..续本文上一页ain and see it as a moving energy, a changing condition. Emotionally, it seems permanent when you are in pain, but that is just an illusion of the emotions – let go of it all. Even if you have insight, even if you understand everything clearly – let go of the insight.
When the mind is empty, say ” Who is it that lets go
” Ask the question, try to find out who it is, what it is that lets go. Bring up that not-knowing state with the word Who – ”Who am I
Who lets go
” A state of uncertainty arises; bring this up, allow it to be . . . and there is emptiness, voidness, the state of uncertainty when the mind just goes blank.
I keep stressing this right understanding, right attitude, right intention, more towards simplifying your life so that you aren”t involved in unskilful and complex activities. So that you don”t live heedlessly, exploiting others and having no respect for yourself or the people around you. Develop the Precepts as a standard, and develop nekkhamma – renunciation of that which is unskilful or unnecessary – and then mentally let go of greed, let go of hatred, let go of delusion.
This is not being averse to these conditions; it is letting go of them when you find you are attached. When you are suffering - ”Why am I suffering
Why am I miserable
” Because you are clinging to something! Find out what you are clinging to, to get to the source. ”I”m unhappy because nobody loves me.” That may be true, maybe nobody loves you, but the unhappiness comes from wanting people to love you. Even if they do love you, you will still have suffering if you think that other people are responsible for your happiness or your suffering. Someone says, ”You are the greatest person in the world!” – and you jump for joy. Someone says, ”You are the most horrible person I”ve met in my life!” – and you get depressed. Let go of depression, let go of happiness. Keep the practice simple: live your life mindfully, morally, and have faith in letting go.
It”s important for you to realise that none of us are helpless victims of fate – but we are as long as we remain ignorant. As long as you remain ignorant, you are a helpless victim of your ignorance. All that is ignorant is born and dies, it is bound to die – that”s all, it”s caught in the cycle of death and rebirth. And if you die, you will be reborn – you can count on it. And the more heedlessly you lead your life, the worse the rebirth.
So the Buddha taught a way to break the cycle, and that”s through awareness, through seeing the cycle rather than being attached to it. When you let go of the cycle, then you are no longer harmed by it. So you let go of the cycle, let go of birth and death, let go of becoming. Letting go of desire is the development of the Third Noble Truth which leads to the Eightfold Path.
SKILFUL MEANS:LISTENING TO THE MIND
IN THIS FORM OF MEDITATION PRACTICE, listen inwardly and listen carefully. To listen inwardly, regard the outside of things as totally unimportant – go beyond the concepts and thoughts; they are not you. Listen to that which is around the words themselves, the silence, the space.Now, when you listen, what do you hear
Listen to these changing things like it”s somebody else talking, saying, ”I don”t like this or that. I”m bored, fed up; I want to go home.” Or listen to ”the religious fanatic” or ”the cynic”; whatever the form or the quality of the voice, we can still be aware of its changing nature.
You can”t have a permanent desire. In listening inwardly, until we are listening all the time, we begin to experience emptiness. Normally, we don”t listen, and we think we are these voices, creating terrible problems for ourselves by identifying with the voices of desire. We think there is a permanent personality or being, with permanent greed; but in meditati…
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