..续本文上一页e pulled away by one of our senses and it all falls apart again, so we have to start all over again! This is how it is.
Like a poorly built dam, our practice is weak. We are still unable to see and follow true practice. And it goes on like this until we arrive at true wisdom. Once we penetrate to the Truth, we are freed from everything. Only peace remains.
Our minds aren”t peaceful because of our old habits. We inherit these because of our past actions and thus they follow us around and constantly plague us. We struggle and search for a way out, but we”re bound by them and they pull us back. These habits don”t forget their old grounds. They grab onto all the old familiar things to use, to admire and to consume -- that”s how we live.
The sexes of man and woman -- woman cause problems for men, men cause problems for women. That”s the way it is, they are opposites. If men live together with men, then there”s no trouble. If women live together with women, then there”s no trouble. When a man sees a woman his heart pounds like a rice pounder, "deung, dung, deung, dung, deung, dung." What is this
What are those forces
It pulls and sucks you in -- no one realizes that there”s a price to pay!
It”s the same in everything. No matter how hard you try to free yourself, until you see the value of freedom and the pain in bondage, you won”t be able to let go. People usually just practice enduring hardships, keeping the discipline, following the form blindly and not in order to attain freedom or liberation. You must see the value in letting go of your desires before you can really practice; only then is true practice possible.
Everything that you do must be done with clarity and awareness. When you see clearly, there will no longer be any need for enduring or forcing yourself. You have difficulties and are burdened because you miss this point! Peace comes from doing things completely with your whole body and mind. Whatever is left undone leaves you with a feeling of discontent. These things bind you with worry wherever you go. You want to complete everything, but it”s impossible to get it all done.
Take the case of the merchants who regularly come here to see me. They say, "Oh, when my debts are all paid and property in order, I”ll come to ordain." They talk like that but will they ever finish and get it all in order
There”s no end to it. They pay up their debts with another loan, they pay off that one and do it all again. A merchant thinks that if he frees himself from debt he will be happy, but there”s no end to paying things off. That”s the way worldliness fools us -- we go around and around like this never realizing our predicament.
Constant Practice
In our practice we just look directly at the mind. Whenever our practice begins to slacken off, we see it and make it firm -- then shortly after, it goes again. That”s the way it pulls you around. But the person with good mindfulness takes a firm hold and constantly re-establishes himself, pulling himself back, training, practicing and developing himself in this way.
The person with poor mindfulness just lets it all fall apart, he strays off and gets side-tracked again and again. He”s not strong and firmly rooted in practice. Thus he”s continuously pulled away by his worldly desires -- something pulls him here, something pulls him there. He lives following his whims and desires, never putting an end to this worldly cycle.
Coming to ordain is not so easy. You must determine to make your mind firm. You should be confident in the practice, confident enough to continue practicing until you become fed up with both your like and dislikes and see in accordance with Truth. Usually, you are dissatisfied with only your dislike, if you like something then you aren”t ready to give it up. Y…
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