The path of enlightenment according to the classic Nikaya.

  

The Buddha is compassion and wisdom, is the elegant boat rescue salvation all beings are immersed in the river of suffering, are rolling in the six cycles of samsara. The Buddha is also a virtuous and self-realization for all those who seek the upper path of liberation and enlightenment. The Dhammapada has the sentence: "He who imbibes the teachings live happily with peace of mind, intellectual goods are always happy in the teachings that the saints have found."
Back in time to look back on the past, Prince Siddhartha saw life as suffering, beings are drifting in the circle of birth, death with death scene, aging, illness, death, sorrow, , in front of the eyes, so he gave up the throne, emerald, beautiful wife, beautiful baby to find a koan for himself - free all beings from samsara birth and death He left the royal palace on a moonlit night when the morning star had just grown up with his monkeys and Saunas crossed the Asano River to find the truth.
At first he came to study with two monks, Alara Kalama and Adduka Ramaputta, who had attained two states of Indigenous Meditation and Non-False Thoughts, but he thought that these two fruits were not fruits. the supreme he desired. Then he left the two men to find the truth for his own koan. 
After six years of ascetic training, he still did not achieve any results:

Six year old forest place aspirant 
Austerity by Lord Shakyamuni who 
Birds on dew shoulder shirt 
Deer Mountain snow sides called bloom.

He then renounced this asceticism, returning to the middle way. He came to Bodhgaya to sit under the tabernacle and prayed, "If I did not become a Buddhist, I would not get up from this place. 
During 49 days of sitting and meditating, he fought in the inner defilements, such as greed, hatred, delusion, and struggle with the Three Thousand Heavenly Martyrs commanded by Mara. After defeating the enemy in the inner and outer world, the mind was opened, he suddenly realized great enlightenment, the Supreme Court of righteousness and became the Buddha-Ca-da-ni.
The Buddha for a great volunteer, because of an infinite compassion for the search for the direction. The great aspiration and compassion is: "Prayer for Buddhahood to receive the four deep blessings, and save the three paths of suffering." So after enlightenment he did not enter Nirvana immediately, but immediately thinking of teaching beings. 
All beings regardless of caste, race, and humility, if practiced according to his teachings will be happy, liberated, quiet. The liberation of Buddhism is not far away, but in the present life. The way of liberation that He has taught us through the Nikāya scriptures, is the precepts, the precepts and the wisdom. The Four Noble Truths teach that:

"Monks, this is the only path leading to the net for beings, beyond the melancholy, eradicate suffering, achievement of mind, realization of nirvana, that is the four foundations.

The four foundations of mindfulness are: body contemplation; life on life; mind and mind on the law of 
sati meditation is the practice of Just-Quan or Dinh-Tue song tu. But before he went into practice, he taught us to keep the precepts, to maintain the precepts, the new mind and body to be clean and gentle to meditation to achieve good results. Precepts as a barrier to prevent the foreign ghost intruded into, keep the inner peace, to go easily into the temple, so the Buddha always teach his disciples to practice precepts before meditation . This was stated by the Buddha in  the  following Hamlet of the Horse :

- You must know the precious while receiving the offerings. 
- Body, mouth, mind, life network must be pure, intelligent. 
- Must hold the bases. 
- Must be in the eating. 
- Must be mindful of alert.

After the morality makes the body pure, we choose a place as quiet as the meditation, the tree, the forest, or anywhere convenient and comfortable for meditation, then we sit cross legged, back Straighten and stay mindful in front, and then practice the method of breathing, breath ( Anàpànasati ). In the One Sutra, the Buddha teaches the method of breathing, breathing with 16 headings: four body parts; four headings on life; four headings on the mind and four on the dharma. 
This disciplines belong to the four foundations of mindfulness ( cattàro - satipatthàna ), that is, the four disciplines refer to four places in order to abide the concept ie body, feeling, mind and dharma. Disciplines  anapanasati This refers to 16 topics on the body, four topics on life, four topics on the mind, and four topics on the subject. The meditator breathes in, breathes out, and meditates on 16 topics related to breathing. 
This disciplines for both meditation and wisdom, including samatha and vipasana . Both are monastic in this practice. When you use the four-pointed mind on the breath exhalation, so is only, so is the intention. When the intellectual mind of 16 topics selected, so is consistent, such as wisdom.
Only meditation practice can be attained from meditation to four meditation, then from non-boundary to non-ideal non-non-origin. Then use meditation to prove the death of the ideal. Or perhaps from the meditation meditation and then meditation to direct the mind to the net, birth death, and gut knowledge. When the mind to smuggle it to know the truth:  "This is suffering, this is the cause of suffering, this is the path leading to suffering, these are illegal or, this is the cause of illegal or, this is The gonorrhea or kill, this is the way to the pirate or kill.This way he escaped sexually illegal, pirated, ignorant ignorance ... he knows the birth has done the work has done; There is no return to this life. "  Thus meditation plays a very important role in the process of liberation.
Looking at life after the succession of the word we see, his daily life has two main tasks is the sermon and meditation. He is the righteous mind that is worshiped, but he still meditates every day, because he wants to set an example to persuade his disciples to be diligent in meditation. We often encounter the two advice of the Buddha to the monks of the monk: 
"monks, when the meeting people often have two things to do: one is the discussion of Buddhism, silent of the holy " . The silence of the saint here is meditation. 
The second teaching is the Buddha's meditation advice: "These monks, this is the tree, these are empty houses, the monks, meditation, do not have to leave, do not have to regret later. This is my teaching for you. "  And when he was about to enter Nirvana, the Buddha recitedthe life of an ultimate monk, meditating, meditating. 
" Anada, bhikkhu, for the body of mind, effort, mindfulness, mindfulness, subdued all craving, superiority in life, for feeling ... for the mind ... for the law Dharma, effort, mindfulness, mindfulness, craving for all craving, preeminence in life. Hey Anada, so the bhikkhu himself is the lamp for himself, refraining himself, refraining from anything else, using the dharma as a lamp, using the dharma as a refuge, uphill like something else. "
The Buddha always taught His disciples, just as He was alive, just as before they died, to diligently meditate, because there is only one path to enlightenment that is liberation meditation. 
As we see our Master before enlightenment, he has had so much experience of meditation and has discovered the path of insight that leads to enlightenment, until enlightenment and enlightenment. Even before His nirvana He also meditated. During the 45 years following his preaching, meditating and teaching his disciples to meditate, his teachings emphasized meditation.
We are postmodern, on the path of practice, to follow in his footsteps, we must be diligent in meditation, but before meditation must observe the strict precepts, because there are new precepts. When wisdom is born, wisdom arises. Wisdom is the sharpest blade, which can cut off the roots of defilements, greed, anger, delusion, doubt, like Tala once cut off, can not grow anymore. When the fetters are rooted, we are happy, free. This happiness is not far away, but it is in this life. 
Therefore, all of us, now hours, engraved diligently to study, practice Tam traumatology (gender-determination-intellectual). Because that is the only way that leads us to the happy realm, liberation, death, and Nirvana.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.27/9/2018.