( PRAJNAPARAMITA HRDAYA SUTRA ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

(Prajnàpàramità Hrdaya Sùtra)

Prajnàpàramità , Huyền Trang do not translate but just transcribe from Sanskrit into Bat Nha Ba-la-secret-multi, and  Hrdaya Sùtra  is translated as Heart Sutra.

The mind here is the essence, the essence, the core. Sutta: Buddha's words, recorded. Bat Nha Balamadana Sutta is the "essence", the glue of the entire Great Bat Nha 600 books and other suttas with the spirit of "Bat Nha", but according to Suzuki, it is not just a "summary of the main idea", "General idea" or "weak point" that has an extension, carries many new meanings. (Suzuki, ibid.)

Someone translated Bat Nha as the Highest Wisdom - Wisdom of Wisdom - Transcendental Wisdom ... but it seems that no word is accurate and full of the meaning of the word Prajnà, so Huyen Trang only translated the sound.

Osho called  Prajnà the  " Transcendent Wisdom", which is "what goes inward, blooms from within, not through others, not through experience from the outside, but in complete silence, leaving the hidden ( Buddha nature, Mind like, Chan Nhu ...) exploded ”.

Then Bat Nha is not the knowledge, the knowledge, the study, the inference, the research, the search, the gain from outside; nor is it the wisdom accumulated from experience, experience, but something we can only contemplate, cultivate, cherish, fertilize ... from within each one of us until sometime it is self-blooming, flowering, fruiting ...

Anyway, the word Prajnà translating "Bat Nha" sounds like something good, immense, sweet, beautiful and gentle.

In Ba-la-da-da, the word "multi" is just a buffer. "Balamật" translates the sound from   Pàramità , which also sounds mysterious. Ba-la-secret, Chinese translation means "unique bank", meaning "to the other side", the shore of liberation. People also imagine Bat Nha is a boat, called Bat Nha Boat that helps bring people across the shore to "liberate".

How does the Heart Sutra help people from the edge of love to the feeling of enlightenment, from the edge of suffering to the peaceful destination? Can it be done? And how? Why is it the "mother" of Buddhas, Buddhas of the present past and the future as in the affirmative text?

Heart Sutra

(Huyen Trang translation, year 649, Tang Dynasty)

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva penetrates in Bat Nha Balamādā, which screened the five skandhas, not necessarily yoke.

Sariputra! Unusual color Not any colorless. Sac ie No. No sharp eyesight. Feeling, thinking, doing, dressing as town.

Sariputra! The Dharma Market Not General: not arising any immortal, any impure, without any increase or decrease.

The Middle Air Market: no color, no idea of ​​life; invisible atria billion damage friendly body; colorless flavor contact method; no eye gender, even unconscious gender; ignorance herons endless ignorance even endless death of herons endless herons; Countless suffering, set, kill, religion; unreasonable heron.

Of no-privileged, Bodhisattva yà Bat Nha Balamādānāyāna mind tried to be ridiculous, invisible, tried to be ridiculously terrorized, fantastically faraway to dream, to save Nirvana.

Tam the Buddhas of Bat Nha Balamādà have attained A neapa Da la

Tam Mâm Tam Bodhi.

Old Tri Bat Nha Balamatmajupra mantra, the great mantra, the supreme mantra, the unequaled mantra, the unequaled energy, necessarily indestructible!

The theory of Bat Nha Balamataka, which means that he wrote:

Y êt De, Yet De, Bala listed, Bala increased base, Bodhi, slapped her ha!

ORDER IN THE BODY

Avalokiteshvara  is also Avalokiteshvara or  Avalokiteshvara , Sanskrit is  Avalokitesvara , and the Bodhisattva word translates from   Bodhisattava , meaning that one who has been enlightened, has awakened and is helping others also to be enlightened, awake like yourself.

Doan Trung also explained more clearly: Quan Tu In Bodhisattva Quan Yin. Bodhisattava of Han Dynasty was Bodhisattva of the red (Bodhi: full enlightenment, Bodhisattva: beings), that is, people who have fully enlightened but still do "sentient beings", not yet "ascending" to the Buddha status, or ascended to the status of Buddha, but because of his pledge, he is still in the line of sentient beings to save sentient beings (Doan Trung Con, Tam Kinh complementary, Kim Cang Kinh).

Osho says: Meditation is enough to solve your problems but lack compassion. "Mercy holds a Buddha who is a Bodhisattva right on the border" (Osho, ibid.).

That's it, how cute is the Bodhisattva! Bodhisattva is new "people", how "new" world (Who am I but the worldly? Who are I to love this life too! - Trinh Cong Son). There are documents called Bodhisattva "Buddha love", perhaps right. Buddhas that accidentally bored! Buddha accidentally became a statue, a robot already. The compassion that holds a Bodhisattva forever is Bodhisattva, although he is Buddha himself, he is free and free, but it is his "human realm" that makes them linger, help people, help life. So it's not interesting, isn't it cute?

More interesting and cute is the name of the Bodhisattva! Sometimes Quan Yin, sometimes Quan Yin, but Quan Yin or Quan Yin are just one. When it is necessary to "listen to the cry of the world", it is called Quan The Am, when it is necessary to deepen into the peace and freedom within ourselves, it is called Quan Tu Trong. As a Bodhisattva, "appearance" is okay. Having a Bodhisattva named "Ordinary Disappointment" means never taking lightly of others, always respecting others. Meeting everyone, he respectfully clapped his hands and said, "Hello, you are a Buddha," to arouse faith in them, whoever they may be. Bodhisattva Duu King is very sincere, anyone who sees him is happy (necessarily beings happy), because meeting him, people do not need to guard, "defensive", he has the ability to appear. all kinds of people to make it easy to get close to them (empathy, put yourself in someone else's shoes). The Bodhisattva Bodhisattva has the ability to understand all the languages ​​of sentient beings, thereby communicating easily with them, with wonderful sounds, loving words ...

Guan Yin, therefore, is someone who "listens to the cry of the world". Just  listening  alone is enough to alleviate so much suffering, bitterness, humiliation, guilt of human life! People prayed to Guanyin whenever he was in danger, whenever he was in pain, at a standstill, without a way out, because he believed that the "Bodhisattva" could hear his feelings and be ready to help him. When people can express their heart and soul, when people believe that someone is willing to listen to them, help them, do not drive away, throw away, people have solved most of the problem themselves, because at that time he I have confidence again, have come back wisely to make the right decisions, like the frosted glass screen is wiped clean.

The physician who listens to patients, spends time listening to them, and presents the practice of Quan The Am, helped patients reduce the disease by half! The counselor practices listening and listening skills in an active and profound way, with all sincere and empathetic hearts that have also practiced the practice of a Bodhisattva.

It is very interesting that in folklore, the image of "The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara" is a Buddhist lady, a woman, very gentle, very gentle, very beautiful, always has a calm vase filled with water. " nectar "on hand to go" rescue suffering "anytime, anywhere when people need it. Indeed, men often seem to be short-tempered, quick-puffed, easy to fight, aggressive ... while women are often gentle, tolerant, accepting, forgiving ... . In positive and negative in negative. Guan Yin thus has a time to fight, dragging out "Mr. Evil" to scold and scare him to finish!

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara - a way of calling it - may also be each of us, who still seeks peace, "liberty," which means wanting to be leisurely, arbitrary, free according to the nature of I, not distorted and distorted, do not swim against the river, but like the dew that blends into the sea ... But even the search is still hard, and the desire is hard to be free because still worried, still watching, waiting. So "Bodhisattva" but also "Quan" about "Freedom" must make long-term cultivation! That is why when Quan Tu At "violated" Bat Nha Ba-la-honey, discovered something, happily shouted: "Eureka! Eureka! ”Buddha hastily warned: Should continue to practice the Prajnaparamita deeply, do not be complacent even for a moment!

TRAVEL BREAST

It is strange that in many commentaries the Sutta does not say much about the two words " on-going"In this phrase" Onions of Prajnaparamita. " Some people say "deep penetration" means "going deep" (Thich Tam Thien, The Heart of Supreme Wisdom, Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House 2000), and Suzuki said deep practice is "deep practice" but practice What, practice does not indicate. (Suzuki, ibid.) Giac Khai said that "onions" are practices, while "deep" goes with the word Bat Nha, meaning Tham Bat Nha (as well as Dai Bat Nha). He said, "Now we meditate, give the first sentence, start suspecting, that is to go into the Bat Nha" and "Just be greedy forever, the future will definitely reach the other shore. Join to enlightenment, that is, show the five aggregates not "(Enlightenment, Bat Nha ba-la-secret-multi-minded Business Solutions, Chanh Ngoc translation, 1974). Doan Trung Also translated as "executing" Bat elegant but also completely

do not say how to proceed? Osho is a little more clear: "Meditate on these sutras, meditate with love, with sympathy, not with logic, arguing". Going to the bank in the "Heart of knowledge" also emphasizes only: "Receiving and practicing", because he suspected that many people recited the Heart Sutra ten years, twenty years, thirty years but were not sure that they really received it. receive and practice. Here "reception" is to understand, is to accept and "practice" is to follow. The bank translates deeply as "contemplating deeply", "practicing in a deep way", and having "realization", which means that it is direct and not just good at studying and deducing.

To me, this phrase "intensive action Bat Nha" is really important, decisive, because of the thousands of thousands of things to do without knowing how to "realize", to experience, to live Heart Sutra. The Heart Sutra can bring us something, especially in the context of the present life, full of uncertainties, worries, stress, this is full of the risk of illnesses coming from all sides making people without to be healthy - to be understood as bien-être (well-being) physically, mentally and socially, in other words, to happiness, peace, quality of life .. And moreover, the Heart Sutra can help people overcome all fears, including the earliest fear of birth and death, "transcending samsara" as they say. Those who write about the Heart Sutra are mostly Zen teachers and monks who have already meditated in boredom, consider meditation is a matter of course that does not need to be said or philosophers, scholars go into the essay, argue about the theory. "Going on" in my opinion is how implementing the Heart Sutra in the everyday life  of a normal person, helping them to change their attitude, have a new view, about life, about the human world, the universe and thus find life more beautiful and valuable more, live more responsibly with nature, with life, with people, with themselves ...; work more effectively and efficiently, contribute to building a better society, improve the quality of life of each member ... A poet "monk" told me: Tu is not self die slowly!

Searching in the Zen guide, perhaps only the words ... scare and drawings full of difficult and complex. Blind construction projects, monstrous tales and thrilling situations. Any shout, no fight, no hand, no boat ... The more tangled the more. Or is there a secret that people try to hide? Do true meditation practitioners practice properly and are enlightened? Not sure. Is it forcing the body, confining itself in a dark cellar, letting the mind sink into a coma - some form - to find the unmoving mind? It is unbelievable that one must destroy knowledge in order to attain enlightenment because Prajna is also a kind of knowledge. Destroying knowledge, pushing yourself into the mundane world, certainly cannot be meditation. There is a  moment when one is suddenly innocent, unreasonable, uneasy, no thinking, not calculating, letting go, letting go, emptiness, like being in  space or space. Is that Zen? How to get there? How to maintain? After the most fatal illness, there were a few moments when I seemed to recognize another ego in me. I felt like drifting and lightening. I was surprised and pleasant. I realized that when we were filled with a greater "worry", all the whirling and whirling things that became useless became meaningless. Just by paying attention to our breath, it seems that our body is also gentle because the only thing that is the important breathing is in and out that we often forget. Breathing inside us is just like being outside us; without us we don't need luck. If we focus on that breath, we can breathe better and be more physiologically effective, but we will also forget the worries and worries that make us suffer, that is, we will be happy happily mentally. .

The good news is that our breathing is both automatic and controlled. Breathe out, then automatically breathe in. Breathing in and out automatically exhales. But we can control making breathing fast, slow breathing, shallow breathing, deep breathing. The second lucky thing is that when our minds are busy thinking about one thing, we cannot think of another at the same time. That's why we combine: breathing and observing breathing, paying attention to how the breath goes in, out, how long, short ... we will forget to think about something else, so that our mind is still. Back, relax. When we are angry, we "lose our minds": our breathing becomes uncontrollable. If we remember and follow our breath, we will forget anger because our mind is busy focusing on the breath, on breathing, there is no time to remember anger. A moment of anger has subsided. This is a physiological phenomenon. People whoever can control the breath can control the mind. So Zen has to start with breath control. Buddha taught this from two thousand and five hundred years ago in the Sutta of "contemplating the breath". Buddha taught not only "theory" as right view, right thought but also taught skills, both methods such as mindfulness and right concentration. Once the mind has been meditated by tranquility, then it is possible to go into every thought, every word of the Heart Sutra, to see the predestined interdependent arising, non-self, impermanence so that there is no fear, fearless, deliverance. Osho said meditation is a "trick", when you can grasp it and can then focus as you like. If meditation is a "trick" there must be some technique that works. But what is that "technique"? Osho said just an observer, no inquiry, no criticism, no prejudice is enough for the mind to dance. As the clear sky, clouds came to build the city, creating many images, Without seeing the sky, he disappeared. Then come again, then again. The sky goes on watching, not criticizing. Roaring waves of all kinds, the ocean is just wide open, not critical. Also, ideas come and go. But observation is still an attempt. No need for that, just witnessing is enough. Summary, Observe, witness  ideas without being criticized . Actually not easy at all. It takes a long practice.

Breathing in meditation must be  diaphragmatic breathing , also known as  abdominal breathing . This is a newborn's way of breathing, a gentle but very effective way of breathing. Nobody has seen anyone meditating breathing loudly, breathing up and down their shoulders like when we exercise, because at that time we breathed with the muscles of the ribs, the neck muscles, the auxiliary respiratory muscles, not much effect! The ancients practiced "qigong", brought the breath down to the acupuncture point "knitting", below the navel an inch (about 3 fingers), essentially diaphragmatic breathing. The diaphragm is the most important respiratory muscle, deciding 80% of respiratory quality, lying across the abdomen and chest, moving up and down like a plunger pushing and drawing air in and out. Breathing  slowly, breathing deeply, the benefits doubled fast and shallow. Respiratory neurons have an effect on the entire nervous system of plants, affecting other organs, so breathing properly benefits the whole body, for the heart, digestive, excreted. The respiratory center is located in the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum, which is automatic, but also influenced by the nerve flow coming from the cerebral cortex, making it possible to actively breathe fast, slow, shallow, and deep as desired. said above. When there is a strong cortical region, the pulse will inhibit the surrounding areas, the whole respiratory center reduces respiration so that the thinking scientist wanders about breathing, the artist is passionate about painting. Forget breathing, monks when "contemplating" too deeply also reduces breathing. Also due to the influence of the cerebral cortex, angry emotions, pain, fear will have a nerve flow affecting the hypothalamus that changes respiration, we almost suffocate, gasp ... In contrast, Controlling breathing will reverse the effect of reducing emotions. Breathing in your belly, paying attention to breathing in and out, and letting go of your emotions will go away. When you are angry, when you are afraid, when your emotions are strong, immediately focus on what the breath will bring. When the whole body is stable, a sense of security also affects breathing well. Breathing properly with the diaphragm - abdominal breathing - steady, slow, deep, smooth works well for the body and mind. The study of physiology in meditation still has many things like measuring the waves emitted from the brain, measuring metabolic basic, energy consumption ... providing many interesting findings. Many studies confirm that Meditation helps reduce blood pressure, solve some cardiovascular problems, increase the body's resistance, work less tired, work effectively and more clearly, including in learning and research. Many medical centers, Medical universities around the world are now continuing to research on Zen in order to contribute to an effective, comprehensive, low-cost and special treatment for a number of non-drug-related diseases, stress-induced diseases, and nutritional conditions. balm, caused by lifestyle. Clearly, Zen still has many mysteries that need to be experienced, practiced, and studied for a long time.

However, abdominal breathing and focusing on breathing have been a good way to reduce stress and be beneficial both in terms of respiratory physiology, improve respiratory quality, support the treatment of some diseases, especially chronic diseases.

Buddha taught this method of breathing right from the first sermons. In the sutta "Contemplating the breath" and the sutta, "The four foundations of mindfulness", the Buddha asserts: "This is the only way to help sentient beings perform purely, overcome defilements, eliminate suffering and attain the right path." and Nirvana: "... ...  breathing in knows that we are breathing in; if you exhale, you know  you are exhaling; If you take a deep breath, you will know that you are breathing in a  long breath ... if you take a short breath, you will know that you are breathing in a short breath ..." Only that. Just read, it looks like there is something "doting" here, brooding carefully and practicing to startle. It is obvious that the cortical suppression procedure has been applied to create an excitation point in one place to inhibit the surrounding ones. As mentioned above, when anxiety, fear, anger ... inhibited breathing causes confusion, almost suffocating, gasping, exhausted, stressed, but if focused right on the breath, watching the breath, "breathing in and breathing in ..." then this new excitement will inhibit those emotions of fear and anger! It is easy to think that it is actually not easy because when you are angry, you tend to be attracted to anger, forget to breathe, rather than focus on breathing ... to forget anger. If we could reverse it, we would cultivate ... near the true attainment! So "cultivating" is to "practice" for a long time (cultivation), to practice for a long time (practice)! is so.

It can be said that Zen is Breathing. There is no need to show a lot of breathing patterns, it is easy to cause confusion, difficult to perform. Just remember the main " belly breathing  " and always " think about the breath”While breathing is fine. Do not exert. Also do not hurry. Don't expect immediate results. The sitting position itself also makes sense in this meditation, even though it is not just sitting, it is meditative, because any position can be meditated (that is, always have to ... breathe!). But maybe sitting cross-legged, semi-elderly, has more advantages. First of all, it is firm, it helps ... the belly work well, be comfortable in the "bulging, filling", easier to bring down the "acupuncture points" more. Acupoints are also called acupoints "air sea", the sea contains gas just below the navel. When still in the womb one does not breathe through the lungs but "breathe" through the navel, ie through the placenta. When we grow up, we immediately forget the navel, what a pity! The sitting position makes the navel remember, everything focuses on ... navel, and freeing the mind, allowing the mind to rest. Crossing is a yoga posture, Padmasana, dating back thousands of years before Buddha was born. The ancients have sought to sit in a healthy way, discovering this sitting style that we now understand has the ability to help relax muscles, resist muscle fatigue due to permanent muscle contraction (tonus) and due to heavy physical activity , produces lactic acid, causing muscle hypoxia (cramps!). Buddha inherited and combined with "contemplating the breath" into an important practice practice in practice. The sitting position in meditation also creates a conditioned reflex for us. When sitting down like that, nature is forced to focus on the breath and ... forget everything in the world. As a result, the mind stops being stressed, and after a few proper breathing, the blood pressure goes down, the heart becomes less nervous ... Medical centers that guide meditation practice to cure have proved this. In everyday life, sometimes relaxing, sitting "breathing belly" like that for a while is enough to increase labor productivity, intellectual labor as well as manual labor. The athletes before the competition need completely relaxing moments like that, especially relaxation for the mind. People who are worried, afraid, and want to achieve high results often have "hard muscles" and cannot perform as expected. Students before the exam days, sitting "meditation" a little easier to pass the mind is stressed, though very memorized but distracted, forget all!

In fact, meditation needs all three factors:  posture ,  breathing  and  visualization . "Quan" can be said as "think", is "thought" to something during meditation. This is more important than we thought! While meditating, thinking about good and good things, it is clear that the breath will be harmonized, the soul will relax; thinking about bad things, evil immediately got angry, gasping for breath, heart palpitations, blood vessels contracting, blood pressure increased ... Psychologically affected remarkably. Just think of "sour tamarind" and immediately salivate! Just thinking of the "enemy" immediately "rages on the air", and thinking of the loving images, the soul naturally calms down! Therefore, Bat Nha contemplation can profoundly "necessarily suffering yoke" reasonable?

HUMAN RESOURCES ARCHITECTURE NOT

It is not natural that people "see"! It is not natural for Newton to see an apple fall and find the law of the gravitation of the earth. A billion people also see apples falling. It was not natural that Archimède bathed in the bath and discovered the law of water repulsion. Billions of people still bathe in the bath. Therefore, seeing (seeing) clearly seeing a miracle in the process of penetrating Bat Nha is not a simple matter for the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. It has to be contemplated, practiced seriously, profoundly, continuously, for long ... until then at some point, breaking up the miracle, which can help people escape. all suffering suffering from suffering, that's the "Five Aggregates of Zero".

" N u aggregates phase zero " is the core of the Heart Sutra, the heart of the heart. Complete Heart Sutra can kink in four words alone are  enough. It can be said that the Great Bat Nha Balamat over 600 books, read for many years is not necessarily comprehensible, has been condensed to 260 words is Tam Kinh, then the first copy may have introduced a few sentences, the translator highlighting a few ideas, the English, French, German, Japanese, Vietnamese translators ... all translated so that it is easy to understand, so it makes a little more drawing, but in any way, in any way, the main idea is at the core. these four words: "Five Aggregates of Time". Because through this gate will go into the Heart Sutra. This gate also "deceives", "traps" us many things, even words, especially in Vietnamese, the word "No" is very misunderstood, while Chinese has many meanings with many ways of writing in " no ”: phi, real, nothing, no; English also has prefix "a", non, not, no, empty (emptyness), transparence ... French too. In Vietnamese, there is only one "no", write the same for many meanings: no, no, no, no, and not in the sense of emptiness, emptiness! But "empty" but "full" is not there, but not as in "the Five Aggregates" is clearly very difficult to describe but very easily misleading, misunderstanding leading to "onions".

It can be said that the Heart Sutra can be reduced to four words "five aggregates" and it can be shortened again, even a single word is  NOT  enough. It is important to clarify the meaning immediately because otherwise (again not!) Will be easily "possessed by ghosts", easily fall into nothingness, unleash everything, going against the spirit of the Heart Sutra is to help people are liberated and fearless (without fear).

We now destroy the environment while protecting the ozone layer, both for cloning and abortion and for the choice of death ... - and whirling like that - while seeking to fly up planets in galaxies, billions of light-years away, just don't understand themselves, struggling with the question: who are we, why are we, where are we from, where are we going? Then search everywhere with hopeless answers. What does the Heart Sutra say?

First of all see: CRANES

 What is CANCEL ? NH does not translate, leaving the "five aggregates", just saying it is Sac, Tho, Tuong, Hanh, and consciousness. Doan Trung Also has the five aggregates as "the five aggregates", as well as not, but it is noted: these are the five aggregates to be human, that being is Sac (Forme), Tho (Sensation), Tuong (Perception) , Onions (Impressions, Concepts), Consciousness (Conscience) (TTC, ibid.).

Suzuki wrote "The concept of skandha" appears vague and uncertain. The five aggregates (elements, constituents) are rupa, rupa, sensation or perception, sensory energy (vedanà), contemplation (samjnà), aggregation or formation (samskarà) and consciousness (vijnàna). . The first aggregates are the physical or physical world of all things, the other four aggregates belong to the mind. As for samskàra (onion), he said that the word is very difficult, there is no equivalent word in English, showing us what makes the shape and the principle of shaping. Consciousness (vijnàna) is consciousness or mental activity such as seeing and smelling and touching (Suzuki, ibid.).

Thich Tam Thien translated aggregates as aggregates. The English translation is aggreagates, the French version is not translated, leaving the Sanskrit: skandhas.

Dao Duy Anh's dictionary states: "aggregates" in "hemp fibers bundle". In short, aggregates are something, like elements, combined, gathered into a bundle, a lump, a pinch ... a person!

Buddha does not see people as a "self" with a particular nature, but only a gathering, aggregated by many factors arising by predestined. There are aggregates, then disintegrated. Disintegration is not about losing, but returning to making elements to create other combinations, different aggregates, different aggregates, different bundles, and other bundles ... Clumps, bundles, aggregations, other combinations not by itself, but by interaction, mutual birth, mutual interaction, and coordination. These "encounters" seem to be unclear as to where they could be called "predestined" (Where do people meet? What hundred years of knowing whether there is a predestined relationship? - Nguyen Du), may actually be due to the school , the forces that attract each other. Thuy Kieu must have something "gène" to "link" with Dam Tien and Kim Trong, with 15 years of wandering school.

In some environment, that creature arises, aggregates from elements that sometimes borrow here and there, a little bit there, like bacteria, like viruses, must attach to a certain cell to proliferate. If the environment is unfavorable, bacteria cannot grow. The growing mold killed the bacteria, so Flemming found the antibiotic Pénicilline. But then there is the phenomenon of adaptation, resistance, interaction, combination, creating a new one.

So "aggregates" are elements, bundled, combined into one or the other. Being a component is not the whole. Humans, too, are composed of the elements of Lust Fangkala, but only the elemental elements of C, H, O, N ... together with the metals, so I people cannot have a self, have a specific nature to "marvelous martial yang". Human suffering is due to the ego of every individual being so great. Everything is  for me, for me ... should cling; always think that mine, for me, because I ... it is permanent, forever so when lost, vanished, suffering, sorrow. Even spiritual practitioners who want to escape may get heavier like hugging our temple, our cup, after thinking of escaping from our home! The ego is established from infancy, gradually exploring the body, then accumulating gradually forming the image of the "self-image", then the personality is increasingly solidified. Taking the shoulder for so long grew out of unwavering "personalities", believing that it was me, behaving according to that and so on, clinging viciously, which was the source of suffering for change and loss. cool, disintegrate. The Buddha himself also experienced many "egos", the ego is the prince, the son, the husband, the father, the future king, the intellectual ... then leave all, flee to the forest, practice ascetic, corpse, hope to escape suffering, then see absurd, not only not escape suffering but also more suffering, eliminate intellect, then leave elsewhere, find your own way, find a cure yourself for myself. There are documents that say that in addition to the age of 60, Buddha preached the New Sutta. More than twenty years earlier, Buddha preached mind-shattering ways to help calm the mind from very strict principles and methods. These are basic steps, necessary but not sufficient. But there are still people clinging like clinging to the raft when crossing the river. Not only accept "self", accept "general", people also accept "legal", embrace and sleep on it! So can not escape! Put this to get in the other! It is time to take action "smashing" again, fortunately ... The Foot As it is available there, that's it, without intervention, without suffering. And he laughed alone. Therefore, I always saw Buddha smiling alone. Clearly the "medicine" he found cured fear (fear of death, fear of suffering, fear of disease, fear of separation, fear of loss ...), greed, anger, delusion ... If Buddha will not become a monk, perhaps he will become a king, there will also be three palace palaces, giving birth to a few dozen princesses who scramble for positions and kill each other. Perhaps he also worried about the mighty army and went ... beaten the south, expanded the power, the land, led to the murder and robbery of the neighbors ... In short, he was Buddha so he did not those who are liberated from those sufferings but also leisurely leisurely, alone. Not only that, he also wants to share help to others. perhaps he will become king, there will also be three palace palaces, giving birth to a few dozen princesses scrambling for status, killing each other. Perhaps he also worried about the mighty army and went ... beaten the south, expanded the power, the land, led to the murder and robbery of the neighbors ... In short, he was Buddha so he did not those who are liberated from those sufferings but also leisurely leisurely, alone. Not only that, he also wants to share help to others. perhaps he will become king, there will also be three palace palaces, giving birth to a few dozen princesses scrambling for status, killing each other. Perhaps he also worried about the mighty army and went ... beaten the south, expanded the power, the land, led to the murder and robbery of the neighbors ... In short, he was Buddha so he did not those who are liberated from those sufferings but also leisurely leisurely, alone. Not only that, he also wants to share help to others.

Why does the "Five Aggregates" have only five and not six or seven?

The East has strange characteristics, everything is "five", "five" only. It seems that this number has some symbolic meaning. We have five senses: ears, eyes, nose, tongue, skin, support each other. There are five organs: the mind, the heart, the heart, the kidneys, the five vital organs of the body, which are inseparable but very closely connected. Can't leave one without hurting the other. Then there are the five elements. Kim, Carpentry, Water, Fire, and Earth are similar. Then five colors, five sounds, five flavors, five fruits ... and eternal!

The Nine Elements is a trench, the fifth from the bottom, the main trench of the hexagrams in Translation. "King of the throne" is the king's throne. Translation was born thousands of years before Buddha, perhaps Buddha was also affected. "Five" therefore only means the highest, most important, needless to say, because only has a symbolic meaning, not necessarily "5", to be counted and measured.

It is important that the meaning of "many constituent elements" creates our "self", - that there is no self-determined, self-deciding element that interacts with - due to "predestined" birth, unfortunate end. then falling apart - but falling apart does not mean losing but becoming elements for another affinity to form. The leaves fall down to disintegrate into feces to feed the tree, add new leaves - and so on, so it is, without intervention, without suffering. The old red blood cells self-destruct, the elements retained in the spleen to produce other red blood cells, replacing new blood. Sac, Tho, Tuong, Hanh and Consciousness are analytical ways in the time of Buddha. They consist of two main parts: Body (Sac) and Mind (Life, Idea, Action and Knowledge). It is not unreasonable to put rupa before other aggregates. Without Lust there are no other aggregates. It is absurd to look down on the Aggregates, to disregard the body, to regard it as dirty, evil, and sin.

Disregarding the body is a big mistake. Buddha was so wrong, for a long time, when he was new - to follow the path of asceticism, self-torment of the body, contempt for the body! Without the Aggregates there cannot be the Aggregates. Emotions, from the senses - eyes, ears - smells, tongue tasting, and skin contact - Destruction of materiality to eliminate longevity is self-destruction. Buddha certainly did not teach that. Surely he found a joy on his healthy, lucid, handsome body - some say 32 good generals. But Buddha must have laughed with 32 good generals that foolish, ignorant, as well as not!

Certainly, Buddha took good care of his body, not only cared for but also listened to every part, every way of working of the body. Not only listened to but also graciously admired him, surprised at him, thank him. It seems that someone said: Be compassionate to yourself before you can be compassionate to others. To myself, who wants to destroy and destroy, who still wants to save? After a period of wrong practice, asceticism, he suddenly rediscovered his body. When he was itchy, he scratched, and unlike us, we were scratching and worrying about business calculations, about "destroying" the enemy, unifying the Gypsy, five years of treatment ... then he was scratching and listening attentively. my itchiness, breathing and laughing: not happy at all? Also, when hungry. He will hear hunger, be considerate of it and will eat, eat and eat, do not ask for a good salary - but when he eats slowly, Thoroughly chew each piece and so that the food - whatever it is - dissolves into glucid, protid, lipid, mineral salts, and vitamins, and then uptake, then waste. Here again see the aggregates. Food groups are also aggregates, also called "aggregates": glucid, protid, lipid, mineral salts, vitamins, gathered, in the form of meat, fish, eggs, milk, beans, noodles, vegetables. ... and then disintegrates, in the digestive system to provide the body with the necessary substances and energy for life. Animal protein as well as vegetable protein. Fatty animals as well as vegetable fat. There are things, protein and vegetable fats are healthier, do not raise cholesterol, do not cause atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart disease ... Buddha knows how to choose good food for his body, make muscles being physically fit, athletic, and gentle at heart because he doesn't have to go ... hunting, not drinking, to be buried, after a happy night are painful days. Thanks to eating moderately, eating a lot of plants, walking, abdominal breathing should make sure not to have diabetes, constipation, hemorrhoids, gout ... like most of us today.

Of course, Buddha also digested food that also discharged waste. But when he went to the toilet, he probably did not read the newspaper while watching the world situation via television or radio, answering the phone, - just thinking of completing the plan, exceeding the target - which he just breathed, while monitoring abdominal pain, bowel movement, how to open sphincter, and he smiled freely.

Sac cared its aggregates must first take care of things  t open! It takes only six hours for us to eat once, but every time we have to breathe ten times, twenty times, like it or not. The first lesson he taught was "Mindfulness of the breath", the key to every key. It's not like I know right now but I'm still fascinated ... forget to breathe! Of course, he did not forget to exercise, exercise with postures to help relax the muscles of Yoga. He listened to the moving joints. He praised it, was happy with it when it creaked, and pangled, patted it when it hurt. Occasionally there was backache, the wind, he relished the pot of leaves bursting, enjoying bowl of onion porridge, relief. He also slept. Sleeping is easier than us. Sleep better than us because there's nothing to worry about. Not afraid of thieves to steal because there is nothing to lose. Also little dreamed. He lies on his right side when sleeping so that the liver does not press on the stomach, so that the stomach is easy to work. In short, for the aggregate,

This is also the secret. Thanks to this mindfulness method, he was not distracted, did not suffer from the sorrows and regrets of yesterday, and did not worry about tomorrow. He always lives in the present. To live in the present is to live without time, a characteristic of Heaven or Nirvana!

What is more important is probably being considerate, loving, cherishing the body but he knows it is only one aggregates. It is due to innumerable conditions that become together and then it will vanish when the charm ends, when the charm ends. It will not come by itself and will come again. It still has that is not, still not that is there. When you understand your body, understand the transience of the body, the aggregates change, translate, old, sick, die ... You understand that it is obvious, of course, is normal, to all every species, every person. Why suffering?

Understanding and loving one's body is grateful to it, respecting it, keeping it green and lasting by watering the joys, eating healthy, clean foods. Understanding and loving one's body also understand and love the human body. Understand the coming and the going, the predestined and the predestined, the lack of defect (disability), the sickness, seeing that everyone is us and we are people. Understand and love the body because it is made up of the four elements, taken from somewhere, from parents, from grandparents, from thousands of years, millions of years ago, combined in genres and transmitted. When reading the commentary on the scriptures, perhaps we have to understand that the phrase "escaping the cycle of birth and death" does not mean that cultivating into righteous deeds, not dying anymore, not getting old, not being sick anymore, but only means being lucid. out, aware of the conditions of birth, the transformation, the change, ie impermanence, non-self. Understand that then happy with it, calmly with it does not run away. No cursing, no fear, meaning "escaping", is to overcome!

There is the aggregates there is feeling aggregates. There is the feeling of aggregates there is " perception”. Thought comes from emotions, perception of the senses, acting on the mind. Once you see a snake, know that snake poison, another time you see the snake-like rope immediately body reacts defensively: blush (peripheral vascular spasm), cold sweats, cortisol and adrénaline secreted , causing heart palpitations, high blood pressure, dry mouth, muscle spasms ... fluttering or too heavy, fainting, falling feces, urine in pants due to smooth muscle spasm. "Idea" leads to imagination, drawing, creating prejudice, creating suspicion, jealousy. Fear, anxiety, and anger are often caused by "aggregates". If we take hard to write down on our paper our anger, anxiety, fear, waiting for a review time will feel completely silly, ridiculous! Yet at that time the energy rushed in so that we could launch very fast or smash something unknown, unexpectedly that we were so strong, So healthy. Thought aggregates are still in the "attitude" stage, not yet turned into action, but this has been a very important factor, it "leads" to action, embellish and distort, fiction and push imagination to the point. unpredictable. People with this ability (think) are very strong: there is no scientific basis that Jules Vernes only imagines and can also write fantasies about 20,000 miles below the sea floor, explore the moon ... Leonardo da Vinci devised aircraft and skydiving for hundreds of years before the first aircraft. The story of Phong Than is just an imagination that science is gradually able to accomplish today. Natural eyesight, atrial atria, behind the price still ... In summary "idea aggregates" very well, as long as not prejudices, do not inflate from which to birth suffering when not as desired. but this is a very important element, it "leads" to action, embellish and distort, fiction and push imagination to unpredictable levels. People with this ability (think) are very strong: there is no scientific basis that Jules Vernes only imagines and can also write fantasies about 20,000 miles below the sea floor, explore the moon ... Leonardo da Vinci devised aircraft and skydiving for hundreds of years before the first aircraft. The story of Phong Than is just an imagination that science is gradually able to accomplish today. Natural eyesight, atrial atria, behind the price still ... 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The artist who is sensitive to all "dhammas" will be the hard one with this aggregates! The intellectual also. Gather knowledge, discernment, compare, imagine! That's why Zen masters don't like intellectuals. "Brawl and quarrel" is good and "on" is bad. But when they break through their heavy ego, they can also "enlighten" more quickly.

The aggregates  are probably the most difficult to understand. Each researcher explains each other differently. The English version sometimes translates simply "action" into Actions (!). The translated French version is formation. Doan Trung Also translated as impression. Thich Thien Super aggregates analysis that said that there is both fluency, impermanence, variability (bias) and artifact, that is, say, do, think (speech, body, mind) has begun to not stop again in thought that turned to  the will, decision, action  (the five aggregates of non-self, Religious Publishing House, 1999). From "Chiang" through "Tu" (will), that is, the behavior has begun to appear!

"Onions" create good and bad. And the idea is just thinking, but as said, ideas are very important, need to "control" closely first. Because "onions" but "heartless" does not create "karma"! Onions that have "mind" then create karma! A child who has just learned a swear by accidental forced to swear at me will not be angry but find it funny, funny and cute! A crazy person who scolds us will laugh, not angry, but someone else who touches us must know our hands!

The aggregate of consciousness has both mind and matter, it is a complex stage of change from idea to behavior. From  thought  to  work . Thinking is important. Do not wait to do. New thinking without turning into behavior is not socially responsible, but for ourselves, bad thoughts have created misery, long-term responsibility, harmfulness, good thinking is available immediately. peaceful bliss already!

Perhaps the most important part is the  Aggregates , should be placed last. Besides, it follows a logic: there is a new rupa which has a feeling, there is a new sense of consciousness, a new thought and an act. In short, there is a Body with Mind. Attached together, not separated. The worst of an intellectual is to appreciate the mind, respect the consciousness over the "mind". Butchers just let go of the knife ... is a Buddha. The intellectual is far away! The mind is still there naturally, like that of a newborn baby, but has been clouded over time. The "fool" is less obscured, just wiping a layer of dust is enough to return to the mind of nature. And the more "intellectuals" are, the more dense the layer of dust clings, not only dust, mud but also oil, paint ... all kinds. Very difficult to clean, very long to clean. There is also the weakness of Lust, the sensitivity of Life, the richness of Chiang, the lurkingness of Onions, the harder it is to find the mind of nature. In other words, The self of the intellectual is a self that is too heavy, too thick, too many layers of lang. However, once experienced the challenge they will escape "faster", because there is no longer the dry knowledge that is already wisdom. Buddha is also an intellectual. A crown prince. A Brahmin.

Among the five aggregates, the  consciousness is the mastermind, the commander, who  analyzes, synthesizes, assesses and makes decisions for action.. The instigator, the leader, was once again executed by his experiences, habits, kicked out (consciously), and was photographed for the mask as the Self, the Self must be like this, like another, which is not really the true self, we are as true. That's why we live, we act like a play without knowing it. If we have "mindfulness" we will laugh at ourselves as a dramatist, watching a movie that we play. In Europe, there are masquerades, where people take another mask, dress differently so that no one will recognize them, thereby escaping the old self to return to the innocent self, is also a how to "release". There are husband and wife living together for many years unhappy, bitter biting each other, calculating divorce. When attending the masquerade, they find the right mind, decided to go to marriage, when removing the mask, it turned out to be ... the old couple. So ... Lust (the body) is important, but it is a "pliant brave man," driven by consciousness. Bad food: greed, hatred, ignorance, torment oneself. Good consciousness: compassionate joy and compassion make you feel good. Changing a behavior is difficult because it has become a habit, it is very difficult to quit, having to change the attitude first - having a new and different perspective - and having the right knowledge to help and add a supportive environment. can succeed.

Newcomers must go to the mountain, "escape the ceiling", hide the stimuli that hit the ears, eyes, nose, tongue ... that's it. Tu steadfastly then can "limp into the market". Fasting also became a Buddha, but also became a Buddha salty food. But eating salty is more difficult because it is easy to get sick, easy to lead to drinking, beer hug, massage ... But when you cultivate and become delicious, you will not be afraid, as Buddha also used to be "lured" many times but still did not flinch. , fallen.

In a nutshell, the "Five Aggregates" are the 5 components that create the Self, our  Body, our emotions,  our thoughts, our actions, our consciousness. The bold Ta from time to time makes a cocoon to confine the true Ta into it, unable to escape. Escaped into a butterfly, flying leisurely, calm, free. Beset, obscured, prejudiced, gradually we are dependent, clung, we hold on, to be "worthy of us", with our shoulders closed and our ego becoming bigger and thicker is the source of suffering. What has "I" in it creates suffering. My house, mine, my son, my lover and my body ... That self, according to the Prajnaparamita view, is just a combination of predestined factors that converge, interact, and coexist , interoperably, this is because the other is, intertwined - like the elements that make up a clock including a needle, a wheel, a pendulum ... and a "tick". "Ticking" is not inherent, it is not, due to a combination of individual elements. Remove the elements to find the tick (self) will not see anymore! Roughly yes. The ticking, no, yes, no, empty and full is the wonderful operation of the clock. "Vacuum" is also "wonderful property". To stop at mere "zero" as a deletion, rejection, nihilism is a fatal mistake.

The aggregates, though only dust, are an excellent "body of dust", from their hair, skin, scents, eyes, smiles, but clinging to color is clearly a mistake that brings suffering. . It is impermanent, it changes. It fades, it wrinkles. Fading, wrinkled but beautiful, still beautiful. It is old, dead but still beautiful. There is no sadness and joy here. It is so. That is. And Tho, Tuong, Hanh, and consciousness form mind, complicated and thrilling, but without body, there is no mind. Security is the Body. The mind of procession itself makes the Body suffer. Consciousness is the subject of mind. True ideas are right ideas, right ideas, right actions, right feelings.

Bat Nha's spirit helps Thuc become right, sees right, understands right, knows right. The practice of Prajnaparamita is the practice of combining body and mind. Hue Nang, the Sixth Division, thought that reciting Bat Nha without knowing anything about Bat Nha, not "living" Bat Nha was useless. Prajna living is living with wisdom, living with "nonduality", overcoming all attachments, no longer being hindered, seeing as being innocent, gaining peace, not ignorance , nihilism, abolition, annihilation. Buddha is also a Buddha will become. When he was still delirious was ordinary, awakening was Buddha. Of course, sometimes it is ordinary, sometimes Buddha, in the same person, at the same time. Therefore, it is necessary to repair, to train, to train so that the more and more awakening to make life more beautiful, more meaningful and to no longer suffer. Nirvana is right here and now.

The Heart Sutra consists of only 260 words, each of which is a hammer carved on a high cliff. "Five aggregates are not" is the core of the Heart Sutra, the heart of the heart and in those four words, the word is NOT the core of the core.

It can be said that the whole Heart Sutta is in one word ((sunyata)). All cultivation methods also have the purpose of achieving that emptiness. To reach the "vacuum" is to see the "miraculous possession", to attain enlightenment, liberation, "escape samsara", "save the nirvana", or can use any word to praise such as "Supreme Chief Justice Awareness", "A nau Dala Tam mieu Tam Bodhi", "Supreme Enlightenment", "La plus haute et parfaite illumination" ... In short, you can "praise" all kinds of words to praise the achievements of practice reaching the word No! The pagodas are also called "No subjects".

Osho also said: No is the key of Buddhism. English has no equivalent words. Not emptiness, but not emptiness, negativity. It is like an empty sky, pure space, but it is there, everything comes in it and goes. It stayed.

The sky is not self. Man created the self, born of the ego. Clinging to self and developing self is getting stronger, bigger and therefore encircled more tightly, unable to escape.

But there is no effort to eliminate the ego. On the contrary, it is also necessary to go through many egos to attain nothingness, no-self. Herman Hesse's "story of the river" is an example: An intellectual Brahmin ego, an ascetic ego who knows how to fast and wait, an ego for the merchant, his lover, his father ... and the boatman on the river knew the voice of the river. That boat "Bat elegant" that has brought many "unique disgraceful" ?. And the other boatman who was fluttering one day to meet the old people was also looking for a way to liberation? The child must then walk all the way. It must be. That is it. C'est Çà.

Buddha does not teach to remove the ego. It is wrong to think that Buddha is pessimistic, cynical, advocating the cessation of self. The problem is to see egolessness. See the vacuum. Look closely at the self, you will not see the self, it disappears by itself, because it is still there which is not. No Yes, Yes more beautiful. The delusion of the ego is like seeing a rope and thinking that it is a snake, afraid of the soul, when laughing, crying. Prajna Tam Sutta is not around but like a hammer just breaking just confirmed that. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/10/2019.