General Buddhism: Class 7 - lesson 3

Universal Buddhist Studies

SRAMANA. Thich Thien Hoa.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

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Table of Contents Seventh Course

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

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Third lesson

Table of contents

I. Ananda recounted his enlightenment and invited the Buddha to teach the method of cultivation to enter the mind

II.   Buddha taught cultivation methods

III. The first decision means

IV. The second decision means

V. Because of rising expectations, the mind is hidden

BECAUSE. Rotating the feet, the six senses are free

VII. Evidence that you see, hear, or, know to be free, are no longer limited to the base

VIII. Ananda suspected: the current senses are hopeful, why does the Buddha take refuge there as a monk to practice, so that the true Buddha can be attained

IX. Buddha said to ring bell to experience the "Tanh heard" often

X. Buddha only when sleeping, the "listening" will not lose

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I. Ananda recounted his enlightenment and invited the Buddha to teach the method of cultivation to enter the mind

Mr. A Nan and the masses were told by the Buddha very thoroughly, so the doubts were eradicated, enlightened to the feet (real generals), but did not know how to enter the certificate, so they bowed to Buddha and clapped their hands together. respectfully say:

White World Religion, He has used all means to lead us out of the river suffering miserable. Today, we have enlightened our feet, turning all over the ten directions of the world, but we still get rebuked by the Tathagata, learning a lot without practicing, such as those who worry about practicing.

Now we are like a poor person, who is bestowed by the Heavenly King on a nice building, but we don't know how to get in. Bow to Tathagata to teach us, to be in the knowledge of the Buddha  (the mind of the mind).

II. Buddha taught cultivation methods

The Buddha taught Ananda and the masses: If you develop the mind of Bodhi, for the disciplines of asceticism, increase your concentration, and the mind not to disrespect, when you first generate the mind, you must clearly distinguish the two decisive meanings.

III. The first decision means

Hey Ananda! You want to leave Hinayana Hinayana, follow Mahayana Bodhisattva, into the knowledge of the Buddha, then first have to observe the multiplication of mind with the result that you will prove to be copper or other?

If you use the expectation of arising and falling to the mind of spiritual practice, to pray for the result of Buddha, often without being eradicated, it cannot be. This is the first decision.

THE SOLUTION

The Buddha before taught: If you use the aspiration of the mind to become a monk, but you want to remain fruitful, then like a sand-maker wants to make rice, you will not be able to pass through many lifetimes. Practitioners must remain in the mind to make a religious practice, in order to be able to attain immortal Buddhahood.

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An Nan! He consider considered: in the world of what has made, shall perish, but have not heard one nowhere has perishes ever, because nowhere is not the object being made that  (nowhere example chon , things that are luring the mind to arise and disappear)

In his body, flexible objects (skin, flesh, tendons, bones) were earth; wet objects (blood, blood, sweat, fat) are water; warm, hot substance in a person belongs to fire; Removable objects (breath in and out) are windy. Because these four dishes were annoying and divided his mind, so they could see, hear, or, know, from the five-layer solstice.

For example, if the water is pure and someone takes dirt in toss it in, the soil will lose its solid substance, and the water will lose its pure substance, become cool, so it is called pollution.

An Nan! Now he wants to show, hear, or know  (the senses)  back to join the four nirvana of Tathagata: often, bliss, fall, and tranquility, before he has to choose the root of birth and death  ( Hope mind)  and according to the pure mind chon fullness any unborn undying do multiplication on austerities.

THE SOLUTION

Because it is still in the ring, so called senses: see, hear, or know; until enlightenment then the senses come back into the four nirvana: often, lost, fallen, pure.

We should also distinguish clearly for the meaning: 1. feet, 2. senses, 3. expectations of discrimination. Like the clear sea water, (luring the mind) flowing into the confused rivers and streams (luring the mind to reveal the bases and senses; (example for discriminating thoughts)

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Please turn to the vanity of rebirth, to be reborn, to be pure; Must take Chon not being born killers as Nhon tu austerities, then the new Buddha was evidence of office.

How to practice as well as slang. Opaque water to remain quiet in a vase, so long as the dust gradually sink, but the clear water appears; the quieter it is, the clearer the water. This is the example for the first stage, when the new practice is just negativity ceiling guests (negativity just calm). Until filter removal of the muddy only all clear water, is for example for the second stage, when the basic except ignorance.

Until it was just pure water, it was still clear even if it was shaken. And when the passage is basically ignorant, only the pure mind is present, at that time even though the artifact has been done by all sorts of things, but it is also feet, still in harmony with the miraculous nature of Nirvana. , no more disturbing disturbances.

THE SOLUTION

This paragraph is very good; Buddha taught the practice very clearly and in reality. Associated with the previous paragraph Buddha taught: "When the scene does not initiate discrimination, then expectations are not born. Hope not to be self-arisen mind over time ”.

Just like standing water, the crumbling scales sink. The longer you wait, the clearer the water. Until the end of the basic ignorance, only the whole mind, the action of chi chi is also pure. Should say: "Tathagata sea light seals, etc." (Buddha just let feet, the sea in light). As the water has filtered out some sediment, it still shakes a bit. This paragraph also clearly indicates the meaning "to become a Buddha and not to be reborn".

Other religions, though highly sublime, do not just like slang but have not removed the residue. Sometimes troubles arise, they must fall back, so called property illegally (still sa).

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IV. The second decision means

Ananda, you develop strong mind, decide to eliminate the compounded generals, the Mahayana sphere, then you need to examine the root of disturbing emotions: from beginninglessness to now, which one is the development of ignorance  (whatever dynamic sensory expectations)  which leap is being ignorant  (craving, prime)  what created  ( hexagon ) , what life  (bowl of consciousness) . This is the second decision meaning.

The Bodhi priests, if not considering the root of defilement, then for the root and ceiling of this disappointment, it is impossible to know where the "crazy" is. The place did not even know how to overcome the enemy's afflictions to attain Buddhahood.

Look in the world, those who open the gout, if they cannot see the termites, they cannot expect to open it. I've never heard of the unreachable by anyone, because the invisible nothing has gout and opening  (nowhere for the feet) .

You should understand: your present six faculties: eyes, ears, noses, tongues, body and mind, they matchmaking for the six enemies  (six consciousness) , to rob the house of your treasure. Therefore, he and all sentient beings, from countless times to now, are blasphemous in the cycle of reincarnation, not beyond the three realms.

THE SOLUTION

Because of the six bases of matchmaking, leading to the birth of six consciousness are six pirates, robbing feet of nature. That is because of the base of the scene, the concept of committing discrimination, the feet of mind must be blurred. Just as the wind stirred, the grimy rose up, so the nature of the water was hidden.

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V. Because of rising expectations, the mind is hidden

Hey Ananda, his six bases as such, due to the ignorance of hope arises, so feet are hidden. From here onwards, every time the screening, including expectations are broadcast.

Therefore, leaving darkness and light, when his eyes could not see, then moving and translating, his ears would not listen, and through and choking, his nose would not smell, and the taste of his tongue would not taste; He did not know, leaving the legal ceiling, he did not distinguish.

BECAUSE. Rotating the feet, the six senses are free

Only six of his apartments do not follow the six ceiling scenes of commemorative discrimination, depending on how he opens the gout (infection expectation), any of them will be liberated. That is, in addition to not being with the gout scene, in conquering the afflictions back with lucid mind, the other five gout-bound bases are also completely liberated. At that time the six faculties are intrinsic, need to use, senses: see, hear, or, know, no longer be confined to the bases: eyes, eyes, nose, tongue, etc. use; You don't need to have the reference ceiling and see, hear, or know.

VII. Evidence that you see, hear, or, know to be free, are no longer limited to the base

An Nan! He saw in this society, as Mr. Ananda Law does not have the eyes but still sees. Dragon Bat Nan Da without ears but still listening. God anymore Can momentum not smell that smell. Mr. Kieu Pham Uncle De's tongue is not a human's tongue, but he knows his food. Mr. Than Thuan Nha had no body but still knew how to contact. Mr. Ma Ha Ca Lettuce completely eradicated, except for a long time, but still distinguish clearly.

An Nan! At present, if his apartments are completely removed from the tightness of the ceiling (not according to the differentiated scene) in conquering the afflictions, returning to the mind then the predecessor base and the world are no longer available. ; as well as melting hot water, he immediately attained Buddhahood.

An Nan! Like worldly people, their vision is gathered only in the eyes. If you tell them to close their eyes, then the money is dark, six apartments are opaque, legs and feet are in print. The other man touched his whole body with his hands, but his eyes did not see him, and he knew where the head and the feet were; The same understanding (this is also a proof: the senses are not limited to the base and ceiling).

Ananda, seeing, see if dark time does not see. Now do not need to see that light, so that the other night can not blur (lose) the "seeing" of him. The base and the expectations are gone, then come back to the feet.

VIII. Ananda suspected: the current senses are hopeful, why does the Buddha take refuge there as a monk to practice, so that the true Buddha can be attained

Ananda said, "   World Honored One," as the Buddha taught, "If you want the result of the Buddha to be permanent, then the place for the mind to cultivate your mind has to be true, to be able to prove that you are true."

White World Religion! Bodhi, Nirvana, Chon as, Tanh, Yama ma la consciousness, Non-Tathagata and Great Enlightenment, seven other nouns, do not also have a pure Buddha fruit often not corrupt.

And seeing, hearing, or, knowing, my senses, if leaving the present mundane scenes: dark, light, dynamic, tranquility, etc. ..., time no longer see, hear, or, know more. Hanging around and back and forth, looking diligently, my mind was completely untrue. Why did the Buddha teach that the vanishing delusion would be eradicated, so that the Buddhas would still not be able to deliver birth and pass away. So the words of the Buddha before and after each other, how to call it "Tathagata telling the truth", please Lord Ton, mercifully uncover the confusion for us.

IX. Buddha said to ring bell to experience the "Tanh heard" often

Buddha taught :  Ananda, although he learned a lot, heard a lot, but the defilements of possession (delusion) were not over, so he just knew the name "crazy". By the time the "crazy" real money, then he did not know. As such, his beliefs are uncertain. I now bring ordinary things in my life, to eliminate doubts for him.

The Buddha then told Mr. Rahula to ring a bell, and asked Mr. Ananda:

-Did you hear?

Ananda said:  Listen.

When the bell ran out, the Buddha asked again:

Do you hear?

Ananda said:  Not listening.

Buddha asked Mr. Rahula to ring another bell and ask: Do  you hear?

Ananda replied:  Listening.

Buddha asked:  What is listening and what is not listening?

Ananda answered:  Because the bell rings, I listen to it, until the bell is over I don't hear it.

Buddha:  A  Nan! When the bell rang, he said, "not listening"; if he didn't have a "hearing" then he was like a stone, why did he hear the second bell?

So said: the "sound"  (scene)  when sometimes not, not the "listening"  (mind)  of him always. If his "hearing" is true, then what is known about that "inaudible"?

So he must know: the "sound" for the "sound" it arises and passes away, not in his "hearing" (mind), not because of the sound of birth, it "has", the sound of killing, but it " is not". Because he went crazy in his coma, taking the "ordinary" (nature of hearing) to eliminate the sound (sound), not leaving the six scenes: sharpness, silence, incense, etc., but the senses see, hear, or know His does not have.

THE SOLUTION

This is the seventh time, Buddha only very clearly senses: see, hear etc. ... is mind and often.

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X. Buddha only when sleeping, the "listening" will not lose

The second evidence: Like a person sleeping, lying on a cot in the house, there are people pounding rice, then the other sleeps dreaming, thinking of a drum or a bell, until you wake up before you realize that it is the sound of baseball pounding rice.

An Nan! The other sleeper, although for the present scene, they do not know, but their "hearing" does not disappear.

Although his body until the old death died, but that "Tanh" is not because of the old man, died that destroyed. Because sentient beings from beginningless to now, according to the ceiling scenes, start hoping to recite the difference between gasoline and gasoline, never been enlightened feet, ordinary mind

Because just depending on the concept of discrimination, leaning on the mind usually head, so eternal pollution, rolling in samsara. So you have to abandon the mindfulness of arising and passing away, following with the root of mind. When the pure mind is lucid and the money is present, then the body, the ceiling, the mind and the mind, and the infected mind will be gone. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/2/2020.