NATURAL BUDDHIST.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH. 

Lesson 9: THE SIX POINTS OF REVERENT HARMONY.

A. OPENING 

1. Harm of discord: 

In everyday living together, nothing is as harmful as discord. Disagreement causes the life together and forces people to be apart, if they do not want to be close to each other to make each other miserable.

In the family, you are not in harmony, then the love of humiliation separates. Husband and wife do not get along, then the family does not succeed, the children must suffer, because near their father, they must be far away from their mother, they must be away from their father. Villages are not in harmony, they often produce aphids, lawsuits, and killing each other. The uneven country is born rebellious and rebellious, people suffer. Humanity disagreement, then the war continues, human beings stand down and decline.

2. The importance of peace: 

Seeing how dissonance is, of course, it is also necessary to see how necessary the nature of harmony is for the collective life.

We often hear: " catabolism of you " (for peace, do you). These four simple words have an extremely beneficial use. Those who take it as a guideline, no matter how big or small, are easy to achieve. On the contrary, those who despise it, common work never results.

The Confucian Book also says: " The time is right, not by terrain; terrain advantage, not equal to human heart and mind "(natural time such as geography, advantage like human harmony). It is enough to see that: the element of harmony is the most important thing in everything, every organization. Family harmony, families are happy; home country, the home country is treated; Many types of peace, the peaceful world.

Knowing more than anyone the importance of virtue of harmony in the collective life, the Buddha produced the "Continent" method for Buddhists.

B. TOPIC 

I. DEFINITIONS 

Luc Hoa is the six methods of dealing with each other for harmony from matter to spirit, from words to work. The harmony here is in harmony with the purpose of reaching the nobility, to the path of liberation, all-round perfection, not to be weak and passive, whoever says it is annoying, who says to nod. Draw here is not a means in the period to draw victory for yourself, then fight again. Hoa here aims to benefit all, to make happiness for all, in which "self and forgiveness" is not compared to "me and people".

II. WHAT IS IT?

The harmonic contains the following six points:

1. Body harmony with people (Than hoa co-resided): 

Meaning being together under one roof, in one area, one organization, the other day together, eating together and studying together.

When you live together like that every day, you must get along with each other, not use strength, force to rape, beat each other. If you are a brother, a husband and wife, children in a family, then you must go to the town under the peace, you come to me, I go to you, my husband goes to the husband, my wife goes to the wife, not to be disorderly disorder, bullying, punish each other.

If they are Buddhists, living together under a temple roof, even though they are not close relatives, they are also common children of the Buddha, with the same ideal purpose, they must also take the peace First, do not divide factions, weak rape power, so rape her, everyone can be strong.

If you are a compatriot, living together in a social country, you must take the solidarity to be the first, not to cause the disturbance of the skin pot, to divide the year into seven, to become a constellation of soldiers and neighbors; punish each other, kill each other. The people of our country have very meaningful verses:

" Hey, dear, take the secret,  

Although different but the same truss ".

Different, but living together on a truss, there must be peace and love; let alone the same people, a race!

Likewise, being human, living on this globe together, whether it is white, black, yellow or red, is also "the four brotherhoods". It was the same people who brought each other to the battlefield to kill each other, massacred each other, as bait for senseless bullets, it was extremely absurd.

In short, living together in a position, a limit, a situation, it must always be together.

2. Words of harmony, no argument: 

Wanting to not fight each other, not fighting each other, while being together, the words must keep the gentleness of gentleness; In any case, it is not necessary to scramble and fight.

There are relatives and people who do not harmonize, lose each sentence, try to be sarcastic, mutter each other, ask each other one by one, eventually born each other.

In a family, also because of a non-harmonious speech, many brothers and sisters are separated from each other, the husband and wife are separated and their father does not see each other's faces, become strangers and hate each other.

In society, also because of a non-harmonious speech, many times the country must suffer from war, humanity must be pushed into catastrophic slaughter.

Therefore, the harmony of the body is not enough, but the Buddha taught to mix the mouth. It means that Buddhists must speak gentle and gentle words, not necessarily to argue and fight. If there is any question, it is necessary to argue, it is absolutely necessary to use a peaceful, gentle speech.

3. Italy harmonizes with fun (Italy harmonizes and approves): 

The only way to learn is to say:  Italy is the most important thing, it is the motivation to promote the mouth and body. As a result, it is the first, but condemned, it is also in the first place (the laborer, the guilty criminal). Therefore, in a family, a union, each person needs to keep his or her mind and mind. If the idea is gentle, happy, the body and the words are easy to keep in harmony. On the other hand, if the thoughts are not harmonious, often opposite, hate each other, then the body and the password are hard to keep. No matter how hard you try to get your body and speech to be harmonious, or for fear of a supremacy, and to be in harmony with each other, this harmony is no different from a beautiful paint, bowl. Put on a broken wooden board. Once the internal conflict has reached a level that cannot be contained, it will all explode in words or in punches; as well as when the wood is broken, the paint layer is cracked and broken.

The Buddha understood so well, so he taught to have a mind of joyful harmony while living together.

Want to be mindful of harmony, must cultivate happiness. Devotion means to leave out the sadness and anger, not accepting the inner faults of others. Like that, the new mind is relaxed, happy, and the new thoughts are clear and pure. So let us try to cultivate Buddhists to be happy.

4. World peace with monks (Venerable practitioners): 

In an organization, an orderly organization, all have strict discipline.

In Buddhism, every Buddhist, according to his or her rank of austerities, receives few or many precepts. The layman is ordained; The monk will take the 10 precepts if he is novice, if he is 250, he will be ordained, if he is Bhikshuni, if he is a monk, etc.

When Buddhists meet again, or when they live together to study, every day depends on their rank and keeps the precepts. Having the same level of frustration with each other, all the members have to take the precepts and keep the same precepts, not to be confused, to keep this precept, to leave the other world, to keep the precepts, to leave the precepts, each one of them. If there is this discipline, then of course the organization will disintegrate. Therefore, the Buddha taught: when Buddhists have lived together, they must thoroughly cultivate the same precepts, keeping the precepts of the frustrating level.

Broadly speaking, in a school, a Buddhist family, for example, always take discipline as the first. In school, if students do not keep the discipline of the school, who wants to go out, who wants to go on and on, who wants to study, who wants to play and play, the school must collapse. In the Buddhist family, each student has to follow each one of his or her own ideas, not obeying the family's rules and not following the leader's order, then the Buddhist family will disintegrate. In a society, members do not respect the rules of the association, divide the class, let themselves not need to keep the precepts as a coward, give themselves rich, do not keep the precepts as the poor, self-study keep the precepts as uneducated people; if there is such a situation, all of them will disintegrate.

In short, in a union, religion or life, if we do not keep together precepts, discipline, rules, then we can never live together. If Buddhists want to get along with each other to practice, each person must keep the same precepts.

5. Knowing how to explain to each other (Intercultural solutions): 

In common life, each person knows what it is, discovering something, having to explain it, telling others to understand. Thus, the level of new knowledge is not different, the new learning progresses equally to the spirit of equality and newness, which is easy to maintain among those in the same union.

When we discover something new, or have a good idea, if we do not present it to the people around us, we are not only a selfish person, but also create a choking between sympathy with others. That selfishness and choking are the bond of division, discord, conflict. Before a problem, each person will think, will see each way, and therefore, will cause doubts, confusion in the organization, because most people do not know who to believe.

Especially in Buddhist scriptures, both large and high, and all kinds, every Buddhist can discover a different aspect, find a meaning that may be true, but may be wrong. In such cases, without urgently presenting their views and opinions to everyone in the team, it is difficult to live in harmony with each other.

6. Making peace with equal share  ( Loi Air Force contract): 

In terms of finances, real objects, utensils must be divided for each other or to be used together, not to occupy their own, or to win much of themselves.

While living together, if someone gives food, clothing, blankets, medicine, etc., they must bring all their troops, that is, to divide equally, not for their own love, less people, good people. bad people, but must be fair. Keeping it like that, even though there are thousands of people still happy. On the contrary, if for private love, private attention to money is beneficial, even if only a few three people live together, it is impossible to get along.

In society, there is a strong conflict, class division, also because of the lack of "peace and harmony". The rich are so rich, the poor are poor, the palatial manor of the land flies in a straight line, some people do not have a hut. Therefore, it is impossible to have peace: the proletariat clashes with the real, the poverty-stricken country with the rich.

If mankind understands that: rich and precious riches in humanity, such as dewdrops on a flower branch, and the glorious glory in life like bubbles floating on the sea surface, then the difference between rich and poor will be less. very much, and humanity will be less conflicting.

With a spirit of equality and forgiveness, compassion and suffering, with a wisdom that enlightens the impermanence and temporary imitation of life, the Buddha taught: "There is talent, so it is up to you to share with each other", Or more thoroughly: "Benefit from the army".

So we are Buddhists, we should try to practice that teaching.

C. CONCLUSION 

In order to have a general idea of ​​the Six Airs, let us review again, the main ideas in the 6 instructions of the Buddha:

1) Let's live together in a harmonious way, let's fight together, cover each other, not use force to suppress each other.

2) Speak with each other in a gentle, gentle manner; If there is anything to discuss, it must be discussed in moderation and politeness.

3) Nurture good intentions towards each other, cultivate the virtue of joy; never enmity, jealousy.

4) Keep the same precepts, take discipline as the first. Without discipline, no group can survive.

5) Explain your insights and opinions to those around you. A well-understood person must have a duty to show the posterity and lead them to keep up.

6) Divide the collected money evenly for those who live with you, so that everyone can be satisfied and happy.

Six things taught above, if we do it thoroughly, in the family, parents, spouses, brothers and sisters, all peace and harmony are happy and happy, every family is prosperous; the nation is strong and prosperous, the world is peaceful and peaceful.

Particularly in our Buddhist world, if we apply the right method of "Six Airs", then our cultivation will progress quickly, the path of liberation is closer, and the Land of Bliss is not just one wish.

So please advise the Buddhists after learning to understand the harmony, to practice and advise people to practice, to enjoy common happiness. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/8/2019.