B LYF LIGHTNING

Amitabha Buddha . invaluable concept. Three planes of fleeting clouds flying.

Samsara is like a drunken dance.

Beings are as thin as lightning,

Drifting fast like waterfall and rapids. "

The above verse from the Prussian Sutta means the Three Realms are impermanent and unsustainable. Life moves fast toward death, like a dancer's dance, a lightning in the sky, or a waterfall - they are constantly moving and changing nonstop even for a moment.

Moreover, the realm and the moment of death we cannot know. The Suhllekha Sutta writes:

“A person's life with suffering is more impermanent than a bubble of water before the wind. So it is extraordinary to be breathing out, breathing in and being awakened after a long coma. ”

Therefore, reflect on the chances practitioners have to practice the Dharma. Be enthusiastic diligent spiritual practice not distracted.

The nature of life, of samsara, is impermanent. We are often unaware of this because we are engrossed with countless desires, desires, happiness, and misery ... so that they can sweep us through the days like cascades. Pause for a moment on your hasty journey to think and contemplate that in this world nothing is left unchanged, nothing is permanent, and be aware of the short-lived fragile existence For us to appreciate and use our life more meaningfully.

To begin with, please pray that this meditation time will create greater peace for all sentient beings, pray that this meditation time will be the cause for oneself to attain enlightenment so it can benefit all sentient beings. , so that all beings can be free of suffering and attain enlightenment. Then focus your mind on the body, thinking of the parts like the arms, legs, head, skin, blood, bones, nerves and muscles. Please check each part in turn and the accompanying feeling. Meditate on the nature of these parts of the body, what they are made of, and their shape and size. Sensitively perceive the movement of the body as well as the movement that is happening from time to time. A steady change in breathing, heart beats, body blood circulation and the energy of the nerve vessels. Understand your body even more subtly than the structure of the cell in the body, the body is entirely made up of living cells, appearing, moving, regenerating, dying and disintegrate. On an even more subtle level, all of your parts are made up of molecules, atoms and particles smaller than atoms. These constituents are constantly moving and changing. Try to get a true sense of change happening every moment in your body.

After meditating on the impermanence of the inner world, including your body and mind, extend your attention to the outside world. Think about the environment in things close to you like the mattress, rug or bed you are sitting on, the floor, walls, windows and ceilings of the room where you are meditating, furniture and other things. in the room. Take a look at each of them, which seem static, solid but actually are made up of countless tiny molecules that are moving and moving. Stay in that experience for a while. Then turn your attention a little further away from the wall in the room, think of others, their bodies and minds are constantly changing, not being immutable at any moment. . The same is true for all other sentient beings such as animals, birds and insects. Think of all the immovable objects in the world and in the universe like houses, buildings, roads, cars, mountains, mountains and rivers, the earth, the sun, the moon and the why, ... All are made up of atoms and tiny particles and constantly changing in each moment, nothing exists forever and permanently without change. Focus on this experience!

In the process of meditating on impermanence, you need a strong sense of the ever-changing nature of everything. Maintain your attention and focus on that feeling for as long as possible without distracting your mind. In other words, stabilize your meditation. Let your mind be filled with that experience. When the strong sense of clarity about the ever-changing nature of all things has diminished or your attention begins to become distracted, once again analyze the impermanence of body, mind and sight.

End your meditation time with the thought that clinging to the permanence of all things is an unrealistic and self-deception. Anything that is beautiful, pleasing to us will change and eventually disappear.

Therefore, we cannot expect anything or anything that will bring eternal happiness. In addition, anything that is not beautiful or makes us unhappy does not exist forever. Everything will change, can change for the better, so we don't need to be sad or deny anything.

In the most general way, impermanence is the basic nature of all worldly phenomena covering the whole body, mind and sight. This change is constantly ongoing and leads us to the final destination of the present life - death - the most obvious, the greatest and the most intense manifestation of impermanence. This is also a major topic in the topic of contemplating impermanence that we will explore in the next practice.

Buddha said that of all the footprints, the elephant footprint is the largest, of all the bars, the impermanence is the largest. Therefore, we should appreciate the moments, moments we are living in this life, so that we can use this life in a more meaningful way. Enlightened teachers remind us: If I do not contemplate impermanence in the morning, I will let the morning pass in vain. If I do not contemplate impermanence in the afternoon, I will pass in vain. If at night I do not contemplate impermanence, I will let the whole night pass uselessly. Thanks to the custom of impermanence, you have more energy to foster deeper faith with the practice of Buddhism.