Chapter X

Ananda after the Buddha passed away

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In 1035 and 1036, Theravada (Theragatha), after the cremation of Lord Buddha, became less talkative and preferred to hide in his net. One day he murmured,

"The passing momentum (1), 
Master also lost. 
Dissolve like a dream, 
I have to do body. 
The mirror is not anymore, the 
mirror is full (2), 
Self-care of milk. 
Zen strength patience build, 
As the wings of birds between the wind. 
The mind is 
centrifugal , it maintains it. 
According to the French do not mistake!

(1) refers to the relics of Sassa-wealth. 
(2) Reflection: the Buddha; Bad Mirror: The implication is that there is an increase in morphology

Since then, Ananda realized that it was only a matter of effort to free oneself, as taught.

When he broke up, he told his compassion that he should go to the net in the forest of Kosala, because there are two Mallas and Sakyans (Shakyas) degrees.

When the people in the vicinity or the closest disciples and uncles of the Buddha to live in that forest, they pulled together to visit Nanjing greatly.

Ananda thought only that he was missing the Buddha and Sariputta, and that he was persecuted by the Buddha, surrounded by the forest, and nostalgic for him. Again, at the time when the father of Kosala was loved by many as the Pasenadi, as well as the ice, they dragged together thanks to Ananda, comforting them, not only of the shadow of the Buddha and of the two saints. Raising Shabbat, Moggallana, but they also solicited the glaciation of Thai Pasenadi again. The more noble Thai noble her children, the Prince of his cruel and aggressive, so the death of the Thai Royal Highness has made the entire population bear a huge loss.

Four deaths: the Buddha's, Sariputta and Mogadishu, as well as that of Pasendi, occurred in the same year, so that the people around the Prussian forest, Not to bear the sad pushing, pulling together to the net of A Nan Da makes him never alone.

In addition, there is a god, living in the forest that appears to worship Ananda. This god praised his spiritual progress and advised Ananda to meditate in a few words:

"Now the tree sit quiet, 
Mind Nirvana Meditation follow Him! 
Piercings He gave her bewildered 
Focus willed aura will burst."

Ananda was encouraged by the gods to be self-sensitive, and then diligently dilated. (According to Samyutta Nikaya: Journey A Function 9.5). On the great head of Ca Lettuce, the highest patriarch in the Sa Mon disciples disciples, the implementation of the last will of the Buddha is very important. He decided to summon monks to repeat Buddhist teachings and teachings. Accordingly, there are about five hundred Arahats who are present in the world, plus the presence of a monk named Ananda. Except for Ananda, there is no Sa Mon who is blessed to hear most of the teachings of the Buddha.

But the political situation of Kosala is unstable, the princes compete for the throne, so the place of collection, the Buddhist Law first to move to Rajasthan, the land of Magadha (Magadha) and placed under the protection of King Ajatasattu.

When approaching the day of recapitulation, Anuruddha suggested: Ananda was only admitted to the congress if he attained the Arahant (the First Buddhist Congregation, without the Logic, only The Sutra and the Vinaya. Anuruddha thanks to Tha mind, know the determination of Ananda, so new proposal, to provoke and urge A NA NA NA, more diligently, to quickly reach the results. Exit.

At that time, he was not only angry, but also devoted himself to the utmost vigilance, utilizing his Vipassana, taught by the Buddha, Exit. In the business also call this fruit is Nibbana Nirvana: that is, he has achieved Nirvana, but the body is still alive.

At the dawn of the next day, while Ananda was staying in a meditation room, he suddenly felt without any doubt that his mind had become clear through all the lusts and afflictions. He became an Arahant.

And the day of the general meeting of the law came. The location is a deep cave in the mountain, only one entrance is locked. Five hundred Arhat monks must use the Spirit to conquer. When they were fully present, and the seat of Ananda was left vacant; Holy monks are waiting for a stream of light through the door, shining into that vacant seat, while Ananda appears.

The Sangha, especially Anuruddha and Maha Kassapa, saw Ananda flourished, celebrated merit and opened the assembly. At that time, in the autumn, the Bhikkhu Sangha could not come, so that the holy community could be raised. The monks in the far away are naturally absent.

Mahatma Gandhi was elected president and progressed the following rule of law:

1. Elder Mahatma Gupta raises questions about all the rules, to the subject of Upali, who was dubbed the "Remember the dhamma." The subject of this Upali was full, repeating both the reason, the place, the time and the witness, when the Master made the rules. And so it goes on, so the Law has been assembled first.

2. Followed by the Elder Deity of Great Caesarean Question about the Buddhist scriptures have: The beginning is the long sutras, have the same title, to aggregate into a set called School Dhamma (Dìgha Nikàya). Next is the medium sutras, the same theme, contributed to a set, called Central AH (Majjhima Kikaya). Then there are the short texts, the same title, arranged into a set called A Little Fun (Khuddaka Kikàya). Finally, Ananda mentions discrete discourses, inscriptions, to the collection of Samyutta Nikàya, or refers to the articles listed by numbers, independent titles, called Sangha The Anguttara Nikaya (etc.).

3. After the Dharma and the Tipitaka were completed, Ananda presented the wills of the Buddha. He told the congregation that the Buddha before entering Nibbana allowed the Sangha to abolish unnecessary precepts. But the congregation did not agree, because the meaning of the three words "not necessary" has no clear standard.

President Maha Kassapa immediately suggested:

"If we abolish some of the Buddha's injunctions, the home-lineers will apologize, suggesting that the Lord's disciples are ordained, soon after the death of the Master, has begun to be lazy, In addition, the Buddha did not teach what rules are unnecessary laws, it is better to abolish any of the commandments, so we will certainly not be afraid of wrongdoing by the Buddha. "

And the suggestion of Grand Master Ca Jasy has been completely approved by the Sangha.

Throughout the chapter, serious subjects have complained that: First, there is a defect related to the Vinaya. Nanda did not ask Buddha what law is necessary. Disadvantages that now Nan Nan should repent! And secondly, Nananda, when the Buddha was in the money, often stomped on the Buddha, stretch to patch.

Ananda happily replied, "The first point, when the Buddha is seriously ill, the spiritual director is too embarrassed, so forget. Second, mistakes stand up to the Buddha because he wants to conveniently To patch, not because of disrespect to the Buddha, however, if the parents have reminded, then proletarian repentance.

Then related to the treatment of the nuns at the end of the Cremation Ceremony of the Buddha, the serious disciples continued: Third Ananda then gave priority to women to the relics of Buddha before both high Buddhist.

At that time, the monk replied happily, "For the sinner has not attained the fruit of liberation, and for a mortal, when the devotees wish to worship the Buddha and make them wait for a long time, Now increase is the Enlightenment is ready to accept errors.

Finally, some Sangha also did not forget to remind him of Auspicious Dhamma: His unrepentant action of Nibbana is a very important mistake.

Ananda realizes that she is wrong, so she honestly states: "It was Mara who haunted him, causing his mind to be dark, but in reality he was a disciple who feared the Buddha and soon entered Nirvana. More than anyone else.

The gesture of Nanami to those critics is indeed respectable. He was submissive to the rulings of the holy monks, without any resentment. Even in his heart, he knew himself that mistakes made by unknowingly were always forgiving.

Later, Nananda Tantric art continues, to another will that the Buddha taught, just before he entered Nirvana. This exhortation is related to the authority of the Church to punish Bhikkhu Channa, a man who has disobeyed the teachings of the Buddha.

At the presentation of the A Nan Da, the General Assembly of the Sangha asked him to personally transfer the order to Channa. Ananda said "You can not do it alone, because Channa is a gruff and undisciplined person."

The General Assembly mandates Nananda to follow some bhikkhus to impose the Buddhist commandment of Bhikkhu Channa.

Then Obi-Wan obeyed, led a group of monks up, went to Kosambi, where Channa hid, to announce the final commandment of the Buddha. The commandment states: "If Channa continues to oppose the Church, he will be expelled from Buddhism." (In the words of Nibbàna, the monk disobeying the Buddhist teachings would be "killed" from the Church.) It is as if he had "died", not on the community. Dong Boi them too).

This punishment, the Buddha at birth has also clarified: He takes the example of a patient and experienced horse trainers, but does not train a horse patient and experienced, but no training. Raise a horse. Finally, the horse man must bring it into the slaughterhouse, for it is of no benefit to him. A horse that does not pull the car, does not know how to pull the plow, does not want to carry anything on his back, only the slaughterhouse waits for it. Similarly: If a monk is not ordained in good faith because they "kill" their name in the name of the Sangha of the Church.

In the case of a monk losing such teachings, the Buddha ordered the disciples not to be exposed, not to be advised or instructed. All the boycotters who deliberately live in the discipline.

Channa heard Ananda Venerable finished the religion of the Buddha, the panic and panic, he was terrified to faint. As he woke up, a deep shame reared his heart. Especially he is ashamed of the punishment that was handed over by the Buddha himself to the Church, before his death.

And because of that profound shame, he became more and more awake and determined to recover.One does not expect the stubbornness of a stubborn Channa, in the face of the Buddha's punitive instruction, to give way to a spirit of rebirth, so strong that since then he has been only mentally devoted to spiritual practice. Soon, he attained Arhat.

Thus the final punishment of the Buddha, by itself, has shown that: At the last minute, before entering Nibbana, the Buddha has left the ultimate training, which can transform a soul into ignorance. dark, which few would expect. From there, in Buddhism, there is only one Channa Than1h Sang, very calm, always living with peace, no longer a monk named Channa stubborn again!

After the result was achieved, one day Channa came to ask Ananda to convene the church council to repent and ask Abbas to revoke the sanctions. At the same time, the monk replied, "All monks or nuns have learned the Dharma, and only the monks are required to pay homage to the relics of their deity, to increase their good deeds. It has expired since the sage has attained Karmic Retreat. "

And the story of Channa ended so perfectly.

Next, the post-Buddhist period begins: The ranks of the Sangha are as follows:

Maha Kassapa is the highest, oldest and most virtuous captain entrusted to the leadership of the whole Church. We can call Him the first Buddhist monk. The Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Please do not mistake.

So when people want to enter the Buddhist religion, they will seek refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha (representing the Church), but they do not take refuge with the monk. It was Mahatma Gandhi when he received the supreme confirmation of that.

According to the Buddha's teachings, the elder Mahakata has ten full limbs to act as a great leader.These ten are:

1. virtue of the Dharma and complete in gestures. 
2. Learn a lot and remember a lot. 
3. Full legal status. 
4. Firmly and tamely in the four meditations. 
5. Most likely to live in the human realm and heaven. 
6. Going to Heaven (listening to miles of miles). 
7. To know Tha Tam (know the other people are thinking) 
8. To Tuc network (know the past, future) 
9. To Thien Thien ten miles) 
10. Mind no longer greed, anger, delusion, more.

Elder Dai Ca Dtu fruit is a worthy symbol of a great apostle.

The second ruler in the Church is Ananda, because he is the most (if not all) of the Beloved. Nanda was also the person who had been given the responsibility of serving the Buddha during the 25 years of his schooling. If calculated in stages, Nan has 40 years as a subject before going through 25 years to the Buddha. Then, after the death of the Buddha, he lived another 40 years to serve Buddhism.Compared to the very large school life as he is, only the most cultivated level.

When the sacred Sangha summed up the Buddhist law the second time, exactly a hundred years after the Buddha's death, there was a main disciple of A Nanakan alive. This name is Sabbakam, regarded as the only surviving Elder from the Buddha. According to Cùlavagga 12 (Mystery, chapter 12) in the Vinaya, the Venerable Sabbacam was 120 years old.

As regards the Sangha, when he was 120 years old, he felt Nirvana near. As Ananda immediately left the Rajagaha (Ràjagaha) to the direction of Vesali, like the previous Buddha did, to find the President, the news of the king Magadha (Magadha) and the ear of the Magadha Prince Vesali. All came to Him to ask Him to enter Nibbana in their place. St. Aann did not want his relics to be discredited in the admirers, stopped at the border between the two countries, and then magically lifted his body into the air.

The Sangha used fire to burn the body, then divide the relics into two halves on the two tombs, so that they can be picked up from the shrine.

In remembrance of the penetration of this wonderful nirvana, in 1049 Shakti language (Theragatha 1049), there is the verse:

"Great Arhat Han, a virtuous virtue, 
a hero in the sea of ​​miserliness. 
Perfect instead of perfect law, the time of 
death also avoid arguments."

(Nguyen Dieu drainage escape)

And with those praises, the translator sincerely concludes this great aura of Ananda, an Arhat.

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Poem

Make offerings to Ananda. The 
night before he was 
born. Later that day, Arhat was 
eight hundred and two thousand French Consciousness. (1) 
The man was completely in stone. 
* 
Into the congregation of monks with miracles, 
Oai than the spirit of crystal energy. 
A ray of light penetrating the key hole, 
he suddenly on the coordinates of peace. 
* 
Between the world, the magic is your precious, 
What is the meaning of liberation, the 
Holy Life is the life of simplicity, the 
end of the passion, relief of pain. 
* 
When the life out of the light burden, 
he went to find the way to kill the 
flesh but still the happiness of the 
United States to compete with each other to keep the land.
* 
In order to solve his full grace, 
he lifted himself, burned in the air, 
fire three fire burned the body bright, 
relics divided two donated two regions. 
* 
The death of the book, 
miracle of the past to the thousand, 
A lord increases Arahant Buddha, 
An Nan life, last mysterious

N. Memorial glasses

(1) In Buddhism, there are 84000 Buddhist teachings that nunsa monks have memorized 82000 already.

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An ananda hymn:

Thank you, eighty two thousand truth, 
And two thousand hears from the Brothers! 
Plus eighty-four thousand Dharma highly intelligent (1) 
Freeing yourself and fifty centuries (2) 
* 
People do not understand do not hear the true (3) 
Then life goes as animals pulling carts, 
however muscles proved healthy way, 
but spiritually blind cover was craving. 
* 
Who has learned many good deeds of salvation, and does 
not work, but contemptuous of 
men , as if a man with a lamp did not burn, and 
saw nothing in the sea of ​​sorrow? 
* 
Meet good friends, we understand the Dharma ... 
Do not let go, we try to practice, 
And so we will enter the path. 
The protectorate later posterity. 
*
The first step after the distinction, 
The nature of the coast, clear fruit. 
Languages ​​such as the program have written, The 
number is in optical meditation. (4) 
* 
Static more specialized, concentrating as firmly, 
According to the color world, it is every. 
Enlightenment comes, the heart instant proof, 
Wisdom fire penetrates 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.16/10/2018.