..续本文上一页ow it. If it enters again you know it. Does it cease again – know it. Know and let go. Practice like that and wisdom will arise. For sure.

　　Don”t think that laziness and anger are yours, don”t think desire is yours. That”s why you should know and let go. If your mindfulness and contemplation is getting better then anger and desire, laziness and all the other obstacles will disappear naturally, by themselves. You don”t have to do anything. Just watch how the mind is changing. See how these things arise in the mind, see them change and see how they disappear. This is seeing the Dhamma and you know that the hindrances have ceased.

　　Today we do an official funeral and you might see, what you never saw before, you might know, what you never knew before. Just watch carefully. How is the mind now before the funeral. What goes on in the mind, when the fire burns. I want you to watch yourself, your mind, carefully. You are meditators, and in such moments it is possible to get a deep insight into the true nature of things. So watch carefully. If the hindrances cease, it is possible to see Dhamma and even to reach Nibbana. To see the full truth. That”s what I want to prepare you for. The mediation should lead you to that goal.

　　Once there where monks meditating in the forest. A tiger came and caught one of them. He cried out loudly: “help, help.” – the other monks seeing the situation shouted out: ”we cannot help you, you have to help yourself now, think of morality, concentration and wisdom, patience and endurance – help yourself”. The monk, hearing this, started to apply mindfulness and contemplated, he knew he wasn”t enlightened yet and he could not escape the tiger anymore. So he was only thinking in terms of the Dhamma. He had great fear and a lot of pain, because he wasn”t enlightened yet. He took refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. The tiger bit him here and there and the monk just watched the feelings. The tiger didn”t reach the heart yet, when the monk attained full enlightenment, through his contemplation of feelings – in the mouth of the tiger.

　　This story is taking from the Tripitaka. My teacher Acharn Maha Tong told me this story and I kept it in my mind all the time. When I was a newly ordained monk, practicing on the graveyard in Wat Batueng, I experienced a lot of fear. This graveyard was famous for its fierce ghosts. I was meditating while walking, standing and sitting and I was awake most of the time, because I could hear every little sound and fear arose easily. I was there completely alone and there was no one else who could help me. I sat straight like a candle and did not fall asleep. Soon concentration and with it calmness arose. I only watched my own mind. I applied concentration, mindfulness and contemplation. If I wouldn”t have had concentration, I wouldn”t have been able to see things as they really are. But if the mind is concentrated, then fear cannot bother you. It will not even arise anymore. The knowledge of past existences won”t arise if you are still bothered by the five hindrances.

　　That”s why I really wish you, that you practice diligently and that you may overcome the hindrances. If you are not successful yet, invite the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha into your heart. These three treasures have been successful before you. They know. So invite their wisdom into your heart.

　　This is what I want to teach you. May you all have moral principles (sila), develop concentration (samadhi) and gain wisdom (panna). May you practice with diligence, patience and endurance. May you have the energy to do it and may all of you progress in your meditation. Morality, concentration and wisdom are only words but if you do meditate and develop them, then you will know. You will know this is concentration, you will know this is wisdom. You do not just know their names, but you experience them. Then you start to see Dhamma and you will understand.

　　May all of you be able to reach the four paths and the four fruitions and the One – Nibbana. For this I wish you good luck.

　　May all beings be happy!!!

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