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When the Buddha was still in the Garden of Despair, a young man came and asked the Buddha, "What do you do at home in order to keep your life safe and happy in the present?"

Buddha: There are four things that make life so safe and happy in the present.

1. There are means to support the body such as farming, trading, doing business, writing books, accounting, painting, etc. With the occupation has been diligent cultivate.

2. Money is legal and then careful to keep not to lose.

3. Money earned, should know the balance, can not collect less but spend much, should not be much but spend too little. Without spending much, consuming waste, the craving is not thinking of tomorrow. If the money is full, then do not dare to consume it, you should not be. Thu gia know the harmony level, life peacefully happy.

4. Live well, do not let go, do not fake, not so dangerous ... Such people, with unborn sorrows, can prevent non-birth. Any misery born, can be lighted up. The happy yet unborn, can make it birth. Any happy birth, can make it not lose.

That is what the Buddha taught to a normal person happy life happily in the present. It is not difficult for people who have a balanced lifestyle. When we have a sense of responsibility for ourselves, our family and our society, we become self-sufficient, non-violent, fraudulent, deceitful. I can not drink liquor gambling or betrayal my partner when I see it hurts family. I can not corrupt or sell counterfeit goods when it is harmful to society. Mastering yourself becomes not difficult. But with people who are used to being lazy, living let go of their own greed, things are not easy.

The problem is, why are some people living in moderation, some are not? Because the present is dominated by the past participle, as the future is dominated by present relatives.

The past is gone, can not do anything. Only now and in the future, the Buddha taught 4 more things to do in the present, so that the future can be happy. To practice them, is to strengthen the personality for yourself, so that in the present time in the future, you can live in moderation, do not let go, etc. Life in which happy and happy.

Four things are:

1. Have faith in the Tathagata. Not being deviant evil foreigners.

2. There is a full virtue: no killing, theft, lying, adultery and drinking.

3. Full donation: Tam always give alms. Often bring your own hand, happy happy life discharge.

4. Must have full knowledge: to know the truth about suffering, practice, kill, direct.  

The first is to have faith in the Tathagata. Tathagata is believed what Tathagata has said. The Tathagata is also believed in causal causality. What Tathagata says is not from the sky, it just helps us to be aware of what is happening around us, not through emotions and subjective views. If it is difficult to consult the Buddha, then use that contemplation will not be difficult to believe in Lai. And faith will be strengthened if we apply the Dharma to our lives. Not one day a meal but long. Thanks to this application that the force has, the intellectual development. Wisdom grows and confidence is strengthened. No matter what the followers of the mundane, then think birth, suspected Buddhist, suspected, increased suspicion. Suspicion of that kind of elaborate will stagnate, wrong view will appear.    

Master Hám Sơn, experience the two free movement. "Standing on the Buddha, the body is not a general ceremony or standing up. Looking at the sky, seeing the wind blowing leaves that leaves no general movement. Urine but do not see water flowing generals », must say is the statue of the Buddha, but near the end of life brought yoke imprisonment. If you use the mind of your own life, then the recitation of thought will arise «Be sure to brave so late new life». There is wisdom, deep understanding of Causality Cause and effect, understand the Bodhisattva works of the great can not think of the table, as Huayen said: "Suicide substitute for suffering beings, take it offering the Buddhas », there is no thought that undermines our beliefs to the elders. Because sometimes for saving sentient beings that create negative karma, then there is fruit. By volunteering to go to any body in any form with the students. The problem is that I have to learn and act so closely that I can believe the phenomenon can not think it.

It is not difficult for me to believe in evil paganism when greed, hatred and sorrow are full of people. Neglected pagans are religions whose doctrines do not speak of cause and effect in the world. When the failures or desires, etc., start without being able to master it, then it is easy to lean on fortune telling, charms, grandchildren, and other invisible forces.

There is one thing that I like, that is the five precepts that Buddhist home life was when refuge. Life to keep, not to be rest assured, to be supported by demons. No one can sustain himself when he has committed the evil cause without the mind modified. Keeping a lot of life happily, a little ear. Not hold the full power as the Buddha also hand.

Today the word "donkey" is understood in the sense of the scorn. Actually, generosity means "to give". Giving or offering is the cause of wealth. Sufficiency, which everyone needs in this life. Except for the saints, remaining wealth is one of the conditions that make people happy. Giving in the way the Buddha taught, also the cause of all human conditions in life is good. I have good relationships in my life, partly thanks to the donation in the past. Giving also extended his heart, happy people, I am happy. Much of the good in this world comes from the donkey. Thus, the Buddha taught beings to give alms. Giving people and offerings Three Jewels.

Offering Three Jewels is very good conditions for us to coast with the Dharma. Knowing the Buddha-dharma, applying the Dharma to his life, is the greatest blessing that he has received in this life. Because of that, I go not mistaken. There is also a mistake to get out.

Finally, there must be wisdom. Wisdom of the Buddha says that this is not a wise or a high level, nor is a mind acquired through good study, but the mind that sees the origin of suffering, that is, "practice." Seeing then, he is in the way the Buddha called the "virtue" that practiced to be exhausted. That is «extermination».

The Buddha says  that it is true that he must see the place where he is in his life, from eating to sleeping, from conception to preconception. See what is your practice to get rid of. Not just reading the book for the day of the month.

When I am not suffering, I will ask what to see these things to do? To see that, then live it to be sure the present and future are not suffering. No, not suffering, then suffering, suffering and more suffering.

There are only four words of "suffering, practice, death," but it goes through everything in one's life.

There are people who say that the Buddha teaches "suffering", "practice", etc., that is to say, only around in the circle, and whoever asks about the world or the external universe, he can not answer. More polite then said he did not say. Saying that, is because the truth is  not true about "suffering, practice, kill,". If you know the truth about suffering, practice, kill, direct - know the source of their roots - we will see the universe and people from where. Things that have to be new to themselves are not in vain. To experience it first must know what is "suffering, practice, kill,". Know, to subtract «episodes». Except, then the new legs, new presentation. Saying Tanh, is the source of the unseen source of all things. It is also the place from which the world and sentient beings arise. Say "place" that really has no place to say.    

Alcohol, which the Buddha advised people not to drink, became the Buddhist precepts. When I was ordained, I did not understand why the Buddha set the world. Alcohol, its harm in the present life is everyone sees. Alcohol in the mouth, foot kick kick. Just recently, the principal of a primary school killed two friends who were schoolmates at a dinner party. Alcohol, once you have passion for it, then in addition to harmful effects in the present life, its retribution is not in the three lines is also mad. The Buddha says «madness», Nagarjuna says «crazy naked». Seeing the world is not true to its true nature and then living it, is a form of "naked madness". Today, the world is going crazy, more and more disasters, because of this "crazy naked" here.

Alcohol harm so but why are people still in? Want to come out can not come out? It is because of "practice". Tap, is the accumulation. Habits are a form of accumulation. When I drink, I think I will own myself, not let such a dangerous situation. Drink a little bit, do anything! But I do not know one thing: Body mind is the nature of training. What is accumulated a little more will have the force to follow it. Every day, drink a little bit of alcohol, will accumulate into habits. When it is accumulated to some degree, it controls itself, not its control. At the bout, only wine is god. Beat wife to kill children, become non-human because drinking alcohol has become habit. I'm not myself. Just how satisfied the worm is hunched in the body, but only the new wine to keep it quiet.

Understanding "episodes", I will also understand that there are no vices that can not be abandoned. It is important that you are conscious, determined and brave to give up or not. It is said that drug addiction can not be abandoned, it is also addicted. Because I do not have the right method after detoxification. If you understand "exercise", you will be careful attitude to what used to be his habit. Conscious, I must resolved to avoid the end, by work and by playing healthy. Everything takes time to extinguish the "exercise" within. Tập Tập hết hết hết thì thì thì thì thì thì thì thì không không không thì thì thì thì thì.

Most of today, do not understand about «practice» and «suffering» etc ... so easily lose oneself to habits. Having a habit of controlling lust, the mind does not wake up. Things to do not do. Things are not worth doing. The result is suffering. When suffering is thought to ruin itself.

Mahayana meditation with the Four Noble Truths

Mahayana meditation is also destroying this "practice", which is emphasized in the Hinayana [1] . It broke, then «no longer". Because of the "collective", there is the "attachment". The coarse mortar is gone, back to the root «of the headless». Therefore, in the Man of the Truth, not to mention the Four Noble Truths, but to the Noble Eightfold Path, is to say that the practice of "the practice" is depleted.

Meditating Hinayana just to destroy the four pillars of ignorance, is able to say: "Well done, work done, etc ...". Mahayana meditation, its direction is to break to the Basics of ignorance. To say exactly is to see the source of the Four Pillars and Ground of ignorance can become a Buddha. Therefore, whether the practice of anything that is not aware of the "excuse," the practice of his hard to have good results, the   remote nature as far as. The world and man are always a mystery to the view of humanity.

We practice that there are unfortunate things happen, because of not grasp the root of the practice is located in 4 words «suffering, set, kill," this. If you can not see the practice of "practice" as the core of spiritual practice, you can only take a long time to sit or do a lock job without leaving the mind when it comes to contact and even when sitting meditation. And people recite the Buddha, in addition to the time the Buddha left to participate in the run.

Understanding the key lies in the word "practice", whether meditation or nembutsu, all have in common is the "exception", which is the core of all the disciplines. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/5/2018.