Section  11.

 

8th-28th in Jetavana (-562)

Venerable Ananda and the girl named Prakriti [1] 

The Sravasti study centers are preparing for the 28th detachment. This year the Buddha was 62 years old and the Ananda preacher was 43 years old. One day, Venerable Ananda, dressed up with a bowl of flask, walked slowly, step by step, her eyes staring down, as she walked in contemplation of the breath, into the alms-giving place of Sravasti. When I received enough food, I found a quiet place to sleep. Feeling finished, he went to the well in the neighborhood to find drinking water. At that time, a young woman of the lower class (chandala) was coming to the well. Venerable Ananda came to the well, stood, looked down to the ground, hands hugged the bowl, he said calmly:

-  Please give me some water to drink.

-  I am a chansal, I do not dare to approach you, afraid to make you unclean.

-  Hey, I just want some water to drink to quench thirst. Do not be afraid. I need water to drink, but I do not know what class of water.

-  I dare not! I did not dare to approach him. People know that I will be punished.

-  Hey, I was Ananda, my guru is Enlightened Gotama taught that anyone can learn and practice the Dhamma also can become an Enlightened as he was. So everyone is equal, should not classify. My teacher said:

"The same nail is not born,

"Not because of Brahmin's birth,

"Because we become nails,

"By acting we become Brahmins. [2]

  I do not care about class. Do not be afraid, please give me some water.

Ms. Prakriti looked up and saw that no one saw her, and she trembled solemnly, pouring water from her vial into Venerable Ananda's bowl. Her heart began beating faster and faster. Venerable Ananda took a sip of water, bowing to Miss Prakriti, and he turned back to Jetavana.

But Prakriti stood stubbornly looking at his heel. She remembered the gentle voice of his teacher, remember the beautiful shape, his solemn style. Oh! She never saw such a handsome handsome man."Please give me some water, please give me some water", his voice is so gentle, gentle, inspirational like that !? Why do not you have a little despair about a girl like you? That question mixed with the feeling of both lightweight and lightweight to make her stand dumbfounded half the province. Then she was like a lost soul, wandering back home.

Arriving home, she put the water down, and she sank to the ground, her eyes staring into the unknown place. Her mother saw that, anxiously asked:

-  Prakriti, what are you doing? Are you uncomfortable in person? Let me beat the wind.

-  "Please give me some water, please give me some water." Mommy! I never heard a gentle, elegant voice like that! I have never seen a person ... a man ... just beautiful, just as respectable!

-  Does that person have the same class as us?

-  Mom not. he shaved his head, he put on the yellow, his arms hugged bowl, beautiful, solemn, courteous, to please children to drink water.

-  What the hell are you talking about? Is he a sa-man?

"  Mother, that person is Ananda, Gotama's disciple." He does not accept children of the class chandala. She asked for water to drink. He must have noticed me. Mother, I beg you, I can not live away from him. Please use all spells and spells, take full advantage of your mother's magical powers to bring Ananda to live with you. If that is not the case, I will die, I can not live, I die and no one will care for me!

-  My dear mother, do you know? The king was a devout follower of Gotama Buddha, if the king knew that it was hard for her mother to live. Moreover Gotama is a miracle full of miracles and miracles, his mother's talents are unmatched.

-  Mother, I do not know anymore. I only know for sure that without Ananda, I would die, I would not survive. May your mother love you.

In response to the urgent petition of the only daughter, Matangi [3]  (Matador) used a dry cow dung to pinch a fire in the yard. She sat down on the side of the fire with 108 stems of arka and began to recite the Sankhya Kapila spell, and occasionally she threw a spike into the fire, up to 108 branches. arka flower.

Venerable Ananda can not resist the intensity and charm of Sankhya Kapila. He left the Jetavana monastery, completely forgot his ordination, and went straight to the house of the young chandala called Prakriti. Madam Matangi saw the Venerable Ananda coming home, telling her daughter to prepare a seat. As soon as Prakriti finished arranging, Ananda stepped into the house, taking his seat.He noticed Prakriti's smile and seductive gestures, which seemed to favor her temptations. The sun slowly sinks under the horizon. Suddenly Ananda felt stifling, awkward, uncomfortable. He suddenly thought of the Buddha, prayed immediately:

-  Lord, Sun master from the introspection, the Blessed Resurrection to save the child out of this danger.

At that time, the Buddha was at Jetavana, a hunch that Ven. Ananda was suffering from sexual intercourse and was praying to him. The Buddha sat in the lotus position, reciting the Suramgama mantra, entering the temple, lighting up the aura that illuminated the place where Ananda was in distress, breaking Sankhya Kapila.

Mr. Ananda suddenly recovered, he immediately stood up, repairing dress code, hugging the bowl out of the house, go quickly to the clinic.

Prakriti was very sorrowful, but she determined to pursue a budding first love. Early the next morning, she prepared to dress decently with her most magnificent jewels, and then waited for Venerable Ananda on the road from the Jetavana monastery to the city of Sravasti. When Venerable Ananda passed by to enter the alms round, Prakriti quietly followed behind him. Venerable Ananda, do not go begging with a girl always follow behind, he immediately turned back to the monastery. Ms. Prakriti continues to follow behind.

Through the gates of the monastery, she continued to follow. Venerable Ananda went straight to the Buddha's am. I walked into the am. Miss Prakriti stood by the door. Venerable Ananda recounts the beginning of the story with the master. The Buddha called her Prakriti. She walked in, her face bent down, bowed at the Buddha's feet and clasped her hands together. Buddha asked:

-  Who are you? What is your job at Ananda?

-  Buddha, is the Prakriti. I miss Mr. Ananda so I follow the teacher here. I can not live far away from Ananda, so wherever you go I follow you.

"  Prakriti, please go home and ask for permission from your parents first.

-  Lord, your father has lost a long time. My mother knew this, and because of love, she agreed to go with me.

-  Prakriti, there are so many young people in Sravasti, why do you love alone Ananda is a mendicant?

"  Lord, I love Ananda with all my heart. You brought light to my life. Thanks to teachers that I no longer feel guilty people despised, deserted. Thanks to you, you can rise to live a life worth living.You are all my hope, all your dreams, the cool stream of my life. Lord, I can not live away from you, just as fish can not live far from the water.

"  Prakriti, if you want to live near Ananda, then you must do what Tathagata tells me to do.

-  Buddha, I will do everything in order to live near Mr. Ananda.

-  Good, so come back to your mother asking for permission to my monk, hair down for the children, then bring her here to donate medicine.

-  That is not difficult. Lord, I now go home. This afternoon I will return to your mother.

Prakriti happily returned home, told the story, and asked her mother to give her hair. Her mother said:

-  Prakriti, are you crazy? The daughter who shaved her head became ugly, lost all beauty, left home, can not get married again. Do not you know? Why are you so stupid?

"  Mother, I do not need to get married, I just want to live near Ananda.

Mrs. Matangi asked her, dropped her hair, and led her back to Jetavana, in honor of the Buddha.The Buddha invited the mother and daughter Prakriti sat down, then said:

"  Prakriti, will you come back here to get ordained?"

-  Buddha, right.

-  Please go home to be near Ananda teacher?

-  Yes. I love Ananda teacher very much! I can not live away from you.

-  What did Ananda's teacher make you so passionate about?

-  Lord, what Ananda's brother also love all. The eyes, the nose, the mouth, the general, the voice, what the teacher also loved.

"  Prakriti, all that you see in Ananda is just a layer of skin on the outside. You must know that every human being has hair, nails, teeth, skin, meat, bone, tendons, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, mucus, saliva, nasal decongestant, urine, All of that changed every hour, every minute, every second; injuries or illness can occur at any time; Then it is time to grow old, ruined, dissolved. Man is just a skin bag full of illness, old age, death, pride, conceit [4]. If for some reason the inside is exposed, such as a torn upside down pillow, there must be a person holding the standing tree to ward off the crows, the vultures, the dogs, The troupe of floods tugged at each other to eat and tear up, disgusting. Passionate desire is selfish desire that only brings suffering. You should know:

"Affectionate late melancholy,

"Fearful love birth.

"He extinguished dignity completely,

No more sorrow, no fear. [5]

From the beginning of the Ananda trade until now, only two days, I have suffered a hundred pieces of suffering, loss of food, insomnia, lament, sigh, crying, moaning, sad sorrow. Now, think again about Ananda's body is something to be affectionately attached to it? Is what desperately desires desire? Is it worth the joy I hold? All things in this life are like that. When we cling to it, it is decaying, decaying, decaying, disintegrating.

This Prakriti, the only monk, is a noble man like Ananda, abandoning all craving, greed, anger, ignorance, practicing Dharma, Support all living beings, to create true happiness for yourself and for those you love. Prakriti, if you want to live near Master Ananda, the only way is to live a good life as a teacher, to learn and practice the Dharma to know the beauty, the true beauty of the teacher. And you fold the appearance that you see in me.

"  The Blessed One, your teachings are very clear and just, and give you comfort. Dear Buddha, allow me to be ordained.

-  Good! Prakriti, like the waters of the Ganga, Yamuna, Sindu, and Aciravati flow into the ocean and lose their origin. Any tribal, tribal who joins the church of the Tathagata are also the same mendicant. Prakriti, the water in the ocean has only one taste, the salty taste of salt. In the Church of the Bhiksu there is only one taste, that is the taste of liberation.

Then the Buddha called:

-  Come here, the monks-ni, live holy lives. [6]

Khema gave Prakriti a robe. After embracing her, she followed her nun to the nunnery. Here she was comforted by the monks, using simple words to teach her about the Tri-ratana, the Four Noble Truths, the paths, the way of begging, and the rules of discipline. On her return she learned about the four majesty, standing, lying, sitting, and meditation practice. She diligently practiced diligently, later she was attained arahantship before Venerable Ananda.

Or believe a girl chandala was ordained according to the Church of the Buddha's Bounty, the propriety of the Sravasti people talk about. King Pasenadi visits the Buddha and inquires about this:

-  Buddha, many notables in the Sravasti said the woman was ordained as a contravention of the customs, traditional Brahmin from past to present. But for Brahmana women, the Kshatriya line is acceptable. This, as a chandala, is an insult to the monks, which would pollute the clergy. How do you think?

 N Ð Ð,,,,,,,,,, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . After bathing on that person was clean white towel drying body and then spray perfume on himself. What do you think? Is the body of the chandala as fragile as the kshatriya body?

- Well  , if two people bathe in a river, the same brush the same, wipe the same dry, the same perfume, their bodies are equally fragrant.

-  Yes, the Great King. If the kshatriya and the chandala live the same noble life and practice the noble teachings, they can awaken and attain liberation equally.

Tathagata told a story: In ancient times, there was a village called Chandala by the river Ganga.The village chief was Trishanku. He had an unusually beautiful son, Sardulakarna, who was familiar with the three Vedas. The father wishes his son to marry a beautiful and intelligent wife. He came to ask for a beautiful young girl named Prakriti, the son of a Brahmin named Pushkarasasi, but he refused. Mr. Trishanku has repeatedly begged and pleaded repeatedly and showed that his son was as beautiful as anyone. Finally, Mr. Pushkarasasi accepted and Prakriti was married to Sardulakarna.Grandpa, Prakriti in the past was also Prakriti today; Sardulakarna is the Ananda Bhikkhu now. Two people have a predestined relationship with each other. And the chief of Trishanku is the Tathagata.

King Pasenadi and his entourage listened intently to the story of precursors, amazed, unable to speak a word, bowed to Buddha and monks and quietly retired.

Suramgama-sutta business 

After Khema took Prakriti to the nunnery, Ananda came to pay homage at the feet of the Buddha, and then he cried, suffering because so far only a broad academic, listening to many, but not real practice. Sankhya Kapila, who had lost his precepts, had to seek the help of the Buddha to enter the Suramgama-samadhi. He cried a moment and said,

-  Buddha, but blessed are the adjacent Exalted, heard and remembered most of what Bhagavan taught, but religion fledgling force, almost lost because the world can pay Kapila Sankhya arts. Please Bhagavan happy just teach the Dhamma  far-ma-tha  (Samantha [7] ),  Tam-ma-topic  (Samadhi [8] ),Zen-na  (Dhyana [9] )  are legal subjects Bodhi fruit quickly and reliably assure the ten directions of the Buddha .

-  Ananda, you have heard many, remember many, but do not grasp the origin of Sanhedrin and God Nirvana so even though he has been ordained for more than 20 years only to see the fruit-complete ( Sotapanna). Please listen carefully:

Where is the birth and death?  It is because all living beings are sentient beings, thinking, thinking outside the body of their self (self) should suffer suffering birth and death.

Where is the Bodhi  (enlightenment)  Nirvana  (liberation)? Once the practitioner finishes his or her fullness of mind, thinking, thinking in accordance with the scene, Chon Tam, pure and clear, will appear from time to time. Chon Tam that is the Bodhi, Nirvana, always pure, wise, do not move, put on the scene of the transformation of the lao-cao.

Then the Buddha used a variety of means such as holding up his fist, telling the bell, for only the Tanh see, Tanh is often heard. Not when a new fist saw, not when the new bell sounded. No bell is not unheard, but rather "no bell". The blind man is not without seeing, but dark because two eyes no longer pass the light on; as well as the sight of the man with his eyes closed.

Six bases running under the six ceiling born six consciousness. Six consciousness is conscious, dependent on the six, is the root of birth and death. Because the six births to kill change constantly.

Six not follow the six ceiling, the six consciousness is not born mind, Chon Heart Expressed Bodhi and Nirvana.

Those who wish to become Bodhisattvas to become Buddhists must meet  two conditions as follows:

1 - At the beginning of the mind, you must know that you have Chon Tam bar, usually, then use that mind to practice spiritual practice. Must be planted net bar, often new head has pure fruit, often cylindrical.  

2 - At the hands of skilled laborers, must practice the pine to six bases are pure, not infected with six ceiling. Thanks to that, the scene of liberation, self-contained, non-afraid.  

Speaking of this, the Buddha summarizes the newly announced chapter in the verse as follows:

Chon Tanh not naked,

Infinite, not born to die.

Conditional birth is not real,

Hope, like flowers.

Use depression to indicate your feet.

Vong, feet are all hope.

If not despised,

How to know the legs?

Six not realism,

Like three reeds.

Force open [10]  a root,

Holy, no two ways.

Consider the nature of consciousness

No, neither no.

Ignorance yes,

Not being liberated.

Self-centered mind,

No illusory illusory.

Not disagree, not illusory,

No illusion is not born.

French illusions are not established,

Called Dieu Lien Hoa,

Bao Kim Kim Cang Vuong,

As Huyen Tam-ma-subject.

Scrabble to learn.

This absolute magic

Of the ten Buddhas:

The only road to Nibbāna. [11] 

As for the practice, the Buddha told the 25 Bodhisattvas to clarify his method of practice and how to practice how to bear the fruit. Then the Buddha told him to re-evaluate the disciplines and choose a method of winning the best, suited to the nature of beings in this realm-this. Van-Tu chose the method of tu-Nhat Vien Thong [12]  of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.

Next, the Buddha preached about the three classes of  learning:  1-Mindfulness into Gender, 2-Do Gender, 3-Doctrine. Photographers want to keep the mind first  four contemporary world:  Dam, Chad, Path [13] , Hope [14] . Beings are heavy karma, difficult to keep the four worlds are pure, then the most heart-centered care Thu-Lang-Nghiem . Buddha said:

"  Ananda, like your teacher with matangi is not new in this life. The teacher with her matangi is boundless grace left, have sex gas sex, has spent many lives. When the Tathagata commits the Buddha's message, immediately the mind of her craving disappears, she becomes pure as Anagami, liberated from samsara, and if The effort will soon go up to Arhat.

The teacher, matangi is a woman who has not developed the spiritual but the spiritual power of the Buddhist mantra to the uneducated, how much more the teacher. The teacher has developed the mind of the Supreme, if the lord of this Buddha decides to become Buddha, such as spraying the wind blowing down the wind is not difficult .

The footman must diligently practice the following three stores:

1 -  The practice of the practitioner termination of service: It is  good, not eat the five flavors (onions, chives, garlic, compress, palanquin), do not drink alcohol, do not use drugs.

2-  store practice to eliminate the gender:  Absolutely abstain from sex and Satisfaction.

3-  store practice of finishing career:  six pure bar, not infected with six ceiling.

Buddha said:

-  Ananda, who published Bodhi mind, right concentration, right life, full range, do not eat the new taste. Why? Because of the five dishes, eating nine, the ebullient, eat alive the yard. If you eat the five of the new line, even though it speaks through 12 sets of mysterious feet are difficult to achieve effective. Devas can not stand the smell of fresh taste from the mouth, so often away from people who eat those five dishes. The demons, ghosts preferred the neo-rupture, or the occasional eaters, sniffed again, licked lips licking. Consequently, those who ate the new fivefold, lived with the devil every day, were mentally disturbed by their spirit, blessed by virtue, often suffering with misery.

Hey Ananda, if you practice without the masturbation and close, then you can never be free from the third world of suffering men. Religious practitioners must watch porn and be like poisonous snakes, like the enemy.

When Ananda, who cultivates the pinewood, the mind does not move in six steps, and returns to the Self-Ego like the Eightfold. Tran has no predestination, the mind has no premises, the effect of the base does not cause wrong actions. Such cross the national level (and worldwide) pure a stroke purity, body is gentle, the mind is serene, happily inexhaustible, ex prime unborn juridical, achievements overweight-Hue-Earth [ 15]  (Sukla-vidarasana-bhumi). Then gradually progression, depending on the virtue of religion that is holy.

Next, the Buddha pointed out that after the Qi-hue-ge are also 54 low-proof mandarins up high, including the Ten Tin, Cross, Hap, Cross-Direction, Tu Gia Hanh and Cross [16] , then the fruits of the Enlightenment, Magic Enlightenment and Enlightenment is the fruit of the Buddha.

Venerable Ananda and the saint heard the Buddha finished, extremely happy to disclose the Buddha Dharma practice Bodhisattva practice, from the first to the Buddha. What a wonderful teaching, unprecedented in the world. All the homage Buddha and medical education.

 

9th-29th in Jetavana (-561)

 

The Buddha's compassion for the young masters [17] 

The Buddha placed a great deal of trust in the good monks in order to continue the work of propagating the benefits he had initiated. However, he is also very patient and tolerant of the almighty or young alms. There are monks unsuccessful, back to life six times and then when asked to return to Buddhist still approved to import them. It is so dark that even learning the ninth can not belong to the mindfulness of breathing, yet the Buddha continues to pat and encourage.

At that time, a monk named Bhaddali was at Jetavana. He had ignorance so that he had the opportunity to transform. You do not intentionally, but often break the rules of the monastery. For example, in the monastery there is the "most real", that is, when sitting down to eat, the wanderer must not get up for food or other things, until the food is finished to stand up. But Bhaddali master can not do. Living in public, he often causes distractions to others. The Buddha has repeatedly praised the teacher and taught him to ask himself frequently, "What must I do to make the masses happy?" So, a few months later, he has not been successful yet. In the mass there are teachers who are not patient enough and sometimes say heavy teachers. Know that, one day the Buddha said:

-  Teachers, an individual in the sangha despite serious faults, but how in his heart there are still a few seeds of faith in the Dharma and human love. We should behave with him so that the remaining good seeds have enough chance to flourish, should not let the seeds completely destroyed. For example, there is one person who is blind because of misfortune but blind. His relatives will naturally seek to help and protect the other eye. They know that if the other eye is blind then he will be miserable. So, teachers, you help protect the good seeds left in your fellow man by treating him kindly and kindly.

The Buddha is always compassionate, gentle, but sometimes he is very strict and also rebuked severely, drastically. Those who do not have degrees or degrees are not really people who have no future.

One day the Buddha talked with a horse trainer. Buddha asked:

- How  do you dress up a horse, please tell us?

-  Lord Buddha, there are many types of horses. Some are easy to teach, just take sweet measure.There are more difficult to treat, have to use both measures of sweet and strong measures. Some are very difficult to teach, only strong measures can be used.

-  So when you meet the type of horse that all three measures are invalid, then how do you do?

-  Buddha, in that case, the children are forced to kill it, because for it to live in the flock will damage the other horses. Lord Buddha, how do you teach the disciples how? Please let me know.

-  I do the same as him. There are just sweet people. There are people who need both sweet and need strong measures. Someone can only use strong new measures.

-  So in the case that all three measures are invalid, then how does the Blessed One do?

-  Then I must do as you are.

-  iron! Blasphemer killed them?

-  No, I just refuse to accept them into the mendicant congregation, do not accept them as a disciple, that's all. But those cases are so miserable and pitiful.

Knight Rohitassa asks how to get out of the mortal world [18] 

Knight Rohitassa straddled the jail in the Jetavana jail, and then, with a dignity and majesty, he followed the Venerable Ananda to the Buddha. Brother Ananda poured tea invite the Buddha and guests. Knight Rohitassa Buddha and then opened the words:

-  Blessed, a realm that does not give birth, aging, sickness and death? Is there a realm where all species are not subject to the law of death? How can we move away from this world of birth and to go to the world without birth and death?

"  This Rohitassa, can not get out of this world of passing away by moving, even if we go faster than lightning.

-  Honor the Buddha, he taught very well. It is true that we can not go beyond the boundaries of this world of birth by moving, no matter what speed. I remember in a previous life, you used to have divine powers, you can fly in space as fast as an arrow. You just need to throw yourself away for a moment, maybe from the east coast to the west coast. I have definitely crossed the border of the world of birth, old age, illness, death to go to another world. I flew day after day, not stopping to eat or rest. I have been flying for over a hundred years at that speed but I have not seen the frontier yet, but I have died on the way. The Buddha says that we can not transcend the boundaries of samsara by moving, even moving at the speed of light.

-  This Rohitassa, Tathagata does not say that he can not go beyond this samsara. If you want, Tathagata will show you how to get beyond the mortal world. Rohitassa, it is from the place of his mind and body that the world of birth and death is born, also from his body and mind that he can find the end of the mortal world . Please contemplate his body and mind. Please contemplate the birth world in your mind and body. Consciousness, feeling, perception, action, in him to see the general of all things in the universe. When the contemplation succeeds, he will see the world disappear and the world of birthlessness manifested. Then he will be freed from all suffering in the world of birth and death, and will be completely free, peaceful, peaceful in the world of man, peanut, feet, smooth.

To Rohitassa, in  order to transcend the world of suffering and cessation, he did not need to move anywhere, he just sat quietly, looking deeply into the nature of his mind and body to experience and live with the unborn entity the destruction of things. That entity does not have a form that is difficult to recognize, but it is everywhere, no need to go anywhere .

Knight Rohitassa fell at the foot of the Buddha, very happy and moved, he said:

-  Lord, I like stray people in the jungle was just the way out, as people groping in the house has just been lit light. You are like a blind man looking for light, no matter how many lives it can not be found. Today I was fortunate to have blinded his compassion for the children, and I saw the light always in front of me, no need to look far. I wish the Buddha happy to accept me as a disciple.

October 30th in Jetavana (-560)

Questions not answered by Buddha [19] 

One day, it was raining, there was a visiting wanderer. Venerable Ananda leads the Uttiya wanderer to see the Buddha. He introduced the Buddhist monk to him, dried his hair with a towel and invited him to sit. After a courtesy greeting, Uttiya addressed the matter immediately:

-  Gotama sa-sa, our world is forever or there will be a moment of passing away?

-  Uttiya friend, please do not answer that question.

-  So, sa-subject said our world is on the border or not have borders?

The Buddha sat silent. Uttiya said:

"  Gotama, I would like to ask all my questions here and ask if you are willing to answer my question:

· Body and soul are one or two?

· After death, sa-Gotama often lost?

· After death, Gotama has just died?

· After death, Gotama is no longer lost?

The Buddha continued to sit quietly. Uttiya felt uncomfortable, asking again:

-  Any question I asked, sa-subject also did not answer. Why?

The Buddha replies:

-  Because of his questions raised there is no benefit to the practice to achieve enlightenment and liberation.

Then a few days back there was a wanderer named Vacchagota [20]  to visit the Buddha. He also asked the same questions as Uttiya's questions. The Buddha also sat silent, did not answer.Vacchagota exhorted the last question:

-  recluse Gotama, begging you to know is that there is no self or ego?

The Buddha remained silent. Vacchagota got up and left.

After Vacchagota went away, Venerable Ananda asked the Buddha:

-  Buddha, in the lecture Bhagavan has taught moral self. How did the Blessed One answer the question of the Vacchagota heir?

-  Ananda , the doctrine of anattå which Tathagata teaches to the novices is a meditation manual to break up the self, not the doctrine of "no self . " Vacchagota's question is only intended to know the position of the Tathagata on the fall so Tathagata can not answer, because the answer is to fall into a bias, or accept, or accept. Hey Ananda, want to enlighten and liberate need to eliminate all the grievances. It is better for them to assume that they do not know more than to put them in the yes / no.

As Lai does not come from nor go anywhere. [21] 

One day, the Venerable Anuruddha on the way to begging was stopped by a group of monks.They asked him to answer their questions then they let go. They asked:

-  We heard recluses Gotama was enlightened integrity and teachings of the very sublime mystery. You are Gotama's disciple. So tell us, after death Gotama Gotata still exists or not?

Then the monks forced the Venerable Anuruddha to choose one of the following four answers:

a)   After death, Gotama also.

b)   After death, Gotama died.

c)   After death, Gotama has just died.

d)   After death, Gotama is no longer just not lost.

Anuruddha knows that in the four answers there are no answers that fit the teachings of the Buddha. You are silent. But the travelers did not approve of that silence. They force you to say something. Finally the Venerable said:

-  Hey friends, according to my understanding, there are no answers in the four answers to the truth about Gotama Satan.

The scribes laughed at each other:

-  Consider this sultan is a novice so he can not answer his question. Well, let's just let him go.

When they finish talking, they leave.

A few days ago, after the sermon of the Buddha, Venerable Anuruddha brought the incident to the Buddha. You say:

-  Lord, let the Exalter enlighten us, so that we can learn more and be able to answer each other when asked similar questions.

-  Anuruddha, where do you think Gotama is? Can you find Gotama-san in this body?

-  Lord, do not.

-  Can you search for Gotama sa-sensei?

-  Lord, do not.

-  can be found recluses thought Gotama place where actions and words, or where knowledge is not?

-  Lord, do not.

-  So, Anuruddha, can you find Gotama in this body?

-  Lord, do not.

-  Can Gotama feel safer than feeling?

-  Lord, do not.

-  Can you search for Gotama-style Sasana beyond thought, beyond action and speech, or beyond knowledge?

-  Lord, do not.

-  Yes, this Anuruddha, sa-Gotama not in the five aggregates is color, feeling, perception, action, awake; Gotama is also not outside the five aggregates; Gotama sa-not in the place where the great is the land, water, fire, leprosy, ants and consciousness; Gotama-sama is not out yet. Said Gotama in any place, whether or not, lost or lost is not true. This is Anuruddha, Gotama is still sitting here, but he can not confirm whether or not after the death of Gotama killed then how can you say or lose?

Anuruddha, you should know the self, the nature of all things is the Tathagata of mystery, immutability, immortality, immortality, in which the whole universe rotates, transformed like magic, no Can say whether or not, or lost . So  Tathagata does not come from nor go anywhere .

The Buddha has long spoken that the mendicants are still sitting quietly, silent, thoughtful, without saying a word.

11th-31st in Jetavana (year-559)

 

Buddha speak Su Su Singing [22] 

During a lecture during the retreat this year, the Buddha said the Su Tu Sing to summarize the essentials of the teachings of enlightenment and liberation, and to indirectly answer questions about falls. Having fallen, after entering the kill Gotama sa lost or lost. The Buddha said:

- You  , the eternal enlightenment and liberation, have the power to destroy the strongest strongholds of ignorance, as well as the light that can dissipate the darkness. The teachings as Four Truth, impermanence, selflessness, Duyen Sinh, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Seven Enlightenment, Three Door Deliverance [23]  and the Path of Action Chan Chanh was uttered in the time as the roar of the lioness, making hundreds of thousands of heresies and panicked anger run away, or quietly cherish.

Hey lion, the lion is the king of the beasts. As he stepped out of the cave, the lion bent, stretching his shoulders. After bending and stretching her shoulders, she glared at the four sides. Then it roared for three great hours to rock the mountains. Then it's new to find the bait.

Behold, any animal that hears the roar of a lion is afraid; there is a hid from him, and his children run away; there is a trembling child, and the four limbs do not know what to do. Birds fly high. The flowering species, the crocodile flies in water. Feral go into the cave. The elephants in the neighboring villages, even the elephants of the king with harness and gold earrings, were frightened to flee, sometimes splashed both feces and urine. The lion is so powerful.

Hey, the  dharma of enlightened enlightenment and liberation is like the lion roar . When the sound of enlightenment rose up, all heresies were trembling. When they hear the proclamation of the principles of impermanence, not-self, dependent origination ... then all those who have settled in ignorance and let go are startled. Humans are like that too. When we awaken the dream, people see the glaring truth: "So long we are in danger that we think is safe, we have received the impermanence of the ordinary, the selfless fall , suffering, joy, eternity, immortality. It is time for us to cast all our stances, prejudices, persistence in order to receive truth.

You, the doctrines of the human world are bound to the notion of yes / no. Enlightened mankind is beyond the notion of yes / no. People are often trapped in the  four great traps of life . The first trap is  pleasure . The second trap is  knowledge . The third trap is  ritual . The fourth trap is  the notion of self . Human embarrassment, binding in the four traps, no longer know where the truth. Enlightened Dharma brings man out of these four great traps.

You want to break free from the prejudices, persistence, and traps to understand the truth, you must constantly observe "the nature of dependent origination [24] " in your daily life, body, place of feeling, place of thought, place of action and word, place of things.

Hey you, once achievement allows shop "nature of dependent origination," you will understand why the Tathagata says  , " All living beings have Buddha nature. Tathagata  permanent unchanging" . That's the truth, it's the lion's roar.

12th-32nd in Jetavana (year-558)

 

The Buddha said the Kim-Cang Bat-elegant Ba-la-bile [25] 

One day, near the hour of life, the Buddha put the bowl in the bowl of Sravasti, followed the class from house to house begging. When there was enough food, he returned to Jetavana monastery, along with the monks. When the boys finished, he arranged the bowl, washed his feet, and spread the chair.Then the Venerable Subhuti [26]  in the mass from his seat, stood up, put his shoulders on his face, kneeled down to the ground,

-  Lord Buddha, in the conference today there are many good men and women, although the mind has been very much higher mind, but the mind is still hope, not negate. We pray that the Blessed One teaches how  to stay calm [27] ?  And  how do you find a way to recover [28] ?

-  Awesome! This is Subhuti, the master of the hearers, but at the right time. Tathagata will teach how to stay calm and how to center the mind. They have developed the mind of the higher school of right understanding should listen carefully to know how to practice.

The person who has developed the mind of the school district of mind  wants  to know where to rest, rest on what object. Do not meditation on color, sound, smell, taste, touch, legal, but must remain in place no place center pillar and nothing to office [29] . Wanted to be so all beings into the non-y-nirvana without a human beings and beings are degrees. Subhuti, you should know:

Mostly legal

As dream, illusory, plan, photo

As the highway, the heron is like electricity

Appears as a market . [30]

-  Buddha, yes. Beauty, bar, incense, taste, exposure, France are all hope, impermanent, always changing, not a good place to stay. Must dwell on the commonplace, on things that never change.There are beings are still deluded. There are people and people are degrees are also differentiated / ego.The consciousness of discrimination is the birth of karmic thought that makes the mind. Except for the discriminative awareness of insolubility and non-self, the mind is truly reared in Chon-like nature.

-  Again, this Subhuti, who has developed the ultimate mindfulness of mindfulness,  wants to consume the mind , that is, to eliminate the mind-brain disturbance and delusion, the first must give generosity , bar, flavor, taste, contact, legal. Because generosity without the General, the blessing can not be measured.

-  Buddha, yes. Because beings are ignorance so new born expectations; Then from hope-idea accepting not giving birth defilement is greed, selfishness, love, hate, anger, fear ... Want to eradicate selfish greed must be true almsgiving. The gift of the three-la-bile is no longer see what is their own;Both my body and mind are not my own. Once the ego and negativity have been eliminated, brain-disturbance and certain expectations are no longer.

-  Hey Subhuti, what do you think? Could it be the body of the Tathagata?

-  Buddha, because of the form that can not see the Tathagata. Because the body is impermanent, the Tathagata is the permanent head.

-  Yes, the  place where the generals are spoiled . If you see the generals are not Prime Minister saw Tathagata .

Then the Buddha said verse:

Obviously the ant is falling

The bridge sound falls  

Monk hymns 

Uncle Tathagata. [31 ]

-  Buddha, do not know when beings have heard such teachings being honest belief reasonable?

-  Subhuti, there are many sentient beings have planted the good from many generations, when listening to such teachings will be born confident. Because they know that " beings without seeing beings " and " non-living generals " are methods of eradicating ego, ego, sentient beings, to achieve peace net.

13th, 33rd, 34th, 35th at Jetavana (year -557 / 555 )

In our opinion, in the four years from the thirty-ninth to the thirty-ninth, the Buddha paid special attention to the preaching of the Maha Prajna-paramita-sutra. Dhamma-Pitaka practice and practice.All of the contents of the Great Prajna Sutra is composed of 16 assemblies, namely, the 16 phases of the Buddha, in the four places of Mount Griddhakuta, the Jetavana (Paracentamus), Paranimmitavasavatti (Tha) self-purification) and Venuvana (Truc Lam).

From the first to the 6th Assembly , the Buddha taught only  how to practice Bat-elegant.

From the 7th Assembly to the 10th Assembly , the Buddha talked about  the virtues of the victorious, dignified and unthinkable  of the Bat-dharma, because this is the  One-Dhamma-dharmakaya method. Ly-Animal Bat-Nha-Pure  bring the cultivator to the One Pure Joy and PureJustice .

From the eleventh to the 16th , Lord Buddha gave a lecture on the  six  Bodhisattva dharmas of the Bodhisattva, Abhidhamma, Patience, Effort, Meditation, and Wisdom.

The entire contents of the Great Bat Nha Ba-La-Password (Maha Prajna-paramita-sutra) are summarized in a very concise and clear success of  Bat Nha Ba-La-density-Da Heart Sutra  (Prajna -paramita-hrdaya-sutra).

The Buddha said the great Bat-elegant Ba-la-secret 

 After many times of great Bat-elegant, one day, during the season, the Buddha summarized as follows:

-  Teachers,  the practice of Quan Bat Bat Nhat  very profound magic, merit can not think. It is because of deep practice that Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Avalokitesvara)  validates the five aggregates are colors, feelings, thoughts, actions and consciousness are not , so Bo- slapped through all the tribulations.

This Sariputta (Sutra-Phat), the mendicant should also practice the Bat-elegant way. Teachers should be carnality is not because the body is impermanent, the teacher should also feel (thinking), thinking (thinking), the transformation of the body (mind), the eye (consciousness) The ears, the nose, the tongue, the body and the brain are all not, because they are impermanent, united, not self-nature.

Sariputta, when the true witness of the Five Aggregates is not, is that the teachers have attained anattå, so that they become completely purified and free from samsara . It is indeed a magic can not think of the table. All the buddhas in the past, present, and future, are all trained in this discipline, which  attains the supreme rectifier .

During another time of the Buddha at the lecture hall Migara-matas in Pubbarama, Venerable Ananda asked:

-  The Lord, according to my understanding, Bat-elegant food is 5 aggregates are not, but the five aggregates are not the 18 nor the world and all the things are not.

Bat-elegant means the non-virtue of the Dharma . For example, mindfulness of aggregates is not, that is, thinking to know the form of body is impermanent, due to the absence of the nature.

Lord Buddha, but I still do not understand the  true identity of the five aggregates is not Ể  how?Sorry Buddha compassion teaching.

The Buddha replies:

-  Ananda, Tathagata will for you to clarify for the whole conference to hear what is known as Quan and An-residue (proof) emptiness [32] .

 For example, in the Lecture Hall, there are no elephants, cows, horses, gold and silver like in the village. But there is not no, is the presence of the monks and nuns, so be consistent with the monks and nuns there. To put it more clearly,  the idea of ​​a village is not, but the idea of ​​the person is . It is true, not crazy island.

To move up one level, one who wants to dwell so much in emptiness, he should not contemplate the idea of ​​the village, nor should he reflect on the idea of ​​the person, but rather often reflect on the idea of ​​homogeneity. desert forest He was  in his mind, see the idea of ​​the village, about people is not, but there is not no, that is the idea of ​​forest desert . He knows that the defilements of the idea of ​​the village and the people are not in his mind, but the afflictions of the idea of ​​desert forest are present.What is available, he is consistent; what is not, he is not. It is true, not crazy island.

Continuing to go one step further, one who wants to settle more in emptiness, he should not meditate on ideas about the village, the people, the forest, but  often reflect on the idea of ​​homogeneity. land . He is  aware in his mind, that the defilements of the idea of ​​the village, of people, of the desert forest is not, but the afflictions of the idea of ​​the land is; Without the afflictions of the idea of ​​the land, he knows not . It is true, not crazy island.

In this way, meditation will in turn transcend  meditations on morality  from meditation to meditation, and  meditations on the non-material precepts  of non-infinite precepts . Positive evidence to where, meditation self-conscious mind immediately know. When there is no more subtle mental defilements in the five aggregates, no more contemplation of the concept of body, of feeling, of thought, of change , the consciousness that meditation has realized the five aggregates is not, the proof of selflessness.

Listen to all the audiences are very happy, excited, know that Bat-Nha News Center.Consciousness aggregates are not, not that we find ourselves but ourselves to ourselves without self by suggestive self. Consciousness aggregates is not, is the experience to know the body of impermanence, temporary availability, no self-nature. Virtue is not, is no longer begins to reflect on the idea of ​​body again, so no defilement caused by the idea of ​​the body again.

14th-36th in Jetavana (year-554)

Visakha mourns the Buddha about a recently dead nephew [33] 

One day, when the Buddha was about to beg for food, the female patroness Visakha came, paid homage to the Buddha and sat down, urging to cry. Buddha asked:

-  Visakha, why are you so sad today? What are you mourning?

- Your  dear sister, Datta, has just died. I love it most home. It was only five years old that he liked to follow me to bring me things to offer to the mendicant. Now that it's gone, I'm going to go alone. I miss it, too sad.

-  What sickness to lose?

- Well  , you have typhoid disease.

-  Poor job too! Visakha, how many children do you have?

-  Buddha, the 12 children and 5 grandchildren said as foreign. Now I have only four children.

- You  want to have many children, right?

-  Yes. White Lord, the more homes the children are happy.

-  If you have many descendants by population in the capital of Sravasti this surely she is very happy?

-  Yes, if so, then what is equal.

-  Do you know this every day in the capital, how many people died?

-  Buddha, have nine days, ten people, six and seven days. At least one or two people. Dear Lord, in Sravasti there is no day without death.

"  Visakha, if your descendants are as large as the people of Sravasti, you must cry every single day. So where is the fun?

-  Buddha, you see.

-  Good, so do not be sad anymore. Secular love often causes suffering and fear. Only compassion is to bring joy and true happiness to all people .

Then the Buddha said shelf:

Bear love born suffering,

Love affection born fear,

Happy not to love

No fear of fear. (Dhammapada, lesson 213)

Religious practitioners must know their strengths. [34] 

After the season of residence this year, the Buddha heading south. He visited Migadava in the village of Isipatana, north of the city of Benares (Varanasi), where he gave the sermon for the first time and established the Sikh Trinity with the three pilgrims. The scene here has changed. A large tower was erected by local people to commemorate the place where the Buddha began to turn the wheel. This tower is named  Dhamekh Tower, by the two words of Dhamma mukkha, which means Righteous Fa.In Nai Nai, Kittoe hall has been built, with many mourners stowing the cup around the auditorium to make a refresher monastery. That was 36 years ago. The Dharma wheel has circulated continuously throughout the Ganga basin. After staying in the Nai Garden for a few days to lecture and encourage the public, Buddha set off for Gaya, visiting the village of Uruvela visiting the Bodhi tree in the past.Bodhi tree more and more fresh, branches of leaves sum. Many vows have been erected in the area.King Bimbisara is preparing to build a memorial tower where the Buddha attained enlightenment, called Mahabodhi Mahavihara.

The Buddha instructed the monks to visit places where he had been diligently practicing asceticism for six years until he renounced the ascetic practice of meditation, and 49 days later he became under the tree pippala. The Buddha told the masters of the living experiences he had experienced, the practices he had practiced, the difficulties he had overcome, the experiences he had gained before and after his enlightenment. . This is the Ajapala tree, where he received the bowl of milk porridge from Sujata's sisters before the evening of his enlightenment, and also where he sat during the fifth week to meditate on the teachings of deliverance. This is the Bodhi tree, where he sat to enter university, ma military victory, proving paw through [35]  and the three intelligence[36]Then continue to sit for a week to experience the happiness of liberation. This is where he stood looking at the Bodhi Tree for the second week without winking. This is the jewelery route that he had to go through for the third week after his enlightenment. This is the "preserve" where he sits during the fourth week to meditate on the sublime teachings (Abhidhamma). This is the Mucalinda, where he sat in for the sixth week under the heavy rain and was sheltered by Mucalinda. This is the Rajayatana plant, where he sat in for the seventh week. Your nuns today are very happy to hear a very precious, extremely lively Dharma, with immediate historical evidence, and by the Buddha himself to speak of his own experiences and experiences. when enlightened.

Svastika was the most touching person. He recalled when he met the Buddha for the first time, he was only eight years old. He is 44 years old now. Do not know the sisters of the teacher, Sujata sisters and buffalo herds of the past when he is now? What do you do? have any children? and how does it live Then he thought again he was blessed be ordained by the Buddha, live a leisurely life to practice the virtuous virtue, outlined a brilliant future ...

From Gaya, the Buddha went to the northeast, to Rajagriha, the capital of Magadha, and straight to Venuvana (Truc Lam). The mourners here welcome the Buddha. Here the Buddha met again Venerable Punna Mantaniputta . He recounted to the Buddha heard the work of teachers in Madeira in the past ten years. Only in the first year, he was able to 500 refugees take refuge in the Triple Gem and 500 monks as monks. You have also set up a clinic, every year there are organizations that enter there. I ask the Buddha to allow him to be resident in the country of Doha because people here need his presence. The Buddha happily accepted.

On the way up to Griddhakuta, the Buddha visits the Forest Learning Center. Here the Buddha meets the great virtue  Sona Kolivisa [37] (Sona Kutikanna). Venerable Sona left home and studied with Venerable Maha Kaccana on Mount Pavatta, near the city of Kuraraghara in Avanti. He is a rich, well-mannered young man, smart, but weak in nature, unable to live a homeless life, eat a meal a day, sleep under a tree. Although he is very diligent to practice, he often sick often, so after six months of trying, he felt tired, depressed, and the intention to abandon the practice, return to the lay life, life enjoy career assets to do good deeds, create good karma. Ven. Maha Kaccana informed him, sent him to Jetavana seminary next to Buddha for a few months to study, then he went back to the south, went to Venuvana monastery, and went to the forest monastery. Seeing the great sona seems weak, sick, depressed, Buddha called to ask:

-  Hey Sona, how are you? Is learning and alms difficult?

-  Lord, the health is still normal. Studying and begging is not difficult.

-  How long have you been ordained?

-  Lord, I was only one year old.

-  Before leaving home, what do you do?

- Well  , I like to play guitar. I have been learning guitar since I was eight years old.

-  Sona, while playing the master how to make the music is mellow, sacred?

-  Buddha, wanted for the music is tuneful, pounding the holy, right up above, before the tension cord properly. If the string is too soft music, mute deaf; If the string is too tight, it will break easily .

-  Sona, the practice is the same. If you're lazy, you can not achieve laughter. If you try to overwhelm your endurance, you are tired, sick, decadent. Hey Sona, you must know how to self-energize, develop the mind to practice but do not force the mind too much. So he hopes to achieve the profession.

Stop for a moment, Lord Buddha continued [38] :

-  Hey Sona,  want to practice with the results, the practitioner must know choose spiritual methods appropriate to  the base nature ,  gifted  and  qualified  her as an acquaintance as jeweler-completion should practice books away, acquaintance The launderer should practice white spirit; And to know the time should be  only  (Concentration), time should practice  Quan  (Hue), what time should practice  equanimity .

Hey Sona, when a man who is arrogant because he finds that he understands well-being, good sermon, good answers, is respected by many people ... should not practice wisdom (prajna) samadhi

When a devotee discourages himself because he finds himself inferior, he does not control the defilements, he does not submit to 6 units, suspects the rules are not correct ... should not be just (samatha) but must practice ( vipassana).

When a person sees his or her two virtues and wisdom is not equal, the heart is not confident, the heart is not safe, then should not be happy. At the same level of education should practice upekha (upekkha, upeksa), that is to remove the attachment that I am cultivating and legal to cultivate. Emptiness is the mind is calm, not determined, not consistent .

This Sona, teachers should learn and practice the Seven French Enlightenment [39] (saptabojjhanga, saptabodhyanga) are recited, scout law, diligence, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity, to get good results.

-  Lord, I obey you teach.

Brother Sona Kolivisa is happy to pay homage to the Buddha. After that, he went to Mount Linh-Buddhist net and attained A-la-drought. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3  TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/9/2017,