Cultivation difficult or easy?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

In the Buddha's time in the world, the male and female believers were born into Male-stilts, Female-stilts. They were ordained by the Buddha or other holy disciples, and depending on their identity, for each of them a particular meditation topic, there may be no one like anyone.

According to that topic, the monks tend to the Holy Spirit, see the truth of the universe, all beings.

Today, the Buddha has passed away, and the Sages of the Sangha are difficult to find like the soil at the fingertips compared to the earth on earth. Therefore, in order to find a subject of meditation, we must rely on the experience of previous Zen masters or teachers. And indispensable is the effort to cultivate the Dharma, by trying to read the three organs in order to consolidate your dharma knowledge, so that it can be applied well to the practice. People who do not study the teachings carefully but want to engage in the practice will be very difficult, unless his Brahmin is very deep. This is like a person who wants to cure but ignores the prescription or from a talented physician.

Today, the Buddha has passed away, and the Sages of the Sangha are difficult to find like the soil at the fingertips compared to the earth on earth.

In the Sangha Sutra, chapter 1, the product of Meditation (2), the Buddha taught about the practice as follows:

1. As a person, the Male-stilts, with the same mind throughout the great sea, can include all small rivers pouring into the sea. Likewise, the Female-on stilts, who practice, make the body of the body, full of thoughts, also includes all the good dhammas of the legal parts.

2-8. There is a Dhamma, the monks, practiced, made fullness, bring great inspiration, great benefits, great peace from suffering, mindfulness and awareness, leading to realization, leads to the present dwellings, leads to realization of vindication and liberation. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. This is a dharma, in which the Male-stilts are practiced, made fullness, leading to great inspiration ... leading to realization and liberation.

9-12. There is a dharma, the Male-stilts, when practiced, are fulfilled, the body is contemptuous, the mind is contemptuous, is purified, all the dhammas belong to the intelligent part go to practice, fulfillment. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When practicing, filling this dharma, the body is contemptuous, the mind is contemptuous, the range and four are purified, all the dhammas belonging to the vindication part go to practice, to be fulfilled.

13. There is a dharma, the Male-stilts, when practiced, are fulfilled, unproductive dhammas do not arise, and unwholesome dhammas have arisen cease. What is a dharma? It is the body of mindfulness. When practicing, when filling this one, the Female-on stilts, unwholesome dhammas ... cease.

In the Buddha's time in the world, the male and female believers were born into Male-stilts, Female-stilts. They were ordained by the Buddha or other holy disciples, and depending on their identity, for each of them a particular meditation topic, there may be no one like anyone.

14-15. There is a dharma, the Male-stilts, when practiced, are fulfilled, the unborn good dhammas are arisen, and the good dhammas have been born leading to growth, generosity. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When practicing, when filling this one, the Male-on stilts, the unborn ... leading to growth, generosity.

16-21. There is a dhamma, the monks, when practiced, are made full, ignorance arises, ignorance arises, ego is cessation, the latent tendencies are uprooted, fetters are ceased. . What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When this dhamma is practiced, is fulfilled, ignorance is ceased ... fetters cease.

22-23. There is a dharma, the Male-stilts, when practiced, are made full, leading to the analysis of wisdom, leading to Nirvana without attachment. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When this dharma is practiced, fulfilled, leads to analysis ... there is no attachment.

24-26. There is a dharma, the monks, when practiced, are fulfilled, leading to the understanding of many precepts, the communication of many different precepts, the indifference of many precepts. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When this dharma is practiced, is made full, leading to communication ... the indifference of many precepts.

Body contemplation is the method of contemplating the body, one of the four Foundations of Mindfulness is contemplation: contemplation of Body, Life, Mind and Dharma.

Why need to practice?

27-30. There is a dharma, the monks, when practiced, are made fullness, leading to the realization of the results, leading to the realization of Samsara, leading to the realization of the real realization results A-la-Han. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When this dharma is practiced, is made fullness, leading to realization of the results ... results of A-la-drought.

31-46. There is a dhamma, the monks, when practiced, are made fullness, leading to the realization of wisdom, leading to intellectual growth, leading to generous wisdom, leading to great wisdom. to broad wisdom, to generous wisdom, to deep wisdom, to incomparable wisdom, to infinite wisdom, to more wisdom, to quick wisdom, to wisdom Light wisdom leads to joyful wisdom, rapid wisdom, sharp wisdom, incarnation wisdom. What was a law? It is the body of mindfulness. When a dharma is practiced, is made full, leads to the realization of wisdom ... leads to the incarnation of wisdom.

47-48. These people do not enjoy immortality, the monks, who do not perform the body of mindfulness. These people enjoy immortality, the monks, who perform the body of mindfulness.

Body contemplation is the method of contemplating the body, one of the four Foundations of Mindfulness is contemplation: contemplation of Body, Life, Mind and Dharma. In the Body Contemplation section includes dhammas such as: contemplating the breath, contemplating the postures, contemplating the thirty-two bodies, contemplating the arrangement of the four elements and contemplating the corpse. Although there are many topics of meditation, there is still no way out of the spirit of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness that the Buddha taught in the Suttas, Sutta No. 22, the Great Foundations of Mindfulness: "This is the way. brings purity to sentient beings, to overcome sorrow and grief, to eliminate suffering, to attain righteousness, to realize Nibbana. Those are the four Foundations of Mindfulness ”. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.30/8/2020/