Cultivation is not just to meet Buddha but to meet oneself.

Folk have the sentence: First is the house, second market, the third pagoda ... The foot of the monk is not only in the mountains, not only in temples or social escapades, but in the present. Real life that I train the mind. The environment, the situation is also the best place for human cultivation.

To cultivate, must necessarily escape the life, the monk into the temple, or up high? 

When problems arise in life, we often feel that they upset our cultivation. Actually, spiritual practice and daily life can be associated as one, of course will be extremely difficult. 

When practicing, many problems in real life are solved. Quitting life that speaks spiritual practice, is not like avoiding problems or stars? Avoidance can be forgotten over the years, but it will be much longer than one can face right in life, facing the temptation of good and evil. over on it. Of course, facing the temptation to ignore it is difficult.

There is a true story about a monk, the whole life of the monks are not flawed, suddenly before the death, the monk felt a cup of fish sauce ... He sadly felt the whole life of the monk is ultimately the cup The fish sauce is only hidden somewhere deep, which has not completely been abandoned ... The practice is hard to change .. 

While cooking rice bowl, doing housework can also cultivate

Bao Many suffering in the world, often causing people to divert the thought of peace, concealed in the mountains, forests, monuments, ... 

However, the practice is not only encapsulated in that. To be in the right place in life, be more courageous than the monks alone. Many times, you have to balance work and family, between pressure and health, between desire, emotion, suffering and impermanence.

Finding balance in intricate, intricate relationships can make us see the true nature of life. 

Simply put, when you cook rice, wash the dishes, look young children ... can also cultivate ... 

So, just the time of carving down the self, remove the arrogance, desire , expectations and fears of yourself, to achieve a calm mind, see the different levels of life, you and I will become teachers in life. 

Every trouble, every problem is a field of cultivation

Evangelism must cultivate from the problems of reality, can not be ambiguous speech, otherwise, will not have any meaning. You can say a whole bunch of theories, but when the work experience feel sad, feel sad, then you have cultivated yet? 

Cultivation needs to be tempered out of the troubles, the afflictions of life, or the sufferings of reality. 

Do not borrow the excuse of turning monkhood into a kind of shirk of defilement or shirk of real life. Evangelism is not a type of escape, nor a recreation or "spiritual work." 

The true cultivation school is not only a temple, not just a temple, not just a place where mountains and forests are, but the most important are the things that are happening, are in your mind.

School genuine practitioner is not just temples and shrines, not only in the hall, not only where the mountains, but the most critical is what is happening, exists even in your mind .. 

If marriage You have problems, then marriage problem is your cultivation school; If the relationship between you and your husband is a problem, then your relationship with your husband is the cultivation school; If you and your colleagues have conflicts, this conflict is a cultivation school; If you fall into the boredom of life, this boredom is the cultivation school; If you have a problem with money, money is a cultivation school. Where there is a problem, there is a need to cultivate, where is the cultivation school.

If you are frightened of samsara, the problem of samsara is the cultivation school. The main cultivation school at every turn, the cultivation school as soon as you encounter problems. Evangelism must come from within that cultivar. 

Do not dismiss the problem of marriage, the problem of husband, colleagues, of boredom, the problem of money, of life and death, then a squid run to worship pagoda. 

Evacuation should be where there is a problem, there are remedies

In the temple, meditation center, the forest, in the area around the good mood, no problem, then how to cultivate To 

Evangelism is not to bridge outside, to express outside, such as:  "I am a Buddhist practitioner, I go to such a temple, I pray the Buddha so, I seem to like it", which is directed at myself, such as:  "This issue, though difficult, does not stop me; difficult also does not matter; Anything that can not make me angry or unhappy ... " 

And, finally, in order to be able to  " cultivate "in the  midst of everyday life, just relying on the efforts and abilities of the person you will naturally not It can make you  "tu cultivation" , which requires a genuine cultivation Fa to help you, a disciple can allow you to practice in the middle of life. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/7/2018.