Just a blink of an eye.

  

-ooOoo-

How distressed are you to end suffering? That distance can be overcome in just a blink of an eye. That is the Buddha's teaching in the  Indriyabhavana Sutta , the last sutta of the Sutra, No. 152.

In a conversation with a Brahman disciple named Uttara, the Buddha begins by expressing a common experience of all:

When a person sees ... headphones ... smells ... tasting ... body touch ... or thought, in them will arise arbitrarily, unwelcomed, or both willing and unwilling.

And maybe we all know that. Whenever we come in contact with our surroundings through our senses, it is always accompanied by a temperament: pleasant, unpleasant, or sometimes indifferent. Our human nature is created so: feeling is the essence of all experience .

But one thing is that when responding to this feeling, and together with it, for happy experiences we naturally feel satisfied, and experiencing painful experiences we Feeling dissatisfied (unwelcome). At the same time, one experience can satisfy us this way, but not another. We have evolved from animals, so we have a profound infection of our habits and reactions that always want to find joy and avoid suffering. And our problem lies at this point.

Certainly thanks to these primordial instincts we still exist today to develop more advanced functions in our brains. But today's science shows that these instincts have become outdated and sometimes a hindrance to our well-being. One of the great insights of the Buddha is that the motive for desire that motivates us to grasp this and to drive away that is the source of suffering.

It is natural, because of the nature of life: suffering is present. If so, what can we do to transform that suffering? And like all animals, we are also endowed with innate qualities such as generosity, love, compassion and cooperation, which help us to overcome and overcome instincts. Selfish selfishness More importantly, we have also developed  the  prefrontal cortex, which provides functions such as self-observation, self-reflection and mindfulness. And the Buddha also encouraged us to make use of these functions, in the sutta he taught:

He sees clearly as follows: "This free will arises in me, and this unwholiness arises in me, and will come to me in this place."

That record was very ordinary and nothing special, but it was a huge step forward. When we bring that light of consciousness back into our interior, it illuminates all the dark angles in our consciousness. When we see what arises and passes in the mind and body, in every moment, it will make our experiences become something concrete and understandable, not secret. , Completely conditioned by the unconscious. And this mindfulness of mindfulness creates a necessary foundation, which is necessary for us to take another step of transformation, as the Buddha said, to see the nature of phenomena:

"This one arises because it is so raw that it is rough, but this is tranquility, this is miraculous, that is letting go and calm." So, whatever happens to be good, unwholesome, or unpleasant and will not, all will perish, and only relaxation and tranquility will exist.

Under the eyes of Buddhism, all our experience is governed by the law of cause and effect. The "unwillingness" that arises is just a state of aversion, which squeezes around an unpleasant sensation, arises when we come in contact with a certain object of the senses. In fact, that attitude is only the fruit of our temperament, which is nothing but the habits and habits of our reactions, which we have learned many lifetimes when coping with life.

And that insight will bring us immediate deliverance  . Our minds will no longer be bound by the desire to grasp what is "meaningful" and dismiss what is "unwholesome." When we understand that emotion is a matter of fact, and that our reaction to it is  completely different , the causal link will be broken, followed by one second. Minutes of full liberation.

In that moment we can  choose  for ourselves a different reaction. The possibilities and unwillingness that once brought suffering can be replaced by something greater, capable of containing both happiness and suffering without reacting. An still, but still very close to my feelings, we stay in the present moment with a smile of the Buddha's lips.

This may sound like a very distant ideal, but the Buddha taught that it is present all the time now and here:

As a person whose eyes, after opening his eyes, closed his eyes again, or after closing his eyes, open his eyes again; Also, it is speed, it is speed, it is the ease with which something that has arisen, meaningful, uninterested, or unwilling and unwilling (all) is destroyed, and Only calm exists.

The Buddha said how simple. We just have to change our attitude a little bit, simply let go of our hateful feelings a little, open up and really touch this moment, rather than with a certain expectation. With full awareness, the journey from suffering to happiness will happen  in a flash .END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/6/2017.