..續本文上一頁our, taste is merely taste, touch is merely touch and the heart is merely the heart. It”s similar to oil and water. If you put the two together in a bottle, they won”t mix because of the difference in their nature.

　　Oil and water are different in the same way that a wise man and an ignorant man are different. The Buddha lived with form, sound, odour, taste, touch and thought. He was an Arahant (Enlightened One), so He turned away from rather than toward these things. He turned away and detached little by little since He understood that the heart is just the heart and thought is just thought. He didn”t confuse and mix them together.

　　The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are! Let form be just form, let sound be just sound, let thought be just thought. Why should we bother to attach to them

　　 If we think and feel in this way, then there is detachment and separateness. Our thoughts and feelings will be on one side and our heart will be on the other. Just like oil and water -- they are in the same bottle but they are separate.

　　The Buddha and His Enlightened Disciples lived with ordinary, unenlightened people. They not only lived with these people, but they taught these ordinary, unenlightened, ignorant ones how to be Noble, Enlightened, Wise Ones. They could do this because they knew how to practice. They knew that it”s a matter of the heart, just as I have explained.

　　So, as far as your practice of meditation goes, don”t bother to doubt it. If we run away from home to ordain, it”s not running away to get lost in delusion. Nor out of cowardice or fear. It”s running away in order to train ourselves, in order to master ourselves. If we have understanding like this, then we can follow the Dhamma. The Dhamma will become clearer and clearer. The one who understands the Dhamma, understands himself; and the one who understands himself, understands the Dhamma. Nowadays, only the sterile remains of the Dhamma have become the accepted order. In reality, the Dhamma is everywhere. There is no need to escape to somewhere else. Instead escape through wisdom. Escape through intelligence. Escape through skill. don”t escape through ignorance. If you want peace, then let it be the peace of wisdom. That”s enough!

　　Whenever we see the Dhamma, then there is the right way, the right path. Defilements are just defilements, the heart is just the heart. Whenever we detach and separate so that there are just, these things as they really are, then they are merely objects to us. When we are on the right path, then we are impeccable. When we are impeccable, there is openness and freedom all the time.

　　The Buddha said, "Listen to me, Monks. You must not cling to any dhammas." [13] What are these dhammas

　　 They are everything; there isn”t anything which is not dhamma. Love and hate are dhammas, happiness and suffering are dhammas, like and dislike are dhammas; all of these things, no matter how insignificant, are dhammas. When we practice the Dhamma, when we understand, then we can let go. And thus we can comply with the Buddha”s Teaching of not clinging to any dhammas.

　　All conditions that are born in our heart, all conditions of our mind, all conditions of our body, are always in a state of change. The Buddha taught not to cling to any of them. He taught His Disciples to practice in order to detach from all conditions and not to practice in order to attain to any more.

　　If we follow the Teachings of the Buddha, then we are right. We are right but it is also troublesome. It”s not that the Teachings are troublesome, but it”s our defilements which are troublesome. The defilements wrongly comprehended obstruct us and cause us trouble. There isn”t really anything troublesome with following…

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