Compassion and Wisdom.

As humans, we hope to create a realm of life is built on kindness and love. However, everything seems to go wrong, when what I want, what I personally prefer, is more important than the interests of the entire community.

Wisdom and compassion are always present in the society of men. But because the general trend we often cling to the selfish, likes and dislikes, we make up the walls and separates us from others.

We can not empathize with others because of two basic reasons: hope and fear. We all want happiness and nobody wants pain, so every action that we do is driven by the engine how can I be happy, how can I avoid suffering . In a world divided into too many paths, we create a world of their own. And then a very selfish attitude development.

Philosophical and religious systems often strive to break down the walls of self-isolation, so that we can work together with real care and compassion. From a Buddhist perspective, we should consider ourselves very carefully - not to blame yourself for making this division, which is to address the root causes of the problem.

The problem is not for life, or for others, but for yourself. Our wisdom in the place. It is not something that can be bought, hear or receive from outside. The state of our trouble with the external environment and the emotional turmoil of ourselves first create a film cover to prevent the ability to observe our thorough. We do not give yourself enough time to use your inherent wisdom to see for yourself before we act.

However, through meditation, we can develop his own inner wisdom. Meditation is a process of looking into the process, beyond the dualistic tendency to pay much attention to external matters rather than for the intrinsic problems that we do not want to do.

Society based on peace, harmony, wisdom and compassion will never happen if everyone does not start from yourself. Because of ignorance, we can not use its inherent intelligence, we have many excuses to not start with yourself. The main reason is that we require others to change first and then to us. Therefore, if the morning wake up and see things do not happen as we want, we blame everything to the external world.

If we think about this, we realized that our perception of the external world is closely linked to our inner attitude. Our favorite attitude blame that it is based on the external situation, reflect what we feel inside. When we see someone doing something that we like, so he is a good person. But if that person but what we do not like, so he immediately became the bad. So convert the external environment to start to convert inner self, because only when the self is transformed and perceived value clear presence within us, will we be able to understand correctly others.

The human mind is basically very good, generous and hard. But maybe it did not usually work together with wisdom. The result is that we have more people willing to come out to change life for the better realms, but they still see philosophy, religion and politics in what they like, what they want.

Even in spiritual matters - where we look to the selfless efforts and get rid of the clinging, ignorance and ego - are right in that we insist that what we think is wisdom, that's true wisdom. We assert that what we think is compassion, then that is true compassion. Even at a very high level of meditation, we can still have such views, but we excuse that it is for the benefit of all beings.

Realize a hybrid intelligence in each person must begin with formation itself. To break the membrane of ignorance requires breaking down ignorance in all its forms.

Ignorance is not from others. Ignorance from the cling or projected self. In Buddhist philosophy, we talk a lot about the illusion, that it is related to human ignorance. And when the illusion is created, we find it extremely solid, hard to abandon.

By meditating, we break the illusion of external phenomena by analyzing its not real. The first step is to understand how we create the illusion of how our own - to see this mind created and dominated life like. When we give up the attachment, we will be free from suffering, free from expectations, get rid of their own hopes and fears.

However, the level of awareness that has not been reached, then every moment of my life, everything that we use or consumption, are dependent on others. We sat on the chair made by others, dressed so others may eat food cooked by someone else. Even though we believe that we are our own people, and we achieved this or that by his own efforts, the truth is that we can not separate itself from the other.

Recognition of this depends directly lead to a sense of responsibility, and from away the cling ego. Until we achieve true self, completely liberated from ignorance, we can start by communicating to others what we have received for the benefit of others in the best way that we can.

Whether we call it compassion, love, care or by another Buddhist terminology such as the Bodhi mind, its meaning remains the same: that where action, words and my thoughts, I put others before myself. A few of us practice meditation in order to achieve this understanding; someone else can understand this without formal meditation practice. But compassion is not only to bring out the conversation, it needs to be practiced. And no one understands us by ourselves. We need wisdom to contemplate how we are.

Compassion means not cling to itself, leaving the show itself. Compassion means to work as a working wind, solar work, like working atmosphere. For example, take a look at this air occupying the room looks like. The air did not say "I will give you space to breathe. Breathe in what I want. "Everyone benefits in the breathing air.

If we do not see themselves as the most important person in your life, then we are more likely to work for others. We will find more space, time and energy within yourself.

For example, because of compassion, we come to work in a hospital or in a hospice. But if we see that there are limitations and we can not do what you want. We find that we need to fight against the system worked there, and then we exhausted by his efforts. We conclude that his compassion is not used in a way that best.

What needs to be understood at this point, we need to apply their wisdom, compassion. Because we think things should be like this or like that, and then when it does not look like that we are disappointed; and frustration have obscured creativity that we need to have for situations .

When we arise compassion, basically we have to stop this type of work by feeling. So if there is no wisdom, compassion will not work effectively. Wisdom helps us not put conditions and unbiased in their work. With wisdom, we are not limited in a single cause or purpose; we do its best in a given situation, and then we move on.

No brainer, also makes us cling to a problem that we think is the most important thing. But we live in a world community exists by many people, and every time there are billions of people who are working, there is no one thing that everyone accepts. Will have more people than we desired. If we look at the different religious systems - whether it is Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu - we see that they all encourage people to start love. But while I believe this is true, then you believe the other is true, while others believe it is true. Even with what is generally accepted as love, but the Buddhists call it mind Bodhi, Hindus want to call it Christian karuna who likes to call it charity. We hold on to its own terms.

Wisdom teaches us that these differences do not make us retreat. We do not stop we use compassion with greater strength and willpower. After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha did not preach because I think no one can understand his teachings. But then he decided to teach.

If the Buddha refused to preach because no one listened to him, we now have no Buddhism. Similarly, if I insisted that my words and compassion must be accepted by everyone, it really is a poor understanding of the world. It is wisdom for me but not for others. But true wisdom is not sticking to what I think is right, is seen more clearly what is really useful. Wisdom is the openness helps us see what is the essence and the most effective, what is the truth that everyone needs to practice. This is really necessary. This is what we need to practice.

Wisdom requires that we work with ourselves, to take appropriate action with the fundamental good which we have. And when we encounter obstacles or difficulties, we can use them to develop more strength, because if we sincerely appreciate compassion, faith will give us the energy to overcome all obstacles.

We can learn from each other, but the transition must begin life inside ourselves. Compassion and wisdom to work together, combined together cleverly, tolerance and patience. If we spend the time to observe your thoughts and actions, then good things can happen. And instead of acting selfishly, we act in a selfless way.

Thus, the practice must begin with ourselves. When we look into a mirror, we always know what we want to see, and so we only see what we want. To see what's really in the mirror, good or bad, and to work with what we see, is really important and necessary. It takes courage.

So think carefully, because time flows continuously. Time does not wait for anybody. And because of the changes happening in every moment, if we let loose, we are hurting ourselves. But where human life short, if you can do to benefit others, we try to do because it is the work of an enlightened person. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.24/10/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).