ATTRACTION DEVICE.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

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ATTRACTION DEVICE

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1. True homeland

Hometown is there but does not return

Let Xu Fei wait and see.

Among us, everyone has more or less heard the smooth melodies of the song  "Homeland"  with simple, close lyrics, evoking in the heart of a quiet, very lovely countryside, though in the memories of the homeland, there is no one like anyone, there is a native in the river, a white sandy countryside, or a green garden in the urban areas, etc., but every time the hometown melodies are The memory of a beloved countryside in each person suddenly rises strongly, thereby making them feel loved and attached to the intestinal land.

With lyrics such as sweet star fruit bunches, the way to school and childhood kites, has awakened the familiar images that are always attached to the lives of each of us Vietnamese people. If the motherland is lacking in mother and father love, then that motherland will spend a lot of money. Therefore, the homeland in the minds of each of us must be in harmony with the charming scenery, and the whole mother is immense as the sea without the shore, the fatherly love is as high as Mount Thai Son. Having both father and mother love attached to it, the picture of the motherland can be very vivid.

But even if the picture is romantic, how sweet it will eventually fade over the years, according to the law of impermanence and sink into the past. Because of the homeland that we are living here, on this planet is always impermanent, illusory, fake of the legal world. Due to the nature of the fake is not real so can not be permanent residence. A world filled with elements of chance, chaos, and disaster, cannot be a good world.

Expanding the issue, bringing the homeland to a global scale, the world we live in here is closely tied to the minds of the billions of people living on this planet. From the perspective of the Buddhist worldview, we clearly feel the instability in the common home we live in. The house has many potential risks from nature and countless consequences due to dangerous, direct human impacts, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, epidemics, wars, etc. The fluctuations of such an uncertain life every day and every hour threaten the peace of the planet we live in, so that each of us can feel the dangers dangling from humanity's head. .

So where is the true homeland for us to have a peaceful life? That is the hometown of Bliss. Shakyamuni with his eyesight, he saw and introduced the world of Bliss, a truly solemn and pure  world as introduced by the Amitabha Sutra  , a solemn Pure Land.

Read a paragraph in the Sutta  ,  we will see clearly:  "Hey Xa-profit-waving! So why is the name Pure Land? Beings in that realm don't have sufferings, only enjoy pleasures. Should be called Ultimate Bliss. "

The world we live in is far different from the one heaven and the world of Ultimate Bliss. This is the "miserable" world, and the other world is the Ultimate Bliss. Suffering and Lac are two categories that are completely opposite to each other. The world we live in is more or less unpleasant, is transient for a long time, but because we live in misery and have adapted to the living conditions, no one sees suffering and wants to avoid it anymore. Therefore, beings in this Ta-she world are very intense.

Please briefly describe the suffering of the world as the three suffering, eight suffering. And the World of Bliss has three bliss and eight peanuts.

Tam suffering:

- Suffering: Ie suffering more husband suffering. Like life itself has birth, old age, sickness, death, suffering, but also pass more suffering such as resentment of suffering, craving separation, demand and satisfaction and countless other miseries.

- Disappointment: Ta-she eventually perishes, nothing is eternal, there is no true joy, ultimately, because happiness before suffering should not be true. Although there are attained noble meditations such as preliminary meditation, secondary meditation, third meditation, the fourth meditation is just smuggled. When you have enjoyed all that bliss, the gods in the four heavenly meditation still have to be lost. So called suffering.

- Suffering: Onion is a relentless shift, arising and passing in every moment. The method of impermanence, born of suffering should be called suffering. The devas in the Realm of Formlessness, though meditating on the four elements of meditation, live up to eighty-four thousand lives, do not have the material body and enjoy the joy in No-going, but when they lose concentration, they will fall down as usual. . Sex about all 3 kinds of suffering. Lust the world lacks suffering. The formless world suffers only suffering.

Eight sufferings: including the four sufferings in the body (birth, old age, sickness, death) and the four sufferings in the mind (suffering because of prayers cannot be, suffering because of love must be separated, suffering from resentment and having to meet, miserable for the warm year). Ta-she miserable said not all. To have joy, you have to work hard to attain. But not for long. Eventually the happiness is gone. On the contrary, the world of Bliss, everything from clothing, eating, etc., is solemnly victorious, completely at will, without any hard work on its own, so there is loads of joy, countless bliss . Should be called "Dan's life lost".

Now we find out what the three tribes are.

Tam Tam:

- Purity immaculate: People in the realms of Bliss are Na-la-Dien body solid, enough 32 good generals, yellow body, body is no different, absolutely no craving. Ie there is no suffering.

- Health care is often lost: Tho lives a person immeasurably long. The water realm does not vanish. There is no suffering.

- Mindfulness of the immovable mind: The beings of the Pure Land are always in concentration and the mind is always happy like greed. There is no suffering.

Peanuts:

- United flower contact body chemistry: Being born from a lotus, not in the womb of darkness. Born immediately saw the Buddha hearing enlightenment and being unborn. There should be no suffering.

- General solemn dignity: Body as Buddha is no different, body by dignified merit. There is no aging phenomenon.

- Self in the serene state: The body is made of hard metal, immortal being. Pure body, permanently not sick. There is no phenomenon of the four great quarrels, always contempt and liberty.

- Longevity immeasurable: Life is equal to Buddha. There is no parting death. There should be no suffering.

- Fun as the will: Things, food, upstairs, whenever anyone thinks of it, it is not hard work. So there is no need to suffer.

- Hai Hai often congregate: The numerous noble people who make countless friends often make close friends. There is no separation sex.

- Superior good club: People in the Pure Land are often happy as smuggled, so they always love each other. There is no resentment.

- Body and mind pure tranquility: Body pure, constant President projector. No Ngu cozy and suffering.

In general: The three realms of idealism, all things of consciousness. Beings Ta-she realms deep karma, Tanh strength, causing many guilty feelings, gross realms, many accidents. And beings in the Pure Land, like the contraband, pure serenity, the chief medical sensation, so there are the three bliss, the peanuts, even countless things of nature.

Our nature is not born, but because of delusion, there are many errors, so we go up and down the six paths. Bring the unborn and put into the body of birth and death, rolling in the realm of impermanence is very compassion for the boss too. Now knowing that the other world is solemnly victorious, why not dare to consider the Pure Land as the homeland, the Buddha Amitabha is a good father, They are friends, and wish to be born soon to return to the nature of nursing in the lotus. Once born and then no longer born. Enjoy immeasurable joy and peace. This is really our home town.

2. Recite Buddha's birth precious house

The times we live in are too risky, and full of surprises, so we cannot foresee the possible consequences. So the form of insurance was born. There are many types of insurance from health to life, which is property insurance, goods insurance, work accidents, even in education. Insurance is a form of guarantee for insurance buyers to have a certain compensation when an incident occurs or significantly reduces material and mental damage to insurance buyers.

Those are the world's insurance forms. Valid for a certain period of time, very long as a lifetime. There is absolutely no future insurance for customers.

But here, the Pure Land Method of Buddhism opens up a new chapter, which is beyond time because of compassion for infinite beings so Buddha Amitabha initiates the great vow to ensure the practice. Pure Land monk, if for some reason, in this life they have recited Buddha's name but not reborn, then the 26th prayer  "Hear the name blessed"  protects them. The text says:  "... If I listen to my name, after the expiry of my life, I will give birth to a noble house, the apartments will not be empty ..." .

The book of  General Commentary  says, "The birth of a noble house" is  as follows:  "Being born in Sat-the-benefit-point is powerful, giving  birth to a Brahmin has wisdom, a birth of a laity is wealthy, so it is possible benefit beings ”.

The book of  Islam  tells us:  "The birth of condescending family who is despised by life cannot create broad benefits . " Besides, the senses are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, were born into the house of dignity, power, and the body is good. No vacancy yet. This is truly a form of both physical and mental integrity.

This prayer is to ensure that practitioners of Pure Land, in this life because of reciting Buddha's name, they do not vow to be reborn but still enjoy great merit in the next life, being born in a noble family, good appearance Defective. There is such hostile conditions to support the practitioner can continue to practice, until rebirth.

In the book of  reciting the Buddha's name , the Most Venerable Thich Thien Tam tells the story: In the Late Le Dynasty, there was a monk at Quang Minh temple who recited Buddha's name every day, but did not make a vow to be reborn earnestly. So when the contentment was born in China, as the emperor of the Qing dynasty, later he used the well water of the old temple to wash the streak of his past life on his shoulders, to sympathize with doing some tests, in there are two sentences:

The most Western self in Buddhism

Van Ha lost in the royal family.

The idea is that we, originally a Western Buddhist, lost our way to the emperor. This story is very relevant to the above prayer. Should take the above example as a representative so that we understand more clearly the 26th great prayer  "to hear the name blessed" . But actually, reciting Buddha's name in your new life is definitely the guarantee of your own liberation. The 26th Great Prayer is aimed at protecting practitioners while still working in Pure Land until the attainment of rebirth.

3. Buddha Amitabha always loves us

Ancient faith taught:  "We do not recite the Buddha, but the Buddha still thinks of us, let alone now we recite the Buddha's name, the more Buddha will think of us."

After reading the above paragraph, I do not know what practitioners of the Pure Land think, I myself fully believe and respect Venerable Buddha.

Not to say far away, whenever a Buddhist wants to learn about the practice of the Pure Land practice, I find it to be the number one priority. I always arrange the fastest time and the earliest to come to advise them to practice immediately. Reciting Buddha's name sooner or later. Go ahead and go ahead. I am very happy when someone sent the mind to recite Buddha's name for the Western bliss of the world. Not afraid of where I have little capital, nor a teacher, but with little knowledge, I am always willing to guide them to practice the method of reciting Buddha's name, to see anyone who likes to recite Buddha's name, I am very happy. . His mind was like that, so to Buddha, he was happy and thought about us a lot.

Again, the Buddha has enough six continents are: 1. Tuc pine network, 2. Thien label communication, 3. Thien nhĩ thong, 4. Tha mind thong, 5. Thầnsu thông thong, and 6. Tày tục. Because the Buddha has enough six record should have any beings who worship Buddha, recite the Buddha, praise the Buddha, Buddha knows.

Besides, beings are always in the mind of Buddha, because in the mind, when reciting the Buddha's name, Buddha will be sympathetic and blessed.

 The sentence  "Dharma Bodhisattva Dharma Bodhisattva Buddha"  means that there are also Bodhisattva Buddha's bodies hidden inside, covering the Dharma realm.

Buddha Di-da has 84,000 generals, in each generals have 84,000 generals depending on the shape, in each general custom shape has 84,000 halo, each ray of light that only photographers who recite Buddha's request for Western birth leave. Particularly people do not recite the halo Buddha did not come.

So, whenever the practitioner grabbed the rosary and maintained the name of the Buddha, he knew and blessed himself. Do not think that the Buddha and the Bodhisattva are far away, so they don't see, or don't know that they are reciting His Names.

4. Nan credit measures

In the Di-Sutta, there is a passage:  "Xa-profit-waving, know that I am in an evil life of five contingencies, can do this difficult work; Prime Minister Chanh is superior, because all the world says this unbelievable dharma, it is very difficult ”.

This is a self-expression of Shakyamuni Buddha. Because in the life of the five contradictory and evil states, he has become a difficult person, so in the middle of this crazy world, he said that the Pure Land method is very difficult to say, so it is called  "incompetent magic." ” . Because of the time of the Dharma-ending, the people are inherently less benign, there are few good karmic seeds from before, or they often have contempt, suspicion, uncertainty and laziness, so it is hard to believe this method.

In the sutras, it is taught:  "If listening to the Amitayus Sutra, but believing that it is to be maintained, it is the hardest of the difficult things, nothing is more difficult".  In other words, believing this Pure Land practice is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The new see the compassion for beings of Shakyamuni Buddha. Because sentient beings at the time of the Dharma, He appears in the Tara realm, saying the dharma is unbelievable, so that the escape of sentient beings can be immeasurable at the same time, causing countless beings to rot in the Supreme religion. If we do not worry about cultivating this vengeance, we will lose the love and hard work of Shakyamuni.

5. Following the example of the old lady "Ba Quan Quan"

Truly, cultivating Pure Land is very difficult, ladies and gentlemen. Because the practice of other disciplines is very hard, elaborate without interruption, but have yet to see the results. What practice gently, how leisurely practice as expected results. If today we say the Pure Land method is few, the result is much contrary to the thinking of so many people they don't dare to believe. Why is it so easy to cultivate such a simple practice? Easy to cultivate a concept from one concept to ten can also be reborn, anyone can cultivate, whether a girl or a boy, a wise or a fool. Easy to witness because when just set foot on the Buddha land, the three witnesses are rotten; because this is the subject of Super Love, that goes beyond our knowing and thinking. Easier said than done, but did not dare to ignore.

It is difficult to maintain the faith of life, cultivating to keep the rhythm longer and harder, lasting is not difficult, the hardest is being single-minded or not.

So look at the ashram, see a lot of people practice, but among them are some people  believe in deep, earnest, professional maintenance . There are also many lay Buddhists who also develop the mind of practicing Western Pure Land. But when they advised them to recite the Buddha's name, they often complained that they were always busy, didn't have time to recite Buddha's name, they were worried about working for a livelihood, they had to work hard outside, and when they got home, they were busy. the dark side with the kitchen, the garden, etc. is not free at all. Recite Buddha very little. Less thoughts go to forget. So there are not enough three-quarters food items are Tin, May, Hanh. But if these three items are not enough, it is unlikely that the opportunity will be reborn. This is a question that needs to be scrutinized, whether it belongs to the context of the situation or whether the disease or lamentation of the Bodhi heart rot of the majority of Buddhists today.

So, let's find out through the story of the old lady "The Unmanageable", fortunately each of us ponders whether we should solve the problem of time.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty in China, in Hangzhou, a Buddhist monk came to Hieu Hieu to ask the Venerable Daoist: "I have recited Buddha's name for a long time, but I haven't seen any progress, I don't know why?" The Venerable said, "Reciting Buddha's name is not difficult, but it is difficult to stay long, so maybe the old lady cannot recite and is durable so it is like that." She replied, "As a matter of fact, because of predestined interdependence, you should recite the Buddha's words often or without interruption, from here on out, from here on out, all wishes, keep as your teacher says."

Shortly after, she came again to ask: "Since I have listened to the teachings up till now, I have put everything aside, every day reciting the Buddha's name, why haven't I seen any effect?". The Venerable Master continued: "Reciting Buddha's name is not difficult, it is difficult to stay long; not long lasting not difficult, but difficult in one-pointedness. Outside, though all the guarded, but in the heart of concern for the home, the garden, the attachment to the children and grandchildren, the worry is not over, the root of love remains, how can one see the Buddha one-pointedly ". When she heard that, she complained, "Indeed! The external charm, though abandoned, but still lingering mind. From here, I would like to ask hundreds of unmanaged things to come, to single-mindedly recite the Buddha's name ”. After receiving the teachings, the old lady came home, the children or the grandchildren asked questions, or expressed anything, the old lady said, "I want to recite the Buddha's name peacefully, hundreds of things please do not manage." Because of that predestined relationship, everyone called her the old lady "Ba Quan".

Because the story is concise, condensed, has practical benefits, close to life, it should be recorded the full text of the story so that those who have read or not read will still see more benefits from the story.

Here we see the old lady, Ba Be Quan, the embodiment of our laity nowadays, that is, the house-holders have enough enthusiasm to practice the Pure Land, but they are so bounded by the conditions that they cannot overcome themselves. . The old lady in the past had many great things that we need to learn, that is, dare to acknowledge our own weaknesses and have presented that difficulty so that the profound teacher taught how to overcome and slowly let go. all obstacles from the outside first, and then after that all the interdependent attachment inside, only the Buddha's mind remains.

You see, the old lady was as faithful and as busy as we are today. Yet she did a miracle. It has reached the achievement of single-mindedness, that is, to recite the Buddha's eight samsara, which is also the Universal Samma. Then reborn. This is an example for us to learn and follow the old woman. May Buddhists resolve to rise above, try to arrange time, keep all the charm, both outside and inside, specialized in practicing Pure Land.

"Fading visitors fade away

Bold recitation recited bold flavor. "

In the past, we liked doing things like visiting friends, organizing parties, and wanting to go out more. Now, things like that, we should be limited to stay at home and focus on reciting Buddha's name for the Pure Land. In doing so, the practice will improve. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.1/11/2019.