{"id":6318,"date":"2025-12-14T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoelwin.laymandhamma.com\/%e1%80%9e%e1%80%90%e1%80%ad-%e1%80%95%e1%80%8a%e1%80%ac%e1%80%94%e1%80%b2%e1%80%b7-stress-%e1%80%80%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b8%e1%80%a1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba-%e1%80%94%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:38:05","slug":"%e1%80%9e%e1%80%90%e1%80%ad-%e1%80%95%e1%80%8a%e1%80%ac%e1%80%94%e1%80%b2%e1%80%b7-stress-%e1%80%80%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b8%e1%80%a1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba-%e1%80%94%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoelwin.laymandhamma.com\/en\/%e1%80%9e%e1%80%90%e1%80%ad-%e1%80%95%e1%80%8a%e1%80%ac%e1%80%94%e1%80%b2%e1%80%b7-stress-%e1%80%80%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b8%e1%80%a1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba-%e1%80%94%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94\/","title":{"rendered":"\u101e\u1010\u102d \u1015\u100a\u102c\u1014\u1032\u1037 stress \u1000\u1004\u103a\u1038\u1021\u1031\u102c\u1004\u103a \u1014\u1031\u1014\u100a\u103a\u1038"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Path of Mindfulness and Wisdom for a Stress-Free Life<\/h1>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I want to tell you today about how to use <strong>Mindfulness and Wisdom<\/strong> together to be free from <strong>stress<\/strong>. I want to tell you casually, just like sitting and chatting at a tea shop. First, I want you to remember that I don't want <strong>stress<\/strong> to exist. If it is a Dhamma talk, stress tends to happen; if it is a meditation retreat, it tends to be strange. But I want you to live with <strong>stress at zero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Cause of Stress and the Truth<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The Cause of Stress and the Truth Why do we have <strong>a lot of stress<\/strong>? Because we don't really feel the sense that we are safe. If something happens, stress occurs, we have to worry, we have to be anxious. Because we have <strong>expectations<\/strong>. A gap forms between this expectation and reality. Because of that gap, we don't feel fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Past wise men defined <strong>Life as a struggle<\/strong>. But I want you to change the <strong>view (dimension) on life<\/strong>. Without considering life as an educational institution, we looked at it only as a struggle institution. Now I will change the dimensions. One must change the <strong>view on life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Physical and Mental Relax and Release<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For the <strong>Physical<\/strong> aspect, you must <strong>Reflect, Reset, and Rebuild<\/strong>. What are the needs, strengths, and weaknesses of the work you do? You must rebuild and repair those things. You must also look back at your health, check it, see how you should change your lifestyle, how you will live after changing, and how you will build your life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For the <strong>Mental<\/strong> aspect, what must you do? <strong>You must Relax your mind.<\/strong> We have a lot of stress. If the mind is wandering to this object and that object too much, the mind cannot relax. So, if you <strong>Focus on the object of the in-breath and out-breath<\/strong>, you get <strong>Release<\/strong>. Gradually, the objects that cause stress are no longer there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">People going to the <strong>Gym<\/strong> have to do <strong>Stretching<\/strong> of muscles. One must loosen the muscles and live calmly. If the <strong>Body Relaxes<\/strong>, one must <strong>Release the Mind<\/strong>. One needs to know how to relax the mind. If one doesn't know how to relax the mind, if the mind wanders to this object and that object too much, the mind cannot relax.<\/p>\n<h2>Establishing Mindfulness and Mental Clarity<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Practicing Dhamma Meditation doesn't mean just \"doing Dhamma.\" It is practicing things related to the Mind. It is <strong>Mental Wellness<\/strong>. What should you do? First, <strong>Relax the Body<\/strong>. Scan your body from head to toe. Focus on it. Where is it tight? Where is it stiff? You can do it at once. As soon as you scan your body, look with mindfulness from head to toe. Is there a lot of tension somewhere? Is there pressure? <strong>You can adjust yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">After that, note the <strong>in-breath and out-breath<\/strong> and <strong>Release<\/strong> the mind. If I note the in-breath and out-breath, I fall asleep. Insomnia means stress is happening. Saying to oneself \"I couldn't sleep last night, I still can't sleep now\" is stress reoccurring. Just by noting the <strong>in-breath and out-breath<\/strong>, do you realize you are not thinking? If not thinking, do you realize you get Rest? That is what you get.<\/p>\n<h2>Applying Mindfulness and Wisdom Together<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Establishing mindfulness is the foundation. Just having mindfulness, <strong>Vipassan\u0101<\/strong> begins to arise. However, if <strong>Wisdom is weak<\/strong>, although this mindfulness is worthy of Vipassan\u0101, it will not become strong Vipassan\u0101. <strong>One must pair this mindfulness with Wisdom.<\/strong> If you pair this mindfulness with Wisdom, it becomes <strong>strong Vipassan\u0101<\/strong>. Every time there is mindfulness, Wisdom must be included. To include Wisdom every time there is mindfulness, one must study and learn the <strong>intellectual aspects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Some have mindfulness, practice Dhamma, have faith. Mindfulness comes, Sam\u0101dhi exists, Viriya (effort) is good. But because they are <strong>weak in intellectual aspects<\/strong>, because strong Vipassan\u0101 does not occur, they cannot reach Magga \u00d1\u0101\u1e47a and Phala \u00d1\u0101\u1e47a.<\/p>\n<h2>Wisdom Means Knowing Ignorance<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">What is <strong>Wisdom<\/strong>? Knowing that if there is <strong>Avijj\u0101, Ta\u1e47h\u0101, Up\u0101d\u0101na<\/strong>, there is <strong>Avijj\u0101, Ta\u1e47h\u0101, Up\u0101d\u0101na<\/strong>\u2014that itself is Wisdom. Others know men, women, persons, beings, buildings, houses, cars, sons, daughters. But they do not know that <strong>Avijj\u0101, Ta\u1e47h\u0101, Up\u0101d\u0101na<\/strong> are involved in them. This is the intellectual aspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We always have the knowledge known by him and me, knowledge from birth and growing up; in that knowledge, a lot of <strong>Avijj\u0101, Ta\u1e47h\u0101, Up\u0101d\u0101na<\/strong> is included. \"Because he knows, men, women, sons, daughters, buildings, houses, cars\"\u2014we think they really exist. Why do we think they really exist? Because <strong>Avijj\u0101, Ta\u1e47h\u0101, Up\u0101d\u0101na<\/strong> are involved.<\/p>\n<h2>Free from Stress by Knowing Greed, Anger, and Delusion<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">When practicing Dhamma: <strong>wanting the mind to be calm is Greed. Disliking that the mind is not calm and wanders is Anger. Not knowing the true nature of the mind\u2014that the mind arises where the object is\u2014is Delusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We do not know <strong>Lobha, Dosa, Moha<\/strong>. Knowing Lobha, Dosa, Moha now is knowing in a worldly way. Practicing Dhamma itself is actually to <strong>make oneself free from Lobha, Dosa, Moha<\/strong>. Practicing Dhamma is practicing the path leading to the cessation of suffering. Practicing aimed at the cessation of suffering.<\/p>\n<h2>Observing the Present Moment Directly<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">If you stay <strong>straight in the present<\/strong>, nothing exists anymore. One is liberated from <strong>Lobha, Dosa, Moha<\/strong>. If you know how to live like that, it is enough. Now everyone is <strong>hooked to the past<\/strong>. What happens when hooked? One feels, one suffers. If hooked to good things, one is happy. If hooked to bad things, one suffers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The <strong>Cetan\u0101<\/strong> (volition) of speaking also arises and ceases. Cetan\u0101 arises and ceases. When Cetan\u0101 ceases, what no longer exists? The sound also no longer exists. Because sound comes out due to Cetan\u0101. <strong>If Cetan\u0101 is exhausted, if Kamma is exhausted, the result is also exhausted.<\/strong> So, the sound no longer exists. The Cetan\u0101 wanting to speak no longer exists. Nothing exists anymore. It is finished. That is what is called <strong>straight in the present<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Neither Holding On nor Letting Go<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Neither Holding On nor Letting Go <strong>Neither Holding On nor Letting Go<\/strong>\u2014sometimes one doesn't know what to do. Those two are not as easy as said. If told neither to hold an object nor to let it go, one doesn't know what to do. Actually, <strong>what will you do?<\/strong> You just have to <strong>touch<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Seeing as just seeing, hearing as just hearing, touching as just touching, knowing as just knowing, accepting reality as it is. <strong>Di\u1e6d\u1e6dhe di\u1e6d\u1e6dhamatta\u1e43<\/strong> \u2013 in seeing, just seeing. <strong>Mute mutamatta\u1e43<\/strong> \u2013 in hearing, just hearing. Similarly, be able to live with the <strong>Original Mind<\/strong>; do not let <strong>Extra Mind<\/strong> be included.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion \u2013 Rest In Peace, Sleep In Peace, Live In Peace<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Do you want to do <strong>Rest In Peace<\/strong>? Do you want to do <strong>Sleep In Peace<\/strong>? Do you want to do <strong>Live In Peace<\/strong>? I said you can choose what you like. If you note the <strong>in-breath and out-breath<\/strong>, do you realize I am not thinking? If not thinking, do you realize you get Rest? <strong>Live In Peace<\/strong>\u2014that is what you get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">If you pair Mindfulness with Wisdom, stress disappears. <strong>If you abandon Ignorance, Craving is already ceased.<\/strong> A criminal can hide only when there is darkness; if there is no darkness, the criminal cannot hide. <strong>We are simply abandoning the darkness.<\/strong> As soon as the darkness of Ignorance is abandoned, the criminal of Craving cannot hide, so one is free from being tortured by it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Therefore, if you want to be free from <strong>stress<\/strong>, establish mindfulness, pair it with wisdom, practice to live straight in the present. Note the <strong>in-breath and out-breath<\/strong> and <strong>Release<\/strong>. Be mindful to know <strong>Lobha, Dosa, Moha<\/strong>. If so, you will be able to live with <strong>stress at zero<\/strong>. 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