The Buddha 's teachings, enlightenment and  teachings  are the three main issues that teachers need to think about in order to apply the teachings of the Theravada and Mahayana scriptures.

Prince of the House

About the meaning of the Buddha 's  exhortation  to be reminded, the sutras say that as a prince, the  Buddha  observed life as the sea suffering, he has the concept of suffering suffering beings. By all means, He tried his utmost to help people escape suffering, but no results. Therefore, he was a monk, learned to direct, because the theory has already learned, so want to find the essence of the ascetic.

Today, we learn theories at school, but the second phase, the practice of what we have learned by living with the person who has practiced.

Understanding theories are researchers, scholars, and professors who have researched. At the beginning, I also learned the theory and respected the researchers as masters; But I am not satisfied with the fact that some people do not learn the respect of the people. Regards what. In fact, we find that we do not learn, but practice the  Buddha  achieved the results of spiritual life, natural people are respected.

We respect academics and academics, because they have an academic level, but we respect the practice of the monastery. Studying with the monastery.

First, Prince Siddhartha studied the theory in the palace, but after he studied with the dharma practitioners there were real results. This original business describes other Mahayana business, because the different disciplines, so dubbed, the evidence is also different.

The original prince said to seek the ascetic, close and practice, which is famous as Mr. Kamala and Uat Top Lam Phat  Buddha most  mentioned. In general, he sought out all the contemporary monks and learned all. On this point, according to the study said that he studied the civilization of humanity, today called the natural sciences and social sciences. That is the progress of human beings in different stages of development, which other species can not do. Thus, the Buddha defines in the Four Noble Truths, only human beings are civilized, have advanced and can make sage, fairy, Buddha, and other species are not capable of this good.

In terms of human knowledge, philosophy comes about when people think and verify in the practice of life to discover new things. Thus, human civilization emerged from thought, which we call natural science. But because it can not be invented, it can not be proved that human beings become dependent nature, new go astray, become the wrong view, such as imagined gods thunder god, thunder , god of the river, mountain god ... then born fear, subdued before the spirit. From this origin, religion is born of polytheism, it is human civilization. Thus, religion comes first, but because of ignorance, imagine all kinds of spirits govern human life.

The Buddhist study also sought divine worshipers, but he was not pleased with their own understanding, practicing his own way so as not to divine dependence. However, today, following the footprints of the Buddha, if we are not clever, we go back to the fall of the polytheistic religion, living under the divine.

Bringing non-divine thought, the Prince met two sages Kamala and Uat Lamphat, who also escaped divine control, for they had attained divine bliss, blissful bliss , Ly splendidness and the discharge pure thought. This is the result of the acceptable spiritual life of the prince, because at least they are not dependent on society and do not depend on nature. Later, this argument was extended to be called ant or private or human.

The dominant of emotions, the society is private, or closest is greed, hatred, hatred, passion ... Humans are ants or overwhelmed, rotated in this life and made them float in the line of birth and death does not stop. Effort to escape the violent impact of ants or to express the meaning of exile. And people are always trapped interests, fame, status, wealth, love hate, resentment, suffering ...

We are not socially, not emotional, but also influenced by nature is hungry, cold and hot. So find out why we are starving, hot, cold. It is easy to realize that because we have the four aggregates, there is a feeling of hunger and thirst. We practice, practice the Buddha to escape this domination and find the Buddha completely free, living outside the dominance of nature.

Kamala taught the prince to escape the domination of hot and cold hunger by not thinking about life. Thinking about life will depend on life. I practice this way, stand alone in the dark, or meditate, forget myself to have four body, forget the hunger.

This practice that Mr. Kamala has achieved results, should tell the Prince then the Prince received immediately, the two ideas are enlightened. This is easy to understand, for example, I concentrate on thoughts, forget about hunger and thirst, then every teacher should do so, so I share this idea is to understand immediately. Reading the history of meditation, we see the teacher said, the other easily identified, called enlightenment; But the person who does not have that mood, without that thought, can not be enlightened. In other words, the same frequencies will easily communicate each other.

Venerable Thanh Kiem said that while studying in Japan, when Japan was defeated, life was still poor. Always hungry, appetite, even sweet potatoes also crave. To think of hungry, the more hungry you want to eat can not bear. Venerable new drinking water, up meditation retreat, forget about hunger. I had practiced this method, so I realized it immediately.

I found three hungry. One is that we are starving, the other is hungry and the third is starving, the karma. Buddha wants to help us to break the desire for food because it is more important. That is, the Buddha accepted the hunger for the belly, not hungry eyes, hungry mind.

The first-person experience teaches that fasting animals can live, while we are more human than animals, so why not fast. Turtles do not die for a year. The snow bear fasted for six months okay. The snail snorted the whole season does not eat.

Turtles live by breathing. The tortoise is practicing breathing. Childhood, my teacher taught me to breath so harshly as to put a piece of paper on the tip of my nose that the breath did not make the paper swell. I practice for a minute. Meditation, first thing is to regulate the breathing so that light and long lasting.

And the thing is, we find out that eating is important to the body. Thien Thien reminds us not to eat too much, do not eat too little, do not eat when in meditation and do not eat food is not suitable for you. Mr. Kamala, Sa-Cu Sat and Tri Jia have practiced eating and drinking for the religious life. We learn first-hand to apply to ourselves not sick, not obstacle to cultivate.

The Buddha practiced asceticism, did not eat to the level of abdominal skin attached to the spine causing him to feel pain, because cells are starving, tormenting the body aches. In history records before Nirvana, Buddha must discharge the body, living with thoughts, mind to not be affected by the body.

In fact, when we only have abdominal pain, tooth ache, joint pain ... but also feel uncomfortable, but it is minor pain less than pain when leaving the body. Because we are not dead, we do not know how painful it is before death, but it is depicted as a torment that tormented the human body in horrible, unimaginable torment. Therefore, there are people before death, tormented body too much to their hearts fluctuating fierce lead them into the evil line.

The Buddha told us to eat and drink, to live, to cultivate, not to force the body to die, then what to cultivate. Eat less, hungry body does not exist, but eat more will be sick. The teacher often eat in this situation, try to eat a full stomach, as the afternoon not eat, but eat so satiety, how to meditate and will make the breath pounded, while the Buddha taught the breathing is uniform and light.

For long-lasting breath to let the body rest, not eating, the breath is as light as the turtle's breath. Zen masters living with animals, should have experience teaching themselves and if practiced in accordance with their teachings, we can fast from one week to a month still live healthy. The highest fast is the Tri Quang Tri fast for 100 days. On fasting, each one has different ways.

Divine bliss is the spiritual oasis to live. Without spiritual life, material dependence is extremely painful; But there is spiritual life, which also lack of material suffering.

The Buddha studied with all the monks of the time and practiced all the way, what they failed to help him avoid mistakes and he did their best.

He attained enlightenment and taught the first sermon

Returning to the  United States , the Tai Chi scholarship through 52 good knowledge, these things are metaphysical, we do not know; because of  Huayan  Buddha said in meditation, there is no fact of life.

But for me, the good knowledge is the spiritual life of the Buddha expressed in the image of goodwill with them. This is the French business   records that Buddha has natural incarnation, or say their own, or just people. It is understandable that the Buddhist practice is full of means, so He did not say that He, that is to say Goodwill.

At first, Goodwill studies with Manjushri. You should think this. Studying with Manjusri, but opening the product to enter the Dharma, the Chinese business  , we see Manjushri appeared teaching 6000 monks at the Great Palace. At this point, the collective wisdom of the monks is expressed in the image of Manjushri Bodhisattva.

Theravada Buddhism did not recognize Bodhisattva Manjushri, but I asked the Theravadin monks to recognize the collective wisdom of the monks. The Buddha taught that what Buddhist monks and monks gather and share, which is not suitable, is allowed to be abandoned. What the Buddha taught confirmed the decision of the Sangha collective is important. Of course, Theravada Buddhism can not deny the Buddha's teachings.

Thus, Theravada recognizes the collective wisdom of monks, but does not recognize Bodhisattva Manjushri. But I say that Manjushri represents the collective mind of monks, called the strict mind.

In this world no one has enough knowledge. Want to have a set of minds to set up monks. Expressing this, in the  Lotus Flower,  Shakyamuni wanted to open the tower of Da Bao, he must focus on cloning, in other words it is collective wisdom.

Manjushi taught the monks finished, he said the teacher continued to cultivate, he had to go to Phuoc Thanh to goodness. If chanting is not good, there is thought to be important significance for us to practice.

The monks specializing, do not benefit the life, only benefit for yourself called self-interest to escape the three worlds, the Four Noble Truths, 37 Assistant Professor is sufficient. Practicing this method to Nirvana, but want to teach beings need to have merit, wisdom.

Teachers have the wisdom, but the pure mind of meditation, have not experienced the reality of life is reaped. Bhikkhus The monkhood is the pure mind of meditation understanding, but the discharge will be different. Indeed, in the spiritual world, or in the oasis of the spiritual world, life is beautiful, but in reality, life is very complicated. Therefore, the aspirant bar in Nirvana always, do not want to return to life.

Collective wisdom shows us to go to Phuoc Thanh to convert the living beings to repay the debt of the clothes called on the temple four heavy, under the suffering of the three. This law is affirmed by the  Fa-blooming that if you really get to Lahu without believing the work of the Bodhisattva Way to lead the Buddha, then it is not Arahant, but increase the upper.

Dap La-drought must believe the French  business  means that the message must show the moral model, the model of knowledge and the model of people to benefit the life. There are all three of these new practices.

Being virtuous is not enough, because the mind is ignorant not learn, can not do anything. Venerable Thien Hoa told me young to study effort, because not learn will be inferior to people, can not do. Try to think of ethics and esteem, but the person asked, I do not know the suffering of the heart. Therefore, there are ethics, are believed, but must answer the questions of life.

Collective wisdom shows us that we have attained the dharma, that the Buddha is also a dhāna. But the Buddha is a full-length Lama is the Tathagata, the worship, the Chief of the turn, the virtue, the Sun, the world, the Supreme, the master of the wood, Thien, The Sun. Theravada Buddhism also recognizes the Ten Buddha. While the other La-dan only one is the application of worship and Luhan only moral, no mind as Buddhist.

And collective intelligence also shows that Buddhism wants to exist to go up, can not just keep the temple. There are temples and monasteries, but an increase in illiteracy is extremely dangerous. Because of this awareness, Khanh Hoa Group has sold the temple to business schools monks. Based on the experience  Huayan , monks have to learn. So the sample of monks, began the lower classes of currency law. The latter post-meditation meditation.

In the product of Enter the Fa, Thien Tai according to the monk Duc Van ethics training throughout ten years. Ethical people are monks must have the posture, taking 250 sex for four dreads to walk standing sitting into 1,000 posture. In the ten years of silence to 1,000 dreads for the three karma, body, speech, 3,000 majesty. Bhikkhu, standing, lying, sitting, talking, looking at any aspect is nice, speak or quiet is also the symbol of the Dharma.

Completely finished 3,000 majesty so new auditory meditation, is studying with Hai Van monk. This man spent 12 years seated on the shore, observing the karmic force of all living beings. Italy said the second step, we observe life, is close to society, far from the four.

Monks Hai Van stand outside life life observation finished, this is not difficult, but more difficult is the monks engaged in life vulnerable to pollution.

Indeed, many teachers think that learning is done, will do this thing, but not stable one time, the mind is defiled first. Meaning that angry, anxious, calculating to solve the life of the temple will be psychological troubles, metaphysically lost.

Therefore, Thien Van finished school, Hai Van reminded that he did not dare step into life. Want to go to life must learn with the Black Belt-up to do all the work, but always peaceful, because of solid centered.

It is important to see that our minds are not firmly fixed, but in life will be dominated, contaminated. When I was a high school student, I saw the Most Venerable Thinh Hoa in front of his hard work, bad deeds, or opposition, and he smiled. Later, whenever I encounter obstacles, I often remember the self-image of Thich Hoa Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh as a motive for me to think that I must be like my teacher, must be a monk.

We think our minds are secure in the new Buddhist practice in order not to be troubled, stumble, abandon the path of Buddhism, certainly must be. 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.24/9/2018.