Why Need Tu? VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.
Many people wonder why many people do not study but are still rich and live happily. On the contrary, some people practice and still suffer and suffer in life. This is a big question mark for newcomers who first approached Buddhism or that they have not approached Buddhism. To better understand this, please look at the article "Why should you practice?"
1. Why need to cultivate?
If comparing between cultivators (at home or renunciation) and people at the perspective of society, cultivators are more disadvantaged. Honestly here, they spend their free time, instead of going out with their families, practicing friends, they go to the temple to recite sutras and recite Buddha's name. Or instead of enjoying delicious food from animals, they minimize or completely stop completely to choose a vegetarian diet from vegetables ...
This means that the demands for material enjoyment in their lives gradually diminish, sometimes trying to reduce according to the words learned in the scriptures to achieve a state of peace of mind and to avoid bad karma from happening. .
However, for those who are living a happy, sufficient material life, the view of cultivation is something quite negative for them. They believe that those who wear robes, go to pagodas are those who are weak, fail in life and even superstitious, doing useless work ... However, when falling into miserable circumstances, people we just turn to Buddhism to rely on and find ways to help save our life.
2. Subjects seeking practice
People who suffer.
When they fall into a certain incident in life, tired of life, cheating, unfair injustice, they need to find a safe place to rely on and hope that there will soon be a way out for the soul and the wealth. good life in the next life.
Practitioners aim to bless their children
Conception "The daughter thanks to the father, the son thanks to the mother" still eat later in the thoughts of the Vietnamese. Therefore, many people practice to make merit to their descendants in the hope that they will have a good meal and a peaceful life.
Practitioners with the aim of attaining enlightenment enlightenment
When they identify the impersonation of life and want to attain liberation, spiritual practice is the way for them to realize their dreams. But this is the purpose that requires a great effort and a strong will.
Although cultivating for any reason, the most common point is to cultivate to recognize life, to know right and wrong according to the truth so that it can correct and know how to behave in life. True and false according to truth are completely different from true and false according to emotion. The people who always give what they say or act are right, so there are conflicts and conflicts that lead to fighting and dissonance, causing suffering for each other.
3. The note for the practitioner
Matter of practice to bring practical value. However, most practitioners do not work and it does not prove that we are the ones who have studied and followed Buddha. It is due to the following reasons:
- The purpose of practice is too vague.
In the process of practice , sometimes there are troubling problems that happen to yourself or your family, we are suspicious of morality. We wonder why the practice but also this problem the other problem happened and rotten and abandoned the original purpose.
- There is no motivation
When oneself or family falls into difficulties, people often come to the Buddha Dharma and strive to bless them to escape accidents. But when the "quiet sea wave" is back to enjoy life and delay the study. We study such a "fire-fighting" way, there will be no enduring results.
- Praying smoothly
Most people come to Buddhism to pray freely because they believe things will change according to our will. But that is just a religious practice, it reflects the meaning of religion rather than the true value of Buddhism.
Prayer will not help us achieve our will if we do not take action to convert it. Just as a person has a hand ache from holding a heavy object, they come to the Buddha to prevent pain. The Buddha said that let go of that object. But he does not let go but insists on wanting to keep both his hand aches and keep the heavy object. Also, a person falls into suffering because the mind is holding onto something and cannot let go. As long as we forcefully let go, we will have peace. So all our defilements cannot be stopped by just reading the scriptures or praying. The Buddha once taught in the Buddha Dhammapada: While reciting many sutras, the mind still letting go and not practicing will not benefit from the fruit of the rabbits, just as a cow counting man only cares for him.
Prayer will not help us achieve our will if we do not take action to convert it. Just as a person has a hand ache from holding a heavy object, they come to the Buddha to prevent pain. The Buddha said that let go of that object. But he does not let go but insists on wanting to keep both his hand aches and keep the heavy object. Also, a person falls into suffering because the mind is holding onto something and cannot let go. As long as we forcefully let go, we will have peace. So all our defilements cannot be stopped by just reading the scriptures or praying. The Buddha once taught in the Buddha Dhammapada: While reciting many sutras, the mind still letting go and not practicing will not benefit from the fruit of the rabbits, just as a cow counting man only cares for him.
4. How do Buddhists cultivate?
We Buddhists need to have awareness to rectify, forgive, tolerate, tame all things not just by words but by the transformation efforts of the interior of every human being.
We have been overcome by all our defilements, selfish greed, veiled our enlightenment, our good qualities, but here we don't wash it with all our actions. , by the method of practice, which we only know by faith and imagination to ask the question to pray like that cannot be changed and transformed? END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/8/2019.
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