The Path of Enlightenment.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

11. Liberation of Knowledge.

I. MYTHS

The topic of the talk is "Liberation of Tri Kien", which frees the sightings, which is known according to the confusion and entanglement, returning to the self-knowledge in real life.

First of all, talk about the wrong knowledge and the knowledge that is bound or known as the ant.

Human knowledge has always brought me with me, bringing me into it. So, knowing that always distorts the truth according to the self, looking at things that are not true. For example, when looking at a vase of flowers.

People who like it say this flower is beautiful, people who don't like it say bad things. It is also a vase but the two look different, it is to look at me. So the vase of flowers that is no longer true to it but has become my flower vase, yours or yours, is distorting it according to its own ant, contrary to its true nature.

Also, the same car is the same girl but each person sees different and beautiful. Obviously, just look at me into a difference.

Or mountains and rivers, we also see high-low; deep-shallow but the truth of mountains is high-low, is the river deep-shallow? The reason why we see it is high is because the mountains were lower than this mountain. As for others, this mountain is low because they saw higher mountains before. Thus, high and low is depending on the person who looks, sets the mountain, but does not say it is high or low; Sometimes people see high, people see low, they fight. But the truth is the mountain is not fixed high-low, but depending on the look. The river is shallow and deep as well. From each look, each one is different. The city quarreled. Bickering is due to the ants carrying the "I" in it, distorting the truth of the mountain, the river, etc. but the fact that the mountain is still a mountain, the river is still a river, not high-low, shallow-deep .

From that point on, there is my truth, yours, yours etc. many different truths and differences. Everyone thinks that their vision is truth and quarrels, so it is no longer a truth. That is according to one's own prejudice, if it is true, everyone can see it, and we see the truth in our place that is not present in people, it is not true truth. That is the mistake according to the ant.

Mr. To Dong Pha, when he understands the religion, has a little taste of meditation, he can do a poem about that moral meditation. The poem name "Lot painted on the foot of the item" means "The true face of Lo Mountain":

Hoanh audience leader, monitoring the city 
Nearly high dike in real estate 
Lottery paint painted on the face 
Only charming relatives at try paint Trung.

Translate:

Looking across the walls, slanting into the small, 
High, low, far and near, I don't 
know 
.

That is, the mountain of Lo Son looking across will see a long row, standing and looking back and forth will see a high mountain, standing far away will see low, standing near it will be high. Depending on where the mountain is located, it is impossible to know the face of Lo Son. Why? It is because the body is in the mountain, how to find out how to do it.

Thereby it is found that the same mountain of Lo but due to the standing of each person, there is every mountain according to each person's ants, distorting the truth of Lo Mountain.

The meditator has a story: Mr. Que Sam, Mr. Truong Khanh, Mr. Bao Phuoc is the three enlightened Zen masters. One day, the three of them went into Chau Thanh to see a peony of peony. Mr. Bao Phuoc said: " A beautiful peony flower ". Mr. Truong Khanh said: "Do n't let the eyes give birth to flowers ." That is beautiful, bad. Mr. Que Sam immediately said, " Unfortunately, a flower ." So a flower, just a flower, doesn't say anything, but just because the person who assigned it is like that. It is no longer true but it has followed every view of each person.

The meditator has the phrase " Land by rising up ". Flower is nothing, but the three have made waves that make it easy for outsiders to hear. Discuss that Bao Phuoc said that beautiful flowers are not possible; Mr. Truong Khanh said that it is not good for the eyes to give birth to flowers, but also to distinguish them; Mr. Que Sam said regrettably for the flower to look better. That is according to our view. But according to the meditator's point of view, all three have a place to see the path, the presentation is the way of each person. All three see the flower but are not blurred by the flowers like the world, but through the presentation on the language, it seems that the three tastes are not quite final.

So, if it is distinguished, it is good, the other is bad, we cannot see those three, but we have to see where the other three see the same. That is the view of the Zen family, if you still see this taste, the other person is bad to see according to his vision. Study meditation is so clever! 


II. THE TRUTH

For a long time when we look at things, we see things as we see them. That is the knowledge of delusion, binding, not seeing the truth of the dharma. The long-standing insights we have seen are borrowed insights, seen by the practice of self differences, so they are not true.

When I was born, I had no idea; growing up, parents teach filial ethical family knowledge, etc. Going to school, teachers and teachers practice some more knowledge about school. In addition to living in society, learning more knowledge outside the society. Those are things we learn later, borrow from families, schools, etc. But at the time of birth, we don't know. Even the knowledge of religion is so new, it will be later. When we practice, we accept that as our own. But it was mine, my view was above all, so when there were other opinions against it, we argued. Understand like that, reduce the acceptance of knowledge and knowledge later on.

Also, before we start our mindfulness, there is no idea, when we start, we have. So, if you are smart to return to the original original knowledge, do not bring me. It is returning knowledge like real.

Just like when we wear stained glasses, wear pink, we see a pink scene with a green color and we see a green scene with a gray color. When removing glasses, seeing with true eyes sees the right thing as it is. That look is really pure, colorless. If it is colored, it looks exactly like its color.

Zen Master Duy Tin said: " Before thirty years when you did not study the religion, you saw that the mountain was a mountain. After studying the religion, understanding morality, the mountain river is not a mountain river. After thirty years of seeing the river and mountain again, it is a mountain river". It means that before studying the religion, not understanding the morality, seeing what is true, the real scene, the real people, so the mountain river is really mountain river. When studying the religion, knowing clearly, all are fake, not real, seeing that the mountain river is not a mountain because it is not true anymore. When studying religion, cultivating, clarifying, opening the intellectual eye, my mind is broken. At that time, I looked back at the scenery, the mountain and river, saw clearly as its true nature, the mountain and river was a mountain river. No more saying no. If you still say yes, say no, also according to the means. Say no to breaking the accepting mistake, to show its reasoning and self-nature. Conversely, say yes to stop accepting. When we no longer accept the mind, the wisdom is clear and the flower vase is clear. But the insight is different than not studying. In the past, I thought it was real, different from bad and beautiful, now it is as it is, the vase is a vase,

Zen Master Duc Son taught them to say:  "Hey guys, this time there is no dharma for you to attend the festival, you do not meditate yourself. We are also not good at knowledge, everything does not understand, just know to defecate, pee, eat rice, wear only shirts also have something else ". That is, He wants to remind people, learn Meditation in the end to return knowledge like real, do not add to borrowed knowledge, return to normal like eating rice, wearing clothes without adding other knowledge knowledge.

When learning and understanding the Dharma, if you know the application, it is good, if not, you might understand the Buddha Dharma too. Newly studying because I don't know yet, so I'm still humble, I have learned so much that I understand a lot and become sick. For example, we go to the temple to study for a long time. Today, when we go to the temple, the Abbot who is about to stand behind us is sad. So many opinions, so many ego! You must know that it is only a means to study the religion to purify your inner self, not to study the path to add disease. So he reminded me to see that it was borrowed, not his own, give it back to receive his own original wisdom.

The Zen house has a layman Bang Uan, though he is still alive but he is enlightened and has a very liberal life. When he died, he was very liberal, mastering samsara. He has the saying: "Just leave everything available, don't bring in what you don't have." Each person can fully practice these two sentences, and the life of the monk is done.

If it is not good, the things before bringing it into is not mine, but bringing it in is then our mortgage. For example, the Dharma before studying is of the teacher, after school is his. Don't be so wrong.

Zen monk Van Mon upholds the stick to say to them, " This stick is what I call it true, Surely analyzing it says it is not, Pratyekabuddha calls it illusory. The Zen master sees the stick as a walking stick, walks, walks, and sits". That means that the lady has not learned anything, the stick is real. The excess is analyzed, the stick is impermanent, but sometimes it is broken, it fails. Feeling intrigued by it is charming, temporary. Bo-slapped then immediately saw it as emptiness, not analyzed. But saying that is still in theory, Zen people see the stick is just a stick, not adding any more thought, not understanding, just go, just sit and not touch. Touching there is a mindfulness, but having a mindfulness will eat a stick. Meditation passed through all the wrong views, seeing as it really is, how it looks like that.

Some monks asked Zen Master Phap Nhan: " What is the drop of water in Cao Cao ?". Mr. Phap replied:  "It is a drop of water in Cao's source ". Thus, Cao Cao's drop is just a drop of Cao's source, very simple. If it is us, explain this and that, so it is a text, a word. Finally, it was impossible to see the water droplets from Cao. As well as asking:  "What is Buddha?" In the right home Meditation, Buddha is Buddha, and explain Buddha like this, then there is no Buddha at all. Or explain it like this, explain that and so on ... then fight. At that time, we could not see beings but could not see beings. That is the Buddhist word, Buddha's letter. Buddha is really Buddha!

This spirit leads us to face the truth directly, without any other ideas. That is returning the real-life view. 


III. MEDIA BACK

All understand, then practice to return to the real view, not to speak. What is the means to return? We have long been deluded according to borrowed views, now being awakened, we have to let go of the visually distinguished views to see as true. Seeing the hearing still hears but hears that it must be fully returned to hear, not interfering with the ceiling. Let the mind be immeasurable, hear, but not on any ceiling. At that time the mind will be clear.

In economic Kim Cang, Buddha told him Tu-Bodhi: " Bo-slaps want to play mindless supreme Buddha Chief Justice, the Bodhisattva should leave all thought that play the supreme mind, Chief Justice should not be sharp being mindful, should not be silent, incense, taste, contact, birth and mind. Should be born mind has no place ". That is, the emptiness of the supreme mind, the mind of the mind, there should be no place, the mind has no place. It is the supreme mind of Bodhi. No mind is in the ceiling, it is always bright. It sees but it is not cylindrical, it is still it, it is bright. If it does, it will be covered.

For example, if he sees the vase and then sticks to the vase, it is covered by the vase, mixed with the vase, no longer itself, losing clarity. Seeing all that is not cylindrical is still intact. It was so pure, returning the sight to the intact. It is the supreme mind that the Chief Justice is the unconscious mind. And we can stick which ones we cover. For example, going to the market to hear someone say his name, immediately head there, or listen to the song, stay there. That pillar forgot about the present. So the mind is not cylindrical, it is always bright and not covered by anything.

We cleverly practice the mindless mind, then return to the shining reality, and the mind is immediately forgotten, losing our mind. Zen Master Bá Trượng has a verse:

Spiritual optical projector, beyond the ceiling 
Can show foot often, not stuck in the 
mind Tanh not infected, self-capital only 
Only left hope, ie as Buddha.

"The spiritual light shines and goes out of the ceiling ": The spirit of light is a miraculous light in itself, it is " alone"  , alone, so it is " beyond the ceiling ".

" Presenting the true foot, not stuck in the letter ": Its body always presents the true truth, always shining without being stuck in the text, not sticking to the word. Our true, wise mind does not belong to any words, scriptures but right in ourselves. So:

"The mind is not infected, the capital itself ": The mind if it is not infected with the ceiling outside, it is round enough, not missing.

" Just leave hope, like as Buddha ": Khéo left to hope outside the coast is right there as Buddha. Buddha is as if it is always clear, not adding anything. Is knowledge free liberation. Seeing the true dharma, it is the supreme mind of Bodhi.

IV. SUMMARY

In the tomb-strictly experience, the Buddha taught: " Enlightenment is intelligent and enlightened". That is, the sense in one's own nature is itself clear, but the enlightened one does not know, and hopes to bring forth another light to illuminate that sense again, to create a light above the sense, turn That existing feeling becomes the second sense to enlighten me. For example, when one hears that everyone has Buddha nature, Buddha nature is not clear, he tries to look and observe to enlighten it. We think the Buddha nature is still in love now, so it must be illuminated. Which illuminates it to light up that it is still dark, but if it is dark it is not Buddha nature. So turn Buddha into the second object to enlighten, that is, it becomes a shadow. We look at it to light it up, called an extra light to illuminate the Buddha nature. So the Buddha became eclipsed, but it is true that Buddha nature is self-righteous,

Tu is taking away the delights, those additions. For example, like a mirror, often the mirror is closed, we have to clean it, but what is it to clean that? It is often said to clean the mirror, clean the mirror. Because it has been used for a long time to use such nouns, it is necessary to clean dust, but not to clean the mirror. If the mirror is clean, it will darken again. So the nature of the mirror is bright, dust only plays in the outer layer. We wipe it off to wipe it off, the dust is out of the dust, it turns itself on, not by wiping but it becomes bright.

Judging carefully, it is clear that we use nouns incorrectly. This is the same, Buddha Tanh is Tanh, enlightened awareness is itself bright. But because we love, enchantment is the things that hope to be so much negativity to cover. It covers so that it does not recognize the Buddha nature, now cultivating to remove these things remains only the Buddha's wisdom. Don't misunderstand, think that it is not bright and try to enlighten it to turn it into a second object for us to look at it, then what more to look at it again, there are two Buddha nature, one Buddha nature is enlightened, a Buddha nature is enlightening it, so which one is real? Here, when you understand it, knowing to cultivate is to eliminate the things that are not it, the ones that add to it, then light itself without mistake.

There is a story of Tibetan Buddhism: A monk practices it by interfering often around the Sacred Monastery. This monastery is transmitted very sacred, if anyone goes around the monastery is how many rounds will develop the knowledge of the saint. This monk practices like that.

One day, walking around, the monk suddenly met the abbot of the monastery. Seeing this, he patted the back of this monk and said, " It is good to go around a holy place like that!" But if he wants to be better, he should learn about the essence of Buddha-dharma (the main things in Buddha-dharma) ”. The position to listen to finished, then transferred through reading, reciting the scriptures. Not long after he met the Master again, he patted the monk again: "It is too good to recite the sutras, but if it is better, it should be practiced throughout the Dharma ." The monk heard so, thinking, cultivating Buddha Dharma, but how to cultivate it? He moved through meditation, always diligently meditating without moving.

One day, sitting meditating in a corner of the monastery, silently trying to keep his mind from being thoughtful, the Master came suddenly, saying, " You are meditating!" That is very nice! But practicing for the true Buddha-dharma is better . ” The monk did not understand how to cultivate but called the true Dharma. Meditation so that he was told to cultivate Buddhism strictly true, I do not know what to do anymore, that center also have nowhere to think cling, so new said, " Yes, the white teacher, I have to do what is this ? Master Institute Master said:  "Ah! Then let go of all that you are holding, then you are the child and this simplicity is the first step but also the ultimate goal . ”

That is, let me let go of everything I am holding, letting go of all the borrowings. When the borrowers have let go, the rest cannot be released, it is the child. Because it is possible to let go, so when there is nothing left to let go, that is the truth. And this simple thing is the beginning is also the ultimate goal and nothing else.

So weak to return to the true source or to return to true knowledge is very simple, do not add many other knowledge, or other superior knowledge, but just less to not receive the things brought into it. is that we, not wrong with those things, are left with something to call our own true knowledge. With just one point, it is enough for everyone to achieve liberal knowledge, without entanglement, not to be caught in borrowed opinions. It does not entangle anything, it is called liberating knowledge.

So, it is still understandable, but do not label the "I", it is wise not to distort the truth. May all always have the liberating knowledge to have a glimpse of the clear and self-righteous ways, remove all the colored glasses to look true. That is to let go of what is holding on, even the words that are said here are also let go, and the rest are true. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/6/2019.