TRAINING MANUAL OF QUANG KHANG PROVINCE

BEHAVIOR AND NOW 

- Teachers today and the old days are very different.

In Han Dynasty, teachers respected morality, feast, meaning, integrity and wholesale.Today, teachers themselves are not done (not enough virtue). Buddhist studies today are also far from old.

- In the past, everyone respected feast, meaning, integrity and wholesale; therefore the Holy Man appeared.

Nobody sees these things today as valuable, so society is increasingly chaotic.Therefore I must have respectful attitude towards the sutras.

- In the past, there were artists who could paint the sun like the real thing, to the extent that people could bring rice to dry under the painting! Someone draws a very lively bird, to the point that it can really fly! The reason they did it was because of cultivation.

Who can paint real flying birds today? Everyone relied on mechanical or chemical processing techniques!

- At present, Buddhism in the whole world can spread Dharma, propagate.Nevertheless, Buddhism is so popular, but it is very difficult to find the right one to practice. Some people soon came to Dao, good houses were quite good; But the monk is still few.

- Once upon a time, in the Temple of the Mainland (China), the ordination was not easy. As soon as you go to the monastery, you have to do manual labor at the temple for a while (misery like plowing fields, hoes, etc.), and then you are allowed to do light things in the temple.

In Taiwan (China), ordination is very common, very ordinary; and most of them are based on academics and considering renunciation.

- In the ancient Continent, renunciation was to kill birth and death; therefore, hard work, learning the austerities of Buddha and Bodhisattvas to cultivate themselves. In Mainland, the monk must work hard for three years. To suffer extreme suffering, it will be free!

- People and ancient people are different: Ancient people, mind-center have ten parts; people of this age, the mind-mind has only one part.

- The family members who are ordained today are very happy. When life is too happy, there will be many accidents. The previous attachment to identity, bar, incense, taste, touch, and dharma, the sickness will be more.

- Eat protein, wear rough clothes: practice is just here and use it. But now, everyone studies delicious food, nice clothes. The whole day is busy for those things. I wish to destroy karma, now turn into losing merit, and then karma will follow.

- In the past, rice, soup, vegetables were simple - just put it all in boiled and finished (called La-han Thai). Now, everyone is paying attention, choosing to eat and drink so much that the monks eat better than the secular people!

- In the past, in Mainland, the monks at the temple wore the burlap coat (the cloth for funerals) dyed gray; eat liquid porridge like water (so the bowl doesn't need to be washed thoroughly), plus a little simple food; not like you are now able to eat white rice, there are enough dishes, so many dishes.

- Chua pagoda in China in the past, anyone who wants to put things in a mess, the pagoda will gather and collect it, regardless of who it is. If you want to find something you have lost, you have to ask the Manager.

- In the old Chinese temple, when someone made a mistake, the Manager did not need to ramble at all but just wrote his name on the statement; The person who read it automatically left the temple immediately. Today, the Manager comes to say your mistake (to invite you to pack), you (not only don't listen to it), but the dispute quarrels with him. It is so far too wrong! END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/1/2019.