..续本文上一页ed and think they are peaceful, but the real peace is not simply the peaceful mind. It”s not the peace which says, "May I be happy and never experience any suffering." With this kind of peace, eventually even the attainment of happiness becomes unsatisfying. Suffering results. Only when you can make your mind beyond both happiness and suffering will you find true peace. That”s the true peace. This is the subject most people never study, they never really see this one.
The right way to train the mind is to make it bright, to develop wisdom. Don”t think that training the mind it simply sitting quietly. That”s the rock covering the grass. People get drunk over it. They think that samadhi is sitting. That”s just one of the words for samadhi, but really, if the mind has samadhi in the sitting posture, in the walking posture, in the standing and reclining postures. It”s all practice.
Some people complain, "I can”t meditate, I”m too restless. Whenever I sit down I think of this and that... I can”t do it. I”ve got too much bad kamma. I should use up my bad kamma first and then come back and try meditating." Sure, just try it. Try using up your bad kamma...
This is how people think. Why do they think like this
These so called hindrances are the things we must study. Whenever we sit, the mind immediately goes running off. We follow it and try to bring it back and observe it once more...then it goes off again. This is what you”re supposed to be studying. Most people refuse to learn their lessons from nature...like a naughty schoolboy who refuses to do his homework. They don”t want to see the mind changing. How are you going to develop wisdom
We have to live with change like this. When we know that the mind is just this way, constantly changing...when we know that this is its nature, we will understand it. We have to know when the mind is thinking good and bad, changing all the time, we have to know these things. If we understand this point, then even while we are thinking we can be at peace.
For example, suppose at home you have a pet monkey. Monkeys don”t stay still for long, they like to jump around and grab onto things. That”s how monkeys are. Now you come to the monastery and see the monkey here. This monkey doesn”t stay still either, it jumps around just the same. But it doesn”t bother you, does it
Why doesn”t it bother you
Because you”ve raised a monkey before, you know what they”re like. If you know just one monkey, no matter how many provinces you go to, no matter how many monkeys you see, you won”t be bothered by them, will you
This is one who understands monkeys.
If we understand monkeys then we won”t become a monkey. If you don”t understand monkeys you may become a monkey yourself! Do you understand
When you see it reaching for this and that, you shout, "Hey!" You get angry..."That damned monkey!" This is one who doesn”t know monkeys. One who knows monkeys sees that the monkey at home and the monkey in the monastery are just the same. Why should you get annoyed by them
When you see what monkeys are like that”s enough, you can be at peace.
Peace is like this. We must know sensations. Some sensations are pleasant, some are unpleasant, but that”s not important. That”s just their business. Just like the monkey. all monkeys are the same. We understand sensations as sometimes agreeable, sometimes not -- that”s just their nature. We should understand them and know how to let them go. Sensations are uncertain. They are Transient, Imperfect and Ownerless. Everything that we perceive is like this. When eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind receive sensations, we know them, just like knowing the monkey. Then we can be at peace.
When sensations arise, know them. Why do you run after them
Sensations are uncertain. One m…
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