HAPPY.

    

We have long heard about him, with the Vovinavas, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the joyful days of the ten Buddhas and the Sangha. Referring to the god Moggallana, everyone knows that he and Phra Sariputra are considered the right and left arms of the Buddha. Sariputta is the first wisdom, and He is the most divine. The status of these two great disciples in the Sangha is very special. The great honor of their virtue.

Mr Mien Kien Lien has a mother named Thanh De. When she was born, she often hugged evil glue, did not trust the Three Jewels should die in the demons hungry. Dangers to this species in the throat always burning thirst, because any food to enter the fire turned red. Not to hear the name of the food, hear the smell of food, hear the sound of knives, or listen to the bowl of the bowl in the throat also fire.

In that fire from greed, greed, si out. Sticky, not widely let go, causing sin will induce the results retribution. So, after the enlightenment, think of his mother, Morden Moggallun spiritual search everywhere. Finally he met his mother in deep hell, carrying the hungry ghost class. Dear mother extremely, He returned to the world to go begging a bowl of rice, rushed to hell to offer his mother. But because of greed and fear of sinners around to eat and eat, she hastily hid food, while picking up rice cooked into a red fire, can not be used.

After witnessing this scene, he is too painful, find himself helpless. He hurried back to show the Buddha, urgent request to Buddha only method of saving mother. The Buddha according to the request of the god Moggallana, only for the method of offering them increased in the day of self-sufficiency, ie Tu Tu. Since that day, monks just past three months of residence, merit fullness of practice, if the offerings of offerings, will be great merit. Four kinds of food, clothing, instruments, medicines, are generally necessary items of the monk. Monks and nuns receive these donations, and they use the virtue of cultivation during their retreat, to guide all sentient beings. Thanks to the special merit of the saints, through the time of settling, prayerful prayer can transform the minds of the hungry.

Indeed, when Mendi Kien Lien just set up offerings to offer, ten of the sages happy to accept the ceremony, including the Buddha. Thanks to the power of the Buddha and the monks, Thanh De launched the mind of the Three Jewels, abandoning the glue, turning the hungry demon is born natural. All of the devils surrounding this descriptive vow that escape the karmic misery of demons are born in happier realms.

The important point we want to say here is that it is based on the heart. The same bowl of rice, but also human, but if my heart is not really open, persistent, want to use only that bowl of rice, then not enough to enjoy the rice bowl. So when the rice bowl, Thanh De fear the hungry ghost begging, she crushed only want to eat alone, so the rice bowl turned into fire. Due to greed, her eyes dark, her heart is disturbed, there is no chance to open, so she still imprisoned crippled. The more suffering hunger, the more hungry hunger, the more hungry thirst the greed grows, so burning fire burned the heart.

After being supported by the Blessed One and the saints, she developed the mind. The word "Phat" is opened, "Mind" is the heart, the mind is open to expand. Open up how? I am hungry, see others hungry, I know they are suffering as well. If they are eaten, divided for people to eat together, we are full of them, we less suffering they also suffer less. That is how to open your heart. The Buddha taught us how to open our hearts open for everyone around us, not for ourselves but for others. I suffer, know as suffering as myself, as hungry as love should help each other. By thinking so, there is direction for everyone around. Happy is also the wish for all to be happy. It is the spirit of the mind of the Buddha, also known as the Bodhi mind, to develop the true heart for all beings. That is the weakness of spiritual practice.

Now return to the daily life of the Buddhist. For example, in the past you only care for your family and yourself. Villagers who go to the pagoda are good, can not go, then do not know, free yourself to the pagoda is fun enough. But now it is not so, I see the moral or too, should fraternity around to hear the Dharma, understand the Dharma like yourself. It is open minded.

We go to the temple, study the Dharma is because want to end suffering, be happy. Buddhists do not want to be controlled by greed and misery, do not want to be bothered by the comforts of life, do not want to create bad kamma to suffer. I want to relieve those things should go to the temple, while encouraging friends to go to pagodas in the same direction. Such people are known to develop mind Bodhi. In the Mahayana sutras, the Bodhisattva was a bowl of aromatic rice, they thought of beings also need a bowl of rice to be happy, full. Therefore, they direct the heart of Bodhi, the direction of all beings are entitled to this bowl of rice. Through the vast vast infinite boundless as such that the Buddhist monks were Buddhist. The mind of a Buddhist practitioner is that. As such, I am not constrained in personal privacy. This spirit is essential to building a positive, positive society.

I think a small society, such as Phuoc Kieng, Hiep Phuoc, Long Phuoc, Phuoc Tho. Some of you are such a heartfelt Buddhist, learning to do so, see so clearly, apply so, and encourage fraternity to be so, how good it is. Society needs people with broad minds because of the mass, making for the common. It is the spirit of openness, altruism, the spiritual foot of Bodhisattvas. That is also the way of Bodhi mind of the Buddhist.

According to the story of Mrs. Thanh De, the Buddha taught: Due to the greed of heavy evil on the hungry demon. The Buddha explained to him Moggallana knew his mother, from many generations due to heavy greed, so when he died was born into hungry ghosts. Now to save her must be the strength of the collective, of the mass. Buddha said: As a rock, one can not carry two people. However, if there is a large number of people, the stronger force can move the stone easily. Thus our prayer, our mindfulness, should be like the second teaching of the Buddha. Heavy loads need to be joined together to move the newly emerging.

Through this spirit, we see that prayer is not superstition, depending on the attitude and heart of the prayers. In Buddhism there is prayer too. For example, I go to the road safely, I also wish everyone on the road to be peaceful. This is not superstitious, but rather realistic. With sincere heart and positive support, we can direct the blessing, help each other very much.

Now speak straight to the spirit of filial piety. Vu Lan Buddhist festival is very important. Many pagodas hold a rosary to impress people. People are set up roses are happy, people do not have roses, the tears flow. I remember that same year, around the twenty-seventh, while Phuoc Vien teacher still born in the fork in Thailand. He invited me to attend the ceremony, there are Buddhist families are large. During the ceremony, some Buddhist families sang farewell speech, some flowers installed. At that time, she set roses for people, but she herself set flowers white. As she was just installed to cry, making friends to her to set flowers are crying. Then she came to pay homage to the teacher and also ask for flowers, saw her cry wet, many teachers also want to cry.

You find in the stable there is uncertainty, in the fun there is not happy. And it seems more unhappy than joy. Relative life. I feel a bit older, have someone installed roses where? A row of monks sit two thirty dozen, the number of monks rose roses are rare. So, today to save money, Buddhists make gold roses. So you, she is equal to a gold color solemnly brilliant, from who must pity the body anymore. Through such small ceremonies, it also makes people feel emotionally.

At the monastery held a feast Vulcan simpler than the place, the heart of our own. The Buddhist pagoda offerings, and then ask the teacher to talk to listen to Buddhist understand, apply the practice. Thus the less the secondary ceremony, which is aimed directly at the Buddhist how to understand the principles, throughout his work in the spirit of the Buddha.

In the ways of the Buddha's teaching, many Buddhists do, but also have not done. I have listed some things you can try out.

Firstly for parents, try to bless, doing the merit, refuge the Three Jewels, believe in causation, living noble life in the spirit of enlightenment freed. This is a number of perennial Buddhists who imbue Buddhism, perhaps applicable. However, not everyone can do it. Many Buddhists say to me, "Master! Many times when I have to escape home to go to pagodas, no one to go away. Well, it's solo. "

Here parents advised to do the blessing, do the merit is this. For example, besides offering monks and nuns, you can help or facilitate your parents to help their neighbors, and the poor who help them. Not help with money, help with work, with words, actions, bring peace to people. That is also the way to create good virtue. To encourage and comfort parents towards the Three Jewels, if enough conditions, refuge the Three Jewels and live the noble life of a Buddhist at home. In the house of people living together, exchanging with each other by the spirit of cause and effect, the spirit of selfless altruism is very good. If Buddhists create such a thing, encouraging the fraternity in his colon to be so good it!

The second is to care for the life of parents, how to parents have fun in the old age. For the joy of peace, life must have a moral. By understanding morality, the mind does not upset the suffering of the business or other things. This is a point that makes people miserable. To do is to preserve their forever, if lost, then suffering. So the Buddha said: "Yes, but also want to keep suffering. Keep not losing more and more suffering. " Okay, that's my name. Who touched a problem. I do not want to be just a dukkha. But when it was already well-guarded, it was a very solid building. You can not come.

Therefore, Buddhists have to take care of their parents' life in a moral, intellectual way. Release all the constraints of business life, approaching the relationship with the people around. Help parents to be calm by advising parents to let go, not worry for the children anymore. Every big wise, must know for themselves, to spare time for parents to practice. When this life is full, let's make everyone in the family have a calm, natural attitude before the change.

I am a Buddhist, when filled with not too proud that I have blessed, also not too self-proclaimed that the poor blessings, ungainly silver and then God damn not support the Buddha. For Buddhists to apply such a life of living practice is not affected by any foreign charm. Without such preparation, we will be easily overcome.

I say a few obstacles for you Buddhists see. There are many people at work to go to this pagoda worship the other for the teacher, very happy. But after the loss, do not go to the temple mourning again. Sir: "Why do not you see the temple so long?" Ladies and gentlemen: "At this time I do not eat too well, at the temple there is nothing to worship him, I feel so shameful." If the business fails to last for some time, it will probably be abandoned. It comes from doing business that makes the spiritual decline. When you eat up the moral, when the food down the moral down. So how to cultivate? Because no one can guarantee their business up. Buddhists come to you is to learn to understand Buddhism, applied in the ups and downs change so, do not have to come only to worship. So understand that is misunderstanding,

In short, Buddhists do not eat or should know by blessed. Phuoc also take the car in the upper floor, all the blessing to walk in the cottage is also. How to keep the moral is precious. Keeping such a spiritual mind to see the Buddha's teachings: "Wealth is not real", the ones we are not real. It was not real that I want to keep, how to keep. This life with so many precarious events before us, we clearly see all. Wars, natural disasters, epidemics ... how many things threaten human life. Then what wealth, money, fame, status means nothing! In the words of a wind, a poisonous snake, a bullet is enough to cut off his life. But people do not understand also suffering each other, torture each other in the story. We are Buddhists, who know how to avoid such people.

Buddhists want to care for the spiritual life of parents, giving parents the joy of peace, the self must have the joy of peace before. We are in control of everything. Independence means that for the job, the loss, the joy and sadness, what you taste must know it is not true. Like five children in the house, but you do not teach all five. Sometimes when my brother injured it, the money was ruined.

That is, the present state of society today is clear, the children have a lot of pampered children have been plunging into drug addiction, a social evils are eliminated drastically. Normally parents know very well, but to the grinding it does not count, so that the parents who break the barriers, sometimes not the same, they also assault. Essentially it is not an unfilial child, but at the time it only thought of how to have money to grind it. We do not blame society, we have to re-education from scratch, education is right here. To avoid the suffering before, I have to take care of educated descendants in a thoughtful way. It often teaches bad or bad, and always takes care of its life. But if for some reason fall into such a path of misery, Then we must calmly arrange, calm before the scene is lost, calm for all the changes around. You are calm to pay off your karma. This is the weakness of the practice, you learn the Buddha and then apply to the Dhamma in his life. Studying the Buddha is to live calmly. In this second spirit, I would like to emphasize the Buddhist direction of self. It is calm for all the scenery. Secondly, encourage the parents and their loved ones to do the same. I want to emphasize the direction of the Buddhists themselves. It is calm for all the scenery. Secondly, encourage the parents and their loved ones to do the same. I want to emphasize the direction of the Buddhists themselves. It is calm for all the scenery. Secondly, encourage the parents and their loved ones to do the same.

Then how can we be free? Run a pagoda chanting a prayer, praying Buddha or teacher save the child? It is not so, but each and every one of us should see all the things in this world that are not real. For example, a normal child loves you, now he is insecure with you, speaks upside down, insults him. What are Buddhists doing? Have to calmly teach it. Explain it to understand the good and the bad by open love, not force or suppress it. Not to burn incense Buddha teach your child not to say so. Buddha on the pedestal can say that is taught. Nor ran to tell his grandmother it: "Grandma! She taught her nephew, he was not told me so. " In that way, his child is more active, because it imitates him. Self-resolution, self-security,

In life, the relationship between parents and children is very important. If Buddhists practice, there is a moral life that will make their families happy. There are many problems that are sometimes very difficult, but thanks to calm, so clear, slowly removing all is not difficult. Buddhist students in the director, every month you say the Buddha's teachings, should try to apply what they learn in life so that family is always happy. So worthy is the Buddha.

Each Buddhist must live a clear mind, sincere patience and endurance. How patience and tolerance? In the present circumstances, you have to be patient. What is happiness in the world? Born into a family of seventeen, eighteen. Getting married is a family law. How many obligations, duties, and obligations. When that happens, you also have silver hair, old age before. Many people aged forty-four, wrinkled face sitting on a pillow to breathe out, there is no pleasure. If you are impatient, you can not stand it, as if someone was crouching and jumping into the river and into the hole. So the suffering of the other suffering more suffering.

Those who can not stand, often blame the family situation pressing. That is also an argument. In the past you want to get married, but no one is going to arrest you. Why did not you say that now? Actually because I did not know anything at all, I now know and lament. This life is very ridiculous. So do not keep calm, so that too easily lead to loss of balance. His command is that the brain is out of balance, then considered as this body spent, ineffective. People who know good and bad are also moral, living out people. If you lose all reason, not enough strength to bear, you see, sunshine they are still completely off the road, see nothing. These are unstable phenomena.

As a Buddhist, there are activities to teach colon, learn the Dharma, you do how to practice modifications on a better. Do not study the Buddha to remember more or calculate the five months, but study the Dharma to see if you have wisdom, have abandoned the little selfish gas. Studying the Buddha's teachings to liberate the mind of enlightenment, liberation, forgiveness of people, things ... If anyone study the Dharma but have not done that, then try to try. You remember the Buddhists to be wise, to be honest, to be patient, to have the endurance to eliminate all of his bad karma. In the middle of this life, who is shy, can not stand the story is very bad. Many things are out of nothing because we can not stand the big story.

In addition, Buddhists must have a virtuous life, closed in the precepts. Buddhists who apply the Dharma, we look at their style will see clearly, tolerant magnitude, dignified size. Buddhist family who apply the Dharma, imbued with Buddhism, look at their organization very nice, happy. When the content inside it, it manifests itself out clearly, no one has to introduce ads. These are the necessities for the life of the lay Buddhist.

Remember, the law of cause and effect is very important in life. We are blind to causality or not believe in cause and effect, it will create bad kamma, resulting in great suffering. Every cause is then the result. People who are not intelligent enough to create bad karma, must receive the corresponding retribution. For example, at first he did not want to smoke, but by seduce his friends, then he to stick to that then to grind, then rust.

In life there are many such misfortunes, but can not be blamed for the circumstances. Mainly at the party is not resolute, not clear conscious. What friends say, I do not hear it. When we are weak, when we meet miserable also do not dare to take responsibility for their mistakes, again blaming the circumstances around. Buddhism does not accept those who have a weak attitude, lack of alertness.

Here is more about causality. The word "human" is the factor, "fruit" is the consequence. Those who learn the Dharma, knowing the causes of bad causes, will have bad consequences. To get good results, we never cause bad causes, obviously. Many people do harassment, not applying the spirit of cause and effect, causing many bad, little good. But when the consequences come to the sky, Buddha's teachings to save children. Heaven can save. The cause of his cause, but the Buddha did not cause him to repair his results. So you have to be wise, do not cause bad people, you do not get bad results.

Every day we check back from morning to afternoon, just wake up to eat rice, talk, go to work ... see what wrong with what, how confused life, how life? Checking from dawn to dusk never had bad thoughts, that is, do not cause bad people evil. It's a happy day, we have the right to get into a can of white beans, because knowing that we do not cause bad luck, there is never a bad result, obviously. Based on karmic results, you do not have to spend money with some fortune tellers. Because we do not cause bad people, there is no demon do what you can. If the cause of bad, even if bribe how many fortune tellers how much money, the consequences themselves must also suffer. For example, the enumerator or other people's money abuse, fortune tellers: "Watch out in prison hear me." If he does not have the money to compensate, running anyway, then also prison,

So who deny the cause and effect of their life is very scary, no matter what the current King, King of the King does not escape the net cause. For cause and effect, Buddhists should be concerned. Learning to know the cause. It is because we are worried about the consequences. In the past, there was a monk who received nothing but to die, to pay the old debt by reincarnation as a piece of wood, to produce mushrooms all year round for the creditors to eat. At that time people do not eat for food, but now do not accomplish anything, now is a piece of tree to mushroom for people to eat.

Likewise, if one is afraid of being harmed, one should not have the mind to harm him, that is to live the law of cause and effect. If people do not rob their robes, we do not initiate the greed of people. If you want your family to be happy, do not harm the happiness of your family. These are the norms, the world is still known as the Buddhist. With regard to cause and effect, deep knowledge, then arranging things in the family is not difficult. People who live the law of cause and effect will show the right spirit of Dharma practice in the Buddhist home.

Return to the issue of filial piety of the Buddha child. Many people think that: monks as monks, we do not fulfill the religion, because parents leave the monastery. But in the Buddhist scriptures, especially the business of cause and effect, the Buddha said much about filial piety. The virtue of Buddhism is very high, it is our ordained monk can do full honesty for children, not as unfilial as many people mistaken. Because it is not only the rice paddies for parents is enough to recapture grace into nurture. How do parents wake up, transforming bad heart into good heart, help parents get rid of the suffering in the new line is the son of filial piety.

Buddhism teaches the monk should efforts to cultivate, bring merit to the direction for parents to change the mind, guide parents on the right path. This is called true honesty. Therefore, it is impossible to say that monks and nuns do not fulfill their duties to their parents. Understanding that we are cherishing the word Hieu in Buddhism. The Buddha taught after the refuge of the Three Jewels, save time to stabilize his study. Then guide the parents also guide the Three Jewels, preserve the five precepts. So the grateful and the grateful parents.

I would like to take the story of Zen Master Son Dong Luong, Zen master of TAO Dong. His poetry sent to his mother when determined to renounce. This is a poem expressing the heart to choose the path, the monk, not the path of the world. Poetry is like this:

"To hear the Buddha's birth, is due to parents who have a body. All creatures are also protected by heaven and earth. So no parents are not born, no heaven and earth is not the chief, all thanks to the grace of education, all life protection. But all functions of consciousness, all phenomena are subject to impermanence, separation of birth and death. Thanks to heavy nourishment, nursing deeply. If the world's goods to serve, it is difficult to answer. Meat consumption is not good enough to give. In Hiếu kinh said: Although a day to kill three animals to give to parents are still unfilial, because they will put together into mischief, suffering lifetime samsara. Want to repay the deep of the parents, then the merit of the monk. I will cut off the river of love and death, to overcome the suffering sea, to the parents of thousands of years, to repay the body of life. Four of the three worlds meet. Sutra says that a son who has been ordained in nine sages is born to heaven. I would like to leave this body of life not to return home, bring the ceiling of life to express the brightness of Bat Nha.

Bending the parents open heart, discharge not expecting, learning by the sub-king of Sri Sanskrit and Sam da Ma dating to the latter will meet in the Buddhist Assembly, now do not bear to separate. I do not forget to raise, because the time is not waiting for people. So in Hiếu kinh said: "This body is not straight this life, again waiting for the body of this." Please do not remember my parents.

Recite that:

"The willow mind causes the spring 
session we crystals chronic Net week, 
the press enlightened not physics, 
Single fall Yem kept at that ceiling, 
Pursuant chain letters from relatives Sincerely, 
Nguyen Minh Dafa newspapers from grace, 
Real The frequency of the frequency of memories, 
Grassroots , the fall of the body.

Translation:

"Never show source center underwent several spring, 
Trade instead engrossed beds conceptualist, 
doors do not have much people are direct, 
Particularly those rough welded forever room ceiling, 
Write letters from parents, 
May informed Dafa newspapers from grace, 
not so many tears remember, 
See the first child not the body.

He advised the parents to reduce the memory, as if in a family with no children from the beginning to his peace of mind. Because only cultivate or direct virtue can be paid to pay the ultimate parentheses only. Second letter:

I left my parents, anti-stealth stroll the south, months have passed ten years. On the way I spent many miles, bent mother expecting to bring all the mind toward the Dharma, do not embrace the separation, do not stand at the door looking for children. Everything in the house at the time set, the more afflicted more. The whole should be conscientious filial piety, study for the mirror Wang Tuong price. The sub-discipline is very imitate Meng Tong crying bamboo shoots. Every person in the world must know how to fondness for new heaven. Do not rise in the door, then the devotees meditate to repay the parents. Today, two roads far away, thousands of mountains, borrowed paper ink to write a few lines to express.

Recite that:

"Do not seek mercenary Nhu, 
Mentally do not discipline discharge, 
Affliction to kill the sorrow, 
Envelope love dry. 
The basement of the orientation of the room, the 
concept of the birth of wisdom, the 
reporter north of the line of hope, 
as dead as death.

Translation:

Do not ask for the benefit of the bridge, 
Preferred door does not give up, 
Afflictions are exhausted, the heart sank off, 
Love the end of the heart is dry. 
Six bases of aromatic marinated aroma, 
An idea of ​​not being empowered, Remind 
old mother look, 
For example, I died like no.

These are the two letters he sent to his mother. Next we hear the mother's poem sent to him. This is a Buddhist mother, who understands the Buddha and applies the Buddha's words in a very special way in her life.

"Mom and children of the previous life have the charm of motherhood. Since the embrace in the womb, early afternoon pray for the Buddha's god to be born son. Long-term life expectancy is just as normal. No matter the stench of defilement, not afraid of breastfeeding suck. I have just come to school to study. Or when I go out late, my mother stands at the door looking forward. I write about, decided to go home. Father is dead, his mother is old, he is weak, he is poor, who do you rely on? I mean leave your mother, no mother has heart forget you. Since my children have gone to step by step, my mother often tears at night. Damn! Damn! Now I am not back home, my mother also volunteered. I do not dare to look like Wang Tuong is the price, Dinh Lan carved trees, just wish you as Sun fake Section Kien Lien mother to escape from the depression to the Buddha. If mom is not so f guilty. You have to solve it. "

Her letter was short but very definitive. Meaning, the memory of the way is usually not without, but know the determination of his determination to leave home, not to go home again, she is very satisfied. Do not expect me to do anything other than the practice of religion as Sun Gan Kien Lien to the mother of suffering from samsara. My mother is so real, if she just say no, then she is guilty. I only one thing is to cultivate the achievement, to brighten up his job is to direct.

Through reading these letters, we see that he is a filial child should cultivate in the heart of the faith, so the letter should be sent home, for the mother. And thanks to the happy family, he had a great mother, with definite affirmations, so that he would reassure himself. She always wanted her children to practice, not expecting anything else. That is the spirit of filial piety in the Buddha.

In the past, there was a Venerable monk when he was a child. By the time he had accomplished his profession, he remembered his old mother and went back home. Over the past few years, the scene has changed. He did not recognize the old house. Asked to know that his mother lived in a small hut on the ground, selling live tea through the day. He hurried to find and see her mother in a very pitiful situation. His mother was too old and weak, so she could not see me. He was very hurt and loved his mother so he approached and asked to welcome to the temple. She is afraid of the temple can not do anything guilty, he reassured: "She just recite the Buddha is good, not guilty." She was very happy and respected the monk about the temple.

After passing it up, he took her mother and arranged her to stay in a bar. He visited her mother every morning but did not let her know that he was a child, nor told the grandmother that she was his mother. After the visit, he drew a circle of grass for her to do. When done, the Buddha. He led his mother to follow the Three Jewels. She lived peacefully, happily. Day after day she was weakened, one day she died. Now standing in front of his mother's coffin, he said: "The Buddha said, if the family has a son to achieve enlightenment, parents will be born natural. If this statement is not wrong then please ask your mother's coffin to fly into the air. " Immediately, her coffin flew. And he was glad to know that his mother was born to Heaven. Now the masses know that she is the mother of the Most Venerable, a high abbot of high virtue and teacher of how much increase them.

That is a way of filial piety in the Buddha. Guide the mother firm belief in the practice of the Buddha. Keep the mother not to abuse the worship of the instrument. And especially every day guided mother practice, build the merit of enlightenment release mother. That is one of the ways of filial piety of the monk. There are many other ways. As I read the behavior of Mr. Ham Son, there are events like this:

He was from the age of twelve, thirteen years old. This time he loved his mother very much. Every time have a chance to visit his mother he did not want to go. Tomorrow morning mothers have to take them. House in the countryside, out with rivers and canals. Go outside and he encircled her mother nostalgically not go. That morning to the boat wharf, she had to break up, see him tied up again, she said: "A weak child like this, do something." When she finished speaking, she pushed him to the dock, dropped it into the water, and left. How many people around her grieve. They saved him, brought back to the temple. From that incident, he tried to cultivate and later became the director. When he became enlightened, he realized the secret of his mother. If his mother was not so tough in the old days, how can he shape his will?

The mother has no definite, just let him go around, how can you achieve career? Then he realized the reform of his mother, new grandmothers countless. Because in fact, when he fell into the river, she left, but in her heart was like the dead. She broke the intestinal tract, but she tried hard. She must teach so, later to have a son worthy of the dharma and benefit beings. That is the way of education of a mother with upper mind, a great soul. And to make up for that, Hao Son was determined to cultivate and attain enlightenment, repay the great merit of His mother.

In the season of filial piety, we repeat some of the Buddha's teachings, so that the Buddhists follow, become a good child:

First, the Buddha should not do anything harmful to himself, harm people. Do not harm people easily, but not hurt yourself? As the Buddha, we understand the cause and effect, understand the Buddha's teachings but still create bad karma, it is not known love. This type of Buddha called self harm. Although we are still happy, normal life is full, but the mistake of creating bad karma, then surely one day, the consequences will come to us. Buddha said that people do not know his love, do not know tu. Because the cause of the cause will be fruit. To teach the Buddha, first of all he must know how to love himself, do the merit, avoid violating his fault. That's the word. This good person will have the capacity to bring good results. Try to cultivate good deeds, away from bad people. That is the original practice of the Buddha.

Second, the effort to show a lifestyle away from two extremes. The first is to engage in low lust. The second pole is extreme. Buddha teaches the Buddhist way of life ethical, clear. Do not cause bad people to take the consequences are not good. We build from the heart of sincerity, with wisdom, clearly see the low humility in ourselves, we leave without attachment. Create a life in the morning, full of moral life style. Buddhist practitioners have a living way of life, although living in the midst of complex life, but always show a lucid life. This will avoid being involved in sensual pleasures. The Buddha said: Much suffering is much. Immerse yourself in many things. It is the joy of the world that is the cause of suffering.

The second extremity is to avoid extremism. Buddhists must have a relative lifestyle, should not be too biased. One-sided deviation is persistent. Adultery is ignorance nothing else. Looking at the family of a Buddhist who cultivate the spirit of the Buddha, we see clear expression of a balanced, open, unadulterated way of thinking. As a result, every member of the family is happy, harmonious, respectful of each other. That family is a happy family.

Here the Buddha wants to teach us to stay away from the agents that can make us deluded, fall into the path of suffering. If we live normally, have a clear view, see the truth of the surrounding events will not mistake any event. It is not wrong to say anything we also do not believe in, we do not rush to do anything we also do not hurry to accept. We always think clearly, see clearly what is true, what is not right. Yes, do not do it right. If Buddhists are always awake, so arrange family activities to stabilize, often mastering themselves, not easily fall into the wrong way.

Third, We know how to choose a healthy lifestyle, know enough. It leads to purity of mind and wisdom. Hanh has to undergo a new process of obtaining such. For example, you have been known to go to pagodas, have worked well, see people suffering, but have not chosen where to turn. For the teachings of the Buddha, the way you practice have heard but not done, not care much. Now one step further, I have to learn to understand the teachings, apply the Buddha's teachings to life to have a healthy lifestyle, mind-centered and wise. Life is always know enough, not demanding, not following the material world. Thanks to the body peace of mind, because less work is less afflicted.

However, it's easy to say, but it's a lot of work. If your will is not enough, not strong, when the difficulty, arduous, not overcome overcome, not overcome. In the life you do not have the arrangement, no will not be built up happy family peace. Step into the path also. In the direction of many things many times hardship in life. Because as we know, learning to make people difficult, learning to make the Buddha more difficult. Therefore, a hundred people learn to make the Buddha not sure of three.

I remember a story like this: There were two older boys about a couple of years apart. Your fifteen-seventeen year old, twelve-year-old niece. In the family, these two nephews are very happy. Going to do or do is always there. She is also very pleased to see her brother is a good person with a mind toward Buddhism so she believes her child will become good. The two brothers close to the time there is a big change. Your dead. I do not know his dead brother, just found him lying there alone. In the morning the new nephew approached:

- You wake up, go out to play.

Her mother said,

- You are dead! Do not call you again.

When his mother said he died, the surprised child asked:

- What is death?

The mother did not answer. Since then my nephew did not ask me to keep track of his gestures. He wonders why she can not answer, and does not know who to ask. Until that day, there were some meditators rising across the house. The mother is a Buddhist should see the teacher stop by the house, she offered. The son noticed that he seemed to be super-escape, every time she stopped at the mother prostration offerings. He listened to the conversation between his teacher and his mother with many strange words, but did not know what to say.

One day I visited, the mother busy work, the new runaway asked me:

- What is it? Can you come here?

The master replied:

- I can go to school.

Hearing it, the child happily begged her:

- Please let me go with you.

Mother rejoiced. From there, the youngster steps in accordance with the monk, but in the heart is to solve the suspect before the mother did not answer. That is, "Why die? Did I die? "So during this time, the young monk was very focused on how to solve his case. Finally, he realized: Everyone is dominated by impermanence. Having this body, the birth will be old, sick and dead. In short, everyone died. This road must pass through. A death sentence must be handed down, no appeals court. Fortunately, the monk decided to practice to about thirty years of gnosis, mastering completely the problem of birth and death.

Here I would like to mention the charm of the monk from childhood. Due to the fact that the family has died, he is anxious. The investment was nourished until the day according to the Buddhist monks do increase, effort to practice, finally the direct, reach the director. To say "direct religion" means that you are no longer confused by an event before your eyes. Passing the peace between the changes, realizing all the crazy drive in the mind is not real, lie. It is the goal of the Buddhist path of the Buddha.

From the Buddhist plus added favorable conditions, we have friends to help themselves to practice the spiritual aspirations. As a Buddhist, they meet in a hamlet, a homeland, a brother-in-law, a Buddhist monk. That is the favor of the Three Jewels. But from that grace you must continue to promote the spirit of your own will. If not, then depending on the external conditions, your mind will not be stable. When encountering charms, you will be able to rot, can not cultivate.

When the young monk knew who died, he was afraid of death, wondering about his brother's death. From that experience, one experience is that each person has to rely on himself, unable to rely on others, because he or she can leave at any time. Speaking of which, I remember the story of the Buddha. There was another woman holding her only son who had just died, running around screaming and screaming for help. No one can save. Seeing the situation she was so caring, someone just:

- She came to Buddha! The Buddha will save her son.

Listen to her, she ran to the Buddha begged him to save her son resurrected. May all the conditions of the Buddha. Buddha said:

- Hey! Come to the house where no one died, please get some ashes here, I will save your child.

Happily, the other woman runs around the village to another village, but ashes have never before seen families without death. Finally she returned to the Buddha:

- How do you find a house without a dead person to ask for a little ash?

The Buddha said:

- Also. In this life, change, death does not forgive anyone. Everyone must die. This body must be broken. Only her own child died.

Hearing this, the woman suddenly awakens, just less grief and bring her beloved children buried properly. Then she followed the Buddha's teachings and developed spiritual practice.

We too, this body will certainly have a day of corruption, will die. But we do not worry about preparing ourselves. Worried about this, the other story, the husband, the story of the career, status stories, fame ... I myself did not get anything, then one day fell a dead fall. When you close your eyes, invite you to chant prayers super, super-floating? How super-floating. Normally do not practice, not prepare, until that bad karma dragged away, where no one saved. So every day we have to cultivate. In the midst of this life change, you have to invest yourself. It means that there must be practice, moral, it is prepared for themselves.

Death phenomena make people afraid, people suffering. Because it is an impassive loss, no one knows. Now just obey the Buddha's teachings, right here want to be calm, gentle, not suffering, must effort to cultivate. For the monk, when the monks, then only one thing is to cultivate enlightenment. That is a way of filial piety. Moral virtue in the Dharma is self-cultivation for the results, then guide parents to the Three Jewels, also know as practice. So only the cultivated son can repay the great gratitude of parents. If you do not succeed, then you can not repay the grace of heaven.

As Muntanakan, if he does not succeed, he can save his mother. Because from his mother's many lives, he has created bad karmas, he is tormented by hungry ghosts. This belly is as big as a drum, which is as small as a needle, so hungry and hungry all the time. So hear or smell food that can not be eaten up the yard. Because of the fire should burn fire in the throat, to say the food turned into coal fire, very painful suffering. If Sun Mendicant Monk does not witness the practice, how to save the mother in the class hungry miserable like that.

We are the same today. Buddhists first understand the direction, and depending on the circumstances, the conditions of their religious practice. For example, the Buddha taught the life of impermanence, everything will change. The dharma has nothing real. Now that I am a Buddhist, should I consider this teaching of the Buddha right? What is impermanence? It is a great change, do not release anyone. As a human being is born, then grow up, then old, sick and finally die. The order of the body is like that. Born. Grow up. Old. Illness. Death.

There are mothers love children too want to grow up, so how do you want to die quickly. Is it? Every day find delicious food for children eat fast food. Bigger to do? The older one grows older, sooner or later die. You see that when you sit on the back of a school, you go to high school. It is not long, sometimes when people are studying suddenly get married, somebody because of circumstances that drop out, or someone is learning to fall to death ... all kinds of things. Grow up, study finished or not yet, then worry about the family, then the children. Go to old age, to death. Hurry up!

Like myself, here in Ching Cheng, thirty years old, this year is sixty years old! That's it. When I was stuck in the grass, I did not think I was here until now. Time passes too fast. Sitting there waiting for a long time, but for a while it is very fast. Newly eat that Tet, it is the full moon in July, then to December, then Tet again. As such, time does not stop ever.

As you prepare to go to the temple for six hours, it is nine o'clock, ten o'clock. Who is here looking for me, holding me back at six in the morning, see where it is? How to catch? Clock ticking through, through ... Seven o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock. It does not stop there, then, eleven, twelve hours until six or seven in the morning, but not today, but tomorrow. Water that is far from the source never comes back. You'll just see that.

The change is great, there is nothing peaceful, there is nothing happy, but we do not take care of ourselves. Lo as for me, as I said, must have a little elaborate practice, capital merit. Because in the end my path is going to be alone. Is anyone going to die, call his friend dead? No. He is afraid of the grave! Believe it, die, he is afraid of ghosts ... You see life is so. I say that is not to say the tragedy of life, but the truth is. So Buddhists must know how to prepare themselves by cultivating.

When we die, we go alone, no one can replace it. If you have a toothache, headache or pain anywhere in the body, you will feel the pain. No matter how much a loved one does, there is no substitute for it. So in the Tibetan Sutra, the Buddha said: Chi as father with me on the road meet, also can not take turns suffering. Obviously so. During this time, you are husband, wife, father, son, brother, patriarch ... but how long? Soon. Today I was sick, no medication or good luck, then the road to go. Blessed, my way of sin, I go. No one can replace it.

Folk have many delusions that they do not know. As old Buddhists come to the temple of refuge, the teacher leads the table, said three prostrations, he said:

- So this is the refuge now. I will give her a name, now I am officially a Buddhist.

But the legal name written in Chinese can not read, he said then only, go down again. The folder is folded away. At the time of my death, to bring out two plates of tile laid back to the ashes and then on the chest, someone said: There is this piece, the devil way to dare not ask. Because he knows that he is a disciple of the Buddha, no one dares to touch. Ladies and gentlemen, completely wrong. Grace leads us not to the devil who guides the way. The creator of good birth, the realm of evil, the creator of evil will fall to the evil line. This passage under the grave is not readable. So many monks who do not understand the moral, but also teach the wrong Buddhist anymore, it is great for the Dharma. So it is important for Buddhists to choose a healthy lifestyle. From that nourish the mind pure, intelligent wisdom born.

The spirit of the Buddhist is self-endeavor to practice, not expect or rely on the Buddha. We worship Buddha, offering Buddha not to be saved Buddha. Buddha, worship Buddha is thought to remember the Buddha. Whenever we see the statue of Buddha, we recall His virtue, the teachings of the Buddha, which he tried to practice. Not worship the Buddha to rely on that "I have to worship Buddha, no one to break or do anything". See the Buddha as amulets or he god, he generals to come home to repress. Thought is wrong, is guilty to the Buddha. Because He never taught me that!

Buddhists for Buddhism, for the life of self-awareness must be aware that all the good virtue of self-made, self-built. No one can help you. The Buddha or teacher just guide, remind us only, each person himself is responsible for his work. For example, near your home, your neighbors life is not serious, they commit a crime. I know well, recalled them: "He or she acted like that, will lead to bad consequences. Do not go that way again, will suffer suffering. We can only remind ourselves, do not do anything more. That is the spiritual support in the Buddhist life.

In everyday life, we try to avoid creating shortages between ourselves and people. How about people around us have sympathy, support, remind each other progress. Do not do anything intrusive, have action or language pressing people. That is the Buddhist moral instillation. You can feel the family, bring joy, trust to parents, know the direction of the Three Jewels.

In the Buddhist way of life, we have to guide our parents in the same direction, to the Three Jewels, to preserve the five world to be happy life, the next generation is happier. So we meet in the Buddha, continue to practice until the fullness. Remember not a worthwhile success without sacrificing your tears. There are no Buddhas that naturally become Buddhas. How is that so? Cause of the effect is so obvious now.

 You sow good deeds to the Dharma, it is paternal virtue, surely this tomorrow you will reap good fruit, also the children show off their virtue. We would like to bring this fruitfulness of hospitality to his mother and many generations as gifts to future generations of children, also know the example of courtesy in the spirit taught by the Buddha.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.25/8/2018.