INTRODUCTION
It explains the four exercises that motivate religious practice, as well as the quality of the Three Jewels. If you fully understand the meaning of all this, then turn away from the cycle of existence - Samsara, and will seek to liberate, to believe in the law of cause and effect (the law of karma), and either reach Buddhahood in this life, or release from the cycle. In addition, many vzpaschivaya positive qualities, you will thus strengthens the base of the Holy Dharma. So, please, do not simply tries to comprehend all the importance of the angular knowledge of these things, but also seeks to apply the Dharma.
This book is written by me, Kalu Rinpoche (Karma Drubgyud Ten-Jin), for the benefit of those who engage in the practice of Dharma. Ken McLeod of Canada transferred her from Tibetan into English, then Kungo Losang Lhalungpa check and correct the translated manuscript.
Let this work will free many sentient beings from suffering okeana this cycle of existence, even if they reach the Palace of the Buddha.
In the early religious practices taking into account the difficulties of meeting with the necessary conditions and blessings in this life will be anchorage for the mind and allow you to enter into religion. Then, by reflecting on the volatility, you stop being lazy and turn to practice. Belief in the "seed" and the result will be the reason that you give up evil and a hundred-nete hold virtue and act more appropriately and Ac-toyno. And if you understand gopemychnost cycle of existence, samsara, this will lead to a strong change in mipooschuschenii, and you may want to seek only freedom.
First, you should get eight of an enabling environment that does not mean to be born in the eight besppiyutnyh existence: as a resident of hells, prêt (hungry spirit) or animals that are suffering podvepzheny exclusively, in the primitive tribes, to which was then not yet reached Teaching; among long-lived gods, drifting with the stream of their desires as people having the wrong views that do not believe in the law of cause and effect, in the dark days when there is a Buddha, those who can not understand the meaning of the teaching because of a delay in development or defects of speech, hearing or vision.
You must have the blessings of ten, which means that, firstly, to have five blessings that accrue transfers through the self: get a human body, born in Central country, where there is a doctrine, have five senses, not damaged, to be able to rotate the tide of karma and to have confidence in the Three Jewels, and secondly, to have a five-veny blessing that accrues after the other: the emergence of the Buddha, Dharma, learning-tion, stability exercises, there are many people who follow the teachings; favorable circumstances for religions-gioznoy Practice blagodapya ppedannosti and another in dobpote.
However, five blessings received through himself, and five - with the help of others, are ten blessings. Possession of these conditions and eighteen blessings and em-causing human birth.
The difficulty of meeting this is explained in three ways: by considering the reasons, amounts and examples. Karmic reason - the cultivation sovepshenno pure code of ethics. Such people are few. Quantities - while, as the hellish creatures so much as a particle of dust of earth, rushing - as the sand in the Ganges (the holy river in India), animals - like snowflakes, those who gained three highest birth - as the stars at night, those who received precious human birth, with the necessary conditions and blessings, so few, like daytime stars. Sample explained that if the whole world was covered with water, and a wooden hoop was moved to the surface by the wind, and a blind turtle swam to the surface once in a hundred years for the turtles to slip his neck into a hoop, it would be easier than to get a precious human birth.
So, if you have the birth and did not set a goal to strive for freedom and to go so completely free from the suffering of the cycle of existence and reach of the Permanent tranquility status of the Buddha, you are more wasteful than, say, a poor man who has found so many treasures that they could fill the house, but not using them, and thus lose all.
Decide same now potepyat ppivyazannost to any mundane work that is too much activity for the sake of ma-Loy goal, and do not kid yourself and do not pretend that you understand the Dharma, or the fact that you mastep in meditation. Produce nectar exercises from an experienced teacher (or a spiritual friend) and, after fully aware of the importance of the Holy Dharma, never go out of the decision to complete the practice of Dharma through the accumulation of spiritual merit, eliminate mental impurities and, through meditation, transformation of ourselves and achieve spiritual perfection.
Secondly, the reflection on the volatility effect reduces the blind clinging to this life, and for us it is possible vzpaschivat virtue. What is volatility? All the accumulated wealth, pleasure and luxury, in the end, scatter-ing. In the end, all buildings are destroyed. At the end of con-samples, those who have come together - separate. In the end, those who are born - die. Thus, every thing is an inconsistency.
In addition, the external world, which seems such a reliable and stable, unstable, and will be gradually destroyed by fire, water and wind. Force spring earth becomes soft and reddish-brown Vato. Trees and other plants emit shoots and buds. But this - the volatility, as the strength of the summer land of a hundred-novitsya wet and blue-green. In the grass, trees and plants appear leaves and petals. Power of autumn earth is hard and reddish-yellow. In the grass, trees and plants cos-roaring results. Power of the winter the earth is hard and gray. Grass, trees and plants - dry and brittle. The sun and moon rise and sit down, this too - impermanence.
Day - bright and clear, at night - dark and gloomy. In addition, hours and minutes - impermanence, transient, the current moment. Variability in like forever flowing waterfall.
All sentient beings, the inner content of the external world - are impermanent. All those who came before, had died, and all those who come now, die, and all those who come - will die as well. And we do every year, month, day, hour, and mine-one closer to death. Neither courage nor the greatest courage can not ward off death. Neither Fortress nor quick feet do not give us the freedom to escape from it. Wise and eloquent arguments of scientists can not do anything. The brave troops, a sharp weapon, the power and influence, smart plans, health and wealth, a beautiful girl's body - nothing will stop it. When the sun sets behind the mountain, there is no one who could otspochit its arrival, or to apprehend him.
It is impossible in this life and be confident in its duration. Death comes in the womb or at birth, or when people start to crawl or walk, in his youth, or later, in old age: the time of death is not defined. Moreover, these are the causes of death: fire and water, wind and lightning, earthquakes, landslides, falling buildings, weapons, poison, demons, bad food, etc. From which of these causes of death will come - is unknown. This life - like oil lamp in the Quaternary hurricane, bubbles on the water or a drop of dew on a thin blade of grass.
There is no thirst smepti, there is no joy over the arrival of her. It is hateful. For once, it selects the land and house, farm, property and assets, relatives and close friends, father, mother and child, brother and spouse, with your own body, you have to go powerless and alone to the unknown realm of the horrific Bardo ( state between death and Academician). Because without the slightest basis for the exclusion of such care, early or late, laid around, every time you see, hear or think about someone's death, think at this point about himself.
Having a healthy body, good complexion and feeling happy and comfortable, people do not think about death. But when a deadly disease strikes, his bodily strength decreases, and he can not even sit hunched over. A flush of health black-no, and the man looks like a corpse. He is suffering without the possibility of avoiding spikes of pain. Medicine, rituals or ceremonies - none of this is unhelpful and a person is aware that he was dying. His suffering and fear rises, and he As x-CIO in despair because he leaves everything and must go alone. And each time after the food was eaten, and uttered the last words-tion, thought: "That's my nature."
When death comes to man, even one who loved him very much, does not want to keep his body in his more than a day or two, and each feels disgust and looked at him in fear. The porters carry their dead across the threshold and carry away to be buried at the cemetery, cremated, hide in a crevice or give birds or dogs, etc. After this draw the eye does not see him again. Think: "I come to the same end."
At this time the Three Jewels and the Lama - friends who can give a home. Since only virtue and vice are beneficial or harmful, strive for a clean and perfect religious practice!
Since this body is made up of different components: the black and white karma, selections from his father and mother, the four elements of the space-consciousness, etc., and all made up of parts of things are impermanent - and such a body.
In addition to this, the high becomes low, low - high and mighty is poor, poor become rich, the enemies become friends, friends - enemies: all of these changes there is nothing that is not derived from a ppisuschey all natural phenomena of impermanence. So take a more volatile as something immutable, permanent means to stay in the illusion, like a madman.
In this precious human body acquired now, we can express and understand ideas, have a full set of way-tions, to meet the spiritual teachers and friends and to understand the conclusions that led teaching. If it is lost, even after suffering intensely experienced in a long time, such a framework, as the body can not be produced again. So from this moment your life should be like the sun peeps through the clouds. Think entirely on the application of exercise and give a vow to do so vigorously, as you can.
Meditating on such variability leads CL to understand the variability of all composed of parts. In this case, a manifestation of the attachment to this life is reduced, the strength of pollution of the mind (desire, aversion, etc.) is on the wane, the belief in the teachings of increases, and help you in the diligence and hard work. Whoever uses religion of the Buddha, never passtpoennym or tired, and finally realizes the meaning bearest and undying nature of the mind and reaches sovershens-Twa of the Great Symbol (Mahamudra).
Thirdly, think about what it means to be in samsara: if death and impermanence were like fading fire or water evaporation Niya, without you it may be continued, it would be too easy. But the mind, whose nature is hollow and never dies. Connecting mind and body, which comes from a strong clinging to life is illusory, the moment of death-breaking etsya and dissipates. Then again from the various potentials and causes, such as pollution, karma, inclinations, etc., is the birthplace of one of the six realms of Samsara.
Consisting skandhas embodies the essential nature of the cycle of existence - namely, suffering. If there skandhas, there is the potential suffering, which applies to all education and formation. When the potential Nye sorrow or pain, for various reasons, into a feeling of sadness, it is - suffering changes. And suffering, which really tested - is suffering pain. It is impossible to be free from any of these three kinds of suffering.
Types of meditation
Meditation practice is the use of certain techniques or procedures that could lead to a waking man trofotropnoe condition, as described above. Although there are many types of meditation, common to all of its forms is the presence of the stimulus or object, which focuses the meditator. According Narandzhano and Ornstein, this subject is intended to "focus", ie He is in fact an object for concentration.
Meditation techniques can therefore be classified according to the nature of the object of concentration. According to this criterion, there are four types of meditation.
1. Repetition in the mind. In this case, the object for concentration is a mental stimulus. A classic example of mental facility for the confinement of a "mantra". Mantra - a word or phrase repeated again and again, usually to himself. We would include in this category also singing. In the TM technique is also used mantra. This mantra is selected from a number of Sanskrit words. Herbert Bacon used the word "time" ( "one") as a mantra for patients with arterial hypertension. Repeat verse excerpts can also be regarded as a kind of mantra. As the mantra is sometimes used and the text of folk songs.
2. REPETITION physical actions. This object for the concentration associated with focusing attention on any physical action. In ancient yoga (Hindu) way of meditation focuses on recurrent respiratory movements. Various forms of respiratory control counting breaths (called pranayama) form the basis of a form of Hatha yoga. The general public is better known for another version of Hatha yoga that uses various postures (called asanas). Some peoples of the East used in the practice of lengthy choral dances with repetitive movements. Ancient Artists of the dance were called "dancing dervishes. Finally, the proliferation of jogging in the United States gave impetus to the study of this activity. One of the effects reported by some of these runners are experiencing, such as meditative. The reason for this may be set during run regular breathing or the monotonous sound of the feet touch the ground.
3. FOCUSING ON THE PROBLEM. This object for concentration is an attempt to solve the problem, including the paradoxical components. Classic example is dzenovskie "koan." In this case, a paradoxical thought given to the type of task. One of the most famous koan is this: "As sound of one hand clapping?"
4. VISUAL CONCENTRATION. Here the object is to concentrate the visual image. It may be painting, candle flame, a leaf tree, rousing relaxing scene or something else. "Mandala" - a geometric figure, a square inside a circle, symbolizing the unity of man and the universe. In Eastern cultures, it is often used for visual concentration.
It explains the four exercises that motivate religious practice, as well as the quality of the Three Jewels. If you fully understand the meaning of all this, then turn away from the cycle of existence - Samsara, and will seek to liberate, to believe in the law of cause and effect (the law of karma), and either reach Buddhahood in this life, or release from the cycle. In addition, many vzpaschivaya positive qualities, you will thus strengthens the base of the Holy Dharma. So, please, do not simply tries to comprehend all the importance of the angular knowledge of these things, but also seeks to apply the Dharma.
This book is written by me, Kalu Rinpoche (Karma Drubgyud Ten-Jin), for the benefit of those who engage in the practice of Dharma. Ken McLeod of Canada transferred her from Tibetan into English, then Kungo Losang Lhalungpa check and correct the translated manuscript.
Let this work will free many sentient beings from suffering okeana this cycle of existence, even if they reach the Palace of the Buddha.
In the early religious practices taking into account the difficulties of meeting with the necessary conditions and blessings in this life will be anchorage for the mind and allow you to enter into religion. Then, by reflecting on the volatility, you stop being lazy and turn to practice. Belief in the "seed" and the result will be the reason that you give up evil and a hundred-nete hold virtue and act more appropriately and Ac-toyno. And if you understand gopemychnost cycle of existence, samsara, this will lead to a strong change in mipooschuschenii, and you may want to seek only freedom.
First, you should get eight of an enabling environment that does not mean to be born in the eight besppiyutnyh existence: as a resident of hells, prêt (hungry spirit) or animals that are suffering podvepzheny exclusively, in the primitive tribes, to which was then not yet reached Teaching; among long-lived gods, drifting with the stream of their desires as people having the wrong views that do not believe in the law of cause and effect, in the dark days when there is a Buddha, those who can not understand the meaning of the teaching because of a delay in development or defects of speech, hearing or vision.
You must have the blessings of ten, which means that, firstly, to have five blessings that accrue transfers through the self: get a human body, born in Central country, where there is a doctrine, have five senses, not damaged, to be able to rotate the tide of karma and to have confidence in the Three Jewels, and secondly, to have a five-veny blessing that accrues after the other: the emergence of the Buddha, Dharma, learning-tion, stability exercises, there are many people who follow the teachings; favorable circumstances for religions-gioznoy Practice blagodapya ppedannosti and another in dobpote.
However, five blessings received through himself, and five - with the help of others, are ten blessings. Possession of these conditions and eighteen blessings and em-causing human birth.
The difficulty of meeting this is explained in three ways: by considering the reasons, amounts and examples. Karmic reason - the cultivation sovepshenno pure code of ethics. Such people are few. Quantities - while, as the hellish creatures so much as a particle of dust of earth, rushing - as the sand in the Ganges (the holy river in India), animals - like snowflakes, those who gained three highest birth - as the stars at night, those who received precious human birth, with the necessary conditions and blessings, so few, like daytime stars. Sample explained that if the whole world was covered with water, and a wooden hoop was moved to the surface by the wind, and a blind turtle swam to the surface once in a hundred years for the turtles to slip his neck into a hoop, it would be easier than to get a precious human birth.
So, if you have the birth and did not set a goal to strive for freedom and to go so completely free from the suffering of the cycle of existence and reach of the Permanent tranquility status of the Buddha, you are more wasteful than, say, a poor man who has found so many treasures that they could fill the house, but not using them, and thus lose all.
Decide same now potepyat ppivyazannost to any mundane work that is too much activity for the sake of ma-Loy goal, and do not kid yourself and do not pretend that you understand the Dharma, or the fact that you mastep in meditation. Produce nectar exercises from an experienced teacher (or a spiritual friend) and, after fully aware of the importance of the Holy Dharma, never go out of the decision to complete the practice of Dharma through the accumulation of spiritual merit, eliminate mental impurities and, through meditation, transformation of ourselves and achieve spiritual perfection.
Secondly, the reflection on the volatility effect reduces the blind clinging to this life, and for us it is possible vzpaschivat virtue. What is volatility? All the accumulated wealth, pleasure and luxury, in the end, scatter-ing. In the end, all buildings are destroyed. At the end of con-samples, those who have come together - separate. In the end, those who are born - die. Thus, every thing is an inconsistency.
In addition, the external world, which seems such a reliable and stable, unstable, and will be gradually destroyed by fire, water and wind. Force spring earth becomes soft and reddish-brown Vato. Trees and other plants emit shoots and buds. But this - the volatility, as the strength of the summer land of a hundred-novitsya wet and blue-green. In the grass, trees and plants appear leaves and petals. Power of autumn earth is hard and reddish-yellow. In the grass, trees and plants cos-roaring results. Power of the winter the earth is hard and gray. Grass, trees and plants - dry and brittle. The sun and moon rise and sit down, this too - impermanence.
Day - bright and clear, at night - dark and gloomy. In addition, hours and minutes - impermanence, transient, the current moment. Variability in like forever flowing waterfall.
All sentient beings, the inner content of the external world - are impermanent. All those who came before, had died, and all those who come now, die, and all those who come - will die as well. And we do every year, month, day, hour, and mine-one closer to death. Neither courage nor the greatest courage can not ward off death. Neither Fortress nor quick feet do not give us the freedom to escape from it. Wise and eloquent arguments of scientists can not do anything. The brave troops, a sharp weapon, the power and influence, smart plans, health and wealth, a beautiful girl's body - nothing will stop it. When the sun sets behind the mountain, there is no one who could otspochit its arrival, or to apprehend him.
It is impossible in this life and be confident in its duration. Death comes in the womb or at birth, or when people start to crawl or walk, in his youth, or later, in old age: the time of death is not defined. Moreover, these are the causes of death: fire and water, wind and lightning, earthquakes, landslides, falling buildings, weapons, poison, demons, bad food, etc. From which of these causes of death will come - is unknown. This life - like oil lamp in the Quaternary hurricane, bubbles on the water or a drop of dew on a thin blade of grass.
There is no thirst smepti, there is no joy over the arrival of her. It is hateful. For once, it selects the land and house, farm, property and assets, relatives and close friends, father, mother and child, brother and spouse, with your own body, you have to go powerless and alone to the unknown realm of the horrific Bardo ( state between death and Academician). Because without the slightest basis for the exclusion of such care, early or late, laid around, every time you see, hear or think about someone's death, think at this point about himself.
Having a healthy body, good complexion and feeling happy and comfortable, people do not think about death. But when a deadly disease strikes, his bodily strength decreases, and he can not even sit hunched over. A flush of health black-no, and the man looks like a corpse. He is suffering without the possibility of avoiding spikes of pain. Medicine, rituals or ceremonies - none of this is unhelpful and a person is aware that he was dying. His suffering and fear rises, and he As x-CIO in despair because he leaves everything and must go alone. And each time after the food was eaten, and uttered the last words-tion, thought: "That's my nature."
When death comes to man, even one who loved him very much, does not want to keep his body in his more than a day or two, and each feels disgust and looked at him in fear. The porters carry their dead across the threshold and carry away to be buried at the cemetery, cremated, hide in a crevice or give birds or dogs, etc. After this draw the eye does not see him again. Think: "I come to the same end."
At this time the Three Jewels and the Lama - friends who can give a home. Since only virtue and vice are beneficial or harmful, strive for a clean and perfect religious practice!
Since this body is made up of different components: the black and white karma, selections from his father and mother, the four elements of the space-consciousness, etc., and all made up of parts of things are impermanent - and such a body.
In addition to this, the high becomes low, low - high and mighty is poor, poor become rich, the enemies become friends, friends - enemies: all of these changes there is nothing that is not derived from a ppisuschey all natural phenomena of impermanence. So take a more volatile as something immutable, permanent means to stay in the illusion, like a madman.
In this precious human body acquired now, we can express and understand ideas, have a full set of way-tions, to meet the spiritual teachers and friends and to understand the conclusions that led teaching. If it is lost, even after suffering intensely experienced in a long time, such a framework, as the body can not be produced again. So from this moment your life should be like the sun peeps through the clouds. Think entirely on the application of exercise and give a vow to do so vigorously, as you can.
Meditating on such variability leads CL to understand the variability of all composed of parts. In this case, a manifestation of the attachment to this life is reduced, the strength of pollution of the mind (desire, aversion, etc.) is on the wane, the belief in the teachings of increases, and help you in the diligence and hard work. Whoever uses religion of the Buddha, never passtpoennym or tired, and finally realizes the meaning bearest and undying nature of the mind and reaches sovershens-Twa of the Great Symbol (Mahamudra).
Thirdly, think about what it means to be in samsara: if death and impermanence were like fading fire or water evaporation Niya, without you it may be continued, it would be too easy. But the mind, whose nature is hollow and never dies. Connecting mind and body, which comes from a strong clinging to life is illusory, the moment of death-breaking etsya and dissipates. Then again from the various potentials and causes, such as pollution, karma, inclinations, etc., is the birthplace of one of the six realms of Samsara.
Consisting skandhas embodies the essential nature of the cycle of existence - namely, suffering. If there skandhas, there is the potential suffering, which applies to all education and formation. When the potential Nye sorrow or pain, for various reasons, into a feeling of sadness, it is - suffering changes. And suffering, which really tested - is suffering pain. It is impossible to be free from any of these three kinds of suffering.
Types of meditation
Meditation practice is the use of certain techniques or procedures that could lead to a waking man trofotropnoe condition, as described above. Although there are many types of meditation, common to all of its forms is the presence of the stimulus or object, which focuses the meditator. According Narandzhano and Ornstein, this subject is intended to "focus", ie He is in fact an object for concentration.
Meditation techniques can therefore be classified according to the nature of the object of concentration. According to this criterion, there are four types of meditation.
1. Repetition in the mind. In this case, the object for concentration is a mental stimulus. A classic example of mental facility for the confinement of a "mantra". Mantra - a word or phrase repeated again and again, usually to himself. We would include in this category also singing. In the TM technique is also used mantra. This mantra is selected from a number of Sanskrit words. Herbert Bacon used the word "time" ( "one") as a mantra for patients with arterial hypertension. Repeat verse excerpts can also be regarded as a kind of mantra. As the mantra is sometimes used and the text of folk songs.
2. REPETITION physical actions. This object for the concentration associated with focusing attention on any physical action. In ancient yoga (Hindu) way of meditation focuses on recurrent respiratory movements. Various forms of respiratory control counting breaths (called pranayama) form the basis of a form of Hatha yoga. The general public is better known for another version of Hatha yoga that uses various postures (called asanas). Some peoples of the East used in the practice of lengthy choral dances with repetitive movements. Ancient Artists of the dance were called "dancing dervishes. Finally, the proliferation of jogging in the United States gave impetus to the study of this activity. One of the effects reported by some of these runners are experiencing, such as meditative. The reason for this may be set during run regular breathing or the monotonous sound of the feet touch the ground.
3. FOCUSING ON THE PROBLEM. This object for concentration is an attempt to solve the problem, including the paradoxical components. Classic example is dzenovskie "koan." In this case, a paradoxical thought given to the type of task. One of the most famous koan is this: "As sound of one hand clapping?"
4. VISUAL CONCENTRATION. Here the object is to concentrate the visual image. It may be painting, candle flame, a leaf tree, rousing relaxing scene or something else. "Mandala" - a geometric figure, a square inside a circle, symbolizing the unity of man and the universe. In Eastern cultures, it is often used for visual concentration.
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