If we see from the side of Buddha Dhamma and Sangha

August 10, 2024
Reading time: 13 mins

Close your eyes gently, relax whole body and mind. Keep your head and body straight. We should be mindful of whatever we do. To be doing gently with mindfulness and detachment is really important. Whatever we do, we should use present moment, not past moment. Whatever we do we should be mindful only at the present moment, not the past moment. Whatever we do, we should be mindful only at the present moment which is ever new impermanent.

What we are doing is not much important. To be doing only with mindfulness and detachment is really important. We should be mindful only at the present action of body and mind.  Closing or not closing eyes is not much important. Relaxing or not relaxing the mind is not important. Keeping head and body straight or not is not important. To be mindful only on every present moment action is really important. Closing or not closing eyes is not mediation.

Present act of mindfulness of closing eyes or not closing eyes is real meditation.  Relaxing or not relaxing while body and mind is not meditation. Present action of relaxing or not relaxing is real meditation.  Keeping head and body straight or not is not meditation. Present action of keeping head and body straight is real meditation.  Present action of mindfulness is to be doing only without grasbing and attachment in mind.

If we see from the side of Buddha Dhamma and Sangha, nothing or no one is alive and dead, only ever new impermanent nature is appearing and disappearing, living and dying, or alive and dead.

We must try to see from the side of Truth, or Buddha Dhamma and Sangha.

If we see from the side of living beings, we can’t understand ever new impermanent nature clearly, we will understand living beings and non-living beings only, we well understand as living beings and nonliving beings only.  In the mind of living beings, there’s ignorance and attachment. That’s why we can’t see the truth of impermanent nature, we can only see impermanent nature as living beings and nonliving beings only.

In the mind of Buddha and some of the Sangha or his followers, there’s mindfulness and detachment. That’s why they can receive the truth of ever new impermanent nature and permanent nature.  Cause and effect are also concerned with every new impermanent nature, not with some one or something.  The real creator is not some one, not something, just cause and effect of ever new impermanent nature.

To be able to see as Buddha and the Sangha, we need to change from our ignorance and attachment to mindfulness and detachment.  Ignorance and attachment can’t know all of mindfulness and detachment and ignorance and attachment. Only mindfulness and detachment can know both mindfulness and detachment and ignorance and attachment.  If we don’t practice mindfulness and detachment, we are alive with ignorance and detachment. All living beings are alive with ignorance and attachment. Now we are all trying to be alive with mindfulness and detachment by fighting agaisnt our own ignorance and attachment.

Now we are all trying to know and do as Buddha and his followers. Now we are all trying to keep Buddha Dhamma and Sangha in our heart and mind.

If we can’t detach from the society and from knowing of living beings or layperson, we will have difficulties to know and practice as the Buddha and his followers.  If you can’t detach forum the society and from your own, you’re sure to go back home and to the society and belongings.

The longer we can detach from society and belongings, the longer we can do good deeds like this as mediators or volunteers. Try to be mindful of the present act of mindfulness in order to detach from other objects off mindfulness. Whatever we are doing, we should try to be mindful doing our action.

Try to be mindful sitting. Try to be mindful standing. Try to be mindful walking. Try to be mindful lying. Every present action of mindfulness should be doing only without grasping or attachment in mind. This is mindfulness with right understanding. Try to be mindful drinking, eating, listening, speaking. Whatever we do, we should try to be doing only without grasping and attachment to doing in mind.  Whether I’m teaching meditation or answering questions,  I try to be doing only, teaching only, answering only with mindfulness and detachment.

The words I use for teaching may be wrong because of unskillfulness in language, but the present action of mindfulness and detachment is right. When you listen to my teaching and answering, your understanding may be wrong because of unskillfulness in language, but your present action of mindfulness and detachment is right.  No word or no language is complete. That’s why whenever we’re using the words or language, there’ll be language problem for sure. Whenever we use living beings or non-living beings, we should understand the weakness and incompleteness or problems of living beings and non-living beings. In this way we can best use of living beings and non-living beings.  We should emphasize only on the present action of mindfulness and detachment in order to detach from other objects of mindfulness.

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