To become a Buddhist.
Buddhists often come from two main reasons: One is due to the traditional influence of the family; Second is the belief in admiration of the teachings of Buddhism. Not everyone who comes to Buddhism is not aiming to find a way to liberate, rely on the Buddha's teachings to convert the xinxing that some people for the sake of personal interests, gradually converted Buddhism to become. superstition and loss of the practical meaning of Buddhism in the world.
To learn how to become a true Buddhist, please take a look at the answers of the Most Venerable Thich Tri Thu through the following 60 truthful Dharma questions:
QUESTION: What do Buddhists have to understand and do first?
ANSWER: - First of all, it is necessary to understand the basics of the Buddha. Secondly, to purify the Three Jewels, to practice the five commandments in daily life.
2) QUESTION: Why follow that order?
ANSWER: - Because of what work to do, to understand the purpose of it. There is a new understanding of good faith and practice to bring benefits for themselves, for the family and for society. The Buddha says: "Believe in Me, but I do not understand Me to destroy Me".
QUESTION: What are the basics of Buddhism?
ANSWER: - Do not do evil. Doing good things. Keep your thoughts clean.
4) QUESTION: What is evil?
ANSWER: - It is unreasonable, harmless, harmful and harmful to people both now and in the future.
5) QUESTION: What is good?
ANSWER: - It is the work, the words and ideas are logical, beneficial and beneficial in both present and future.
6) QUESTION: What is pure thought?
ANSWER: - It is thought to be right, not to be angry, not envy jealousy, do not cause suffering consequences for yourself and for people. Pure thought when it comes to the place of action, the right action, when the words are spoken, gentle words, make life and human life happily beautiful.
7) QUESTION: Doing well and avoiding things that no religion or doctrine teaches, no Buddhism?
ANSWER: - Yes, that's right. But saying one thing, practicing just as well as saying it, is another thing. That is not to say the healing, it is reasonable or not, because if the proponent of a theory that is not a truth enlightenment, then the theory is hardly complete.
8) QUESTION: Where is the proof for correct theory and practice as well as theory?
ANSWER: - Look at the life history of the Founding Patriarch and the history of the religion.
9) ASK: How is the life of the Buddha?
ANSWER: - Most consistent with his teaching. It is so perfectly suited that Western archaeologists, when they first studied Buddhism, thought the Buddha was a fictitious mythological figure in history.
10) QUESTION: What about Buddhist missionary history?
ANSWER: - An innocent history that has never hurt a nation, has never waged war with anyone, even though it was called the Holy War. On the contrary, Buddhism is where peace comes.
11) QUESTION: So, how do we conclude about Buddhism?
ANSWER: - The Buddha and His followers have spent nearly 26 centuries as examples of good doing evil.
12) QUESTION: Why does Buddhism keep this whole?
ANSWER: - Thanks to the third special point: keep your mind pure. The mind enlightens the way for action, the instruction for action; The thought is pure, the action of course must be pure.
13) QUESTION: So, should Buddhism pay special attention to the role of thought?
ANSWER: - That's right. The current wisdom of the universe is taught to distinguish what is righteous thoughts, what is evil thought; Eight thousand four thousand methods of spiritual practice are purposely filtering thoughts for pure.
14) ASKING: What do you want to accomplish with these three key points?
ANSWER: - Receive the righteousness of the Three Jewels, because in the Sutra teaches: "The virtuous nature of moral virtue" means: "Faith is the source of virtue, the mother of goodness."
15) ASK: What is true faith?
ANSWER: - To believe the right things, reasonable, have practical benefits, such as good news will cause good results, whichever results as pictures with the ball. Do not believe the unrealistic, unreasonable and not as practical benefits as the god of evil spirits.
16) ASK: What is the Three Jewels?
ANSWER: - Three treasures: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.
The Buddha is the shortened word of the Buddha in the Sanskrit language, only the sages are fully enlightened and thus completely free from the cycle of birth and death. Chinese transliteration is enlightenment
Dharma is the Chinese word translated in the Sanskrit words, only teachings of the Buddha, because it properly demonstrates the truth of the human universe, the gold mold, the ruby in the eradication of suffering root and bring peace forever.
Rising is the Sanskrit word for Sanskrit, just one group of four or more, following the teachings of the Buddha and living in harmony; Chinese translation is the harmony of them.
Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are the goals that Buddhists must aim for.
Q) Q: Why call the Buddha, the Dharma, the Three Noble Truths?
ANSWER: - Usually gold, silver, ivory or high power is precious, but try to ask when the scene of mournful life, such as bribery robbery, disease epidemic etc. These things do less suffering. can you Or even more suffering for us anymore? That is not to say rich fortune has dissipated days, gold and ivory are nowadays can not be kept forever. In this impermanent world, the scene of him is not rare. There are Buddhas, Dharma, Sangha permanent, usually happy, often honest, often pure and often save us without discrimination your body. Because of the four ordinary virtues, lost, ego, Pure Land and prayer that should call Buddha, Dharma, Tang is three treasures.
18) Q: What is the benefit of the Three Jewels?
ANSWER: - The main benefit of the Triple Jewel is that it can not speak and can not be thought.
19) Q: What are some of the benefits of Buddha Faith?
ANSWER: - In the Kinh said: "The Buddhas in the ten directions, remember sentient beings like mothers love children." Mother remember me so, now I respond to her mother's infinite compassion, put all the trust in her immeasurable wisdom position, the other as a nightmare that there is a torchlight, through danger Dangers that some people lead, no fear anymore fear?
20) QUESTION: What about the true faith of the Fa?
ANSWER: - The Buddha teaches that good causes produce good results, creating evil causes bad consequences. The Law of Cause and Effect is an authentic law. The Buddha taught: "All sentient beings are Buddhas to be" means that they are capable of becoming Buddhas. So if believe and practice the Buddha's teachings, will definitely be enlightened, end suffering is fun.
21) ASKING: How can the Buddha teachings be taught?
ANSWER: - Much, much. But the general rules are not causal.
22) QUESTION: What are the benefits of righteousness?
ANSWER: - The Sangha are the substitutes of the Buddha to continue the teaching work as Buddha did in the world. Changed the Buddha is the increase. In the face of merit, the benefit of the faith of the Buddha how the benefits of faith increase such.
23) ASKING: What has to be done?
ANSWER: - Refuge the Jewels
24) ASK: What is refuge?
ANSWER: - The definition is to return; y means to rely on. The beings born of delusions should be attracted to charisma, so that they will be immersed in the ocean of sorrow, helplessness, unlike the wilderness, in the wake of the roaring call, rolling into the dust , taste enough spicy, now suddenly sensed, want to end the life of dredging, back to the homeland to find refuge, so called refuge.
25) ASK: What is the Buddha's refuge?
ANSWER: - It is back to rely on the Buddha, worship the Buddha as a teacher, swear for life do not worship the god of heaven.
26) ASK: What is French refuge?
ANSWER: - Is back to take refuge in the teachings of the Buddha, taking the doctrine as a torchlight, swear for life without listening to the temptations of evil pagans spreading teachings oblique.
27) ASK: What is called Sangha?
ANSWER: - is back to rely on the Sangha, see Sangha as the Buddha in the world, enough to set a mirror worthy of imitation, swear life not close friends vicious evil gangs.
28) QUESTION: Heard there are immeasurable Buddhas in the ten world, so should worship any Buddha more?
ANSWER: - Having been the same enlightened, every Buddha has the same wisdom and the same sentient beings. But depending on the sentient beings have more grace to Buddha, worshiping the Buddha, as the Pure Land Buddhist monk, worship Buddha Amitabha; Buddha Shakyamuni is the most complete, because He is the master of our sisters in the present.
29) QUESTION: Are you a real person in history or just a legend?
ANSWER: - He is a historical figure, born 2,500 years ago, named Siddhartha, the son of King Suddhodana and Queen Ma Da in Kapilavastu in Northern India (now Nepal). ). At the age of 19, he was about to join the throne of his father, and he became a 30 year-old Buddhist monk under the name of Sakyamuni Buddha, meaning Shakyamuni Buddha. After the Buddha, he sermon throughout India, saving countless beings escaped suffering, the 80-year-old died in Sa La Long Tho forest in the territory of the sentence. Teachings how he taught his life as he did.
30) ASK: Is the teaching complete?
ANSWER: - Keep intact, including all three suttas, Laws, Essays and have been translated into many languages, Chinese has been fully translated into Chinese language long known, called Chinese Tripitaka. Vietnam is just beginning to translate some. That teaching, Sanskrit called Datama and Chinese translation is French.
31) QUESTION: How old are the Sangha, why is the Chinese translation of the Association?
ANSWER: - Because of the Sanskrit word in Sanskrit, let the disciples of the Buddha from four or more live in harmony in the spirit of saturation:
Compassion of companionship: harmony body, eating the same. Draw in harmony: the mouth of harmony does not quarrel. Harmony agreement: approval of harmony, agreement with each other. Harmonize fellow practitioners: co-preserve gender. Conciliation of the prize: the same interpretation of each other. Harmonization: sharing the same benefits. 32) ASKING: Do not take refuge in the Triple Jewel?
ANSWER: - There are many harms. First of all, do not have the opportunity to be closer to the Sangha to be shown, to promulgate the method of cultivation on the main road; What is not close to the French to find out and distinguish the main evil puppet; After all, it is not possible to bring goodwill with the Buddha to save the Buddha. In the teaching: Do not take refuge in the Buddha will fall into hell; Not taking refuge in the Dharma will be devastating; Do not take refuge.
33) ASKING: Why?
ANSWER: - Because of the origin of suffering samsara is greed, hatred, si. Do not take refuge in Buddha, do not imitate the compassion of the Buddha, the anger every day increased, but anger is the cause of hell. Do not take refuge in the Dharma, do not learn the Dhamma, to distinguish the righteous, the easy consultation, which is the cause of the ghost. No Sangha refuge, no peaceful meditation mirror for us to imitate and no person pointed to the way to avoid evil doing, the mind si more and more dense, but ignorance is the cause of the animal.
34) ASKING: How do you seek refuge in the Triple Gem?
ANSWER: - Find a practitioner of dignified dignified behavior, learned erudite, on behalf of them Sangha Buddhist ceremony of transmitting three refuge before the Buddha. While listening to the three refuge, the long one pointed towards the Three Jewels and eager, vows to keep the three lifetimes, regardless of circumstances do not change. So the new refuge ceremony was accomplished.
35) ASKING: The Buddha's message that he has not yet received refuge is called a Buddhist?
ANSWER: - Only beginning from the moment of life one maintains three refuge before the Buddha, by the pure initiation of life is officially a Buddhist, or more accurately, a Precious or an advantage. Aunt.
36) QUESTION: What are the advantages of Ba Tac, What is good?
APPEARANCE: - Uu Ba Tac, Uu Ba Di is Sanskrit; Chinese translation is close male, female close, or translated as male and female. As the men or women close to the Three Jewels, serve the Three Jewels and the Three Jewels always hold.
37) QUESTION: What is the life expectancy of Buddhist monks, Buddhists need to do anything else?
ANSWER: - On the path towards the goal of the Three Jewels; As binary eyes, the five precepts as two legs. Eyes look up at the target but at the same time foot right steps to achieve that goal. The Five Precepts are the beginning of the divine status.
38) QUESTION: What is the Five Precepts?
ANSWER: - 1. No killing.
2. Do not steal.
3. Do not commit adultery.
4. Do not lie.
5. Do not drink alcohol.
39) ASK: What is not killing?
ANSWER: - Ignore or not kill life, even if the animal is an animal, because they also know as suffering. On the contrary, always have to respect and save lives of all species. Bigger crime is nothing more than killing; Great merit is nothing by rescuing.
40) ASK: What is not stealing?
ANSWER: - Not directly or indirectly deceive to take the person's. Bigger movies are nothing more than greed, no more merit than generosity.
41) ASK: What is non-adultery?
ANSWER: - Do not indulge with his wife, husband, or non-wife, husband. On the contrary, it is necessary to be thorough, with all the people of the opposite sex.
42) ASKING: What is not to lie?
ANSWER: - Do not speak wicked words, do not say embroidered words, do not say double-edged, do not say fraud, as say no, do not say yes. On the contrary, to say honest truth straight, benign, benefit yourself.
43) ASK: What is not drinking?
ANSWER: - Alcohol is a mental disorder, intellectual loss. At present, alcohol causes many diseases; In the future, alcohol is the cause of dull darkness. In Kinh wine more evil than poison. The purpose of the Buddhist is to cultivate wisdom, promote wisdom to learn the truth, absolutely not drinking. Also, do not use other neurological stimulants such as opium and spices such as chives, squash, garlic etc.
44) QUESTION: What is the practical use of the five precepts?
ANSWER: - Create human beings with dignity, dignity and respect. In the family, is the father, daughter, out of the country, it is good people. If all human beings keep the five precepts, the peaceful society, the peaceful world.
45) ASKING: Keeping all five sexes difficult?
ANSWER: - The person who holds the full five genders is called Uu Ba Tac (if it is a man) or the whole of Uu Di (if woman). People only keep the two precepts called the Precious Minority or the Precious Part. The person who holds the three precepts is called the Precious One or the Precious Part. The holder of the four precepts is called Most Uu Ba Tac or Most Precious One. If it is not enough to hold all the five sex, then choose two sex that you can hold to hold the vow to maintain. Later get used to volunteering more life expectancy for all five sex.
46) QUESTION: What if there is no gender?
ANSWER: - There is a Buddhist who has refrained and still have many bad evil!
47) ASK: How do you keep your precepts, unwilling or unwittingly committed?
ANSWER: - Repent in front of the Three Jewels and do not recidivism. The essence is that when you repent, your heart is self-embarrassed and sincerely repent, the new sin dissolves and the new body returns to purity as it has not committed.
48) ASK: Only keep the five precepts that do not take refuge in the Triple Gem is not?
ANSWER: - Refuge the Three Jewels is the right view, life expectancy is the five precepts. The teaching of right view is more important than the right one; If only keep the five precepts do not take refuge in the Three Jewels, the future still enjoy the riches of wealth in the heavens or the human realm, but because not guided by the Three Jewels is not as good as the higher the deeper.
49) ASK: Meditate on the Three Jewels and take care of the five precepts, should advise others to do the same?
ANSWER: - It is a great merit. It is advisable to add a refuge to keep the world a miserable misery. Sutra teaches: "In all offerings, offering the Dhamma is above all" that offering the Dharma means that you live in accordance with the Dharma and advise people to live according to the Dharma.
50) QUESTION: What is the cause and effect of saying the right faith is causation? And what is related to the Five Precepts?
ANSWER: - Very interrelated. But first find out what the cause and effect are.
Multiply is the cause, like the seed sprout; The result is, like the fruit on the tree. The fruit is born by sprouts and sprouts produce each other, not mixed up. Sweet sprout produces sweet fruit, bitter gourd produces bitter fruit. The Law of Cause and Effect does not have one or more causal factors, but the cause of course must have the result. Law of cause and effect governs the whole of life and covers the universe. Nothing escapes the law of cause and effect. Even the great teachings of the Buddha only justify the cause and effect.
51) QUESTION: What is the relation between causality and the five precepts?
ANSWER: - Do not kill, but still release, that is the cause of fruit long illness. No stealing, but Bell, that is the cause of the rich to sustainable. No sexual misconduct, which is the cause of the fruit, warm in the family. Do not lie, it is the cause of love, not deceived. Do not drink alcohol, which is the cause of the fruit of wisdom. This is just a few common results.
52) QUESTION: Why do some people from small to large work diligently, without stealing anyone, but throughout life is still struggling miserably?
ANSWER: - It is the result of the cause in past lives. The Law of Cause and Effect is very complex, not as simple as that of ordinary people. There are simultaneous cause and effect, there are cause and effect of anthropometry, there are causal changes, etc ... Cause and effect is the same as the percussion; The cause and effect of the ancestors is to plant rice today, three months later to eat, or as a careless care from the previous year, hundred years later to see harm, lack of fertilizer, the fruit will turn out bad.
53) QUESTION: All things in this life, according to the law of cause and effect, father father father, son child enjoy, the two parties involved?
ANSWER: - Naturally so. But in life all the encounter by the grace of that. One who falls in love with a house, of course, depends on the kind of homosexuality with that house. There are large families where the child is smart and gentle, stupid and cruel, it is the mind and behavior of parents at conception. If conception during the parents do many good things, good character, then the birth of the baby must be a good child. Left, all encountered bad children. So the parents eat in the newborn virtue was filial clever.
54) ASK: Law of cause and effect, who set out?
ANSWER: - It is a natural law like the laws of science, no one puts it all. The Buddha enlightenment that invented the law, enlightens our way. It is the law to create good cause good effects, bad causes bad effects, no gods or gods resist any interference or punishment.
55) Q: Then worship the Buddha and worship the Buddha for what?
ANSWER: - To express our gratitude to the Buddha and to contemplate the Buddha daily, following the example of the Buddha 's Compassionate Hypocrisy, so that we gradually learn the virtues that make us daily closer to the Buddha. In addition, bowing to the Buddha is a way of cultivation to purify three karma, speech, mind. When the Buddha, body stand watching to see the Buddha's body; The word recitation of the Buddha's name, do not say bad words, the net bar, thought to four virtues of compassion and harmless merit of the Buddha said in the Kinh, no disturbing thought, . Because sin is due to the three karmas, now three pure karma, ie, killings, blessed.
56) ASKING: What is the benefit of Buddha Recitation?
ANSWER: - Mindfulness of Buddha means remember to think of Buddha. Remember to think of the Buddha, of course not remember to think of other, help the purity of mind as mentioned above. Dharma recitation Buddha or the Pure Land method is the most magical and easiest method.
57) Q: What is the benefit of chanting?
ANSWER: - Chanting as well as nembutsu, the benefits can not think. When reading the recitation of the Buddha's teachings, we meditate on the pure virtue of the Buddha, naturally every day we approach the Buddha one step, chanting until the conflict between us and the Buddha no way to stop each other, our mind the mind of Buddha, mind of mind Buddha. That is the end of the recitation of the Buddha's name.
58) ASK: Then why not eat vegetarian?
ANSWER: - All creatures have the same status as us, they know suffering as we are, that is, living beings are afraid of death the same. It will be heartless to cause other beings to suffer, while we ourselves are suffering!
Therefore, the Buddha should eat vegetables to show mercy to animals. People have taken refuge, at least eat two vegetarian days a month, on the full moon and the first.
59) ASKING: Does Buddhism admit there is evil?
ANSWER: - In addition to causality, Buddhism does not admit anything. But every person wants something (the person) has that (fruit). If your heart always remember to think the ghost is. There is a ghost story in the Kinh as follows: There was a woman raped by the devil and used hundreds of thousands of thousands to eliminate but no results. Later, thanks to meet a Bhikkhu Buddhist teacher for three refuge, she spent the night learning the three legal methods, he no longer see ghosts and return to live happily as before.
60) ASK: When chanting the Buddha's name, want to ask the Buddha to help one thing, so is the correct Dharma and yes?
ANSWER: - If you bring all the faith to your heart as the Buddha, to cause good nature, then the Buddha with his sympathy. Good luck will be there that there. Wanting to achieve fullness of merit, it is essential to keep the thought pure, do not do the evil, diligent good things, such as the Buddha's teachings in the Kinh
"Wrath of the monsters
They serve
Confidently informed
The Buddhist scriptures. "
Mean:
"Avoid doing evil deeds
Doing good deeds
Keep your mind clean
That is the Buddha's teachings. "
And
May this merit
Towards all
Disciples and sentient beings
To become a Buddhist "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.15/9/2017.
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