General Buddhism: Class 7 - lesson 1

Universal Buddhist Studies

SRAMANA. Thich Thien Hoa.

---

Table of Contents Seventh Course

Buddhist Philosophy or
General outline of the Surangama Sutra  ( continued)

- o0o -

First lesson

I.  Mr.  Purna ASKING QUESTION TWO IMPORTANT BUDDHA

At that time, Mr. Phu Lau Na Di Da La Ni Tu stood up and prostrated to the Buddha, bowed his hands respectfully and said   , in this society I witnessed the fruitless Infringement. Yet today I heard Buddha say noble magic, still do not understand. Just as the deaf man stands a hundred steps away from the sound of mosquitoes calling; I still couldn't see, let alone hear.

Bach The Ton: 1. This mind is inherently pure, why is it born at a great age?

2.       Again, Buddha said "the earth, the water, the wind and fire, its emptiness and tranquility are often absent, the content of the armor is spread throughout the border". World White World, if water all over, then the fire must be extinguished; while fire went out all the time, the water must be dry; the fire is hot, the water is cold, the two are contradictory, why is it all over nothingness, and it doesn't kill each other? Again, the land is in shape, nowhere is empty, why are the two consciousnesses all over the legal realm, without obstacles to each other? Bowing to Tathagata to lift open the clouds for us .

After asking, Mr. Phu Lau Na respectfully returned, waiting to hear the Buddha's instructions.

THE SOLUTION

This time, Mr. Phú Làu Na asked Buddha two things:

1) The mind is pure why at first there was the world and sentient beings?

2.Land, water, wind, fire, its nature against each other, why reconcile and turn around the legal world?

Regarding the previous question, the Buddha answered clearly in this sutta. As for the following question, we should also make a clear distinction: Buddha said water, fire, etc., turning throughout the dharma realm, that is, Buddha is only about the "essence" part. Mr. Phú Lau Na suspected water, fire, etc ... contrary, how could it be everywhere? So Mr. Phu Lau Na stood for the "phenomenon" and asked.

As for phenomena, there is an obstacle, and the temporal being is never an obstacle.

*

II. BUDDHIST  ANSWERING THE FIRST QUESTION

Buddha day:   Hey Phu Lau Na, as he asked: "The mind is inherently pure, why did you create the great earth, the world, and sentient beings".

So, do you often hear me say, "The mind of the mind - the color of tranquility - silence but often the light of enlightenment"? (Awareness of enlightenment, enlightenment awareness)

Phu Lau Na said:   Bach  The Ton, I often listen to Buddha teach like that.

Buddha asked:   So in this mind, do you let it have its own light of enlightenment  (discrimination)  or not enlightenment?

Phu Lau Na ladies:   Because it is available transparent light shining  (differentiated)  should be called the mind. If it does not have enlightenment  (discrimination)  , it is not called mind, because it cannot distinguish anything.

Buddha taught: As he said: "If it does not lucidly illuminate  (distinguish)  then it is not the mind, because it cannot distinguish anything." So do you understand: if there is a discriminatory scan, it is not chon  (because there is a ability to discriminate, there must be discrimination) , and if there is no discriminative projection, then it must not be the mind. If the mind is not lucid, it is not a pure mind.

He should understand: The mind is still wise, because he expects to accept the "discriminating insight" as the mind, so he has the ability to distinguish  (the mind)  and be discriminated  (the scene) .

His feet are not the heart of "discrimination", but because he had started out the "distinctiveness", should it  (chon)  back into the "discrimination"  (landscape) . Expected to be "discriminatory", of course where he must expect to be born "discriminatory".

So, in his pure heart, he still has no energy and energy, but he suddenly becomes capable and skilled  (very simple, very simple).

THE SOLUTION

The intention of this paragraph Buddha pointed out the cause from the pure mind, because of rising expectations should have born world and beings.

Pure heart is available to everyone. If accepting it "without discrimination" is not the mind; also accept it "distinguished" is not the foot.

Because Mr. Phu Lau Na accepted the "shining projection" as the mind, so there was a distinction, of course there must be discrimination. So energy, the medium has just appeared, then Belgium and try it clearly.

This is Buddha indicating the action of hope, from where people's minds arise clearly.

A new concept has just emerged, there are hundreds of other thoughts continue to follow birth, until infinity. That there is nothingness, the world and sentient beings simultaneously appear. Just as the incumbent (lamenting) suddenly became sleepy, (luring ignorance) dreaming about mountains and rivers, houses and scenes appearing (for example, nowhere, the world and sentient beings).

*

III. BUDDHA ONLY CAUSES WE BORN NOTHING, THE WORLD AND THE BIRTH

From a monastic mind not different, because the concept of deluded discrimination, energy, bi error, should appear nowhere and the world. Nhon has nowhere in the world so there are beings. There was a world, so there are sentient beings. Had the world and sentient beings wandering toward each other, should arise countless delusions of discrimination: good, bad, right, such and so on. Therefore, there are enough defilements of pollution. What appears and falls away is the world; formlessness and tranquility are nowhere; different from nothingness, the world is that being.

IV. BUDDHA  ONLY JUST PRIVATE CAUSES AND BREATHING ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE

1. CAUSES OF WIND

From the feet, due to ignorance, there is nothingness. Nowhere is obscured because ignorance is born. In "nowhere" there is substance, because is expected. Because of this, there is no wind in the wind (monsoon) to sustain the world.

2. CAUSES OF GOLDEN GOLDEN

It is born of wind, and because the mind of sentient beings has an inherent obstinate character, so it appears that there are solid substances in the world, such as gold and jade,  because of the obstinate being. man is due to the mind discriminating being) . This is the cause of metal maintenance for the world.

3. CAUSING BREATHING FIRE

In the mind of sentient beings because of the stubborn nature of discrimination, there is a solid material, metal, and because of hope, the wind becomes created. Then the wind blew the vessel of metal, it rubbed and heated, so it produced fire. This is the reason why there is fire to cook and burn things.

4. CAUSE OF BREATHING OF WATER

Gold and pearls are both radiant and cool. The fire started, so steam came out. This is the cause with water to cover all ten directions of the world.

THE SOLUTION

Because the mind resounds, it appears outside the windy world. Because of the bigotry mind, it turned out that the world had jewels. Because the mind is impatient, it appears outside the world of fire. Because of the craving mind, it appears outside the world of water.

5. CAUSES OF THE ISLAND ISLANDS AND MARINE

Because the fire rises, and the water flows down, there is a wet place where the river and sea, the rising place is the island. Because fire and water mix, so in the sea sometimes light of fire, in the island, there are often rivers and canals flowing out of the water.

THE SOLUTION

In the Apostolic Exhortation says: “Because of the attachment, the mind lurks out into the sea. Because of the bigotry of mind, the application of the mind became outward of the island, the heart of contempt turned into wind, the temper of anger, anger into fire. Because sexual sensuality engenders attachment, should appear outside the world: In the island dunes there is often flowing water. For contrary to the love is floating, should appear outside the world: in the sea of ​​fire emanates. In summary, the four elements are idealistic (such as dreaming, if you think of something during the day, the scene appears at night).

*

6. CAUSES OF BORROWING

Because the force of the water is weaker than fire, the fire rises on the mountain. Because of that, the rock smelted with fire, and when it was too hot, it flowed out of the water .

THE SOLUTION

Because the mind is much less angry, so it appears outside the world of high mountains.

7. CAUSES OF A TREE

Because the force of the earth is weaker than water, it is drained by weeds to grow plants. Therefore, if grass is burned  , it will be turned to ash  (soil) and pressed into water.

THE SOLUTION

Because the mind of love is heavy, the stubbornness is small, so it manifests itself outside the world into plants and grass.

*

In short, because in the mind of sentient beings, interspersed delusions arise, so the external realms appear out of scenes. Because of this predestined relationship the world was born forever without end.

V.  BUDDHA  ONLY CAUSES HAVE BIRTH (SON)

Mr. Phú Lau Na, that "unspoilt distinction" is not strange, just because he accepts the "illumination discrimination" as the mind. There was discrimination, of course, there must be "discriminated" to treat each other. Therefore, the "distinctiveness" cannot go beyond the "discriminated" scene. Because of this predestined relationship, should hear not outside the language, see no outside colors, smell outside the outside, taste outside the outside, etc ... hope into 6 apartments and 6 ceiling against each other, should be divided into: see, hear, or, know.

Then by now traction lead, so there are species of childbirth  (as human and animal)  species born eggs  (birds and fish)  species born from moisture  (like germs etc ...)  flower delivery  (such as heaven and hell )

Spirit when reincarnated, see the light (fire sex) emanating from the parents, and then it initiates the general "idea" that sex work. If he will be a boy, he will love his mother and hate his father. Because the attachment to sexual attachment does not leave, it attaches itself to the thought of the parents' blood when that intercourse becomes pregnant. Because of the predestined relationship with each other and colleagues led, should become pregnant. Species of birth, birth of eggs, birth in a humid place, or birth are dependent on the karma of each species that touches it.

Species of eggs are due to the place where many ideas, the species of birth is due to the place of heavy love, the species of low birth is caused by the place of dampness, the chemical species is left by the scene of itself. Four species change, depending on good or evil karma that sensation karma has ups and downs. Because of that predestined relationship, beings leave this body and the other body together, endlessly connected.

BECAUSE. BUDDHA  ONLY CAUSED THEIR BIRTH TO CONTINUE BIRTH

1. Join education: Hey Phu Lau Na, sentient beings because of love, the attachment of attachment, so in the world, parents and descendants continue to be born without extreme, rooted in greed. sex so.

2. Observe: Every species loves its body, wants to let it live, so it needs to eat nutritious things. So in this world, the strong eat the weak and the wicked kill the wild. Four species  (ovule, fetus, low, chemical)  eat and swallow each other, rooting at the greed of killing.

3. Stealing and robbing: By human flesh-eating animals, animals come back to eat people. The dead make things, the dead do the people, all beings, birth and death, successive. The bad karma has been created, then borrowed together, until thousands of generations without ultimate, root in greed to steal.

THE SOLUTION

Animals, they do not want to kill their own lives, but they rely on killing power to eat, so they commit robbery. Obviously, loans must be paid; should kill not only the crime of killing, but also the crime of robbery.

*

One species snatches the other's life, the other kills one; repay, borrow to pay each other, to a hundred thousand lifetimes not out of samsara.

Boys love girls, girls love boys, because love loves each other, so hundreds of thousands of lives are troubled in the cycle of reincarnation.

In short, because three karma kill, direct, obscene as a root, so ( karma  )  and results connected, never ending.

Hey Mr. Phú Lau Na, the world, sentient beings and karmic results of these three crazy and continuous dishes are all in the mind, because ignorance motivates to generate "distinctiveness" and "base of discrimination" relatively, so hope saw that there is great paint in the world, the world and beings, and then continue to be biochemical, extremely hopeless.

VII. PHU  LAI NORTH QUESTION: THE BUDDHIST BUDDHISM IS CONCENTRATED INTO THE MIND, SO DON'T STOP BECOMING BACK

Mr. Phu Lau Na asked the Buddha: "   World Honored One, my feet and heart were with Buddha no different, pure capital without increasing or decreasing; Suddenly, an uprising emerges, giving birth to the world and sentient beings. So the Germany Tathagata has witnessed the mind then, as long as hopelessness to emerge, being returned to the world and sentient beings too?

VIII. Buddha  uses three examples to explain

1. FOR example, THE MAN WHO MISSED THE DIRECTION TO JUST BE AWAY THAT IT WOULD NOT RETURN BACK

The Buddha taught, "   Phú Lau Na, like a wrong person, thinks that the South is the North. What do you think, the "deluded" that he had, or the enlightenment that was born? Hey Phu Lau Na, not mistakenly, but also not mistaken. Why? The delirium has no root, so how can I say that I have it? If enlightenment cannot be born in love, then why would you say it out of enlightenment?

Phú Lau Na, the other person was at the wrong time, if someone knew the way to show them: this is the South, the other is the North, etc.

Phu Lau Na said:   Bach The Ton, that person is no longer confused.

Buddha taught:   Hey, Phu Lau Na, the ten directions of the Tathagata, too, when enlightened to be a Buddha, then never return to being sentient beings again. Because delusion is not true, ultimately has no root. In the past, it was not a love, but in the drama there was something in the enlightenment ( like the cloud covering the face) . Until enlightenment is the delusion, the delusion will kill itself; the "enlightenment" that was not born again the delusion.

2. FOR example, THE UNIVERSAL BETWEEN A DAMAGE WHEN IT IS NOT HAVING NO BACK

Again, just as people are chewed the eye, see spotted spots wandering in the middle of nowhere. Until all the food is gone, the other flower will go away. If he still looks back at the speckled flowers in that void to look forward to the flowers being born again, if he tries to think, is that person wise or foolish?

Phu Lau Na ladies:  Nowhere without flowers spotted, but expect to see spotted flowers kill, so it was crazy and then, moreover, expect it to be born again, really he was crazy, no longer said stupid or wiser anymore.

Buddha said:   He understood so, why still ask: "Tathagata has realized the pure mind and feet, so long as the rebellion returns, spawns the great earth of paint?"

3. LIKE GOLD AND FIRE

Like gold in mines, when digging up, all minerals have been filtered into pure gold. And just as a tree burns into ash, it cannot be turned into a tree again.

Buddhas too, when witnessing Bodhi Nirvana already, no longer expect to return to being sentient beings.

IX. BUDDHIST  ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION

Buddha said:   Phu Lau Na, as he asked: "Why don't water and fire destroy each other, but instead are reconciled together and disappear all over the universe? Nowhere with the nature of the field is not homogeneous, why is it usable? ”

Hey Phu Lau Na! All the dharmas that look at its general  (phenomena)  , originally delusion, cannot show what is really what. It was so unreal delusion that he even asked "why didn't it kill each other". So it is like a person who waits for a flower spotted in the middle of nowhere to set fruit into fruit, how can it be connected to it!

THE SOLUTION

Like a fish flashing on a white cloth, because it's not real, so no one is afraid of anything.

*

As for the nature (substance) of the dhammas, then they are chon. There is only one mind, originally not earth, water, wind, fire, why not be in harmony.

X.  BUDDHISM  THAN TAM DUY TUYEN PROVIDED

Phu Lau Na! His heart like that, if he distinguished nowhere then nothingness appears, distinguish land, water, wind, fire, then there is land, water, wind and fire.

Just as two people watch a moon under the water. Then one went to the east and the other to the west, and the two of them saw a moon following them, without standards.

He could not ask: "The moon is only one, why follow both of them"; or say, "two people who go to separate places see two moons, why there is only one moon now"  (When two people stand in the same place) .

Phu Lau Na! He should know: Because of the magical illusory, can not get it done by.

XI. THE  FRUIT HAS COME WITH THE MIND OF THE SHOW AND HAPPINESS BY TRAN

Phu Lau Na! Because he is contrary to the wise mind, ignorant in accordance with the expectations of the ceiling, so the feet of the predestined presence appear vainly in the world, the mundane things in the world, and throughout the world. Therefore, he saw that the wind was moving, nowhere, light, cloudy, appearance and nothingness, water and fire destroyed each other, etc.

XII. BUDDHISM  WITH LIGHT MIND

And we  (Buddha)  , contrary to the expectations of the ceiling, with the feet of mind, are unborn and immortal, turning throughout the Dharma realm. That's why we are free from fearlessness: In a manifestation of immeasurable, countless synergies in a big, small in large, large in small; not leaving the ashram but currently appearing in all ten directions of the world. My body covered the ten directions of endless space. On the head of a feather a realm appeared the water realms; sitting in the dust, and turning the Falun. Because we kill all ceiling expectations, back to the pure mind lucid, should be so.

THE SOLUTION

Because Buddha had realized the pure mind, he was able to be free of obstacles, no longer be obstructed by big, small, many, little objects.

On the contrary, beings because love mind, according to the expectation should see things large, small, wide, narrow obstacles.

Because the mind has obstacles (differentiated expectations), there are obstacles in the ceiling. If there is no obstacle in the mind, there is no longer an object that obstructs it. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/2/2020.