Practicing guidline

[Trạng Lồi]

My translation may have many mistakes, however I hope it may bring you much useful information in your way of finding inside happiness and way to be enlightened.

[Trạng Lồi]

Source : https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh
Sila, Samadhi and Wisdom

" My doctrine is not for anyone to believe, but to practice"
Shakyamuni Buddha

Practicing method

These following practicing method is based on the experience and acknowledgement by Master Tibu and many others who mediating under the guide of Tibu, and it's not only the theory. Its called: "Lets  speak what you are doing and do what you speak"

      Sila, Samadhi and Wisdom

If you practice without a direction and obvious method, the probability you will fall into a trap is very high. It looks like when a dog is chased and bitted by other dogs.  This dog will react by attacking these others, by continuously bite left or right, and so on it will die.  But if this dog know and open for him his own way, by just attacking in only one direction, the probably it can run away from the enemy maybe high. As such, practicing like "you heard and you do", or you think" It's sound nice and you do" , or just do it because other peers are doing and complimenting about it, the results you get won't be lot. That practicing must be like Master Milarepa once said:

" You must have a unique method and a very closed master, so you can reach your final purpose in this life"
Or just like Maha Muni Buddha once said to his followers:
-   Perfect in the first beginning( Sila)
-   Perfect in the middle of the way( Samadhi)
-   And perfect in the final ( Wisdom)

Conclusion: You need to have a very clear and clarify way of practicing and perfect in three stages: Sila, Samadhi and Wisdom. With our slow improvement( 2500 years and we still here), we need to do it right away with our heart, mind and energy

Sila: Hstd' guideline is to speak truthfully and to be dutiful to your parents:
1)   Speak the truth:
Based on PBS research , one person may lie once per day. However, it's base on a research at America. However, in this country where you need to work hard, if you don't lie then it's very hard to survive.
      The paradox is if you want to cultivate, first you need to keep the Sila: Speak the truth.
So, there is a way to resolve this paradox:
-   Choose the one so you can say the truth:
You may choose the one among your family members, and always say the truth to this person. If you can do it, when you go outside and lie, because of this person, you can keep the balance.
-   Choose a place so you always say the truth:
Choose a place in your house, wherever you are in that place, whenever you talk, you must say the truth.
2)   Be dutiful to your parents:
Considered your parents above anything else, your parents' decision must be respected by you. And you need to do whatever your parents tell you to do (if it's true and still inside the moral and law regulation, even if it may adverse your thought)

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[Tibu]

Very good translation, thank you very much Trạng Lồi

[Trạng Lồi]

Thank you Tibu!!!
Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/dieu-than-dieu-tuc-2100

Harmonize your body



A.   Meditation position: Remember to put your tongue to touch your jaw
1.   Definition: It's a simple, balancing, secure and less tiredness position
2.   Category: There are two position: SIT AND LYING DOWN
•   Sit: Just sit wherever and however, just feel secure. If you want to sit with a half lotus position, you should follow as described in HATHA YOGA ( Remember to put your right leg on your left thigh. If you sit on a chair, remember to put your heel of foot touch slightly each other.
•   Lying down: : Just lying down wherever and however, just feel secure.
3.   Direction: There are some who are allergic to the geographic direction, so will have the 4 following feeling:
-   Not feeling satisfied or not safe when they sit, showing their face in that direction
-   When mediating, suddenly your neck tilt in different direction
-   Feel like your body leaning, but in fact it's still very straight
-   Feel like your body oscillating
4.   Resolve
Just rotate your body slowly into different direction (remember to rotate it clockwise)

For example:  If this time you sit at the North, the next time you rotate your body to the north east. If it's still not right, the next time you shift it to the East.
B.   Relax your body:
1.   Definition:  Not stretching any of your muscle which not necessary during your mediating session. Keep your jaw closed and your tongue still touching the upper jaw.
2.   Purpose: To keep you absence of false ideas or thoughts/ apart from thought.
3.   Relax all of your muscle from toe , through joint up to top of your head. If any part of your body feel tense, stretch it a little bit and then suddenly let  it loose.
C.   Detachment:

1.   Detach your body 1st and then your mind.  My ( Tibu) detach method is From the mediating position, breath in breath out and as I breath in, I put my attention to my toe and as I breath out, I loose it, then to thigh muscle, then thigh, then asshole( lol)
2.   Calculate the breath:

I calculate my breath, as I breath out I imagine ( in my head) to draw a digital number, right in front of me, until no 12.
Repeat three routine, the number which can appear blur is acceptable because this stage only help you to forget your daily living routine( detach your thought)

[hoasentrenda]

Very good, thank you much Trạng Lồi

[Trạng Lồi]

Thank you! Dont know how to name " Điều tức" in English, so I just put it as a distribution of vital force

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/dieu-than-dieu-tuc-2100

Distribution of vital force

Definitions:
As  you put your attention to the in and out of your breath, you can only relax your body and this action only brings you to the upacara; so don't too believe in what books  nowadays saying.
1.   The distribution of vital force:
-   When breathing in : The vital force is stopped short
-   When breathing out: The vital force is circulated
As so, you should relax your muscle when breathing out( breathing out take longer time compared with breathing in)
2.   Purpose: Followed up your upacara by a Samyak-samadhi
From Upacara to Samyak-samadhi, you will see a very different state of feeling/mentality
-   At Upacara: Your Greed and Desire still a lot
-   At Samyak-samadhi:  Your Greed and Desire will be lesser and lesser( depend on how deep your  mediation is)
As such, when you go from upacara to Samyak-samadhi, you will encounter the up and down of psychological process.
*Any psychological oscillation will lead to a slip of Samyak-samadhi.
3. Practice:
  - With two gate( nose and mouth) and two container/ storage( Lung and belly), we have a  distribution of yin(-) and yang(+) as followed:

                 NOSE(+)--->IN--->(-)MOUTH
                 LUNG(+)---> STORE--->(-) BELLY

After analyzing, we come to this conclusion:
- When breathing in, we use nose and lung, it will be totally Yang-> we tend to be more impatient, flutter, tremble with excitement and hard to relax
-When breathing in, we use mouth and belly, it will be totally Yin-> We will die because of exhausted, or have serious illness.
THUS: We should use NOSE and BELLY: A combination of yin and yang. It's a breath of a child.
Put your attention more on the breathing out instead of breathing in( take longer time when you breathe out)
Try to imagine about a series of digital number from no 1 till no 12. Remember every routine of breathe in and out is ended with one number.
For example:  Close your eyes, slowly breath in- out and try to imagine:
-   The number will appear  blurry right in front of you, in a small picture frame
-   Repeat the routine of  no 1 till no 12 thrice, each routine consists of 12 number or 12 breath
-   Focus on making these number become more obvious/ transparent
-   Remember to breathe slowly; try to open up your belly when breathing in. You will get used to it soon.
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[Rancon]

wow. you worked hard! Thank you!

[Trạng Lồi]

Thank you RC!

May you and others like to translate some part of hstd.

When I layed down on my bed, I kept thinking " Duong xua may trang" can reach lot of westerners cause they have a version in English. Our Tibu's method as in my opinion is way better than that. So why don't we translate it in English. Some reasons are:

- They( westerners) have greater blessing/ fortune compared to Asian; so if 1% of those who like to mediate know a unique way, they can go very far.

- When this generation and next generation die, with the English version; by any chance it can be explored and researched; so on our hstd doctrine can be kept as the time goes by and it may help those who wants to find their way to the Nirvana shorten their time.

If some of you share the same idea, you may do the translation also.

TL

[Rancon]

Dear TL,

I have tried to translate stuff on hstd, but many times I realized I do not understand it well enough to choose the right word. I admire your selection of wordings, it showed you have lived a live and understand the method, as well as the emotional connection you have with your/our practice. I have a passion to spread hstd's practice by translating it into English, too. But at first it was just me and that made it a bit difficult, 'cause no one will cross-check with me. When I said thank you earlier, it was not only for working so hard for hstd. In fact, I wanted to thank you because you lit up the little bit of passionate that I have left in me. Anyways, next time when I translate stuff please scheme over and help me with the little mistakes there may be. I know, we are all not native speaker, nor is our english perfect, so if we help each other keep an eye on our work, it would make things so much easier, right?

Thanks again!

[hoasentrenda]

Thanks to Trạng Lồi and Rắn con for your works in translating to English. Please continue your work and help other to do it as well.

It has been more than 3 years since hoasentrenda and the forum started. Translating to English is one of our goals to bring the Practicing Guidline to the world community.

Now, it is time to consider a completion of English webpage that will require more than two translators for the tasks. Therefore, we are encouraging other translator to join the task force in translating the whole website to English as soon as possible. Any one who wants to participate, please contact with admin at hoasentrenda@gmail.com

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[Trạng Lồi]

Thank you RC and hoasentrenda. Thank you

@RC: Yes. I would like to do it with you, RC. My pleasure   

@hoasentrenda: Btw, can i do this part: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh?

So we make sure we dont do the overlap with each other? Or you can arrange the translating part for me? 

TL

[Rancon]

I love it when everybody do the hardest part for me, which is choosing what to do

[Trạng Lồi]

@RC: Can help me proof-read this part? This may have many mistakes

Self protection

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/dieu-than-dieu-tuc-2100

Self protection will help us feel safe.Self protection will help us to close the Anahata chakra and to avoid the release of consciousness without self control.
Self protection steps:
-For women: Vipasyana the "AUM"and concentrate to her reproduction system. Or read this mantra: AUM, KRODANA HUM JAH( 7 times) , and see the reproduction system to purify herself. After that, can do as followed like men

-For men: With this Rddhi-mantra: Om, Driym ( Om, dri- dim)

Mudrā

Usually, you should find the one who acquitted Esoteric methods to obtain this Mudrā. However, if not, you yourself should make a vow, then you can do Mudrā
-   Clasp hands, two finger index located like the picture. The finger index must be putted on the the thumb
-   Two thumb putted stand up, side by side, touch the index  finger
-   Touch the top of your thumb to 6 parts of your body



When touching your thumb to 6 parts of your body, you should say (just to yourself) the Rddhi-mantra: Om, Driym ( Om, dri- dim) with high frequency. The 6 parts included:
1.   Top of your head
2.   Brow or Forehead Center
3.   At the deep-set point below your right clavicle/collar-bone and near delta muscle
4.   At the deep-set point below your left clavicle/collar-bone and near delta muscle
5.   At the middle of your chest
6.   At the middle of your mouth



Read the vow at lowest frequency:

1.   Namo Manjusri Great Wisdom, please protect me and bring safety during this mediating session.
2.   As my wish, all the beings mediating with me today will feel happy,  secure and  with good health
3.   As my wish, all the guardian devas will protect me and the mediating place from bad thoughts, bad karma
4.   As my wish, all tranquil/ restful to the beings

Self protection  is one of the important technique in Vajrayana. It will protect our nimbus and close our energy centre points. It also can call our guardian devas to protect us during mediating session

[Trạng Lồi]

Vajra samadhi mudra

This mudra( like the Ok signal) is called the Vajra Samadhi one hand mudra. You put your index finger touch the thumb and make it liked the circle, others finger rest normally.





Vajra Samadhi  two hand mudra: Practitioner who has strong mind power should use this two hand mudra because it will be more suitable for them
-   The right hand makes a Amrta mudra: Ring finger touch the thumb to make a circle,  other fingers rest normally



-   The left hand makes a Bhaisajya mudra: the middle finger touch the thumb to make a circle, other fingers rest normally
-   Two hands face upward, fingers point to each other.
-   Practitioner slowly pushes the two hands close to each others. Normally, left and right hand side fingers  will be automatically interposed


-   The final step is to release the two circle you made above( at the left and right hand) and lets the thumb fingertips touched each other, lying on the index finger



Attention:
-   With this condition, the right hand index finger will lye on the the left hand index finger. The right hand middle finger will lye below the left hand middle finger, etc.
-   When doing  Vajra Samadhi mudra, 2 hands touch like you are clipping a smoking paper.
-   You should read this instruction carefully and slowly and do it step by step

Release mudra:
Still holding your mudra and touch this mudra to your head skin before releasing it.
With higher mediating level ( from the Third Jhana upwards) , practitioners should visualize the image of an egg with gold color. Inside this egg has a human being (this is you), who is holding the mudra and do self protection as describes above. This self protection helps practitioners a lot by protecting his/her nimbus. Each time a human being( that's you visualize inside an golden egg) uses the mudra touch 6 parts of his/her body, the whole image of an egg will sparkle. Base on the strength of sparkling, practitioners understand how safety he gets with self protection.

[Trạng Lồi]

Milarepa 's relaxing technique after mediating session


Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/dieu-than-dieu-tuc-2100#XaThien

Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:26:13
Hi everyone
Relaxing technique after mediating session is a transition step from Samdhi state to wandering state in which our body and nerves need to have time for preparation. Relaxing after mediating session is a very important step, just like when we pour hot water into an ice glass, if we pour the water immediately, the ice glass will be broken. But if we slowly pour hot water and shake the glass, we will not regret about the outcome.  At beginning level, relaxing technique is not very important but for high level practitioners ( such as Third Jhana and Fourth Jhana), practitioners will feel dizzy when they immediately finish their relaxing step. This immediately stop will cause practitioner a headache or worse like Unconsciousness.
The book Tibetan yoga and secret doctrines của W.Y Evans-Wentz, ISBN 0-19-500278-4 also mentions about relaxing technique.
1.   If the mediating position is lying on bed, just do it like when you wake up in the morning
2.   If the mediating position is sitting with a half or full lotus position, follow these following steps and do it slowly, step by step( like slow motion movie)
a.   Head:
-   Turn your head to the left: Breathe out
-   Return your head to its starting position, breathe in
-   Repeat the above steps, but now to the right
-   Repeat the whole process at least 3 times
b.   Shoulder:
-   Twist your shoulder from low to high. While at high, breathe in. While at low, breathe out
-   Repeat the process 3 times.
c.   Release the mudra( if you use it):
-   Touch the mudra to your head's skin  and release it just by an action like you sweep your hair by hands
d.   Arms:
-   Sprinkle arms like a fish tries to get out of net
e.   Legs:
-   Slowly get your legs out of the half/full lotus position. 2 hands put on floor
-   Bring it up
-   Sprinkle like you do with arms
f.   Body:
-   Turn to the starting position when you practicing, try to lean to the front and bring your body up a little bit
-   When leaning  and bringing it up, breathe out with a sound: huh( low volume only)
-   Repeat 3 -6 times
Relax your body correctly can eliminate poison in your body and help u practice well in near future. Remember to read some blessing after the mediating session.
With sincerely,
Tibu

Note:  Can use Tám, Tư uncle's relaxing technique but not as good as Milarepa's
 In the book: I search, I practice and I vitakko the doctrine, the uncle mentioned:
After mediating session, use 2 palms to rub your nose, up to your head until you feel the consciousness
(1)   Rub two hands until you it warms, the fingers stand upwards

After that, hold the nose with your warm hands; rub your face, forehead, head and then ears

Repeat (1) and rub, press shoulder, down to arm, wrist, and then finger. Use your hand rub from groin to thigh, to your leg and pinion your toes. Finally, rub your two feet together.

Comment:  Right after mediating, practitioner uses hand hold his/her nose, this action can be applied for the those at upacara level, because if with third/fourth jhana practitioners, they will immediately feel dizzy when using this relaxing method. This method includes many rush action such as rubbing hands together hardly. This imperfection will hold practitioners long at their upacara level. Let's mention a little bit about the definition of upacara: it's a low level which belongs to the Kamadhatu ( desire-heaven). At upacara, practitioners will see nimitta (images) with following characters:  suddenly appearing and unnoticeable. The nimitta (images) just appear right in front of practitioners and they can't control it. At apacara, practitioners feeling like body is leaning, twisting, tilting or eye suddenly see a sparkling light, ear suddenly hear the sound of thunder, etc.
     
Damage when relaxing the body too fast:

-   Want to release the consciousness to upper heaven
-   The soul is not  close to body after mediating
-   Chronic headache, even when taking medicine
        If you incur the above trouble, you need to practice Milarepa's relaxing technique. Why? Because people always have the habit of right after mediating, he/she stand up immediately without relaxing body. Thus, day after day, the soul no longer closes to the body and therefore he/she has chronic headache syndrome