..续本文上一页 you generate any negativity in your mind - anger, hatred, ill will, animosity-you are getting agitated, you are becoming miserable. You can”t enjoy peace when you generate anger. As soon as you generate anger you are the first victim of your anger. It makes no difference if you are a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian or a Jain.
He suffers now, he suffers after death,
in both cases the wrongdoer suffers.
When you perform an action, physical or vocal, with the base of a defiled mind, you have multiplied your habit pattern of reacting with the defiled mind. And this habit pattern keeps multiplying, keeps generating misery for you. One understands this by practicing Vipassana. Every moment that I react with aversion, I become miserable. The sensation that I experience while generating aversion is a very unpleasant sensation. It makes me feel so unhappy, and I realize, "Look nature is punishing me, nature is punishing me now, here and now and will continue to punish me unless I come out this habit pattern."
This is the law of nature. The Buddha did not create it. Dhamma is there. The Buddha discovered it. He went to such a depth that he discovered the law of nature at the experiential level, which made him an enlightened person.
Everyone can practise the technique that he discovered and they will get the same result. Everyone can explore the truth within the framework of the body and can understand the interaction. When you become more and more established in this truth at the experiential level your sila becomes perfect. If I place my hand on the fire - knowingly or unknowingly - it burns. The next time I will be very careful: "Oh, I should not place my hand on the fire - it burns - look, it burns and I don”t like this burning. I want to keep my hand away." As the fire outside burns you as soon as you touch it, so also, your impurities burn youas you start generating them, and you start experiencing this burning. You won”t want to generate more misery for yourself when you start experiencing the truth inside.
This is what the Buddha called passa-yana: "With Vipassana you observe directly; experience this truth and understand the reality. Then you understand my teaching properly." Otherwise, for your whole life you may say "Everything is anicca, everything is dukkha, everything is anatta." What do you gain
I didn”t gain anything until I practised. Buddha is not in favor of any devotional or emotional entertainment. Buddha is teaching the actual practice of Dhamma.
With an experiential understanding of the Dhamma, it becomes so clear that there is no sectarian teaching at all. I may call myself by any name, because it doesn”t make any difference. Even if I call myself a Buddhist, if I generate raga, lobha, dosa, and moha - is there any Buddha above the clouds who will come and save me
If I really want to come out of suffering I must come out of lobha, dosa, and moha.
The beauty of Buddha”s teaching is that he discovered this law in depth, made use of it for his own enlightenment and then distributed it to others. "Look; I got enlightenment by this, I got liberated by this. You can also get liberated, everyone of you. You just try - you just work with the practice.
And it is the beauty of Buddha”s teaching that he says, "I am not interested to make you my pupil, I am not interested in breaking you from your old teacher. I am not interested even to change your goal, because everyone wants to come out of suffering. Just give me seven days of your life. Try something that I have discovered and then judge for yourselves whether it is good or not good for you. If it is good for you, then accept it. Otherwise, don”t accept it." This is Buddha”s way of teaching.
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