Buddha's stories teach forgiveness to contemplate.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

The Buddha taught that: "The most valuable asset of human life is tolerance." Forgiveness and tolerance not only bring peace and peace to others but also for yourself.

The story of Buddha teaches forgiveness is worth pondering

The Great Elder Ghosananda, a Male-pretentious Priest, is known as the "Gandhi of Cambodia". He often led the walking meditation of Dhammayietra (The Pilgrimage of Truth) in the early 1990s, after the peace treaties ended the civil war between Khmer Rouge and the new Cambodian government was signed. 

When Ghosananda died in 2007, at the age of 78, an essay published in The Economist newspaper detailed his experiences when traveling throughout Cambodia after the war. He often saw war still fierce. Rattles still fly over the heads of pilgrims, gunfights still occur around them. Some pilgrims were killed. Many people, because of fear, have returned, but Mr. Ghosananda definitely chooses to go through the roads still in conflict. Sometimes the meditators are stuck in the middle of the long lines of refugees, swollen feet like them, dragging along bullets and bicycles filled with pillows, pots and chickens. "We must have the courage to leave our peaceful temple," said Ghosananda firmly, "to enter the temples filled with suffering of sentient beings."

Although the Khmer Rouge did not allow worship, scratched with monasteries, tossed destroyed Buddha statues into the river, old practices remained. When soldiers heard Ghosananda's advice, "Anger cannot be erased by anger; anger can only be eradicated with love ”, they let go of their weapons, knelt down by the road. The villagers brought water out for him to purify, and they pinned burning incense sticks there as a sign of the end of the war ... He could not leave the world. Instead of just worrying about his monastery, he set up temporary temples to build temples in refugee camps.

Elder Ghosananda built these temples even though the remnants of the Khmer Rouge threatened to kill him without obeying them. When thousands of refugees came to these pagodas, he gave them the Buddha's Sutra texts printed on worn sheets:

   With open mind

   I embrace all beings:

   Words are shining all over the world,

   Going through the blue sky,

   Get down to the ground.

This story is a deep reminder of what forgiveness can do. Elder Ghosananda's family was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, and during their reign, Buddhist monks were considered social parasites. They were stripped of their robes, forced to work or killed: among the 60,000 monks, Cambodia had only 3,000 left after the war. But regardless of what he had suffered during the Khmer Rouge era, Elder Ghosananda still devoted forgiveness to them.

The story of Buddha teaches forgiveness is worth pondering 

Once upon a time, there was a monk who went to a wealthy affluent family when it was raining heavily. The Venerable Master also asked to stay here at the rich household. But the landlord did not allow the monk to go to sleep, so the monk had to sleep on the porch of the gate, enduring hunger and suffering.

Early the next morning, the family butler of the family opened the gate, saw that the monk was all wet, trembling with cold. The monk asked the name of the landlord and hurriedly left.

Years later, the monk became the abbot in the big temple. The wife of the rich man wants to go to the temple to worship. As soon as she reached the temple gate, she saw her husband's name engraved on a sign hanging from a pillar that placed the entrance and exit. The wife of the rich man found it very strange, and then approached a noble monk.

The Venerable Master said, "Because this landlord used to not give alms, so our abbot recorded his name."

The rich wife said angrily, "Why are you the abbot of your temple having such small, narrow hearts?"

The Venerable Master said: "It is not like the owner thinks! The abbot of the pagoda said that the monk did not give alms to the monk, it was certain that there was still the unforgivable fate of his previous life, so the new abbot recorded the owner's name on the other board. Every day, when chanting the Buddha's name, he prayed for their families to be peaceful, lucky, in order to neutralize the evil. "

After hearing these words, the rich wife was moved forever, immediately returning home to tell her husband everything.

When the rich man finished listening, he deeply regretted his heart, and immediately went to the temple to give incense and answer to the abbot. Since then, the rich family has volunteered to provide food, nurture all the monks and repair the temple.

The story shows us that goodness can neutralize resentment. How unjustly does Oan report until new? Just use compassion, tolerance and goodness!

The story of Buddha teaches forgiveness is worth pondering

In the book "Browse the book on the way of the pen", it is recorded that the venerable Hồ Mục Đình, the Qing dynasty once said:

His hometown has a family that raises a pig. What is special is that this pig every time he saw his neighbor, Wang, jumped up, frantically shouted, just wanted to chase and bite him. But meeting any other person in the village, it was very normal.

Mr. Wang at first saw it very indignantly, so he immediately wanted to buy that pig to kill and angry. Not long afterwards, Mr. Wang thought: "Is this due to resentment from previous lives like the usual Buddha's house? In this world, no grudge is impossible to solve! "

Thinking about this, Mr. Wang bought the pig home and raised it until the pig died naturally. But the special thing is, since the day Mr. Wang nurtured the pig, it has not shown the same aggressive attitude as before.

Tolerance really has tremendous emotional power. It helps bad people become good, helps evil people become honest, helps people with people to be more connected, closer together and society becomes peaceful, better! END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.11/3/2019.