Eternal Heart Chapter 3: The Dhamma

June 1, 2010 TT - 01/06/2010, 00:18 (GMT + 7) TT - Concluding the words with the Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc and instructed his monks to protect him at An Quang Temple, monk Thich Duc Nghieng emergency preparation for the morning fire. As the head of the foreign affairs department and the organizer of the Joint Committee for the Protection of Vietnamese Buddhism, he understood that the Ngo Dinh Diem government was trying to extinguish the Buddhist struggle. Any leakage of information also left unproductive consequences. Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc sitting Buddha, preparing to self-immolation - Photo: Nguyen Van Thong. Last message center That night, monk Duc Nghiem went to investigate the route from the Temple of the Buddha. The self-immolation plan of the Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc will be inserted into this procession to deceive the police and gather the monks and nuns. Finally, the Phan Dinh Phung - Le Van Duyet crossroads (Nguyen Dinh Chieu - Cach Mang Thang Tam now) was chosen as the location of self-immolation. This circle is not only crowded but also in front of the Cambodian embassy. The country expressed its support for Vietnamese Buddhism and protested against the repressive actions of the Ngo Dinh Diem government. Regarding the Quang Quang monastery, monk Duc Nghia arranged details for the self-immolation. Thich Quang Duc Bodhisattva has Austin's Buddhist Tran Quang Thuan sent at the temple Quang. Venerable Duc Nghieng called the driver to buy another can of gasoline and assigned him tomorrow morning, Tri Minh will sit next to the driver, to the Phan Dinh Phung - Le Van Duyet crossroads pretending to have to stop. to fool the police. The great virtue of sitting beside Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc in the back seat to protect him. When the car near the location of self-immolation, great virtue will help to sprinkle gasoline on the bodhisattva in the car so the police can not see. A lighter is also given to the Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc kept to his hand lit a fire on self-immolation. Previously, Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc has prepared the letter with compassionate words and reflections on responsibility before the fate of the country: "I am the Dharma Master Thich Quang Duc, the abbot of Quan Nhat Phu Nhuan pagoda (Gia Dinh), who noticed that my home country was reclining, I was a monk named Tathagata. To allow Buddhism to die, I would like to volunteer to consummate this temporary donation to the Buddha to the merit of Buddhist conservation ... ". On the morning of June 11, 1963, the procession came from the Buddha himself. The car carrying Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc slowly between two lines of monks and nuns. Venerable Duc Nghiem walked by the car, instructing Hong Hui to step by his side: " If the police arrest me or shoot me, please replace me with this sacred task." The fire of righteousness When Austin was at the Phan Dinh Phung - Le Van Duyet crossroads, the driver stopped and opened the engine cover to fool the police. Behind the Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc drill down the car, clasping hands four-way, then sit at the crossroads on the road, face back to the west, forest mouth recite Buddha. Bodhisattva took the lighter in the fire to set fire, but perhaps flinted gasoline caught in the fire so people do not fire. Venerable Duc Nghieng should give him a matchbox. At that time, a nearby monk helped the Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc to sprinkle gasoline left in the plastic can bring down from the car on him. Things went so fast so the police protested against the protest. When the hand of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc just dropped down the match, the fire flared to the jungle like a huge torchbiting around the Bodhisattva. But he was still sitting cross-legged, his hands folded in front of his chest, his face without a trace of pain. Buddhist monks and nuns surround him. People chanting chanting, people shout slogans against the government. Many people, including some anti-riot police, cried and bowed to the Bodhisattvas. Recounting this self-immolation, the witness on the other side was Nguyen Van Thong, the secretary who was in charge of tracking the Buddhist activities of the time, recalling: " The intelligence reported that there would be large demonstrations from the Indian temple Quang to Lam Son and there will be a monk cut the abdomen. I later learned that it was a misrepresentation to mislead the police . Mr. Thong said that morning his secret police group of four plain clothes in a car. Mr. Thong is in charge of image, a reporter, another person on the radio. They were prepared to follow the monks and nuns to Lam Son Square (today's HCMC Opera House) and do not know anything about the upcoming self-immolation. At that time, Mr. Thong was also a contributor of Commune Photographs, so besides a police camera he always brought his own camera. When the Austin car carrying Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc from An Quang Pagoda stopped at the intersection of Le Van Duyet - Phan Dinh Phung, the driver stepped down pretending to repair Guc stepped down the car, sitting cross-legged on the road, Mr. Thong still did not think he burned himself. It was only when his body caught fire as the torch of Mr. Thong was stunned. Reflexively he put the camera on the screen, but the first plate was blurred because he touched his hand. To the plate he he He used the second camera was police equipped to capture next to the fire off, the Bodhisattva fell. There are at least three people who capture this emotional burner, according to journalist Malcome Browne of the Associated Press, a monk and brother. However, only then photos of Malcome Browne spread to the world. Mr. Thong had to submit his photo to the police department and quietly hid the others because he was still a staff member of the Wu family. This year, 86 years old, Thuy recalled in details the self-immolation of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc: "The fire covered his body so hot that the can close to it, but the bodhisattva still sit still in meditation. accept death. Especially, when the fire was near, the body was burning black but he nodded to the west several times like bowing to the Buddha and then back to not fall down. Fire trucks, police pour. The monks lay in front of the wheel, ready to sacrifice to protect the body. Many of the key figures of the Saigon regime are now present, but just watching, can not react to the fire of righteousness ... " END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.30/10/2018.