Seeing Just Being Seeing…

Your inner peace just shows when you have control over your own thoughts.

If you see a fallen leaf, not thinking why it falls, and not related about anything else as before and after the leaf’s falling, just seeing the leaf falls. Also, looking at a person, looking at him (her) being a human, don’t think of the person as a man, woman, or to be ugly, beautiful, high, low, rich, poor, racial, religious and so on, so you would have the right view of nature of the phenomenon (dharma).

To the view of habits of thought, bias, prejudice, and under the guidance of ego, you have seen all phenomena in a misleading manner; that mean, you see everything by your views that untrue with its nature. And ego-thought always have a shaping law, while most objective phenomena never followed the rule of thoughts, so this is the beginning of suffering.

The phenomenon itself is just the continued arising and disappearance of the lineage; the mind is like that. In the Buddhist doctrine called ‘dependent origination’ (Pratītyasamutpāda/paṭiccasamuppāda).The Buddha taught: “He who sees the Paṭiccasamuppāda sees the Dhamma; He who sees the Dhamma sees the Paṭiccasamuppāda (Majjhima Nikaya 1.190)." The phenomenon is the dependent origination, always changing, and having gathered, separated; due to the distinction of the eyes and thoughts to clinging dharma, so the things become the problems forever: why? And why is 'me'..? But when one noted 'me' or ‘I’ is nothing, and nothing to do and deal with ‘me’ also.

Try to practice a few moments in seeing just being seeing, or looking at… just being looking at…, you will realize the inside tranquil state to all the subject and object (phenomena). This is a moment of enlightening new things, very interesting!

TNTQ