The Art of Living Opzioni

[rasema74]

"... throughout life, unwanted things keep on happening, wanted things may or may not happen,
and this process or reaction, of tying knots--Gordian knots--makes the entire mental and physical structure so tense,
so full of negativity, that life becomes miserable. [...]

Keeping the negativity in the unconscious will not eradicate it; and allowing it to manifest in physical or vocal action will only create more problems.
But if one just observes, then the defilement passes away, and one has eradicated that negativity, one is freed from the defilement. [...]

This is what the Buddha taught; an art of living. He never established or taught any religion, any 'ism'.
He never instructed his followers to practice any rites or rituals, any blind or empty formalities.
Instead, he taught just to observe nature as it is, by observing reality inside.
Out of ignorance, one keeps reacting in a way which is harmful to oneself and to others.
But when wisdom arises--the wisdom of observing the reality as it is--one come out of this habit of reaction.
When one ceases to react blindly, then one is capable of real action--action proceeding from a balanced mind,
a mind which sees and understands the truth. Such action can only be positive, creative, helpful to oneself and to others. [...]

This is Vipassana: experiencing one's own reality,
by the systematic and dispassionate observation of the ever-changing mind-matter phenomenon manifesting itself as sensation within oneself.
This is the culmination of the teaching of the Buddha: self-purification by self-observation."
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