Subhuti then asked: “World Honoured One, if good men and good women want to achieve enlightenment, upon what should they rely? What should they do to control their mind?”

2500 years later, this question still resounds. Especially today when globalization and the “flat world” etc… have driven mankind to fierce disputes, struggles over power and interests that lead to wars, epidemics, and natural disasters… as we all have witnessed. Never men had been so “enflamed” and their minds so “wildly disarrayed” as much as they do now.

Indeed, to be enlightened, all you need is to focus on that mind. You must quiet it, subdue it and that’s it! Doing so one will be enlightened in the same way as Buddha did. As He said, ordinary people are not yet enlightened Buddhas, and a Buddha is an already enlightened ordinary man. That’s it. There’s nothing more. We need nothing more. All the disturbing elements in life, all sufferings and misfortunes come from that mind. One need only bridle it, pull it back, discipline it, coax it – in other word tame it as one would have tamed a wild horse or an angry bull— contain it somewhere and prevent it from wreaking further havoc!