Trong tác phẩm Right-karma entrepreneurship, điều này được diễn giải rất chi tiết và cụ thể, dựa trên nền tảng là “Pháp của Phật”.
Indeed, the Dharma excels as a “science of suffering,” a “science of the mind,” and a “science of peace.”
The Buddha clearly identified the causes of suffering as a vicious circle that endlessly binds people.
Two keywords to remember: “Reaction” and “Ignorance.”
“Ignorance” means not knowing the truth, the most important being the truth about oneself.
“Reaction” here means both “reaction of the mind” and “reaction of the body.”
Because ‘ignorance’ leads to ‘reaction.’ And the more we ‘react,’ the more ‘ignorant’ we become.
For example, a husband sees his wife embracing an unfamiliar man on the street, flies into a terrible rage, and rushes at the pair ‘wanting to kill’ the adulterers (as he sees them).
Actually, the “strange man” here was the wife's younger half-brother, with whom she shared a father. She had not seen him for a long time, but because she had lived with their father for a period as a child, she was very close to this younger brother. Now he had become dizzy on the road and could not walk by himself, so she had to try to support, hold, and carry him to the nearest taxi. As he staggered and put his arm around her, clinging to her, he somehow grabbed her breast tightly. That was the truth.
The husband was ignorant because he did not know the truth. And it was precisely that ignorance that made him react. Only after reacting did he see the disastrous consequences and feel even more… foolish (‘delusion’ is also ‘ignorance’). What happened was that, in his anger, slightly tipsy from alcohol, he took the self-defense knife kept in his car and stabbed his wife several times, leaving her critically injured and her life in danger. This reaction caused disastrous consequences, created new karma and continued to nourish ignorance in the husband’s consciousness. The ‘reaction of the mind’ here was jealousy, which led to anger and produced the ‘reaction of the body’: stabbing someone with a knife. Karma piled upon karma.
Ignorance makes the mind react. Mental reactions create anger or craving, giving rise to attachment or bondage, leading to further reactions of the body, the ‘I,’ or ‘mine,’ and continuing to create suffering and karmic consequences.
At this point, you immediately realize that combining these two keywords, reaction + ignorance, means you have been “reacting in ignorance” throughout your entire life until now.
At this point, meditation suddenly “appears” like a “hero” and helps change the story of “Drama: Reacting in Ignorance” in each person's life.
Because meditation helps you understand the truth. Understanding the truth ends ignorance and delusion.
And meditation helps you cultivate an equanimous mind. An equanimous mind no longer reacts, has no greed or aversion, no attachments or bonds, no ignorant actions, and no longer creates suffering or karmic consequences.
From there, the road of suffering branches in a new direction. You realize you can now walk the path of liberation (from ignorance and ignorant reactions), or the path of freedom, the path of opening the mind, the path of enlightenment. Call it whatever you like. What matters is that you truly receive the benefits of this path.
It turns out that meditation can transform suffering and prevent karmic consequences because it can transform ignorance and stop “ignorant reactions.”
That is why we wrote a book about meditation.
And it is also a reason for us to give ourselves a “gift,” or an opportunity…
Experience meditation together!
(Trích dẫn từ sách “Ai cũng thiền được“)
Day 7/21 of meditation for creating inner peace; peace within each person will lead to true collective peace.
