Lessons from the bait.

What is the trap?

"Trap" is a term used to refer to a device that is designed to ruse and attempts aimed at putting animals and humans fall into adverse situations for the audience, bringing the margin to mastermind set seven. The word "trap" can also be used as a verb to describe the action of the trap used to serve its purpose. 

In some cases, people use traps to limit the negative impact on the lives of animals and their activities, the most common of which is necessary to take the mouse trap, trap flies, cockroaches trap. 

In some other cases, with intellect and wiles than animals, man traps designed differently depending on the characteristics of each species, to fool the animals into traps to limit their power to instinct man, with a weaker biological strength, can overpower and put them to use to serve your needs, can slaughter or take the animal body parts for medicine or jewelry. 

Most bait used to lure the animals trapped for food greedily counted sexy wild nature of animals, and the animals only true wisdom lucky escape traps placed by human spread .

Diverse and complex than other people ... traps. Tools created a "trap people" mostly words and expressions created "sham" to fraudulently objects, put them in adverse situations such as in accordance with what the trapping attempts through impact on two aspects are most active in humans is listening and looking. Traps that use tricks to put into words a dose of anesthetics to lull and plating, polishing outside flashy as dizziness enemy, disable the alert from the enemy and putting them into situations passive to seize part of the advantage of people and trapping. 

Bait to trap people more varied and subtle degrees, but do not differ essentially in animals: how to "cheat equivocal hit black children" makes audience distraction, lack of vigilance and the bait greed in him and once not mastered his subjects trap. When the "fish hook" and then the driver spoiled trapping victims under preferences. The complexity and increasingly more trouble when human greed is not only expressed through coarse meal here, which is also reflected in four aspects is that taking sleeping, taking physical assets, taking beauty and greed local people should expect more subtle traps and sometimes the consequences can not be foreseen.

Animal traps and snare traps people actually participated mind. Once greed activated, it makes the mind stormed dim object is no longer enough to maintain calm and sobriety needed to decide what to do. Thus, from the initiative, subjects become victims, surrender their autonomy to others determined. Perhaps the most vivid example of the loss of control of the object arises when greed clouded minds that easily become victims as a monkey trap, when it is designed so simply that can "example "be smart animals like monkeys is something worth our reflection so.

Monkey Trap: Simple but difficult to escape

There is a kind of monkey trap that Asians often use long ago. The trap is made as simple as this:

People take a coconut, using fixed ropes to a tree coconuts or piling nearby coconut fixed to the ground at the position it is placed. Then they cut a small hole, then put a little good food and very attractive fragrant coconut into the intestine. The hole was enough to cut a hand sticking monkey inside, if stretched, but not large enough to reach the clenched hand. When the monkeys heard smell coming out of a coconut, it nibbled approaching, search, locate and then detect where food, reached into his monkey Then, take the food. Unfortunately, when the food is held in the hands, arms monkey trapped in a coconut and could not get it out.

When the hunter came, monkey becomes panic, struggling as more and more impossible to withdraw the feeding hand holding. So the monkey caught. Nothing can keep the monkey back, except the food holds in his other hand. One thing unique to monkeys to do is open his hands to escape, not holding a coconut in her food again, gently pulled his hand out is not possible to preserve life. But do not let go of these monkeys know to escape.

Tell, monkey trap simple but effective, because the hunter understands the psychology voracious apes.

People like monkeys: that swims into a trap

I read the story about the monkey trap in the book  "Transforming the Mind, Healing the World"  by Joseph Goldstein long time. Since then, a lot of times, picture monkeys suffer the problem is always in my mind. I think of similar situations of human, when myself or people I know pay acquainted with most of their food resources, identity, identity, reality and lobes in the hands, arms forever struggling but still stuck in coconuts that outsiders find foolish to ridiculous. 

I laughed when an infected monkey in a coconut hand because morsel of food, trying to withdraw his hand generator that refuses to let go in order to preserve life. As trying to struggle to be free, but do not want to give up on the hand piece of food while hunters are going to close, the monkey had to pay with their lives. Monkey distress because it wishes to achieve something to be glamorous pieces invites food inside, but the coconut itself is not designed as a trap that whoever is caught up to the victim at all.

Then and now, the cases related to corruption, bribery, abuse their positions for large and small-scale societies appear in the trap caught taking both hands on it yet. Every time someone found themselves buffeted honor his career and his life to crime by itself when not resist the temptation of the bait material and fame, I think of this monkey trap. Around us, many people have the title in the society, money is not missing, many people dream is not so. Yet because there was no bottom bags, so they're in the hands of 'hunters' only because of the delicious food pieces in the other charming coconut. 

Buddha called the bait that is evil and those who crave material are trapped by evil spread out ( Central Business 25: Business bait ). He described the experience that  "deer intrusion, craving, eat the map this bait bait by hunters sown. Do craving to eat prey items, they become frenzy. Due to distraction, they become distractions. Due to distraction, they become the character that was just for hunters bait " . Those who lose concentration, blurred vision not unlike trapped deer herds in such texts or monkeys infected coconut hands on just described above.

Every time there is an incident like this, even a group of co-conspirators, relevant and solidarity are "sticky indigo" domino-style sequencing and large numbers of people in charge of the authorities to the hard work monthly, sometimes several years to complete a case file, takes toll on people and considerable damage to the national budget. Only journalists is ample subject to exploitation, with more news published spoiled. So how ink and amortization costs in the paper, adding that dozens of electronic newspaper front page news for several days, even posting back at some other sites and forums are more numerous, speed spread dizziness passed. 

The risk of 'losing' a lot of these people are being brought up desk galaxy population dissected scales and become 'the story prior to ca' in most of the agencies, offices. Sure victims of the pain and suffering felt really care, but when that spectacular poignant question by greed driven, any repentance was too late and the door of the person's life as was closed again with how unimaginable loss to be!

With what I just described about how to trap monkeys and macaques infected victims with psychological commonplace in humans are "the people who are bright, his job is blind", one can easily ironic derision less intelligent monkey intelligent. If the face in that situation, I think I easily let go of most of the food for life safety. However, although people much smarter than monkeys, we would not be much better! 

Faced with the temptation of money, fame, things too attractive, charismatic, but the idea should not pour sweat, we can also easily the property crime is not ... reached into! Few tame his mind before a delicious smelling dish attractive and seductive like. Finally, we are trapped like monkeys and that, like the other deer, but more subtle level because life is a complex function with a variety of base desires when exposed to scene through ceiling social relationships more complex interlaced only.

Mind desire to create a cohesive force base to the ceiling and create an attractive force makes monkeys pulled his hand out coconuts are. Humans, too, the desire and heart clench had us trapped. What we need is to not let go of captivity and freedom of autonomy to determine their own lives. But rather grim, as well as monkeys, rarely, we are aware and accomplish this seemingly simple. He became a coconut trap because monkeys are aiming to get to the food inside without understanding the cost to feed the other is the loss of freedom, the tradeoff both honor and social prestige and his whole body was now map the hard work to build a more expensive life and is, in many cases, have exchanged his life. 

People put food to lure the deer, monkeys on the way we go looking for human prey knows, satisfying morsel of food to sustain life is an instinct of all living creatures. With this coconut trap, not all monkeys are trapped. Wise monkeys has not come close to where the food is seductive because it measure the potentially dangerous place. Sometimes the monkeys have also reached into the inside coconuts, but when it hands out food to hold in your hand, it met with obstacles, it was little wiser and sober for food release and grab hold hands not out, it's safe lives. Only the monkeys foolish and greedy self turns new coconut into the trap at the discretion of the hunter only.

Cause trapped

In life, we also face many traps of all shapes sizes and different crude fact that just because Join crowding, lack of awareness, not see the potential danger inside or only see immediate benefits, when, in the Buddha called " passion, frenzy, distraction " that we easily fall trap to then act in " the power of bait hunters "  (Central business 25: business lures) . 

If monkeys know what you think, if the deer weighed know, obviously it will choose to go find food outside and not putting anything into the coconut or stepping into dangerous areas with attractive feed it. A wise animals will sense that once were free, it would have more choice in the monkey or deer was trapped, said only surrender his life for hunters to dispose of it still do not have a choice in the scene "fish bowl, bird cage" as a result of the action catastrophic confusion dominated by greed that out.

People, if you do not mind greedy burning, urgency is well known refrain temptation, be content with what we have been true with hard work and his true occupation, self-stand legs but his stature. However, only those who know mindful awareness, conquer greed, defending the gateway senses knew it was 'trap' and that place, the danger and insecurity is lurking fear of grab maul ourselves. The invitation, the temptation of mediocrity immediate benefits always fool people, overshadowed his mind when deciding whether or not to do certain work. The human mind easily perturbed with immediate roaming bait.

This life is full of pitfalls that just wandering a little negligent, we will immediately pit stop dropped sa tunnel. There is much fear of the trap, simply dazzled with the immediate benefits, unconscious in a state of intoxication with sweet words pale dirt, unmindful observations to see the nature of the problem and not employed greed is self-communion is the body painting. Snare who always know how to camouflage the traps are ingenious but if not sharp, unwise, inexperienced and poor in judgment, we easily become victims because of the participation limits visibility. Once the mind is "myopic" and "astigmatism" that everything has not shown that imported glaze of lust, reason is not bright enough to see the true nature of the law, the trap is understandable, only a matter of time only.

Living outside the grip of the pitfalls

We have seen many people just because grab prey beneficial contacts that rolled in and peril, disregard for the life and pay the price for their recklessness. Wild trot only once, with the loss of life is difficult to overcome all the consequences. The best way to avoid the trap prompted monkey mind is never to the Hairs socks when his effort spent unworthy of what received. Luxuriant trees that line between left must have been poisonous tree. The benefits to your account easy too as if falling from the sky, as they put their hands up conservative, cautious and calm look through issues to explain everything before deciding.

Back to the case of the monkey, standing in front of a coconut contains little food inside, the monkey at least three choices. Firstly, it is cowardly and walked away not sure what would happen if reached into it. Second, it has reached into, touching piece of food was delicious but not get it out, it let go and sober "people out of the running." The third way is reaching in and trying to get to because of the charm of the food to become victims of the snare. 

Likewise, facing a situation, people tend to have more direction selection (even if insiders think the only option only as a way to justify the mistake and explained the incident to seem reasonable only), it is important to the ability to restrain greed mind, the ability to master his instincts to where only. While still holding the initiative, the right to decide in their own hands, then we act wisely and intelligently. 

However, when taking crowding, traffic control our greedy mind and ignorance, they had been dragged into the realms of communications error led to serial and suffering pain. Buddha taught a craving arises when inwardly someone would bring a disadvantage, suffering and insecurity for him ( Saṁyutta economic, Chapter III, the I) .

The Buddha taught to be able to escape the trap monkeys life, we need to holders of units (the senses, such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind) when exposed to external sense objects, do not let it stick questions, such as turtle wise to withdraw all limbs inside the shell for protection safe from the attack of wild beasts  (Saṁyutta economic, Volume I, chapter I, the 2).  Who his inducement to some food nearby la fragrant coconut attractive in the other? Who is keeping his prime responsibility to secure let go? If there is a force holding a monkey (as well as our hands) holding the food pieces thoroughly, then that is greed despite the danger was so near. 

In many methods to tame taking the mindfulness and awareness and upholding the Buddha grounds are mentioned frequently in the  economic Nikaya  (for instance in the  Central economic,  legal entities were mentioned in the business of 5:  Kinh Do not defiled; of the 27: Elementary business elephant footprints example, Beijing No. 39: University of horses neighbor; Beijing No. 51: Beijing Kadaraka; Beijing No. 53: Beijing Friendship school, Beijing No. 107: business Ganaka Moggalana; Economics 112: Six pure Beijing, Beijing No. 125: local Business Article seated ).

It's no exaggeration to say that greed is the "property" of the unenlightened common and certainly each of us has the block "property" does not desire this. Therefore, if you do not mind prompted pleased commandments, we can create a ringed traps around him only to get entangled themselves and asking how the body implications. No one dared subjective think you can master the mind anytime, anywhere in any situation and win for greed should always live in mindfulness, awareness and holder is never redundant for people who know cherish your good heart good reviews. Even with simple lifestyle selected, isolation seemed meager worldly pleasures also unlikely to escape the grip of evil desires if too subjective without guard his heart. Because:

There the driver to pass  more cautiously,

Back tepid steering  line segment goes well.

There are those who live frugally  salary bar,

Lack of mindfulness, greed still start ...

Sometimes a little bit of grace can also become prey take us into his own trap without noticing! END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.WORLD VIETNAMSSE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.19/2/2017.