Purify Our Mind

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TO purify our mind, we need first to broaden ourselves with

activities of compassion so as to gradually get rid of the self-

centered habits.

 

TO broaden ourselves, we should FIRST FILL OUR MIND with BEAUTIFUL

THOUGHTS:

 

WE should try to make our mind like land, because land has beautiful

virtues, when animal put their excrement on land, it (Land) never

express anything angrily, because it (Land) is not swayed or

completely indifferent, when human (rich, famous, sage, saint, or

perfect people) walk over land, it (Land) feels nothing too, again

because it (Land) is not swayed or completely indifferent.

 

IT (Land) is not involved and affected by favorable situations or

dangerous situations, it (Land) always welcome all kinds of

situations, it will not take or give up anything, it is never

confused, it is never swayed or attracted by anything, it never start

an idea or give up an idea, it is peaceful, enjoying leisure, and

endure patiently, it is serene completely, these beautiful virtues

the land we step every day has them all.

 

IF you have no mind to all living things, so what's the harm to let

these things surrounding you. We really should learn the spiritual

part of land [The broad and generous mind], this will benefit [To

Purify Our Mind].

 

THE GOOD and THE BAD:

 

WHEN you face favorable situations or dangerous situations, do you

still can do everything without the least worry or feel comfortable

and able to do anything of your own free will. When you meet

somebody, you don't like the most in your life, look at you with some

kind of dirty eyes, are you still feel comfortable and anything? As a

matter of fact, in this moment, there is a fight between " The state

of holiness and wisdom " and " The temptations or evil influence " , if

we use the worldly words it's like between " The Good " and " The Bad " ,

becoming The Good or The Bad are all depended on our MIND.

 

BECAUSE The Good and The Bad are decided by our mind, maybe we can

put it this way that The Good and The Bad share our mind, when The

Good defeat The Bad, the whole piece of our mind is Good, when The

Bad defeat The Good, the whole piece of our mind is Bad. From this

angle you might have an idea that The Good and The Bad are all from

our mind.

THE way our mind treats the situations we face, makes the difference

between " The state of holiness and wisdom " (The Good) and " The

temptations or evil influence " (The Bad). If our mind is contaminated

by situations, the mind become " The Bad " , if our mind is not

contaminated by situations, the mind become " The Good " .

 

WHY BOTHER:

 

WHEN adverse circumstances come, just let them do what they like,

when adverse circumstances go, just let them do what they like also.

When fortunate circumstances come, just let them do naturally without

extra effort, when fortunate circumstances go, again just let them do

naturally without extra effort. Our mind should not be linked up with

any circumstances, no matter good circumstances or bad circumstances.

This will BENEFIT [To Purify Our Mind].

 

WHEN adverse circumstances come, do not feel delighted, when adverse

circumstances leave, do not feel disconsolated. If the mind feel

delighted or disconsolated, it shows that we can not control

ourselves, in this moment, our mind will have all kinds of

entanglements of love, hate, desire, possession by force …. After

this step, all kinds of problems will follow and never end.

 

THE IDEA OF word " IMPERMANENT " :

 

IF we observe things around us, we will find out " None is permanent " .

Things no matter materiality or non-materiality change constantly,

some of them are evident, some of them are not. Ever since life

began, natural phenomena have been like this. From this point of

view, we should understand that things arise always depending on

conditions. When conditions come together or gather together, things

arise; when conditions disperse or dispel, things cease.

IF you could understand the point (None is permanent) we have just

mentioned above. You will not keep thinking something in memory all

the time, because none is permanent, eventually they all will be

vanished, no matter you keep thinking them in memory or not, in this

case, why don't we just leave them alone?

 

IN the Universe everything that we could see, hear, and think of, are

all arising depending on conditions, meaning everything is

impermanent. The people we love the most or the situations we like

the most, they all will be vanished. The people we hate the most or

the situations we feel the worst, they all will be vanished too.

Should we still want to persist in our own opinions for things happen

first minute and vanish next minute in this world?

 

THE THOUGHTS in OUR MIND:

 

THERE are all kinds of thoughts in our mind, evil thoughts, greedy

thoughts, kind thoughts and these thoughts always are confused,

tangled, profuse, disordered, and most of the time, we can not

control them. Actions, moves, works, even mistakes all arise from

thoughts in our mind. When we put an idea of going to a place in our

mind, then action will lead our body to that place. When we start an

idea of going to the church, then action will bring us to that

church. We will spend our entire fortune to do something because of a

little thought in our mind. We will begin to be deeply attached to

one another or act on momentary impulse because of a little thought

in our mind. We will offend people by our words because of a little

wrong thought in our mind. we will be doing something offensive or

harmful to society's morals because of a little evil thought in our

mind.

 

WE always maneuver for positions or benefits against rivals, we try

to cause alienation between friends or relatives by spreading rumors

or doing something, anybody know why? Like the experienced people's

idea " What one is thinking of at any given moment, often evil

thoughts "

 

THE Good and The Bad all are from our MIND, we are the masters of the

mind and also are the watershed of The Good and The Bad. Mind

produces all kinds of thoughts, mind is the origin of events of The

Good thoughts and The Bad thoughts. From this point of view, we all

should understand " How important is To Purify Our Mind "

 

TO DEAL with THOUGHTS:

 

IF we want to avoid disasters or calamities made by ourselves, we

have to stop to put ideas in our head. The moment we stop an idea

arising, the moment is called " True Awakening " .

 

THERE are all kinds of garbages in our mind, if we want to purify our

mind, getting rid of the garbages in our mind might be the first

thing we have to do. What are the garbages of mind? Dirty and

polluted thoughts, greedy thoughts, hateful thoughts, infatuated

thoughts, worried thoughts, suffering thoughts, haughty thoughts,

impudent thoughts, envious thoughts, indecent thoughts, heterodox

thoughts, dreary thoughts, and hollow thoughts, these can be called

garbages of mind.

 

SOME one in the history said once that some one who can govern troops

of million soldiers is not a hero, the real hero is that some one who

can govern his mind. Now we should understand the meaning of these

words.

 

IF an evil thought arises in our mind, then more evil thoughts like

water will come in torrents, nothing can ward them off, nothing will

shield them off. These evil thoughts will forever lead us to thinking

like evil, talking like evil, and acting like evil. Ever since life

began, the habitual temperament of human being makes us like this, it

is doubly difficult to get rid of them.

 

WHEN we can keep governance of our thoughts, hence our mind will not

be effected by situations, from this, our mind can free from control.

This is a very hard level to reach, but first step always is hard.

 

FOR those who have too much friendly feelings (crazy about women), if

they do not control their feelings well, they will follow this

special kind of thoughts to talk love, hence they will sink into the

deep sea of feelings. For those who desire wealth and honor greatly,

their mind are clouded by material desires, the covetous thoughts

will lead them to fame and wealth, and they will be in the bondage of

reputation and wealth forever. The gambling lovers, the alcoholics

and …, all will follow the specific thoughts to do something beyond

expectations.

 

ALWAYS keep watch for thoughts in our mind, try to realize or know

what and where our thoughts are, as a matter of fact, according to

the experienced people's idea " Thoughts always are vanished when you

watch them. " If we could practice like this all the time, our

thoughts will become less and less, this is not the level very easy

to reach, but at lease we have an idea that there is a way to get rid

of thoughts.

 

LIKE we mentioned, that things arise always depending on conditions,

when conditions come together or gather together, things arise, when

conditions disperse or dispel, things cease. [This is a doubly

important notion]. When we understand this notion, we will also

understand that everything in universes are impermanent, from this

point of view, we should be easy to get rid of CLING (Always persist

in our opinion). Always remember and practice the notion of

IMPERMANENT, this will benefit [To Purify Our Mind] a lot.

 

THE ORIGINAL NATURE OF HUMAN BEING:

 

WE should live in a world, which belongs to our real inner self or

original nature of human being. This world is bright and brilliant,

no dispute, not bothered by material concerns, pure and peaceful,

enjoying leisure, no sorrowful …But we never try to act in response

with this world, never try to be a friend of our real inner self. And

only thing we do day in and day out is always trying to climb up

socially. This is what the Chinese say " Attend to the superficials

and neglect the essentials " .

 

WHEN our real inner self is led astray by human desires, we all know

that desires are bottomless, so we all will not be able to do

anything of our own free will, and become the slaves of human

desires.

THE power of temptation of human desires is doubly brutal. Some

people always try to attain their desires with hanky-panky tactics,

the moment we have an thought like this, the moment we lose chance to

contact our real inner self, we are going to be gone far away

from " To Purify Our Mind " .

 

OUR mind will not stop to produce thoughts because of human desires,

therefore, our real inner self will be clouded by material desires

forevermore, and our original nature will be contaminated forevermore

also.

 

WHY do our mind always produce thoughts? Before we talk about this

subject, maybe we should understand some evil ingredients in our

mind, according to the experienced people's idea " Greedy for

everything, Angry for everything, and Do not understand the real

truth are the most popular evil ingredients in our mind " .

 

THESE evil ingredients influence and poison our mind very strongly,

that is the reason, why our mind produce thoughts every minute every

second. And like we mentioned " What one is thinking of at any given

moment, often evil thoughts " , from this, we should understand that

fighting these evil ingredients is the most important thing we are

going to do.

 

TO REDUCE THE THOUGHTS IN OUR MIND:

 

BESIDES we mentioned, there are still ways to reduce thoughts in our

mind, here we try to introduce some of them, hopefully will benefit

everybody who is seriously interested in this field:

 

TRY our level best to understand that all living things in universes

are equal, otherwise, we will have a special mind which always look

at things from a " Separating two things " angle (For example making

distinction between the good and the bad). And all the problems will

be starting from right here such as " Always persist our own

ideas " , " Always like to argue " , " Always hate " , " Always fight " , …and

never stop.

 

LIKE we mentioned in the beginning, try to make our mind like LAND,

be tolerant of other people's mistakes, or wrongdoing or weaknesses.

Try to express solicitude for everybody (Friends, enemies, good, and

bad) equally. Try not to dispute or discuss in minute detail for gain

or losing. Try not to be moved by sad or delighted things. Try not to

feel so pleased when people respect or praise us. Try not to hate or

abhor when people slight us.

WHEN people show their beautiful virtues (Like help others), we

should show our respects and join in their actions, try not to be

jealous of other people's beautiful virtues. When we see people

facing troubles, do not gloat over their disaster.

 

ACCORDING to the experienced people's idea " The highest wisdom comes

from a merciful heart " , the merciful heart comes from " Solving

people's problems without any conditions and helping people to get

peace, calm, and sagacity without any conditions too " .

IF we look at things or treat things with unequal way, from here, all

the worry, trouble, and prejudice will be produced almost right away.

Thus if we want to purify our mind, we have to learn to look at

things or treat things with equal way.

 

SOMEDAY when we realize that all the beings are equal and could be

blend or mix together, and become " ONE " in some way, we will

understand really what is the " Real Truth " .