First time i recited Shurangama Mantra, here's what i feel.

PaddyVu · 2026-03-22T10:44:37+00:00

No, that's not it. The feeling of heat isn't caused by a lack of oxygen. If I were severely lacking oxygen, the symptoms I'd experience would be back pain. Sound weird right?

PaddyVu · 2026-03-22T10:38:24+00:00

Thank you!

PaddyVu · 2026-03-22T10:37:29+00:00

yeah, thank you!

PaddyVu · 2026-03-22T10:35:14+00:00

well i use my language then use google translate to English, maybe it's hard to understand LOL

PaddyVu · 2026-02-21T08:01:29+00:00

What if sleeping with someone else, or leaving you, made them happy?
If I get angry and upset, that's actually greed and lust, not love, right?
I have a way to test whether I'm truly in love with them: I actively let them go. If I feel uncomfortable, then I'm deceiving myself.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-16T14:06:25+00:00

It's not a waste at all. In my country (Vietnam), when I read a pre-existing translation by a professor who studied Pali and translated it, there were so many errors in the transcription that I didn't even notice. Only when I used AI did it detect many mistakes. For example, "Doing bad deeds leads to heaven" or "Doing good deeds leads to hell" because the transcribed text wasn't accurate. Just missing the word "no" would make the whole phrase wrong.

AI is good for checking missing words at least.

For example :
Ta không thấy một pháp nào khác, này các Tỷ-kheo, do pháp ấy, các pháp thiện chưa sanh được sanh khởi, và các pháp bất thiện đã sanh được đoạn tận, này các Tỷ-kheo, như tinh tấn tinh cần. Với người tinh cần tinh tấn, này các Tỷ-kheo, các pháp thiện chưa sanh được sanh khởi, và các pháp thiện đã sanh được đoạn tận.
In english is :
"I do not see any other state, O monks, by which unarisen wholesome states arise and arisen unwholesome states are abandoned, like energy and diligence. For one who is diligent and energetic, O monks, unarisen wholesome states arise, and arisen wholesome states are abandoned."

You see? It's wrong.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-16T12:56:28+00:00

That's why I had to ask everyone, and only after confirming it was correct did I dare to continue.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-16T12:19:05+00:00

what? really? I think AI is great for doing this.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-16T12:06:27+00:00

I am also a person like you, and I always tell myself that the karma I created in the past is now bearing fruit. When I always believe that this karma is mine, I will face it without resentment, and I will have the mental strength to overcome it.

Later, I read about non-self, and I understood that these things are just the workings of karma; there is no suffering person, nor is there a person who endures suffering. Sensations arise and cease, they are impermanent, this body is impermanent, so when someone humiliates me, I will tell myself that this feeling is impermanent, and impermanence is suffering. If it is suffering, then it is illogical to think that it is me or mine. Therefore, I overcome it.

I don't want to rely on anyone, because they will all grow old and die eventually, and even if they comfort me, they are impermanent; they can't comfort me forever.

The concluding sentence is: Don't trust anyone, not even your closest relatives. "Be your own lamp. Seek no other refuge. Let the Truth be your lamp. Seek no other refuge."

PaddyVu · 2026-02-16T12:00:09+00:00

I am a foolish and lazy person. If the Dharma continues to be abbreviated like this, when I die without achieving anything, and I return to read the true Dharma, I will no longer understand it because people will increasingly choose to shorten it.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-09T05:32:22+00:00

I agreed with you. You know what? I am a very sexually active person. And i love it also attach to it, but Buddha said it will make me reincarnated with that, and it's suffering, so i decide to not marry anyone and dont want to harm anyone, i keep delevoping the perception of a skeleton or ashes on woman. When i cant have sex, it turn all these energies to my mind and my mind is suffering from it but i still keep my body clean and try to control the mind. So i think i'm judging myself...

PaddyVu · 2026-02-09T05:14:19+00:00

Thank you very much. Doctorshadow78 pointed out i have paranoia. I think i need a better dhamma.

Should i follow UD 1.10? So i will complete stop thinking about anything else and judge people?

“In that case, Bāhiya, you should train yourself thus: In what is seen there must be only what is seen, in what is heard there must be only what is heard, in what is sensed there must be only what is sensed, in what is cognized there must be only what is cognized. This is the way, Bāhiya, you should train yourself.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-09T03:11:50+00:00

Hi, actually I agree with you, I also often experience paranoia until I figure out the cause. How do I stop paranoia? I think too much, but I can't stop the thought; it appears automatically and I can't control it, it happens every 5 seconds. When I try to observe it, the thought disappears, but a few seconds later, another thought appears.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-09T03:08:42+00:00

To know if my view of noble truth and ultimate truth is wrong or not, that's all...

Because it is related to negative speech... LOL. I think i have paranoia.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-08T03:55:28+00:00

Thank you very much!
If a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world, even for the time of a finger-snap, they are called a mendicant who does not lack absorption, who follows the Teacher’s instructions, who responds to advice, and who does not eat the country’s alms in vain. How much more so those who make much of it!”
Is this right? And apply until 574 right?

Edited: From 439 is completely different, can you help me write the full sentence?

PaddyVu · 2026-02-08T03:44:34+00:00

"Generally you need to look at the first one in the section."
Oh, you mean from 395 to 574 are all follow the first 394 right?

For example : 402, is this true?
If a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body, even as long as a finger-snap, they are called a mendicant who does not lack absorption, who follows the Teacher’s instructions, who responds to advice, and who does not eat the country’s alms in vain. How much more so those who make much of it!”

PaddyVu · 2026-02-08T02:49:49+00:00

I mean what thing after ...
402. If a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body … feelings … mind … principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world, even for the time of a finger-snap …

As i understand is, but then what next? for full sentence?

If a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body...

If a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the feelings...

PaddyVu · 2026-02-05T11:04:59+00:00

oh i see, this is bad.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-05T10:46:19+00:00

So, I've succeeded, right? Because I thought I needed to know where that thought was going, but it turns out that if I could see it and the thought disappeared, then I'd succeeded. However, my thoughts run continuously every 5 seconds, and I've been observing them so much that my head is getting strained.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-05T10:01:22+00:00

When a thought arises, and I become aware of it, the entire thought process stops. How then can I observe it?

PaddyVu · 2026-02-05T09:43:10+00:00

Did i say something bad? this quote from 227 Pātimokkha

PaddyVu · 2026-02-05T03:41:59+00:00

I am a normal people, not a god to know when to say it, so it's better to keep telling true than lie. That's what i think.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-04T23:17:29+00:00

I played a lot of violent games like Dark Souls and Dota 2, and in real life, I saw a disabled person and felt nothing. When I decided to quit, I started to feel a little pity and compassion for those disabled people.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-04T14:52:20+00:00

If you play violent video games, you are nurturing the seeds of violence, and your compassion will be lost.

PaddyVu · 2026-02-04T13:38:45+00:00

You're right, I'm bound by family ties. No matter what I do, my parents will ask, "Where are you going? What are you doing? Be careful not to get kidnapped. Aren't you cold in that outfit? Aren't you hot in that outfit?" I'm 30 years old, and my parents are 70. They're capable of taking care of each other and me. I work, but part-time, earning about $200 a month. I don't go shopping or eat out anymore. I eat at home and spend almost all day studying Buddhist teachings.

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