Question asked by Yup
An enlighten mind perceives suffering, they do not experience, hence how can we perceive? Besides, if I wanted to use focusing to build the good in within instead of eliminating the bad as a tool for perceiving suffering,can I? Can you explain the mindset in detail? It is because destroying the bad takes longer time and I do not have that much amount of time and often fail. Hence I would like to do the other way round where it uses passion instead of elimination as a tool for self transformation, and I do know perceives suffering has something to do with seeing things just as they are but I do not really understand what is meant seeing things just as they are, i know it has something to do with emptiness which means the perception of things are empty where the view of ours do not based on reality but it is still hard for me to find the mindset to apply in daily life. Hope that you you explain it more detail in a story telling mode, where a situation can be expose clearly at the same time I can gain wisdom to react towards difficulties. OM MANI PADME HUM tq in advance.
Dear Yup,
An enlightened mind perceives but does not experience suffering because it is not attached to happiness. Since it is not drawn to happiness, suffering cannot follow it. I’m afraid there is no short cut in the spiritual path. How can you “build the good in” without “eliminating the bad”? In Dharma practice, one talks often about replacing non-virtues with virtues. This is the way. How much time it takes depends on you. If you say you do not have time and “often fail”, this is because you are not putting in the effort. To understand the Dharma and to have realisations, we need to collect a lot of merits and at the same time, purify our negative karma. We have to do both until we achieve enlightenment.
To see things as they are or to realise emptiness, we need to have a great amount of merits and wisdom. So we must start accumulating merits and wisdom now by learning, meditating and practising the Dharma well and doing a lot of Dharma work. There is no short cut to enlightenment. There is a story about Milarepa who gave a final teaching to his heart disciple Gampopa by showing his calloused buttocks due to years of sitting meditation.