Practice Tolerance in life.

 

Forbearance: A demand of the times

Read the daily news, we find no dearth of good stories do not seem to have led to serious consequences unintended, with the collapse of both bright future worth of a person or persons to make up twinge in our hearts and insecurity in the society. A look was considered "as associated", a jealous minutes, an honest may also arise feud leads to stabbing, killing each other.

We live in a hurried world, urging, demanding and competitive struggle for survival high. Every day things happen to make us tense, resulting in aggressive mood. On the basis of the pressure of the job, the coworkers, the customers. Then scrambled out every inch of the way, endure the whistle, shrill noises in the environment is hot and dusty, with the nondominant eye sight ... Back home they toil with the home, with children, with when he brought home from work tasks to solve ... Whether equipped with the means to quickly not seen in the past, human life busy today more than ever.

In general, we live in a world with no rest stops. A few weeks of the year and may not be entirely ours. Our minds are almost no moments of complete abandon, completely let go of burdens. The hot-tempered, aggressive mind seems to lie somewhere within us, waiting for the opportunity to unwind. And there is also the biggest cause bring unpleasant consequences, sometimes severe, for us and for others.

He often told her the old "walk a mile a glass wrong". And in life racing against time as today, the "wrong one cup" there can easily occur. Thus, forbearance is a virtue much needed in today's environment, no other country on its own. Currently in Western countries, the program control anger (Anger management) is very interesting. And the East has given them effective methods, are they strong response, especially yoga and mindfulness meditation, even though the purpose of Yoga and Meditation not only stopped on resolving anger stress.

Rings in culture and lifestyle of Vietnamese

Indeed, faith is no stranger Rings in the tradition of Vietnamese behave ourselves. From ancient virtues such as diligence, patience, sacrifice, hard to bear injuries, mild humility, openness, tolerance ... has been regarded as precious virtues of the Vietnamese people. No Vietnamese people do not feel close to the image "trigger body swimming in the shallows of the mother, wife, father. The gentle side as Thai Thi Huyen grandmother, wife of Phan Boi Chau, was mentioned in a letter addressed to the specific Phan, certainly not uncommon in our society of the past. These maxims, proverbs such as "A sentence fasting, healthy nine questions", "Words are not losing money, choose the word that comes to pleasing each other" ... has become the common principles of conduct in the society. And the children of Vietnam today successfully around the world in many areas largely overcome difficulties willpower, patience, diligence, endurance available in our veins.

Our forefathers saw very clearly the importance of the Rings in life. Despite the closeness, the most intimate as husband and wife should keep faith in public life ring. The "ring" is used to name the animals do believe in marriage, says the behavior seen in the spirit of forbearance build the foundation for preserving peace and create a happy family peace, happiness , the basis for a stable society and strong.

Generally, forbearance is a character ingrained in the lives of the Vietnam achievements of the past several thousand years. And it is noteworthy that this ring makes moral life becomes meaningful and worth living. Rings, beyond endurance to overcome the difficulties, there is a beautiful way of life and materials to create beauty for life. It has created a lifestyle of calm, free from the past that we see a lot of fathers. Although in a general dynamic of Nguyen Cong Tru, prominent politicians like Mr. Nguyen Trai, to rank talented poet and multi-instrument presentable as Nguyen Du, we can not help but look at the nature of calm, deposition in the life of the tool.

Germany forbearance of our nation would have been accomplished from agricultural life plus causal beliefs and spiritual liberation of Buddhism. Living in accordance with the cyclic changes of nature and the law of causality, the objective law of the universe, which he referred to as heavenly father, we, the Vietnamese have created a safe natural philosophy, spiritual contract with and the peaceful liberation of Buddhism.

 

Rings in Buddhism

Buddhism came to our country from a very early Buddhist Rings and happiness so well is to give our nation very soon. According to Buddhism, Rings is one of the six virtues of the Bodhisattva, who volunteer to benefit all sentient beings on the path towards ultimate liberation, or Buddhahood.

Almonds have been introduced to the lifestyle-oriented, moral exemplary drawing for our society is reflected in the  Group Contents The business  was born nearly two thousand years ago.

In  The Continental Group business , forbearance is described as follows:

" I would rather take abyss of suffering, brutality, suffering salted hash, not anger causes damage to living beings. Ordinary rings are rings that may not want the root of blessing. Since such knowledge later, do people ever since ".

Also in this book, at 48 stories, we read the verse about faith Rings:

Greed is crazy

What means have mercy

Hate to be harming the holy envy

The ring is still silent

Who does not obey unlawful

In the heart no mercy

Harmful glues handout evil

The ring is still silent

The unlimited distractions

Severe heart damage embrace the enemy

Upon moral disobedience

The ring is still silent

Forget not eating responding

Pretended to lie flatter

He is very stupid

The ring is still silent.

Raised above verse virtue is said to be good and not good in Vietnam ancient society. Greed, jealousy, illegal working, selfish, heedless, devastating, forget grace, flattery of the evil lies. For the evil before it closed on her, the heart unwavering patience, calm acceptance. And practice is the practice Forbearance From center. Metta is relatively nearby and equality for all people, all species.

Rings, Sanskrit is  kshanti , very close to the word  Shanti , which means peace, peaceful. According to Buddhism, forbearance is a well-practiced through many lifetimes toward enlightenment, peace, joy, a state of Nirvana. It is also the state police, steadily on the path to Nirvana there.

Tolerance is one of six three-la-bile, but also contained in other security Balaam. No Tolerance can not fully practice generosity, precepts, Effort, Meditation and Wisdom. Marpa, Milarepa's teacher, says that Balaam Rings are great bile and toughest.

Rings not only empower a being overcome all difficulties to achieve Buddhahood, it also has great strength for inspiring others. The calm in the face of the Buddha images, Bodhisattva ring exudes boundless faith, makes us feel warm, well-being and confidence. The sense of evil beasts and the party of the monks also recorded many instances in the history books.

Rings practice in daily life

Before the feud escalates in today's world, forbearance will be very helpful for individuals as well as society. The beauty of the Rings appropriate to the culture of our behavior by praising, praised, facilitating access, practice.

There are many people for Tolerance is a virtue that can not be done during this session, the session ran out of time, competing for survival. However, the spread in the West, Buddhism has demonstrated the ability to help people in the West know how to stop a dynamic way. There are many methods of applying insights, a ring-related practices, they get a result greater creativity, problem solving calm and wiser, high efficiency and good better life.

The world, especially the world of today, as always we want to challenge for the well-Rings. In life, all this work is unsatisfactory to the other unsatisfactory happen to us. It is not possible to change the status of life. And the only way for us to live happily and progress is recognized surroundings as teachers or facilities to conduct practice forbearance.

The meaning of forbearance is broad. It's not just an immediate response action, but must be a regular activity to ease our mind and not fall prey to negative. Therefore, Rings in the truest sense of it must be coupled with mindfulness.

A remarkable phenomenon in today's society is bringing Yoga and Meditation method mindfulness in schools. In North America there are many schools offer yoga and walking method to program activities for students. That's the way exercise control over body and mind, exercise forbearance and faith from a young age connectivity. If the educational institutions in our country have more such activities, we believe that the major problem of current social issues such as school violence and other violence cases will have the ability to solve been.

For Buddhism, Rings only be made full and perfect when traveling with Compassion Joy and Equanimity in other security Balaam. However, long way perfecting character, we should step at a time.

A simple way, the stop ring is to track and control the emotions arising in the mind, do not give them enough strength and freedom to destabilize our behavior.

We can divide the Rings practice at three levels, or three steps, from easy to difficult, from shallow to deep as follows:

1 habit control when things do not pleasant or angry. When this control has become a habit, it will automatically appear as a natural reaction to the unsatisfactory happen. First of all, we need to be aware of the disastrous consequences of anger and emotions suddenly burst unchecked. We can get into the habit of autonomy when anger arises, such as by taking a long deep breath and count from 1 to 10, the mouth points a smile. We see the teacher, she and some of you even Buddhists often thought "Buddha bless you" or "Amitabha Buddha" as a habit to stop these negative reactions can occur simultaneously and start From the heart

2 The face of difficulties, the courage to accept difficult situations happen to us. According to the teachings of the Buddha, we know that life is hard, so hard to accept as a life's work of course. Accept the difficulties of life does not mean surrender, paralyzed before the incident, to avoid responsibility for his people. Accept the challenge is trying to pass it, not wait for it to go through evasion. It is found between the dark as light Shantideva taught that the enemy is the greatest teacher of ours. Through the difficulties, pride is eliminating heart, is now pure, inner strength growth, expansion equanimity.

3 Accept the truth, objectively opposite of what happened before though not accord with the expectations of her. Looking at the matter in its naked reality, not yet tinged with a bit of personal willpower. That is the reality of emptiness is clearly visible, transparent with unbiased eyes and an open heart.

Three levels of the Rings are mounted on a common platform alertness and vigilance of the mind. Thus, for three levels of forbearance that sustainable development and nature, we may need a platform inside the mindfulness as noted. There mindfulness, we can see things clearly and calmly.

Here, we can refer to the advice of Susan Chapman, a marriage counselor and family, in the application of mindfulness truth in dialogue, and community relations.

According to Chapman, to conduct a dialogue, creating effective relationships, we can apply methods of street lights: Stop, Prepare and Run (Red, Yellow, Green). When we are still in defensive posture, self-contained, the exchange may lead to adverse reactions. Therefore, in this posture of mind, let us pause to wait, like to see the red light. 2 As we enter the mind limbo between closing and opening, we can prepare for the conversation, but not quickly carried out. Stop, think, lingering there and wait while seeking to relieve mental impasses. It is a yellow light status. 3 When the state of mind expansion, comfortable in looking to connect with other people, we have the green light status. Conducting dialogue in this mental state is most favorable.

Finally, there is a method relieve the pressures of life can be helpful for some people. We know that the pressures of life weigh us more than when we are less aware of yourself. When newcomers settle in Canada, the writer has been teaching English teacher guidance is a method often ask the question " How do I feel? What do I need? "( how I feel and what I need? ) and contemplate the view in that moment his mood is like and what they are really needed. If I feel hungry I eat needs. If I'm frustrated that I solved by finding something to eat is not appropriate. And sometimes we feel like eating, but it was not really due to the demands of the hunger that is not satisfied by the other ... The habit of your query so that would make us slow down wisely, solve many problems in life right and reasonable causes.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.17/8/2014.