The concept of liberation and liberation of samsara in Buddhism.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

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In Buddhist teachings there are often words that accompany each other to indicate the circumstances of the evolution and then the result of the practice on the path of enlightenment - liberation such as: liberation of the world, liberation of karma, liberation of knowledge. ants, liberation of ghosts, liberation of samsara, ultimately liberating samsara.

In terms of form as well as the connotation of religious terms in general it is difficult to understand. In it, there are hidden Buddhist doctrinal terms that contain many profound meanings for beginners (the first step towards getting to the Buddhist teachings is very difficult. And in fact, almost we see many sentences in The teachings of the Buddha are very profound, so not many people understand the meaning of angels (ie, outside the shell) of the language but do not understand the nature of it. as the Buddhist scriptures are quite sufficient, the study of Buddhism is more advantageous than the first decades of the previous century. The very useful dharma of the teachers explained quite well the semantics of the confusing words in the doctrine,

With the concept of the phrase of liberation and liberation of life and death, this is a common sentence in Buddhist teachings with a lot of usage frequency, and almost all Buddhist students are constantly mindful in the process of cultivating. enlightenment. However, liberation to go anywhere and fake something is a crucial issue.

In fact in Buddhism, two words of liberation are mentioned in many cases, circumstances as well as different contexts on the path of enlightenment and liberation. But the concept of life and death is often used to talk about the ultimate goal of a Buddhist practitioner. This small article together we learn more about the concept of this phrase in Buddhist teachings.

The concept of life and death is often used to talk about the ultimate goal of a Buddhist practitioner.

What is liberation of samsara

First of all, the concept of liberation needs to be explained. According to the popular Vietnamese dictionary:

1 / Save from bondage.

2 / (Buddha) saved from the sea of ​​misery.

And the Buddhist study dictionary explains the deeper scholarly: Liberation is to remove the bondage of defilements but beyond the world of confusion; is out of bondage in the three realms. For people who have just learned Buddha, it is possible to understand that the cause of death and death of karma; is not caught by the mind; is to achieve the transcendence beyond the bondage of the mundane world, from the domination of desire (to live completely free from self); is to escape from illusions and suffering, get rid of rebirth in samsara and attain Nirvana.

In order to help us understand this concept, Doan Trung's Buddhist dictionary also explains further:

Liberation:  Sanskrit sounds are Moc De, Moc Tat (Moksha).

Good: to  leave the bondage, to be free, to open the strings tied to Karma (ie or karma).

Exit:  is going out of the result of the three precepts, ie the three precepts (Sex, the precepts, the invisible). Liberation of meaning with the ending, the right system.

1 / Liberation means Nirvana.

2 / Liberation also called Meditation as Tam freed, Bat liberation, Real liberation. Because of the virtue of meditation that comes out of bondage, becomes free.

Liberation is Nirvana, it is Nirvana, for leaving all ties. As the liberation from the skandha from the Deliverance to the Liberation, is the nirvana year (the five Nirvana). Liberation is one of the five parts of Dharmakaya.

Buddhism also calls for relief; The virtue of Buddhism also calls for the release of gender;Ca sa shirt is also called to liberate, to escape, because all have a way of liberation.

Liberation  has two things:

1 / Tanh Tanh freed: the  nature of beings that are pure, no generals, pollution.

2 / Obedience to liberation: The  nature of beings is pure, but because of the beginningless time, they are afflicted to be enchanted, unable to show their own nature, so this is the passage of that distress or evil. but liberated freely.

Liberation  has two scenes: about truth and reason.

About the thing , ie liberation from the suffering of the brain, the accident that binds the body. As freed from the three paths: Hell, Peta, Pig; freed from law, prison, out of water, fire, robbery, wild animal ...

About the reason,  liberation from all the afflictions, the strings that have bound the mind. As liberation from the cycle of samsara, the result of the Holy result: Arhat, Pratyekabuddha, Bodhisattva, Buddha.

Regarding reason, there are two freedoms:

a / Mindful freed:  mindful mind is left from the bondage is (greed, anger, ignorance)

b / Hue good freed:  wise wisdom freed, not obstructed by a law, know all. Those are the two freedoms of the Bodhisattva.

Nirvana:  The Buddha himself was liberated, brought the liberation method to speak with beings, so called Him Supreme Master.

Liberation of samsara according to karma

The concept of the inner meaning of liberation in Buddhism is very wide, this is the ultimate purpose of Buddhist teachings. In order for us to gradually grasp the levels of liberation, in the teachings of the Buddha as well as the teachers often give specific evidence.

 the liberation group includes:  liberating the situation, liberating the mind and liberating completely .

Liberation of the situation  includes improving the physical situation to a very good level and not paying attention to external circumstances so as not to be bound. Liberation of mind means  that all defilements are bound to make people suffer. Complete liberation  is no longer limited by time and space, no longer dominated by mediocre physiological psychology. Wisdom clearly sees the non-dualities, so it is not bound to be in the world and not to find a way out of the three realms.

Thus, liberation is the mind that is not bound by circumstances, defilements, and even the notion of trying, Nirvana.

Referring to liberation, according to the sub-cycle of loving-kindness, belonging to the Central Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya), one is called enlightenment to liberate when he is  "To live in impermanence, to live contemplation and to live and to live. contemplation of killing nature, living in the mind of renunciation in senses, not accepting something in life, without suffering, he attests Nirvana. He knows well: "Being born, the virtue has become, the things to do have done, no longer come back to this life". Liberation, according to the text is the greed, no attachment, Nirvana.

Then liberation is also understood as Nirvana, which also means anatta. Nirvana means to extinguish all the negativity to make people feel uneasy. Selflessness is no longer attachment to ego born greed, anger, delusion ... Can touch Nirvana, can experience right now but not wait until after death. Therefore, liberation is the transformation of defilements, far from falling apart, clearly seeing the reality of all things, so the mind is free.

Based on the meaning of the concept of birth and death is the concretization of this concept. In other words, the concept of liberating samsara is to emphasize the purpose of the practice to aim at the end of craving, ending the path of life and death according to the karma of good and evil.

In chapter One dharma, when the Buddha's theory (As the language) belongs to the Minor (Khuddaka Nikaya). The Buddha taught that a dharma brought to no longer reborn. That is to give up craving, give up anger, give up ignorance, give up indignation, give up disparaging, give up arrogance. Renunciation of akusala is renouncing karma, leading to birth and death, so it is no longer reborn. It is also necessary to understand rebirth as a rebirth in karma.

The Buddha taught that a dharma brought to no longer reborn. That is to give up craving, give up anger, give up ignorance, give up indignation, give up disparaging, give up arrogance. Renunciation of akusala is renouncing karma, leading to birth and death, so it is no longer reborn

With the Dharma practice of pure meditation, Tathagata also teaches the practitioner to liberate to return to the Buddha as follows:  "If you want to be freed from the three worlds, the practitioner must be enlightened (that is, clear understanding from man, all things , the earth, the three kingdoms, the Buddha's world and the law of reincarnation-cause and effect, at the same time, must understand: what is the nature of Buddha's nature?

Liberation here is understood to know the way out of the law of causality-reincarnation of the three worlds and this earth to return to the purity of Buddha's precepts. Want to liberate, that is, don't cling to anything on this earth. The Buddha is called immeasurable with material things. The universe here is not (renunciation) but people living in this earth must follow the laws of the earth's physics. But always awake "mindful" with the spirit of meditation. That is: let go, stop, stop, stop! According to the practice of Tathagata pure meditation.

From the explanation of the concept of liberation, it is possible to draw a common feature of liberation that is not suffering and suffering from Nirvana.

Mentioning suffering and the cessation of suffering or Nirvana. The Sutra of the Dharma of the Sutra of the Sutra states as follows:  "Birth is miserable, old is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering, sorrow, compassion, suffering, and suffering is suffering;resentment to meet is suffering; loving-kindness is suffering; Demand is not suffering.

In short, the five aggregates are suffering. The cessation of suffering is the greed, the cessation of love ... is tossing away, giving up, liberating ..!

According to the definition of Small Business, the liberation is the Nirvana, the result of Arahantship and said that he was born in the end ... no longer returning to this life. It is easy to understand that the Saints of Arahant no longer create good and evil karma, thus, they have ceased their greed, anger and delusion ... so they are not led by karma to rebirth in the paths of reincarnation. .

Free samsara to pray

Is it possible to liberate samsara is no longer the samsara returned as we have just learned above. And liberation of samsara is liberation of kamma which leads to the birth and death of samsara in the six paths. Here, it is necessary to distinguish samsara from samsara and samsara as a rule (visually present).

For the saints, though being born and mortal as a law of physical arising (worldly), the mind is always free from the dominant karma. The case of birth and death after synonymous with Nirvana that is the Holy A-la-Han or the body of the current display of the Bodhisattva. Here according to the law, there is a birth. If there is a birth, there is death. But the difference here is the samsara of the Bodhisattva vows rather than karma.

Always awake "mindful" with the spirit of meditation. That is: let go, stop, stop, stop! According to the practice of Tathagata pure meditation.

The birth and death according to the Prayer can be mentioned as the presence of Buddha Shakyamuni, the Bodhisattva and Maitreya Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara ... In the Sutra, there are a lot of stories  of the Buddha's precursor  recorded. write out. The characters in the precursor stories are believed to be Bo-slaps. It was Bo-slapped, of course, liberated samsara. Reading the history of the Buddha we see, Prince Siddhartha, who has many births, practices, attained Buddhahood, and then passed away is a life-and-death case (body) that occurs after liberating samsara. many previous lives.

About Bo-slapped Maitreya, both Nam Truyen and North spread that they believe that Bo-slaps are present in Heaven and Earth, and will be born in the future in the realm of Ta-grandma to continue practicing the realization of Buddhahood, inheriting virtue. Shakyamuni Buddha. Also Bo-slapped Quan The Yin, the great compassion of Da-Da-ni said that he became the Buddha Dharma of the Dharma, but because of the great power of compassion, he was embodied in Avalokitesvara to be sentient beings.

When a Bodhisattva or a saint is born, a being appears. Of course, the current body will have to kill (death) according to the law of dependent arising. Only pure mind and body, not being destroyed by the world and always free. Mahayana Buddhism advocates fertility theory in this form. From there, it is possible to explain smoothly that the Buddha or the Saints follow the grace of the grace into the birth and death to bring about beings, but the mind is always free, without suffering.

If there is a birth, there is death

Regarding the matter of life and death, we need to distinguish and understand the two parts: One is the citta which arises. The second is the body of birth and death. According to Zen master Thanh Từ, the mind of birth and death is the hope. And the true mind is the eternal purity as the seeing of the eye is always constant whether the eyes are closed or the eyes are open. The body of the four great beings arises, one can understand it because it belongs to the principle (physics). In the Buddhist scriptures (Udana) of the Minor of Business I, the Buddha taught about interdependent origination: "Because this is present, the other is present, because this is not present, so the other is not present, because of this So the other is born, because this kills the other. " The body of the four elements is born, it must be destroyed, according to the doctrine of dependent origination.

According to the history of Shakyamuni Buddha, He attained Nirvana into Buddha after 49 days of meditation.

According to the history of Shakyamuni Buddha, He attained Nirvana into Buddha after 49 days of meditation. Since then, the Buddha's mind has always been pure and no longer destroys the mind of sentient beings. However, Buddha's four-body body is still dominated by the principle of birth and death. In general, we see, when there is life in existence by the body (the four elements), there is inevitably birth and death. That is the law of nature, which is the dependent origination. Therefore, liberation of samsara does not mean that there is absolutely no existence in this world or in other worlds.

According to the religious religions and folk beliefs, the concept of the birth and death of samsara seems to be less mentioned, because human rights are not recognized with the attitude of thinking and respect for equality ( including this body (physical), as well as (consciousness) after death, from this fact, in general the religious beliefs when it comes to the issue of birth and death, they are often anxious, dazed and only Based on the theory of "immense samadhi" arranged (there is no change in the process of liberating samsara), it is because of this that the doctrine of Pratyekabuddha of Buddhism came into being, giving humanity a new perspective. , help people to be more confident and open-minded when recognizing the matter of life and death (ie liberating liberation) in the life of suffering and suffering in the three-way to have a rejuvenation t better.

To conclude this article, the writer borrowed the comment of Thich Hanh Chon in the article " Thinking about the concept of life and death in Buddhism " to replace the opening of this article. friends and readers meditate on: " Buddhism aims to liberate samsara, Nibbana to live freely in life that benefits the students. The concept of liberation of samsara and Nirvana in some world and achieved only after death is a concept that needs to be reevaluated. Because saying so is to deny the life and value of the great contribution of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. At the same time, with that concept also makes Buddhism become metaphysical and alienated the existence of life ”(That lack of inherent commitment of Buddhism).

Therefore, right understanding of the concept to understand and practice properly is a very necessary process for anyone who practices Buddhism. Especially in the current period of Buddhist integration and development. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/6/2019.