PICTURE  herd  Mahayana.

 Mahayana  taking the  herd  for example, that the mind, the mind training. Mind,  hybrid materials  behind the net, but was beaten lost, so that it runs freely,  let loose under  hobby  oblivious to the dangers lurking, so we must find and  tame the net calculation. The mind-dream  evil  times return  is  filtered  from the  contaminated  earth will become brighter and from where  ignorance  will reach the  realm  circle  sensory park . It is  symbolic  that allows  tu " stores ". According to rhetoric, it takes a lot salons  sophisticated  new step ladder towards being  enlightened . Thanks to  sophisticated , the  false mind  once in  clarifying  be  ceiling profiles  that morning once more, as well as thanks to the buffalo herd that prodigal long days become  mature  gradually  and dirty black and white class appearances.

 Mind is the buffalo, as their shepherd. As there should buffalo  shepherds , because there should be no scenes Center. Since find buffalo to feed  until  when raising  achievement  must  go through  ten stages, as illustrated by the ten  paintings  uninterrupted . Painting  herd  Mahayana  aimed at the buffalo column, that is what the mind, mental.

 Painting 1 is "YOUR DIRECTORY": no blankets. Buffalo paintings under the black cloud. Due to  this ancient  buffalo loose for too long should be almost  become wild , aggressive. When not being wild buffalo herd was blackened,  undisciplined , Iguana Running fur, filled his  dirty , trampled on good rice, young rice. The stampede plated rice regarded as  destructive  of good. Young  buffalo buffalo chase has just taken hold grass for example, but still geese buffalo running stride.

 In this painting was found soon find buffalo buffalo rather,  demonstrate "true to" available to every one. Tam did not  lose ever. Mind can only be tamed or not only. Black buffalo  symbolizes the mind  delusion . Now mind training beginners who  play mind  practice , the mind still  let loose  under  the sense , karma should be now led away in  reincarnation  six paths ,  far from  sensible . Despite believe I can "be true" but not  realize  it should use the new  media  to  practice  as example to lure the buffalo grass break. This action is  trying to  find ways to"catch" the attention.

 Painting 2 is "some things": a new blanket. Paintings showing young  buffalo  had been wired into the nose pierced buffalo, start taking disciplinary net worth for buffalo. Buffaloes  were tame  and were fleeing when flagellation. But buffalo are still rampant  cage upside , rivulet that runs lackeys want. Only cape buffalo is moved into black and white. Thus when the victory is in buffalo breeding, not in a shepherd. Black cloud has disappeared. Young  buffalo  must now  appear  stern , hands  clenched  rivulet wire, hands raised high up as whip to  threaten ,  warning the buffalo.

 Paintings showing novices the  use of  practice  , though much but achieved little results because  habitual  wandering  traditionally  were too thick. Now people know mental discipline  returned  refuge in  the Three Jewels ,  voluntarily  kept the precepts  and  practice  real hard for the mind is no longer  distracted ,  bohemian  according to  desire  more.

 Painting 3 is "LIFE ON": be allowed. Buffaloes are  curbing  the time might have  pain  because rivulet pull cord nostrils, leading to fear more the whips, should start gradually be allowed, subject to submission. Buffalo being raised and put away, but first had to clean white. The moon had  appeared  from a distance, but in the  cloud  white. But the buffalo all forward and reverse aggression aggressive, but young  buffalo  still  clutching  the rope rivulet  pierced nose  that pulled it off, did not dare let go, dare not abandon whip hand. Note buffalo gently, no longer have to  use force  to lure or rod to beat again.

 Thanks to  decide lap  of practice ,  morality  seriously,  permanent  observation and  identification  center line  reviews are  flowing  his mental person who now find themselves somewhat mind calm,  lucid , more gently. Tim does not  even  crazy , less wanderings under  external landscape . Wandering if the practitioner has to immediately arises immediately see, so  wandering self stunned.

 Painting 4 is "PRIME RECOVERY": reversing. Picturesque ancient buffalo clean, had turned white  to nearly  half his body. Through training and long shepherd, now Buffalo has  gradually  matured , no longer like wild buffalo. Buffaloes turned back to the shepherd it, so go wire rivulet loosened slightly. Yet clearly still tie shepherd nose, still holding the wire. Moon also  appear , but no white clouds. But see buffalo has healed, no longer have to toil worth it anymore, but young  buffalo still not  trust  too, still have to  pay attention  as beholding. Note the first column wire to a tree and then the buffalo resting, enjoying little  relaxed .

 Net interest here beginning to demand gradually, people began to cultivate less labored effort, increasingly living with  righteous  often  more, according to police and his mind more clearly, not an  activity  of the mind that last fall was the eyes  contemplating  her.

 Painting 5 is "obedience":  yes bear , tame. White buffalo paintings were  approaching  the end of the back and abdomen, have a clean front legs were young  herd  took off the rope, do not tie into the nose buffalo because buffalo were  completely  tame. Young  buffalo  no longer  worry  anymore , letting the buffalo  comfortable  freedom  to follow  her. Where the buffalo uncle  obediently aligned to follow that step. Note only perfunctorily and wire whip. The moon still  appears  in the  clouds  white.

 Come dressed as little  idle  since amended the halfway point and then, at longer have to  use the  more. This time people have mental  completely subdue  his mind and life are in  awakening . The mind is  pure , true cultivators  peace , to see the  mysteries  of life. Seeing the convent is introverted, the main switch  internal  themselves  become pure  good , is not moving  scenery outside discretion.

 Painting 6 is "very afraid": do not be afraid, do not entangled. Young  buffalo  no longer be afraid or fear, nor strict shepherd because buffalo were  gentle , pure calculation. When  no longer be  obstacles  impeded, notes have the right to wear jewelry  knife pepper , sitting on the stone higher places, where original spare flute. Buffalo is next, turned his head to look back and hear it  dim  sleep, do not run away anymore prodigal. Clean white buffalo both myself and hind legs, only slightly longer tail is black only. But no longer see the moon  appears  in the  clouds  white.

 Mental people now  completely  silent,  effortless thing for  curbing  the mind remains  calm  carefree . Amendment to this is to be  disengaged , quite idle.

 Painting 7 is "RESPONSIBLE TRANSPORT": according to the department,  spoiled . Paintings showing young  buffalo  comfortably  sleeping  on rocks, leaving the buffalo. Yet  where buffalo still  gravitate  not to leave a party, always looked to shepherd it. Now Buffalo  eating  natural ,  spoiled  wear the dong play graze. Buffaloes initially  midnight black, white and  gradually  from head to himself and now the whole tail is clean always. Moon to  appear  also in the  cloud white.

 Cultivators here no longer have to  use the , now  grace  for transport. No longer  pay attention  to subdue  the mind which the mind itself  be subdued . No longer the  prevention of  self-interest that  peace . Depending  hungry, thirsty, do not worry not sad. Because the mind is  calm  self in , no longer be  obstacles , so all that  is serving  the wrong  of self (ie four minutes  affliction :  self delusion ,  ego is ,  conceit ,  self loving ) where the training center is now also be cleansing; however , these  viewpoints  are still legally,  liberation  is not yet  complete .

 Paintings 8 is "for Round": the forgotten. All are  forgotten . In painting there are still young buffalo and  buffalo , but Buffalo has forgotten the presence of a shepherd, but young  buffalo  also forgot the presence of buffalo. Buffalo standing in one place, paying stands walks, both no longer  pay attention  to each other, forget each other already. The whole body  from head to tail buffalo were white, black nowhere. Moon and stars  appear  in the  clouds  of white. White clouds shining down on green fields.

 Photos  young  buffalo  and buffalo standing every where and forget each other, no longer  dependent on  one another for the convent to place only  heartless ,  self at  very afraid . But the buffalo and several producers have forgotten, but his mind and did not enter a but both were  at peace  disengaged . Mental people  trying to move on forever, and now it all  wrong  unconscious  of the  existence  of the intersection of law and are thoroughly clean.

 Painting 9 is "unique": own inspiration. Silhouette of the buffalo in the paintings had disappeared no longer see anymore. Only young  buffalo  alone stood between  nature , applause between heaven and earth sing a moon light.Overhead  the moon  when  loneliness  and white clouds are  obstacles slightly.

 Buffaloes have  agreed  with the buffalo herder shepherd ie, the  herd  of buffalo that is, should not think of buffalo again. Tam who  cultivate  now has  become  " insensitive ", every concept  distinguishes  them thoroughly clean, no longer have the inside-out, have-not born-killing, mind-scenes, dirty-clean etc .. again; self- leg as  the  van owned  was  manifested  out  ahead .

 10 paintings as "SONG MAN": an end to end both. Finally  is to lose everything. Painting is no longer  anything , empty picture. Both had disappeared no longer a trace of each scene. No longer the young buffalo  herd the people nor  herd again. Only  appeared  a full circle and empty, it is large and bright moon,  legs like  manifest ,  magic  comprehensive . The circle  symbolizes  the " Vien Giac ". Buffalo and herders, the mind and the scene end of all  visible  light  foot as  local grass shimmering color flower in a thousand. 

 People come here practicing mind training that is already  enlightened  perfection. Wisdom completely  clear ,  freed  completely , no  language  that can be said about the  realization of  extreme anymore, just  express  symbolically  by a circle of  fullness .

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 Common theme of  all kinds of  paintings  herd  is sugar  cultivation entrance training. Although many ways, but not in addition to catch attention. Should set "Cross  Section ox  map" can be considered as word  answer  to the question of economic  Diamond : "Van Ha  surrender  any interest?" ( How to master the mind?).  This is a question of  elders  Bodhi Monastery , one of the ten're  disciples  of the great  Buddha . Elders  were  visiting Buddhist  teachings for  the mass  said: "O  Blessed  with those  good men  with him  faithful women  play mind  Bodhi  how security must be  the mind  alone and somehow  subdue the mind  did?".

 All  attempts  of the  Mahayana  are aimed at the "columns" of buffalo, ie "what the mind" that. Mind is the wild buffalo,  symbolizing  the mind  delusion . Want to treat it must use the  measures  sharply, as flagellation,  piercing nose  etc .. sorry I wire the same way, the mind wants, needs  refuge ,  precepts forbid,  play mind Bodhi  etc ... Over time Buffalo becomes  mature , the mind becomes conditioned.

 In the third stage of morality, concentration and wisdom at the time was  the first step ,  described  by five  paintings  draw: "You position and preliminary conditions, institutional life, in defense and obedience". This is the stage of the WORLD.

 Paving the way for the next stage No. arise. In this stage, the mind is tamed, from blankets to keep. Institution, which did not see what  the obstacles . When  the mind  is  the ego  of all, there are still  legal compliance . That is step  enlightenment  of every  Theravada  ( liquidation documents  and  charming sense )  expressed by the two  paintings  "very afraid" and "responsible transport".

 Should go a step further and exploit  HUE sense  to place the mind  indifferent : "The  heartless , insensitive herons ox". Clearing here is  legal compliance : nor legal, nor that falls, Buffalo also lost who also lost, the scene also forget that the mind forgets. First buffalo disappeared, and the people. And he also lost. That is  the realm  of every  bodhisattva , was  described by two  paintings  "like death" and "exclusive premiere".

 From there, take another step into the  realm of Tathagata , not speechless, which can only  imagine  with a circle "Vien Giac". That is  the meaning  of  the painting  last "song introspection", closed the  enlightenment  under  SHOP EDUCATION , from gender to specify and wisdom; from  text bar ,  charming sight to the  Bodhisattva , the Buddha; from  organic heart  to heart and  heartless ; from where all have to  press legal  nor etc .. It is  no Nirvana balance .

 In short , the episode "Cross  Section ox  map" here is a redraw curve  works subdue  a person's mind  to cultivate  mind on the road  of liberation ,  enlightenment : firstly  self win  instinct  alone, then to  self tri ,  finally  only to  themselves in . Circle  finally  "but introspection"  symbolizes  the  rupture  with all that sticky reflections  us , cut off a  state of  consciousness  and  existence  that often  we  do not know.

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 Ten  paintings  along with English words in the  next  following quote is dressed in "MANUAL OF ZEN Buddhism" Prof.  Zen  Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Grove Press, New York, 1960).

1. UNDISCIPLINED

With HIS horns fiercely projected in the air the beast snorts,

Madly running over the mountain paths,

Farther and Farther he goes astray!

A dark cloud is spread across the entrance of the valley,

And who knows how much of the fine fresh herb is trampled

under his hoofs wild!

1.  indiscipline

With violence rising horn aerial animals rattling breathing hard,

running  frantically  through the trails on the mountain,

increasingly inept away!

A  cloud  of black hanging across the entrance to the valley,

and who knows how much green grass was trampled under feet of buffalo mad!

2. DISCIPLINE Begun

I am in the Possession of a straw rope, and I pass it through his nose,

For once he makes a frantic quiver thử away,

but he is whipped and whipped Severely;

The beast resists the training with all the power there is

wild and ungoverned in a nature,

But the rustic oxherd never relaxes his pulling tether and

Ever-ready whip.

2. DISCIPLINE START

I earned a rope and shoved me through the nose buffalo,

Whenever buffalo want  hysteria  ran away to escape

we take the whips were beaten  violently ;

Animals resistance  zone to  the training with all  the strength  exists  in a  nature wild  and rebellious,

But who  herd  idyllic never loose zipper and not slack off whip always ready.

 

3. IN HARNESS

Gradually Getting Into harness the beast is now content

to be led by the nose,

Crossing the stream, walking along the mountain path,

he follows every step of the leader;

The leader holds the rope tightly in his hand

Letting it go never,

All day he is on the alert dragon almost unconscious of

what fatigue is.

3.  CHECK THE

Gradually  been  curbing  animal to be easy now

pull the nose went,

Overcoming  the stream, along the mountain road,

buffalo with each step of the lead;

Buffalo who grasp the rope in hand

never slack off,

Buffalo all day people are always  wary  almost

What is tireless.

 

4. Faced ROUND

After the result of long hours of training begins to tell and

the beast is faced round,

A wild and ungoverned nature than is finally broken,

he has trở Gentler;

But the tender has not yet given him his full confidence,

He still keeps his straw rope with đó ox is now

tied to a tree.

4. BACK

After a long day of training results began to see

and the animal turned his head,

A  nature  is wild and rebellious  finally  has been broken,

domesticated buffalo became more properties;

But still not a shepherd on buffalo trusted  completely ,

Those farmers still hold the rope and now

Buffalo was wire tied to a tree.

 

5. tamed

Under the green willow tree and

by the ancient mountain stream,

The ox is set at liberty to pursue pleasures His Own;

At the gray mist descends khi EVENTIDE on the pasture,

The boy wends his way homeward

sau quietly with the animal.

5. NET RECOVERY

Under the green willow and poplar

past the stream in the mountains,

Buffaloes are released for  free  dong own liking play;

In the evening when the fog falls fields,

The child turned  back to  the house with

animals  quietly  followed .

6. UNIMPEDED

On the Verdant fields lies the beast contentedly

idling away his time,

No whip is needed now, nor any kind of restraint;

The boy too sits under the pine tree Leisurely,

Playing a tune of peace, overflowing with joy.

6. unimpeded

On the bright green fields animals  correspond  located

to  the time  elapsed ,

Now no need to lash, nor should  refrain  nothing;

The child, too, sitting  idle  under pine trees,

Music recital a  peaceful , full of joy.

 

7. laissez-faire

The spring stream flows languidly in the evening sun

along the willow-lined bank,

In the hazy atmosphere the meadow grass is seen

Growing thick;

When he grazes hungry, thirsty khi he quaffs,

time as sweetly slides,

While the boy on the rock dozes for hours

not noticing anything that goes on about him.

7.  TO WEAR

Spring  spring  in  the sun  -dimensional flows  leisurely

willows along the banks spread worldwide,

In the misty landscape in a field of grass saw looks

adding that dense;

When cattle graze hungry, drink when thirsty buffalo,

and  time  went smoothly,

While the child lying on the rocks fell asleep for hours,

do not pay attention to what happens around it.

8. ALL FORGOTTEN

The beast all in white now is surrounded by the white clouds,

The man is perfectly at ease and care-free HIS,

than is his companion;

The white clouds penetrated by the moon-light

có white cast shadows below,

The white clouds and the bright moon-light - each course of movement sau nó.

8. ALL  forgotten

White out of all animals has now been surrounded by

the  cloud of  silver,

Who  comfortably  absolutely  no little  anxiety ,

ox  go  , too;

These  clouds  are white moonlight cross-reference

White silhouettes, down,

The  cloud  of white and bright moonlight - each stream

own motion.

 

9. THE MOON Solitary

Nowhere is the beast, and the master of his oxherd is time,

He is a Solitary cloud wafting lightly along the mountain peaks;

He sings joyfully clapping his hands in the moon-light,

But remember a last wall is still left

barring his homeward walk.

9.  MOON  SOLITUDE

Animals do not see anymore, and young  buffalo  free  completely ,

Young is a  cloud  lonely  drifting floats along the top of the mountain;

Children's hands clapping rhythm sing a  fun  in the moonlight,

But remember that a  gate  finally  still  exist

hinder its steps to go home.

10. BOTH Vanished

Both the man and the animal have disappeared, no traces are left,

The bright moon-light is emty and shadowless with

all the ten-thousand objects in it;

If anyone shouldnt ask the meaning of this,

Behold the lilies of the field and

nó sweet-Scented fresh verdure.

10. CHANGES TO BOTH

Both people and cattle have disappeared, leaving no trace,

Moonlight was empty and no  image  of

all that is in it anymore;

If anyone questions  the meaning  of this,

Look at the lilies of the field and

fragrant fresh green grass.

END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/2/2017.