foreign
English they taught me how do you do
I did not understand
and until now I don't really understand
what it means by how do you do
they want to inquire about
what you do correctly
correct or not
you're a businessman and they want to
make sure that your business goes well
are not well
you are a school teacher they want to
know whether your teaching job is going
well or not
is it the true meaning of the word of
the question how do you do because you
have the work to do means what whatever
you are doing
we want to know whether you are doing it
well it's Pleasant for you to root
are not
but finally I found out that's not
exactly the meaning
what do you do it means how are you
how do you feel in your body
how do you feel in your feelings and
your perceptions are you okay how are
you
so what do you do means is everything
okay with you
your body
your feelings
your job
everything
and in the Buddhist tradition we know
that the human person is made of five
elements
first of all
the body
or your physical body
and they want to inquire about your body
is your body okay
peaceful enough
are you tired or not are you stressful
or not
do you have enough peace in your body
do you have a lot of tension a lot of
pain
a lot of stress in your body that's what
they want to know
how are you how do you do with your body
and then we have our feelings
after
the body we have the feelings and they
want to inquire about your feelings
do you have a lot of pleasant feelings
or do you have a lot of painful feeling
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are they want you to they're going to
know about your feelings how do you do
how are you
what are the situations your feelings
and then the third element is
perceptions
you have six sense of hands and you
perceive the world
and what you perceive will bring you
happiness or a lot of suffering
and you may have a lot of wrong
perceptions that make you angry fearful
unhappy and so on and that's why they
want to inquire about your perceptions
and I know that most of our perceptions
are not correct
and because of that we suffer a great
deal because of our perceptions
so if I'm interested in your being and I
would like to know how about the
situation of your perceptions
so you have a body feelings perceptions
and the next element is a mental
formations
foreign
because we have many kinds of mental
formations like anger fear despair
jealousy our joy our happiness
our sorrow Our Hope
in the Buddhist station we speak of 51
mental formations
there are those who are Pleasant and
those who are not pleasant
and since I am interested in your
well-being I want to know about your
mental formations
so body feelings perceptions mental
formations and finally consciousness
your consciousness
your mind
that many wonderful things in your mind
with your mind might contain a lot of
suffering a lot of Sorrow of fear of
unhappiness
so I would like to know whether you are
late
in your consciousness
uh you are overloaded by fear anger and
sorrow
and that is what I mean by how are you
I want to inquire about
the quality of your being
and how are you I think that is what
they mean by how do you do how do you do
with your body
how do you do with your feelings how do
you do with your perceptions how do you
do with your mental formations how do
you do with your Consciousness and not
just how do you do with your business
the richness is a very small part of
your life
and if you are not doing well with your
five elements
and then your business cannot
grow well
so to practice Buddhism to practice
mindfulness is to take care of our five
elements
to help them
blue well
so that well-being will become
a reality
and this is possible with the practice
you know how to bring peace into
your body
you know how to bring peace into your
feelings
you know how to bring joy
to your perceptions
to your mind
and we have to learn
and then there are
mental formations that are negative like
fear anger worries sorrow
and when they come up you suffer
and you come to a Practice Center to
learn the ways
to to handle
this kind of emotions and pains
when anger is coming up do you know how
to
how to take care of your anger
do you know how to handle
your fear
really stress
your Despair and then we have to learn
and the buddhaai was a teacher he is a
teacher and he told us how to handle the
suffering in US
so the practice consists of two things
first of all how to bring peace joy and
happiness into our
our five elements
and secondly how to handle the suffering
when they come up
and the teaching of the Buddha is very
practical very concrete
in doing these two things