The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation. Biomagnetism 
all seek peace and harmony, because we lack them. From time to time we all experience agitation, irritation, disharmony, suffering, and when we suffer agitation, this misery will not keep us limited, but continuously distribute to others. A miserable person fills the surrounding environment of turmoil, and those around it are also altered, irritated. Certainly, this is not the proper way to live.
We have to live in peace with ourselves and at peace with others because, ultimately, humans are social beings who live in an interconnected society. But how to live in peace and harmony, and kept them for others can also live in peace and harmony?
order to get rid of our agitation, we must know the basic reason of it, the cause of suffering. When investigating this problem, we realize that we are agitated in negativity or contamination generated in the mind. Negativity, mental contamination or impurity can not coexist with peace and harmony.
How do we begin to generate negativity? Also we now realize, to investigate that we feel unhappy when we are with someone who behaves in a way that we do not like or when something happens that we dislike. When something happens we do not want, there is tension within us and also arises when it occurs or there are obstacles in order to fulfill something we want, and with this began to tie knots on the inside. And as for life things will happen and we do not want the dear might happen or might not happen, we will continue in this reaction process of tying knots - Gordian knots - that make the whole structure is in physical and mental tension, full of negativity, transforming our lives in constant misery.
One way to solve this problem would get by so that our life is not nothing unwanted happens, so that everything is as we wish. To achieve this we should develop in ourselves the power to either get come to help someone who does, so that no unwanted things happen and things happen only desired. But that is impossible. There is nobody in the world that can satisfy all your desires, in whose life everything goes as it wants, without passing something unwanted. Things happen constantly going against our wishes and inclinations, hence the timely question: How can we stop reacting blindly when we must deal with situations we do not like? How can we fail to generate tension and remain full of peace and harmony?
both in India and other countries was wise and holy people who studied this problem - the problem of human suffering - and found a solution: when something unwanted and began to react with anger, fear or negativity, we must as soon as possible to direct attention to anything else, for example, get up, grab a glass of water and start drinking, in this way not only anger will not multiply but it began to decline: Or start counting: one, two Three, four ... Or repeat a word or phrase, or mantra, or perhaps the name of a holy person to feel that devotion. So divert the mind and to some extent we get rid of the negativity, the anger.
This solution was helpful, it worked and still working, practicing, the mind feels free from agitation. However only works on the level of the conscious mind because what we actually diverting attention is to push the negativity to the depths of the unconscious where you keep generating it and multiplying. There is peace and harmony on the surface, but in the depths of the mind there is a sleeping volcano of suppressed negativity which sooner or later will erupt with a bang.
There were other explorers who reached the inner truth is something beyond in their search, and after experiencing the reality inside the mind and matter realized that is just diverting attention away from the problem. Escape is not a solution, we must confront the problem arises in the mind of negativity, watch it, make it front and as soon as you start to see the mental pollution, begin to lose strength and will gradually wither and may be started root.
is a good solution that avoids the two extremes of repression and given free rein. Bury the negativity in the unconscious does not eradicate it and allow them to protest with a physical or verbal act harmful only create more problems. But if you just watch, pollution goes away and you've eradicated that negativity, you will be free of such contamination.
This sounds great, but is feasible in reality? Is it easy for the average person deal with pollution? When anger arises, we are caught by surprise as we do not even realize it. Carried away by anger physical or mental acts that harm ourselves and others. Soon after, the disappearance of anger, began to mourn and repent, asking forgiveness of others and seeking God's forgiveness: "Oh, I made a mistake, forgive me." But next time we meet again in a similar situation to react the same. This repentance is not there served us all.
The difficulty is that we are not aware of time when the contamination began. Begins in the depths of the unconscious mind and conscious when it comes to such a force that has taken us away and we can not observe.
Assume for a moment I use a private secretary to notify me when anger arises, saying: "Look, will appear anger." But since I do not know when it will come the anger I have to use three secretaries doing three shifts covering twenty-four hours a day. Suppose that I can keep spending and anger appears. Immediately, my secretary would say, "Look, anger has begun." The first thing I do is give a bad answer: "You fool, you think I pay you to take the opposite?". The drag me angry so that's good advice could not help.
Let wisdom prevail and not scold him but I say: "Thanks, now I sit and look at my anger." But is that possible? Nothing more close your eyes to see the anger and the object of my anger, whether a person or an incident, immediately arises in my mind and I do not see one's anger but merely the external stimulus of the emotion, which, only lead to the multiplication of anger and therefore is not a solution. It is very difficult to see an abstract negativity, an abstract emotion, divorced from the external object that originated it.
However, there was someone that having reached the ultimate truth found a real solution. Found that the emergence of a contamination in mind two things happen simultaneously at the physical level: the breath loses its normal rhythm - it's easy to see that breathing harder when there is a negative - and more subtle levels in the body begins a biochemical reaction resulting in a sense. All the pollution generated by some kind of sensation in the body.
This offers a practical solution: an ordinary person can not observe abstract defilements fear, anger or passion, but with proper training and practicing the breathing is easy to see and sensations of the body, and both are directly related to the defilements.
breathing and feelings help in two ways: first behave like private secretaries and emerge as an impurity will be breathing normally and began to shout: "Something's wrong!". And we can not scold your breath we have to accept the notice. Likewise also the feelings will tell us that something is wrong. Having warned us we can start watching the breath, observe the sensations and we realize that the impurity disappears quickly.
This physical phenomenon - mental is like a coin, on one side are the thoughts and emotions that arise in the mind and in the other, breathing and body sensations. All thoughts and emotions, all the defilements that arise are manifested in the breath and the sensations of that moment. Therefore, to observe the sensations and the breath we are seeing, in fact, the defilements. Instead of fleeing the problem we face reality as it is, the negativity and not forward as we did in the past and eventually disappear if we persevere and remain happy and peaceful.
This technique of self-observation shows us two aspects of reality: the internal and external. Before we watched outside losing only the truth internal, we looked outside the cause of our misfortune always blamed something or someone and tried to change the external reality. By ignoring the inner reality, we did not understand the cause of suffering is within us, in our blind reactions toward pleasant and unpleasant sensations.
Now, the training, we can see the other side of the coin, we can be aware of our breathing and also what happens inside us. Whatever it is, breath or sensation, we learn to observe without unbalancing the mind. We stop to respond and to increase our misery and allow contamination to manifest and disappear. The negativity dissolve
faster the more you practice this technique. Gradually the mind becomes free of pollution and it is pure. A pure mind is always full of love, selfless love for others, full of compassion for the suffering and the faults of others, full of joy at the triumphs and the happiness of others, full of equanimity in any situation.
At this been our pattern of change, and not be physical or verbal acts that could disturb the peace and happiness of others. A balanced mind is full of peace and permeates the surrounding environment of peace and harmony that also affect other aid.
By learning to keep balanced by compared to what we experience within ourselves, we develop detachment towards all that will bring us external situations. But this detachment is not escapism or indifference to the world's problems. Those who practice Vipassana regularly is more sensitized to the suffering of others, and doing all they can to alleviate suffering in whatever way they can, without stirring, with a mind full of love, compassion and equanimity. Learn the holy indifference, they learn to surrender completely, to deal fully to help others, while keeping your sanity. So stay with peace and happiness while working for peace and happiness of others.
This is what the Buddha taught the art of living. Not founded a religion, an "ism" or rites and rituals taught nor any empty words to those who approached him, but taught to observe nature as it is, observing the inner reality. Because of our ignorance constantly react so that we harm or we hurt others, but when there is wisdom - the wisdom to see reality as it is - disappears into the habit of reacting and reacting when we are able to blind to perform true acts, acts that emanate from a balanced mind, a mind that sees and understands the truth. Such an act can only be positive, creative, able to help us and the rest.
Therefore it is necessary to "know yourself" advice being given all the sages. Knowing not only intellectually at the level of ideas and theories, not just emotional or devotional blindly accepting what we have seen or heard, such knowledge is not sufficient, rather we know reality through experience. We directly experience the reality of this physical phenomenon - mental, because the only thing that will help us get rid of pollution, to free ourselves from suffering.
Vipassana meditation is called a direct experience of our reality, this technique of self-observation. In the language was used in India at the time of the Buddha "passana" meant to see things in the usual way, with eyes open, but "Vipassana is observing things as they are, not as they seem. We must break through the apparent truth to reach the ultimate truth of mental and physical structure. By experiencing this truth we learn to stop reacting blindly, to stop generating pollution, and naturally the old defilements gradually are eradicating it. So we are liberated from misery and experience true happiness.
In Vipassana meditation course. there are three steps. The first step is to refrain from any physical or verbal act to disturb the peace and harmony of others. We can not free ourselves of our mental pollution if we continue to work or performing acts of speech that are multiplying these contaminations. So the first step of this practice is a moral code. We promise not to kill, not steal, do not have a sexual misconduct, lying and not taking intoxicants. To refrain from these acts allow the mind to calm down enough to continue.
The second step is learning to control our wild mind trained to focus on a single object: the breath. We try to keep the attention on the breath as long as possible. This is not a breathing exercise because we do not attempt regulate it, but we observe as it is, naturally, just as it comes, as it comes. In this way we increase the serenity of mind to not let negativity drag by intense and at the same time we concentrating and making sharper, more penetrating, more able to work internally.
These first two steps, to live with morals and controlling the mind are very necessary and beneficial in themselves but lead to repression unless we give a third step is to purify the mind of pollution, developing the insight of our own nature. This is Vipassana, experimentation of our own reality, observing in ourselves systematically and dispassionate phenomenon of mind and matter in constant change that is manifested in feelings. This is the culmination of the Buddha's teaching: self - purification through self - observation, which can be practiced by each and every one of us. We all face the problem of suffering is a universal disease which requires a universal remedy, a remedy not sectarian. When we feel anger, anger is not a Buddhist, a Hindu anger, or Christian anger. Anger is anger. As a result of this anger we feel agitated, agitation, agitation is not Christian, Jewish or Muslim. The disease is universal and the remedy must be universal.
Vipassana is the remedy. No one can object a code of life that respects the peace and harmony of others. Nobody can object to the development of control over the mind. Nobody can object to the development of insight of our own nature to enable the liberation of the mind of negativities. Vipassana is a universal path.
Observing reality as it is, observing the inner truth, one knows himself directly through experience. With practice we get rid of the misery that carry pollution. Based on the true external, gross and apparent, we enter the final truth of mind and matter. This also eventually transcend and experience a truth that is beyond the mind and matter, beyond time and space, beyond conditional field of relativity: the truth of total liberation from all defilements, all impurities, all suffering. No matter the name of this ultimate truth, is the ultimate goal of all of us.
wish to experience this ultimate truth! May all be free from pollution and misery! May all enjoy real peace, real peace, real harmony!
MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY
