Cling desires.

             How to not dwell on the nature of the objects that they are only fleeting, unsatisfactory and does not contain any self at all, to help us find freedom, freed from the their bondage? The answer is to discover the cause of making us crave and cling to the body's. Once you have found the cause, we will also completely eliminate its impact. For the Buddhist desire and attachment includes four categories as follows:

1) The attachment of sensual ( kamupadana )

            It is the object of sensual awareness may charismatic personality and desire cause. A natural way that all of us are inclined to cling to the body as a favorite, there are objects carrying color, shape, sound, smell, taste, or touch objects be, or is the mental image, they create a certain appeal for me - objects that can be attached to the past, present or future and show out in my mind, at the same time correlation with objects of the external physical world, we can be in the body or his imagination. I expressed an interest arising from the instinct for us, we feel like when exposed to the audience's sense of touch. We create in our minds the great pleasure of perceiving consciousness.

            At just given birth, an individual may have begun to recognize the interesting things sensual depth (pentagonal and knowledge) and cling to bring the excitement was, then the greater the attachment, the wise He becomes more and more powerful. The majority of those who can not get away from that attachment, and there is a reason to bring serious difficulties. Truly the best system is important to grasp and comprehend it sensual objects that are, to help us find taking behavior to adapt to them, otherwise attachment that will create for us a situation completely disoriented. If you look carefully loss of all orientation of someone, then certain we will discover that he had previously vigorously cling to an object of sensual interest (eg, state hearted attitude of someone who will tell us that he previously had been clinging to bring a form of identity, color, sound, smell, taste and characteristic spirit ... "can be gives "in principle sensual gratification to him) . In fact to say that all human actions are closely related with sensual. Whether it is love, anger, hatred, jealousy, killing or suicide, is deeply rooted cause those things are not caught out causes arising from a sensual objects. If you look closely to find out why humans have always endeavored, to listless running around like that, then we'll notice immediately that is because they are motivated by lust, desire 'd be something, no matter what it is. They are eager to find ways to earn more money, much better about this joint, and then turned to finding interesting things brought from the color, form, sound, smell, taste, or objects tangible. That's what urged them to continue to move forward. Even if they tried to carry out these actions deserve to go to heaven desire voila just another form reveals desire to enjoy other forms of sensual ("happiness" heaven or "bliss" - that means extremely happy - the Western world can not differ much, because it is the very perception of the formulas and conventions arising from human desire and attachment) . All the difficulties and disturbances arising in this world stems from the desire enjoy sensual (religious war to defend the realm of Heaven and its such Bliss) .

                Everything flows from that dangerous power of clinging to sensual direction. Thus the Buddha see desire enjoy sensual things is a form of attachment to stand on top. Indeed it is difficult khanmang the global character. What happened to this world in the future, whether it is the destruction or salvation, they are also necessarily arises from attachment to sensual. Responsibility of each of us to look back see very strong attachment to their own anywhere, and the ability to be able to help her remove the cling strength had disproportionate or not?  

            Look under the eyes are usually clinging sex is a good thing because it helps to bring the love of family, and the positive energy in the creation of wealth and bring glory, etc.. . (just look at the wedding was held with solemnity will understand the meaning of this sentence) . However, in terms of spirituality, it is obvious that there is a secret gate leading to hardship and grief (when she heard screaming next door and dishes will fly out the window as much sense of this sentence. fact masters Buddhadasa case only raised cling "honest" in sex, because there are many other forms of clinging revolutionary violence, coercion, fraud, trafficking in profit use ... bring suffering and revealing much greater) . On the spiritual realm must always be proactive clinging sex, because if you want to all the suffering they must have melted away completely remove all clinging to sensual.

2) The attachment to the views (ditthupadana)

            Just use a minimum permit insight, we can also find easy attachment to the views and thoughts of her. From birth, we are entitled to an education and the right teaching gives us some thoughts and perspectives that. In my opinion, the "views" are some thoughts that we hold pat and refusing to give certain we. After all, their point guard is something quite natural, and also hardly ever have to speak to condemn or criticize the stubborn attitude was both. But in reality, it represents a very dangerous thing seriously is not inferior to the attachment to the sensual objects. Is it true that the idea that we often cling pat or overthrown by the events that happened in reality or not? So should people's opportunities to sense and change our perspective to help give it a chance to evolve, to gradually improve it, lifting it up higher, helped turn a misconception of his past becomes a perspective rather than other, more closer to the truth, then at some point then my thoughts will be enough to take Four Noble Truth.

            There are many reasons for creating stubbornly clinging to his opinion. Indeed, it is necessarily behavior-related practices, traditions, rituals and religious dogma. The gullible stubborn personality often brings harm not too big and not well spread wide as willful credulity on the long tradition and these folk festivals. Sticking to this view or perspective it is just a form of ignorance. Just because our ignorance should create yourself a new way of looking purely personal way of all things, governed by their own ignorance. For example, we believe that the best decisions are good for our bodies crave and cling, and think that we will hold them long term, asserting that they contain a certain value, and present themselves in a way, but in reality, it was just a hallucination, delusion and volatility, not what implies a value and there is no inherent existence at all. As envisioned in mind a certain idea about a character and then later have to accept that if the thoughts are wrong, then it would indeed be an interesting story not do very much for me, though for sometimes we inevitably have to accept that he had committed mistakes like that. It is the stubbornness that has created a huge obstacle blocking all progress and makes us no longer can be further transformed himself, ie not change any more of these false beliefs wrong things about religion and its oldest religion. This can create difficulties for those who adhere to these teachings was too naive, because even if someday he may even find yourself going again so naive yet they still continue to refuse to change their faith, citing his parents, his grandparents, his ancestors believed in the dogma that. Or maybe it could also be because they do not really want to modify and improve, deliberately turn a blind eye before the argument goes against the idea of ​​his long life, and the more they resist that this is what they've put into it wholeheartedly believe. For these reasons, as mentioned, clinging to views must be seen as a kind of venom to kill people, a great danger that we must use all his power to rule, if I really want to get yourself transformed.

3) clinging to rites and ceremonies (silabbatupadana)

            This is the clinging to the traditional rite contains a sense and not be handed down for a good reason at all, it is just that many people see the ritual as sacred revolutionary and they cling to them anyway. In Thailand, as in anywhere: people believe in amulets, objects mysteriously nature and everything esoteric rituals. For example, it is believed that when they have just woken up to a bowl of water next to recite a spell and then he new that collect water wash, urinate before college or must be facing one direction certain, either before meals or before going to bed to sleep it must execute a certain number of rituals. It is believed in ghosts, and the heavenly sky, the tree sacred, mystical and everything else. All that was absurd. People do not think rationally, but only blindly cling to the diagrams available. Because insisted should behave like any other they can not be changed anymore. Many people call themselves Buddhists but also still continue to believe in the sort of story just told, there is a game going every two! Among them are the few who still calls himself a monk again, that is a true disciple of the Buddha!

            Dharma practice and if the goal of understanding what is Dharma and be aware of their duties before the survival of French director must immediately remove these superstitious belief that, if not the practice of I also would like a naive attitude behaving see Dharma as a ceremonial first mystery. So no wonder that many people look for refuge or tried to practice Dharma sole purpose is to integrate a social movement in vogue, or enforcement of traditional rituals and blindly to their predecessors. They do not need to know what you're doing anything meaningful or not, but just know everything blindly executed in accordance with the existing habits. Acts like it's hard to be modified. That's what we call the "unconscious clinging to the traditional ceremony". Allows deep meditation and stillness meditation allows people usually implemented as today, if not applied properly, logical and based on a thorough understanding can also fall into the state turned into a form of desire or any attachment. If meditation is not allowed to be guided in the right way, they will also become a form of ignorance only. For refuge, too, if compliance year, eight or ten precepts, or more hopeful for the purpose of becoming a saint contain a powerful mystery, supernatural, mystical or anything What, then her refuge will also become a ritual mistake, driven by clinging merely a way to lose time in vain.

            So we have to be very vigilant. Want to practice Dharma, they must create for himself a solid commitment, there is an understanding heart desires and disinfect everything made pollution is dulling the mind. If not, then your practice is just a mistake and act irrationally, a waste of time unfortunately.

4) The attachment to the idea of an ego (attavadupadana)

            The belief in a personal ego is a very wrong thing very important and also very subtle. All living organisms contain both inevitable emotional thing wrong about "me" and "mine", it is a primitive instinct thing contained in any other form of public life, and This is also the origin of these give rise to other instincts. The search feature food, food intake, and avoiding danger, have children and these ... instinct else, all arising from the intuitive feel of all living things for that he exists and carries a separate entity, ie an "ego". Once convinced that the creature would naturally want to avoid death, to find food to feed the body, avoid danger and get the same chance to transmit. We tend to believe that my perception of the place's existence all beings and bring a global value, we tend to think that if the situation becomes different, they will birth There can not survive. But that trust (in a self) is also a cause of suffering arising from the instinct to search such as food, a place to find yourself, find a chance propagation and implementation all other living things. This is one of many reasons why the Buddha had taught us that cling to the idea of a "self" is the root of all suffering. Buddha was summarized in a few words what it's brief as follows: "If you cling to the body, they will become suffering, or will become the cause of suffering" . The attachment that is the source and foundation of life, and it also is the source and foundation of all suffering under every form. Edit Here is what the Buddha is a reminder of when he said that "life is suffering and suffering is life" . That means that the body and mind (in order of composition - the five aggregates) that we cling to it was just pain. Understanding the origin and foundation of life is what it may look like have achieved an understanding of the deepest and sharpest help us eliminate the root cause of suffering.

            The most effective method to remove the attachment to recognize it even when it's just coming out. This method proved to be quite effective to remove the cling idea of a self as a foundation for life. The attachment to the ego out a way to possess a sudden and my thoughts without having to have someone put it in my head at all. The instinct that exists in children as well as other animals where they had just been born. For example, the case of newborn kittens example, when we walk up to them, they will have the right of self-defense reaction! Every time there is "something" out of mind, which is exactly the "I", and an immediate attachment will follow up revealed that, is inevitable. What we can do is to control it even while waiting for her to launch a higher spiritual level, in other words, to use the technical director in France to help tame it and wait until when we can afford to take the initiative and after all, it eliminates it (should understand that the "I" always show out with me, when my practice level is low, it must always try aware of its presence, track and watch it, do not induce it to commit wrong deeds ie cravings, then you've already reached the higher levels of practice, we will be able to gradually eliminate it) . If not done so, then a normal person in this world would be extremely difficult to get rid of the grip of it. Only the most profound among the saints ( Aryan ) and the A-la-han ( Arahan ) can eliminate it alone (ie completely eliminate cravings by ego created) . We should not forget that such obstacles (ie, the self) is the second most difficult obstacle we must all confront. Inevitable obstacles that mistake if we are to enjoy the fundamental integrity of the Buddha's teaching (that means implementing what helps her more profound sense of Nirvana realm) . If the self is actively suffering because it brings will also decrease commensurate with their efforts.

            If the shop getting the truth about what dominates your life, this will be a great benefit, suggesting a peculiar genius of his. Always think of four things that cling (finding food, food absorption, fear of death and propagation ) , and also do not forget that there is nothing, absolutely no one else, worthy to dwell VIU, and the nature of any external body out (ie characteristics impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self of things that we have found consistency) is also absolutely nothing else worth to us "there it "or to" become like that ". The reason the body is controlled entirely by one's place on four things here that cling to both. Indeed very important to master the extremely dangerous nature of these objects to behave with them. The key issue is not the nature which manifests before our eyes openly, such as a fire, a gunshot or a particular poisoned chalice, which left everything in this life seems out of lovely, tasty, attractive, beautiful, mellow, and therefore it is difficult to identify them to help us conduct a more adaptive way with them. To cope with the status quo will require understanding the Buddha passed down through his teachings: ie to control clinging to bring his personality and instinct instead of strength Consulate of that profound. That's how we organize our lives how to help her avoid suffering everything, including the problems of suffering may be small. Thus we can act and live peacefully among this world, everything avoid contamination of the mind, helps you become more clear and lucid.

In summary, the four things that cling represents unique challenges which Buddhists or any interested person every Buddhist to learn. The purpose of the monastic life ( brahmacariya ) is to create conditions for the mind off the craving is all instinct. You will find that the teachings of all scriptures explain the stages can practice direction in the form of A-la-han, a term used to indicate that the practice is "freed from any attachment ": and it is also voila final stage. When the mind is free from all attachment, they will no longer have anything that can hold down or control it in this world. What can no longer be forced to return it forever with the circle of life and death anymore. Remove the cling instinct is the key to the practice of Buddhism. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/3/2014.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).