Let’s gain enlightenment,
and then instruct all beings.
From : Zen Master Seuns Sahn: The compass of Zen.
Many centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates used to walk the streets and squares of Athens, teaches his students.
He told them "You have to understand you, you need to understand, you must understand." Then one day a student said, "Lord, you always say that we have to understand us, but you understand."
"No, I do not know," said Socrates.
"But I understand this" not. Know '"It's very interesting lesson. Buddhist practice points for the same experience, because most people spend their lives without any sense of what they are.
We understand many things about the world, but we do not understand. So why do people come into this world? Why do we need in this world to live?
For love? For money? For the respect or fame? Do you live for your wife, husband or children?
Why live in this world?
If someone asked you this question could be answered very well: "I live for my children, I live to earn enough money for them, or maybe just have a good life ..."
Most people think that way. They live only for his family for a few fleeting social respectability, and perhaps enjoy some art or power position.
Everyone wants to have a good situation for themselves. If you look very closely at this world, it is easy to see that most people eat and sleep and live only for their personal happiness.
But this things are not the real purpose of human life.
They are only temporary facility for the life of the world. If people cannot see who they are, how they can never be truly happy?
The Buddha was born into a royal family in India about two thousand years. He was a prince named Siddhartha Gautama. He had a very good location.
The building that had everything he wanted: good food, nice clothes, lots of beautiful women, the high seat and a very good location.
He was the son offing, and one day he would inherit a powerful kingdom.
This is very nice! But inside Siddhartha was very unhappy because he could not understand who he was. He could not understand life and death.
He was deeply saddened that all beings have finally sick, old and die. This gave him a big question about its nature and essence of all beings.
"What I ARN? Do not know ..." At that time in India, the Brahman religion of Hinduism, was followed by almost everyone.
But Brahmanism the young prince could not give the right answer to his burning question. He was still unhappy.
"Why the man who came into this world and why we eat every day? What am I?" It ate the food, but there was no taste. Music heard, but gave him no joy.
The beautiful building was like a prison.
One night, Siddhartha left the palace. He left his family, his beautiful wife and child to child, all his hair cut, and have become a Monaco.
Then he went into the mountains. For six Years he has practiced very, very difficult.
"What?" I do not know, I'm ... "It 'was brave to this question with a determination to tip.
Then one morning, as he sat in meditation under the Buddha tree, he saw the morning star in the eastern sky. In this moment - BOOM! - Siddhartha, and This is a complete star.
He realized his true essence. He realized that his mind was the universe - infinite in space and time - and the whole universe was nothing more than his opinion.
He realized there is no life or death. Nothing ever comes or goes.
Let's say you woke up and reached his true nature. He received quite human consciousness, he saw that when ignorance will appear Spirit.
When the ghost you want. In any kind of lust, life and death, coming and going, happiness and sadness, all seem to appear.
Through the full implementation of a not-so mind one hundred percent - go straight, I do not know - he saw the Buddha as a complete stop the endless cycle.
He achieved complete liberation from the eternal cycle of birth and death, in which case, all beings.
He has fully achieved its correct path, reached the truth, and reaches the right kind of life that must lead. The name of this is enlightenment.
But this truth that the Buddha had attained a very high quality implementation.
How did he manage to help run the suffering of the world?
When he reached enlightenment, the Buddha saw all sentient beings are born, suffering and death; be born again, suffering and death, rebirth torment suffering, death and again in an endless loop.
He saw billions of people in the loop with no beginning of birth, age, illness and death around and around and around, began non-stop, only to their desire, anger and ignorance. The name of this is samara.
"I would like this. I want, I know this. I do not know."
When he attained enlightenment, Buddha perceived every sentient being in terribly sorry. It was a situation that had become so used to it that seemed to be normal.
How can we ever believe what he saw? "How can I teach other people?" he thought.
It 'was like a man with a high quality doctoral look, sons what he had learned to teach, how could they ever understand?
Sentient beings have been driven from their heads and wish their suffering so that he asked if anyone connect with this teaching here.
Sutra to say that the Buddha for a few moments, if it were to prove each of these is doubtful. Perhaps people would laugh at him, or worse, killed him for his heretical insight.
The Buddha saw this. He could have stayed at this nirvana, achieve enlightenment, a state of infinite peace and happiness, and never stop.
But the Buddha had a deep compassion for sentient beings. He rose from his seat under the Buddha tree; he left the peace and bliss of Nirvana, and went to controversial to teach people in urban and community. She left her "good situation.
“He did not want to create peace and tranquility.
He did not attach to his happiness. He did not want to remain in a state of Nirvana where there is no suffering or life or death.
The Buddha came strong and antagonistic world, to all beings from suffering, and then you can fully realize its original nature was, as it has done to save it.
His experience of enlightenment was not for him alone.
This is very important Sign’s so die, die bi: great love and great mercy.
The Buddha had attained enlightenment, which means that it reaches its over-dependence of all beings. This was the beginning of Buddhism in this world.
So Buddhism is the general teaching of this historical figure with Shakyamuni Buddha. But what exactly is the Buddha? Buddha is not really special.
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word meaning "to awaken.
When you get your opinion, you can reach your true self, and you wake up from your dream suffering. A great teacher once said:
"The mind is the Buddha, the Buddha is the mind." If your mind to achieve - that is, when you reach your true self - then you'll Buddha. Sun Buddhism doctrine simply means that Shakyamuni Buddha himself achieved.
He is totally in his opinion, has achieved all that they are the leaders of the center. It has set the proper functioning of the mind that you get to help all other beings. This is a very important point.
Thus, Buddhism very just ask, very deep, "What am I?" I just do not know.... The Buddha sat for six years; to keep their minds do not know.
The great Zen patriarch Bodhidharma sitting in a cave for nine years at Shoaling to hold I do not know. So I ask you who you are.
When you were born, where did you come? If you die, where do you go? When it comes to these questions, then get your true self, and the highest of the animals.
But if you do not understand, then it is the same cat or a dog or other animal. Books can give you this opportunity. Money cannot arrive at this understanding.
Even Buddha or some kind of God can give you this insight. Hence, the meditation it is very important is: How can I make my true self, and fully realize the truth and real life?
