LIVING IN THE REALITY.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

Chapter 1

An accident

 

In the outside, it doesn't work

Bright, innocent from hope to pray

Let go of all regret

New or immediately see the color of religion!

 

  

Today, humanity has progressed very far in science and technology, has changed the face of the world every day, every hour and even every minute, every second, so economic life, politics, literature chemistry, society, etc. are all significantly improved.

Thanks to transport means, radio and television media, internet, and telecommunication, the world has been integrating into an international community with globalization scale. This brings a lot of social benefits and life amenities to meet the increasingly multifaceted and abundant enjoyment of human needs.

However, in order to get these achievements, residents on this earth have to exploit exhaustively natural resources: minerals, forest products, seafood and fuel. At the same time, emissions from factories, from motor boats, from civil equipment, electromagnetic waves, toxic chemicals, nuclear radiation etc., polluted the living environment. , ozone depletion, climate change, weather, arising of many dangerous viruses, strict diseases, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.

Activities of body and mind are the inevitable need of human life, even more active, enthusiastic, diligent and resourceful to benefit ourselves or serve in the spirit of selflessness. The better. However, because of personal ambition and selfishness, many people are trying to speed up rapidly in all areas of life. They make use of all their physical and mental potentials to strive, enlist, win, and even be willing to eliminate each other with many intrigues and tricks. The range-of-field, large-scale races between individuals, groups, businesses, companies, countries, societies, or the world-wide seem to never end. Thus, while science and technology are more and more modern, not only natural resources are exhausted,

In that situation, you are also attracted to the vortex of city - defeat, gain - loss, over - loss, joy - suffering between life; then, at some point, I suddenly found myself and the people around me becoming too hasty, impatient, hurried, urgent, accompanied by worries, fears, stresses, frustrations, even very when violent, ruthless, inhuman and disturbing. These crisis situations are more or less affecting the nervous system, leading to depression, depression and psychiatric complications.

It is in the state of insecurity that stress is likely to lead to both physical and mental collapse, you need to be calm. Do not whine, hustle and seek solutions; because the more anxious to resolve, however, the tension will increase and become unjust. You simply need to let your mind and body be restless - take a break completely - just for a moment. Don't use it, don't try, don't control, don't try to train your body and mind to remain still. Your mind and body rest when you let go of all your artifacts to try to become. It is the will to become is the motivation that makes your mind restless, including the will to meditate to try to keep your mind quiet. Although meditation is called current residence, it is actually a kind of stressful activity, not an innocent mind.

The peaceful mind and body does not come from the impulse to create peace, because anything subjectively created according to private thought is ruined and leads to suffering and suffering. The secret of peace is that your mind and body have to escape from all intentions to create a delusion of self. Unscathed peace is only possible when your mind is not attached to the past, present or future, but it is safe to rely on no conditions at all. You should allow your body and mind to rest comfortably, naturally, because it is its real need after being overused. When your body and mind are properly rested, its ability to function will be greater, more accurate and more effective than the mind of anxiety, stress and pressure of ambition or ambition of ambition .

Let your body relax from head to toe; and let your mind be let go before all busy, multi-minded, anxious and attempted thoughts of an ambitious illusion. You try to look back: You have forced the body to work too much, it needs to give it less time to rest really comfortably. Also, your mind has been busy with so many worries, why does it sometimes not allow it to be silently carefree so that it can stabilize itself and restore itself? The natural mindlessness of the mind is the principle: "The calmness of the spirit of the chi chi" is often mentioned by the Eastern Y Tao.

If right here and now your mind does not let go, you cannot calm down, nothingness, then you can use a means to help you relax more easily, like yoga, thai extreme power, qigong or meditation, but that is only a temporary solution, do not consider it a long-term method of training to achieve anything, because you will take advantage of your mind and body to be selfish Somehow, this only makes your mind and body depend on the conditions of the technique, the method, not the comfortable rest, the calmness of the mind completely. According to Lao Tzu, the highest realm of mind is the infinite, while the Buddha is the mind of no, formless, ineffective. It is when the heartlessness of the mind that every miracle can happen. That is why Lao Tzu said: "Trying to do nothing, sex is amazing." (So ​​often empty to see its magic). And the Buddha also taught: "Enlightenment created a calm down to peace" (Tesaṃ-saṅkhārā - vūpasamo sukho).

You do not see the self-deprecation of the illusion of self-delusion just a temporary rest to empower new intentions to scale, in fact the letdown of this subtle self is the first liberation is also the ultimate liberation if it is the letting go of the full of three-la-secret (upekkhā pāramī). In the Dhammapada 97, the Buddha describes a person fully enlightened as follows:

Unscathed Willow, unbelief

Break the birth

Let go of demand, opportunity

 It is the spirit.

(Assaddho, akataññù ca

Sandhicchedo ca yo naro

The blackheads are black

Sa ve uttama poriso).

In Hattha yoga, if a person can lie loosely as a corpse in the sāvasana posture for about 20 minutes, the air leg that has been consumed for 24 hours can be recovered. According to Buddhism, reciting death means putting yourself in a dead situation, a way to let go of all the impulsive intentions of the ego to experience "nothing" right in the present reality. And it is in death that all beings create, that life is truly a boundless, endless source of peace.

Relaxing, letting go, and resting are all fundamental elements that cannot be ignored in any meditation. Many people despise this basic letting go, they are determined to try to practice meditation, wisdom meditation, koan meditation, or pay attention, recite Buddha's name, pray for forgiveness, etc. with the hope to promote Results come faster! But watch out: The faster the results come, the higher the pressure of psychological time and the slower the results!

In fact, when the body and mind escape from the pressure of the illusory self, the relaxation and letting go have brought great results without any personal effort. Any stalemate, insecurity, disturbance in life will be resolved naturally without trying to resolve subjectively, not expecting an ideal solution in the future or any assistance from outside power. The effect is so natural that relaxation and letting go bring great surprise:

1- Stressful body condition is often accompanied by many conditions such as spasticity, aches, palpitations, dyspnea, myocardial infarction, high blood pressure, neurasthenia etc.  So relaxing body is a good condition most to resolve stress, help disease to be treated easily and health is recovered quickly. On the other hand, psychological stress also produces many mental illnesses such as irritability, frustration, anxiety, guilt, melancholy, paranoia, etc. Therefore, the mind let go of the mind and leads to the spirit of calm down, resolving the situation. Compressed, pressing.

2- When too impatient, hasty, stressful, you often act, speak, think incorrectly and easily lose energy.  On the contrary, when the mind and body are contemptuous and peaceful, relaxation will be the foundation for your actions, words and thoughts to be more correct, accurate and comfortable, so you will not lose energy.

3 - A mind that is used too much will feel tired, exhausted, bored, frustrated, frightened, etc.  In letting go completely, the spirit is relaxed so naturally the afflictions of self calming and neutralizing. Conversely, the more you try to eradicate defilements, the more defilements will arise.

4. When your mind is fully rested, it can depend on the grace of any natural meditation object.  A green leaf, a blank door, a flying cloud ... can help your mind easily and calmly. When the mind is silent, it becomes clear, it is the mind capable of vigilance (vigilance) of all states of movement in the body, the sensation, the mind or the interaction of the body and mind, and discerning clearly the true nature of all phenomena in life.

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Ask:

- When I relax, let go for a while, I fall asleep, is it bad or good?

A:

- When the mind is stressed, you often yawn, very tired, tired, seemingly sleepy; but lying down could not sleep. It is a manifestation of the state of neurasthenia. If you are under stress, after relaxing, let go for a while, you sink into a good sleep - it is a natural tranquilizer, your body and mind automatically adjust to great . But if you are in a normal state, when you relax, you will fall asleep - it is a deep kiss, a slumber - this state is an obstacle, not good for your physical health and alertness. , mentally wise! In that case, you should walk better than sitting or lying down. If you have to sit, after relaxing, let go, so that you don't have a deep kiss, you should pay close attention to the in and out breath. Proper attention to an object will help your mind become more alert. If you do so, it will not go away if you are tired, then you should go to the bathroom or go outside to be more alert. If you like to sit, you should meditate where there is light, cool air and before you sit, do not eat.

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Ask:

- On the contrary, I can hardly relax, let go. My body was as hard as it was and my mind was almost always busy, unable to leave its concerns. So how to let go of a letter?

A:

- Meet that case, you should be familiar with relaxation about the body first. While trying to relax, you should keep an eye on each movement in a natural way, do not try too hard to focus, nor should you neglect and neglect. If you feel that your body is not flexible and flexible because you often do certain actions for a long time, you become stagnant; or often resistant, alert, but become stiff, you should play sports, take a slow walk, etc. You can also practice extreme power or simple exercise to reduce stiffness, gradually It will be more flexible, light and flexible.

- While practicing the body to relax like that you should observe the movements of the body naturally - not too specialized, nor negligent - then your mind will automatically be peaceful, relaxed and let go easier.

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Ask:

- There are jobs that require prompt, stressful, not allowing us to relax, let go, and relax for a moment; because if we do, is it like we are avoiding a certain responsibility?

A:

- Maybe you should understand the opposite! It is because to fulfill our responsibility for the tasks that require urgency and stress, we need to know how to relax and let go. Loosening helps reduce stress, quickly restores capacity to continue work and thus will achieve high efficiency. A person who is capable of letting go when confronted with urgent tasks will soon be calm and gentle in the more difficult jobs.

- If the urgency, stress accumulates for a long time, it will not be able to solve mental problems. At that time, not only do you fail to fulfill your responsibilities, but your fuss also ruins the work.

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Ask:

- But it takes me a certain amount of time for letting go? What about my time not allowed?

A:

- In fact, at first we should get used to relaxation, letting go; When you are well done, you can leave the letter right at work so it does not take a long time. If you are often stressed and don't know how to let go of the letter, the consequences will be unpredictable; At that time, it may not only take a while but it will take the rest of your life!

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Ask:

- Please ask more: Saying relax means to try to make yourself relax. But trying is invisible, creating another tension. Let go, too, to remove anything from our minds, we still have to use force. For example, it is not easy to let go of a sadness. Thus, using force or not using force does not let go. Now what to do?

A:

- It seems that you confuse the two events: trying to be physically fit and trying to be psychological. When the body is stressed, tired, you have the right to relax, it is a very natural response or reflex, like you are diligently exercising sports whenever blood pressure is discomfort, limb aches, etc. No problem. Did you try to relax for some supreme ideal purpose? If so, then it is no longer in the physical sphere but has already turned to psychological problems. You need to clearly see the body relaxing and letting go of the mind are two completely different areas.

Trying to mentally let go is the focus of your question, isn't it? However, here you are again confused between letting go and letting go. You have assimilated letting go with letting go in the sense of "removing from the mind" a sadness, for example.

Psychologically, the words of effort, effort, and use are synonymous with the use of mind, intention or intention, etc., the effort of the will to achieve something. It is this will that is the manifestation of the "self" or "self".

On the other hand, when you see anxiety, fear, depression, sadness, frustration, etc., you need to give up because you have been suffering and stressed, meaning you want to take the burden off. putting pressure on you to be free from all troubles, right? Thus, it is true that you have to use force to fall back into the cycle of what you want to solve the problem or want to avoid reality.

In fact, you don't need to do anything to solve the problem, it's really letting go. Leave everything in their place, don't try to eliminate anything, because there's no way you can remove them. When repressed these defilements are only hidden in the unconscious and not destroyed. At that time, you have no chance to see their true side! But how long have you never seen the true nature of negativity, no matter what you do they are still a challenge for your whole life.

Because, the use of mind elimination only creates an antagonism that results in increased insecurity, stress, negativity, suffering. So letting go is not an attempt to let go of a state, a situation or a consequence, but simply to let go of the attitude of delusion of the illusory self that attempts to maintain or eliminate that state.

Talking down but actually only need you to do nothing to give the mind a restless break from all the intentions of the wandering artifact. At that time, even though you did not try to eliminate it, the defilements became ineffective. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/5/2019.