The problem of Buddhist studies, learning is understanding, everyday in the free time it is necessary to read and study Buddhist scriptures to cultivate, learn Buddha teachings to expand wisdom. Study is to study, but should not be too attached to relying on the sutras that cause sentient beings difficult to treat.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

Question:  I have been at the entrance for a few years. Do I know each of the methods a little bit. I also recite Buddha's name, also meditate, and also recite great compassion mantra. Honestly, any practice is fine with me because I don't go into any depth even though I recite Buddha's name every day and meditate before I sit still. I also read the scriptures, but not much because I think that spiritual practice is mainly corrected first, after doing good deeds to help people and parents in the family.

However, due to my acquaintance that some friends online are very interested in the scriptures, they can read the sutras, listen to the sutras all day without being bored and tell me that they have to listen to the sutras a lot to calm down and understand the Buddha's teachings. New, best cultivators avoid mind-blowing. However, I do not have free time like everyone else because I have to worry about family business. May I ask, do cultivators need to listen to all the scriptures? Should I listen to the sutras all the time to call it spiritual practice? How do I understand the Buddhist scriptures? What if I don't listen to the Buddhist scriptures? I would like to thank you!

The Buddhist Sutras have eighty-four thousand practices widely popularized in the ten methods of precepts, sentient beings also have boundless karma and many defilements, but they also gather together in the eighty-four thousand karma of sentient beings, each sentient beings have eighty-four thousand karma.

Answer:  The Buddhist scriptures have eighty-four thousand practices that are widely available in the ten methods of precepts, sentient beings also have boundless karma and many defilements but also collectively fall into the eighty-four thousand karma of sentient beings. Each living being has eighty-four thousand karma. The meaning of sentient beings is boundless, but the Buddha's dharma is also boundless to treat diseases to make sentient beings purified, and eliminate the defilements of craving and delusion to liberate samsara. In the Nikaya Sutras, there is no saying that the Buddhist scriptures have eighty-four thousand disciplines, but in the section of the Elderly Sangha, 1024, the Sutta Pitaka, the Buddha taught, as follows:

I received from the Buddha,

Eighty-two thousand dharma s,

Also received from Female-stilts,

Two thousand more dharma s,

Eight-four thousand in total,

It's the dharma we transport ...

Indeed, the term Buddhist studies eighty-four thousand disciplines, including 82,000 Buddha's teachings and 2,000 monks' living dhammas. This is the idea of ​​the Buddhist scriptures with 84,000 disciplines, the meaning of the Buddha's teaching is boundless, the Buddha's Dharma is as visually as the market, as a special medicine for the treatment of diseases of sentient beings. For example: If sentient beings are miserable, the Buddha teaches almsgiving; sentient beings love to accept, the Buddha teaches wisdom; deluded beings teach the practice of meditation; If sentient beings are misguided, the Buddha's Dharma is the light that illuminates all dark souls of sentient beings, making them close to the Dharma to escape samsara, evolve smoothly and promptly integrate into a peaceful lifestyle. .

According to the Buddhist dictionary of Uncle Doan Trung Also, during the period of Buddha Shakyamuni, he attained enlightenment and became the thing of the Chinese religion. However, the teachings issued by the Buddha are divided into three periods to know clearly about the vitality of living beings, showing how to practice enlightenment.

1. Dharma period

The Dharma is true, tall, pure, has two parts: Physics and Body

Li: The meaning of Buddhist teachings is not wrong, not false. The morality from the beginning to the end, has a pure character, always liberates sentient beings, the criterion that sentient beings are liberating samsara should call it the righteousness.

Body: France, which is the French background in the Three Jewels. The body of the Dharma is also included in the four dharma s, the teachings of virtue, the rule for the Buddhas and the disciples who do not step out of those four principles. The four principles are:

- Buddhism is the voice of the words of the Buddhas.

- Reason is the meaning in the dharma.

- Happiness is in the sense of the Buddhist teachings that practice.

- Thanks to the practice of intellectual property that proves results.

In general, the Buddhist teachings have the power to cause all illnesses of sentient beings to eliminate the pure body, speech, and mind to enter the Buddha's world. At this time, the monks near the Buddha heard the practice of spiritual practice as the Buddha's teaching, so they called the Buddha the same.

2. The period of the Buddhist Dharma statue

There are many people who listen to Buddhist teachings but there is no enlightenment. If so, it just looks like Buddha, not like the Dharma period.

Imagine, similarly, the Dhamma is like the Dharma, but less times.

Many people practice but few people become faithful. There are many people who listen to Buddhist teachings but there is no enlightenment. If so, it just looks like Buddha, not like the Dharma period. The period of the statue of the Dharma is also the period when the great ancestors spread the mind of Buddhism, integrating into the stream of life, entering the countries of Buddhist beliefs rather than following the Buddhist practice. So in this period, the patriarchs exalted the Dharma, the many good dhammas are deformed, the practice is reduced, in order to save the merit of spreading the Dharma, the enlightenment of the practice is only on work, understand the Buddha's meaning but do not act like Buddha Therefore, the attainment of enlightenment also exists but very little, and if there is only visualization, not like Buddha.

3. The Dharma end

End is decline. Dharma in decline period, human sentient beings were too far away from Buddha. Wicked people are many, pure and pure people are few, so very few people practice enlightenment. At the end of the Dharma, it was very difficult to practice, because sentient beings did not have time to spend their time studying the morality to cultivate. Many people built temples, fought for rights and power, divided factions to punish each other, there were no people looking for a secluded place to cultivate, but only those who loved materialism and served. for yourself, honoring the body of the place of meditation, making the door of meditation in turmoil, people who don't know what is evil, monks eat meat and drink alcohol, little know about elaborate practice.

So in the age of the end of the Dharma, people chanting, reading the sutras, studying the sutras, there are many but enlightenment results are not available, or there is too little oi than the period of the statue. At the end of the Dharma, people only understand the Dharma and then transmit the religion, not cultivate the new path. Therefore, there are no cultivators, no cultivators, but only people who take a vow to keep the religion, spread the Buddha's teachings of right and wrong without clear distinction. Many people violate the beliefs, precepts of the Buddha but still do not know, also claim to be the guru.

Your spiritual practice

Also praised that you have great will to practice, practice many methods, read many sutras, not unlike the monks and nuns in the place of meditation. But we "read the prayer of logic", find the Buddha's reason to go which way is suitable for our own liberation. Chanting, studying the sutras a lot is good, but there are times when it is "overreal" about receiving the sutras, especially the Buddhist words that make us no longer know which direction to practice.

Knowing a lot sometimes also makes our mind heavy, it is difficult to describe all the aromas of Kinh quintessence. Knowing a lot, but not digging it, it logically disintegrates so that the reader is like a bookcase, sees many sutras like a scripture-eating nerd. Scripture is spoiled but not attained at all.

Reading lots of books is good or bad

But we have to read and learn from low to high, from the cross like the books "Buddhist studies in the field of textbooks," the book "General Buddhism" by Venerable Thich Thien Hoa, the book "Essential Buddhism" by Venerable Thich Thien Tam, "History of Buddha Shakyamuni", "History of 33 Patriarchs of Tay Thien Dong Do", "History of Vietnamese Buddhism". When they are finished, learn to read these books to the "five yanas", namely Nhon Thua, Thien Thua, Sravana, Dependent Origination and Bodhisattva. Until such Mahayana sutras take 10 to 15 years, you will study Buddhism.

Do not just step into the sanctuary but read the books of Vajrayana, Hoa Nghiem, Nirvana, Verse of Abhidhamma, Duy Thuc ... will definitely make you lose balance of mind.

On the other hand, it is not certain that you study the scriptures a lot to practice, even the monks and nuns, when they have a high school education, have a wide variety of literature, are patient with the Buddhists when studying many Buddhist scriptures, few people talk about practice. go to Pure Land retreat, Zen retreat, and Tantric retreat. It seems like she no longer thinks about cultivating yourself during the sessions. This is a great harm to those who are Buddha.

Not practicing many dharma s (omniscient law)

Practicing many dhammas is distracting, contemplating many subjects will lose mindfulness. Based on the elaborate sessions in the temple, cultivating in accordance with the dharma. In the temple of the Tonkin system, in the morning, chant elaborately reciting Mausoleum of Nghiem mantras, in the afternoon, elaborately reciting the chanting of Amitabha, Hong Danh bauan, in the evening reciting Amitabha, or Pho Mon sutras. Occasionally opening the ceremony of chanting the Medicine Master, the ceremony of chanting the Jizō, the Phap Hoa chanting course ...

The Tinh Tinh monasteries recite the name of Buddha at 23:00, the Zen Zong pagodas and the Buddhist monasteries do not recite chant, the Tantric temples recite mantras ... Thus there are 3 simple practice; one is meditation, the other is to practice reciting Buddha's name, the third is to practice mantra. If you are a pure Buddhist, you should generate the mind to chant the sutras like chanting temples, your practice will be extremely diligent and effective because you do not cultivate the dharma.

As a Buddhist should not practice this practice, tomorrow to practice another, now receive meditation, tomorrow receive the pure Dharma, tomorrow receive dharma, but should choose a mature practice, or practice meditation, or practice pure, cultivated. In the place of the forest there is a sentence: "Tu a dharma, will attain all dharma" is so. Practicing a dharma that makes body, speech and mind pure, body, speech and mind are pure, the total dhamma will be totaled, all dharma s return to one thing, making the consistent contemplation of other dhammas that arise are pure. At that time, benefits, spiritual benefits, miracles all arise, good dhamma arises, making you more diligent.

There are many discrepancies in the practice of the Dharma: the abbot practice Zen, teach the disciple to practice Pure Land, take the Tibetan magician to practice Tantric teachings for his disciples, make the disciple lose his direction, do not know which method is right, becomes a legal disorder, a legal problem. In the end, he taught his disciple "what Dharma of the Buddha is to practice", causing the Buddhist disciple to be disturbed by the Buddhist Dharma, to practice "trash law".

To become a Buddhist, according to the dhamma to practice, should not choose the dharma, study the scriptures for many, in the end lose the direction, or be good or good, but do not know which method to cultivate properly.

Please quote an anonymous story:

“An old man brought people across the river. One day, it was raining storms and strong winds, the boat overturned, but fortunately everyone including the monks knew how to swim, everyone took care of swimming to get ashore. In the process of swimming, you have to remove all your luggage to be light and escape the "blistering" drowning. There is only one monk who has a burden of sutras, when the boat is stumbling, he takes care of the sutras. Forever worrying about the sutras and due to the cold rain and storm, the monk was "blotched" and drowned under the sutras in regret.

The boat was sunk, everyone left all their luggage just worried about escaping, so they lived, but the monk drowned because of regret. Enlightened people do not expect to pray for more enlightenment. Enlightenment is enlightenment, enlightenment is not through chanting. Chanting a lot is only beneficial for wisdom more than the world, but does not help you to liberate. If you want to be free, you must choose the dharma, in choosing the dharma is not necessary to cultivate the history of the world, because it increases your ordinary ego, and stops your spiritual path.

Chanting, reading many sutras

Chanting a lot of sutras is very beneficial, one is to make pure mindfulness in the practice, and to wash away the good law; the second is to clean up bare karma (after the ceremony, gentle refreshing body and mind); third is to make wisdom born, born wisdom, the higher the criteria for liberation. However, sometimes people who watch the sutras a lot are not sure that he practices well. In the world, all harm is attached to doing anything beneficial, even if it is the Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha's teachings. Sometimes it is the Buddha's teachings that are spoken by him, but mistakes make the listener misunderstand the practice, so pitiful the disciple.

Sometimes the Buddhist teachings are also handed down but passed down myopia according to their own discretion, creating a local environment, giving birth to ego, making the practitioner follow the same, also giving birth to ego. Reading the sutras does not understand anything but claiming to be a magician, lecturing the professor, but not practicing the practice of doing anything. Unfortunately, when transmitting to the disciple, the Buddha's disciple also gave birth to egoism, also read and learned almost all the scriptures by heart, memorized all three sacred scriptures, but did not practice. There is no elaborate process of practice, not a little wisdom, how can there be a basis for a practitioner to become a true Zen practitioner, let alone a matter of cultivating the attainment of Buddhism.

You "study the sutras" just enough to practice, your friends advise "studying the sutras" a lot so that it is easier to cultivate.

Practicing medical experience, practicing scripture is also very difficult

Granted that in the place of meditation, there is a sentence: "Y business interprets the meaning of the Three Kingdoms injustice, the most famous self-news into magic theory". Chanting for many, studying the sutras well, but accepting the sutras is unjust for three generations of Buddhas. For example, in the Prussian Sutras, the Buddha taught: “A person who recites the title of Quan The Am, begs the birth of a boy, gets a son, if he pleads to have a girl, then a daughter. People who recite the title of Quan The Am on fire do not burn, do not sink into the water ... That is, the person who recites the title of Quan The Am prayers to attain full compassion (girl), wisdom (boy). The person who recites the title of Guan Yin in the fire does not burn, the fire here is the fire "infected", the water here is the water of "lust". That is to say, the person who recites the title of Guan Yin and Yang will no longer have sex, worldly craving is free from suffering. Thus, the person who maintains the sutras, understands the economic logic, understands the Buddha's mind, is not "unjust" for the Buddhas.

However, if you do not base on the Buddhist scriptures to practice, or say the sutras to everyone to listen to without relying on the Buddha's teachings, ie the same doctrine. For example: If you do not read the verbatim text of the Prussian Sutra above: "The person who holds the title of Quan The Am praying to give birth to a son will be a boy. People who recite the title Avalokiteshvara in fire do not burn, do not sink in the water ... violating the "same with magic theory" is that.

You "study the sutras" just enough to practice, your friends advise "studying the sutras" a lot so that it is easier to cultivate. In the monastic world like that, not sure because sometimes "studying the sutras" is enough, it is easier to cultivate than "studying the sutras" much. Because "studying the sutras" just enough to give you time to practice, "studying the sutras" is busy with "studying the sutras" so you can have free time to practice. Besides, if you are a "scripture", you should have someone to keep "the sacred scriptures".

Chanting is tu?

As a Buddhist, you must understand the Dharma, the Dharma is the Holy Dictionary. When listening to the lecture at any place, if there are means, immediately come to listen to the Dharma to practice, or diligently study the teachings to understand the profound Buddhist words taught by the Buddha. However, we should not "accept the attachment" but give birth to delusion, we must know the Buddha's Dharma is just a means of building up a treasure of knowledge for sentient beings using it as the basis of the practice without leaving the Buddha's teachings. As in the Vajrayana Sutta taught by the Buddha: Tu Bodhi, Do not let the Tathagata mean that "I have the sermon". Don't think so. Why? Because if someone says: Tathagata has sermon that is to criticize the Buddha, not understand what I say. Tu Bodhi, sermon without any dharma to preach,

Practicing in the process of being a Buddhist disciple has taken refuge in the Three Jewels, maintaining the five forbidden precepts, cultivating the Eight Precepts, and cultivating the ten virtues which means having learned the Buddha's teachings. In addition, it is necessary to study the Buddha's teachings, study basic Buddhism, cultivate some Buddhist knowledge to have the basis of identifying what is righteous, what is evil, mainly study the teachings of the Three Wisdoms, the Three Immaculate Constructions. study, the five super teachers to progress.

In the process of learning Buddhism, do not let the Dharma, the language, the Buddhist words make you overdo it, that is, you must use the Buddha's teachings to progress, know how to apply the Buddha's teaching in everyday life, the virtue of glowing, director from dung dung. Understanding the Dharma needs a real progressive basis to feel disobedient, over and over and over and over again like "a parrot can speak human language but cannot do human affairs". Do not consider Buddhist teachings as a philosophical basis, consider the Buddha's teachings as a place to study translation, publish and trade ... If you do not encounter the above things, you will still recite many sutras according to the advice to diligently study. onions.

Buddhists need to understand the teachings

According to some commentaries in "The Road to the Pure Land", the grammar of Ngự Ich Great Master, at the end of the Dharma end, the Dharma gradually goes to destruction, all the scriptures gradually disappear. Why? Because sentient beings lack merit, severe karma, have no conditions to see the scriptures. Needless to say in the future, now the number of people has no eyes, arms and diseases, so a word in the sutras cannot be seen. It is karma that makes obstacles, this is the end of the Dharma. Those with eyes cannot see and understand Dharma clearly.

At the end of the dhamma the scriptures were completely destroyed, first the Sutra of Nghiem, then the other sutras, and finally the Amitabha Sutra. This sutra of Amitabha will stay for more than a hundred years for all sentient beings. By the end of that time, the Amitabha Sutra also ceased to exist, only the famous six-word "Namo Amitabha Buddha" remained in life for another hundred years for all sentient beings. Over time, only the four-word name "Amitabha Buddha" remained in the life for another hundred years, free of countless sentient beings. Finally, the four words "Amitabha Buddha" also disappeared. The Dharma up to this point can be said to completely destroy (The way to the pure realm)

According to the grammar of Ngự Ich Great Master also stated: Right to the end of the Dharma, the Buddha also prophesied the therapy only 4 words "Amitabha Buddha". But those 4 words are the "encapsulation" of the legal world. “Reciting Amitabha Buddha to maturity, the extreme teachings of the Tripitaka twelve sutras are also in it. One thousand seven hundred koans, the key to the upper direction is also in it. Three thousand posture, eight thousand international virtue, the three pure precepts are in it ”.

If you have a predestined relationship, you will still study Dharma without any hindrance or need to think.

People have no means to learn the Dharma

 Buddhist sutras are truly precious, is one of the three jewels of the Three Jewels, is both the mind of the three times of the Buddhas, as well as the floral and color of the Buddha's mission. Being a Buddhist living next to life is not easy to cultivate at all, but you can cultivate beside your family, which is extremely noble. You cannot help but learn the teachings of Buddhism, you cannot fail to communicate the teachings. You cannot do without the process of spiritual practice. However, your Buddhist life must have a clear schedule of discernment between religious affairs, when to practice, when to do housework, and when in society, there is nothing to worry about. wrong.

The problem of Buddhist studies, learning is understanding, everyday in the free time it is necessary to read and study Buddhist scriptures to cultivate, learn Buddha teachings to expand wisdom. Study is to study, but should not be too attached to relying on the sutras that cause sentient beings difficult to treat.

To be a pure Buddhist, you must be truly steadfast in the buddha world, uphold the Three Jewels. The maintenance has many meanings: One is offering, providing and nurturing the monks and nuns to keep the Buddha's teachings; the second is diligent practice; The third is to set up the Buddhist virtue to represent everyone, encourage everyone to enter the religion, take refuge as a disciple of the Buddha.

Sutras are the Buddha's teachings

The three precious throne of the Buddha's soul

The world sentient beings

Must know the Buddha's teaching and speech.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/8/2020.