Master Shi Heng Yi
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And then train, of course.
From this moment, there's one thing I can tell by myself what I would absolutely prevent when it would come, let's say, to the education or what I share with my son. Like I said, I felt I was never enough. There was always something that additionally needed to be done. So, which literally means for me, for my son, there is nothing to be done. There is nothing he has to achieve.
If there would be something, it is stay connected. So in terms of I don't see myself as somebody who is now having the responsibility to shape my son. No, I only provide the framework. I try to provide the most safe framework for my son. He can try out whatever he wants. If he fails, he will learn by himself to get up again and keep trying. So, you know... to fail, and then to continue.
I just want to build up this framework as good as I can to make him feel safe. But trial and error is what I do believe is the way how you find yourself. So definitely not being spoiled, but at the same time also not like keeping something away from him where I make him feel like he's not enough.
So ultimately I do think in the modern way of how to express it in all these attachment theories, very simple. Of course it's the secure way of being a stable, own-built, self-made, self-sufficient person. individual who knows his own value. Why? Because he failed and got up.
Whatever shows up right now at this moment, 2025, it didn't start in 2025. Whatever appears right now, sometimes it's the result of how things have been handled, how the education has been from previous years, whether it's the last 10 years, whether it's the last 20 years. So it's not necessarily what did the generation right now did wrong, let's say.
No, it's also the question of what did the previous generation missed to keep passing on. that ultimately led to the result that we have nowadays. And this is the question where I do think it's multilayered.
Let's put the context first. Take a symbol. Just you have a goal setting. You set yourself whatever goal it is. You have your goal. So your mind is set on the goal normally. The five hindrances now simply describe there are five mental states. that would actually make it difficult for you to still keep your goal in the mind, whatever goal that is.
The number one, for example, is called sensual desire. Sensual desire means you are too receptive for any type of pleasurable feeling in regards to your five senses. You're being too quickly attracted when you see something beautiful. You're too quickly attracted if you smell something tasty. You're too quickly distracted when you have physical touch.
So the first hindrance means you're losing the goal already because in the moment something pleasurable is being presented to you, your mind has shifted already. So that means that first mental state only means, look, be aware of what is it that you are very easily attracted to. It doesn't say it's bad. It doesn't say it's good.
It just says in the context of you want to reach your goal, how to reach the goal the quickest, be focused with your energy. meaning be focused with the mind. Don't lose the goal from the mind. Whatever you do from the moment of waking up until the evening, whatever you do, keep the goal in the mind. This is the quickest way of making this goal become real.
Number two, simply said, you don't like discomfort. You don't like challenges. You don't like hardship. In that TEDx talk, I described it like you're walking along the path and then suddenly it starts to rain, but you don't like rain. So instead of you just continue to follow the path, you are starting to make your mind busy about what you don't like.
And already that means the mind starts to shift again, losing the focus of the goal. So this idea... Hindrance number one. Hindrance number two. Actually, you can easily say it like this. This is the goal. Two things not to do. Spend your time enjoying. Don't do this. Or spend your time rejecting that things are not the way how you imagine them to be. Both of these things.
One is you follow pleasure, and the other thing, you're rejecting any challenges. Both of these things is something to be aware of when it comes to stay focused along the path.
No, even for example, like in the book or even now when we talk about we have the five hindrances, we have the 14 virtues, we have the eight rules, we have the four here and the 13 here and the 16th. It's a very good guideline because it makes it easy for us humans to have something like really structured. There are four steps, there are six steps, there are five steps, whatsoever.
What I want to say is, just in this way, it's also that only discipline wouldn't be helpful if in the first place you do not possess the ability to practice see it, to realize it, to be aware of it. Meaning you have discipline, but you are never aware actually when is the moment actually appearing right now that this sensory desire is hitting in. You're not aware of it.
So the discipline wouldn't help you if you don't have this awareness. So always meaning, I do think that there are different ways different qualities of the mind that come into play for you to adjust yourself properly.
Yes.
This is, for example, where I very much appreciate so many different teachings that are meanwhile existing, freely available, for example, through the social media, including breath work, including yoga practices. All of them, if you have a proper teacher,
I'm very sure that this is exactly what is starting to raise your awareness for something that in this field, when you're spending some time, we refer to as energy. If you're not aware of your own inner layer, let's say like this, and somebody insults you, it can happen that somebody insulted me and then I just started exploding.
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