#006 MASTER T. Message
Hello students,
From now on, I will bring you to know more about the principles of Mindfulness from the root to the fruits through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
If you have the ultimate goal to be free from suffering or want to achieve long-lasting happiness, I recommend you learn and train to follow the series of
"Life Handbook."
Okay, let me move you to the first episode, as follows, but students, I would like you to use the skills of MRP, especially the formula of Mindfulness Codes, O+B=PP, while you are learning by doing with this series.
Students,
Here is the Life Handbook # 1
THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS
I am determined to decode the teaching and practice parts of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddhist Scriptures, to tune or lead you to Enlightenment by yourself. My position is to decode the text for practice, making it easy and corresponding to your current conduct.
I am qualified to disseminate it in line with the Buddha. I need to refer to both the teaching and the practice to ensure you are on the right path, that you have yet to think it up, but that the Buddha taught it long ago.
Here is the practice part of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
Today, I will give you the introductory chapter of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. I believe that after learning all the teaching and the practice, one or all of us should reach the true doctrine of realization, which will be wonderful no matter how long, how many months, years or days we are together as long as we learn to be good friends forever under the Buddha teaching.
Students,
One time, the Buddha came to stay among the Kuru people in a community named Kammasadharma, then the Buddha cautioned the monks,
“All monks.”
And the monks responded to him,
“Sir!”
And the Buddha told the following proverb:
All monks, this is the only way.
(The path for an individual to go to a single place)
For the best purification of all beings.
To forego sadness and yearning.
To extinguish suffering and grief.
To achieve the noble paths.
To make Enlightenment clear.
This path is the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
“What are they? All monks."
You should observe the kinds of the body in the body constantly; be effort, be awake, and be mindful of getting rid of the delight and grief of your life.
You should observe the feeling conditions in your feelings constantly; be effort, be awake, and be mindful of getting rid of the delight and grief of your life.
You should observe the emotional states in your emotions constantly; be effort, be awake, and be mindful of getting rid of the delight and grief of your life.
You should constantly observe the truths of life in your wisdom; be effort, be awake, and be mindful of getting rid of the delight and grief of your life.
End of initial Introduction.
He related this to let the monks know that what he knew and taught about the main path to right living to reach the eight noble paths through the four foundations of Mindfulness covered the practice he had prepared.
Enlightenment is the remarkable purification of all beings. It is the end of all suffering, the victory of those walking in the Eightfold Noble Paths, the current teaching the Buddha wished you to get to, learn yourself, and achieve “Enlightenment shining in your soul.”
The four Foundations of Mindfulness use the nature or source of the four dimensions: body, feeling, emotion, and wisdom. It would be best to learn about all these as they form life.
The body is all the nature that forms it, and the systems that link the body and the mind are the feelings. Learning about life through understanding the nature of life, in which conditions are standard in terms of feelings or sensations, and then learning deeply into the emotional states appearing in front of you.
You have to reach the point where you can withdraw that mind's conditions to see the truth to understand the contents of the mind. The contents part is pure, waiting for you to discover it.
It is the nature of which Mindfulness is situated to train you to see yourself in genuine self-reliance. So practising Mindfulness and conducting one’s life to reach an enlightened one is not easy. One must learn to withdraw from attachment to be indifferent to the body, feelings, emotions, and wisdom.
All of these are the truth of life, to detach from the body, the mind, or life as they are just delusions, change and extinction according to the law of change. Be aware of them clearly, to see the gap between the body, feelings, emotions, and wisdom. To gain understanding, they will make you see them as the three natures, impermanent, imperfect, and uncontrollable.
The power of meditation or composed or single emotion arises during the state of Mindfulness, and it must begin right from the first section of the breath observation. I want to pass on to you my training, experience, and adherence to make you courageous enough to practice Mindfulness without worrying about what sect or school you belong to.
Nobody owns Enlightenment; it is natural. To reach it, you walk by the Eightfold Noble Paths, but to access the paths, you need to pursue the main route of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness according to the Buddha. So you go through his teaching and principles orderly, correctly, and gradually and never get lost.
Another essential, “being effort”, means perseverance without applying force or causing suffering to oneself to the extent of self-torturing, like depriving oneself or abstaining from nurturing oneself. It is considered extreme, lacking the middle path or being weak in perseverance. However, the attempt is more or less toward attaining happiness, being trapped in carnal delight, or even being intuitively trapped in sensual desire. Therefore, you need to persevere in passionate lust to become self-realized about how craving can be powerful when it gets passionate and affects the actual mind and how you are; the true mind needs to handle it.
The word “being awake” means to be aware of the passion toward suffering incubation of self-torment with hatred and anger, and greed coming along. It’s the same with the flux toward happiness and delight in carnal desire, led by greed, anger, and delusion, the masters of the emotions of all beings since they spring from ignorance, passion and infatuation that generates greed, anger and delusion.
"Being mindful" means what Mindfulness is about. To come to an understanding, when seeing lust gets passionate, you, the present mind, have to issue a caution and walk hand in hand together to make you become mindful entirely and become a mindful person eventually.
Here is the Buddha’s secret tip that can be summarized in three words, “Effort, Awake, and Mindful”, meaning perseverance for passionate craving, to make the mind fully aware of oneself to become a mindful person ultimately.
This main path aims toward Enlightenment by becoming a mindful observer, seeing the body, feeling, emotion, and wisdom. And then let go of all of these because of understanding everything, which is the sign of Enlightenment.
I have opened this Life Handbook # 1 for you to gradually go through the text, which is each individual’s life. You will go through the body and mind, learn and go through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness by regularly practising as you are now.
Journeying on this main path will take you directly to the middle way without getting lost. The final goal is Enlightenment by being a talented observer, and letting go of all things or the traps, be it greed, anger, deception, lust, hatred, ignorance, desire and preconceived notions.
I want to bless you to continue walking on the main path and reach the Eightfold Noble Path and Enlightenment in this life.
It can be better if you know more about the principles of Mindfulness so that I will guide you in the following message to learn about Life Handbook # 2.
Students,
"the power of Mindfulness in you will point you to the final destination, Enlightenment."
See you again.
Your master,
Master T.