..續本文上一頁hile you cut your finger nails. Be mindful and concentrate on the thing in hand and rest your mind with it. But keep away from unwholesome things for such thinking will bring distress instead. People who diligently watch over their mind in this way, who are aware of the mind at every moment – except when in sleep - - will always be serene and at peace.
The enlightened being (ariya) and our venerable teachers (acharn) practice in this way. Their minds are always concentrated. They converse and it”s still samadhi because their heart doesn”t go out to take issue or bother anybody. Mindfulness and wisdom supervises the whole process so that even a chat together becomes samadhi. Those venerable acharns who recently were killed in a plane crash were prepared for death. Their minds were endowed with samadhi and ready to die without fear at any moment. Wisdom was always composed and present to sustain the mind through any eventually. They were prepared to die at any time, and being always aware of the potential for death they could simply abandon their bodies at the actual time without any distress.
Those people who have never practiced meditation or developed samadhi may find such things hard to believe. If they don”t know what their own minds are truly like through meditation, then they can”t be expected to comprehend things anyway. To them it is impossible for anyone to train his mind because it keeps changing all the time. When the mind grasps onto suffering, we suffer; when it holds to happiness, we”re content. For those acharns the mind was released and serene.
If the mind dwells in samadhi then we meditate all the time. I”ve been contemplating this and really consider the teaching of the Lord Buddha to be very deep and profound, so subtle and intricate. It becomes clear how the purity of mind of those perfectly practiced and accomplished acharns might even suffuse their bones too. Why have the bone fragments found in the burned-out cremation pyre of the venerable Phra Acharn Mun now become crystal like, clean and white relics
The purity is not only a thing of the mind - - it seems to affect the very bones as well. Bones are bones but this is something more. It”s about nibbãna isn”t it
How deep and unfathomable this is !
Buddhism is so profound. Other religions are fine too in their own way. If anyone wants to follow a religion then one can”t say anything about that. It”s definitely their own affair. We should be aware of the different qualities - - parisaññutá - - of different groups so we can pass among various communities in different countries without quarreling or disputing about any issue.
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