ullambana meaning.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. Open Topic

1.  Be grateful to the birth of a very great nourishment:

We love hearing the folk song:

"Father like Thai Son mountain; Maternal means like water in the source."

(Thank you so much for your parents as high mountains and pools).

My mother is mature, and three years of feeding, I will only sacrifice for my life. When you are eating as well as when you rest, the child you need is having a mother by your side. I miss it all, urinating on me, my mother still laughs with a bit of anger. When I met poor people, my mother stopped eating rice for me to eat, put a dry place for my child to lie down (the mother's side is lying, the roller is dry). Risk when I was sick, my mother sat beside me; only when you are healthy and smiling, your mother is happy and cheerful. The song has a sentence:

" You can only feel it when you do it,

Raising children to know the merits of motherhood ".

Parents have to work hard to support their children. If I met poverty, my father had to work as a hired laborer, buy algae for sale, sweat and take a bowl of rice, give me a shirt. In addition to my father, I also teach my children to study, day and night, and train my children to be useful, wise, and lose to them.

Thank you so much for your parents to say it.

2. So I have to report to my parents:

Any moral morality, East or West, old or present; All took the word: "Hieu" as the first. A son who is unfamiliar with his parents, there is no evil and cannot do it. Such a meaningless sacrifice, no longer knows what humanity, charity, or justice are. Therefore, the old people have the sentence:

"Heavenly things, Great sense of the first",

(Thousand books, ten thousand books, all took Hieu to head).

Kinh Thi said a very touching sentence:

"The woman never falls, the color of the daisies falls,

Whoever is a model, giving birth to an island,

Education for the profound grace, the heavenly hammock. "

It means that the father gave birth to us, the mother raised us. Oh, my parents were born hard. Want to repay the virtue of the parents, such as rising to the sky is not the same.

Buddha also taught:

"Sub-model at the road like Buddha at that time".

It means that parents still have money, just as Buddha is in life. Seeing that, Buddha greatly appreciated the precious presence of parents. Because parents are so precious, he teaches more:

"The truth is great."

(Filial pioneer in everything).

In order for Buddhists to fulfill their filial piety, Vu Lan Bon Dharma teaching is below.

B. The Precepts

Vu Lan Bon is the most effective method of filial preaching. But first, let's understand how Vu Lan Bon was.

I. Definition

Vu Lan Bon is a transcription in Sanskrit. The Chinese translates: "fake island", literally remove the person who is hung upside-down; The figurative is to save those who suffer heavily as if they are being hung upside down.

II.  The reason Buddha taught Dharma Vu Lan Bon

Mr. Dai filial Section Kien Lien, after practicing the practice of 6 miracles, pity to remember to thank his parents, He sought to respond. Using the eye-seeing in the world, he found that his mother was born as a hungry ghost, a thin body of flesh, a skin and bones, an emaciated body, a big belly, a big head, a small neck like a spool, hungry all year long. be eating. Too much mercy, He immediately brought the bowl of rice to eat the mother's offering. He performed divine powers, holding a bowl of rice to go to his mother's place. The mother aspires, so when she gets rice, the greed emerges, afraid of the robber, taking her left hand to hide the bowl of rice, her hand is eating. Because the evil greed in the previous life rises, so the rice is brought into the mouth, then it turns into fire, she cannot eat.

Mr. Section Kien Lien felt that, with great sadness and sadness. He immediately returned to the Buddha, recounting the above and asked Buddha to teach the method of salvation.

III.  Buddha Teaches Vu Lan Bon Dharma For Him Section Kien Lien

After listening to the Reverend Kuan Lien requesting methods of filial piety, the Buddha taught that:

"Behold, the Order of Your Relationship! Your mother has created a heavy sin through many lifetimes, now born in evil, as a ghost, so he cannot save himself. His filial piety is extremely great, it is impossible to transfer the situation, it is like a baby boat, unable to carry a large rock, so he must rely on their gods to rise in ten directions, as big as the sea. , only to save his mother from liberation, I will now teach him the method of salvation, leaving his parents far away from sin.

This is the item of Contact! The full moon day of July is the Fourth Day of the monks in the ten directions, after three months of low-lying retreat, the book of spiritual practice.That day is also the joyful day of the Buddhas, because seeing the monks after three months of retreat, have made great progress on the path of purification and purification of karma, three of which are uncontrolled to be grown, public more and more German to the full day. So he should make that day to celebrate Vu Lan Bon to inform his mother.

He bought all kinds of boys with a few odors, five fruits, with incense, candle bed, bedding, blankets, blankets, clothes, brass washes, hand wipes; In short, there are four precious offerings in life. Then he had to personally accompany the Venerable Sangha in ten directions, or those who meditated in the mountains, attested to four Saints, or had the experience under the tree to receive six miraculous miracles in the Thanh Van line, The Pratyekabuddha, the Saints, or the Bodhisattvas of the Bodhisattva are now monks and nuns, etc. He must sincerely respect the Sangha and make offerings to the monks to pray for the death of his mother. Thanks to the merit of virtue of the uncle's prayer, the spirit of his mother was transcended. Just as the rock weighs hundreds of pounds, but many people carry it, they can move anywhere. "

Mr. Section Kien Lien obeyed the Buddha's teaching, to the full-moon day of July, he performed the Vu Lan ceremony, bought all the materials, and received the monks in ten directions to respect the ceremony of the Sangha, so his mother's death form was released from his life. demons, born of good realm.

IV.  Mr. Section Kien Lien Ask Buddha If the Buddhists After Life Can Make a Feast of Lan Lan? : 

After seeing his mother get rid of suffering, he was very happy, he came to the Buddha and said:

White World Religion! My mother's body was thanks to the merit of the Three Jewels and dreaded the gods of the monks, so she was able to escape from the demons of suffering. So about the next life, in the Buddhist line, if someone wants to do this Vu Lan Bon ceremony, in order to save the current parents as well as many parents in previous lives, is it not possible?

Buddha taught that:

"Very precious! Behold the Lien Lien! After that, if there are monks and nuns, monks, Thai Tzu, prime ministers, trifles to four people, because filial piety wants to repay Thanks to the current or past parents, every day of the seventh day of the seventh month is the day of "Buddha's joy", to do this Vu Lan ceremony, to make offerings to the Sangha, thanks to the merit of the monks and nuns, the present parents can increase long life blessings, from the cruel, miserable, and the parents of seven previous lives, from being hungry and hungry, being born in multiplication realms, enjoying the same joy and happiness ".

At that time, the Section Kien Lien and the four disciples were happy to do. And from then on, every year until the full moon day of July, the rows of Buddhists who are filial, have performed the Vu Lan ceremony to repay the favor of giving birth to their parents.

V . The true meaning and fullness of the Hieu Report According to Buddhist Conception 

Of course, filial piety not only aimed at a Vu Lan ceremony. Not every year only a Vu Lan ceremony is held, it is self-proclaimed a filial piety because of the full filial piety.

As mentioned above, thank you parents as wide as heaven and earth, make your child forever thank you parents have not yet. But during filial preaching, there must be a clear and righteous notion that really benefits and is effective.

Filial piety has many ways, but not in two ways: physical and mental.

1. Material filial piety : Buddhists must serve as worshipers, instead of working hard to take care of food, clothes, bedding, resting places, not letting parents lack and worry.But Buddhists must be wise during filial piety, should not be too discouraged by the wishes of their parents but create karma, such as murder, harm, causing sin to make parents happy in material. Doing so is not filial piety but rather filial, because it has created more sins for parents and for themselves.

Besides, the material filial piety, however full, is not just working for parents to be happy in a present life. The material joy is happy, temporary and happy in the cycle of birth and death. So the filial piety is not enough.

2. Spiritual tastes . Buddhists have to move to another level, worrying about spiritual feelings. Spiritual filial preaching is to make the parents' spirit light and noble and gradually go to liberation. Buddhists must advise their parents to believe in the fruits of the blessed and refuge in the Three Jewels, giving birth, reciting Buddha's name, doing good deeds, keeping the precepts and the liberation. Like that, not only are the parents happy and peaceful at the present time, they are also blessed by many blessings, and born in a light and gentle realm.

VI.Qiềm Nghi

1. Someone suspected: Monks only chant sutras and pray how can the spirit be supreme? 

A: The spirit of people is very strong, every time we concentrate our thoughts, focus on something, it will see its power extraordinary. Kinh said: "Institution of the mind of the earlessness, unjustness of judgment"; that is, to make the mind redefine a place, nothing can be done without success. We see as hypnotists, using the wrong spirit of walking, standing, lying, sitting, etc. is fine. Worldly people use the mind also be like that, if the monks treat men to keep the precepts purified, of course the spirit must be clearer, stronger. As such, you focus on your thoughts, your heart and mind will be determined by the death of the power of the monks who are super-born. Again, Buddha and Bodhisattva are available in compassionate compassion, loving all beings as mother loves her child. We feel, then what are they not responding to? Like the moon is always available,

2. Someone asked: "Just as the Buddha taught in the ullambana Sutra, must buy enough precious food and supplies to make offerings to the monks. What about those who are poor?

A: The Buddha's idea teaches us to be sincere and dedicated to taking care of all these things. For those who are poor, if they have worked hard to buy only one incense or fruit plate, but with sincerity, it is enough. On the other hand, if there are people who buy surplus items but have not yet become successful, they cannot be called full.

3. Someone asked: Mr. Section Kien Lien was the first disciple, he could save his parents by himself, needing to ask the monks. Just like the big mandarins in the country, powerful enough to be able to save relatives, what is the need to ask other officials?

A: Ms. Thanh De was guilty of sorrow, caused by her mind. Today, thanks to the Pastor of the Order, the filial piety, the offerings of offerings to the Buddha and the Sangha, at that time, she was happy to wish to make offerings to the Buddha and the Sangha. Due to the change of mindfulness, returning to the spacious mind, she was liberated. If only because of the Sangha, but her mind did not celebrate, it would be difficult to save.

C. Conclusion

We already know the good effect of the Ullambana ceremony. So we should follow the example of His great-great-great-great-grandfather, who is filial, and surely his current and seven-year-old parents are both free from suffering and suffering from liberation.Story "Section Lien, Thanh De" has nothing to be fanciful, mysterious, but an explainable phenomenon. This is due to the filial piety of the son and the merit of the son, keeping the precepts pure in the lower three months, the cultivation of the monks, the prayer of prayer, the empathy and stimulation to the heart. human souls suffer, causing them to awaken the enchantment, turning evil thoughts towards the good.Thanks to the shift of this mind, they escape the punishment of suffering that was previously created by the mind itself. In the sutra it is said: "The mind can create karma,

This Dharma Ullambana is the miraculous method to save the souls of parents in the darkness.

But we must always remember; Filial piety is not the only life when the parents have disappeared and every year only one Vu Lan celebration is enough.

The son is always hospitable, always happy to see that his parents are still with him and devoted himself to supporting his parents, so that parents can be relaxed in both physical and spiritual aspects.

Like that, I will not regret and complain like Thay Tu Lo:

"Rustling the child with the unfortunate state!

Sexual immortality for an unborn child ".

(Quiet tree that the wind did not stop want !

Child fosters filial piety that parents do not live. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/8/2019.