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Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc.

by David Smith

Dharma Mind Worldly Mind

David Smith

A B H  C M

A P

About is Book

Dharma Mind Worldly Mind

Published by Aloka Publications.

is specially prepared electronic version of the book is oered

for free distribution and may be printed for your personal use

only. If you wish to print more than one copy please contact the

author for permission.

is book may be acquired in paperback form by writing

to:-

Aloka Publications

DharmaMind Buddhist Group

65 Linden Road

Bearwood

West Midlands

B66 4DZ

You can acquire the paperback version from other sources by

visiting www.dharmamind.net where you can also read back-

ground information to the book. You can email information@

dharmamind.net with you queries.

It is hoped that by oering this book free through

BuddhaNet to the World Wide Web it will be read by a far

greater audience than through normal publishing channels, and

if found to have value by its readers may it help support them on

their spiritual journey.

May all beings discover what their heart truly desires!

D S

Published by

Aloka Publications

Email: information@dharmamind.net

Web: www.dharmamind.net

Printed and bound by

Antony Rowe Ltd. Eastbourne

British Library Cataloguing in Publications Data:

A catalogue record of this book is available

From the British Library

ISBN 09542475 0 7

e right of David Smith to be identied as the author of

this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the

ontents

Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................... vi

D M W M .................................................................................... 

Dharma Mind ..................................................................................................................................... 7

Worldly Mind ..................................................................................................................................... 7

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 8

Special Mind ..................................................................................................................................... 11

T B  P ...................................................................................................... 

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 14

e Eightfold Path ....................................................................................................................... 17

e ree Jewels ............................................................................................................................ 20

e Bodhisattva ............................................................................................................................. 24

e Framework of Practice ................................................................................................... 27

e Eightfold Practice .............................................................................................................. 32

1. Sila. right speech, right action, right livelihood ............................................... 34

2. Samadhi. right eort, right concentration, right mindfulness ................. 35

3. Prajna. right view, right resolve .................................................................................. 37

4. Complete ................................................................................................................................ 38

Practice in Everyday Life ....................................................................................................... 43

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 43

Dharma Mind .................................................................................................................................. 44

Staying at Home ............................................................................................................................ 47

Practice in Lay Life ..................................................................................................................... 53

Containment in Everyday Life .......................................................................................... 58

Kindness to all ings .............................................................................................................. 67

Mindfulness ....................................................................................................................................... 70

Awareness ............................................................................................................................................ 75

e Middle Way ............................................................................................................................ 78

No Value Judgements ................................................................................................................. 80

Change — Dharmic and Worldly .................................................................................. 83

Karma and Rebirth ..................................................................................................................... 87

Self ............................................................................................................................................................. 94

Spirituality and Faith ................................................................................................................. 99

cknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to both Jnanasiddhi and

Shantavira for their eorts with their editorial skills in help-

ing put this book together, and to Vessantara who helped

with the editing also but in addition gave me the support

throughout that has made it possible for my manuscript to

nally be published. And my gratitude goes also to Mike

Leonard for creating the website that is important in making

this work known.

harma ind orldly ind

Dharma Mind

‘Mind’ is used as the translation of the Pali and Sanskrit

word Citta. Citta means both the mind that is the thinking

faculty in the head, but more especially, mind that is the

intuitive, emotional ‘heart’ of our being, and located in our

body. It is here ‘beyond the thinking mind’ in the body that

the Dharma Mind is to be nurtured, for it is here that Truth

waits to be discovered. e thinking mind has its part to play

in the discovering of the Dharma, but is to be used only as

a skilful means to help sift and understand the verbal and

written Dharma that we all take in on our spiritual pilgrim-

age of discovery.

Worldly Mind

I use this term to denote our normal everyday mind and state

of being that is goal- oriented and saturated in ego and self-

interest. is ego and self-interest, in its conceit, turns away

from the Citta as a whole thus making it impossible for it

ever to know the Truth.



ntroduion

One of the great joys I experienced shortly after the publica-

tion of my book  ecord of wakening was engagement in

the question-and-answer sessions at various Buddhist centres

around the British Isles that followed the launch.

is rst book was an attempt to express the deep spir-

itual understanding that arose in me in Sri Lanka in 1981,

though I only wrote the rst draft some eight years later, in

1989, while living in London. On completion, I put the draft

in my desk drawer and forgot about it for quite some years.

One day, however, just out of curiosity, I searched it out and

read it over again, and I was surprised how much I liked what

I had written. In the intervening years I had learned how to

use a computer and gained experience in word-processing so

I decided to clean up my rather poor rst draft and improve

the general presentation. is took some time but eventually

I had a presentable copy, which I then had ambitions to get

published.

e preface, written by the founder of the Friends of

the Western Buddhist Order, Urgyen Sangharakshita, picks

up the story of how it was nally published by Windhorse

Publications in November 1999. For me this was quite an

achievement; to write a manuscript that nally reached pub-

lication was something beyond my dreams. Publishing a book

didn’t somehow seem to t the sort of upbringing I had — a

very ordinary working class background in Oxford, England.

I am the son of a car worker, and at the age of 25 I decided to

travel the world just for the sake of it. It was while leading a

quite hedonistic existence in Sydney, Australia, that I found

Buddhism — through books. Reading the Dharma — the

teaching of the Buddha — transformed my whole life, and

the reason for living it.

I returned to my native England to seek out a Zen

teacher, as this was the form of Buddhism that interested

me most at the time. I trained with that teacher for nearly

six years before becoming a eravada monk in Sri Lanka.

It is my experiences there in the subtropics that are the main

focus of the rst book. After three years in Sri Lanka I dis-

robed and returned to the UK, where, despite retaining my

eravada links in this country, I have on the whole been

practising on my own ever since. e major change since the

launch of that book has been the opportunity to transmit

some of my understanding of the Dharma to fellow practi-

tioners through Dharma groups that I lead.

At the book launches I was struck very strongly by the

interest and enthusiasm shown by the audience in the book

itself, but also by their enthusiasm and desire for knowledge

about how to practise the Buddha’s Path. So whilst there

were a few predictable questions on metaphysics, and a few

even more predictable questions expressing curiosity about

my own practice, the great majority of queries were about

their own practice: how they should approach it and how

they should deal with the diculties they encountered.

It has been this experience above all else that has moti-

vated me to put together this second book. I consider it to be

really a continuation from the rst publication, committing to

paper the answers to most of the questions I was asked at the

book launches. It also allows me to air several questions put

to me during the many personal meetings I’ve had, and from

the numerous letters and emails I have received following

the book’s publication. I have also included one or two extra

pointers and suggestions which the reader may nd useful.

I hope you will discover whilst reading that this really

isn’t a book of lists and formulas but rather an expression of

a living experience. Because of this avour you will often

come across words that try to convey that living experience

— which is an emotional one. We are sensitive, warm-blooded

mammals, and our feelings and emotions are the predomi-

nant experience of our life. roughout the book you will

come across expressions such as negative and positive emo-

tions, and words such as feelings, outows, passions, etc. All

these words point to the diering intensity of our emotional

experience. I hope all these words are self-explanatory, but

just a note on the word ‘passion’. It is used in this book to

express a more intense experience than the expression ‘nega-

tive emotion’ can convey. It describes those times when we

are really caught up in our emotions and carried away by an

experience of gripping intensity — falling into an old famil-

iar habit that we have little or no control over. e taming of

the passions is the most important part of practice.

I have tried to make my responses and reections to

Dharma questions as short and to the point as possible, so

that the reader can take them in and reect on them without

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