Two years ago, I encountered in Myanmar - the country of the Golden Pagoda - a middle-aged monk sitting quietly and firmly, reminiscent of the image of "Acting like Phung, living like Tung, sitting like Chung, crouching like Palace" in the "Four Majesties" of Buddhism. The monk's face showed no emotion and his breathing was very light and even. The clicking sound of my camera did not cause the slightest disturbance in the monk's countenance .
Go back many years. At 3:00 a.m. at a Truc Lam Zen monastery, among the monks meditating in a room of about 30 square meters, there was a boy under 10 years old who was superior to many others in the single-mindedness expressed on his face and calm sitting posture. now like a statue. When I took photos, some monks opened their eyes slightly, others frowned, but the boy was still at a mischievous age but still closed his eyes and breathed softly, there were no distractions here. It feels like he was a monk in his previous life, so he received karma for this life.
This morning, in the autumn sunlight shining through the window, the young girl was practicing Yoga in her room, starting with the sacred "Sun Salutation" pose. Several lotus flowers are blooming on the table as a symbol of purity and tranquility. Her father, whose hair was white, was reading a thick book and suddenly lowered his glasses to look at her and said: Training the mind is better than training the body. You must practice a pure mind so your movements will become pure and rhythmic like breathing, like blood vessels flowing smoothly in your body. Just like Buddhism has "Precepts - Concentration - Wisdom". If you follow good things, your mind will be at peace, and if your mind is at peace, your thinking will be clear. As for you, you don't need to practice that much to practice to have a better shape, to "flirt" more, to go to bars more!
