Idag börjar ett nytt liv!

[Ranchi]

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[David H]

hahaha det där lät klyschigt. men okej, go for it

idag ska jag skriva och lämna in en försenad skoluppgift. men först är jag ledig fram till kl 12

[nytt namn]

We say that "The mind is the forerunner to all things". The quality of the mind is that which determines the quality of fife, so that if we see continuous strife, confusion and conflict in the world, wars, discriminations and exploitations then that can only reflect the quality of the minds of human beings. So the individual minds of human beings must also be in a state of confusion, conflict, oppression and aggression, because all actions, whether good or bad, have "mind as the forerunner". In Buddhism we place great emphasis on the mind. We train the mind so that we begin to understand the mind, and ultimately to liberate it.

Most people are very much caught up in living in concepts, beliefs and ideas. We live in the world of ideas, thinking about life, existence, ourselves and liberation, but that is not the real experience of the way things are. Thinking about means "going around", not going to the centre or point. The Buddha was very much concerned with the practice rather than theory and I think what Buddhism has to offer humanity today is a way of getting to know the mind, training the mind and liberating the mind. If Buddhism just remains in the realm of intellect, that is study, the accumulation of knowledge, ideas and concepts, logical as they may be intellectually, gratifying and satisfying and stimulating as they may be, that will still not resolve the essence of the problem that humanity faces today.

The essence of the problem is conflict. In the realm of conditioned phenomena (and conditioned phenomena here refers to all physical, material or mental phenomena) everything that is created is called in Pali "Sankhara", that which arises and passes away. As long as we abide in the realm of conditioned phenomena then there will always be a multiplicity. There will always be a never ending variety, a never ending multiplicity, and where there is multiplicity there can never be complete peace because there is always conflict, there is always disagreement.

Peace in the world is directly related to the peace of individual human beings, they are not separate, but very much related to each other. To create inner peace within individual human beings is to contribute to the outer peace of this world, because if we have peaceful human beings, we will have a peaceful world. If we have human beings who are confused and in conflict, the world will remain in confusion and conflict. If Buddhism is going to have this ability to contribute to world peace by contributing to the individual human being's realisation of peace, we must really apply the teachings of the Buddha, we must really get to its heart.

So I very much stress the importance of practising the teachings of the Buddha, getting to know the mind, training the mind. In order to liberate the mind it requires an approach which aims at this particular end, the true peace of the mind.

Källa: http://www.viet.net/anson/ebud/ebdha094.htm