Buddha & his native tree.
Bhikkhu-ly-Vid (Vidudabha) once dragged his troops to destroy the Shakyamuni clan, when he came to the border between the two countries, he saw Buddha sitting in meditation under a bare tree with branches and leaves, amidst the fierce summer noon on the land of the Thich Ca family, while next to it, on the land of the Bhikkhu-li-ly family, the green trees are luxuriant. Feeling afraid, pitying, Bhikkhu-save-ly came down to ask the Buddha and asked him not to sit under that tree anymore, go to the other side of the shade tree but sit down, but the Buddha refused. Saying, 'Venerable Sir, leave Me alone. The shade of my kin makes me cool '. (Jataka. No. 465)
The saying of the Buddha represents a vast, passionate homeland love. The things of the homeland, though simple and trivial, still have profound agitation and ultimate values. Understanding the Buddha's heart towards his homeland, Bhikkhu-save-ly had to withdraw his troops.
Prince Bhikkhu-ly-ly is the unrecognized grandchild of the Sakyamuni family, the Buddha's family, the reason for his determination to destroy this whole family is to wash away the humiliating shame and anger in the heart. as a child.
Buddhist painting: The image of Buddha sitting and meditating at the tree when King Bhikkhu-save-ly arrives
The story starts like this. The king of Persia (Pansenadi) of the kingdom of Kieu-all-la (Kosala), a powerful country at that time, wanted to marry a princess of the Shakyamuni family as a wife, then sent a messenger to the city of Ca -tỳ la-defenders of the Shakyamuni clan to question. Being proud of being a noble family, having a spiritual background, despising the Persian family is lowly and unworthy to connect with, so from the beginning Thich Ca family did not support for this proposal. However, after rethinking, seeing Kieu-la-la-la is a mighty kingdom, if refusing their request could cause disruption of relations between the two countries, creating an excuse for war conflicts, so In the end, the Shakyamuni family accepted this proposal, but instead of marrying a noble princess, they married a daughter whose mother was a maid.
When she was 16 years old, Pi-Liu-ly asked her mother to take her to visit her mother's hometown. After many refusals, for fear of revealing his identity, eventually Bhikkhu-Liu's mother had to take her son to visit his homeland. Contrary to the eagerness to look forward to visiting his beloved foreign home, what Pi-Liu-ly received the estrangement, despise, and alienation ... especially when he left home, because he forgot his things, so he save-ly for the retinue to get back, then witness the Shakyamuni family is using fresh milk to clean the entire place that Pi-Liu-ly touched. This is a cleansing ceremony, because in the Indian conception, these places have been defiled by the son of an inferior person, so he needs to be disinfected to return to his purity. head. This humiliation is permanent in the Bhikkhu-save-ly, and later, when he became king, he was determined to take revenge on revenge. And with affection for the homeland, Buddha has also stood out three times. The above statement of Buddha was born in such a situation.
It is said, praising the highest Buddha, the most correct is praising Him for living a full and perfect life as a person, not a superman. We have a habit that when praising someone, we bring them up as divine superhuman, must be different, different us special. But if they were different people, their special would not be special anymore, because they did not belong to our world in the first place, so their sublime is the default, and not worth encouraging the rules for us all of us, because they all have the same starting point.
And one of the things that normal people need is affection for their homeland and kinship.
Abandoning his homeland, renouncing family, renouncing kinship, whole life devoted to serving others, wandering around the roads of sand and dust, taking the earth as home, taking all sentient beings family members, but deep down in the Buddha still there is a native homeland immense immense. What's good, noble ... but if it's not yours, it doesn't mean anything. A dry tree branch does not have the ability to shade, but if it represents the sentiments of the homeland, it has the ability to hug, nurture, protect, extremely without which humans will become barren. lack vitality. The saying of the Buddha gives us an immense idea of the homeland, who we are, what we do, we still have a homeland, even when we expand the homeland to infinity, it also starting from a specific homeland.
Many people believe that this sentence was not said by the Buddha, but may later, the classic editors have included, because it contains in it the self-thinking, which distinguishes between home and non-homeland. , and then what the homeland surpasses everything, in stark contrast to the spirit of egolessness and equality that Buddha declared. However, if viewed from the perspective of reciprocity, that is, depending on the situation, depending on the type of disease that has its own solutions, a thorough spirit of the Buddha's teaching, the above statement of the Buddha is still acceptable. . Before being a Buddha, a Bodhisattva must be a human being, we cannot go to Buddha without a homeland, without a mother in our hearts. Buddha is teaching us about filial piety.
We are surprised because the Buddha made such a statement, but we will be extremely surprised if we learn that our home is in trouble and Buddha did not respond. Anyone without a homeland, so the affection for the homeland is well known. In the context of the Bhikkhu-save-ly aggressively dragging soldiers to destroy the Shakyamuni family to avenge revenge, with certain respect for Buddha, if knowing the Buddha is always giving his homeland the most affection Định, surely Bhikkhu-save-ly will withdraw. Considering the situation, this statement is most appropriate in the context of such a burning oil, do not take it far from its context.
Home and mother
Here I suddenly remembered the verse of Do Trung Quan, "Homeland if one does not remember, will not grow into a man". People are not only raised by rice money, with rudimentary material, but also nourished by spiritual values, in particular here is the homeland sentiment. The things of the homeland forever stick to the paint, because it is a part of life in us, if we lose we cannot live. The road at the end of the village, banyan trees, deserted bamboo groves, harvest fields, childhood kites, lullaby ... they are the specific images of the homeland forever and have been transformed into pure material. Absolute god in every human being.
Everyone has a homeland, just like everyone has a mother, the image of mother is inseparable from the image of the motherland, or in other words, the motherland is the background for her mother to appear, so that whenever she thinks of The motherland, the image of an old mother, sun and rain, and pain and pain, came back. The picture of the motherland is beautiful because there is an image of our mother in the heart of that picture. That's why the homeland is also called mother land. That is the place where we were born, where we buried each other, but later we have grown up everywhere, the soil still retains the original intestines, allowing people to go far away to embrace the shadow of their homeland.
Homeland is also a place where his father has tried, dedicated and given back to us. A place where we go through a whole childhood with many happy and sad memories, and the lulls of our mother from our childhood, still cradling our homeland, will be the words that follow forever in our footsteps all the way.
I go full human life
Also do not go all the words mother lull.
She herself has turned an anonymous land into a sacred homeland, the very material that made the image of her homeland extremely immovable, especially for those who travel away, always in pain. a home concept. "The land of all kinds of stars is narrow / The homeland has a moment of nostalgia", the space of imagination has covered the physical space. My homeland, no matter how small it is, is still capable of holding and sustaining my soul endlessly, and only in that place can we see happiness and peace. Even for those who live long distances, not on their home land, the concepts of their home country are also motivations for them in foreign lands.
The end of truth is simplicity, a simplicity to which people must go through so many ups and downs of sublime complexity. Homeland is the mother, so the image of the motherland is also the mother image in the simplest level. Vietnamese folk proverbs express this very clearly. "Old mother is like a ripe banana tree", or "Old mother is like a banana with three flavors, like sticky rice, like sugar cane mop" ...
She is a symbol of love, so she is so simple and so simple that people sometimes forget about her, like forgetting treasures in their hands, only to see when heaven and earth collapse. The son went to find Buddha to satisfy his birth, spent nearly his whole life of hard work and suffering, still having trouble finding the body. A fine early morning according to the source echo, back to the old roof, see old mother waiting at the door since childhood. The strange thing is that the figure of the old mother is similar to the image of the Buddha in the night. So, if Buddha is loving, simple, tolerant ... then he doesn't need to look far, but right back home.
Echo originated
“The fox dies three years and turns back to the mountain”, which is the idiom that expresses the root of desire in each of us. The mountains were home to the fox, so the place where it always headed, even death as an ultimate destruction did not prevent it from turning back to the mountain. We will wonder, three years is a long enough time for all bodies to dissolve into ashes, what foxes towards the mountain? Here the problem is not time but echo. Ever since her mother was born in a specific countryside, took her motherland as her homeland, the material of the motherland was implanted in our genetic code, so that it could exist, and roll up and dominate both consciously and unconsciously. If life is consciousness, then death can be considered unconscious, still unconsciously still in the countryside.
At this moment, I suddenly remembered Zen Master Tue Tinh (1330-1400), a Vietnamese medical physician, the Patron saint of the South medicine industry with the immortal discovery "Southern medicine to treat Southern people". Sharing the fate of the spirit of a nation lost, he was turned into tribute to the invaders by his medical talents. Respected by the Ming court, appointed as the Great Meditation Master, Tue Tinh still suffered from the pain of his homeland, and he cried during his inauguration day, so that when he died, his tombstone was still engraved. About a countryside "Whoever comes to the South let me go home". The echo of this passage rang nearly 300 years later. .
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