Mar 18, 2009
Purifying The Mind
Recently I got headache.
It’s not because of something you might think.
There’s too much distraction, too much temptation, and it makes me feel a little bit worry about much things.
The Buddha teaching taught us not to follow our bad desire, not to chase after something which is impermanent. But it also doesn’t mean that we have to let go everything behing, numbs ourself.
What do people try to find in this world? Most of them try to find happiness. But where to find happiness? Most of people who seek for happiness try to find it on external sources, and when they already get it, they will try to find any other happiness. If they don’t find it then they will get stress, they will feel sad. And why is that happen?
I don’t know about other opinion, but I think maybe it’s because we are looking for something that we can’t fully own it. Something that is outside ourself, something that is more like a ‘trap’.
I try to look at everything around me. People made mistakes, then their neighbour started to spreading the word about their neighbour bad habit. The started to spoke ill of their neighbour without realizing that they might do the same mistakes. And it’s pretty bad that this is used to be my bad behaviour too.
So, the first lesson for me is to shut my mouth off. If I have something to say about others then I should have say it in front of the person who are making the mistakes, not behind that person.
The second lesson is to purify my mind. I often feel dishonest to myself. I often feel that I try so hard to manipulate my mind. It’s not good, because at the end I’ll be the one who losing the game. I don’t want too much things for my own, but I still wants to help people.
The third lesson is I have to learn to let go, not to forget. There’s no need to forget something you don’t want, but if you can let it go from your mind, it will just become the past and it will not live in the present. The past is still exist but it won’t influence the present condition. The reason why people sink in deep suffering is because they try too hard to revive the past.
Living with experience from the past without ‘drinking the poison’ is the best way to keep going on.
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