That is, when your mind is wandering, adventuring in a certain way, return to yourself and be fully present with what is present in the present.
Flowers are a symbol of beauty, aroma and freshness, so everyone desires to see, love and cherish. Garbage is a dirty and dirty thing so few people pay attention to and just want to remove or eliminate it as far as possible. Although garbage is treated as such, but it still silently accepted to contribute to life for the best.
Flowers and trash
The job of garbage is to make manure, help gardeners cultivate flower beds, vegetable gardens, gourds and many other green fruit trees, flowering and fruiting. On the other hand, thanks to the farmers know how to use organic fertilizers and limit the use of chemical fertilizers to fertilize and cultivate, so the vegetables and fruits are added nutritious and ensure good health for humans.
Therefore, garbage is not necessarily a messy, ugly thing that needs to be removed, but garbage can silently contribute positively to human life.
In our minds there are also two basic characteristics of flowers and trash. We have good qualities like goodness, diligence, gentleness, loveliness, forgiveness, sympathy and help for those who encounter difficult and needy situations. That positive point represents the fresh, beautiful flower inherent in every human being. And when our mind is gentle, peaceful, and truly happy, it is the flower of our soul that is blooming and fragrant.
On the contrary, when mindful of greed, sadness, fear, jealousy, reproach, selfishness, that garden of mind is growing many kinds of weeds and garbage. Therefore, cultivators must know how to take care of their garden of mind so that every day the fruits of love, understanding and life ... are sumptuous, blooming and radiating incense.
Flowers and trash
In our minds there are also two basic characteristics of flowers and trash.
We know that a flower is present thanks to many other factors that combine to form like soil, water, green manure, air, sunlight, caregivers, etc. Flowers cannot there is a solitary existence which needs to rely on each other to arise and survive. If someone just likes to look at the top of the flower, but cut off the messy root part below, that fresh flower will only last for a few days and will soon wither and fade.
Therefore, compost is essential and indispensable for flowers, and human life. In our minds the same way, there is quite a lot of disturbing junk such as greed, anger, reproach, fear, jealousy, discrimination, boredom, etc. These negative seeds are hidden. hidden in the depths of our minds, when qualified, they will prevail and dominate human life, creating many miseries and insecurities.
However, if we know how to practice and transform, the disturbing garbage will also become a pure, fragrant flower and spread the fragrance to give to life. On the contrary, if we do not know how to cultivate and water the flowers every day, it will quickly wither and wither. For humans, too, there are times when we are happy with our loved ones and are pampered and valued by their loved ones. But if we still remain indifferent and don't know how to care, cherish what we have, someday happiness will automatically take off and leave the emptiness, loneliness and sadness. This fact has been happening, if not quickly awakened to transform, it is inevitable for insecurity and collapse.
In fact, suffering only manifests when our mind is obscured by the ignorance, governed by the movement of the ego. When contemplation occurs, the ego immediately protests and eliminates the object (anger), or wants to possess what it likes (greed). This reaction path distorts reality according to subjective perception, so an honest look cannot be displayed. Since then, we do not see garbage as an indispensable condition for making flowers, as well as facing suffering will help people understand the true nature of life.
Because we do not recognize the valuable and practical lesson from suffering, we lack the ability to transform the suffering of ourselves as well as sympathize and share the love for those who suffer from tragic circumstances, compassion return. For example, in a dirty trash container, there are extremely valuable pearl beads, if we think that the trash is too dirty but not willing to reach out to get the pearls, it is foolish and wasteful to know. sack. It can be said that the habit of elimination and resistance to reality is one of the basic causes of suffering.
Living in this life, no one wants the difficulty to happen to me at all, but it is no exception to anyone. From the rich to the rich, to the poor and needy, there are many or less sufferings, that's the truth. However, if you know how to nourish and keep your mind calm and clear, you will not be caught in whatever conditions happen to you.
When the pure vision uncovers the false perceptions and calculations of the greedy greedy ego, then you are free to contemplate the beauty of rivers, hills, trees and flowers, without being depending on the notion of attachment, possessiveness or hate.
All phenomena and things in this universe are always changing and new. You cannot capture or promise anything for yourself. Your job is to come into contact with reality now and here. Do not take past concepts and prejudices to impose on reality. How things are happening, depending on which to behave appropriately, without having to stereotype in the ways and minds of others.
If you live fully with this content, you will have a good relationship with everyone around you without hurting anyone, whether it's as small as a worm or an ant. When your mind is clear and open like that, you will have a new and honest look in all areas of life.
To see that trash is the flower - flowers and trash are incomparable as well as suffering makes happiness - negativity is Bodhi, you need to return to yourself to take care of the flower of the soul to bloom and add Part flavor. That is, when your mind is wandering, adventure in a certain sky, return to yourself and be fully present with what is expressed in the present.
Every time your current body and mind are lit, you will clearly see the inevitable relationship between yourself and your life, between garbage and flowers. From there, you no longer hate, avoid or eliminate anything, because you already know how to turn garbage into flowers - turning misery and dissatisfaction into happiness and happiness. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/8/2019.