5MTS - Five Mindfulness Trainings Recitation offers us the opportunity to recite the Five Mindfulness Trainings wherever we are, be it alone at home, at work, in a park, with family, friends or sangha.
The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of the Buddha's teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold path, the path of right understanding and true love, leading to healing, transformation, and happiness for ourselves and for the world.
To practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings is to cultivate the insight of Interbeing, or Right View, which can remove all discrimination, intolerance, anger, fear and despair. If we live according to the Five Mindfulness Trainings, we are already on the path of a Bodhisattva. Knowing that we are on the path, we are not lost in confusion about our life in the present or in fears about the future.
The Five Mindfulness Trainings are not prohibitions to restrict our freedom, and they are not an authority which we have no choice but to follow. The Mindfulness Trainings are the fruit of our practice and experiences.
Because we are mindful, we can see that the trainings protect us and our happiness, as well as that of those with whom we live. We take the vow to receive and practice the trainings only because we say the benefits of observing them.
We practice the trainings in order to preserve our freedom and happiness in days to come. Being the fruit of mindfulness, the trainings are the embodiment of enlightenment, which is the Buddha himself.
They are embodiment of the Dharma, which is the path shown by the Buddha. They are also the embodiment of the Sangha, the community of all those who have taken up the path.
Practicing the Five Mindfulness Trainings is to be one with the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. To recite the trainings is an exercise in mindfulness of their teachings and a way of looking deeply at the benefits of keeping them.
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