Right Understanding is the first of the Buddha's precept of the Eightfold Path and it is more relevant in our lives today than ever before. Right Understanding, {RU} is the core teaching of the Historical Buddha Shakyamuni, or His Princely name, Siddharta Gautama. What is primarily taught in Buddhism is entwined in His Life Story, He realized and became Enlightened through severe practices in Yogic and other traditions to master His understanding of the physical and psychological nature of our huma being or being human. In essence the Buddha's teachings is about mastering the art of self enquiry or knowing your self, knowing that you are not the physical nor the emotional, you are not the Body nor Mind. Until you have discovered your true nature, The original Buddha Mind or Nature you will live this lives as in a dream, you are sleep walking through your time on earth. Self Discovery leads to Liberation of the Soul from the bondage and limitations of this physical realm. In discovering the truth and able to discriminate and discern between what is the Real and the Unreal, we are walking blindly from one hole into another. We ask ourselves what is the purpose of our lives and we find no adequate answer, no justification and no rational that can make sense out of the question about our Prescence here on this planet. Most human slumber through life doing what they can can in the name of survival and some took advantage of the ignorance of others to pursue more than their need, they become greedy, they yearn for more and would go to any length to secure this so called wealth that would ensure their happiness in life.
Right Understanding the key to the first step towards liberation and through RU we can lift all the veils of ignorance put upon us to hide us from our true nature, that we are much more than meets the eyes; we are potentially Enlightened Beings, we are Buddhas. our purpose in being born in the form and on this plane of time and space has an innate inherent value of becoming the best of who we truly are transcending beyond this life and the hereafter. The Buddha is said to have said the, "In this human form, waste no time, it is in this form that one has the potential to become Enlightened as a Buddha.." It is in this Form and Prescence that a mind can discover that truth that will set him free from the cycle of life , death and rebirth. Peace, Joy and Happiness will happen when the Mind has become free from delusions and limitations of the assumed personality our ego of who you think you are; an entity in pursuit of the material comfort in the name of survival. Most of us are detached from our spiritual nature, our divine nature our Buddha Nature becoming attached to the false and the shadow, our negative darker nature that is our constant companion while in this life. Our intention has to be in letting go of our accumulated thoughts, our memories and our perceptions our dreams and imaginations; we need to unburden our consciousness deleting all irrelevant and redundant information from its data bank. This is why Buddhism emphasizes on Dhyana or meditation, as in the Japanese Zen school of doing Zazen or sitting meditation. Yoga forms of meditation is worth learning and practicing if one is to learn to master the mental formations, the chattering and the ramblings.
It is my approach to life as one who is forever trying to clean up his acts, learning as i go along and knowing that i really know nothing at all where life is concern. But i like to keep on trucking as hopefully will come a time when I see the big picture of what it is all about and how far or near I am to fulfilling my role as a human being, created in the image of God and endowed with a sense of free will, yadda, yadda, yadda! Who am I? This rambling mind, is it me? This body with aches and pain all over not to mention a tooth ache and a migraine, high blood pressure kind of head ache and i am typing these down for posterity...who am I? What am I? Who is asking the question and who is it that it is answering. Some may read into this behavior as being obsessed. I am not obsessed enough, not passionate enough now committed enough in my practice to come close to a complete and perfect enlightenment perhaps never in this round, but I do not give up hope and have great faith in teachings of the ancient and modern masters i have encountered through the media and books. I give my salutations to all those great minds whose thoughts have helped me to see better my way in some small way. I love to read and i read both fiction and non - fiction. I have an eclectic philosophical mind if i may call it that. My mind picks out the best of possibilities, of choices that would benefit me in my practice through reading ever since I can remember. Then came age of computer and the Internet, my reading shifted from books to videos when I wish to make sense out of non-sense. I watched and studied the great Teachers of India and China, of Tibet and Japan and the wise men of my own fellow Malaysians. For most of my life I have been blessed by Great Teachers whether when in the study of Buddhism, Islam or Christianity and i have the teaching of many Great Gurus and Rishis of India as I have often mentioned in my past postings.
Who is asking? The question that should pop up in your mind whenever silly issues demands your intention, or who wants to know? Is it so critical to your well being to even pat attention to these incessant thoughts, questions and answers, a never ending story with no right or wrong answer except silence. Silence of the lamb, a silence of a spiritual nature that freezes our moment in time and free our consciousness to absorb the event being played before you.
"The greatest The Silence of the Lambs lesson is that it is so courageous to peer into our psyches and dare to share our authentic selves. Our truths don't kill us, our secrets do. They corrode our souls. It is a good thing that none of us need Hannibal Lecter to free us to speak our truths...30 Mar 2020" Cannot ascertain who or where the info originally from,.. source Internet.
We fear to face the truth about our true nature, we are afraid of giving up or letting go of this conditioned, limiting and corrupted part of our nature that we call our ego, our shadow, our tormentor and task master, a habitual often addicted personality to external stimuli and sucking in forms and images like a sponge, this is who we think we truly are for most of us. We fear the release of skeletons from the closet and dark secrets that had been haunting us from day one of this our life on this plane; we became slaves to our own self ignorance and inadvertently become slaves to others. Why? Who is asking? Why, simply because we have made no effort towards self liberation or even if we know of its concept and as human beings it is in our self interest and well being that we start to get to know better of who we truly are or what we are capable of, how far or how near, how big or how small and we come to realize how fragile we are. With this realization we seek self preservation and call it survival instinct and protect, develop and project this instinct into the outer world the more silence we are the more dangerous we become as we allow ourselves to be taken for a ride by our ego, the dARKER SIDE OF THE MOON. This slip of a typo error is worth to keep . How often in a day that you remind yourself, 'Hey, you got a dark side too you know!" Lest ye forget, the devil is sitting on your left shoulder while the angel sits on your right and any move you make is weighed in by these two positive and negative energies.
So what has this got to do with Right Understanding of the Buddha's Way? The Buddha emphasizes the Middle Way to be the best way to handle this bind that we fins ourselves in, how to say enough is enough, how to know when is enough, how to avoid being sucked into other people's games and to remain free from attachments to external stimuli. To find the silent space within our hearts w need to completely let go of it, good or bad right or wrong, they are all concepts, all are repetitious conditioning that shrouded our consciousness with dark energy, the energy full of gravity and decay, we are product of Divine Light, we are light hence we strive for enlightenment for Moksha, for Liberation of body mind and spirit. This is our purpose of being alive. We serve and servitude towards others is our worship of God, Unconditional LOve is our worship of God, Infinite Boundless Compassion is our worship of God; we live to serve, God and all other creatures in our lives. How can one declare life has no purpose or meaning? Life has no meaning until you give it one.
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