..續本文上一頁nd pay respect to the Buddha, by practicing his instructions. This is really paying respect to the Buddha. Consider the hair on the top of your head, hair that grows all over your body, the nails of your fingers and toes, the teeth in your mouth and the skin in which your body is wrapped in. Know and contemplate your body. Close your eyes and see as if your eyes are opened. Know and reflect. Let this practice become the power of your mind.
A monk is someone who meditates and sharpens his concentration. If you practice, you act like a monk. Someone who is sitting in meditation, and sharpens his concentration, can be called a monk. Practice as if you polish a Buddha statue. Polish your mind, so that it is respectfully following the Buddha”s teaching. First you have to apply some cleaning liquid and then rub diligently with some pieces of cloth, to remove all the dirt from the Buddha statue. After doing this, the Buddha statue looks shiny and bright - like new. Your mind will be delighted. While doing the work, you feel happiness and when you”ve finished the work your mind will be filled with delight and satisfaction.
If you want to practice meditation, then it”s important that you know your body. Know, you sit like a Buddha statue. Let the mind dwell within the body and do not allow it to go anywhere else – outside of your body. Imagine that you clean a Buddha statue. See the Buddha statue and think that the Buddha is in your mind, the Dhamma is in your mind and the Sangha of the Noble Ones is in your mind.
If you prepare your mind like that, then concentration will arise and you will feel joy. What you did not know before - now, this knowledge can arise, what you never saw before, now you can see it. The meditator knows if the mind is calm and he knows if it is not calm. He should know everything. He should know and see. If the mind thinks about this and that, he just knows. He knows and let go of it. If the mind changes quickly, he knows that. See that the mind is all the time changing – just know that and let go. Think: I sit here and try to develop concentration, I sit and develop the mind as a monk does.
Then imagine again that you sit there like a Buddha statue, knowing that the Buddha is in your heart, know that the Dhamma is in your heart, and know that the Sangha is in your heart. If you see it like that, then the five hindrances will disappear, and you can become a Noble One. You should practice like that, before you die. Practice to become free from death. “Paramatta” – the absolute, is deathless. But first you have to see and know death and dying. You have to see reality.
Know that the Buddha has developed his mind to the highest state – keep this in your mind while meditating. Know, that the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha are very precious and high developed. Think of that. But if the Sangha doesn”t practice meditation then there can”t be any development of the mind. The Sangha, the students of the Buddha, have to practice mediation, without lethargy, today and tomorrow. It”s like eating. You have to eat today and you have to eat tomorrow. You cannot stop eating and so it is with the meditation. You have to do it every day. Practice daily and you will be someone who progresses in Dhamma.
If you sit here and practice, you do something for your progress, what your eyes couldn”t see, now you can see it, what your mind didn”t know – now can you know it. This will show your progress. Your heart will be filled with faith in the Dhamma that the Buddha taught. You will know by yourself that what the Buddha taught is the truth. You will know it through your own experience and that”s the way to become a Noble One (ariya). So you can become an Arahant – an Enlightened One, by practicing in this way, you can rea…
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