The difficulty of renunciation .

 

Living in a world full of defilements, we always busy chasing aspirations, desires fame, forever immersed in a vicious cycle of pain, sadness and fear funny, ... So that one day, in a rare quiet minutes for the mind - mindfulness moment awareness, we realize that:

So the ark of female beauty is buried Tuan Kiet

Plate kerosene is ephemera that we

The lure of the prison locked mental

Bait is wealth grave site fire officer.

And the deeper contemplation and found: "Third World is very safe, as the fire scouts du" as the Buddha's teachings, we get bored, want of glass out there suffering. As a traveler returning to the old country, about the Buddha's feet, we abandoned the monastic family, no family life. Vows to bring all his mind to devote to being offset errors, the months in vain; pay off the debt that was kind of the borrowed life. Thought that we will do what it wishes a full and complete way, but the actual path Dharma ardous well. Even the Buddha said, "Please conduct ordained difficult".

First, our work is the most difficult choice for their environment, a teacher and a light Sangha shared ideals, and towards the holy life. Suitable environment for the renunciation is not mountainous natural beauty, or completeness of material comfort that is a similar environment is described in texts Forest pericarp ( Central Business ), relatively meets favorable conditions lead to a promotion, success in terms of spiritual practice. And a congregation that believes we can not doubt, it is a congregation that includes all 6 elements, also known as harmoniously, namely: accommodation harmony (harmonious body boarding), verbal harmony (harmony multitude avoid border), the harmony of thought (the browser sociable), gender harmony (harmonious world practice), knowledge harmony (harmonious solution is) , the quartet harmony (harmony military advantage).

To find an ideal environment, many people have been in vain. So we need to learn to live with reality depending grace, trying to bring his heart to build their social existence, keep your mind relaxed always firmly on the path to supreme peace that we have chosen.

Many honorable teachers have said that compared to his old home people today are experiencing more dependent upon many, if not clever but also cultivates obstacle encountered difficulties and no less. Pros charming in many ways, the first is to live in peace, no country had wars, wars. Second is the nature of residential offerings and marketing a full range of cycle needs (food, clothing, housing, diseases), temples, a more spacious days. Thirdly Buddhist schools were opened a lot of professional training, as well as visual media and dharma study diversity and abundance. The school at which his old practice much: simple life, vegetable meal porridge meal, police department practice, no little fame, attention is always happy. What we do today?

With a commercial forest policy, practice, know what are the basics for watering, nurturing the Mind of psychoanalysis direct primary? There are honorable ranks in the past decade and each has found it difficult to say,

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As the wall is not shallow deep dark night.

Therefore, teachers play a very important role. Patriarch Minh Dang Quang Duc taught: " To play novice teachers prior to selection for the right feet are in for a long, change can not come soon ... or leave him. " But instead of suffering, we do not know enough to take advantage Where are our masters to choose. As writers, we must first learn about the teachings of the Buddha, found that teachers who live and act according to Buddhist teachings and have a relatively predestined to take her, then he should follow .

The more difficult part of the production contact us for coastal scenes, habits, emotions or emotional state when insurgency was at home again. That was made ​​clear in economic Buddha Catuma ( Central Business ): The ocean can go four fear, it is fear of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and personal data. Also, there are 4 things home people face is wrathful, gluttonous, in education, beauty of the opposite sex.

Resent the crude reaction of the mind in a state of pent-up fury with the impact of the improper behavior or circumstances not perfect. Typically, in daily life, if we are co-taught the virtues or comments, whether true or false, then that also frustrating because we were touching pride (ego); or to meet the food taste, meet the conditions, then we can also angry. Wrath extremely toxic. If we do not control, it would be hazardous to us as "Best starting center courtyard concept, marketing literature appetizer" , or have the Hungarian proverb "a rage equivalent to 100 devils" . What's new or harm tremendous outrage seems to know how. We must be wary and careful with it.

Many people have left home but worry not only known study that eating lo, lo maintain the illusory body is its insubstantiality, little thought for others. So when someone obstructing or comments about the food, the people immediately disgusted and disgruntled, the practice has always stalled, difficult to develop spiritually and easy to fall into the mistake must Living with the congregation. So often in business the Buddha taught his disciples: " to know the details of the diet " is so. A bird trapped in a cage for a long time, life is too dependent on food and water brought by farmers, the release is never going to fly high wide sky, live a thousand lives crane internal clouds that only around inside the cage, not to give up. Likewise, a person who has renounced family of no family life, as volunteers, are always appreciated those who liberated life in bondage of poverty than in wealth, dream life dreams wonderful romantic, always despise all what the highly secular, and yet cling to the fact that eating extremely ashamed, after all, just like the other bird life never take enjoy the taste of freedom fly in the vast sky.

And one of the following difficulties that face monastic education that year. In here is financial education, identity, name, real, lobes. It always dominates our lives. People always run away and immersed in it, and take it demands, the main joy to cultivate their lives. But they did not foresee that, it's just a fake temporary factors:

Smell remote village code lure of wealth

The lure of the khanh guy cheated.

So do not know how many people were buried under the abyss of sex without finding a way out. Like moths to the fun of the world, then the result is waste received a death nhach and tasteless. The renunciation must be different than the world, "continuous attendance center", ie enlightenment to the truth of my life and have always found that all compounded and illusory, foam ball, as well as dew frequent lightning ... If such reflection, then easily separated from the five desires. This is also recognition of the Buddha in prayer log. When a piece of wood toward the sea, down the beach, want to enter the sea, they must pass the whirlpool. Likewise, a home person wants to enter Nirvana in education must shun. So in order to progress on the path tu career, reaching the full liberation, we have to look out for in education.

The difficulty is final and that the most difficult part of it is facing the opposite sex (male identity, female identity). As we already know what causes the body to life leader in aggregates is derived from education, means that women prefer the new one male student body. From small until we understand the word "love" is our ego is polished, cherish, protect scrutiny, the idea that there is no split in me, so that when met daughters:

Perfume sinking sun moon flower drunk

Execution takes astral West, Chang'e startled.

Then the ego which in turn are split a very fast and gentle. For people like us, the religious power of the eyes, the corners of the lips, or the charming smile of the new woman how scary. Fortified citadel of discipline, one of the protective casing, protection for religious people, if not strictly hold, then break it into pieces remain. That's someone saying: "If the world does not have the money and the woman did not have anyone to hell." Such words should not lower a woman, but only to emphasize the dangers of lust bring men ordained as sexual objects is one of the most attention. For the opposite nun. Similarly, suffering, joy, emotion, recalled her emotions ... the chain pull repeatedly to torment, torture our hearts. In panchromatic ( Angutara) , the Buddha taught: " Hey Monks, I do not see any other color, invaded and dominated the center as best man woman. This excellent Monks woman invaded and dominated the center man ... "

In summary, there are numerous difficulties and challenges due to sensual pleasures and dangers are always lurking surroundings, the monastic ordination us. If such a moment of neglect, lack of practice, they will attack and do harm to us. But there is one consolation is that if we have a good mind when the mind has voluntarily left home, then this is the motivation for us to be able to overcome all. We left home not because of lack of debt, not because of hunger, not because of lost love, ... so that each of us must always remind ourselves, pray molded original mind that if it is to avoid the difficult difficult it is. Each of us must try to remember that:

The fire is off life heart

And squeezed into place as spending rose bushes

What progress have or what

Was slowly trot through it out loud.

Hopefully, everyone will all overcome any challenges along the shore to enlightenment.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.7/6/2014.