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Siddhartha
Gautama
gave his dharma to
mankind,
so
humans can
awaken into enlightenment.
To
awaken one must only pay attention to
daily life,
the middle
way. Continually feeling gratitude and
awe
in one's present existence brings
enlightenment.
Three Marks of
Existence
(three basic truths about the condition of
life)
Anicca (Sanskrit anitya) defined as "impermanence".
Dukkha (Sanskrit duhkha) defined as "suffering".
Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) defined as "egolessness".
impermanence
"If
you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent.
It is because you believe things
are permanent.
Remaining
aware of impermanence you become compassionate and wise.
Impermanence is an instrument for
True Liberation.
It is safe
to enjoy what is around you and within you as long as you are aware of its
nature of impermanence.
When you are
thirsty, there is nothing wrong in enjoying a glass of water.
In
fact, to truly enjoy it, you have
to dwell in the
present moment.
When a flower
dies, we don't cry. We know it is impermanent.
If we practice
awareness of the nature of impermanence,
we will suffer less and enjoy life more.
If
we know things are impermanent, we
cherish them in the present
moment.
We know that our loved
ones are of an impermanent nature, so we do our best to make them happy Correct
now." - Thich Nhat Hanh
The first mark of existence,
impermanence, points to the simple reality that everything - every thought,
emotion, relationship, or situation - everything that has a beginning, also has
an ending.
Nothing with a
beginning is permanent.
In the search for happiness we pay little
attention to impermanence.
If
we examine our
motivation we find that we are always attempting to
hold onto what we adore and get
rid of what we abhor.
If our situation is acceptable we typically
feel secure and comfortable.
We feel betrayed by individuals with which
we have relationships or by life itself when or if things change in a manner we
didn't want or expect.
We feel situational circumstances are preventing
us from being happy.
Every moment brings arising thoughts and feelings
and then they fall away.
The simple truth is that the only certainty
following gain is eventual loss.
The happiness or joy we expect to
experience in life cannot depend on holding onto gain if it is to be a
true sustainable gain.
True sustainable gain we need to find
within.
We age, we become sick, we die.
Pain is
unavoidable.
When we
refuse to embrace emotional pain,
we unwittingly screen out a large
range of emotional experiences that occur in the process of living.
A person who is truly alive will
feel sorrow unlike
zombies.
This is so
because of the amount of unnecessary
suffering produced by the imperfection of social arrangements
and because of the reality of
existence.
Sentient beings are aware of the gap between
aspirations and
actualities.
In this light we understand emotional pain
is inevitable.
We
tend to believe that the opposite of feeling good is not feeling bad.
To keep
ourselves from not feeling bad we condition ourselves to not feel.
Everyday emotional pain,
open heart wounds, is
where compassion is born.
In Sanskrit awakened compassion
is called Boddhicitta or Awakened Heart.
All we have to do is
allow the natural empathic
response to fill the horizon.
egolessness
charlatans see egolessness as
a depersonalization disorder
"When we take a step on the green earth,
we
are aware that we are made of air, sunshine,
minerals, and water, that we are a
child of earth and sky,
linked to all other beings." - Thich Nhat
Hanh
There is a moment to moment
recognition of egoic needs caused by the struggle to stay content by holding
onto that which we adore and attempting to prevent that which we
abhor.
We
perpetuate our emotional suffering by believing that we are a fixed entity who
needs to be saved, protected, and freed from emotional suffering.
Emotional suffering will persist as long
as we avoid at all costs the fear at the heart of it -
we may not be saved or protected and may
suffer emotionally.
Rather than
experience the fear directly
we attempt to dismantle the fear by con-vincing ourselves that the fear is
unjustified - that we will be protected,
saved and
freed from emotional
suffering.
People are terrified that
they may be unable to tolerate a
reality that they have so
very little control over - the
culture, nature and
the course of
events.
two stages of
egolessness
First stage of egolessness is characterized by recognition
of "the Observer" -
a recognition of emotional
detachment from passing thoughts and feelings.
Second stage of
egolessness the notion of "Observer" is
dropped as there is no longer to detach from
the face of the awesome power of what
is.
We experience life "vividly" by direct
immersion in the process of living.
We cultivate
a practice of living based on direct and
immediate feeling.
We can
tolerate a tremendous range of emotion, and ultimately we must.
This understanding marks
the transition from using
spiritual
knowledge as a remedy emotional suffering to develope
the courage to experience life as it
is.
When we imagine what
spiritual awakening must be like we tend to imagine
a dramatically relieving
experience.
More
often what usually occurs is a humbling, a wearing down of the
ego.
(If you experience a
dramatically relieving mystical experience in Western culture and attempt
to share it you will
be diagnosed schizophrenic.)
When we acknowledge that we are in
emotional pain and simultaneously acknowledge that we are whole,
we become available to others and
are able to meet them compassionately.
Great emotional pain creates
great tenderness leaving the ego peeled raw reminding us to let go of a need to
control things which are beyond control.
Great emotional pain is not
punishment for being bad.
This is a potent
opportunity to have hearts
open up and burn with fire.
Finding that
we can tolerate more emotional
pain than we imagined possible we find a previously unrealized depth
and breadth of being.
1
in brief, these are seven amalgamates of
tenacious suffering.
2
the origin of suffering
3
the cessation of suffering
relinquish desire
cessation of desire
freedom from desire
nonreliance on desire
4
moral action
respectful speech
conscientious opinion
virtuous effort
laudable mindfulness
meritorious concentration
Correct understanding: Understanding the Four Noble Truths.
Correct thought: Determining and resolving to practice Buddhist faith.
Correct speech: Abstaining from slander, gossip,
and all untrue speech.
Correct conduct: Adherence to nonviolence (ahimsa).
Correct livelihood: Not engaging
in activity that violates life.
Correct mental attitude: Bypassing
combustible thoughts and emotions.
Correct
mindfulness: A clear sense of mental
state and bodily health.
Correct concentration:
Meditation to reach the
Integral Consciousness. |
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