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Duy Lâu Lạc Vương 4
On the Day of Mindfulness at Phap Van Monastery, the list of Dharma teacher aspirants for 2010, though not yet complete, includes many members from trees such as Thoc Not, Vo Uu, Cam Lai, Que, and from countries such as the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Israel. These aspirants will participate in Dharma teacher meetings for at least one year to learn and to practice. Today, we continue to study the Discourse on Transforming Violence and Fear, rereading the eleven gathas we have learned, contemplating to understand why, from a state of social well-being, we can sink into terrorism and violence, and seeking ways to let go of fear.
Suffering and violence arise from craving, wrong views, and ignorance; only when we recognize the “knife blade” in our heart and remove it does suffering cease. The true practitioner lets go of afflictions, extinguishes anger, shatters ambition, transcends the cycle of suffering, and attains liberation. Contemplating the emptiness of all dharmas and practicing contentment helps us to see: enough, enough, there is no longer a need to run and seek outside, and the mind dwells at ease and in freedom. Diligence, insight, and the truth are the “vehicle” that carries the practitioner to the other shore, to the state of non-worry.
The key categories mentioned in today’s study:
- The five aggregates: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, consciousness
- The six words: “letting go does not mean abandoning, ending does not mean running away”
- The eleven gathas of the Discourse on Transforming Violence and Fear
