[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Chan Fu]

On 10/4/05, Benito Carral <bcarral at kungzhi.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 5, 2005, Chan Fu wrote:
>
> > Do  you  tell  them  that  impermanence  is,  itself,
> > impermanent?
>
>    Of  course, in fact we were speaking about that some
> weeks ago.
>
> > What  do  you  tell  them,  Benito?  How  do you stop
> > dukkha?
>
>    I use to start explaining them the Four Noble Truths
> and  the  Eightfold  Noble  Path. Then I invite them to
> work  on  sila  while  teach  them how to observe their
> breath and practice metta-bhavana. That uses to be keep
> them  busy  for  some  time  after  which  they usually
> discover  that  they  want  something different and try
> with another teacher or school.
>
>    Best wishes,
>
>    Beni

Haha - it's very hard to calm them down, quiet those
noisy minds, isn't it? I don't know how to teach
perseverance.

It's even harder to bring them back from the dead so they've
mastered that and can use mind with equinamity.

Thank you for trying, though, Beni - even one is worth it.

be
well,
cf