Today I feel extremely happy and excited for your interest in the precious dharma in which increasingly more profundizais YOU ARE. God I feel so proud to see you learn so quickly Dharma sometimes I'm afraid of running out of any student with whom to share the Buddha's teaching (just kidding, jaa, jaa ...).
be honest I appreciate you because you have created a karma so good that possessing material goods you who care in the spiritual life now taking the opportunity to study the same subjects as a monk at the monastery.
past Teachers tell us: If you want to know about your past life look at your body, if you care about your future life look at your mind. So go ahead and do not let a moment that the disturbing emotions fool you. Santideva
said in his "Bodisatvachariavatara" It would be better for me that I burned, I cut the head and killed me before bowing to these disturbing emotions omnipresent. If you bend before these disturbing emotions you will never be a being worthy of trust and will always feel dominated by these disturbing emotions, also from the viewpoint of Buddhism, a spiritual being is that your own mind is trained to get rid of negative emotions and seek peace in itself is responsible for himself.
The purpose of the practice is discovering the nature of your mind and purify the pollution in it, as ignorance, attachment, hatred, envy ... and so gradually you become more compassionate, loving and wise getting to know yourself .
To know yourself, be more compassionate and happy is essential to understand the mental factors that prevent you from having a peaceful mind. I have mentioned before, are delusions and to eliminate them is very important to study, contemplate and meditate on the Dharma.
Often when we hear the word "study" we are discouraged to think that people just for college, but they are wrong views. No study to be professors, scientists or philosophers, the only motivation for studying is to be happy, everyone is entitled to be either a professor, an illiterate, a billionaire or a beggar. So you must always encourage you to study the Dharma, who studied in greater depth also have greater ability to contemplate, analyze it will have more songs for it and that will help your meditation.
Buddha said: "Because you understand the Dharma study. Because of your study leave to commit fouls. Because your studio abandon insubstantial. Because of your study reach the nivana. "
By studying come to know all the key points for changing your behavior, you will understand the meaning of the texts explaining ethics and morality (Sans.Vinaya. Tib. Dulwa) and leave to commit misconduct by the advanced training of ethics. You will understand the meaning of the texts that explain the concentration and consequently abandon the distractions and the banal. You will understand the meaning of texts dealing with the wisdom which come to abandon the deception by training superior wisdom. Thus the study will enable the achievement of nirvana.
Lama Tsongkhapa said: "If you want to benefit yourself and others.
not you never satisfied with your studies. Watch the bodhisattvas
the third level
are not satisfied with their overall education. "
Sometimes you may think that to achieve enlightenment and have a peaceful mind you have to study hard and it is very difficult. These thoughts cause us discouraged but they are totally wrong because, as Nagarjuna said in "Precious Garland": "Do not be lazy to this (collection).
of merit full enlightenment
Since
reflection and writing can give new courage. "
means that there is not a reason to be discouraged and unhappy. All text, such as the" Diamond Sutra "referring to encourage practitioners to enlightenment is not complicated or difficult as it does not cause suffering to the body or mind, then why are you discouraged? not discourage you to combine the two kinds of merit, because sometimes you think you will not be able to accumulate as many deo merits.
Nagarjuna in "Precious Garland" said
endless accumulations of merit and wisdom.
uprooted without delay.
The sufferings of the mind and body. "
" Hunger, thirst and other pains of the body that have
in the lower realms are the result of lack of merit.
Bodhisattvas negative acts by not only merits
not know the suffering in their other lives. "
With these two types of merit soon liberate us from the sufferings of body and mind. As we have to encouraged to create positive karma must feel discouragement to accumulate the causes and conditions that lead us to endless suffering of samsara. Nor can we
discouraged thinking that our body is weak or old. Without accumulating negative karma and creating positive cases, at least we get a beautiful body, healthy and devoid of suffering.
discouraged thinking that we can not accumulate the merits of the mind (wisdom) is difficult. Mental factors such as fear, attachment, hatred, anxiety ... we cause suffering of the mind. The development of wisdom frees us from these negative factors and gives us peace of mind.
practice of enlightenment does not cause the suffering of body or mind. Reason why we can not get to thinking that the lighting is far too long and costs. What do we care that enlightenment is so far away? No matter the time spent performing any activity that does not cause us suffering, but we can overwhelm those who cause us sufrimimiento.
Nagarjuna in his "Precious Garland" tells us
"If it is difficult to endure suffering
only for a moment what about the long-held?
However, when you have no pain and only happiness you what you care
time then? "
We accumulate merit and there is no reason to discourage and not. Also, sometimes we believe that eliminating the scams is very difficult and complicated but really is not. Santideva
said
misleading disturbing emotions!
when you are eliminated by the eye of wisdom and erased from my mind, is where you will go?
where dwell so I can hurt us again?
But with a weak mind I have not been able to push myself. Delete
internal enemies is not complicated, you just have to desarroollar wisdom, is the easiest way. But eliminating external enemies is more complicated because once again appear subdued, but to eliminate delusions develop the wisdom and achieved avez no longer appear. We can never surrender to deceit. I always appreciate
much for your strength and contribution to the Dharma as it is the only way to free us from suffering and teaches us to be more equitable, compassionate, peaceful and loving. Do not be assessed from the viewpoint of a teacher but as a human being, because in our community is very important that there is harmony, peace and no suffering. It is very important that there be harmony among the Sangha. When we take refuge from the first generation of bodhicitta and recite "I take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha to benefit others" To do this you have to start to benefit the family, colleagues and people around you. Continues to bring the Dharma your help and the Buddhas will be grateful and appreciate. Finally
Dharma practice in each of their abilities. Lama Tsongkhapa in "The extensive overview of the stages of the road" said
"With study comes understanding, but this should be used. It is therefore vital to put into practice, much as you can what has been studied 'Buddha
mention in DHAMAPADA:
"Do not think lightly of evil, saying, I will achieve. Just as the pitcher fills drop by drop, the man man without trial accumulated evil little by little, until it filled. "
"Do not think a little when saying good deed, she will not catch me. Just as the pitcher fills drop by drop wise good action builds slowly, until it filled."
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