Ashin Sandadhika - The Noble Forest Upekkha

Noble peace

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“I ignored you and even if someone tried to push you off a cliff, I wouldn’t pull you back. You want to die or live, it has nothing to do with me.” These are the indifferent words of a mother I heard when I was young. She said this when she was angry with her two-faced son who couldn’t speak her mind. In fact, if someone was trying to push her son off a cliff, she would pull him back with motherly love. Even if she couldn’t pull the person pushing her off, she would shout at her son to run away.

"You've been ignoring me, you know how much I love you, you should acknowledge my feelings a little bit, my dear."

This is a text written by a boy friend to a girl friend of two friends who exchanged letters between their notebooks during their student days and fell in love with each other. Just love now, just hate now. In adolescence, love is not stable, nor is hate stable.

The word “indifference” is often translated as “ignorance” in Burmese, so when I was young, I thought that being indifferent to someone meant not thinking about that person, good or bad, not doing anything for their good or bad, and not being involved with that person at all, no matter what.

After entering the religious community, I started studying the scriptures and scriptures of the Buddha, and I realized that not wanting to be involved with this person, not wanting to be involved with this person, cutting off contact with this person, not doing good for that person, not doing good for that person, is not “indifference, but anger.”

When you hate someone so much that you decide to have nothing to do with them, and then decide to have nothing to do with them, good or bad, that is not indifference, it is anger. As is common in Burmese society, if you want to call it indifference, that indifference is 'angry indifference'.

A person who moves around in the "circle of equanimity" of "anger and equanimity" is not a noble person, because anger and equanimity are not "noble equanimity."

There are four Brahmanical virtues: love, compassion, mudita, and equanimity. Love is the desire for the good of others, compassion is the desire to remove the bad from others, mudita is the feeling of joy at the good of others, and equanimity is the feeling of considering that the good or bad of others depends on the good or bad karma of others.

"Brahmaso" is a Pali word derived from "Brahmasariya" and translated into Burmese. It means "noble conduct." Every person with a noble mind practices the four qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, equanimity, and equanimity with all their might.

A person who practices Metta Brahmasora does good to others with his body, speaks words that will benefit others and bring peace to others with his mouth, and sends prayers and love with his mind for the benefit of others and bring peace to others. Only when all three types of loving-kindness are fulfilled: physical loving-kindness, verbal loving-kindness, and mental loving-kindness can one practice Metta Brahmasora.

A person who practices the Karuna Brahmasora helps others to be free from suffering with his body, helps others to be free from suffering with his speech, and sends prayers and compassion with his mind to be free from suffering. The three types of Karuna Karuna: physical karma, verbal karma, and mental karma are all fulfilled in the practice of Karuna Brahmasora.

A person who practices Mudita Brahmasora helps others grow and prosper with his body, supports others with his speech, and prays for others to grow and prosper with his mind. The three types of mudita karma—physical mudita, verbal mudita, and mental mudita—are attained when one has fulfilled the three types of mudita karma: physical mudita, verbal mudita, and mental mudita.

Sometimes, we encounter situations and events where we can no longer help with love, compassion, or joy. In such cases, we stop helping with our body, words, or mind, and instead think, “It’s just the way it is, it’s just the way it is.”

"He is like this because of his karma," one can meditate on karma and its consequences and keep the mind calm. Then one can practice the Upekkha Brahmasora.

Only love can grow, only compassion can grow, only happiness can grow, and only when combined with equanimity can it be fulfilled. Love without equanimity, compassion without equanimity, and happiness without equanimity do not provide true and complete peace of mind, but often lead to detours and extremes.

If love is not accompanied by equanimity, love tends to turn to the extreme of passion. If compassion is not accompanied by equanimity, compassion tends to turn to the extreme of anger. If joy is not accompanied by equanimity, joy tends to turn to the extreme of pride.

Extreme love, compassion, and joy will not bring peace to the subject, but will only bring anxiety, sorrow, grief, lamentation, physical suffering, mental suffering, and intense anxiety.

If you always think about the connection between karma and cause and effect, and always be mindful of karma and awareness of karma, you will no longer be dissatisfied because what you want to happen doesn't happen, and you will no longer be sad or unhappy.

Help those who can “help” with love. Help those who can “stir” with compassion. Donate those who can “donate” with compassion. Donate those who cannot help, cannot “stir”, cannot “stir”, cannot “stir”, cannot “stir”. If you “help” or “stir”, you will only have “stirring” and “stirring”. Just face your destiny and your destiny.

"The property of beings is their own destiny. If they do good, they will receive good, if they do bad, they will receive bad. Because of good, they will experience good, and because of bad, they will experience bad. 'Kamma is the mother, the father, the friend, the relative,' and constantly reflecting on the fact that karma and beings, and beings and karma are one and the same, is the cultivation of Brahma-sora Upekkha."

As Brahmasora Upekkha increases, the desire to avoid unwholesome karma and the desire to do wholesome karma become stronger. As the strength increases, so does the desire to avoid and do wholesome karma, so when one encounters the environment of unwholesome karma and unpleasant situations, one can live with peace of mind. One can endure all kinds of worldly circumstances, good or bad, without losing a smile.

A person who moves within the 'circle of equanimity' called "Brahmaso Upekkha" is a noble person. Because Brahmaso Upekkha is 'the noble equanimity'.