General Buddhism: Course 4 - Lesson 5, Quan Yin discrimination

Universal Buddhist Studies

SRAMANA. Thich Thien Hoa

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Fourth Session

Pratyekabuddhas and Bodhisattvas of Buddhism

Lesson 5

Quan Yin Difference.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. Open Topic

Most people believe that each person, from birth to death and even after death, has a unique, unchanging soul that owns all his meaning and actions. In Buddhist terminology, such belief is called "ego", meaning that there is a separate self, an unchanging existence ... From that ego, that produces "ego love", meaning love, take care of and preserve the self, regardless of right or left; conceit, meaning arrogance, for your "self" is noble, better than so many other "ones", as opposed to everything that is not us or against us.

Because of that attachment, life should have been infinite and infinite, immortal, and separated, confined in hard shells as separate "self"; and the world, or more broadly, all sentient beings must live, die, reel, hard, suffer for the particular self they think is homogeneous, immutable.

But actually, is there a "I" like that? If so, where is the Ta? In the six faculties or in the six senses, or in the six consciousness? To understand this problem thoroughly, we must contemplate Precepts as one of the Five Concerns of Mind.

B. Right Concise

I. Definitions

Quan About differentiation: Gender has the meaning of limitation, is the scope to divide this part from another, one part with another. For example, in matter, people are divided into many types: color, sound, taste, etc. Or in humans, the parts that are exposed to the environment, such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue ... are separate Precepts.

In the world of Ta Ba include these tangible and intangible objects, although there are thousands of states of nature, but according to the philosophy of Buddhism, it can be divided into eighteen precepts (type, range). Applying wisdom to observe and identify each of the eighteen precepts, each gender, to see if there is an everlasting, unchanging, unique ego, that is, the Precepts of the Precepts.

II Resolution 18 Gender:

Eighteen precepts can be divided into three broad categories: the six faculties, the six elements and the six consciousness.

1. The six bases are the refuge, the root for others to flourish and arise. The six faculties here are: the base, the atrium, the base, and the base.

a) Eyesight: that is, the two eyes, the part used as a support for the perception of the person to be clear, when in contact with the surrounding landscape.

b) Auricular: ie two ears, the part that gives rise to the hearing of the person who is clear when in contact with the surrounding noise.

c) Identity: ie nostrils, parts for refuge for the smell to be authentic, when exposed to odors such as aroma, rot ... around.

d) Radical sensation: that is, the tongue, the part that supports the taste of the person is clearly exposed to substances such as sour, salty, etc. in the exterior.

d) Body: ie skin covering the body, the part that senses the sensation, heat, cold, hardness, softness of surrounding objects.

The five faculties are five physical elements located on the outside, easily accessible to external objects. They have the appearance of four elements, which can be seen, seen and touched. The only way to learn how to paraphrase the rupa which is internal to rupa. This material cabinet can be divided into two parts: the base and the ceiling. The pursuit of purification is for the appearance of the gross appearance, such as the iris, the ear flaps, the red tongue, etc. the living part of the five bases. To put it more simply, that is, the nervous system of humans. Phu ceiling is crude, sharp and subtle. If these two parts are separated, the five bases will be useless.

e) Root sense: that is, part of the discrimination which arises, that is, the seventh consciousness. This part is very subtly spiritual. So there is no such form as the previous five bases.

2. Six ceiling. Tran, literally dust. The dust is filthy and always changing the whirling place. Literally, the ceiling means only the material, the scenery around the iris. The six ceilings are: ceiling, ceiling, incense, ceiling, exposed ceiling and ceiling.

a) Tran Thanh: the six colors, the shape of the line, what the eyes can see.

b) Tranquility: the sound made by tangible or invisible things, meaning the sounds heard by headphones.

c) Bare incense: the smell emitted by tangible or invisible things, emanating from things that can be smelled.

d) Bare: substance in sentient beings or accidentally, yet the tongue tasted.

d) Exposed: soft, hard, slippery, rough objects ... of sentient or unintentional objects, objects which the body can contact.

e) Dharma ceiling: are abstract images, colors, flavors, etc. of the five ceilings that have been saved after having been rooted in condition. Color reputation, flavor here is not the real thing of the outside but just the silhouette, resonance ... of the outside after having passed through the five senses, and being predestined.

We can make a following example to make it easy to understand:

The ceiling is like an external scene.

Tran labels are like a camcorder.

Dharma examples such as images that have been kept in films.

I mean for example, the person who sees the picture in the movie is shown. A second example could be done:

Tran bar like the singing of a singer.

Atrial base is like a tape recorder.

Dharma examples such as recorded plastic tapes.

I mean, for example, the person who hears the sound from a machine

3. Six consciousness. consciousness is the discrimination, understanding, and judgment resulting from the six doors which arise from the six senses. It belongs to the mind of dharma (invisible). The six consciousness are: visual consciousness, atria, consciousness, physical consciousness, bodily consciousness, and consciousness.

a) Consciousness: is the discrimination and understanding arising from the eye-sense which is in contact with rupa.

b) Consciousness is the discriminatory understanding caused by atrial contact with arising form.

c) The principle is the discrimination of knowledge arising from the sense of contact with the earthly aroma.

d) Loss of consciousness is the discrimination caused by the true sense of contact with the ceiling to which the dharma arises.

dd) Consciousness is the discrimination, understanding arising from body-contact contact with bare-consciousness arising.

e) Consciousness is the discrimination, understanding, and criticism caused by the mind-door in contact with the dharma ceiling.

We can make a specific example for easy recognition:

Six consciousness as a jury of the competition about the arts, female workers and family. This council is composed of six people: A chairman and an expert membership in five industries:

Someone who specializes in colors and images \

Someone who specializes in sound

A person who specializes in scents

A person specializing in taste

A tactile specialist

This year, after separating and criticizing his expertise, he immediately submitted his remarks to the chairman, who gathered all the comments of the five members and concluded. and announce the results of that exam roll. This chairman is consciousness or the sixth consciousness.

III. Method of the Quan

After we have clearly known the scope and function of each of the eighteen precepts, here we can begin to practice the custom. This custom consists of two parts: Observing the relationship between the root, the ceiling, and the consciousness; and contemplate the deception of sensation, consciousness and consciousness.

1. Observe the link between the base, the ceiling, and the consciousness. We still know the root is an internal color, but we are very closely connected. The root is the active part, capable of being in love with the ceiling, and the ceiling is the passive part "being conditioned" with the root. Thanks to the earthly base and pure color, people can recognize the surrounding scenes in everyday life.

If there is no root, of course there is no consciousness, then man is not human. They do not compose, build, reform, evolve, and this world must be a "dead" world, meaningless.

Without the ceiling, humans cannot live. Exterior is a field of human activity. It teaches smart skills for people in life and makes people aware of their lives.

Awakening effects on the base and ceiling make life more progressive, prosperous and prosperous.

These three things affect each other like lighters, electrolytes and sparks. This connection eloquently demonstrates the non-independence of materiality and mind, both in terms of individuality and overall aspect.

These eighteen precepts, as the first paragraph says, include the world and human life, both the inadvertent and the impermanent. Once they are not independent, in this universe, there is no object, including humans, even the self, created by them, can be isolated and homogeneous.

2. Observe the deception of senses, ceilings and consciousness. In the above section, we see that the self cannot be obtained merely by the combination of base, ceiling, and consciousness. At this point, we will go deeper into a floor, observing whether the self can be in any part of the base, the ceiling and the function?

a) Six bases are falls reasonable? First, let us consider what is the nature of the six bases? It is a flesh-and-blood skeleton, organized, organized, and nothing else. Which is already flesh and blood, nothing is enduring, homogeneous. From "when white teeth to early childhood", try to see how people have changed several times. And after a hundred years, try to ask what will be left of the body, other than "holding green grass"?

Suppose there is a self in the six doors, then try to ask:

If the self is in the eye, the other five doors are not self. If the self is in the ear, then the other five are not self. Considering all six faculties, one cannot say the self is part of the six faculties.

If you think that the six doors are all falls, then you have six. That said no one will recognize it.

If we say: Because there are six bases of harmony, there is a self, which is contrary to the definition of self, which is the most consistent and unchangeable. Besides, when you think that the self is caused by many things, you have to admit that the self is not real and false.

Therefore, Duy formula learning to "multiply the self".

b) The six senses are the self? The ceiling and base are not much different. Based on not existing in life, then how to stand still, still nostalgic.

Suppose, "self" is in identity, then in this world there must be no change, change black. Like flowers blooming and dying, day and night, the beach turned into a strawberry garden, the change was clearly visible.

So "falls" is in the bar? Also not reasonable. The bar was never natural. If there are not sentient beings emitted, it is also due to the collision of unintentional objects. Thus, the bar is clearly a compounded, created artifact. Which has been compounded, then how impermanent. Besides, the thing that gives birth to it is the rupa which is anattā, impermanence, it cannot be normal, is a self.

Until flavor, taste, contact, and dharma are also impermanent, egolessness and color. They are just like a passing breeze, like a subtle mist, invisible again, so their egolessness is even more pronounced.

c) Six consciousness is ego? As mentioned above, awakening is the awareness that is rooted and conjoined. It has proved that consciousness is not real. In simple terms, consciousness is due to reason and ceiling to each other, but if it is ultimately divided according to the only way of learning, the knowledge will be made possible by many other conditions. Such as visual consciousness, being run by nine conditions:

No: the void, the distance between the apartment and the scenery.

Minh: is the light illuminated by the sun, moon, stars, or lights.

The root: is the refuge of consciousness.

Landscape: are the things that are predestined.

The intention: is the desire to see.

Differentiate y: is a refuge to distinguish, that is consciousness, or the sixth consciousness.

Net infection y: is the seventh or subconscious.

Basic y: is the eighth consciousness.

Death: instinct will be born.

In order to have a clearer idea of ​​visual consciousness, we would like to explain the above nine conditions:

When our eyes see something, it must be near or far from the object (not), when we see that it is daytime, or at night there is moon, stars, or lights (intelligent). The seeing of course is from the eyes that have (base) and at the same time, then there must be something to see (sight). before I saw it, I already had the intention to look (effect). This effect is again triggered by consciousness (distinguishing y). consciousness must rely on the seventh, because is its root (infection net y). The seventh consciousness is always the same and the eighth consciousness is self (basic y). This consciousness is where the seed race resides. The death race is the righteous way to get things.

Judging from the inside to the outside, from the beginning to the end, the eyesight has no real sense of truth. The other things like atria, consciousness, and consciousness are the same; but less predestined, as the ear consciousness, there are only eight conditions (because there is no Minh: hearing does not need light). As for Tanh, damage, and bodily consciousness, only seven conditions (because there is no need for Minh and No). Consciousness is only five conditions, namely: base, scene, volition, basic medicine, seed.

See then it is clear enough that all six consciousness are not real, that is also egolessness as six bases and six ceiling.

In summary, from the body to the world, including the eighteen precepts, are not real, not true. General action due to predestined harmony, the realities are completely not.

IV. The Effect of the Quan Yin Method

The Dharma Precinct distinguished to have the function of breaking down the self no longer has any armor. The self has been attacked in every way, from the outside to the lair, and finally, it has been scattered, shared, uncovered until it was lost. Up to now, the ego ego is raging due to hiding in the darkness of delusion. From now on, judging the precepts with distinction as a headlight illuminating the dark sky dome, making the false image of the self disappear as well as that, smoke. Ego has no longer, then ego, arrogant nor know where to rely on to survive. In other words, negativity, negative karma, suffering, due to ego. Now that the ego has been eradicated, the afflictions of suffering will also end. Disturbance, misery is happy, free in the moment. That is the first sure result of the distinguished disciplines.

Then, from that peace, relative liberty, the practitioner will try to progress gradually on the path. The more you go, the more discerning you become, the more you realize the truth. Practitioners will gradually witness the fruits Tu Tu complete, Tu da jaw, A na jaw, Arhat. But practitioners also do not stop at the results. Practitioners are not obstinate in the fruit of their witnesses, thus will liberate the three realms, annoying Thanh Van, Pratyekabuddha.

If the practitioner tries to practice more, until he no longer has attachment to his dharma methods, he only treats it as a finger pointing to the moon, as a cure for illness, just in pain, if he tries to cultivate like that , then the practitioner will be frustrated "Unexpected, unsatisfactory", ie the witness of the supreme result Bodhi.

C. Conclusion

We have clearly seen the supernormal abilities, effects, and effects of the dharma realm. But seeing is, although it is precious, it is more precious to do it. In the above, we have emphasized the words "three times if we try ..." Indeed, if we do not try, it will not be complete, and the self, although false, will still exist intensely and effectively. Dread, as usual. The ego is created and strengthened from thousands of lives, termites when a few, long days become solid, like clam shells, shells clinging to stone snouts. Today we are blessed with the duty of the guru, who shows the disciplines of the disciplines, so that we can see his premise. Where is it only consistent seven times, or a few dozen times is the achievement? The self is long-lasting, so elaborately cultivating to eradicate it also takes a lot of time. Reason can accept easily without true self, but emotion can not accept so easily? So far, we have trusted and loved the self, suddenly, today someone said that it is not, it is not true, so the feelings will rise up and betray, cover the ears do not want to hear, cover the eyes don't want to see. It takes a lot of patience, in order to convince the feelings. The battles against the self, at this stage, are not over! The self has not surrendered but retreated to the deepest lair, into the most dangerous "secret area" is the subconscious or say the word Duy learned is the seventh consciousness. The ego here has a comprehensive form, very sharp, as in the secret area of ​​every citizen, from young to old, from men, women to children, as a soldier; and the land, every grove of each leaf is a great obstacle to the fight against the self. The attachment of the precedent or the unconscious takes place in every gesture of every action, in awake as well as in sleep, while well as well as in delirium, in life as well as in death (according to the spirit reincarnate). The enemy's forces (ego) is strong and powerful like that. We need to understand before we fight. Know yourself, know, hundred battles hundred wins.

We are never allowed to despise. Must be fully prepared before fighting. And while fighting must be determined and patient. With these two basic conditions, the practitioner will surely succeed in the fight, eliminate the most dangerous enemy from each of us, and lead the other enemies: greed, hatred and delusion. Except for the leader of this party, he has completely succeeded in the battle against afflictions and suffering and began to step on the liberation tower. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/1/2020.