True Buddhists.

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I.-  Directions :
When people go to the temple Buddha, chanting, listening to monks, nuns sermon, or self-referral, "I am a Buddhist," we know these people are Buddhists, ie children Buddha, other than to say they voluntarily follow the path of the Buddha, worthy of our esteem, because these people together with our ideal of religion, but above all you must be a Buddhist righteous.

II.-  The virtues and duties of a true Buddhist : Buddhism is not only compassionate but direct equality and freedom for all living beings, so a true Buddhist, religion necessarily Buddhism does not require him to practice more difficult, but requires only making personal reinforcement he is sublimation, in other words is to be better in the present, especially in the morning six.

1) The required qualities:

A) Faith:  The true Buddhist must first believe that the Great Buddha is enlightenment, what he preached was recorded in the scriptures are truth, but we should remember the first free the Buddha taught us is: " understand we then believe me, if we believe that we do not understand, he is vilified us so! "

We believe that Buddhism is a way to end all suffering, makes us peace in the present and liberated future reincarnation.

B) Keep the World:  Before Buddha attained Nirvana, he taught the monks to take precepts do I, so true Buddhists Nhut necessarily be kept strictly confidential Year gender, always remember About the Teacher, About Three School heads, have kept Virtue born Dinh, the new center has born Wisdom.

C) Studying:  A Buddhist otherwise bear Learning, Question, Understand, Action will fall into the wrong view, make things light flew like other ordinary people. First Buddhists to learn, by listening to sermon at the temple or tape (tape) so you monks and nuns preached. Prayer, books, newspapers Buddhist to understand the tenets Buddha taught. So close to the religious man who instilled good knowledge to school happy, close friends have studied religion for years, ethically to learn his wisdom argument for negotiations to be opened further.

Next is to practice, meticulous daily, depending on your selection for the appropriate method for themselves, or sitting meditation, Buddha, chanting. At first there are many difficulties, but must try to overcome, especially diligence required, every day must scrupulously meticulous time always on time.To avoid the guests, the best elaborately hours from 5 to 6 am, will not themselves be disturbed at all, and the weather is cool, fresh air, quiet, helps clear your mind and in the morning, the beginning of a new day.

The other is set to cultivate compassion, so offerings, so generosity; First create merit for us, the second is the nature accustom letting go, to not mourn until death, something busy, serene place to go, just in remembrance of Buddha, so the Near Death Industry ( good data now at the verge of death) will help to improve the world we are born.

2) It is the duty of the Buddhists:  Buddha taught, Buddhists have four An important, we have an obligation to do to repay the favor that: An parents, your teacher gift, national and social grace Jewels grace.

A) An parents:  Parents have the favor with their children, parents who do intensive then you will see clearly this gift:

a)  An reproduction : Motherhood had conceived nine months, catering to abstinence, to keep going, standing, sleeping, stay careful while carrying pregnant. When a baby know how much is dangerous, sometimes have to lose their lives. Father worry slog frequency generation, to care for their babies.

b)  An rearing:  Since she was born until grown, parents must create frequency, struggling to raise children, care for children have enough to eat, wear warm enough child care, care of the security of sleep . Looking forward to the delicious, fast growing;The other thing to buy to make other things always wanted to do for our children to be happy.

c)  An medicine : When children are sick, parents worry about care and treatment for children and worried that she forgot to eat away sleep, remains how to protect your health, body and life for their children.

d)  An taught : Parents must teach children laughing, walking, eating, learning, be respectful and behave in life, the things that your child remains set for each firm step as a child, and grown entered his life, to earn a living animal body, do useful things for society.

B) An Thay You:  In life people often use the adage: "  Do not be his teacher ," I teach, there are further indications friends. This project includes:

a)  Expanding knowledge : He taught us how to read, write, eat in gentle to human directors, knew what needed to be said, in order to make yourself become better human beings, useful for social foul.

b)  Enlightenment intellectuals : Not only do I teach for understanding that I and you also teaches us how to comment, reasoning makes our knowledgeable position to achieve smooth, accurate and correct.

c)  Encouraging : Thanks to me and you always advisable, so we were relieved when bad, we boldly move forward, doing something or, should retail for themselves and society.

C) National Social Grace:  We live in a country, between human society, our life is peaceful, prosperous and happy; Social countries and bring these things to us, we have received the grace as follows:

a)  policing : The Government of the country concerned and policing to protect the regime, but if the people's sake, they must take care of the people's peace deal, by which the people are prosperous and happy.

b)  Keep the border integrity, preserve independence : Thanks to the country to preserve and protect the territorial integrity of the airspace, land, sea, and preserve independence.If not so, are foreign territory invaded, the country was colonized or foreign dependence. A water loss of independence, the people are high tax heavier, working hard to provide the service for foreign assets. Water loss of independence, the people no longer be prosperous and happy.

c)  The prosperity happiness : One of us could not do enough necessities for herself used, such a person can not be employed in agriculture in order to have enough food, can not be employed for weavers adequate clothing and blankets to warm cold to wear, can not make enough medicine to treat the illness, can not have enough knowledge to protect life with nature, can not by themselves make enough other amenities to their use. Society has assigned to each of a profession, a job for production of all necessities and the means for the user.

D) An Jewels:  Buddha-French To-Increase Buddhists favor the following key:

a)  An Phat Bao : Because of the suffering of beings, Prince Siddhartha went to find the path of liberation from all bonds of suffering that, as Buddhists we should remember his kindness:

- Abandon the throne, family: Who has done as Buddha? He gave up his throne Prince, leaving the gold supply, electricity jade, separated from their parents, wives and children to seek the path of liberation from the suffering for all beings.

- Six years of austerity where the jungle: Prince Siddhartha to become a monk for six years with his group ascetics asceticism, fasting, cold weather in the jungle lonely place.

- Lecture, teaching living beings: After abandon extreme ascetic path, he meditated and attained Buddhahood, and bring truth to teach beings to free practice of rebirths. If he is not teaching what we know to be the truth as it is today?

b)  An Dharma : Thanks to classics, we now know the teachings of Buddhism, Dharma therefore have grace:

- Directions liberation: Thanks to classics, we understand that life is temporary, unreal, undergo great suffering, to reach nirvana enlightenment to liberate all bonds of suffering.

- Only practice teaching methods: There's the Buddha showed us the misery of life in samsara, also recorded the classic way of learning to be liberated.

- Create peace for me, peace for the world: Buddha isolated evil to do good, people to be compassionate, humane living together in society, especially daily, every hour for ending moment (a bend and straighten out his hand, 60 moment) keep our mind peaceful individual, everyone like they did not worry the world peace.

c)  An Sangha : Increase who had deserted the family to cultivate their own liberation and lo save all beings, so there are grace:

- Maintenance of the Dharma: The monk uphold the precepts, compassion, generosity that makes the teachings of the Buddha exists in the world, so that we may know Buddhism, practicing known methods freed .

- Replace the Buddha of beings: Increased are those who do Messenger of Tathagata, ie instead Buddhist practice chemical beings.

- Communications awarded legal world: We want to play mind of enlightenment, we have to take refuge in the Three Jewels, the Buddhist monks switched passed on Discipline and teach us the way to practice.

3) Media Temple to pay four gifts:  For the four major gifts on a Buddhist temple inside deep to him as follows:

A) How considerate parents reported:

- Hieu well: Always have to please their parents. - But things are not good, you should avoid.

- Make a list showing parents: As a kid trying to reach higher education passed, to have knowledge in the profession, will have a useful contribution to the Buddha, cultivated culture, public service jobs that the list also shows parents as people with high-powered.However, when high-powered with the title just unreal, fake temporary life, we must wisely, avoiding identity and winning competitive advantage ham.

- Encourage parents chemistry: If parents also born money, yet imbued with Buddhism, we must find a way for parents to temple, Buddha, to do evil goodness.

- Parents deceased: We must regularly transfer merit, pray for the parents soon be born in the realm of peace.

B) How to Master Your grace report:

- Diligent study hard: We always work hard, learning progress you are making me please.

- Provide the feast: For me you we always reverently, for my sake is like our parents.The other said: " The comb is a father's day, mother's day st two, three days st master " (ie New Year's Day, the first of them attended the Cabinet, comb in their two Foreign Mass, Mass st three teachers) , respect me, there was the "  First order of monks, the monk-the-counter" (Learning with a literal as well as me, even half a word is also his teacher).

- Practice my word, you are: Master here are honorable, you are good friends here, only good things to teach us, so probably have to do something, we must do the right things as I you taught.

- Encourage your chemistry teacher: In general, we have to encourage Buddhists who turned around, let them do good and avoid evil, especially the life, words and deeds how we have touched them, for them to follow, ie we have to contribute to the social improvement, making it more robust.

C) The National Newspaper social grace:

- Rounding citizenship: First to keep the rules of the government, must contribute to the preservation of the territorial integrity, independence of countries, peoples, contributing to protecting the interests of righteousness of people. Promoting the industrialized, commercial business make the country more prosperous.

- Promoting the culture: The Buddhists also are citizens, have an obligation to promote the culture of our nation, a nation with more than 4 thousand years of history, we have a proud heritage of forefathers I leave, should be preserved and promoted more.

- Protecting national tradition: The tradition of our peoples such as the spirit of the Convention against invasion Dien Hong, independence traditions is the same whether we Bach Vietnam but not assimilated and dependence of China , our nation has always known how to love, support each other. Articles such as " Nam Son Ha Nam imperial residence country  " by Ly Thuong Kiet, " Binh Ngo Dai Cao " of Nguyen Trai is the Proclamation, uphold our national traditions.

D) How the grace Three Jewels:  In four gifts, Three Jewels is deep grace, ie the most important, we have to report this kind are as follows:

- An Phat Bao: Follow his teachings, in memory of the Buddhas, incense offering flowers, prayers, offerings to build temples to worship Buddha, makes many people believe, according to Buddhism.

- En France said Beijing recording teachings, often read scriptures to open their minds, to contribute money to print books, popular teachings of the Buddha to the people, to let more people know, believe in and stick to his teachings.

- An Sangha: monks and nuns who turned Buddhist behalf of us, we have a duty to revered monks, like stories directed "The Lion important French" offerings to monks about four minutes (Four offerings): clothes, food, beds (sleeping places), medicine.Nowadays, people donated money and other things, but it's best to offering the necessities, trying to avoid what can make alienation monks and nuns.

4. It is the duty of the family:  the family duty to parents spoke in favor of four above, in addition to the spouse (husband or wife) and children.

A) For the spouse:  Being beside me, sharing with me the joys and sorrows, on man, we must take care of his partner from the physical to the spiritual, must work together especially of tons practice, both husband and wife together will be very easy to practice diligently.

B) For children:  Parents always have the duty to care for the rearing of children, not only worry we eat, wear warm that parents will want their children to eat sweet, beautiful, care for school children a financial executive to take a job or have lived life with social identity, all the ones that are commonplace things of the world. We have a sacred duty than to lead his children entered the Path, it is not only useful for the present but also useful for the future. Parenting, we should care, encouraging their children as follows:

- When they were young: Children from 3 to 12 years, each time to temple, we should lead them, to let them know the temple episode kneeling, bowing to know, know to offer floral, show him honor Buddha. Some say a witty saying, Today I go to temples because as a kid, I followed his parents to control eating or tea-flung temples. If there are Buddhist Youth should let go of living with these unions.

- At older: Until age 13 onwards till twenties, the age is learn, learn. We should encourage their children to the temple, to find the books they read Buddhism for, so that they are imbued with Buddhist teachings.

III. - Conclusion :
Buddha monks and nuns are those who have the responsibility for maintaining the Dharma; even laymen who are responsible for upholding the law, so that every Buddhist, we must fulfill its responsibilities, so we want to understand how the real Buddhist people and fulfill our duties Buddhists our righteousness for Dharma. Do not forget we have a duty: To build our families, and contribute to social improvement becomes Truthfulness, Compassion, USA in the spirit of Buddhism.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.26/2/2017.