Basic Buddhist Studies-Volume Two

Part I – lesson 5

Four headings contemplation
(Satipatthana)

 

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A-Lead type

After its leader, The Religious World has to manipulate the media to lead beings to the path of enlightenment according to each level options. The four items that contemplation is one of the practices that Respect the first sermon.
Buddha teachings discourses but vastly from the human to the universe, but still revolve around the human issues. People object to visible radiating bars van Huu universe, France Four subjects headings contemplation helps us recognise the truth of themselves, humanity and society. That is also the sense that the Buddha is targeted to enlightened beings.

B-contents

I determine the meaning
Buddhist teachings affirm that: Want a radically profound things the phenomenon would, necessarily used the method of contemplation. No contemplation cannot reviews are honest, objective things. The Café is using intelligence to thinking, grievances and object analysis, to radically the nature spectacle things. Mantras are interpreted in a way that simply remember thinking objects to implement a consistent process, thinking. In this preliminary phase, the anniversary is the premise for the restaurant. If there is no number-do not happen. The anniversary also means memories stored object after. If the object represents a positive outcome, benefit for the practice leads to enlightenment, we used the anniversary to remember thinking that. In the Catechism four noble truths, the four headings that faculty claim Religious contemplation at the Dao. First of all, this is a balanced practice disciplines about just and consistent. Includes:
1. Contemplation of the fuselage
2. Contemplation of the life
3. Contemplation of the mind
4. The contemplation of the law.
The track about the presence of the body, the mind, life and the French, it is called meditation only. Let's go deep to see were destroying being owned nature of them, this is called meditation.
II-content of the Four headings contemplation
1. Contemplation of body:
Contemplation about the stem means to practice meditation. The practice allows contemplation to be aware about the peaceful, serene in my life at the moment, to dread and lifestyle practices to see the left side of the fuselage.
a/bars/stems through the breath
This is the form of the Cafe window News (counting the breath). However, hull through not only breath counting the breath but also must follow the breath in, breath out how short and long known as such. In other words, at the time we are conscious and get to know yourself. For the breath of life is paramount. People can drink fast, fasting in a long time, but his life would end if the lack of breath in minutes. In the Decade of the Second Quarter, the Buddha asked the Sa Network: people live how long? The first position in a few days. Second answer in a meal. Buddha told two yet understand. The third unit answered to some extent life breath. The taste compliments the Buddhist understanding. We breathe all day, all night, but at least when we catch her breath. We're too busy worried about feeding the wear which forget the marvelous properties of the breath. We're not interested in the breath for lung and heart Chamber. When worry, resentment makes the heart, the lungs difficult absorption of air, then at the moment the main catch of breath is very important, help us regain the calm state of mind and of body conditioning. When the breath and the body regulates the status of the net of the security will bring forth.
In fact, the inhaled breath out shallow depth is not the important thing. More importantly, we have to be aware of while breathing. Buddha when inhale exhale we must consciously follow the breath. The breath out of long, short, short, long known to wise and sober. Day in the life of modern civilization, human activities such as the space shuttle in cửi frame. People can practice allows contemplation of breath to bring about health as well as the productivity of work. At higher levels, it helps improving and developing.
b/bars/stems through active gestures
This is a form of body through the bars go, stand, sit, lie, the other activities of the body, to control the operation of the fuselage by mindfulness. Means taking the Chief Justice Ant to maintain and promote the speech, the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice network.
In fact, the sense of contemplation is to focused thought to contentious start. The Buddha recommends the Buddhist to sense in each small action picked up. As well as the sense of breath, when we are away, when I'm standing standing ... So to feel the action is entirely in the present moment. Life as such is living in Mindfulness, living in the province and in peace. Aware of his steps to find r go between soil ng Sun clouds water, with the grass leaf flower bird ... Every step we are with scenery, space and time, with the whole universe, and the universe are present in each of its steps. The sense that the words we are saying the absence of greed, anger or not. Because the words that we speak out all contain the mind, his thoughts. In life, sometimes we don't have to consciously and tested on himself. Finally we have the sense of frivolity, and the lost life in the present moment.
Often in life, we are dominated by the past and the future. Therefore, we do not enjoy a happy present. Let's look at a man who was sitting in the Lecture Hall to listen to France, but her mind is thinking of the money lenders have yet to get it back and trying to get it back in one day recently. Try asking the person he felt entirely French source lost or are a worry for multi-field forlorn? Therefore, the true meaning of the formula for the operation of the living with the current action. When we consciously awake before an action, there are two possibilities: either we are immersed in the action, live with the action without thinking of anything else outside of mindfulness, the feeling, don't see themselves in action then there is already a good result. Or is he self-conscious to the "I" in the Act, the owner thinking of falling associated with action. Thus, the sense of the action of the commitment to the essential need then it's true meaning of mindfulness the sensations. Also when we are aware of actions associated with "I" then it is a first step back with the autonomy in the operation of the line itself.
As such, the fuselage through the action to help us control the operation of the fuselage by mindfulness, to dread practice primary facilities, take us back to live with the present; depart the lifestyle search globe happy by imagine, by expecting and by flashbacks.
c/bars/stems impure through false constitutes distinct parts
Normally we rarely pay attention to his body in detail. We only care about the needs such as eating, sleeping ... how to have health, to balance the body beautiful. We're proud of and cherish you dear, because under the eyes of everyone we have a beautiful body, beauty ... We cherish, nurture and protect it. On the contrary we genuinely suffering and disgrace when one has a certain physical disabilities as the eyes squint, the snub ... we feel the agony of mind when facing the people.
But though this incarnation or bad, beautiful still is impure, the fate of birth, impermanence, egolessness. In the traditional view of Buddhism, the human body is due to four great components, i.e. the four elements: Earth, water, wind, fire, or also called four world: the boundaries are the solid (bone, meat), marine world is fluid (blood, pus ...), fire is the heat (temperature), the style is dynamic power (breath).
In the Anniversary of (Central), The Ph t has taught police number-four-body methods such as the following: the Cafe from the soles of the feet up to the top of hair is wrapped by a layer of skin and filled the wrong things especially impure. Moreover, this body impure upon also lies in the womb, that life blood gas absorption. The impure and computer imitation of this body as expressed more clearly, more powerful when we can test a consistent toss outside the cemetery. The first step is swollen up, bodies rot out. The second step is the Inn's body were the birds and insects eat the meat. The third step is the Inn's body left the bones stick together thanks to the tendon fibers. The fourth step is the Inn's body left the discrete white bone, with time to kill the white powder into the melt. While such contemplation, the Buddhist knows that: "such is the nature of this Body, a family identity is thus not beyond the names". Ðấy is the affirmation of true Religious conviction. This body subject of birth, aging, illness, death. Time passed, the life also diminished. A body that I love on popular would now only left the ashes cooled. Bad-beautiful, rich-poor, sang-coward ... are like that.
However, the stem is impure, is impermanent doesn't mean we're pessimistic about it, abandon or destroy it. The Buddha did not allow the Buddhist pessimistic about any one thing in my life. If we see the left side of the fuselage that pessimism, we ruin themselves. Such is contrary to the high ideals of World Religion.
Because, the purpose of the body impure is intended to take people beyond these obstacles, quị crime in this body accepted suffering. Such bars to please to lust desires.
In summary, the body can be understood on two sides: the crude bars and the Cafe section. The rough part is the body's external activities such as standing, sitting, lying, ... The international section is composed by four relatives, is the structure together through the impure.
2. Contemplation of the life:
a/what is Life?
Shou is said off of life feel. When to take something, or accept a what life is. Life and mind-body include life expectancy. The two sides interact with each other. Can tho that doesn't mind tho, or mind and empathy. From this idea, we have life's content consists of three States: life is the Renaissance psychology Club Rapture, fascinated before the object. The life gauge is the State of psychology the brain gauge, bored ... Any real-life communication framework is the Psychology Centre, no bias to the tribe as well as to the gauge. I can understand that life and life is miserable: psychotherapists subjectivity, real-life communication is any gauge of objective psychology.
Empathy is the indispensable basis of life is in the formation of human consciousness. Therefore, the contemplation of life feel is human psychology survey.
b/the content of the life of contemplation
To feel the life is present, fate must meet three elements: Base cabinet, foreign exchange ceilings and exposed. Menstruation Samyutta III, the Buddha articulates: "tho tho being, emotion labels Turkish contact birth ... tho Italy birth promotion. Due to the exposure being kicked so contentious, so start life exposed passages Shou "paragraph should kill. Six exposed of is the impression of emotional contact with all perception of the six sense organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind when faced with six corresponding ceiling Scenes: colors, flavor, taste, tactile, France. The basis of the life feeling miserable, cheer, what is neutral? The Buddha said: "this the Bhikkhu stilts, by the coast exposed to the life lost should run. Due to the exposed coast should gauge the life gauge. Due to the exposed coast with real real real real gauge should gauge lost the start-up life "(under Central III, no. 140). And how to be the life? Such is the presence of consciousness. When Duyen Tran and base together, if not conscious of it, will not feel about life, club life, gauge or gauge of real-life communication. When we look at a flower, then there are two possibilities: either the pretty bad reviews or didn't have an appreciation. If consciousness is beautiful, fragrant flowers ... the sense of touch will bring forth life. If the flowers have the allergy to us we feel uncomfortable, feeling the life gauge is being run. Also when looking at flowers we still feel the beauty, scent, or the nasty allergic, but I don't bother about it, not like nor boring. Such is the mentality of not suffering not fun being kicked. The Buddha said: "when the formula is clean, in white, she learned some things thanks to the formula. Her taste is lost, is tri-gauge form, are the real Club of real agony "(our fathers).
We what and why life expectancy said is suffering? All three life Club status, life gauge, a gauge of real-life contacts can belong to material, may not belong to the material; in terms of foreign civil or belong to life expectancy. He receives this body is mine, is mine. Want this body exists and we get life, beautiful food and raiment, the equipment needs for life; and always tend to want more life to demonstrate "what we" with his life. As much as we see the life of happiness, but in fact always present suffering the same happiness. People always fear what this body die sooner not enjoying life of material wealth was created. Election time they always fear of wealth stolen and suffering when it happens. When sa misses white shipping mechanical human hands back as suffering, life for them is now a chasm. Such is the suffering of people in materialistic life Club. Life sympathy money, fame, praise, status, my cooking, greed, anger, love of people ... are non materialistic life. When six six coast apartments feel tho born ceiling then here belong to the life exception. The life feelings about the meditation State tribe called life Cabinet. Although in life feel fiend common material or non-material mind is bound in the five education: Member, good, Honorable, real, lobes (ie the lust of money-wealth, beauty, fame-status, delicious food, sleep carefully). However, the life sense led to suffering or peace depends very much on the level of our enlightenment. For the Buddhist practice there, have consistent intellectual projection is always master mind the life feelings. Know the feeling is impermanent and will be vulnerable, feeling bound by the Buddhist life feeling she doesn't get with desire. Living in the tribe but not life implications, live life in agony but not extreme suffering because of a suicide and willow tri nature of them.
3. Contemplation of the mind:
a/what is the Mind?
When the table is the center of the table to a complex issue because that's hard to define how the mind. I can't say that ... as it comes to a specific object. Because, say to the child who is told to the operation of the body and the mind. Activity of crude, in the Center's activities in the international section. However, I still catch and identify it. I've often heard to the mind through concepts: the mind, the mind of evil, selfishness, greed, mind mind mind ... All of the expressions of mind in life. In the same time can not have two anniversary co-existence. Charity mind is active, then the absence of evil minds, the Center took part in the operation, the absence of mind alms (metta) ...
b/the content of contemplation of the mind
The Center bars we are taking to heart the Cafe right in itself of the mind that is not a consistent object other than the Center. We are aware of the mind to see the presence and activity of it. As mentioned, the man the five aggregates is divided into two parts the body and the mind. About deeply familiar, and the mind is tho, thought, consciousness. The body and mind have a connection with each other. The basis of the activity of the heart and mind to borrow the expression. The mind is invisible but it has the characteristics of the body. It can contact (sympathetic), it also has the feeling of suffering and NET security. So that people always existed a serious illness is hard to cure: the mind disease. Management is by Hien discord (lack of food, lack of drink, lack of medicines ...). Heart disease has many causes, but the main cause is due to take part, si: the disease-causing germs. Take on the material, emotional, ... Take not the anger, forlorn suffering that spawned diseases. And the disease can lead to heart disease and vice versa. Have illness when the mind is not the disease, and when the mind disease brought to the fuselage.
We mind not fixed in one spot at all, that it frequently turns to move from this State to another State, depending on the conditions of objectivity or subjectivity of the subject and the object. In Buddhism, the mind is often referred to as chimpanzee climbing a tree, the other shoots to shoots from the line throughout the day. So first anniversary after the other, the continuous removal of birth were as stream waterfall. Today love the ink runs out, tomorrow. The Center is due to human beings kill charm. Thus, the mind is not an independent entity. On that basis, the Center does not have the fall of it. Birth center was due to good, tho, thought, and action. Itself of this element is also due to the charm of birth, impermanence, egolessness. So the mind is also impermanent-anatta. The Buddha said: "this the Bhikkhu stilts, accept the consciousness is usually longer, and mistakes and worse is the body is often accepted. Because the body can survive several dozen years until a hundred years, and then destroy the mind of birth changed in every moment "(A Magazine, t. II). Real danger when accept that is usually longer, is invariant. If so then this life, accepted the result is an unequal society and forever, a disorder. Because people humans can not be changed. The role of education, ethics will have no value. People still take part, the terrace of the stadium anyway. No cultivation process go to the enlightenment freed. We know that the industry is due to the mind, which did accept the mind is often how the conversion is. As such, London still affective affective, intellectual Launcher not to go into the enlightenment.
4. The contemplation of the law:
a/France?
The word "France" does not mean limited to the specific things that belong to the material world is not perception. According to Buddhist teachings, the French text was out with extensive meaning, imply the whole universe and human, physical and mental, psychological and physical. France is divided into two groups: the French identity and the heart of France. France has excellent image quality and interferes not; as a table, a tree, a glass of water ... The mind is no general, could not be seen, but there is perception. Here, the two French people. That is human skandha: good, tho, thought, and action. France is the best in the five aggregates (physical body). The mind is tho, thought, consciousness; intrinsic consciousness world is that its effects are speculative, uncertain investment ... to manifest the psychological state of sad, happy ... For example, the fluctuations of the mind when the slopes of the year's activities and in Meditation (1), or the activity of sensory Furniture (2).
b/the content of the contemplation of the law
Man is subject to practice French contemplation. Because it combines the best of French and French Center enough. The Buddhist consistent projection skandha body to recognize the relationship between ourselves and the universe Van owners. If there's no universe could match the skandha No. From this calculation as we see clearly the reality of the meaning of anatta.
In the economic-development of Buddhist treatises, egolessness include France egolessness and anatta, anatta and French identity or France egolessness. Here the French colors are only for the body and the France of foreign world. Colors of France and the French mentality are relying on personal charm that so they are frivolous. Trading Strictly Mausoleum taught: "human harmony coast damaged human being, friendship Cup coast expected to scatter broken hope property destruction". When looking at the cup of lemonade, it has no ego. Because it is not an independent entity, that it only occurs in correlation pratītyasamutpāda: which is water, which is sugar, the lemon is. .. My mind too, it depends on the Cabinet exterior apartments, on exposed, tho, thought, consciousness. When the subject of awareness and perceived objects are all charm born egolessness, then also a fork would DD exists that accept first.
Need added that, the body and the mind exists only in a certain time and then according to the rules of birth-into-sabotage-destruction that takes away. Relatives could not exist outside of the mind, the mind cannot exist outside the body. As well as colors can not exist beyond the life, thought, consciousness. Thus, Buddhism does not accept a soul after nine schools stem decoction of destruction. Firepower a thought about a soul market and see that is falling, as affirmed by the existence of the human self over time. The idea of a soul, falls so-Buddhism is really wrong and empty. It is just expected a concept idea of false consciousness cannot be present in reality.
III-the meaning and practical benefits of consistency when practicing the four headings contemplation
When selecting the four headings contemplation to practice, is the practice itself. Because the rescue of birth Prince reincarnation for humans is the main objective that the Buddha on this life. Understand yourself then to understand humanity and the great wall. See human beings kill charm, impermanence, egolessness in humans to see the other.
Computer where human impermanence is the most powerful impression do we awaken. An animal or a tree-death is not strong enough for me the feeling by yourself people. In the process of contemplation the headings, I see they have the same characteristics in terms of self-that is the human birth, impermanence, Coast egolessness. That is also the common properties for all of the French property (3). In fact, says consistent body impure, a mind infinitely often is just a way to say to highlight up the most pronounced expression characteristics of them. For example body impure are very easy to identify. Impure body is itself impure. Also mind the impure, the more subtle.
Consequently, this foremost contemplation France put the body and the mind returns to live with the present moment. Displaced and dispersed to maintain mindfulness and maintain life. The four items that contemplation is the practical teachings are drawn from the experience necessary in life. It is also essential in Buddhist teachings: the integral life, that contact with the life. When body contemplation is contemplation of the physical aspects, i.e. see the synthesis of specific physical elements that make up the body and saw the body of defilement in life as well as death to political desire for lust. Contemplation of feelings and mind life is contemplation on the psychological aspects, i.e. see the birth and transformation of the mind, in order to understand the mind and pure heart do. The contemplation of the law to find that far left anatta accept before. Teaching interest: uncivil "When bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara consistent projection of combination possible skandha and discovered the empty of ego then You pass every suffering victim yoke". When the downs and the personality of the great wall in owner does not govern the internal spiritual life we pass are suffering as the bodhisattva Quan Yin.
The Buddha did affirm the benefits of practicing the four anniversary of this: "this is the only way brought to purity for beings, beyond the forlorn, eradicate suffering, the Chief accomplishment, enlightenment Nirvana syndrome" (Memorial of Economy, Central I).

C. conclusion

In real life situations, if the four headings contemplation was practiced then people will somehow overcome the obstacles related to the body and the mind. Volume of gas the world makes people hard to overcome the physical illness is viewed as a potential function. People always tend to live in desire, thirst. When a non-educated then the suffering still pile up. Educational direction of the four headings contemplation and self-self taken as a basis. Although education through Four headings contemplation, clearly see human nature and things is thus seen to be the harmful effects when wrecked before, see the benefit when exporting, but usually we do not yet have to limit its autonomy and power of desire. That's because we just understand the problem that has not actually released. Noting that other Buddhist learning, with the Buddha School only to Buddha. tu enriched knowledge for Buddhist studies, needs to find out, who is just out of the lane which is not yet in the House. The Buddha School while a new Buddhist monastery, who actually lived and maintained by Chief Justice of France. The new people get lasting happiness, achievement always and likely food poisoning symptoms. The understanding is not the real life of the capital requirements. A new Maintenance Act is the capital, is the core of the Buddhist on the way to find about the rescue. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.19/9/2016.