2. The Meaning of Repeating Six Apartments.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

 The meaning of penitence for six bases for all Buddhists in the monastery understood, to clearly see the spiritual practice of the monastery. If we only know how to recite the six-letter penitence without understanding the meaning, then our work is still shallow and not deep. Therefore, when we study, we have to make a deep sense of the value of work, not just in form.

For a long time, Buddhists have recited Samyutta, but have understood the meaning of the six-penitence repentance to remind them of something?

Before, it is necessary to let go of all the mistakes and live back to the original. This is a special creative point of Vietnam Zen, not mediocre. Often, Buddhists only recite the repentance articles such as the Feast of One Hundred and Eight Names of Buddhas, Compassion and Mercy, Penitence of Medicine or reciting the Dharma Flower ... And this penitent is especially close to the six bases, this is creative dharma to repent to right in the daily life practical application of spiritual practice that so far no one noticed. Because, six bases: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind is where each person lives, if this penitence is very close to us, exactly to us.

As the beginning of penance: "We are from beginningless time to now, giving up our mind without knowing the right path". That is, from ancient times, not knowing when to now we have deliberately lost our mind, not knowing the right path is not knowing the true path of cultivation, so we should go the wrong path, the wrong path of the world .

Thus, from the past to the present time, we live in the wrong way, so we forget our own mind, we don't know the right path. The mind of each person is the original mind but do not know what you know, do you know your mind?

Perhaps only heard like listening to the Buddhas, the Patriarchs, the teachers, ladies and gentlemen preaching, so I believe that I have a mind, and I know it is not known. The truth is that everyone has the mind or the original mind but because only living with the mind of hope, the mind is lying to the top of the mind should be mistaken. So, Buddha says living beings lose their roots is that place, but so true. While the mind, which is the original story, the story of each person's house without knowing it, knows what things are, the distant things that people know all about, but the story of my family does not know, that is delusion.

For six long years we chased the six outer ceiling, worried about the colors, silence, flavor, taste, and distant stories of the outside world, leading us to go further and further away from our minds. Now, if I ask what my mind is, many people find it strange as to where it is, sometimes I think it has nothing to do with me. But if you ask the mind sad, happy, angry, hate ... then it is closer and clearer, that is sad.

For example, the guy who died in the French Sutra left his father who was a wealthy man who wandered around and struggled to seek dress every day in his country. Meanwhile the father is a wealthy chief, the treasure is full for his inheritance. We, too, have a true heart and mind but leave wandering along the six ceilings outside, looking for a little understanding of the term, getting a little lost, losing and finding again, it is so misleading.

This six-seat repentance French reminds people of awakening to return to see, hear, understand everyday right where the six bases. Because love is also from the six bases leading to six ceiling and then create karma from samsara, now must also come from those six bases, so repentance is a reminder, to be repentant to return to the true mind. .

1- Firstly, penitence is right in the eyes: "Receive fake flowers, forget to watch the real moon". Get fake flowers, that is to receive the external identity, which is called fake flowers. And the real moon is my mind, that's the true root.

But because we forget to accept the fake, the shadow follows the impermanent forms that lie outside, and forget their eternal nature. As if seeing the car, remember the car, see the house remember the house, see something, just remember that without remembering the nature, hearing ..., that is to forget the original.

We repent right in the eyes to learn to remember when we know it, what is it? Seeing only knowing it, right away, the true heart and soul of shining light, no need, no need to go and pray any more.

If austerities follow the generals outside, then love, hate, and distinguish good and bad is wrong, to obscure the righteous eye, be turned over by the green, white, yellow, purple generals to mislead the righteous look. , should say "Lack of unborn eyes, cross section". Immediately ignoring the eyes of the mind, making it impossible to see the place of your birth is the item of the face or the true face of yourself. Because according to the shadows, the figures should blind the intellectual eye, not seeing this truth, called forgetting things.

When repenting, immediately remind us to go back to the nature we always see, even when there is no rupa or rupa, it still sees, it still has no loss. And this meat eye does not know it, must always remember it so well.

Most people think that when we see it, it is because of our eyes. In fact, did the eye see it? If the eye sees the dead person still has no reason to see it, so saying that the eye is not right. So, what is seen is not the eye. For example: when the light is on, is the light on, but is the light on? The light is due to the light source, and the light is only the light emitting body, so the damaged lamp can be replaced. The same is true for humans, if the eyes are damaged, the eyes are bright and clear.

But what when it comes to identity, we immediately know that there is no need to try, no need to think at all. You see the case where we have just seen something and immediately know without thinking, and then there is something more that makes it known to distinguish beauty-bad, long-short, etc., this is the place important that we forget. Every day we recite penance but in fact we do not have any penance, so the group teaches the penitence of six bases to remind us to live right back in the eyes, there will be great benefits.

2- To the ear is "Hate to listen to the dharma, like to listen to the evil words, fall in love with the root of the feet, chase after perceptions". Because I like to listen to the evil words outside, I forget this true origin or this eternal hearing nature, and then chase after the outside voices, and the nature that is always heard is not remembered. The repentance of karma to remind us to remember that Tanh heard is always present, always exists in himself, has a sound or not, he still hears. When you hear the language, you know that there is no sound and no sound is heard. This is not in the language, nor in the ear, it is always bright, that is where we repent to return, repentance is so very good.

Once, Vo Tru Zen Master was discussing with General Do Hong Tiem. At that time, a crow cried on a tree branch in front of the yard. The General asked: "Did you hear?" The Zen master replied that he heard. Once the crow flew away, the general asked again: "White teacher! Can you hear me now? ”. The Zen master also answered that he heard. The new General asked, "The crow has flown away, without a sound, why do you say it, listen to what?"

The Headless Zen monk meets all the masses, he reminds: "Buddha was born very difficult to meet, the dharma is also hard to hear, please listen carefully. Because having a reputation or not is not related to hearing. Old now Tanh heard no birth, where ever there is death, when there is a voice that is bare-minded, but not the nature of hearing, when not, then the voiceless silence. So there is birth and death are due to the voice itself, and where the mind is born, there is death. Because Tanh heard this is not the place where there is birth and death, if enlightenment is heard from this instant, the ceiling is dominated, to know the nature of hearing that is not destroyed, ".

He insisted that it is difficult for all to be aware of the Buddha's birth, the Dharma is also very hard to hear, these things are not easy to hear. Buddhists have long been affectionately affectionate and close to teachers, ladies and gentlemen, and they have been reminded of these things, so they feel a bit familiar. If you look carefully, you will see that in the world of samsara, there are still billions of beings who have not heard these things, this is not something that is easily heard. The insects, the crickets it ever hears, the birds, the dog never hears this, even the people who live far away have never met the Dharma how to hear these things. We often hear when we hear it, so we often see it, so we pay less attention. So, he said the masses must see that meaning and remind each person to repent to return to the original, if not, just worry about chasing the bad sounds and complaining about losing your true roots. Such penitence is full of meaning.

Every day, just after the repentance ceremony, I have heard the distinction, complimented me, or done bad things. We need to remember this: always awakening is truly repentance. This is the practical way to help us practice daily.

3- Industrial nose nose "Often strange smells, hundreds of stuffy, not like foot incense, five purity." That is to like the delicious smells. And the foot of the incense is the true incense, the aroma of the body is forgotten. Ceiling means dust. Dust closed to cover true roots. This reminds me to remember again, do not follow the aroma and smell of deceitful nostril.

In the past, Buddha used very beautiful "incense", now we call it fragrance. But even if it is fragrant, it is also a dust, remember carefully not to let its nostrils fool.

Most people get tricked nostrils. When smelling the smell, it is said that the nostrils smell the smell. In fact, the nostrils are just a few pieces of meat that combine to know how to smell. Remember to live back to the smelling nature, because that is what always exists in you, it does not belong in the nostril, nor does it belong to the smell why you forget to remember only the smell, remember the nostril not to mistake. Therefore, we need to repent the karma of the nose to remind us to live again.

Mr. Hoang Dinh Kien (Hoang Son Coc) studied meditation with Zen Master Hoi Duong for a long time but still not bright. One day, Hoi Duong told him about Confucius teaching students. Confucius said: "Hey children! You think I have nothing to hide from you guys! No, I have nothing to hide from you. ”

Through the story, Zen master wanted to wake him up but he was still not clear. That day, he led him up to the mountain to play, in order to bloom cinnamon flowers, the fragrance flew away. At that time, Mr. Hoi Duong asked, "Can you smell cinnamon flowers?" He replied, "Smell." Mr. Hoi Duong said: "So, do I hide anything from you?" It means that when he comes to smell the fragrance of instant flowers, so is it available to him, I don't hide anything from him, the truth is right there. Right there, he proved enlightened.

Remembrance is so good, but I still remember the smell of cinnamon and forgot this truth, which is called delusion, remembering to return to it, every day when we enter the kitchen, we always have opportunity to show enlightenment. Whenever you smell the food in the kitchen, remember that you don't hide anything from me, so when you're in the kitchen it's always bright. Right there, we have already repented, not having to wait on the table to recite the Buddha's penitence, sometimes on the table to recite the Buddha's penance, but when it comes to grace, then forget, so it is not true to repent.

4- Career of the tongue "Take all the smell, like the delicious taste". Tongue according to all the bad smell, bad smell, just consider this delicious, the other bad but forget the truth when tasted. If you taste it, you know what it tastes like. Thus, the money is bright. But do not remember, not bright, only worry about the tongue, remember the bad smell and then compliment the far away and lose the truth, this is to forget the original.

Then the tongue has the ability to speak and taste and speak. This apartment is very easy to deceive. When talking, chase after the talk of the table anywhere, called "Discussing ancient and complaining about this and that." Talking about the old story, then complimenting this and that, according to that, forgetting to know the existence is the truth in us.

Before we speak, we always have a presence in us that we forget. So, Mr. Hue Hai came to Ma To bridge to study the religion. Ma To asked: "What do you come here for?" A: "Ask Buddha Dharma". Ma To said: "What is the treasure of my house that I will not accept, but worry about the bridge?" Hue Hai asked: "What is the treasure of Hue Hai?" Ma To taught: "It is you who ask me. that is his treasure, complete without shortcomings ”. 
That is, what he asked me was his treasure, but he kept forgetting that and worried about asking, worried about what his teacher said to understand, and the money that was close to I forgot it again. What he is asking me is the root, and the understanding of what the teacher said is that the teacher's, then also returning the teacher, or the Buddha's, also the Buddha's return.

The person who is good at how to speak can only say what the Buddha, the Patriarch, is not his own, and what he is asking is his main, that is the close. Today, the teacher reminds everyone to remember to go back to that place, such repentance is to remember yourself.

5 - Karma body "In the five organs of comedy, together together, accepting is true, forgetting dharmakaya". That is the body due to tendons, bones, flesh and blood combined, accepting it to be true, forgetting the true dharmakaya, then following it to commit murder. That is to create the karma of suicide: killing birth, theft, adultery ... forgetting your true nature. But even when I touched the object, when I touched it, I knew it. This nature does not know where in the body, nor does it belong to the flesh, but it is known to just touch.

What are you going to do if someone touches you? Do you need to think about it at that time? Why don't you remember that, then what do you remember? At that time, only know how to distinguish this rough sister from disrespect, and then be angry and sad, forget the true truth. If you remember, it will always be bright, touching to know it, from the top to the feet you know everything.

Zen master Ban Khue taught about this existence, which he called the unborn Buddha's mind always exists and said the example of the innate power of this Buddha's mind. “As if you were sitting still, suddenly someone put his hand into a fire, right away you startled and automatically withdrew your hand without thinking. This proves that the Buddha's mind is inherently shining miraculously and it perfectly arranges everything. On the contrary, when you think that it is just a fire, then immediately realize that it is a hot fire, immediately get angry at someone who has burned your hand, then you will fall into a dependent experience when the event was happening". That is, the event has already happened, now the thought of the event happened, thinking that this sister or brother played something, was born angry, and then covered the truth.

So, penitence to remember to come back to the truth does not follow the outside touch, do not create karma to kill and steal robbery, sexual misconduct will forget this affection and always remember to repent.

6 - The karma to be repentant is "Thinking hard and thinking, not always stopping, suffering from love, being stuck in the mind accepting the minister". Because I worry about things, it is not worth to think about it because I don't own it and I can't stop it at all. Even when it's time to rest, does it take a break? Also think about thinking and refusing to stop. So, because of being chased by the general, following the love of the ceiling, he forgot his identity that existed. Before thinking it is still available, when it comes to thinking, it comes later, but most of us only remember the thought but forget about this availability, it is misleading. So, people who have learned a little while meditating, it is temporarily quiet and has a thought of starting up immediately, because it is before the thought, so the mindfulness is just starting. At present, we return to this idea immediately and repent to live back to the true place. When the mind has mindfulness, reciting the yard up, then knowing that there is mindfulness, mindfulness, this knowledge is preceded by the mindfulness of attachment, the other yard, do not mistake to receive thoughts of attachment, the other yard is me. Thus, it is clear that this is the penance of repentance.

Now, you check the mind to see if there is a good yard or no more or a bit of love will be there, such as mindfulness, delusion ... when it is sometimes but this knowledge is always available. So, just worry about living with that, is it wrong? Either when the greed and the pitch start up, we have to contemplate how it takes place, follow its progress, how to identify it and when we see it, then we will not follow it.

For example, when reciting the pitch is initiating, contemplating the process of how it progresses, taking a close look, separating itself from it, not assimilating itself to follow it, is not transferred by it.

But when the courtyard just started up, this is something worth giving me the yard, so I assimilated myself to the yard, followed it for a while and then stretched further, the more I lost myself. If you look carefully, you are the observer, and the yard is the observed. It's like watching a movie, watching how it goes, just looking at it without assimilating it. So we master again, obviously we are not that yard, we have in front of that yard, so when we repent, remember to come back, we master it, so less greed, hatred and ignorance.

As the story of Mr. Huyen Huyen studied Zen Master Duyen Quan. Mr. Duyen, Contemplating the Quan Yin statue said: "Someone said this statue was painted by Mr. Ngo Dac." Mr. Huyen Huyen new thinking, Mr. Duyen Quan quickly said: "This is the other minister does not minister". Right there, he was enlightened.

As soon as I heard that this Quan Yin statue was painted by Ngo Si Si, it was customary to think about how to draw it, to have a general of the Quan Yin statue, and to imagine Ngo Quy Si's general, to become in the city. the mind has a general. And the one with this is the latter, and the other doesn't see these.

When we know this before the other is that we have repentance at a deeper level, and when there are normal thoughts, mindfulness of thoughts, thoughts of initiation, then immediately remember to repent.

If we always know that, always remember to return to that place, always repenting like that, it is true that we will repent, so that every day our mind will always be bright. Such penance, immeasurable merit cannot be counted.

As for when chanting the penitence on the Buddha's table finished, forget all. So one day of penitent time is about half an hour, the remaining time is for the mind to run east and west. Once you understand it, each person tries to practice it carefully, because this is the truth that from the past the Buddhist scriptures taught as well, not the latter.

The Theravada scriptures say: For example, there are six animals that are tied into a stake. I dragged west, I pulled south, I pulled north, each one pulled in one direction but because it was tied to the stake, they did not go anywhere. The Bhikkhu-stilts cultivate six apartments just like animals are forced like that.

Seeing the color, the ears according to the sound ..., those six were dragged along with six generals but what was the tie? It ran out. That is repentance. Fastening it to the most specialized concept, not letting it follow it outside is how to return to reality.

In Kim Cang, the Buddha taught the Bodhisattva to play the supreme mind, the righteous mind, the generosity of generosity. What is alms without a general? Is not where the ceiling is. "Any interest in the birth of the mind, regardless of the taste of the scent of the mind of birth, the mind of the unborn child". That is, "There is no pillar in the mind of the mind, no pillar of the flavor of giving birth, so there is no place where the mind is born."

This practice is also to let go of the six ceiling to repent. That is, it does not allow the mind to cling to the ceiling, then it is to give the mind of supreme and righteous mind, not ordinary. Thus, the Theravada or the Mahayana Sutra also places right there to remind practitioners.

The Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha's teaching of the six bases is the birth and death of samsara. When Buddha comes to this place, the ten directions of buddhas are released in aura. To say this is not only Shakyamuni Buddha said that the ten Buddhas say so. That's right. If at that moment, everyone would repent and return. Right?

So the practice is too close. Where is the need to find Nirvana for liberation? Realizing right away from this understanding is the reason that leads me into samsara or samsara, immediately to the province. Just by hearing all the knowledge without missing it is done. That is, when you see, hear, understand, but do not bring more sight, listen, understand more is the way back to Nirvana.

That is, every time I see and hear, I always remember the nature, the nature of hearing that exists in it without remembering the outer ceiling, so it is called not missing, then it is the way back. But forgetting it to follow the outer ceiling, more discriminating than losing, having to harass, it is going into samsara.

Thus, from the Theravada Sutra to the Mahayana Sutra, Buddha emphasizes the basic principle of the six bases immediately. What about meditation in the home? Also aiming at this place, we declare the road back to nothing. Bring the tree to death to remind people to return to their senses. Calling and praying to remind us to return to the nature of our hearing in the ears ..., all of them aim at the six apartments.

At the time of Ngự Sơn Huệ President's time at the Qui Sơn congregation, one day he went to the buffalo session under the mountain. He saw a man rising to the mountain, not long afterward, so he asked, "Why don't you stay and come down early?" Sang said: "Only because of predestined relationships." Siddhartha asked, "What are the conditions that are not appropriate, say?" Sang said, "When I met the Venerable Master, he asked me what my name was, and I answered Qui Chon's name. Where does the monk ask Qui Chon? I could not answer, seeing that the conditions did not match and went down the mountain.

The term Qui is returned. The word Chon is true. Qui Chon is returning to truth. Mr. Qui Son, the name wanted to decipher if this monk was knowledgeable, so he said: "Mr. Qui Chon is you! So where is Qui Chon? ”What is Qui Chon not this name is not Qui Chon. The monk did not understand, so he could not answer, just came down the mountain.

Siangshan said, "Well, please come back and tell the Venerable Master that you have already said it. If asked how to say? Then he replied in the eyes of the ears, nose, etc. ”. The rising position is as true as the teaching. Mr. Qui Son rebuked: “The talker is useless. This is the word of good knowledge 500 people. Mr. Qui Son knew that this was not the word of the monk, because he heard it from someone and said it again.

We see old people who have attained real life when they hear people say that they know things or fake things. Because you yourself have a real eye and should look at the gesture, hear the voice of knowing this person is not yet known, knowing what he came up with is because he learned to speak again or from himself.

The learner of another person said that the gestures and words did not have enough faith because they were not their own. The living person is said, the words exactly make people believe. So you see the gesture, hear the words immediately.

So is Chon return to the truth where that truth is? Then in these six apartments. At this moment, hearing this knowledge is not something else. Maze also from where the six bases create karma into birth and death, that is according to hope. Even the six expectations that remember to return, it is Qui Chon.

Thus, right where you see the knowledge of the six bases of the conditions, you will come back to your true roots. So the six-penitence repentance is to remind each person to let go of the six ceilings, hoping to make a decision. Do not let your eyes run after your eyes, so that your eyes are not born, your ears do not settle in the sound of evil, forgetting your true roots ... Khéo knows to be awake.

Thus, according to this line of seeing, hearing and understanding, I come back to see my own boss, which is the truth of salvation, which the Buddha has bitterly declared for sentient beings. Only that much, but the hardship he was born, said all this lesson, all the other lessons to testify but beings still do not listen. So, they pity and repeat again and again.

If anyone is consistent, he will feel compassion for the Buddha. They are born, remind us to remember but not need to remind them anymore, right? You have enlightened, you have survived that place, if you are for personal gain, then it is not so hard. And here, because of being born and born, it is hard to bear, to bear and remind, back and forth, not having to remind anyone to listen, and when I mention it many times, I will not listen and bother again Seeing that place and then feeling that I love the great grace of the Buddha. So, each person must be smart to wake up, to always remember to return to life to reduce confusion.

Understanding it so well will immediately realize that this six-point repentance is a great truth. It is a true cultivation experience right in each person's daily life, full of wisdom without missing anything. This is truly a creation of a Buddhist country, not mediocre. It is opening a bright path, right where the six foundations, hearing and knowing all the scenes against it, immediately repent, remember not to follow the scenes, keep seeing that you only see knowing, that is to live righteous reality shows bright money, then it is meditation. Often such penitence, there is no place to sin.
What are we now repenting for, but what is the point of being guilty? Repentance to end sin but still repent but what about sin? It is because on the table of the Buddha, the penitence and the Buddha's table go out of repentance. If only bowing in the external form without moving to the center, the sinful seed is still in the heart when encountering the condition, then being born again and creating the next error.

So, according to this six-element repentance spirit, it is seen that it is a practice practice right in life, each step of ours is every creative step, bright. Practitioners who study Buddha every step are close to the truth, each step is a step back to the original homeland. What about my hometown? This is not our real hometown. Then each person must always see the good to develop, to clarify the Buddha Dharma in the world.

This penitential Dharma is on its way back to the Buddha's knowledge that in the Dharma of the United States, Buddha often teaches. Yes, there will be times when Da Bao Buddha shows the stupa. Da Bao Buddha is not far away! If you are skilled, then one day we can open the door of the treasure tower to see Da Bao Buddha with Buddha Shakyamuni sitting in the same court, that is the truth.

Understood, from here onwards, the penitence of six penitents for the right meaning, not only exhausted on the form, not on the new penitential Buddha table, but always remember to repent of the six bases, then full repentance merit better

The article "Repentance of Six Basics" has many meanings, helping us to reduce the mistakes in daily life, and develop the wisdom to bring each person to the truth. Thus, today has seen the meaning of penitence to six full units, then all must try to repent for the true meaning. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/6/2019.