Meaning Sutra for the austerities .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

It is no coincidence that the Sutra of the United States is classified as "King of Sutras", because the Sutta belongs to the supreme doctrine of the Buddha that the Buddha spoke to bring the disciples to the First Noble Path, the result of the redundant Buddha.

The Buddha taught, "The Unitary Buddha is the supreme teaching, only for the purely radical bases." So, whoever writes, maintains, speaks and speaks this Sutta, must know that he has immeasurable merit. If it were not for the great faith, cultivating good roots from countless lifetimes, it would be difficult to achieve. In the Dharma Sutras, there is a passage that says: There is a Dharma teacher one day coming to visit the Great Patriarch of Hui Neng, who peaked at the prostration of the Father and bowed to the ground, saying:

"Prostration is to destroy pride, pay homage, prostrate that the first does not mark the ground by not bowing." You must have something in your mind, say it? Phap Dat said: I recite the Lotus Sutra three thousand times. The Patriarch said, "If you are mindful of everything you understand, but you don't think it is more human, then go the same way as Me. Now your house depends on chanting, so you don't know the error ”.

Then the Patriarch said,

“Ceremony of killing pride

Why not close to the ground

Accept falling, crime instant birth

Forget the work, so high happiness. ”

Phap Dat finished listening to the shelves, apologizing and saying, "From now on, please be humble with all".

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The Lotus Sutra also teaches a humble, humble conduct through the image of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva. Some heard joyful birth, some scolded, but He still kept a humble mind like that. Because he knows well, everyone has the Buddha nature and the ability to cultivate into Buddha. All sentient beings, either in the present or the future, if they have ever heard the Lotus Sutra will definitely become Buddhas.

Images of Ordinary Bodhisattva Disappointment helps austerities remove the conceit on the path. Therefore, the Buddha taught that the people who maintain the Sutras, such as those who dug wells on the plateau, are extremely difficult jobs, such as the plateau of life and death. The water on it shows the source of pure mind available to every living being. But because ignorance obscures the source does not manifest. As people with the effort to dig forever, certainly also to the wet land, so it must always go to the groundwater, that is, to see the Dao, continue to dig until the water comes up to be able to enter Buddha-nature, is an achievement Buddhahood.

The Buddha taught that people who maintain the Sutras, such as those who dig wells on a plateau, are extremely difficult jobs, such as the field of birth and death.

However, digging a well may take a year, two years or a few decades to complete, but the practice and practice according to the Buddhist Sutras to reunite the Buddha Tri Kien "One Set of Knowledge" is a one-stop career. life, many lives or more A rise to rape is not necessarily achieved, if we are not strong and essential.

Practicing according to the Lotus Sutra is very difficult, because the meaning is very profound. So people who want to maintain the Dharma Flower are full, must first meet the three basic conditions as Teacher Duc Cong Duc said: "At Tathagata's house, wear Tathagata robes and sit in Tathagata court."

Practitioners who want to practice the Lotus Sutra must live in Tathagata. That is to have compassion for sentient beings like mothers love children. Without loving-kindness, we cannot practice the Dharma Flower, Like the previous life, Maitreya Bodhisattva is Cau Danh, thanks to the development of Tam Muoi, called From Thi, who was later signed into Buddha by Buddha. Therefore, cultivators must take compassion to build houses, save suffering and happiness for all sentient beings, making them go to enlightenment. Also, the Buddha sees all sentient beings as their own children, always spreading compassion and bringing peacefulness to sentient beings. We are Buddha's children, so we have to practice what Buddha has done, walk the path Buddha has come in order to attain enlightenment.

Practitioners who want to practice the Lotus Sutra must live in Tathagata. That is to have compassion for sentient beings like mothers love children. Without loving-kindness, we cannot practice the Dharma Flower, Like the previous life, Maitreya Bodhisattva is Cau Danh, thanks to the development of Tam Muoi, called From Thi, who was later signed into Buddha by Buddha.

Want to uphold the United States practitioners have to wear Tathagata, meaning solemn body and mind by virtue of peace, patience. Just kindness is not enough, but we have to use loving words to transform sentient beings. Beings to Buddha Dharma are like children. Should know, Phap Hoa medicine is the ultimate remedy, if not wrapped in a layer of peaceful, loving, patient, sentient beings cannot drink. But the patience that the Buddha taught here is patience in the wisdom and patience to educate. As when the Buddha asked the one who had scolded him: "If you bring an offering to the person, he won't accept it." Is that ceremony yours? ” This virtue is necessary to overcome difficulties on the path of fertility discourse.

Who said Dharma Flower is to sit in the Tathagata court. Sitting is "An abode", the Tathagata court means the great Bodhisattva: "Necessarily not the true method" is not crazy, does not move, does not say, does not move like nowhere "No" This means no the nature of the Dharma. Because things are asexual, so impossible. Buddha resided in that vacuum should be called sitting in the Tathagata seat. The Sutta says:

"As a result of the immeasurable destruction, countless infinite sentient beings and countless sentient beings attain to destroy the false degree".

Who said Dharma Flower is to sit in the Tathagata court. Sitting is "An abode", the Tathagata court means the great Bodhisattva: "Necessarily not the true method" is not crazy, does not move, does not say, does not move like nowhere "No" This means no the nature of the Dharma.

Buddha's whole life was born and he said that we do not see any sentient beings at all, so the discourse of the newness of birth is full. Buddha was in a selfless nature, so he could no longer see generals. With all sentient beings equally speaking the law, because according to the law should not say much. Practitioners to maintain the Buddhist Sutras at home or ordained should have great compassion, and Bodhisattva will generate great compassion. This Lotus Sutra is a secret organ of the Tathagata, Because the Sutta shows only the Buddha, so it is difficult for people, because it has no appearance, beyond language. However, it exists in us.

At Tathagata's house, wearing Tathagata robes and sitting at the Tathagata throne are the three virtues, the three basic conditions for reciting and speaking the Sutras to be ultimately fulfilled. The person who upholds and lectures says the Sutra of the United States, before preserving the precepts, that is, dwelling on the four dharmas: 1. Exodus: Abiding in patience, peace, and fear; 2. Close to the land: Not close to the king and pagan ... these subjects should lecture if they should not be close. Consistent measures are not like real generals, such as crazy, not moving like nothing; 3. Bliss: Not saying the error of others and Kinh, not despising other shamans, for Thanh Van not commendable. For all sentient beings to arise equally speaking Dharma. For the Tathagata, Bodhisattva often have to respect; 4. Run compassion: The heart of compassion for people at home, renunciation.

In the writings of Dharma Master Duc Duc, he wrote: "If there are good men and women, women and women who maintain this Sutra, or read, recite, explain, or copy, that person will have eight hundred merits in their eyes, one thousand two hundred merit in the ear, eight hundred merit in the body, one thousand two hundred merit in the mind, using these merits, solemnly the six bases are pure. ”

The Lotus Sutra regards the Buddha nature or the Buddha's Knowledge equally among all sentient beings through the saying: "It is necessary for sentient beings to be Buddhahood", if anyone who knows how to return to live with the Buddha's Knowledge in himself will be able to use them. can think of.

Also in the quality of the Dharma Master Gong, the Buddha signed that: "Whoever recites and maintains the Lotus Sutra is that he has solemnified himself with the solemnity of the Buddha. Therefore, being carried by the Tathagata on His shoulder.

The Lotus Sutra regards the Buddha nature or the Buddha's Knowledge equally among all sentient beings through the saying: "It is necessary for sentient beings to be Buddhahood", if anyone who knows how to return to live with the Buddha's Knowledge in himself will be able to use them. can think of. Should Buddha teach, we practice the Bodhisattva path with the impartial equality of teaching, not to deny anyone who is resentful as well as relatives. So, learning and practicing the Dharma is the way to return to yourself and reality, realizing that there is no general of the self, to renounce craving and attachment, to return to live with Buddha's Knowledge. availability, with the Dharmakaya not form, no form, no birth and death, so merit is inconceivable. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/4/2020.