HORIZONTAL PICTURE.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

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The boundaries of buffalo herding, currently available in the temples of the Northern Tong system, are often hung. However, most of the cultivators see without knowing what the symbolic meaning of the painting is. So we should look into it thoroughly.
This is the title of Truc Thien talking about the origin of ten items of buffalo herding, relatively complete.
The Burdock is a HUNTING PICTURE. Painting was born from any dynasty, under which brush, it is difficult to look up for accuracy. What is certain is that the painting has a long history, initially with only six paintings, after which it was lost. It was not until the Song Dynasty, in the 12th century, that many sets of paintings began to appear from the Song Lam and Zen temples, reflecting many different tendencies in the practice. So there is not only one set but many different set of Taurus, all of which are imbued with the spirit of Buddhism. Among them is currently the most famous is the paintings of two painters Thanh Thanh brown and QUA AM.
Although there are many sets of paintings, but each set is the same, there are ten paintings, each of which has a four-prose poem, and one prose commentary. That's about the appearance. Mentally, though there are many paintings, but it can be classified into two categories: The type of Mahayana tendency and the type of Zen Buddhism. Of the two types, the painting is different but the procedure and mantras for each one remain unchanged.

PICTURE PICTURE

The title of Guo Am
Chon's Buddhas' feet are also born, there is love for the three moral realms, and enlightenment to be free from being free of birth.
So the broad Hien Hien said the lines. Li has a member of heaven, teacher divided stores. From rough to sacrificed, from shallow to deep, after all in a blink of an eye, Ca Mau Lettuce sees a smile and a smile. From here the Dharma Eye Label is circulated in heaven, the human realm, here and there. The person who reaches reason is transcendent of Vietnamese way, like a bird's path without traces The recipient of the situation is stuck like a turtle tailed.
This paragraph has Zen Master Thanh Cu see where the basis of beings being suitable for medicine, making ten items of buffalo herding according to the teachings. Initially black gradually white voice said not enough power. Next the typical chon tanh radiate slowly enlighten. In the end, the buffalo did not see, symbolizing both the mind of the dharma and the reason was the root, the other Dharma was still covered, making the middle-class lower doubts doubted, falling in ignorance or stuck in often. ant.
Nowadays, Zen Master Tac Cong thinks of Tien Hien's emblem, originating from the bottom of his heart to make good chanting, making light interleave, initially from the loss of buffalo to revert, cleverly matching muscle pants as a rescue. hungry people.
Then From Vien Nuong here collects magic meaning, gathering the magical places, like a water model that wants to eat and have to rely on a shrimp as a guide. Initially from looking for buffaloes, the last to drop hands into the market.
It is trying to make waves across the head of the horns, but no mind can find any buffalo to be able to search, to let go to the ghost market; The situation is that his father did not know clearly about the grandchildren, and he was not afraid to try to make the initiative.
Teach, show, illustrate
Venerable Guo Am said: The feet of the Buddhas, all beings are available, Buddha has the source, and beings also have that source. Because beings forget (love) chon source should meditate in the three realms. If enlightened, received the source of the feet available in him, then be free from samsara. Therefore, only the Buddhas receive the feet and become Buddhas and sentient beings, they should also create karma in the three precepts.
Therefore, the gentle precepts of being are broad, speaking the means. The means, the reason is biased or round enough, the teacher has divided the shop, to make sentient beings from rough times to sacrifice, from shallow to deep. Mostly, the latter is the place: "The Buddha in the Linh Son assembly brought up the flowers and branches, in the blink of an eye, Mr. Ca Diep saw the lotus smiling." It was because he was laughing, the Buddha said, "I have the Dharma Eye of Nirvana, Nirvana, miraculous disciplines, such as writing, in addition to the separate teachings, now entrusted to you, you skillful. uphold this Dharma, pass it on, don't let it end, and later it will pass to Ananda ". Because of this transmission, Mr. Quach Am said: "Since then, meditation has been circulated, transmitted from one place to another, from human to heaven. The person who attains the Zen philosophy is transcending the form of religion, beyond the ordinary human condition, like a bird flying in the air, passing and leaving no trace. And the deacon was stuck with a wrong sentence, like a tortoise crawling a tail. For example, someone asked To Lin Te: "What is Buddha?". He answered, "Dry shit." Through this answer, for those who know, the Patriarch uses words to break the noun of the language lover, so it is not stuck. But for those who are not informed, they accept the text, saying that Patriarch was rude and disrespectful Buddha. Just like a tortoise crawling in a land where its tail is dragging on the ground, it will pull up everywhere, leaving no trace. For example, someone asked To Lin Te: "What is Buddha?". He answered, "Dry shit." Through this answer, for those who know, the Patriarch uses words to break the noun of the language lover, so it is not stuck. But for those who are not informed, they accept the text, saying that Patriarch was rude and disrespectful Buddha. Just like a tortoise crawling in a land where its tail is dragging on the ground, it will pull up everywhere, leaving no trace. For example, someone asked To Lin Te: "What is Buddha?". He answered, "Dried shit." Through this answer, for those who know, the Patriarch uses words to break the noun of the language lover, so it is not stuck. But for those who are not informed, they accept the text, saying that Patriarch was rude and disrespectful Buddha. Just like a tortoise crawling in a land where its tail is dragging on the ground, it will pull up everywhere, leaving no trace.
At that time, Zen Master Thanh Cu considered the basis of new sentient beings according to the disease that gave him medicine. He painted a picture of buffalo blankets, initially black and white buffalos gradually to say that the strength of virtue was not strong enough. Next the purely white buffalo represents the slowly enlightened radical. And finally just: "A white circle" represents the mind and both are legal, France is an example for the buffalo, the mind is an example of the shepherd. Buffaloes and blankets are no more, that is the ultimate source. However, the cover is to see that there are no more people, no more buffaloes, then the world will ask the question: "There is nothing left until you reach the final place, do not fall in ignorance? Or forever, it will not fall. In the common view, Mr. Thanh Cu paints only the "White Circle" with no buffaloes and no shepherds. in the middle of being in doubt, Zen Master Tac Cong painting the nine item: "Counter-duty revert," painting of fallen leaves about the roots, birds flying back to their nests and chanting. "Counter-duty revert" is to return to their original roots, telling the meaning that a practitioner has entered the realm of Buddha, to entertain him.
After that, Mr. Tu Vien clearly understood the Zen theory: A Zen practitioner is one who is willing to dedicate himself to saving sentient beings, not enter the realm of Buddha to rest in peace, so he has envisioned the tenth item as "Let It Be Loose. hands into the market "to represent the work of educating beings of the fullness.
Buffalo painting from the first section "Finding buffaloes" to the eighth section "No more buffaloes, no more shepherds" is by Zen Master Thanh Cu. Next, Mr. Tac Cong added the ninth section "Returning to the duty" and chanted. Finally, Mr. Tu Vien continued to admire the ten entries "Let go into the market."
Guo Amping: The final place is not so pure, but tries to create a form, which makes waves. Pure mind suddenly draws the appearance, like the horns grow out of no clues, how can one be found, let alone the buffalo to search? Until "Letting go to the market", it was very mundane, deceiving people.
He said that the appearance of the buffalo, the shepherd, is a trick to deceive. But he praised his predecessors, for being so compassionate as creating the means, so that the latter could easily see the order in which they practiced. But the latter did not understand, but that accept the general appearance, should say: "The father did not know about the children". He said drawing pictures was a myth, but he was not afraid to take the initiative. In the Zen family often use the phrase: "The father did not know the painting of his children" to praise the Bodhidharma. Because he has brought the mind, the strength to benefit sentient beings. He dared to risk his death across the sea, going from India to China to transfer Zen to Hue Kha, the next visit to Lu Hui Hui ... dangerous, this is saying "Father is unknown," and complimented the Patriarch and said that! Thanks to his transmission of Zen, we now know how to cultivate and say, "Painting to your grandchildren." That is the special language of Zen people, if they listen and accept, they will not understand anything.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.31/12/2019.