Điểm yếu nhất của chúng ta nằm ở sự bỏ cuộc. Phương cách chắc chắn nhất để đạt đến thành công là luôn cố gắng thêm một lần nữa [trước khi bỏ cuộc]. (Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. )Thomas A. Edison
Ngay cả khi ta không tin có thế giới nào khác, không có sự tưởng thưởng hay trừng phạt trong tương lai đối với những hành động tốt hoặc xấu, ta vẫn có thể sống hạnh phúc bằng cách không để mình rơi vào sự thù hận, ác ý và lo lắng. (Even if (one believes) there is no other world, no future reward for good actions or punishment for evil ones, still in this very life one can live happily, by keeping oneself free from hatred, ill will, and anxiety.)Lời Phật dạy (Kinh Kesamutti)
Chúng ta không thể đạt được sự bình an nơi thế giới bên ngoài khi chưa có sự bình an với chính bản thân mình. (We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.)Đức Đạt-lai Lạt-ma XIV
Với kẻ kiên trì thì không có gì là khó, như dòng nước chảy mãi cũng làm mòn tảng đá.Kinh Lời dạy cuối cùng
Thành công có nghĩa là đóng góp nhiều hơn cho cuộc đời so với những gì cuộc đời mang đến cho bạn. (To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success. )Henry Ford
Chúng ta không có quyền tận hưởng hạnh phúc mà không tạo ra nó, cũng giống như không thể tiêu pha mà không làm ra tiền bạc. (We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. )George Bernard Shaw
Phải làm rất nhiều việc tốt để có được danh thơm tiếng tốt, nhưng chỉ một việc xấu sẽ hủy hoại tất cả. (It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.)Benjamin Franklin
Người ta có hai cách để học hỏi. Một là đọc sách và hai là gần gũi với những người khôn ngoan hơn mình. (A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.)Will Rogers
Tìm lỗi của người khác rất dễ, tự thấy lỗi của mình rất khó. Kinh Pháp cú
Mạng sống quý giá này có thể chấm dứt bất kỳ lúc nào, nhưng điều kỳ lạ là hầu hết chúng ta đều không thường xuyên nhớ đến điều đó!Tủ sách Rộng Mở Tâm Hồn
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- About S.N. Goenka
- About This Book
- My Mother’s Death in Dhamma
- The Buddha's Wisdom
- As It Was - As It Is
- Graham’s Death
- What Happens at Death
- Paṭicca Samuppāda - The Law of Dependent Origination
- An Exemplary Death
- Questions to Goenkaji I
- Only the Present Moment
- Kamma—the Real Inheritance
- Smiling All the Way to Death
- Questions to Goenkaji II
- A Life and Death in Dhamma
- Equanimity in the Face of Terminal Illness
- The Deaths of Our Children
- Undying Gratitude
- Work Out Your Own Salvation
- »» Hiding from the Wisdom of Anicca
- Questions to Goenkaji III
- Facing Death Head-on
- 70 Years Are Over
- Appendix - The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation
- The Practice of Mettā Bhāvanā in Vipassana Meditation
- Glossary
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For centuries, humans have devised countless products in an attempt to improve the appearance of the body, disguise its odor, halt its decay, mask its physical and mental pain—all to create an illusion of beauty, happiness, and constancy. Markets flourish selling jewelry, fashionable clothing, hair dyes, makeup, anti- wrinkle creams, deodorants, perfumes, alcohol, drugs, and more.
The truth of the material body has been buried deep in the unconscious mind, and its products are the soil that covers the casket. The Buddha unearthed the truth of material form. He understood experientially its moment-to-moment decay and the overall withering that leads to death, and discovered that the truth of anicca within the body was the key to nibbāna.
We all have inklings of this truth but hide from it, because it exposes a deeply pervasive fear of loss entangled with our strong attachment to the mistaken perception of a permanent body housing an eternal “I.”
Vipassana meditation brings the mind-body’s true nature into view, with its incessant changing quality—anicca. Developing equanimity towards the reality of the mind-body is what breaks down our attachment to it and leads us to liberation.
Ambapālī’s Verses
At the time of the Buddha, Ambapālī was an exquisitely beautiful and famous courtesan. She had a son who became an eminent elder in the Buddha’s monastic order. One day she heard her son give a discourse on Dhamma and was inspired by its truth to renounce the world and ordain as a bhikkhunī. Through observation of the decay of her once-beautiful body, she understood the law of impermanence to its full extent and became an arahant.
This selection of her verses describes the changes that transform the body in old age.
My hair was black,
the color of bees,
each hair ending in a curl.
Now, on account of old age,
they have become like fibers of hemp.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Covered with flowers,
my head was fragrant
like a casket of delicate scent.
Now, on account of old age,
it smells like the fur of a dog.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my eyebrows were beautiful,
like crescents well painted by an artist’s hand.
Now, on account of old age,
they droop down, lined by wrinkles.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Brilliant and beautiful like jewels,
my eyes were dark blue
and long in shape.
Now, hit hard by old age,
their beauty has utterly vanished.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my teeth looked beautiful,
the color of plantain buds.
Now, on account of old age,
they are broken and yellow.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my two breasts were beautiful,
swollen, round, compact, and high.
Now they hang down and sag,
like a pair of empty water bags.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my body was beautiful,
like a well-polished sheet of gold.
Now it is all covered with wrinkles.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my feet looked beautiful,
as if made of cotton wool.
Now, because of old age,
they are cracked and wrinkled all over.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Such is this body,
now decrepit,
the abode of a jumble of suffering.
It is nothing but an aged house
from which the plaster has fallen.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
—Therīgāthā 13.252–270, Amadeo Solé-Leris, translator
Dvipādakoyaṃ asuci,
duggandho parihārati;
Nānākuṇapaparipūro,
vissavanto tato tato.
Etādisena kāyena,
yo maññe uṇṇametave;
Paraṃ vā avajāneyya kimaññatra adassanāti.
This two-footed dirty body,
carrying about a bad odor and full of impurities
that pour out from different places— with a body like this,
if one thinks highly of oneself and looks down upon others,
to what can this be due, except ignorance?
—Sutta Nipata 1.207-208
The truth of the material body has been buried deep in the unconscious mind, and its products are the soil that covers the casket. The Buddha unearthed the truth of material form. He understood experientially its moment-to-moment decay and the overall withering that leads to death, and discovered that the truth of anicca within the body was the key to nibbāna.
We all have inklings of this truth but hide from it, because it exposes a deeply pervasive fear of loss entangled with our strong attachment to the mistaken perception of a permanent body housing an eternal “I.”
Vipassana meditation brings the mind-body’s true nature into view, with its incessant changing quality—anicca. Developing equanimity towards the reality of the mind-body is what breaks down our attachment to it and leads us to liberation.
Ambapālī’s Verses
At the time of the Buddha, Ambapālī was an exquisitely beautiful and famous courtesan. She had a son who became an eminent elder in the Buddha’s monastic order. One day she heard her son give a discourse on Dhamma and was inspired by its truth to renounce the world and ordain as a bhikkhunī. Through observation of the decay of her once-beautiful body, she understood the law of impermanence to its full extent and became an arahant.
This selection of her verses describes the changes that transform the body in old age.
My hair was black,
the color of bees,
each hair ending in a curl.
Now, on account of old age,
they have become like fibers of hemp.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Covered with flowers,
my head was fragrant
like a casket of delicate scent.
Now, on account of old age,
it smells like the fur of a dog.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my eyebrows were beautiful,
like crescents well painted by an artist’s hand.
Now, on account of old age,
they droop down, lined by wrinkles.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Brilliant and beautiful like jewels,
my eyes were dark blue
and long in shape.
Now, hit hard by old age,
their beauty has utterly vanished.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my teeth looked beautiful,
the color of plantain buds.
Now, on account of old age,
they are broken and yellow.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my two breasts were beautiful,
swollen, round, compact, and high.
Now they hang down and sag,
like a pair of empty water bags.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my body was beautiful,
like a well-polished sheet of gold.
Now it is all covered with wrinkles.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Formerly my feet looked beautiful,
as if made of cotton wool.
Now, because of old age,
they are cracked and wrinkled all over.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
Such is this body,
now decrepit,
the abode of a jumble of suffering.
It is nothing but an aged house
from which the plaster has fallen.
Not otherwise is the word of the Speaker of Truth.
—Therīgāthā 13.252–270, Amadeo Solé-Leris, translator
Dvipādakoyaṃ asuci,
duggandho parihārati;
Nānākuṇapaparipūro,
vissavanto tato tato.
Etādisena kāyena,
yo maññe uṇṇametave;
Paraṃ vā avajāneyya kimaññatra adassanāti.
This two-footed dirty body,
carrying about a bad odor and full of impurities
that pour out from different places— with a body like this,
if one thinks highly of oneself and looks down upon others,
to what can this be due, except ignorance?
—Sutta Nipata 1.207-208
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