Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How to have a peaceful aura, so that whoever sees you would have a feeling of peace with you?

Naturally, to have an aura of peace you need to have peace in your heart.

But how to have peace in our heart?

To have peace in your heart, you must have no fighting, no grabbing, no judging, no criticizing, no rushing, no running, no fearing… in your heart.

In sum, nothing of a stressing nature in your heart.

No stress.

That is a hard thing to do, because most people are constantly stressed with so many things in their heart.

Every one of us has many things to think about. That is a given.

But how to think about many things without being stressed by anything?

Well, that is the key to peaceful living.

There are many teachings to help us maintain a peaceful attitude at all time.

– Life is real but unreal, unreal but real. Real and unreal are the same. That is the Heart Sutra. Your life is real and unreal at the same time – so, be serious with every thing in your life, but not too serious to the degree of attaching yourself to anything. Attachment (grasping, chấp) makes you stressed with all kinds of unsettled feelings.

– The Diamond Sutra says:

All conditioned dharmas
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows,
Like dew drops and a lightning flash:
Contemplate them thus.

Nhất thiết hữu vi pháp,
Như mộng, huyễn, bào, ảnh,
Như lộ diệc như điện,
Ưng tác như thị quán.

Tất cả pháp hữu vi,
Như mộng, huyễn, bọt, bóng,
Như sương cũng như điện,
Nên khởi quán như thế.

Everything is an illusion, think about them as such.

– Trần Nhân Tông, founder of Trúc Lâm Zen School said:

Living in the world, joyful in the way
let’s go with the causation flow
When hungry, eat
when sleepy, sleep
Jewels in the home
search no more
Facing things, no mind
why ask for Zen
(Nguyễn Hữu Vinh transliterated from Nôm
Trần Đình Hoành translated into English
See Cư trần lạc đạo phú , page 94)

Sống đời vui đạo hãy tùy duyên
Hễ đói thì ăn, mệt ngủ liền.
Trong nhà có của, đừng tìm nữa
Nhìn cảnh, vô tâm, hỏi chi thiền
(Id, page 92)

Note: No mind (vô tâm) or no thought (vô niệm) or empty mind (tâm không) mean the same thing: non-attachment to any thought in your mind. You have thoughts in your mind, but do not attach to (grasp onto, be fixed on) any thought.

Live naturally with whatever comes and goes; see everything, but your heart is not attached to anything. That is Zen. Non-attachment, non-attachment, non-attachment. That is “no mind, no thought.” Peace.

– God-based religions say: Commit your life and everything to God, God shall take care of you, and you shall have peace.

Those are some well-known fundamental methods to keep peace constantly in your heart, and your aura constantly on the outside.

When your heart is calm and free, you have peaceful aura.

With compassion,

Hoành

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