Insightful picture of Buddhism and monasticism, author Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

 Introduction in the Chinese world, the translator of people living on Buddhism is both familiar and strange. The one hand, Buddhism is the most overripe phenomena around us, such a large number of Buddhist temples, temple, the monks encountered the streets, where popular culture Foji Zen, martial arts were compared using adaptation of Buddhism and martial arts moves into everyday language of the Buddhist terms such as ; impermanence Most of the Chinese world, people are incidental contact with Buddhism, and one-sided understanding of Buddhism is passive, fragmented. So, on the other hand, we can say that most Chinese people do not live in the world Buddhist culture (unlike Thailand, Tibet and other places), we all know a lot of information about Buddhism, but Buddhism is not coherent to say exactly how one thing. Some people despise Buddhism; was curious; some people did not get to the bottom of Buddhism , have their own opinions; others felt that Buddhism unrelated, Buddhists believe that Buddhism is something that is exotic; others like Buddhism, but it will not enter the halls. Buddhists there are thousands of kinds of ways , in which a complementary way is to read - Buddhism does not believe the text will tell, but does not exclude the text. books and people, is the talk about fate. In the sea of books, which book would you really see in? we got a good book, an easy to understand, concise and comprehensive general theory of Buddhism, we feel that this book - was thrilling, full of challenges; non-Buddhist readers can read the mental agitation. excellent heritage and education, world-renowned, his own point of view in plain language and compile will make a brief description of Buddhism, so that the reader quickly into the situation, the moral principles of Buddhism, history and all have an accurate overview of heritage . If you just want a good entry to read a Buddhist book, please consider choosing this book, you will not be disappointed. If you think you already have some of the stereotypes of Buddhism, perhaps this book will give you all the difference to Buddhism . If you are a Buddhist, please confirm your practice book. Chen Kuan-chung order point of view of self, as usual, when you emerge an idea, you know this idea come from? Or, why is there such ideas rather than another idea? you know your point of view and this view how is it? most importantly, you can be sure these are indeed your own thoughts, your own point of view? aware of these issues The answer is very important, because your point of view determines how you look at things the way you look at things but it is all your concepts, feelings and actions of the foundation. because your life is entirely his own concept, thinking, feeling, action formed, so any decision of your views and opinions of things, for your life must also have great control. You is not biased eyes watching things as they are pure? Or by a teacher, friend, enemy, books, newspapers, advertising, television, music, religion, culture, and so many of, and wear colored glasses to look at life? may you think you are not a people easily manipulated, but also that their judgments will not be around by the force, but how did you know this from? we may have been suffering from no knowledge of it. Usually when we are affected, they are completely do not know, because we think they are and the life each separate environment, so the various impact is easy to slip in unknowingly entered. your heart has no choice but to absorb all kinds of influence, you have no knowledge of the situation, the internalization influence into your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. they become part of you, created you and the truth about their views, you might even recognize that they are caused by external forces, but that he is independent, fully to be loyal to yourself. think about why you like some people and not like other people? your politics come from? Why were you attracted to a man or woman? you how to choose wrong? you Why do feel that they must have a car or live in a place Caixing? you for the success and failures of the views come from ... ...? If you do completely honest, you know, almost no kind of ; thoughts and feelings really are your own, most of them are things you can not control the influence of the results. Even if we accept you completely free from the impact of foreign objects, but you still from the to observe and experience the world, you might think: it? and their own self always together. self is me, obviously, it is not by schools, parents, social or other external parts came. comes from self-experience point of view, is my only experience , so it must be true, there would be no problem? little value. never think it self-judgment, observation and experience are important, so everything fuss, do not relax with the natural development; and only when the ego has gone through many difficulties, we will not be small Question masterpiece. For example, self may decide, if it appeared very calm, not angry, people will admire it; to this, it is possible to find some conditions, to require it to help other people to disturb it, and violations of the field, These are very serious thing it is that the purpose is to make themselves a chance to say: ! This situation is not a moral or ethical right and wrong and good and bad, through careful observation, we find that most of the problems are starting from the viewed from the perspective of self in everything, and then they did not real fuss caused by things. the self is the fundamental nature of its own for a strong and persistent feeling, plus a continuing sense of insecurity. For the immediate sense of insecurity and fear reaction is expected and self-expectation and fear is not exhaustive, it is difficult to meet, and confusion, systematic, and disorders, orderly, logical, crazy, rational (being unreasonable in a large group), the crafty , emotional, and sneaky. self-almost anything can be used both to themselves and use all means to defend himself, but even teachers and teaching self-destruction have been used over time - by their own self-filled, No other thing can get in to. Although the self-disguise open mind, but the real opening is impossible, at best, it can only camouflage, imitation, representation, and reduced the others to believe in a personal touch. self-hype to talk to without me wealth. self may be a master of disguise, for example, when facing a serious threat, in order to protect their own self-will skillfully dressed in the uniform of the enemy, perhaps a monk or a long closed off, and it will make use of closed-door period to Tianshi their wounds, after the exit to become stronger and more cunning. From the point of view of self, success or failure is entirely determined by whether it can explain their point of view to something. Buddha are talking about ; Buddha, Look, this is a more subtle, more ambitious success. all this mean that the whole situation is hopelessly out? is not the case, this is only said that because of ignorance, you mistakenly believe that self is you, you're self. that something you think is not your own, just a phantom, due to confused, first you mistake it is your own and then lose his life to meet it, it happiness, such attempts is only one with no hope. It's like unless you know what you are dreaming, or can not escape the trap of the same dream - to make their own relief, you must understand your mistakes, and then wake up from it, and it is so simple is so complicated. Chapter correct insight Section insightful discussion of right or wrong in the insights, first we know what to say that insight is how you see things. Whether aware of the no, we have some insight, that is how things are in our hearts for how the view, which allows us to in a special way to see the world . unless the philosophy or doctrine can have their own truth map, otherwise we can not tell you how to set it to achieve the ultimate goal, which at best can only give you several different cars, so you're not a bunch of street maze of traffic. It's like go to a comprehensive medical knowledge to treat a doctor, or go to another based only on some of the symptoms to your casual wardrobe is to take something from your doctor between difference. Suppose you agree a time to apply for a job, a good friend in that company to warn you, presided over the interviews, it is very sensitive; you know the interviewer is very sensitive and therefore know how to deal with him when the interview - if Without this information, you can only be in that situation blindly into the. Some of these methods may be very exciting, horror, exotic and colorful, these methods can produce many results. However, there is no basic insight You do not know where it resides, the target is and how to achieve the target, without basis and targeted approach is just another form of cheap entertainment only! Today there are many people who claim to be teachers, offers many lack basic insight of the religious practices, but did not know they come from, where to go. In the preface, we discussed how the self-insight and self-see things. self with its insights as a basis for decisions: This is the United States This is ugly; which can nourish me, and I want it; this is a threat, I have to avoid it. These decisions create a certain pattern, so that we in specific circumstances, a conditional, specific way to feel, think , answer, action and reaction. Then, put themselves to whitewash the situation encountered modified so that it can be incorporated into the model, and prove the correctness of the self-view. The strange thing is, self-cultivation according to their own view as way, it is often thinking, analysis, always pay attention to his point of view. This practice results, resulting in numerous actions to the pursuit of self-insight or enlightenment achievements recognized. We have always been accepted without hesitation and its self- mode, they are very sound from the beginning, as today, so strong and deeply rooted. But the point of view according to Buddhist philosophy, everything is the result, the margin of the resulting, therefore, self, and its model, is only through constant training, continue to nourish the cause, the result under the edge. Therefore, when a teacher complained to his disciples, why years of diligent practice, or worry about flaming, great music is still far away, the teachers feel that funny - if the student spirituality practice of the effort to have half of self-education, then they become a Buddha in a short time. While we have spent a long time to develop themselves, but as long as the multiple mask off the self, and found that: under the mask of the self, nothing! know this, really exciting: the authentic self is a big liar, it is not real nature, just a bunch of posing as a Human masks; without me is our real condition, the mask can be removed - not wearing a mask and simply do not removable mask. plane, insightful look at things is that you decide how the standards. Broadly speaking, insight can be divided into two types: traditional insights and theoretical insight. from human to mosquitoes, each being has his unique insight. In addition, there are groups of insight, which refers to members of a particular group shared a similar view. the vast majority of human beings, for what called a woman, have the same view; and groups in each molecule, but also his own point of view. greed flaming people who believe that women are very lovely, the women as sex objects; the same woman, for a fine strict precepts for monks and nuns, is ugly, disgusting, foul smell, not the net, and some religious fanatics and even the women as inferior creatures. the human body is very rare that, from the mosquito's point of view, the human body is a delicious drink and is sold in many bars. More precisely, the traditional insights of the system is not subject to any theory of insight. This insightful common sense to close to the truth, does not involve the analysis, it is shown that the things Naturally the situation is the real situation. For example, farmers do not have to analyze to know that there is no cow horn, as long as he eyes look, and then to see the phenomenon as a fact; he will not think about it, in the end horns come from, or the nature of how the horns. This is in addition to pure superstition, blind faith, but some of the intelligence analysis system of religion), but also includes some of the philosophical system and some of the modern science. Generally speaking, there is something we hold the traditional insights of Other things you hold a theoretical insights, sometimes in exchange for in exchange between the two insightful. Section Two insightful according to teachings of the Buddha, one thing can be analyzed from two perspectives: ; it appears a book; for a small insect is concerned, it may appear as a food. because the affected differently, so it's show is different. and the coexistence of another truth, it is beyond all of nature . Remember, a knowledgeable, only when someone hold it when it exists. Suppose A, B Block, two people in a snow-capped mountains looked the same, a direct view with their own eyes snow-capped mountains, B is wearing amber sunglasses . sun glasses interfere with the observation of B for the mountains, so the B point of view, the mountains show amber. A can see the mountains, there is no interference, so the . Not only that, if B was born to wear the colored glasses, then he does not know what white, for such B, the world's mountains there are all amber. things appear and the nature of things, not separation of the two truths, but one of the sides, and only when the insights of non-reality only when the so-called reality insight. for a purpose, correspond exactly to the so-called two kinds of truth, there is a situation that is called reality, and the other is to distort the reality of the false cover the concept of the situation, no way to produce. But how do we know that a white Hill appeared nature of the mountain kinds of truth, which is the Buddhist philosophy in the classical two insightful. wear sunglasses to see Hill B, on behalf of the main worries of the filter to see through the self-object world. If you, or between subject and object between the observer and the view some kind of interference or filter, then the resulting view is called an invalid or relative truth; there is no interference or filter between the two exists, the resulting view is the absolute truth. In other words, the relative truth is through the filter of the interference insight. This means that the view of self as being filtered, it is distorted. the moral position to judge the self is good or bad, or determine whether it is real, no meaning. If you think that self is not good, likely to blame themselves in vain; the other hand, that self does not exist, nothing type of non-attachment I may feel Panghuang lost, which is not good. Therefore, instead of self-judgment, than check it. is a misunderstanding, but was treated as the correct view, it is only a illusion. According to Buddhism, . ignorance just do not understand, did not see the whole picture - you may see only fragments, isolated thing, does not understand the overall situation. It's like the story of the same Mangrenmoxiang: the first blind man touched the tail of that elephant like a rope; the second blind man touched the elephant's body, that the elephant is like a wall; third man touched the elephant's nose, that the elephant is like a snake; fourth man touched the elephant's legs, that the elephant is like a tree. Finally, the elephant in the end these people to argue what is it like killing each other. When the self is the subject, it is ignorance; when the self is the object, it is ignorance results. To illustrate how self as both subject and as object, we again use B to represent that wearing amber glasses to see things in the body. This time it, the mountain also represents the self, self is the main object of self-filter through Wangxian mirror seen. self when looking at other things, it has the main role; self to see it yourself, it also has the role of subject and object. self dual role in this case is reflected in the : First, the ; it , we say: ; I If the girlfriend away from you, you might tell others: not all parts are in the same body. These words may seem nothing, but the deeper point of view, they represent us for who he is? What? Where? hidden doubts. caused this doubt The fundamental reason is: We have been felt to be real and true. especially when we broke out when emotions, such a strong sense of reality in such a manner that in a matter of course we have a physical thing that exists, rather than illusion, but also caused not by distorting the view of the error view. the problem is not just an illusion! because we are too used to it, so do not know what in addition to its outside - all of life is fundamental to it. We invest in the self- so vast, and not leave it a moment, and protect it at all costs. We brought most of the time the payment of polished amber glasses, design a beautiful new frame, always believed that things look through the spectacles of the show is the nature of things. because we cling to this illusion, the lack of any direct evidence to prove that the self is not a vision, so we spent most of the time in some cases to collect evidence to prove the existence of self. There is a proof method is to create a self can be compared on the must exist (it simply, we are self-main, and the manifest for the object, rather than in front of phenomenal world as the object is only the original concept of the self as the object to be extended into more complex situation). separate I have a separation is distinction and separation. If we are the same, can not be separated, and the difference. In the definition say that the main body along with the object, while the self is accompanied by other people. He but a threat, and therefore these social class, friendship, marriage, religious organizations, political parties, national and so on. In the process, have created a variety of self-consciousness style, psychology, social systems, etc., in order to justify the behavior of others, rationalize . self-created a very sophisticated survival system, and develop a solid pattern, so we feel both natural and seems to be born. not to mention the elimination of self, and just remove some habit patterns, is a difficult task because we can tell, the main thoughts through the years, are used to establish, expand, support and protect this as Most of our people is difficult to capture the For most people, our existence is an indisputable fact. However, the essence of Buddhism without me, unless I know not, or the Buddha taught the complete system or practice of the Road, can not be established. regardless of our personal feelings and beliefs, rational point of view, in addition to our concept of self held outside, there is little evidence of self existence? Buddha's argument is that the phenomenon in addition to our concept of it, feeling, observation and experience outside does not exist. Otherwise, the phenomenon of the blue for us, like the blind of the same nature. blind For there is no concept of the blue, so blue does not exist for him (if a person used to have normal vision, and later was blind, even if he can no longer see the blue, blue is still there, because he still retained some of the concepts for the blue); the same token, unless we have some concept of the phenomenon, or the kind of phenomenon does not exist for us. If there is something to leave to you the concept of independent, truly exist, then it certainly does not exist from the existence of these two extremes, because the presence and absence of a subject which is said. The real existence of things do not have to rely on other things, to prove the existence of its own existence - it goes beyond his own, subject and object, existence and nonexistence of such binary oppositions. When you talk about themselves, apart from the beyond the concept, only your body, your heart or name. But if among these a detailed search for heart and the name, you will find them and nothing can clear it is pointing, - In some essential things not to find themselves in nature, appears to be no results. From another point of view, ; that is not self-determined way according to our existence - and to keep in mind to understand this point is very important, otherwise we will fall into the . on a common misconception of Buddhism is that Buddhism's goal is to get rid of self, but the real teachings of Buddhism is not what we need to get rid of - the presence or absence did not matter, but rather we believe that self- there is the illusion, we believe in and clinging to this illusion, that it is true. sixth century Indian scholar, said on ��Editor's note: In April, full of sand over South India, Brahmin origin. is the concept of a border camp monks, who presided over that Lan Tuo Temple, compiled with Nagarjuna's analysis. Today, few people know what a chariot, so to use the car instead of two tanks for illustration. car is the wheels, body, floor, seats, steering wheel, bumper, engine, lights , batteries and other things of the discontinuity. is relatively level, said the month to accept traditional insights - the car is the car. If someone asked him to ride, he would not after some theoretical analysis to prove that the car does not exist, he only on the car it is. often quoted in May, said, things, I also say that these do not exist. What is the controversy. But when the analysis of absolute truth, you will find that no vehicle components can be individually called out to the car; wheel is the wheel, not a car. further analysis of each part of the respective components, rubber wheels turn, , iron, screws and other components; finally be able to know, what we call the tires could not find any of the basic objects which can be called a tire, as if the car did not find any basis can be called cars. You may want to ask: without a basic and fundamental things. People argue with a better car than the car B, C and D cars off than fast cars that someone has a Rolls Royce car, it must be a person worth knowing; even exaggerated that a particular car can solve all their problems, let them be happy. like a lake in the shadow of the moon, one can when it is the shadow of the moon to enjoy, rather than some false assumptions or jump to no by no basis for concluding , as the following story done as a group of monkeys: one time, a monkey to see the lake in the shadow of the moon, it believed that the moon fell into the water, so take it to announce his Monkey King. Monkey said: ; We must save the moon to help the world! . Suddenly, covered with broken branches monkeys, all of the monkeys fell into the water and drowned - the eyes of the month, said, we like the same group of monkeys. One might think that if every part of the car contains the essence of the car a little, then when the time these are put together, there is a car. months, said defense said that if any part as the screw that contain the essence of the car, and it is part of the car, then the same Roots must not be used to cover the screw to the house - if it used to build a house, then the house becomes part of the car, because the nature of the characteristics of the same things, things will not turn and it is essentially different things. But we know that a screwdriver can be used to do many different parts of objects, so things do not have the part of the nature of things. If the essence of something is its identification of specific objects, it must always be so, it must be true, strong, can not change, but can only do this thing. month called for us, too many different things; since its name can be changed, then these different things can not contain a constant nature. if , but we all know, children will be grown up. Similarly, a woman is not only her mother's daughter, is her boyfriend's girlfriend, the wife of her husband, her daughter's mother, which reveals the identity can not be of a fixed nature. once India has a king, and his prime minister to sing to him, the lyrics said: this song. So the prime minister to live with a piece of cloth his hip and leg, everyone says that he was wearing a skirt; prime minister in the head with a piece of cloth, we say he was wearing a turban; Finally, the prime minister to the same live in a neck cloth, we say he was wearing a scarf - a piece of cloth as much as so many names. king immediately aware of: the prime minister demonstrates that, because the thing as it is a solid things, so become blind . to understand two very important insights. unless you know what is false, otherwise it can not know what is true. Ordinary people do not understand is not the only kind of insight, so often contradictory that Buddhism, which caused many misunderstandings. Sometimes Praise the Buddha giving, sometimes called the donation he said nothing, because people did not give and accept people, and the giving of things. Sometimes Buddhist meditation that is very important, sometimes it is said that there is no reason to repair the meditation, because those who did not meditation. If you know the teaching is different in different cases, some from the absolute point of view, some from the opposite point of view, then these seemingly contradictory things will not let you feel confused . according to Di ...