When we walk into the inner path,
needs to discover the trauma deep in ourselves,
can achieve true maturity more stably;
This includes sadness from the past, unfulfilled desires of
,
and the accumulated sorrows in life.
Therefore, there are two ways to heal the mind:
The first type, bringing attention into the content of the thoughts, and through intellectual reflection, learning to guide them to a more beneficial direction.
Through awareness, we can recognize and reduce unhelpful worry and compulsive patterns to clarify our confusion and relieve destructive ideas and opinions. We can use conscious thoughts. Reflect more deeply on the value we value.
For example, ask yourself: "Have I ever loved you well?", so you can guide your thoughts in beneficial directions, such as the ways of compassion, respect and tolerance. Many Buddhist practices use repetitive sentences to break the old and destructive repetitive thinking patterns and promote change.
However, even if we work hard to re-educate our mind, it is impossible to be completely successful. No matter how much we want to guide our mind, it seems to have its own will. In order to further heal the conflicts in the mind, it is necessary to let go of the identification with these conflicts.
This is the second way to achieve healing: we must learn to exit all stories of the mind, because the conflicts of thoughts and opinions will never stop.
When we see that the essence of the mind is thinking, distinguishing, and planning, we can free ourselves from its iron-like separatism and settle in the body and heart.
We step out of our self-identity in this way and come out of our expectations, opinions, judgments and conflicts. The mind believes that the self is separated, but the mind knows more.
Nishagadata said: "The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it."
Many great sorrows in the world come from the loss of connection between the mind and the mind. We can reconnect with our mind in meditation and find that behind all the conflicts in our minds, there is an inner feeling of broadness, unity, and compassion.
The heart allows the existence of stories, ideas, fantasies and fears of the mind, but does not believe them, and does not need to follow them or realize them.
When we touch the bottom of all chaotic thoughts, we will find sweet and healing silence. This is the peace that everyone already has, the goodness of the heart, the strength, and the innate integrity.
This basic goodness is sometimes called self-nature or Buddha nature. When we return to our own nature, when we see all the ways of the mind and remain in this peace and goodness, we are healed by the mind.
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Healing through emptiness
The last level of healing with awareness is awareness of the universal law that governs life, and its core is the understanding of emptiness.
This is difficult to describe in text. In fact, although I can try to describe it here, you must directly understand openness and emptiness through your own spiritual experience.
In Buddhist teachings, "emptiness" refers to a fundamental openness and sense of unity that you experience when you see through or eliminate the small and fixed self-concept.
When we see that our existence is short-lived, our body, mind and mind are produced by the ever-changing network of life (and nothing in the network is separate and independent), we will experience emptiness.
The most profound experience will guide us to deeply realize the openness and emptiness of the fundamental life, the ever-changing and incapable nature, and realize that it is an endless process.
Buddha describes that life is composed of a series of constantly changing processes, including the process of the body, the process of feeling, the process of memory and recognition, the process of thought and reaction, and the process of consciousness.
These processes are dynamic and continuous, and no single element can be called the unchanging self. We ourselves are a process, intertwined with life. We are like the waves of the ocean of life, our temporary form is one with the ocean.
Some traditionally call this ocean the Tao, the sacred, the true emptiness and wonderful existence, and the indestructible. Our lives are produced from it, a divine response, an activity and dance of consciousness. When we understand this life-giving process of emptiness, we receive the most profound healing.
When you become more aware of it, you can see the activities of experience. We pay attention to feelings and find them last only a few seconds; we pay attention to our thoughts and find them short-lived, coming and going, uninvited, like clouds; we perceive the body and find its boundaries permeable.
In this exercise, our sense of fixation for the isolated body and mind will begin to melt, and in unexpected situations, we suddenly find how relaxed and comfortable we are. As you go further, you will experience the openness, joy and freedom connected to all things and the great mystery of life.
There is a attending physician in Anning Ward who experiences this connection when accompanying the elderly’s children outside the ward of a dying 65-year-old man -
They just received the news that their uncle died in a car accident and were hesitating whether to tell his father. The old man was on the verge of death. In order not to make him sad, he decided not to tell him.
But when they walked into the room, he looked up at them and said:
"Don't you have something to tell me?"
When they were wondering what he meant, he continued:
"Why don't you have no one?" Tell me, my brother is dead?"
. He was surprised and asked him how he knew. The old man said:
"I have been talking to him for the past half hour. "
Then he called them all to the bedside, said a few last words to each child, and passed away ten minutes later.
You live in the appearance of illusions and things.
has a reality that you don't know,
When you understand it,
You find that you are nothing,
And when you are nothing,
You are everything.
That's all.
will be healed when touching this unified field. We find that our fears and desires, our attempts to enhance and protect ourselves are based on completely false delusions of isolation.
After discovering the healing power of emptiness, you will understand that everything is intertwined in a continuous activity, arises in a form we call the body, thoughts, and feelings, and then dissolves or changes into new forms.
With this wisdom, we can open ourselves up in a moment after moment and live in the ever-changing Tao.
We found that we can let go of our trust and let our breathing go freely, and let the natural rhythm of life lead us easily.
All aspects of existence—the body, mind, and mind—are healed through the same concerns.
Our concentration makes us pay more attention to the body and discover that the body is a gift from God; concentration can lead us to feel human emotions with our hearts, and heal our minds and pay attention to our thoughts without falling into it; it can also open us to the great mystery of life, discover our emptiness and integrity, and the truth that is one with all things.
(THE END)
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