People from birth have known to go out to the outside world to gather the necessary information for life. By the age of four years, he had accumulated basic knowledge to handle common activities. Then learn from family, friends, school and social community; combined with the ability of thinking, contemplation, judgment, experience, knowledge, skills, etc. are increasingly rich, diverse and more complex.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

If a person cannot absorb the necessary information from outside, he can only live a plant life. Therefore, looking outward is not a mistake, it is the inevitable evolutionary condition of human life in the social community and in the environment of life.

The wrong leads to afflictions, suffering, boredom, frustration, etc. is because people do not know that they have gradually become attached, bogged down, dependent on the outside world to the point of completely forgetting themselves me It was the death and corruption that Albert Camus discovered when he realized that he was no longer himself, I became an unknown stranger!

On every contact object, you constantly add emotions, such as love, hate, greed, and etc., depending on which feelings you subjectively choose, remove. To a certain extent, this seems to be normal, but when these attitudes are increasingly accumulated, cultivating, increasing, developing until it becomes too deep, solid, then Start to become extremely dangerous! Why? The reason is that you have formed prejudices, intolerances, hatred, grudges or passions, immersed in the outside world, to the point that you lose the ability to return to yourself.

This is too obvious for people who are addicted to gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc. But actually, more or less each person has lived in some degree of death. Evidence that when love or hate, when failure or humiliation, etc., anyone can forget to eat, insomnia, fear, anxiety, loneliness, frustration, etc. The psychological result is simply for being too deeply attached to the environment. At that time, even if you wanted to be peaceful and peaceful, just for a moment, it was not easy to get!

Our mind is elastic like a elastic band. If the elastic band is stretched too tight and stuck to something, a few times or a few times it seems okay; but if it is stretched for a long time or many times, the elastic fiber can hardly return to its normal state.

So, once stretched cannot be restored, it looks like the elastic band is broken. So is a spring balance, if the scale is overloaded many times, it can be stretched and cannot return to zero! If the scale is broken, everyone can easily find out, but few people realize that their mind has been damaged since then. When you are afflicted, suffering, anxiety, melancholy, etc., you are letting the outside to interfere too much in the inner spiritual life. And once attached, too much dependent on the external environment, the mind cannot remain innocent, relaxed and quiet. Can you sit quietly for a while? If you do not mean that your mind is being dominated or bound to something outside, it is impossible to return to yourself in a natural way.

A person who is preoccupied, or deeply engulfed in memories of past sadness, attempting for a future vision, seeking a gain in practice, or being greedy, angry ... is difficult can focus on the present or return to yourself completely. First of all you need to see your alienation and alienation to escape self-reliance, attachment, and attachment to the illusory world created by illusory self.

When you remove the elastic band from the attachment, the first reflex will return to its original natural state. Also, as soon as you are relaxed, let go, rest completely, your mind will automatically return to the body and mind (mind-body-mind-mind). Returning to reality, Vipassanā meditation is called mindfulness, and Zen Buddhism is called the most being mindful or non-mindful. Mind is mindful, it is not wandering outward or not forgetting the reality of mind and body, which does not fall into contemplation, thoughts or thoughts.

However, returning to yourself is not about returning to a certain starting point, but returning to a state of being, with a calm, absent-minded attitude, all choices, take away ... At that moment, you just need to be complete with the reality of money without adding, no need to act or react at all.

Mindfulness is an element available in the nature of the mind, but because of the illusion we run after the mindfulness, we should be mindful. Therefore, when letting go of the illusory self, immediately be mindful of the reality of money, and the stature of the reality of that money depends on the level of opening of your mind:

- When your mind is quiet and innocent, all thoughts are absent, mindfulness is complete with the reality of "nothing" (suññatā) of the dharma.

- When your mind is at ease, in the dharma without any attachment, mindfulness is complete with the comprehensive reality (sabbatthatā) of the dharma.

- When your mind is paying attention to an outstanding event taking place in the body-mind-mind, mindfulness is complete with reality like the micro-sabhava of the phenomena of identity.

However, you should not prepare your mind subjectively to be fully fulfilled with the reality of emptiness (suññatā) or the comprehensive reality (sabbatthatā), because that mind is "higher" than the whole mind with reality is like the microscopic sabhāva which is taking place in the mind-body-mind. Because it is depending on the feeling of the mind that has the ability to be dependent on the righteous conditions, not the mind, which distinguishes the duality, whether it is big or small ... Mindfulness is the complete mind with the right here and now. without initiating any concept of dualism, because a thought arises, it is divided into good and evil, right and wrong, no, high, low, etc., of reasoning of consciousness, that is the moment of formation. illusory self.

So it is best that you should not choose or create mindfulness and mindfulness objects to be mindful according to your own will, because that is no longer a mindfulness, it is no longer true. When your mind let go of any intention to distract the illusory self, then there is no loss of mindfulness, nostalgia or mindfulness (that is, non-mindfulness), then it is truly mindful, but absolutely no action is taken. Artifacts called mindfulness. Do not create a method or a path for mindfulness, but just right there with reality is the mind that is mindful. If it is quiet, then just be quiet and not have to stop the noise, because when you start to want to stop the noise, your mind is no longer silent!

Going back to the actual event, we try to consider a few typical situations: For example, when you are breathing, it is a complete selfless activity of the mind and body right here and now, so let it be yen for breathing activity is as natural as it is, don't add anything, don't try to control or master it, because you have to intervene with me. Let the respiratory department do its natural work, isn't that forte? If you practice breathing techniques according to nursing, yoga or qigong depending on your practical needs, that's fine, but if you consider it to be mindful, it's not right, then your mind can be fine. high concentration but not necessarily the mind which is full with reality, because the mind is still hidden by sharp and invisible thoughts, especially when you practice meditation with the desire to achieve an ideal state. When your mind has opened the mind to see the true nature, you will no longer see any state as ideal.

Mindfulness is not about renouncing the outside world to just stay inside. Life is an interconnection. If you stick to the outside, leave it inside, but if you stick inside, forget about it outside. So you lose the fullness of reality, to isolate yourself in a divergent, monotonous life.

The Buddha took an example of a log drifting between rivers. If it stuck to one side or the other, sunk, rotted or taken away, it could not flow into the sea. Life is a river, a lineage. Mindfulness is the essence of the full life with the true nature of the dharma, so it is called living lawfully. The Tu-da-complete Saint is called "entering the lineage" (sotāpanna) because he has lived up to the French lineage. So let your mind flow completely in itself in the full operation of the dharma, not to stop where the mind stops. Getting the mind to stop is not mindfulness, nor is concentration, but attachment, the mind impingement that enters into the real nature.

When you know how to be mindful, how to be perfect with reality, even if it is a breath, it is walking, standing, sitting, lying, is all ... of the body; are feelings or feelings of suffering, loss, joy, goodness, and discharge; are the states of mind, which is "nothing" or "all" etc ... are all dependent, nothing important, mindfulness itself is one of the essence core of meditation. Mindfulness is quiet on every object without stopping at any object.

Therefore, you should not be too mindful of noting the states of body, feeling, mind, and dharma, with ambition to keep your mind, in an effort to find something in it, or with the desire to attain attainments Ideally, because your mind is bound to an object or a purpose that distracts you or stops, that is to say that you cannot have a mindful mind full of reality.

To return completely to the present reality, it is mainly not to let the mind wandering outward to find a way to enchant in a state of death, alienation, and not return to indulge in finding the inner self to isolate yourself from the outside world.

No matter what you are doing and not forgetting the reality of mind and body right in that job, it is wonderful. As such, you can be leisurely, self-conscious, doing nothing, not going out of mindfulness where the real nature is. Three elements of diligence, mindfulness and concentration belong to the part of the Noble Eightfold Path. The element of diligence belongs to the dynamics, the element of belonging is still, and mindfulness is both active in static, still in motion, so mindfulness has the ability to stabilize in a flexible and natural way, without using meditation. or enter anything, but the mind is still at ease.

Completely returning to the body (mindfulness) is relatively easy. Going back to being honest with the feelings (recitation) is relatively more difficult. Because when you have a feeling of suffering you often want to end it right away, and inadvertently increase that feeling of suffering. When you have a feeling of peanut you often want to hold it back, so turn it into the suffering of the mind that fears loss and destruction. The more distracted the mind is - holding or eliminating - the feelings of a superficially subjective way out, the inside of those feelings increases the pressure that you are not calm enough to realize. As such, you will only accidentally distort or intentionally adjust your sensual feelings rather than being completely with the true nature of those feelings.

More subtle, when your mind has a preferred reaction attitude or hate an object, it gets bogged down on that object and forgets the mind, where the reaction attitude arises. Let go of attachment on the object of the mind to return to look back at its own reaction (mindfulness) on that object called mindfulness on the mind. When your illusory self receives this mind as "I" and "mine", it immediately uses that mind according to its intention, then it reacts subjectively, only to select and deal. with the outside situation to see if that object is beneficial or detrimental to it, but forgetting that the reaction itself inside is the original cause of the problem! So follow the tops but forget the root. Mindfulness towards the mind (mindfulness) is to return to the nature of the mind and not to run the mind according to the object of illusion. However, not letting your mind wandering in pursuit of an external object does not mean that you are mindful of stopping (determined), and should not be too concerned about considering your state of mind in a monotonous way as an object of choice, as such you can't see the mind in its natural situation. You just need to return immediately to the present state of mind as soon as it is arising or destroying, no need to use the ability to solve, censor, criticize or justify anything for that state of mind.

In short, like a person who is dissatisfied with the current situation, is passionate about finding satisfaction in the future, thus forgetting himself, he wishes to achieve his ideal hobby! Also, the illusory self wanders along the ups and downs with so many external joys and sufferings without knowing that he himself has all the perfect qualities within himself. Therefore, do not wander to seek other dreamy ideals states to return to yourself, see the sabhava dhamma right here in this illusory body and mind, all truths are always waiting for you over there.

That's why the Buddha taught to come back to see the truth (Ehipassiko) right at the present reality of money (Sandiṭṭhiko), because in addition to the pure mind, there is no place to find peace in the world of impermanence. This temporary is for refuge:

 "Refuge in yourself,

 Don't rely on anyone else.

 The new pure mind is

 It is hard to find a place to live in ” 

Manh Tu also said: "Heaven and earth are full of me, sincerely return to ourselves, no greater happiness."

So why do you keep going as a three-year-old traveler to find a dream, then:

Wandering from reincarnation

Ignorance before, far away!

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The function of mindfulness is to bring the mind back to reality, or in other words, to liberate the mind from the implications of losing yourself in the dreaming mind (sañāvipallāsa). Specifically mindfulness helps you:

- Solving all constraints:  All constraints are caused by thoughts of desires stemming from the illusory self or the ignorance of ignorance. Mindfulness is returning to the true nature (sabhava), so it is no longer bound in a crazy thought (viparita saññā) or a virtual mind (vipallatta citta) along with its unrealistic images.

- Self-  righteous living: The cause of uneasiness, unconsciousness, selflessness, loss of mindfulness or mindfulness, means that the mind is drawn to the past, looking forward to the future or immersed at present. When mindfulness is complete with reality here and now, all ideas of time automatically disappear without trace. Right then the mind is completely free, free from all the pressure of psychological time. Therefore, people who live fully with reality are always serene, relaxed, peaceful and free.

- Memory less impaired:  When stressed or attached to something people often forget, or forget. On the contrary, mindful people are less likely to be under the pressure of attachment, stress, so the mind is disrespectful so that memory is better. Of course, memory depends on the aging of brain cells, but distraction and stress promote brain cells to deteriorate faster.

- The mind is easy: The  mind is not affected by the external environment, meaning that even in the mind, the mind is still in turmoil. When the mind is busy in desire, frustration, chaos, stagnation or hesitation, it is very difficult to calm down to focus on something in the present. When the mind is mindful, it is very easy to focus on meditation or to concentrate on work.

- Preserving the natural gas:  Mindfulness is the principle of "Inner Spirit" in Eastern traditional medicine. According to this principle, when the mind returns to its fullness, the air leg is not only dispersed, but also intact, ie the mindfulness of mind is the same.

- Mastering the mind and body:  The mentally dispersed people cannot pay attention, how to master the body and mind. Like a driver who is controlled by the outside, unable to control the speed or adaptive direction, it is easy to cause an accident. And those who are mindful without trying can still control themselves naturally.

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Ask:

- He said, in relation to the external world, we often care about the object but forget ourselves, so as to follow the original root. Does the teacher want to say don't care about others, just pay attention to your aspirations?

A:

- It is not so, only interested in your own will, but do not pay attention to the wishes of others is selfish. Returning to the root is mindfulness, from which you can depend on the object where you are careful to pay attention to observing the inside or the outside according to the actual needs at that time, but you should not lose the comprehensiveness of reality (both inside and out), so as not to be attached to one side.

Normally, if you are too concerned about external objects, you will forget yourself, so you need to return to your original body and mind first, then when the mind is mindful inside, you should direct your mind to the world out; and when you are able to be mindful both inside and outside, your mind is no longer biased. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/5/2019.