The four foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana) is only part of the way there. These are expenditures for the 7th (Mindfulness). Also, there are detailed 8th Right Concentration, and also have Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Effort, and three expenditure of Chief Gender (Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood). Each element of this section are equally essential, to achieve enlightenment. If there are expenses that are not necessary components, the Buddha must have taught the Seven Paths Chanh District Six Paths, etc. But, in classic, when he also always mention Dao District Eight. So, in practice work and your practice, you should always keep in mind that all eight factors of the Eightfold Path should be cultivated and full uniform, as "a path the only" .
Satipatthana legal practice as the Buddha's teaching is a highly sophisticated level. High-end so that the Lord Buddha taught that if anyone can practice the four foundations of mindfulness that serious manner that he has made, within seven days, he or she can be reached or attained Enlightenment Real Lai ( Sutta). Many participants had attended the course for 7 days, 10 days or more that have yet to achieve a certain result as Buddha's noble promises. Why ? I think it is because they did not practice seriously in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha.
If you want to practice Satipatthana manner that Buddha said with quick results towards Enlightenment, there are many things that you must complete before you start contemplating. The preparation of this work can be summarized as follows: You need to practice fully detailed seven other parts of the Eightfold Path. Or to put it another way, as Buddha preached in Anguttara ("Nine France - Phẩm mindfulness", Beijing No. 63 and 64), you must observe strict 5 Precepts, drop 5 hindrances (greed , hate melancholy, darkness, foreign Trao, doubt), then Mindfulness meditation.
The prerequisite of this crucial fact was the Buddha preached in two texts of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (in Central and Digha) in the Pali: "Loke Abhijjha-Domanassam". This verse is often translated as "after convince greed and sorrow in the world," or something similar like that. Word of such services is not usually the student understand and they despise the teachings of Buddha there, and therefore, they did not achieve any results at all! At the time the Buddha was in this world, the monks, nuns, and lay people must have understood that sentence means "after letting go five hindrances"! The formal commentaries on the two articles Sutta are explained clearly that phrase Abhijjha-Domanassam is used to indicate five hindrances. In the other texts of the Buddha preached, Abhijjha is synonymous with first hindrances, Domanassam is synonymous with second hindrances, and if shared together - in the Pali language - which is shorthand for groups five hindrances. This means that the five hindrances have to be let go before the start of the legal practice of Mindfulness. So, according to my opinion, precisely because meditators attempt Mindfulness meditation while still entangled in the hindrances that they did not achieve the long-term good results.
The function of the lens to reach the floor meditating (Jhana) - spent part of the Eightfold Path Right Concentration - is to let go of all five hindrances to help deploy insight. In all of the 68 Central (Beijing Nalakapana), Buddha said that when one has not reached the floor Jhana meditation, five hindrances and communicate with any laxity will invade the mind and stay there. Only when the person reaches the floor in meditation, the five hindrances along with any new communication and not lazy and do not invade the mind stay there. Buddha taught so clearly.
The student who had direct experience of this powerful meditation floors must surely have learned, through personal experience, the true nature of mind after the hindrances have been let go. The student who did not know the stories of meditation is not to understand the subtle form of the hindrances. They thought that the hindrances were let go, but in fact, they were not aware of them, and therefore, did not achieve good results while meditating. Therefore that practice concentration meditation (Samatha) to nourish the floor Jhana meditation is part of the Mindfulness methods, and so if that law Mindfulness (Satipattana) is a legal "pure Vipassana" (Vipassana ) then this is not seated correctly. My teacher, Ajahn Chah, has repeatedly said that Samatha and Vipassana repeatedly - Tranquillity and Insight; And insight - must go together, inseparable from it, as if the two sides of a coin.
After completion of the persevering work of preparing necessary, yogis can now mindfulness into one of four categories: their body, the sensation of pain or joy, mind, and objects of interest. When the slopes of the extinct and yogis can maintain the strong force to be mindful of these headings, then that new students can contemplating the deep part of the mind, deeper than the receiving common sense, the impermanent nature of the so-called Ego that we often cling to it. We often assume that this body is mine, is mine, that pleasure or pain sensations are associated with ego, that the mind is observing is my soul, that the object of interest, such as is the thought and practice mode (the "selection") is the Ego, the I, is mine. The purpose of the four foundations of mindfulness is to guide the student to do after having escaped the floor meditating, to discover the illusion was cleverly disguised by so-called Ego, and from there see it Buddha has discovered, it is the Truth of selflessness.
It is not an easy thing to do, not anyone can do it in a short time, but it is feasible, can be completed in seven days. But provided that the students have been practicing fully and strictly follow the teachings of the Buddha without chasing one another shortcut.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGTHMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/11/2015.