Four boundless four-kindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity boundless spread to all over the world with ten methods beings, pray for them to quickly get enlightenment.

To understand bodhicitta, Buddha taught methods practiced on the four boundless. We must spread their attention, motor direction his practice to all beings boundless, unlimited, without exception. We are opening all the practice by practice four boundless:

May the peace of human beings attained,

Live in peace and happiness every moment lightning.

All suffering beings willingly depart from,

Exit round unclean worldly troubles.

May the joy beings end suffering,

Immeasurable joy, from the bright rays.

Let them dwell students not to leave,

In discharging eternally equal unconcern.

The first is boundless heart From

We must develop compassion towards all beings. Start from yourself, then open wide to those around her. If we hate the people around you, then we will not be able to love others, if we pulled the people around us and disorders. If we do not develop a deep understanding of ourselves, it is difficult to understand the other person.

First you can develop metta toward yourself, then you begin to develop this kindness towards others, then gradually extended to more people and eventually spread throughout beings chan.

In fact, many teachers have guided us to develop four boundless towards those we love, first because then it's easier for the practice, but we need to understand that Bodhi true heart unlimited, infinite and immeasurable.

Monday's boundless compassion

Metta is the wish of happiness and good things for people. From the chapel is a positive desire, for example when we wish his children, his friends, his family was lucky and happy, we will have a lot of hope and a positive desire, which is From lap. If we wish to end suffering for children, friends and our families, it is pleasing to Bi. Bi appeared pleased when we think of the plight of suffering and difficulties that other people are going through, and we want them to be freed from that suffering difficulties.

In Buddhism, the four boundless practice, we are not just thinking of individual human realm that open wide at all other realms, such as animal realm. For example, when viewing channel "Discover the animal world", we will see this animal attacks another animal, then just a few minutes after the animal has a more attacking animals. All this is happening under the sea, the sky and on the ground. Although we are not in the animal realm, we actually share with the animal realm. Although we are in the human realm, but also the animal realm is not much different from what we're seeing. Occasionally we also had similar experiences with the animal species, because we also have a few species behave with animals, there is not much difference really.

In some countries, the level of hunger and death that humans experience the same with animals or hungry ghosts, people often suffer from hunger, thirst, sickness, death ... Therefore, we feel compassion toward those beings, those people. We have found compassion to the animal realm. According to Buddhist teachings, each of us has sown karma to be reborn in the animal realm, we can be an animal species in future lives. Likewise, animals can also be recycled into the human world if we had been keeping the precepts. Therefore, from the Infinite and Boundless Compassion are the two aspects we develop strong to cultivate bodhicitta, especially compassion.

When we start from the heart and compassion to the people we love the most, may be the one person in his family or among his friends, such as to your mother, that's almost as Bodhi toothpick. But that's just due to compassion towards a person, so that's not true Bodhicitta. The attachment is called compassion is in view of Buddhism.

Third Immeasurable Equanimity Mind

Bodhicitta must be practiced with boundless Drain. There should be no discrimination between friends, enemies and all sentient beings. Each person has a different way to develop equanimity. Some people develop equanimity in limited friends or acquaintances, gradually expand the mind towards the neighbors, to the nation, and the entire universe. Some people feel uncomfortable when we recite the prayer:

Son and mother all beings boundless as space

"Boundless" means unlimited life, unlimited, and does not count. Such means no discrimination. Some people find it easier to think of all beings, they feel very comfortable right from the first practice session. Therefore the level of development Bodhicitta How fullness depends entirely on your choice.

There are many ways to develop bodhichitta. For the esoteric doctrine, though practice has advanced practice anywhere, without bodhicitta is completely without foundation and extremely dangerous. With any method, if no Bodhicitta it means no foundation. Although we can practice a lot of deity, but if we do not understand and practice bodhichitta, is absolutely no way to achieve results. This is especially dangerous if we practice the wrathful deities, with reddish hair, sharp teeth and holding a sword in his hand. If we visualize and practice so to destroy others or gain competency without bodhichitta practice is not allowed.

Drathok Guru Senge, one of the eight manifestations of Padmasambhava

Bodhicitta is the basic teachings of the Mahayana tradition and more important in the tantric tradition. Not a page in the sadhana of tantric practice does not begin with the release Bodhicitta. By Bodhicitta is the basic foundation of all practice. Bodhicitta is important. Although we have to understand what is Bodhicitta but we still need to practice in order to develop, to adopt specific practices. The practice methods for developing bodhichitta is also important.

Wednesday is boundless Joy

By order of the verses of the four boundless, boundless standing From the first, Bi second boundless. Beings desire to achieve true happiness and Conditioner third ranks fourth boundless. In fact, in practice, we have to practice first Conditioner boundless. Thanks to recognize ourselves and all beings are equal, we found immeasurable kindness, Bi immeasurable and wish all sentient beings achieve true happiness. Thanks to this practice, the state of peace and happiness will appear in our minds. When four boundless practice we will actually become healthy and happy, this happiness is called bliss, also known as Hy immeasurable. Therefore the development of bodhicitta often begins with the practice of the four boundless.END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.15/3/2017.