Corona's Coronation.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
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One morning at Suong Mountain ...
Every year the forest meditates this season, so many forest flowers Yellow flowers bloom all over the mountains, glistening in white mist. Mist fog mixed in the forest canopy, peaks as dim as sometimes not. This place is so peaceful and quiet. Only the sound of birds singing to each other. Every morning they chirping.
The mountains of this season are calm and fanciful as in the realms of the gods . This place is like another world, it seems far from the world which is full of insecurity and afflictions out there. That world does n't seem real to me. Life mindfulness and simple, alone wilderness day after day quietly passed . Long time no see down ...
These days, there's a stir in the epidemic. Many people wrote me about the corona virus. People are afraid , insecure , people complain , worry , those who are interested in visiting the forest meditation have enough food to store or not ...
Suddenly, the whole world tumbled over to the virus.
Some people get stressed out because of their idle nature , they are so cramped , some people have a headache because they don't know where to send the kids, find work for them to do and play, others are nearly depressed because they have trouble doing business. and future unforeseen ... everyone headache with the question: how now everything new back to normal here.
Life is easily turned upside down by random things that no one can guess. Things that we plan or think important will easily become meaningless because of any surprises. A lot of stress is because things aren't like my "plan" anymore. But actually there when it was always like I want or plan where anyway. Inherently in life 10 things, 9 is not like my idea . But life has a lot of "cool" things to help us turn a blind eye to that fact , to continue chasing the illusion of a life "as planned". Then the virus appear , triggered a wave of fear and insecurity collective, do overturning everything. A gust disturbing episode can cause harm terrible, suddenly jumped out at us is the fact plainly : "It turns out that the resurrection is not sure such".
In fact , uncertainty is the nature of life, the only thing is definitely death. Imagine if this time her die, we will die with regrets like, regret lived a life meaningless , chasing the illusion of priceless value ... But we do not see and do not accept accept that. We do not accept what we want, pursue and seek for so long it turned out to be so vulnerable , so easily lost.
The plague made life suddenly slow down to the point where people fell short. We do not have time to prepare and become stressed because suddenly there is so much time for ourselves and for the family (a luxury before corona babies are born). Perhaps now many people have the opportunity to look closely at the house they are living in, discovering the effects of the things they have to earn money to buy; looking at the husband and wife in a daze, feeling the need to get used to familiarizing themselves with strangers (because there is no new, better thing to see, to hear, to say, to entertain) and waiting outside as before); Suddenly hours to suddenly look closely at your child, listen to the speech and panicky about it ... Busy which is why justification to not do the good and essential for yourself, now suddenly become things people dive dive search and create to escape the boring , meaningless and empty inside life paint colorful around.
Why can a virus affect my life so badly ? Wait for the general condition of everyone . Insecurity , fear and confusion are inherently evident and are an inevitable outcome for ordinary people who have no real fulcrum for their lives, and it is simply activated by the virus. and increased only by the uneasy resonance of everyone . But with those who seek the truth and helpless inside, stars are still caught up in the wave of insecurity collective society of this? There must be something wrong here.
Most of the afflictions of life are present because we place importance on things that are not worth it . Something is just enough to make life wobble when we rely too much on it, put our full focus on it and then collapse, as if we were leaning on a rotten tree. The problem is based not in the right place, not in the tree, which is still there but not responsible . People kept pouring out sin on her head corona. Unjust give it too. 99.99% of Vietnamese people have never known, He never met you, and 99.99% probability that you did not cause problems with large health us . The common flu is actually more dangerous, particularly in the United States, the number of people who die from seasonal flu each year is 70,000 people (from childhood until now how many times have the flu, huh, no one idle to count and remember at all ). And corona, as predicted by the doctors, will also continue to exist after the epidemic as a regular flu strain. The majority of deaths are due to the underlying disease serious else is there in person, often in the elderly, and because the system health overload not intervene promptly.
The SARS epidemic (related to the corona virus today) in 2003 killed 5 Vietnamese people, very few people knew and cared about , did not create a wave of excessive fear today, mainly because at that time there was no facebook, Network newspaper and smartphone . I heard that people in the city rushed to buy things, as a result many people would suffer from eating instant noodles for a few months at a time to run out of stock; People even wipe toilet paper. Strangely enough, it has been unknown since when toilet paper was in the top list of such necessities to exist !!! The level of insecurity is terrible. People are more afraid of being isolated, afraid of being stigmatized, being scolded on social media than being afraid of corona pneumonia. The evil of human truth scary .
There are things more frightening than that tiny virus, so people won't be afraid. Often people are afraid of seemingly threatening things, unknown things; enough imagination to frighten people to death. When new information on corona and the first patient appears , fear and panic wave form increases dramatically as new patients phase appeared recently . Because the information about the corona has repeatedly trigger the fear and insecurity in us throughout the first time long before, just wait until there are events to flare up. In our minds there is always fear and insecurity , and unconsciously we look for reasons to justify and blame that insecurity , instead of finding the root of the problem to solve . So we are very concerned about the information that triggers insecurity , see how many times you read, listen, discuss , think ... every day about Covid-19 you will see. More interested it will appear more and more in mind and increase the level of insecurity . We deliberately let it convince us that insecurity is not our fault, not our responsibility but our corona, our external "objective" factor. And under the influence of the wave of social insecurity , fear and insecurity have increased exponentially .
Inside insecurity, anything outside also triggers that insecurity . Inside security, outside cannot make us afraid.
And also according to the law , when people get used to corona, psychology considers it a part of life and is not afraid anymore, still playing with it. Foreigners when coming to Vietnam are extremely scared and insecure when traveling on the road, always as an accident is near. In Vietnam for a long time, I found it normal , sometimes I saw some Westerners hovering motorbikes on the road like Vietnamese. The probability that we will die from a traffic accident is even greater and there is a daily reality more than the probability of dying from a traffic accident
In fact, this occasion is a great opportunity for us to realize many important things for our lives .
First, the insecurity of those around us and our own makes it clear that the fulcrum of our lives is very unstable. Happy and meaningful life we depend on so many external conditions , all things can be changed randomly at any time. Yet our life is so precarious and full of fear. Just as we rely on our whole body and a dozen decaying trees, just a broken tree is enough to make me wobble. The more necessary things to make her more confident and happy , the chances of suffering and insecurity strikes the lives we more frequently and easily. What do we need to live safely? The work must be stable, not conflict in the family , not at work obstacles , children are not sick, be obedient , must study well ... husband and wife must be hard-working, docile, do not change their heart, The boss (and many others) must be satisfied with him, colleagues must evaluate tall, respectful and not envious of me, everything must follow the plan I have planned ... and then my body will not get sick, my face will not grow pimples, I will work no traffic, have enough money or be extra, buy my own things want, always have an internet connection and a phone to ensure situated about half a meter in anywhere , anytime ... every tree dozens of different items to sustain the life of us . Full of things that don't depend on you, it can change and break at any time. Increasingly, the list of the indispensable things in life is more and more us add more - and take nothing less. Missing one thing is an emergency . See, look, the list also has toilet paper ... Most of the "essential, vital" categories are things that you can imagine, due to insecurity or social and media pressure. , seduction , do we believe that without it, his life is wrong. We have lost ourselves in the flood of greed and hatred of the world .
Observe people and yourself, to see clearly what makes those insecurities and fears. And see the problem in the standards of living, the values on which we base ; something new made happy numerous conditions and is the fulcrum for the life of us . It has to be on the inside, not on the outside. Please observe the awareness and attitude proper to mature , this is very valuable opportunity, very practical for every Zen student .
Where is the place I need to rely on, which is really important to me? Putting the importance of life on things that can change randomly at any time ... that's risky .
Secondly, this is an opportunity to experience and understand the nature of life. Not understanding the nature of life, we are always delusional and do not accept many things. It is the source of much suffering . The nature of life is uncertain , and everything built on uncertainty has the potential to suffer .
Zen monk Sayadaw U Jotika said: " Accept the not surely be a sign to make sure of maturity" . We can only accept it when we understand it and no longer have illusions . Observing with the right attitude : not wanting, not opposing, not seeking to change, we can understand the true nature of life. That process is always accompanied by the pain of frustration and disillusionment. Wisdom and things adult is born from that pain.
The understanding clearly makes us get relaxed and relieved immensely . We no longer doubt about the fulcrum authentic life , is on the inside, is the intellectual understanding of themselves alone, understanding the nature of life. Let's look at the insecurity and suffering in around , make comparisons with himself and looks deep into the mind: what is present, what is dominant and orient the life of us ... then the belief of us will be more powerful, purpose and direction life is increasingly obvious . We are practicing the qualities of spiritual its being used , the characteristics to observe and experience the fact , and that is putting her away from the misery , ignorance around the world .
Corona baby present in the world is its reason . He may be a disaster to many, the culprit of suffering , but he can also be a good friend who is helping us to open our eyes . Who the baby is depends on the vision and the level of spiritual development of each person. Do not blame your baby. Do not take responsibility of your life , responsibility for suffering, joy on your shoulders. By baby is just one of countless predestined that his life is in favor bestowed to open market for we see reality only. Be grateful for your life , and take full advantage of the opportunity to live to grow , instead of resentment and deadlock in a meaningless life .
" This Dharma is only for those who know and see, not for those who do not know, do not see ." END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/6/2020.
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