General Buddhism: Course 4 - lesson 8B, Wisdom of Wisdom

Universal Buddhist Studies

SRAMANA. Thich Thien Hoa

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Fourth Session

Pratyekabuddhas and Bodhisattvas of Buddhism

Lesson 8 (continued)

Sixth level: Tri Hue Ba La Mat.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. Open Topic

In Buddhism, two hours of ignorance are always mentioned, because ignorance is the source and the beginning of the suffering of samsara. Buddha often taught: "The suffering of pàdà, horse donkeys carrying heavy life, suffering rolling in the three realms is not called suffering. Foolishness is not wisdom, false belief, not knowing the direction, that is really miserable ”.

He also taught more strongly and decisively: "Si is the root of sin, Wisdom is the root of all good deeds." We are Buddhists we do not want to cause sin to suffer, we just hope to do the blessings to enjoy the result and be liberated. So of course we have to cultivate wisdom.

B. Right Concise

I. Definitions

What is wisdom? "Tri" transliteration of Sanskrit is Pha na; "Hue" transliteration Sanskrit is Bat elegant. "Mind" means assertiveness; "Hue" means simplified, Chinese Buddhist Dictionary defines as follows: "The mind is aware of customary law and Hue is understanding the Truth".

Can also say: Tri is able to separate lucid, pure, Hue is the Noble review of freedom. The wisdom of the Paramita is the insightful wisdom capable of thoroughly enlightening things to the point of being unmistakable.

II. Types of Wisdom

Wisdom as defined above is the wisdom of Buddhism, not common wisdom, is often used in the daily understanding and deduction of life.

According to Buddhist philosophy, cognitive ability has two types: Present amount and proportion.

1. Present amount: Is the direct perception without mediated inference. The amount is now divided into two:

Truth is the amount, is the direct perception that true.

Afraid to show quality, Is directly aware that false

2. Proportion: The perception through inference. The ratio also has two things:

Legs of truth, is the way to know by right reasoning.

Scared rate, is the way of understanding that inference is wrong.

The amount of status of a mundane human being is very poor and most of it is quantitative. The ratio of the status of a human being is even worse and most of that is the percentage. Standing in terms of properties, Buddhism divides wisdom into two broad categories: "Basic position" and "Post-favorable position".

1. Basic mind: Basic mind, is the enlightenment that each sentient beings inherently available, but because of the negativity, so it has not been emitted. Can compare the basic basis as a substance Precious metal (gold, silver) is in a state of minerals, lying with rocks (negativity ignorance)

2. Posthumous attainment: Posthumous attainment, is the wisdom acquired through elaboration of practice such as morality, meditation etc., and no longer be confused with rocks and dust (negativity, ignorance).

According to Duy consciousness, after reaching the position of Enlightenment, that is, having the "post-privilege", the eight consciousness changes into four positions:

The eighth consciousness, A, has the effect of accepting life and death, reaching the position of smuggling and transforming into the "Great Enlightenment Officer" (bright mind like a big and round mirror, symbolizing the sea both feet like).

The seventh consciousness, Mt na na has the effect of accepting the ego, turning into "equality of mind nature" (the mind has the capacity to perceive equality and non-self of all things).

The sixth consciousness, the consciousness which has the effect of distinguishing, transforms into the "Noble observing of mind" (the mind with the profound ability to observe).

The last year of consciousness (consciousness, consciousness, consciousness, bodily consciousness) transforms into "The possession of knowledge" (the mind with omniscient and miraculous cognitive powers).

III. How To Get Wisdom?

Want to have the wisdom, the Buddha invented many dharma methods. Among many such practices, "Van, Tu, Tu" and "About, Dinh, Hue" are the most frequently reminded and practiced.

Van, Tu, Tu: Van, Tu, Tu are the three cultivation methods to gain wisdom:

Van Hue: is the Hue due to the sound of sound rays, eyes seeing the sound of Buddha, or through the scriptures that understand the meaning.

Wisdom: is the wisdom by thinking, searching, clearly understanding the meaning, understanding the truth.

Wisdom: is the practice of practicing wisdom and entering the truth, which enlightens, attains the truth.

Literature, privacy, practice very closely related to each other, practitioners need to specialize in all three things, can not ignore anything that accomplishes. Listen to the Buddha:

"Van Hue, Tu Hue, Tu Hue, three subjects with a disability. If anyone listens without thinking, it is like farming without sowing; If you think without cultivating, then like farming without watering, harrowing, ultimately no results. Ba Hue is full of evidence of the Three vehicles? "(Sa Di world).

Precepts: is the commandment of the Buddha

Dinh: is to meditate, keeping the mind free of disturbances, to contemplate the basics of the Dao (review the Meditation on Paramita).

Hue: is the projection of Tri, after clearing the negativity and ignorance.

Gender, Dinh, Hue closely related to each other: Due to maintaining gender, that body and mind are not disturbed. Because the body and mind are not disturbed, the mind is Concentrated. The mind when fixed, the wisdom shines.

On the contrary, if the mind spreads, the mind is easy to attain; the mind has reached the precepts;

In a nutshell: Gender, concentration, wisdom, interdependent relationships are closely related to each other, one increases, the other two also increase.

IV. The Power of Wisdom

As we have seen in the categorization section, when wisdom has reached the position of Enlightenment (the eight consciousness changes into four positions), its supernormal abilities and uses are immensely vast and indescribable. However, in order to have a relatively clear concept, we can raise three main functions of wisdom as follows:

1. End of negativity: Disturbance is caused by delusion. When wisdom is present, delusion is lost, as when light is emitted, darkness must disappear. Lost delusion then negativity no longer arose.

2. Illuminating things: Things obscured by ignorance, such as the morning mist covering the landscape, now wisdom shines on things, just like when the sunlight rises, the fog must disappear. , at that time the true nature of things is revealed as real.

3. Incarnation of truth: When ignorance is covered, obscured then people with people, we with things that seem separate, different. Now thanks to the wisdom of enlightenment, it is clear that the mind is both feet and feet, so it can enter truth and enlightenment completely.

C. Conclusion

The value and function of great wisdom cannot be finished. It is the end of the Buddhists. After all, we must try to achieve it.

Before entering Nirvana, the Buddha also urged the disciples to give wisdom as follows:

"Wisdom is a fortified boat carried from the old sea, painful, dead; is a great light shining bright ignorance, a cure or cure all illnesses, is an iron hammer to cut down the tree of afflictions. So you must take the hearing, the thought, the practice that self-interest for their own wisdom. (Sutras).

We cannot help but remember and practice, and in the six paramitas that we have learned in these next three lessons, the purpose is to guide to the sixth is wisdom, the last level of enlightenment and enlightenment.

May all Buddhists have the wisdom to save themselves and free themselves to the other side of liberation.

Summary On Luc Ba Lu

Buddhism is the religion of compassion, but also the enlightened religion. Compassion belongs to enlightenment, enlightenment belongs to hue. Hue and Hue are the two wings that make the eagle a practitioner flying straight to the shore for liberation. Therefore, in the business often said: "Phuoc, Hue song tu new tu Chanh Chanh". In the six paramitas, alms and patience belong to the blessed; meditation and wisdom belong to wisdom; while observing the precepts and diligence are two materials that control and promote the practice of self-fulfillment and wisdom.

If we simply and simply compare the six dharmapala dharma with the Prajna boat to take people from the edge of love to the sensory wharf, then: Compassion is food, patience is drinking water, diligence is wings sailing and rowing, morality is a rudder, meditation is a compass and wisdom is a torch. All six are necessary for sailors who will have difficulty in their journey of a thousand miles.

Considering another aspect of the value of the six degrees, we will see this: Alms and patience belong to compassion, meditation and wisdom belong to Tri, and morality and diligence belong to Dung . A Buddhist must have all three means of Bi, Tri and Dung in order to go to enlightenment smoothly and quickly.

So look at home Buddhists as well as renunciants, while learning and practicing the six paramitas, you should not despise any dharma. In this way, there is enough power and ability to fight and forgive, to arrive at the extreme and true to the meaning of Paramita. 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.