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

4. The Enchantment.

I. HOW IS THE MULTIPLAYER?

Do you know what a crazy love is? That is, the love from this life passed through the world, passed on until now, we sit here and it is still there. Everyone who was born has this kind of charm, so calling it is a transmission. So what is a passion for life? Instantly accept ego, ego ego. And whoever goes in samsara, also carries this love.

If the person who does not have this love is no longer in samsara. Suppose that entering into samsara is because of new beings' trade.

In the law of 12 conditions, ignorance is the root of samsara. But ignorance is delusion. That is, immediately an initial unconscious mind, forgetting one's own self-righteousness, thereby bringing this love forever in reincarnation.

Just because of the unconscious concept, we brought that enchantment with it, took it to master life and continued this indefinite journey.

You check carefully what you are living for? Some people say they live for careers, etc., but actually we " live for the self ". If there is no self, no self, what do I have to live? Therefore, the person who just opened his mouth, the " I " is the first, the master.

For example, what is your purpose here? Because " I went to listen to the dharma "; Then "I eat, I wear, I go to work, I'm sad, I'm happy, I create a career ...", everything takes me as the owner. How much sadness, anger, hatred, hatred and hatred, until the attempts and calculations in life are also for "me".

In the sutra, the story of Ba Tu Lac king and Mrs. Mu Loi lady discussed. One day, the king asked her: " Who in the world loves you most ?". She replied, "Of course, my goddess loves you the most." Then she asked again: "If you do not know, do you love the most?" The King replied, "Loving love is the best and there is no one else." But she added, "I don't want you, if you allow me, I will say a little differently ." The king was a little hesitant, but also said: "I love you," he said. She said: "I want you! Actually, in this world, the concubine only loves the goddess of love most! "The King did not understand, said:  " Can you say clearly to me ? " She explained: "BBecause the goddess loved me, I want you to proclaim to my god's body to be happy, to be happy, but if you want to be like that, I have to love you. Yes, your majesty loves you, then gives you a blessing card, this and that ... So, because of loving you, the goddess loves you . " She just added, " Just like your Majesty also loves you. In order to clarify this, concubine, for example, if you come back and love another person, what will you think? Is it your Majesty that will cut the head of a goddess ? " That is, if you really love my god, I will love you first, then I still love you before and after, why do you have to behave? That is the truth.

The Persian King understood. Then the two of them led each other to meet Buddha, then told the discussion, asking Buddha to verify. Buddha confirmed the words of Madame Madame, and said the verse:

My mind goes along with All the heavens I ca n't find anyonemore dear than self Self-defeating people So friendly soWho loves self Do n't hurt people. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Buddha teaches that our mind goes through all the heavens, and carefully, no one is more dear than one's self. Because of self for everyone so intimate, everyone loves his ego. According to psychology in the world if you love your self, others also love the self of others; so I love my self, not harming, hurting the self of others.

You see Buddha teaches very righteously. Today, we love our self but hurt others' self. Always suffering each other, living apart is from that place. If you know the teachings of the Buddha, then life will be very happy, very close because you love your self, so the more you respect the self of others, then how to be sad and happy together. We are different, because we respect our self, but lowering one's ego is not how to get close together.

So, Buddha taught very reasonably, which is the truth of the world. If you take that experience to live and know everyone who has all the self, then don't be too subjective, just "know yourself" without knowing people, then causing each other suffering. In the spirit of Buddha's teaching, we must know that we know people. My beloved self, I also love other people's self, they will get closer to each other.

It is the Buddha who teaches how to live in relative terms, but not the ultimate place. Do not think that the Buddha taught if he loved his self, he must fall in love with himself, or have fallen, but also have to go "forget it".

In Kinh Giac, Buddha explained clearly ignorance is accepting this four great body, and then the mind is in the shadow of the six ceiling outside. That is, this person, including mind and body, is not really me, it is not true that I am a being, which is temporary and temporary, but I accept it as myself, that is ignorance.

II. LEARNING BUDDHA IS A LEARNING LEARNING

According to the Venerable Master of the Japanese Movement, teaching people to study Buddhism is: " Study the religion is to learn self." Learning self is to give up self, to let go of self is to enlighten the dhammas, enlightenment of dhammas is to let go of one's own body and mind . Study the religion as simple as that. Ie let go of the self, nothing else.

Just as Zen Master Phap Loa taught: " The weakness of meditation is that the mind and body are discharged ". It means learning Buddha to really see yourself, then transform yourself. Initially see yourself, then move on to forget yourself, to live back to the ancient people.

Do you know what you are? Is not true. At present, our people are full of greed, ignorance, anger, delusion, envy, more defeat, selfishness…. Everyone thinks it's the real person. Do you accept that you really are, assimilate yourself with those things? I am involved, I am, I am selfish ..., assimilating those things is me, not only is it too loving, I dare not give up, it is called love.

There was a farmer who was also a Buddhist, came to ask meditation teacher Khue Khue:

- White teacher! The nature of my son is impatient, can you tell me how to fix it?

Zen Master Ban Khue said:

- Please bring that hot temper out here, we change it for you.

The farmer said:

- White teacher! No, it is not available now, but when it comes to love, it will appear.

Zen Master Ban Khue has just determined:

- If so, right now it is not available, only when it comes to it will it appear, so it is when he and the other people argue with each other, then create it, yet he says it is his capital It was too unfair for them to mistake their parents.

Before he said that the hotness was available, but it was impossible to bring it out, only when it came to grace. So why do you say it's available? If you say that it is to blame your parents for that, it is too unfair.

At that time, he had a province.

That is the old mistake of all of us. Everyone thinks impatiently is his nature, available in himself, love not dare to give up. Here, Mr. Khue Khue only shows clearly, the truth is that it is only a later bring, not something available from the beginning, so it is impossible to bring it out. If it is available, then take it out, and when it comes to love, it will be. So it has grace and grace has passed. Obviously it is not the nature, not the real thing. Recognizing that, there is no mistaking it for yourself.

If it is not what is available, what is fixed in me, then I can move, and it can run out. So, if the skilled person can transform, because it is not fixed, not true, so sure. This is the fall of the ego, the wrong word makes us separate from each other, then shrink together from that mistake.

When it is clear, understanding the new truth does not identify with it. And thinking that it is my nature, that is, I assimilated myself to it, but I assimilated myself to it, except how to eliminate it. 
Another farmer, asked the Zen Master to come to the house to chant the supernatural for his newly lost wife. After finishing, he asked:

- White teacher! When he finished chanting, could you tell me how much benefit my wife could get from this Buddha?

Which means you want to ask the lost person to chant such a great prayer, how much merit.

The Great General Zen Master said:

- Of course Buddha Dharma like a boat from all over, like the sun shining all over, not only his wife benefits in this Buddha, but all beings also benefit.

The farmer heard that, looking unhappy, sir:

- My wife is very weak, if other beings are stronger, they will lose her merit. I can ask you to chant the supreme chant only for my wife alone, without having to dedicate to other beings.

The General, a Zen master, heard through mercy, so compassionately explained:

- Transfer your merits to others, so that every living being is imbued with benefits, which is a very good spiritual practice. Content divergence is a regression, but a guide, to return to results; Urinary retention (excess urinary to superfluous). As the light does not shine on only one person, but shines all; just as the sun on the ground does not have all things illuminated, a seed can produce thousands of fruits. He should use the mind as burning a candle, then prey to thousands of other candles, not only is it brighter, but the candle itself does not reduce light. If everyone has such a concept, our small body here, often due to the revival of thousands of people who receive a lot of merit, Any more fun? So the people who study Buddha must be equal to all beings.

He explained very well, very reasonably. But this farmer tried to say more: " According to the doctrine, he said very well, but please break the rules, because of your neighbors, there is an old man Zhao who treats me so badly, maybe among them Is it possible to give birth to that, to exclude him ? " The General, a Zen master, said in a dignified voice, " It is said to be all, why would it be deducted?" "

Through the story we see clearly, because of the ego, this ego, so the compassion narrowed. If being a Buddha is doing good work but still having such a mind, how is this merit? Of course, it's narrowed down.

So, studying is to see that true meaning, to make your mind open to be more compatible with the Tao.

Like the story, Ni has a black nose Buddha image. Ie a nun with a very beautiful Buddha statue. She often wiped and lit incense especially respectful offerings on that Buddha statue. Later, she changed to another temple and also brought the Buddha image with her. This temple worships many Buddhas, she respects her Buddha image in the middle of the altar, and chooses the top-grade incense incense to worship Buddha. The chief of the temple worshiped many Buddhas, she thought that if she burned her Buddha's incense, the incense would fly to the other side and the other Buddha would smell it, her Buddha had no part.

So, she made a big one-headed funnel, letting the incense smoke fly into her big head, and the small head moved up to his Buddha's nostril. So make sure your Buddha will enjoy the full scent, from being divided. For a long time the smoke of her Buddha image was closed so the nose was black, becoming the Buddha of the black nose.

Thus, the person who burns the incense to the Buddha's offerings is very precious. But because of me, narrowing my Buddha image, the results also narrowed. And finally into the black nose Buddha. Black is dazzling. In fact, the bronze Buddha was brilliant, but lost his brilliance.

It is true that Buddha is also a Buddha why have my Buddha? It was a narrow mind, so the result was not good enough, and turned him into a black nostril.

From the content of the story about my Buddha, and we are my teacher, my temple, my Buddhist, my ashram. How many of those selves are sad and happy together, sometimes leading to hate.

Do you see? The original kernel is good, but the result is not good. Sometimes good people can bring evil results. So " I am very dangerous! ".

Therefore, the Buddhist monk Buddhadasa in Thailand wrote a book called "The Dangerous One" in which there was a passage saying: " Whenever the idea is just there, there is suffering immediately. Take this important principle, and then you stand firmly in a position, letting you learn the essence of Buddhism. And enjoy the many benefits of Buddhism, thanks to taking advantage of the advantage of being human and meeting Buddhism ” .

That is, when understanding Buddhism, having mastered the quintessence of these basics, it is possible to see the profound and new meanings of the benefits of Buddhism. And remember that being born as a human being to see Buddha Dharma is a great affinity for us. If not skillful, many healthy people do not produce good results.

III. HUMAN ROAD

Thereby, we clearly see the Buddha or go to the path of Buddhism, is to go through the door of selflessness, initially from shallow and deep. If not going through that door is going the wrong way.

No matter how deep you are enlightened without going through this path, the higher the enlightenment is, the higher the ego is.

Also, the longer the past, the higher the ego must be reviewed.

For example, the Buddha taught the practice of virtue: The cultivation of compassion is to make one's ego more open, more to everyone. Thanks to the openness of compassion for everyone, I think less of myself, that is to go into the door of no-self. Patience to lower the ego; Keeping the precept is to stop letting go of the lung ..., also to go into the path of no-self.

If you look carefully, due to the long-term desire to practice, it becomes a habit. Now sometimes we know that it is delusion but still accept. It was a habit, a new one that was later learned, if it was decided to give up, it would be all, do not be afraid that it will not end, because it is only a mistake.

For example, you see this body as earth, water, wind, fire are the senseless things that constitute. Speaking more delicately, hard substances in the body such as bone, hair, hair are soil; blood is water; fire is warmth, temperature in person; and the wind is the movement in the body as the circuit jumps, the heart beats. Then those four things are not understanding.

You check the blood, some hair, some bones, some warmth, does it know anything, maybe I am that?

And this mind when it is not, always changes birth and impermanence. Just thinking of this and thinking about something else, always like that. One day can think and change thousands of thousands of things to think about.

So what is the concept? Considering it is a flickering ball! Right in our body, one day it also changes so much is what we are in it, so what is our loss?

For example, when you go to work about your wife's greeting, then you are a husband. When I went into the house, the child came to my father, at that time I was a father. Meeting my grandson, sir, I am my grandfather. Go inside and see the dog he is happy, then I am the owner. Enter the inner room to meet the mother and mother, at that time I was a child. Listen to the report in the living room where a friend is waiting, walk through the living room, then I am friends. Just how many of us have that short time? If so, how many selves will I have throughout my life?

To see how much that self is, are the "brands" stuck in it. But most people mistakenly admit the unreal, outside brands. So which self is real?

In the Vajrayana Sutra, Buddha said: " Saying to the nimble is not ordinary, saying that beings are not sentient beings, until saying that it is not ego ".

Saying to the lady, but it is not ordinary, because it is not fixed as ordinary, so it is called love. If you turn all your love into a Buddha, you will lose your name, show that you are also a name. So, if everyone is sitting here, getting clear, knowing how to understand this place is great! That is, "the ordinary is not the ordinary ".

In this, everyone must have dreamed. How did you find it when you dreamed? Seeing one more I went here and there, I was also sad and angry, sometimes being chased by a tiger, I was afraid to run, and meeting someone who gave me a diamond was also happy. But have you ever asked the question: So the "me" that is run by the tiger, the "I" gets excited by the diamond, then the "me" goes, the "me" is sad and happy. angry ..., and " what" to  see those things again? So there was a "seeing again", and it was obvious that there were two selves.

So is our life now, living with the second and third ego. And the "know" the ego, it seems like few people remember. But if you experience carefully the me in the dream, you will wake up. So is anyone province yet?

When checking, everyone has "added me" so everyone is left over, but I think it is missing so just go and find it.

In fact, cultivation is just letting go but nothing else. Letting go is light but adding is heavy. As you take the bag, if you put it in, it will carry more weight, but it will be lightened. The same practice. If you let go, it is light.

Once upon a time, Hac Thi had to cultivate the five senses, the sermon was very good. One day, the King of God came to listen to his sermon. After hearing that, he reported that he only had seven days to live!

Listen, Pham was afraid to beg him to save him. He said that I could not save, but now there is a Buddha, being there. He could come to see Buddha. Buddha can save him from liberation.

Pham Chi uses flying spirit to meet Buddha. On the way, there were two beautiful corn plants blooming on the roadside, first using the spirit to bury two corn plants with two handles to offer to the Buddha.

When meeting Buddha, it is necessary to pray for the release of samsara. Then, Buddha told him to let go, then he let go of the corn plant on his left hand; Buddha said let go! He let go of the tree on the right. Buddha told me to let go! He said bewildered: "The White World, two hands holding two trees, The Sun told me to let go, then I let go, now tell me to let go?" Buddha said: "I did not tell him to let go of two corn plants , I told you to let go of the first time and let go of the six bases, the second time I let go of the six ceiling. And the third let go of the six consciousness. That is the six know the difference in the eyes, hands, nose, tongue, body, mind of each person. Let go of those three is liberating samsara. " Right there the enlightenment.

You see Buddha teaches very simply, only three let go. It sounds easy, but it is hard to do. Actually, it is not difficult, just because I have long been accustomed to my thoughts, now I realize it is getting less and less. Sometimes we think that these scenes dominate us, or that the general moves my mind, the mind is dominated by the general.

But the mind-center is in me, and the general is outside. The mind is here, the flower or the wall is over there, those two are very far away, they have nothing to do with each other.

Another thing is that the mind knows clearly, and the general is senseless. So it doesn't stick with each other. But why do we just stick them together? Because we "attach the self" to it and imagine, differentiate it, causing sadness, anger and hate.

It is true that this world or the world which is peaceful and peaceful doesn't have anything, but at the moment we interrupt it. For example, a nice car is out there, it doesn't say anything good or bad. But because we saw the car and judged it to be a top class beauty, we started our mind and started to cause trouble.

Also, this flower vase stood there very peacefully, because people saw it and alternated the difference between me, I saw the flower like this, the other brother saw the flower like that, from then on there was birth. Return flowers to its original location, flowers are just flowers! Flowers did not say anything bad. Nice bad is because of me.

Broadly speaking out of the world, people often say that high mountains and rivers are deep, but asking if the mountain says it is high, is the river saying deep? The mountain is the mountain where it speaks high, says low. Because the man who once saw the mountain is lower, now sees this mountain as high.

But some say this mountain is not high, compared to the Himalayas. So the high, the low is for me. For example, two rulers, long rulers to be near the short ruler, it becomes long, but to get closer to the ruler, it becomes short. So long and short.

Understand, to see our original delusion. You remember the old days reading Kieu's story by Nguyen Du, commenting on the sentence: " What scene is the scene that doesn't wear melancholy, Who is sad and happy" , then we follow the commentary. But now studying Buddha, considering it carefully, is the scene wearing sorrow? Why is the scene sad? Because we are melancholy and put on it, then we blame it on a sad scene.

That is the mistake of all of us. Due to living with the idea then that idea we just put into the scene, stick with the scene, then blame it on the scene, but not see the original in ourselves, and if we don't see this excuse, then we will also obstruct the obstacles. Just blame it at the scene to make it difficult, and make it difficult, then leave this scene to find another scene. But if the mind does not move, will the other scene be sad? If my mind is insecure, then it is unsafe to enter the mountain. For example, in a noisy place, the mind is uneasy. If you are not clever about changing your mind, then going into the mountain will also encounter harassing scenes and still be uneasy.

Here, sitting listening to the car and running around, the mind was passive, while the tiger went into the mountain, and the gibbons howled. As the story of the First Head of the Buddha, he has cultivated a testimony to the non-idealistic nature, One day, sitting meditating on the edge of the water near the forest, listening to the birds chirping and stirring, he was uneasy. He just made a vow to be born as a weasel later to eat all the animals on the shore and under water. You see that it is because your mind has not been cleverly transformed into a heart, vowing evil after being fallen into a weasel body, suffering much.

IV. SUMMARY

In short, it is the "love affair" that is the " passion of life" . From this life leads through another life, from one life to another end, so still goes in samsara, called transmission.

We learn Buddha as an intellectual, enlightened, but not enlightened. When you see that mistake, you have to clear it, be open. Although not yet able to end all love as Saints, but must be open gradually, then it is my path. Every day must be open, let go let it lighten, then it is going the right way to be happy.

If you lose part of your ego, is our life close to that part, is it fun? Thus, the affliction lessens. That is the truth. Hopefully each person hears and learns carefully, deeply understands this truth and applies it well, so that life is open, gentle and really less miserable, living closer together. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/6/2019.