In the old days, when the Buddha was not attained, this world was controlled by the Magi. When he became a Buddhist, the Buddha discovered the path to escape from the dominion of the Mara, so he used all sorts of ways to fight against him.

If you let the Buddha teach your pure meditation method, there is no one who will serve you, no one will come to ask and no one will bow. So the Mara decided to break it. , but Ma Wang has failed!

Why did Mara fail?

Since the Buddha used the "Pure Meditation Tree" and the "Prajna Wisdom Wisdom," the Buddha rebuked Mara: "It is your duty to guide you in samsara, to minister to you, not to pass my eyes ". Ma saw his work exposed by the Buddha, so embarrassed to leave.

But before leaving, Mara had the curse: "Gautama! Today we lost to him, because he remained in this world, so I can not do anything about him. You should know that, after his passing, his disciples, whether large or small, although formally follow him, must do their work according to my control, he must For the eyes that see me to send them! "

"After you passed away, whoever dared to rewrite my meditations on the Tathāgata, you are my opponent, I am determined to destroy them. I will send a competent official in your religion to help us destroy this person. I also advised him, the number of people who follow his religion, a thousand people may not have a man who knows this pure meditation practice, but the prostrations and prayers are countless. Do not wish to bring this pure Zen meditation to bring living people to the physical (material) we control, so as to escape the attraction of physical (material). "

Ma said, "There is a lot of people who practice meditation in the physical world, impersonating meditation to attract many people to make money, these people also. It is because we have insisted. "

Next is the laughter of the great and long.

Before entering the Buddha's nirvana, he asked his followers to remind him of the curse of Mara. 

Buddha heard the curse and laughter of Mara is so strong and long, so before entering the nirvana, Tathagata has the following teaching: "Hey great disciples of the Tathagata, as well as the monks, khan ni, supernatural and supernatural, you are the meditator of meditation, must pay attention to the curse of Mara and teach the next. Those who practice the pure Dharma meditation, must remember the curse of this Mara! "

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According to the same reason, there is a positive tone, there is a need to have the right to have evil, there is good, there is evil, there must be a Buddha. Therefore, the Buddhist monks will have to go through the wormhole. Showing lively distraction prevented the Buddhist monk was 81 victims of teachers Huyen Trang to West Truc get business, overcome all the new crime into the main result.

The story of the Buddha using the "pure meditation tree" and the "wisdom swirling sword" won the King is to remind the Buddhist monk to keep the mind "pure meditation", without the desire Such as prestige, honor, money, emotions led the pull. Pure, let go of education, meditation practice, strengthen the power, patience, make the heart firm, clear, nothing can move, no name, benefit, love can be reached.

But the swiftness, the false, the false, the evil, the evil will borrow the name of the leg, the main, the good to deceive people, fascinated to lead people. The second weapon is the "wisdom sword", ie the wisdom of the Buddha to distinguish false, evil, good evil. Stick to France, not follow the crowd, not listen to the reputation of some teacher, or some school reputation.

But human beings are ultimately human beings, still driven by ghosts. The high priest who attained enlightenment as the last Gong was abducted, the abbot chased out of the pagoda is an example to illustrate the words of Mara: "I resolved to destroy them to be, I will send The person in charge of his agency helps us to destroy this person. "

Today we see many of the curse of Mara has come true. 

On the first full moon day, especially the holidays, to the temple will see Ma Vuong has done this sentence: "The number of people who follow his religion, a thousand people probably do not have a dharma this meditation; But the prostrations and prayers are countless. "

There are a number of temples, monks and nuns actually did as Marian said: "After this there are many people who practice meditation in physical (material), impersonating meditation to entice more people to listen to them to make money. These are also my instincts. "

The teachings of Shakyamuni 2500 years ago are still the same, but today's learners do not have access to his original teachings. Through many translations, translations, in many different languages, and through the interpretations of the scriptures of the people at different levels, different perceptions, the original meaning was not much.

The Buddha taught straight to the mind, keep the mind pure, and was settled in meditation, and use wisdom wisdom, the Buddha said that tu, but not taught to build pagodas, pray, burn the code, release the birthplace. Since these are all "compassionate" things, like the story between Bodhidharma and the Emperor Wu:

Luo Võ Đế asked: "I have a lifetime to build pagodas, increase, alms, offerings, cast bell, statue sculpture, press the book, so have merit?

Bodhidharma clearly replied: "These deeds have no merit!"

The king asked, "Why not merit?"

He said, "Because what you do is 'smuggled', there are only small fruits in the human world, like custom ones, but not real ones."

The king asked, "What is the true virtue?"

He said: "The mind must be completely purified, it must be empty, not calm, so it is merit, and this virtue can not take the worldly affairs (such as building temples, copying business, increase) that's the bridge. "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.31/7/2018.