How do I get rid of me?
Tonight at meditation practice, I told myself to let go of my thoughts, my mind, my perceptions and just be. But throughout the practice, I kept seeing me.
When I was sitting, I fuss over my posture and the way I sit. When I watched my breath, I tried to control my breathing pattern. When I dozed off, I reprimanded me. When a thought arose, I saw me leading the thought into a chain of other thoughts. When I knew I had sat for half an hour, my mind told me my leg was in pain, it needed a break. At the end of the second incense, I said to me “Let’s go home.”
I’m such a menace. How do I get rid of I, my, me?
posted by yeelee @ 10:36 pm
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4 Comments:
guess it is very natural to have those irritating voices telling us this & that, and most of the time deceiving us. i really dun believe that they will ever be gone... haha...
but most importantly, when they start to disturb us, what do we do with it? do we follow them? or we just let them be?
i really got mad with myself last night…hahaha! it bugs me when i see that every thought is an opinion. how did the thought arise? where did the opinion come from?
blind dog's answer to your qns…katz!
Buddha preaches the Sutra on "The Burden負擔經"
"Monks, I will explain to you the burden, the laying hold of the burden, the holding on to the burden, the laying down of the burden. Listen.
"What, monks, is the burden?
"'The five groups 五蘊 of clinging 取' is the answer. Which five? They are: the group of clinging to corporeality色,... to feelings受,... to perceptions想,... to mental formations行,... to consciousness識. This, monks, is called 'the burden.'
"What is the laying hold of the burden? The answer is that it is the person, the Venerable So-and-so, of such-and-such a family. This, monks, is called 'the laying hold of the burden.'
"What is the holding on to the burden? The answer is that it is that craving which gives rise to fresh rebirth and, bound up with lust and greed, now here now there finds ever fresh delight. It is sensual craving, craving for existence, craving for non-existence. This, monks, is called 'the holding on to the burden.'
"What is the laying down of the burden? It is the complete fading away and extinction of this craving, its forsaking and giving up, liberation and detachment from it. This, monks, is called 'the laying down of the burden.'"
Thus said the Blessed One, the Well-farer1 spoke thus; the Teacher then said:
The five groups are the heavy load,
The seizing of the load is man.
Holding it is misery,
Laying down the load is bliss.
Laying down this heavy load,
And no other taking up,
By uprooting all desire,
Hunger's stilled, Nibbaana's gained.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.022.wlsh.html
已捨於重擔 不復應更取
重任為大苦 捨任為大樂
當斷一切愛 則盡一切行
曉了有餘境 不復轉還有
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