We know that in our daily life,
we may be carried away
by our anger,
our distress,
our worries.
And we cannot be...
the master of ourselves.
We are not in control
of our person.
We are not in control of our body,
of our feelings,
of our mental formations,
of our consciousness.
Because we are not in control.
That is why we have been carried away.
We are a victim.
We continue to roll,
we continue to sink
in the ocean of suffering,
of instability.
And we make ourselves suffer,
and the people who are close to us
and also the people far away from us suffer.
So the practice here is how not...
Not to continue to be sunk.
Not to continue to be rolled on.
How to get control of our self,
including our body, our feelings.
Our person is made with five elements:
our body, our feelings, our...
perceptions, our mental formations, and our consciousnesses.
And we have to be in control.
We have to get enough strength in order to not allow us to...
be carried away by the events of daily lives.
We have to prevent ourselves to sink,
to roll, in the ocean of suffering.
In the teaching of the Buddha, we have several ways
in order to prevent the kind of sinking and rolling.
And mindfulness is one of these ways.
Mindfulness of the Buddha.
Mindfulness of walking.
Mindfulness from breathing.
All these practices can help us to cut through
to the processes of rolling and sinking
so that we can regain, we can reclaim, our sovereignty.
And this can be done quite easily.
You can get control for half a minute
or one minute and you are free.
You are free from the habit energy that is always...
there in order to carry you away.
All of us are capable of breathing in mindfully
and become master of our self in that moment of breathing in.
When you evoke the name of a Buddha,
like Shakyamuni, or Amita, or Avalokiteshvara.
And if you have enough mindfulness,
you immediately get the freedom you need.
Because the Buddha is the energy of awakening,
the capacity of knowing what is happening in the present moment.
You go back to yourself.
You recover your sovereignty,
your freedom.
And for that 30 seconds of practice,
you
stop...
You have stopped
the rolling and the sinking.