Encourage cultivation of Pure Land practice.

According to Buddhism, it is even more difficult to have a human being, it is even more difficult to meet the Fa-rectification, to meet the Fa-rectification and cultivate the Fa-rectification. The friend who has heard the preacher will have many good relationships with the Dharma from many previous lives. If I have good luck, I should catch this precious opportunity to choose for myself the Dharma practice to liberate samsara.

The dharma that many people practice (including home and renunciation) is the Pure Land (Dharma practice). The reason for the practice of reciting Buddha's name is universal and many practitioners because it does not limit themselves to a certain framework and it is easy to gain many benefits.

According to Buddhism, it is even more difficult to have a human being, it is even more difficult to meet the Fa-rectification, to meet the Fa-rectification and cultivate the Fa-rectification. The friend who has heard the preacher will have many good relationships with the Dharma from many previous lives. If I have good luck, I should catch this precious opportunity to choose for myself the Dharma practice to liberate samsara.

Samsara is suffering, only this life I encounter many miserable things, how much more life and death do I have to go to, then the suffering to say is very miserable and very much. If you know this world as Suffering, why don't you cultivate, you may see Suffering and still go in, as if you see darkness and go into the night.

Not that Buddhism says Suffering to be pessimistic but to say Suffering to allow you to awaken and find a way to liberate. If I am a wise man, know how to take care of this and my future happiness, then I am worried about spiritual practice, do not let the Death or Impermanence come (not often and often change), at that time it is too late. This impermanent realm: impermanent body (birth, old, sick, death), impermanent mind (sad, angry, hurt, hate ...) and impermanent circumstances (city, pillar, sabotage, no).

This body is very fragile, it is like a sponge that can break at any time. People with wisdom should use this temporary fake body as a raft to cultivate to the shore of Liberation. Do not let your life pass by the years of old sickness in a wasteful way.

As I have said, a hundred-year-old person who doesn't know how to cultivate is not equal to someone who lives a day and knows how to cultivate. That's right, living a hundred years of age, but only passionate about sex, sleep and sex ... When I die, I don't know where to go and feel scared. Living like that right now is not peaceful but the fuzzy future, living like that has no meaning and benefits for us.

Understanding this life is impermanent, this body is a temporary, samsara is suffering, this realm is miserable, then I choose for myself a dharma practice immediately without letting the Death or Impermanence come before I catch cultivate? So what is Tu like and what practice is it?

Buddhism is very good, or in that place, it is said that the Dharma gives us wisdom and good conditions and then we wake up and follow the practice to cultivate. The Dharma practice has a lot of 84,000 disciplines. Depending on the basic characteristics and circumstances of sentient beings, we choose the practice method to suit each individual. This is not to say that it is imperative to chant, to enter the temple to shave its head.

I cultivate at home, I practice according to my abilities and circumstances. There are many practices in Buddhism. Depending on the fundamentals, qualifications, conditions and circumstances of each person, they choose the practice method accordingly.

The dharma that many people practice (including home and renunciation) is the Pure Land (Dharma practice). The reason for the practice of reciting Buddha's name is universal and many practitioners because it does not limit themselves to a certain framework and it is easy to gain many benefits. As you follow Zen, you should have time and a quiet environment. As the practice of reciting Buddha's name, walking, standing, lying, sitting or doing something, we can also recite Buddha's name.

The purpose and direction of the Pure Land cultivator is Born in Bliss. To reborn the Pure Land, there are 3 conditions: Faith, Vow and Hanh. As in the Buddha Amitabha Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha said that ten thousand memories of the Buddha's realm towards the West have a world called the Great Bliss, the blissful realm of the Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, who is currently speaking there. .

Firstly, following the Pure Land practice, there must be credit. Any practice according to any method requires Fa if you don't believe how to cultivate. Belief is still an essential basis in all of the disciplines. Believing is the mother of all merits.

So what should Pure Land practitioners believe? Believing in Amitabha Buddha, believing in Amitabha Buddha's ultimate realm, believing in the Causality and Belief, Believing that this life is short-lived as a breath in and out, believe 48 (1) the prayer of Amitabha Buddha absolutely true

The second is that there should be a Vow, if there is no Vow, how could the Birth of Bliss be born. It's like someone going from point A to point B, if he says I want to go to point B, but I don't want to go to point B, I can never come.

When I have the Vow, Amitabha Buddha knows that he wants to give birth to the Great Bliss. I am still an ordinary person who cannot afford to be reborn but thanks to the Buddha Power to help me reborn.

Friends should pray like this: Namo Amitabha Buddha, what name is he ... born in ... how old ... he wishes to give birth to the Pure Land after he leaves this body. Pray more or less or vow 1 or 2 times also depending on each person and the voluntary faith in the mind or willing to speak or stand before the Buddha image or not before.

Why do I have to pray about the Pure Land, what is the Pure Land?  Extremely gratifying, Lac is happy. The Bliss is very happy. In the Buddha Amitabha Sutra there is the passage "Why is it called the Bliss?" Because there is no suffering in that realm, just enjoy the joys. ” This happiness does not mean to be happy with sexual pleasure, the five senses or the temporary pleasure of the world ...

Glad that it is fun to listen to the Buddha Dharma, happy, not to be afflicted, happy not to be old, sick, dead, happy without suffering, please be happy that Thuong Thien Nhan (Bodhisattva) is allowed to listen to the Fa, happy with Cong Duc Trang Strictly of the Bliss and without Suffering and without the Suffering and no evil and other joys ... Because of that, the Bliss of the Bliss is to gain many benefits for oneself.

Thirdly, there should be Happiness, which is to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha. Maintaining this means that I should recite Namo Amitabha Buddha every day according to my abilities and circumstances. Maintaining the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha has many ways: either to maintain Namo Amitabha Buddha to speak out, or to silently whisper, or to cherish or maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha in his heart ...

Any way is exempted from the situation that is appropriate for each person's ability and circumstances. Going, standing, lying, sitting or doing anything also maintains the title of Amitabha Buddha.

As in the Amitabha Sutra, it says, "If any sentient being hears about Amitabha Buddha, try to maintain His name: either 1 day, or 2 days, or 3 days, or 4 days, or 5 days , or 6 days, or 7 days, one-sidedly, not disturbed, then when he dies, he will be born to Amitabha Buddha's realm of water. ”

If you want to recite the Buddha's name early, Be Mindful of Anxiety, should you maintain the title of Amitabha Buddha without interfering?  Meaning is to recite Buddha's name so that in order to deliberately intervene, to recite Buddha's name with a pure mind, then be able to attain a high birth.

In the Sutra Buddha Sutra also says, "To reborn the Pure Land just to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha is enough". Therefore, I follow the Pure Land method only if I have a Faith, Prayer and maintenance of the title of Nam Amitabha Buddha.

According to the Sutra Buddha Sutra, it is said that "Born in Bliss is no longer in the position of the five aggregates of the five aggregates" (ie, escaping from samsara).

Birth of the Great Bliss is a lot of benefits that can prove the fruit of the Immortal Transition (no longer rotten in the Buddha's fruit), long life-long life (quoted in Amitabha Sutra), without defilements and diseases , old, not only that but also miserable also enjoy the joys, and also have good conditions, environment and good circumstances, good friends to cultivate to reach the fruit of the Saint.

When I practice up to the Bodhisattva fruit, if I continue to go to the Buddha's fruit, I have to return to the Realms, to help other sentient beings free. Bodhisattva benefits the sentient beings for their careers. Because the Bodhisattva wants to become a Buddha, it must help so many sentient beings to escape samsara.

The reborn career is reborn in the karma that means that even though I have a Karma (Karma or Evil), I am still reborn. It does not mean that I create a sin or a evil that I avoid the retribution. The Causality is true in the present Three Past Life and the Future is not wrong.

I reborn in the Pure Land, I did not receive the retribution, but when I was in the Bodhisattva's fruit, I returned to the level of helping sentient beings to escape suffering, at which time the retribution from many previous lives came to me. At that time, I had the ability to receive results in a peaceful way, but I did not suffer the results of the retribution as if there were still many people.

As for the gas episodes: greed, anger, ignorance, suspicion, vilification ... Those bad qualities when you are reborn in the Pure Land, you will eliminate it the next time you go away. When I Am Born, I have many good opportunities to eradicate my bad mind. If you say that, then the evil people if rebirth in the Land of Bliss will become complicated?

Is not. The evil person, if he first started to practice the Pure Land method, if he had the Faith of Happiness, or maintained the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha before he died of 10 thoughts. The person is still reborn, but in low dignity. If in the low-birthed dignity, the lotus flower is long and blooming and it is longevity. When the lotus blossom will see the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara or the Great Bodhisattva Venerable preaching to those beings. What sentient beings are guilty of little crimes, do a lot of good work, recite Buddha's name a lot, then the lotus of that person quickly blooms and quickly sees the ultimate bliss realm.

In the Sutra of the Sutra, there is a saying that "each sentence recites the Buddha's memory of 80 memories of the past (1 memory equals 1 ten thousand), what is the sin of samsara?"  Namo Amitabha Buddha is what? Nam Mo (meaning Refuge) Amitabha (Amitayus or Amitabha) Buddha (Enlightenment).

Maintaining the title of Nam Mo Am Da Amitabha was very much Cong Duc. Maintaining the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha subtracted many delusions. Maintaining the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha makes my body, speech and mind slowly become pure, so I limit or not create Crime and bad karma. And recite Buddha's name for many other benefits (want to know more, read the Buddhist Sutra Recitation saying much about the benefits of maintaining the name of Amitabha Buddha)

Characteristics of the Dharma to recite Buddha's name are:  self-forgiveness and forgiveness. Self-reliance is self-effort to cultivate the name Namo Amitabha Buddha himself. Benefit also means thanks to the Buddha Force to help me to be Born of Great Bliss. Unlike Zen, only self-pity without self-interest means the ability to cultivate yourself without benefit.

As for the birth of the Great Bliss, is there someone who was reborn or not?  There have been many people who have died in the Pure Land, the lay people and the monks have been reborn a lot, have videos, books and documents, images of relics, and the teachers recount.

These things I should believe because the evidence recorded or recounted are both Buddhist or renunciation. Buddhists are not allowed to lie no matter at home or renunciation. Say yes, don't say no, don't say no. If you commit a lie, it is against the precepts of Buddhism. One of the basic precepts of lay people or renunciation is not to lie. If this person breaks the precepts, the person is heavier than the person who does not hold the precept. That is, the crime of lying plus me breaking the world.

When I practice the practice of reciting Buddha's name, when death comes to me I am not bewildered, afraid or suffering because I know my direction, I know where I will go because of the help and guidance of Buddha A Amitabha to help me Born the Great Bliss, I have nothing to fear. If I do not know how to cultivate, when my death comes, I am very confused, miserable, or I see the unjust souls of the family members coming to claim debt, and I see the crimes I committed first and see the horrifying scenes coming and the pain of the body that is about to dissolve in organs.

After death, I am Karma (an act of creation of body, speech, and mind) that leads to samsara, and consciousness (or soul) not knowing where to go and not knowing whether to enter the three paths of evil ( hell, demons and animals) or not. I do not orient myself to be reborn, only Karma and my evil karma decide to reincarnate for me.

There are 4 karma that will affect when the reincarnation is: Jin Tu Nghiep (karma before death, bad karma like anger ...), Extreme karma (heavy karma: such as killing parents ...), Normal (good karma or bad, I often do while I'm alive,) and the Karma (Many karma of many lives in the past).

Do you say that you are the master of karma and that you are also the inheritance of karma. What do I do when I created a Human? I cannot reap that fruit. I created a good personality, a good result, I created a bad personality, a bad result. As Buddha says when the fruit has arrived even if I have entered the cave, hiding in the ground does not escape the Fruit. Causality is true three lives (Past, Present and Future).

So when going to death, karma will decide whether we will reincarnate into good or bad realms. So samsara is very dangerous and miserable. Therefore, when I was alive, I should create a good career as the Nam Mo Am Amitabha Buddha as an example so that before my death, I had Can Tu Nghiep still reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha when I was dying. Birth of the Pure Land.

When alive if you don't create Permanent Business, it is not to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha, before dying, it is very difficult to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha. Although it is known that before the death of the Nam Dai Amitabha Buddha ten anniversary, still being born of the Great Bliss (quoted in Kinh Quan Vo Luong Tho), but it is very difficult because there are many things when people are in death. (as the body is in pain, the mind is afraid of fear, the bad image is present in the mind, or the oath of the righteous master ...) is very difficult to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha to ten concepts.

I am still alive so I should prepare the Career to hold the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha so much so that I can create a habit and create a strong Force, so that when I fall into the habit of reciting Buddha's name, I will remember to recite the Buddha and the Force will influence me to maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha easily.

I write these things and also hope that the true religion will follow the Pure Land practice, not letting any doubts, or certain obstacles, be prevented by your life. Do not let your mind justify, here or there or make an appointment or this reason the reason is that I cannot follow the practice of reciting Buddha's name.

Could it be that I followed these suspicions of suspicion or this reason or this reason the reason that changed the precious opportunity to escape this samsara of samsara. That's not worth it at all.

This practice is very easy to cultivate. Going, standing, lying, sitting or doing things I can still maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha or recite Buddha's name, or recite Buddha's name silently or recite Buddha's name in any way is good ...

Friends should start now, don't wait for the next time to do it. I don't know if death can come to me an hour or so tomorrow ...

Death is not known to me at any time, does not know the life is dead tomorrow, and it does not distinguish between healthy, sick, young, big, male or female ...

Therefore, every day now should be cultivated according to the Pure Land Method: having full faith, prayer and happiness is sure to be born in the Pure Land. I should not leave reason argument to hinder my spiritual path.

Cultivating in the Pure Land is a benefit for yourself and for many other living beings now and later. If I give birth to the Pure Land after giving up this body, I will go to the Pure Land to diligently practice, then become a Bodhisattva, return soon to help many beings escape samsara.

Everything of Impermanence, Impermanence, Impermanence, Circumstances, Impermanence, happiness, hatred, defeat, suffering, joy ... these things are also lawless coordinating those feelings and losing them is not always with me. I die will leave all the possessions of material wealth, my relatives, my relatives and the happy and sad mind ...

I just brought my Karma and Evil created. If I have created good karma, if there is birth in heaven, then when I enjoy the blessedness, I will still be reincarnated and still suffer again.

Expenditure by, now I know the method of Pure Land, relying on Belief and Happiness, then I escape from samsara samsara in an easy way thanks to Aspiration, Power, and Great Compassion of Amitabha Buddha to lead away. birth of the Bliss.

There have been many people who have been reborn, do not let themselves be one of those who are not reborn then unfortunately. Don't let yourself fall behind other sentient beings. Do not let yourself continue to suffer in samsara and meanwhile many sentient beings have been born out of samsara and samsara.

Those who have wisdom see suffering people seek to escape suffering, not to see suffering but still happy in suffering, that is delusion. I should rely on the wise person not to rely on the ignorant person to endure suffering from one life to another from one life to another.

I should practice the Pure Land method to put an end to the suffering of samsara for myself and try to follow the Pure Land practice so that this life is my last life in samsara. Old, young, male, female, healthy, good people, bad people, sick, stupid, intelligent ... also cultivated this method of reciting Buddha's name.

If I have full Venerable Hanh then Amitabha Buddha certainly helps me to rebirth in the Pure Land and He does not miss any sentient beings, no matter what position he is in, the circumstances, how the body is. good or bad ... free to follow the practice of reciting Buddha's name, he will help rebirth in the Pure Land.

I follow the Pure Land method and maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha that I have a lot of virtuous merit from many previous lives. Many past lives, I have cultivated a lot of goodness with Dharma, created many good people and practiced a lot.

So now I practice the Pure Land method and maintain the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha. This is the result of the escape from samsara after the death of this body is inevitable. Therefore, I should take this good fruit, so I should not be confused so that Death will come to me and I will lose my charm from samsara.

Don't expect waiting for your next life to meet the Dharma and then cultivate to escape from samsara. According to Buddhism, this is the time of the Dharma-ending, after the end of the Dharma-ending period. The Buddha's passing away had to wait a very long time before Buddha was born.

If I lose the opportunity to cultivate the Pure Land method of this life, I will be very sad and dangerous in samsara, even if there is no religion, evil people, evil beings in the world. and the bad will be very much and illustrious in society. At that time, when I did not meet the Dharma, how could I escape the birth and death of samsara at that time, when I fell into the Three Paths of Hell, hell, ghosts and animals were very easy.

If someone asks why Amitabha Buddha does not lead all sentient beings? Amitabha Buddha wants to lead all sentient beings, but that being must be with Him. Without grace He cannot help. If people do not want to return, they will not force people, thus leading to bad consequences. That person does not wish to give birth to the Pure Land, how to bring him back to the Pure Land, they are still ignorant to believe that this realm is happy and that they still enjoy this miserable realm and do not want to reborn.

And there are people who do not know the Pure Land method, how can they wish to return. It is not that they do not want to know and cultivate the Pure Land method, but they do not have a good relationship with the Buddha Dharma and they do not have the virtue of virtue to have the grace of encountering the Pure Land Method.

Therefore, I have the privilege of meeting this Pure Land method that I have good and good conditions and good in virtue of virtue. Now I should create conditions with Amitabha Buddha by following the Pure Land method and having full Faith and Happiness (ie maintaining the title of Namo Amitabha Buddha), then surely I will be born after the Pure Land. this life.

Note:

(1) 48 vows: that is, 48 ​​vows of the Dharma Bodhisattva in the past, now the Buddha Amitabha. 48 His vows are to create the present bliss realm and to pray for the ten-minded beings, to believe, to wish to reborn the Bliss realm and to recite the name of Namo Amitabha Buddha. 48 Buddha Amitabha's vows have been accomplished and he has been a Buddha for 10 years now. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.19/1/2019.