..续本文上一页 firm. But one can attain peace through the use of wisdom, through contemplating and seeing the truth of things, solving problems that way. This is using wisdom rather than the power of samadhi. To attain calm in practice it”s not necessary to sit in meditation, for instance. Just ask yourself, "Ehh, what is that

　　..." and solve your problem right there! A person with wisdom is like this. Perhaps he can”t really attain high levels of samadhi, although he develops some, enough to cultivate wisdom. It”s like the difference between farming rice and farming corn. One can depend on rice more than corn for one”s livelihood. Our practice can be like this, we depend more on wisdom to solve problems. When we see the truth, peace arises.

　　The two ways are not the same. Some people have insight and are strong in wisdom but do not have much samadhi. When they sit in meditation they aren”t very peaceful. They tend to think a lot, contemplating this and that, until eventually they contemplate happiness and suffering and see the truth of them. Some incline more towards this than samadhi. Whether standing, walking, sitting or lying, 3 enlightenment of the Dhamma can take place. Through seeing, through relinquishing, they attain peace. They attain peace through knowing the truth without doubt, because they have seen it for themselves.

　　Other people have only little wisdom but their samadhi is very strong. They can enter very deep samadhi quickly, but not having much wisdom, they cannot catch their defilements, they don”t know them. They can”t solve their problems.

　　But regardless of whichever approach we use, we must do away with wrong thinking, leaving only Right View. We must get rid of confusion, leaving only peace. Either way we end up at the same place. There are these two sides to practice, but these two things, calm and insight, go together. We can”t do away with either of them. They must go together.

　　That which "looks over" the various factors which arise in meditation is ”sati”, mindfulness. This sati is a condition which, through practice, can help other factors to arise. Sati is life. Whenever we don”t have sati, when we are heedless, it”s as if we are dead. If we have no sati, then our speech and actions have no meaning. This sati is simply recollection. It”s a cause for the arising of self-awareness and wisdom. Whatever virtues we have cultivated are imperfect if lacking in sati. Sati is that which watches over us while standing, walking, sitting and lying. Even when we are no longer in samadhi, sati should be present throughout.

　　Whatever we do we take care. A sense of shame 4 will arise. We will feel ashamed about the things we do which aren”t correct. As shame increases, our collectedness will increase as well. When collectedness increases, heedlessness will disappear. Even if we don”t sit in meditation, these factors will be present in the mind.

　　And this arises because of cultivating sati. Develop sati! This is the dhamma which looks over the work we are doing or have done in the past. It has usefulness. We should know ourselves at all times. If we know ourselves like this, right will distinguish itself from wrong, the path will become clear, and cause for all shame will dissolve. Wisdom will arise.

　　We can bring the practice all together as morality, concentration and wisdom. To be collected, to be controlled, this is morality. The firm establishing of the mind within that control is concentration. Complete, overall knowledge within the activity in which we are engaged is wisdom. The practice in brief is just morality, concentration and wisdom, or in other words, the path. There is no other way.

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