..续本文上一页xplained to him that ultimately, it”s impossible to gain true understanding and transcend doubt simply through seeking out and receiving teaching from other people. The more you hear, the more you doubt; the more you hear, the more mixed up you become. The Buddha emphasised that other people”s wisdom can”t cut through your doubts for you. Other people cannot let go of doubt for you. All that a teacher can do is explain the way doubts arise in the mind and how to reflect on them, but you have to take his or her words and put them into practice until you gain insight and know for yourself. He taught that the place of practice lies within the body. Form, feeling, memories, thoughts and sense consciousness_are your teachers; they already provide you with the basis for insight. What you still lack is a basis in mental cultivation (bhavana) and wise reflection.
The Buddha taught that the only way to truly end doubt is through contemplation of your own body and mind -just that much. Abandon the past; abandon the future -- practise knowing, and letting go. Sustain the knowing. Once you have established the knowing, let go -- but don”t try to let go without the knowing. It is the presence of this knowing that allows you to let go. Let go of everything you did in the past: both the good and the bad. Whatever you did before, let go of it, because there is no benefit in clinging to the past. The good you did was good at that time, the bad you did was bad at that time. What was right was right. So now you can cast it all aside, let go of it. Events in the future are still waiting to happen. All the arising and cessation that will occur in the future hasn”t actually taken place yet, so don”t attach too firmly to ideas about what may or may not happen in the future. Be aware of yourself and let go. Let go of the past. Whatever took place in the past has ceased. Why spend a lot of time proliferating about it
If you think about something that happened in the past then let that thought go. It was a dhamma (phenomenon) that arose in the past. Having arisen, it then ceased in the past. There”s no reason to mentally proliferate about the present either. Once you have established awareness of what you are thinking, let it go. Practise knowing and letting go.
It”s not that you shouldn”t experience any thoughts or hold views at all: you experience thoughts and views and then let go of them -- because they are already completed. The future is still ahead of you: whatever is going to arise in the future, will end in the future also. Be aware of your thoughts about the future and then let go. Your thoughts and views about the past are uncertain, in just the same way. The future is totally uncertain. Be aware and then let go, because it”s uncertain. Be aware of the present moment, investigate what you are doing right here and now. There is no need to look at anything outside of your self.
The Buddha didn”t praise those who still invest all their faith and belief in what other people say, neither did he praise those who still get caught up in good and bad moods as a result of the things other people say and do. What other people say and do has to be their own concern; you can be aware of it, but then let go. Even if they do the right thing, see that it”s right for them, but if you don”t bring your own mind in line with right view, you can never really experience that which is good and right for yourself, it remains something external. All those teachers are doing their own practise - whether correctly or incorrectly - somewhere else, separate from you. Any good practise they do doesn”t actually change you; if it”s correct practise, it”s correct for them, not you. What this means is that the Buddha taught that those who fail to cultivate their minds and g…
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