Saturday, December 28, 2019

Maitreya Spring In Traditional Spring.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

  

The image of "Maitreya Spring" appeared in Buddhist beliefs around the beginning of the tenth century AD. According to "Song Cao Tang Story" January 1 is the birthday of the Venerable Father (incarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva). Venerable Dai Hoa's father passed away in 916 (TL). Later, every year Buddhists welcome the traditional spring and celebrate the birth of the Bodhisattva Maitreya incarnation. From that belief formed the meaning and content to celebrate Maitreya Spring.

Maitreya spring in ancient tradition 1 -   Foreword Since Buddhism was integrated into human culture, the meaning of welcoming the traditional spring has been expanded into the meaning of welcoming the Maitreya Spring. Since then, welcome spring in the concept of East Asians imbued with the cultural identity of Buddhism and human culture. We use the Buddhist ethical cloning to beautify the meaning of traditional spring and transform negative practices so that the public can have more righteous thoughts in the activities to welcome the spring every year. 2- Traditional berries Based on history, the traditional Chinese New Year has spent more than four thousand years in the lives of the people of Vietnam, China and a few other ethnic groups in Asia. Tet starts on the first day of the first lunar month, also called Xuan Tiet and Tan Xuan. Our Vietnam has been dominated by China for over a thousand years. That process goes through many periods of Vietnamese culture, influencing and mixing Chinese culture, from language to human life customs. But when Vietnamese Buddhism developed with the sense of national autonomy, the Vietnamese gradually set up cultural identity, known to chisel to promote the nation's culture. But against the customs and traditions in the human world still revive the Chinese culture. There are human customs, but there are also negative superstitions that are embedded in the culture of welcoming spring every year in the hearts of the masses. In the folk beliefs of the Chinese and Vietnamese people, the 23rd day of the lunar December, called the Apple Day. Sacrifice is offered, Apples is the stove, the godfather kitchen in the house. So in the 23rd concept of the human world, he is the god of apples and the Jade Emperor family in the world. After 24 months, it is Algae Tran, algae is cleaning, ceiling is dusty. At the end of the year, the house must be clean and spacious to prepare to celebrate the new spring. The problem of cleaning up for Tet also implies that the risks of accidents will get out of the house, so that the family can be at peace. Moreover, everyone must wash themselves, cut their hair, prepare new clothes to welcome the spring, meaning to renew the living situation and body and mind. The custom of buying goods at the end of the year to prepare for Tet holiday is called Bien Nien Hoa. Every family went to the market to buy food, gifts and offerings on New Year's Day. Most of the time is appropriate before December 23 of the lunar calendar. In the old days in the agricultural society, every family cooked their own cakes, made jams, prepared incense and flower offerings to ancestors and made food for relatives to visit. Due to custom, after the 5th day of Lunar New Year, businesses and businesses started to trade again, so they had to reserve enough food and goods during that time. Year-end worship ceremony at home called Dai Lap. Dai is big, the lunar calendar is December, the year-end worship ceremony summarizes the past year usually at the end of the 12th lunar month. Any family members who go away often return to celebrate Tet with their families, in the dining hall share a reunion meal, called Nien Da Phan, this is the dinner at the end of the year. This meal is intended to wish the family a warm and happy family and their descendants. make jam, prepare incense and flower offerings to ancestors and make food for relatives to visit. Due to custom, after the 5th day of Lunar New Year, businesses and businesses started to trade again, so they had to reserve enough food and goods during that time. Year-end worship ceremony at home called Dai Lap. Dai is big, the lunar calendar is December, the year-end worship ceremony summarizes the past year usually at the end of the 12th lunar month. Any family members who go away often return to celebrate Tet with their families, in the dining hall share a reunion meal, called Nien Da Phan, this is the dinner at the end of the year. This meal is intended to wish the family a warm and happy family and their descendants. make jam, prepare incense and flower offerings to ancestors and make food for relatives to visit. Due to custom, after the 5th day of Lunar New Year, businesses and businesses started to trade again, so they had to reserve enough food and goods during that time. Year-end worship ceremony at home called Dai Lap. Dai is big, the lunar calendar is December, the year-end worship ceremony summarizes the past year usually at the end of the 12th lunar month. Any family members who go away often return to celebrate Tet with their families, in the dining hall share a reunion meal, called Nien Da Phan, this is the dinner at the end of the year. This meal is intended to wish the family a warm and happy family and their descendants. so must have enough food and supplies in reserve during that time. Year-end worship ceremony at home called Dai Lap. Dai is big, the lunar calendar is December, the year-end worship ceremony summarizes the past year usually at the end of the 12th lunar month. Any family members who go away often return to celebrate Tet with their families, in the dining hall share a reunion meal, called Nien Da Phan, this is the dinner at the end of the year. This meal is intended to wish the family a warm and happy family and their descendants. so must have enough food and supplies in reserve during that time. Year-end worship ceremony at home called Dai Lap. Dai is big, the lunar calendar is December, the year-end worship ceremony summarizes the past year usually at the end of the 12th lunar month. Any family members who go away often return to celebrate Tet with their families, in the dining hall share a reunion meal, called Nien Da Phan, this is the dinner at the end of the year. This meal is intended to wish the family a warm and happy family and their descendants. The customs of the spring often hang red couplets at the door, words conveying moral ideas and good aspirations of human life. On spring days, there are hanging wreaths at the window, flowers symbolizing beautiful drawing, good results in life. Besides, people often hang the word "Blessed", wishing every blessing would always come in the house. Especially in the old days, there were no firecrackers. People burned burnt bamboo trees and made sounds on the first day of the year. Fuel is burning, violence is the sound of fire, bamboo is bamboo. Bamboo in the intestine is empty when it makes a sound, creating a bustling, funny, excited spirit. So nowadays we often burn New Year's Eve firecrackers as a custom. Since New Year's Eve is officially started the new year, there are five New Year days, from the first day to the first day of the year. On the first day, there were jobs as follows: At the beginning of the year, everyone went to visit each other, wishing each other good wishes on the first day of the year. This is a special culture that expresses the wish of happiness that everyone says sincerely to each other on the first day of the year, this custom is called Bai Nien. From Bai is the meaning of worship, also means visiting and praying, Nien is the year. The idea is to express the wish for the New Year to be auspicious, all things as expected. Today, if we're far apart, people send Tet cards. Trans-customary customs: In spring, people often bring new clothes, especially children are given priority, parents often buy clothes, sandals, hats to visit and wish grandparents. This custom is called Xuyen tan y. Xuyen is worn, new is new, he is clothes, costumes. As the proverb says, "Beautiful people rely on silk, good rice with fertilizer." Uniform shows the cultural lifestyle of people. In East-West culture, holidays, New Year days, People wear clean clothes and attend seriously or visit each other to show mutual respect. Xuan Hanh customs: Usually the first day is the day when worshiping and worshiping shrines and shrines take place in the year. Opening customs: Opening subjects, subjects: Khai is open, officials are closed. It means the first day is an important day, to see when the door is open or closed. On the morning of the New Year, whoever came to his house first kicked his ground. It is thought that good people come to their home all year long! Bad people come home, so bad things come to their home all year long! Customs on the taboos: On the first day of the New Year, everyone must be the most careful in all actions and words. No more harsh words, arguments, or disputes than losing and fighting. Especially, don't take dirty or unclean things to the house, This is a good thing because it helps to clean personal hygiene and living conditions. The second day of Tet is the day when people worship the Earth-Gods, the gods in their area. Also worship ancestors, such as worship at the branch church in the family. On this day, the married daughter often comes home to visit her parents and celebrate New Year. The third day of the New Year: People are more leisurely, go to bed early and get up late, because from New Year's Eve to the next two days there are many rituals and visits so tired. The fourth day of the Lunar New Year: It is the day of getting up early that Gods come back from heaven and people need to get up early to do the ceremony to receive the god of wealth. If you wake up late, it will be hard for you to do business all year! New Year's Day: is the end of visiting and playing activities, everyone prepares to clean up and start family and social work as usual. Besides, Related issues worship in the spring is the full moon in January, also known as the Lunar New Year. Raw Details: Originally means the beginning, the beginning. Text is just the time, means night. Secretion is only for delineation of time, climate, and also means ritual. The detail is the worship on the full moon day of January. The first full moon night of this year is the sacrifice to Thai Nhat Than, the largest god who rules over the gods in the universe (Thai Nhat means the ruler of the universe). This ceremony was very important, when Sima Qian had a public holiday. People have fun, eat bread, light up lanterns, lion dance during the full-moon festival of January, today called Thuong Nguyen ceremony. Secretion is only for delineation of time, climate, and also means ritual. The detail is the worship on the full moon day of January. The first full moon night of this year is the sacrifice to Thai Nhat Than, the largest god who rules over the gods in the universe (Thai Nhat means the ruler of the universe). This ceremony was very important, when Sima Qian had a public holiday. People have fun, eat bread, light up lanterns, lion dance during the full-moon festival of January, today called Thuong Nguyen ceremony. Secretion is only for delineation of time, climate, and also means ritual. The detail is the worship on the full moon day of January. The first full moon night of this year is the sacrifice to Thai Nhat Than, the largest god who rules over the gods in the universe (Thai Nhat means the ruler of the universe). This ceremony was very important, when Sima Qian pre-legislated the festival had this day. People have fun, eat bread, light up lanterns, lion dance during the full-moon festival of January, today called Thuong Nguyen ceremony. 3 -   Maitreya Spring The image of "Maitreya Spring" appeared in Buddhist beliefs around the beginning of the tenth century AD. According to "Song Cao Tang Story" January 1 is the birthday of the Venerable Father (incarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva). Venerable Dai Hoa's father passed away in 916 (TL). Later, every year Buddhists welcome the traditional spring and celebrate the birth of the Bodhisattva Maitreya incarnation. From that belief formed the meaning and content to celebrate Maitreya Spring.  According to the Buddhist sutras "Maitreya Sanh Thuong Sanh" and "Maitreya Sanh Ha Sanh" Maitreya Bodhisattva resides in the interior of the Tushita heavenly palace, according to the prayer, the future will become Buddha in the world we live in. . This time the Bodhisattva is practicing to fulfill the vows of being and achieving Buddhahood. In Buddhist history, it is recorded that: Maitreya Bodhisattva has always appeared in the world to practice. Maitreya (Maitreya) is the phonetic transcription of Sanskrit words, translated in the sense of Xu Thi. Từ Thị Nghĩa is the mind of infinite compassion. In the Buddhist spirit, people always believe in the future of Maitreya Buddha in this world. Maitreya Buddha is a living symbol of the spirit of compassion, liberation, bringing joy to people, for that reason the image of Maitreya is associated with the traditional spring day of the nation and humanity. The image of Maitreya Buddha Statue in the temples of Buddhism in Vietnam and China is the reincarnation of Buddha Maitreya. Based on the "Song Cao Tang Story" wrote that: The monk named Khế Try is the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha. The testimony of the Venerable Master, also known as the Venerable Venerable Father, is because he used to bring large bags of money to the alms-seeking hamlets. He has the general appearance of good virtue, wide mouth, long ears, big belly, full of joy of a self-arisen present. In the second year of Luong Minh Trinh (TL 916), at Nhac Lam pagoda, Minh Chau district, Zhejiang province, China, the Venerable Master Dai Dai Thuong, before his passing, left a poem: "Maitreya in Maitreya encyclopedia. In the time of the people, the people often unconscious. " After, monasteries have sentences to uphold the Venerable Father's virtue as follows: The password is so convenient, so much people can enjoy it. ”(Big belly covers things that people cannot bear in life. The mouth often laughs and laughs with the funny people in the world. This is the spirit of reincarnation with the liberated mind of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva incarnation in life. The heart tolerates everything in the world that the mind is not polluted. His mouth often smiles with joyful hearts and leads people back to enlightened morality. Laughing here is not sarcasm, it is a smile derived from the compassionate and intellectual capacity of the saint. The image of Maitreya spring makes the Tet holiday more solemn. The password is so convenient, so much people can enjoy it. ”(Big belly covers things that people cannot bear in life. The mouth often laughs and laughs with the funny people in the world. This is the spirit of reincarnation with the liberated mind of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva incarnation in life. The heart tolerates everything in the world that the mind is not polluted. His mouth often smiles with joyful hearts and leads people back to enlightened morality. Laughing here is not sarcasm, it is a smile derived from the compassionate and intellectual capacity of the saint. The image of Maitreya spring makes the Tet holiday more solemn. The password is so convenient, so much people can enjoy it. ”(Big belly includes things that people cannot bear in life. The mouth often laughs and laughs with the funny people in the world). This is the spirit of reincarnation with the liberated mind of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva incarnation in life. The heart tolerates everything in the world that the mind is not polluted. His mouth often smiles with joyful hearts and leads people back to enlightened morality. Laughing here is not sarcasm, it is a smile derived from the compassionate and intellectual capacity of the false saint. The image of Maitreya spring makes the Tet holiday more solemn. This is the spirit of reincarnation with the liberated mind of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva incarnation in life. The heart tolerates everything in the world that the mind is not polluted. His mouth often smiles with joyful hearts and leads people back to enlightened morality. Laughing here is not sarcasm, it is a smile derived from the compassionate and intellectual capacity of the false saint. The image of Maitreya spring makes the Tet holiday more solemn. This is the spirit of reincarnation with the liberated mind of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva incarnation in life. The heart tolerates everything in the world that the mind is not polluted. His mouth often smiles with joyful hearts and leads people back to enlightened morality. Laughing here is not sarcasm, it is a smile derived from the compassionate and intellectual capacity of the false saint. The image of Maitreya spring makes the Tet holiday more solemn. 4-   Welcoming the spring according to Buddhist beliefs  Activities in the traditional New Year have a beauty in human culture, but there are also superstitious customs that need to be overcome to make life more meaningful. The beauty of the traditional Tet holiday is that people visit relatives and relatives to increase the emotional and moral values ​​of the family. The problem of worshiping the Ancestors is showing the human life of gratitude. Happy spring with culinary culture and fashion culture make life more happy. The most special is to nurture everyone's beautiful aspiration into a bright future. Besides, there are also many negative practices that need to be aware and transform. As killing animals to worship the gods pray for benefits in the first days of the year is a false illusion. The problem of making fortune-telling days good and bad leave and do business makes people superstitious and lose control of life. The burning of votive papers in the rituals of offering money wastes no practical benefit. There are a number of people who do not understand the morality of welcoming spring and consider the whole spring to be a playful holiday and the concept that: "January is the month of entertainment, February gambling, March alcohol!". Those misconceptions are negative traits to eliminate! Spring in Buddhist beliefs is popular in meditation activities. Buddhism advises people to do good deeds and to live with right view. Like going to the temple to worship Buddha, listen to the dharma, cultivate virtues to cultivate virtue and wisdom. The Buddha advises people to believe deeply that cause and effect, such as wanting to be rich to practice almsgiving, to be healthy must have a compassionate mind that doesn't kill living beings. Wishing for the religious family to have to practice ten good things Want to have wisdom to follow the Buddha's teachings.  When welcoming New Year's Eve, chanting praises the Buddha and Bodhisattva virtue, especially Maitreya Bodhisattva. Instead of organizing worship in the full moon of the first lunar month, it is recommended that people go to the temple to chant Buddhist sutras, recite Buddha's name, meditate for peace of mind, and eliminate accidents. Chanting to understand the cause and effect, understand the aspiration of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Practicing Literature, Tu, and Tu in daily life. Text is to listen to the Buddha's teachings, to think, to contemplate that teaching, to cultivate the Dharma into life in a right view. 5-   Conclusion Through traditional Tet holiday, we promote the beauty of Buddhism in the cultural life of people. Buddhism comes into life from the needs and benefits for people that open the way of practice. Cultivation is the transformation from superstition into righteous faith, transforming the spirit of praying for blessings into a lifelong vow of believing in cause and effect, good deeds to build a happy life. In today's world, many scenes of grief and hatred, only the moral virtue of compassion, joy and joy lead people to live a peaceful and peaceful life. So Maitreya Buddha image in spring is a message of compassion and liberation to people in every age. The spirit of celebrating Maitreya spring is a special feature that conveys the Buddhist moral values ​​through festive events in the human world. It embodies the spirit of the incarnation of Buddhism in human and human cultural activities./.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/12/2019.