( three generations to students :  VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

 Righteousness :

Buddha told A hard, ten square world community all day people people, it has to heart willing student Peter States, where there are three generations.                    

Buddha Ananda: - The world of the gods, the people of the world, the friendship and the will to be born in the kingdom of the world, the world of the human beings.

Buddha told Ananda: - In general, the devas of the people in the ten directions of the world, those who wish to be born in the other realms are three levels.

Prize :

The previous product is the ten directions of the Buddhas of praise, which is the result of the aspiration of  "praise by the Buddhas" . This is because the Buddhas want to let sentient beings hear the name of generating mind, reciting recollection, longevity, and being satisfied to be born. This product discusses the types of almonds to die.

Phàm phu after hearing the title of Buddha immediately generated mind. Because the devotion is deep - shallow, so the devotion is big or small, reciting more or less, practicing with diligence, being lazy with many other mistakes. The base of beings has immeasurable differences; merit, conditions and conditions are even more different. Different people, dissidents. Therefore, if there have been infinite beings in the ten directions of existence, their qualities must also be immeasurable.

For such immeasurable differences, the Blessed One is only temporarily divided in general, so in this product only refers to the three upper, middle, and lower levels. That is the simplest division. Each step is divided into three small categories, so it becomes nine categories; Sutra is called "nine products". Each of those nine products has nine products, resulting in eighty-one products. Every turn to expand like that to immeasurable.

In these infinite levels, generally speaking, there are three levels. Although the qualities of those who have passed away are very different, but when it comes to the main cause of death, there is nothing more than  "generating Bodhicitta, a specialized recitation of Amitabha" . That is the outline of the entire sutra, the key to the birth of Great Bliss.

The three steps of birth is to classify us after having passed away in the Pure Land. Vows, merit of each level is the framework for us to follow in order to be born. If we sincerely pray to be reborn, we should follow those rules, like a shining example so that we always see ourselves, hoping to be equal.

Remember that Tinh Tong is praised as the Di Hanh Dao (easy to practice) because compared with eighty-four thousand disciplines, only this method is the easiest, so it is called "the other way"; But if we consider the things taught in this sutra, it is not easy to die. If it is not true because samsara generates Bodhi mind, using deep-seated devotion to specialize in reciting and hoping to die is not possible.

We hope that the practitioners in the present do not listen to Tinh Tong for a moment that easy to practice immediately contemptuous birth, superficial confidence, neglectful willingness, the mouth of the Pure Land, the mind is sad; Such that birth, then know when it can be!

When judging the nine items in the Sutra Pitaka is equivalent to the three steps in this sutra or not, ancient virtue has established many inconsistencies:

1. The school that considers the qualities said in the two sutras to be the same, including such great masters Dam Loan, Canh Hung, Gia Tuong, Lien Tri, Thien Thai ... In the work of Luo Luan An Lac Tinh Do Nghia, he Dam Loan said:  “The Sutra of Amitayus says that people born in An Lac have only three levels of upper, middle and lower levels; Kinh Quan Vo Luong Tho said each product was divided into upper, middle and  lower. Three times three times into nine, making nine products " . Tinh Anh Su wrote again:  “All the people of the ten worlds aspire to be born in that realm, there are three levels. Taken together to say the same as in Quan Kinh; if divided roughly, there are three steps, meticulously divided into nine ” . Mr. Gia Tuong also wrote in the Quan Kinh So as follows:  "The Amitayus Sutra only says three levels, but in this sutta (only the Quan Vo Luong Tho Sutta)  divided three steps into nine levels. The three steps are upper, middle, and lower. Nine ranks are three high-end products; middle and lower  also have three so into nine steps ” . Mr. Canh Hung also said: " Due to the nine items in the other sutras  (Quan Sutra)  combined into three levels in this sutra, the teachings taught in the two sutras are not different" . Mr. Lien Tri said:  “Three steps, nine products are suitable for each other, no doubt! "In the Quan Kinh Su, Mr. Thien Thai also said:  " The nine items in this sutra  (the Sutra) are  just to indicate high or low status, they are the three levels of Great Business. "

2. The school advocates that the levels and products in the two sutras are different, there are such as Linh Chi, Co Son ... Mr. Linh Chi said that the three steps in Great Sutra only correspond to the High Priest of the Sutra Pitaka, not related to anything. to the other six products because in the High Quality and Lower Products, there is no mention of generating Bodhicitta. Mr. Son's opinion was more open; He said that the three levels in this sutra correspond only to the Highness and the High Quality, not belonging to the three Lower products because the deceased in the three levels in this sutra are all good people; And the people of the three Lower products in Quan Kinh are evil people. At the time of death, repent, recite the Buddha's name, so they are born. Therefore, they all said that it is impossible to combine the qualities of these two sutras.

In the work Sao Sao, Lien Tri great master used the above theories as follows:

“The Book of Thao Am Phu Chanh explains: 'Mr. Thien Thai considers nine products similar to the three because it is considered by the hierarchy, not from the almond table. You mean Co Son, Linh Chi not against the will of Thien Thai, why? Because Thien Thai judges on the aspect of hierarchy, three levels and nine products are similar. The two great masters only consider the almond so the three levels only correspond to the middle and high-ranking. Each side has its own argument basis, so the doctrine is not the same. Therefore, their opinions are not contradictory. '   

Based on the Truth Truth, defilements are different from Bodhisattva, evil in the beginning does hindrance to the final good. Evil people have become good, then maybe not classified as holy. The three-tiered nine products really fit each other, do you doubt ” .  

His merciful viewpoint is weak legal because the policy of combining the two sutras with people like Thien Thai etc ... is to focus on the position after birth, regardless of the practice when he was a monk. ; monks like Linh Chi, etc., consider the two different sutras because they focus on practice when they practice, so they have to consider never generating Bodhicitta and good and evil deeds at peacetime. Therefore, [the two said that] the three Lower products in Quan Kinh do not correspond to the Lower said in this sutra.

In the above paragraph of Mr. Lien Tri, the last sentence: " Wickedness in the beginning does not obstruct the final goodness" is  very profound. If the wicked person dies, if they can repent and generate the mind and mind to recite the Buddha's mind, the wicked person will become a good person, so they will also receive the life of the Buddha, depending on his will to die. Therefore, the great master Lien Tri said:  "Maybe it is not going to be classified as a holy sage  ." Because of the above, we see that the three steps in this sutra and the nine items in the other sutra really correspond to each other no doubt.

The Book of An Luan newspaper also says:  "The upper level in this sutra corresponds to the monk, two ranks of the Chinese and the lower are corresponding to the layman." Because there are too many kinds of qualities, so only a general overview stated:  ' The three factions of the body' ( Generally there are three steps) . With these three levels, Quan Kinh also temporarily split into nine products. The sutras again stated the very best and the extreme flat to cover countless different almonds ” .

This comment is very good. In the Sutra Pitaka, the High Priest, within a snap of his fingers, immediately passed away, met the Buddha and heard the Dharma, immediately realized the Immaculate Conception, in the moment of coming to serve all the Buddhas, in turn received the memoir, and returned. our country, acquired countless hundred thousand da-ra-ni-ni. That is the most excellent (most dominant) of the three products.

The Lower One is the Five Dilemma, the Ten Evil When the hell general appears, regrets death, ten thoughts are born is extremely flat (lowest) in the Lower level.

The sutra mentioned the optimal class as well as the ultimate rank, so the new commentary says:  "Raising the highest rank and the extreme flat" . At first glance, it seems the two sutras are different, but in fact their intentions are similar.

Righteousness :

That the generation who rounded home abandoned desire and as the sand door. Hair Bodhisattva mention heart. A to specifically study Ah Mi Tuo Buddha. Xiu Zhu Gong Tak, willing students he country. This and other public life, pro life end , the A Mi Tuo Buddha, and all the holy congregation, now in its front. Was required Yu room, namely with Peter Buddha to life their country. Then to seven Bao Hua Zhong from natural                                                           Of Health, Chi Hui- Yong Meng God through self in. Is it A difficult, it has all the raw desire in this world see Ah Mi Tuo Buddha , should be made without the Bodhisattva mention of the heart. Complex when designed to read a very happy country soil. Product set of good roots, should be held back to. Of this see the Buddha, born Peter country , yielding not back turn, is to free the Bodhisattva mention.                                                         

Senior senior author, discharging the physical education of pediatric sa-mon, generating Bodhicitta, the most specialized direction of reciting Amitabha Buddha, cultivating the merits, aspiring to be born in the country. Test beings, forest life at the same time, Amitabha Buddha, evil gods, the present period. Business tu travel time, ie depending on the Buddha's birth, the national flag, convenient, natural, natural birth, powerful wisdom , self-in magic. Town of A Nan! Friendship sentient beings, sensuality of the world, Amitabha Buddha's fake views, but the Supreme Bodhi is paying attention. Recuperate specialized in reciting the extreme Lac Quoc, accumulate the good base, and maintain the dedication. Due to the test of the Buddha, the Chinese birth, the attainment of Real Life Transfer, the mind of Supreme Bodhi. 

The upper level is the class to leave home, leave education, become a monk, generate Bodhicitta, a surface specializing in reciting Amitabha Buddha, cultivate the merits of being born into the other realms. Those sentient beings at the end of their lifespan, Amitabha Buddha and their saints appeared before them. In the instant following the Buddha's birth to the other realm, spontaneously arisen in the seven-precious flower, powerful wisdom, self-contained divine powers.

A Nan! Therefore, if any sentient being wants in this life to see Amitabha Buddha, he must generate the mind of Supreme Bodhisattva, and should concentrate on the realm of Dewachen, the accumulated benevolence should bring dedication. Therefore, seeing the Buddha, born in the other realm, attained the Immortality Transformed into the Supreme Bodhi.

Prize :

Whether or not Phàm phu may take part in the one who passed away is a big problem in the Pure Land.

The ancient virtue has said that this is the Bodhisattva's virtue (as it is said that the High Priest must be a Bodhisattva from Four Land to Seven Land, and the High-Ruler must be from the Four Land of Bodhisattvas; If that is true, the noble can only attain from the Middle-Level Sanh downward!) If that is the case, then the noble aspiration of Buddha Amitabha, the miraculous Western lotus field, the easy and wonderful practice of naming French venerable births are all into commentary, making the magic of Tinh Tong can not think again into France can be thought of! Therefore, this is the essence of Tinh Tong; In the summary section of this glossary I have briefly discussed a few things but cannot fully express this point, so here I try to elaborate.

For the mistakes of the legend, we are fortunate to have the great Master Thien Dao from the Tang dynasty. He has led enough sutras to forcefully destroy the old doctrine. In the Four Noble Truths, the great master has commented as follows:

"Again, considering the section of Dinh Thien in the Quan Sutra and the meaning of the texts of the three levels of Upper, Middle and Lower, it is all after the Buddha's death, so that due to the difference in conditions, the Noble Truth of the Noble Truths is that there are nine different qualities. 

Why? The people of the three high-ranking products are ordinary people who meet the Mahayana conditions. One of the three Chinese products is the ordinary person who meets the Tieu Thua predestined relationship. The three of the Lower products are the evil sublime, creating negative karma, at death thanks to good friends, relying on the Buddha's aspirations, and being born; Until the other flowers bloom, they develop mind, not a newcomer to Mahayana  (ancient virtue says Ha is a newcomer to Mahayana).  If I understand like that, I am wrong, make others wrong, too damaging ! "   

In the commentary, he also quoted ten Quan Kinh passages to prove that theory, here I do not quote enough. Nine lotus products in the realm of Dewachen are all places for ordinary life to die, only because people meet with conditions such as Mahayana and other Hinayana, so after birth, they have upper, middle, lower levels disagree.

The Pure Land is the ultimate Dharma cut. If an ordinary person belonging to the Mahayana spirit can believe it will be fully enlightened and fully attained, it will exceed the common human life for a whole life (the basic person cuts one day to cultivate by doing one life). Therefore, they can in a lifetime of perfect blissfulness, righteousness, is righteous Highest.

Now with this sutra, I use other commentaries to prove that the three steps of birth are truly for divine beings and for saints:

* The Quality of the Noble Truth of Enlightenment (which becomes the Right Enlightenment) in this sutra has the following verses:  "Spirituality of all beings, immense brain, emanating beings with good roots, accomplishing Bodhicitta. Fallen into Chanh Giac, established Amitayus. Sentient beings test the effect, the sentence of hybridization, such as the Buddha's body, the perfect fullness of all beings. ”  (Causing those beings to be, the night is long without being mindful, the birth of the good roots, the attainment of Bodhi. I became Chanh Giac, set up the name Amitayus. All beings who heard that name were born in my country, the body is yellow like Buddha, and the magic general is full.

The first four sentences state the reason for the arising of the great aspiration: To let all sentient beings in the long dark night be free of the afflictions and suffering, the birth of the benediction of Bodhidharma. It is clear that he really wants to save all the afflicted beings who are full of afflictions in the long dark night, causing them to generate good roots.

The next four verses refer to the Dhamma he uses to spread the word:  "Beings of writing test the effect, the sentence of hybrid attā close the middle"  (Beings hear this title, are born in our country). Those beings are also living beings, still in the long night. Therefore, the new great Master Thien Dao said:  "The three-level nine products are all because the subordinates are five before the Buddha's death" .

The last two verses:  "Like the Buddha, the body of the golden body, the fullness of the form"  (The golden body like the Buddha, the miraculous form is full) shows that when the noble has born in the other realms, he will be able to obtain the golden feet. materiality, perfect fullness like Buddha.

Next, the sutra also says:  "Heron is of great compassion, benefits of the food, glass of education deeply mindful, pure wisdom and virtue"  (Also using great compassion, benefits of products. Ly education, mindfulness deep, pure wisdom and virtue), means: Those who die when flowers bloom, see Buddha, pure body and mind immediately, sharp wisdom, immeasurable compassion, self-awareness, enlightenment to attain Bodhidharma. This is due to the mighty godly power, the fullness of the aspiration, the clear, solid and final vow of Amitabha, that can make the ordinary people in the long night attain pure wisdom, body and mind like Buddha. Obviously, what is strange is that the noble person carrying the Mahayana mind in this realm has been born in high quality by the Buddha's family, and attained the Immaculate Conception? Right at the beginning of the prayer verse, the Dharma Bhikkhu said:  "Self of the supreme world (I am super-even); The above-mentioned things are supernatural, why bring the habits of the ten directions to discuss the dignity of the ultimate Bliss realm?

The Book of Amitayus Kinh Sao also said:  “He said clearly that the three-tier nine products are ordinary births, so he said: 'One is a noble birth, the other is great holy birth' . The word 'secondary school' is only three steps [of birth] ” .

Book Du Tam An Lac Dao also writes:  "Again, forty-eight vows first because of all the sublime law, then cum because of the three saints. Therefore, it is necessary to know the intention of the Pure Land, which is "capital is for ordinary people  , cum for saints" .

Moreover, right in the first sentence of this article, it is said:  "In the world, the devas of the people, the friendship of the world, the human beings will be willing to be born in the kingdom of the world " (In general, the devas, the people of the ten directions About the will of the other realms, there are three levels). Kinh says all three levels (three children) are just gods, people in the ten directions, never say they are Bodhisattva or Thanh Van. Thus, the three steps mentioned in this sutra are primarily aimed at the sublime, but in the sutras also refer to the saints as the Bodhisattva of the Birth of Bodhisattva says the Bodhisattva ranks in the ten directions of the world  . the theory of miracles, the same endless life "  (those who will be born; if only their name is mentioned, the whole life cannot end).

"Discharge family, gas education, pediatric sa-mon"  (Leaving home, leaving education, doing sa-subjects):  "Drain house"  is renunciation,  "work sa-subject"  is to become Sangha. Bhikkhu Sa Luan said:  “Home is a cause and condition. Leaving home is to destroy the implications, so you must leave [home] ” . Magician Huyen Uan also said:  “Leaving home to create evil is very difficult like a boat surfing on the ground; Making mistakes is  as  easy as a sailing boat floating on the sea. Again, ordination is as easy as a sailing boat on the sea; At home, it is difficult to practice blessings like a boat on land. But there are people who are not ordained, but some are not ordained . Now both body and mind have to leave home, so they say to leave home and leave sex ” .

The book of Amitayus Sutra Pitaka also says:  "All sentient beings are due to their thirst, and thus have illusory bodies. Due to illusory body should have the realm of water. Leaving home leaving sex, then  pure  thirst for love, so the water realm is also pure. The Great Prajñā Sutta says: 'The Bodhisattva Ma Ha Slapping is willing to travel to the Buddhas of the country, but to renounce his life' ([If] Bodhisattva Ma Ha Tat has a desire for himself to reach the Buddha kingdoms. must renunciate almond at home). Thus, renunciation is the Chief of the Pure Land because of insecurity " .

In the book Du Tam An Lac Dao, the great master Hai Dong Nguyen Understanding the Tang dynasty wrote:

"The Amitayus Sutra refers to the human [birth] of the three levels. The upper level consists of five sentences:

- One is 'leaving the house and leaving sex to become a monk'. This sentence specifies the means of generating righteousness.

- The second is 'generating bodhicitta', which is the righteous cause.

- Three is "specializing in reciting the other Buddha". That is the practice of Quan.

- Four is "doing the merits", it is the initiation. Contemplation and Hanh to help achieve the fullness  of karma.

- The year is the 'aspiration to be born in the other world'. This is the aspiration, the four things above are virtue. New harmony can be born ”.

In the above section, Khoi Tin Luan has ordained as the chief cause of the Pure Land, Nguyen Hieu considers renunciation only as a means to generate righteous people. The two theories are slightly different, but judging from the theory of Mr. Nguyen Hieu, it is okay and more appropriate!

Considering the Quan Kinh, in all three products, you do not see that you have to leave home; Particularly in the section of High-Grade Thuong Sanh, there is a saying  "practice the gods"  (practice of the precepts), Trung Sanh said:  "The most deficient in the world of Sa Di Gioi, the most weakest in the world. " (If one day and night observing the monastic precepts, or one day and one night observing the Precepts) In all nine products of that sutra, only two products above are clearly stated as renunciation. Particularly this is different, in the Upper level is said to be ordained, in the Chinese level it says  "incapable of working sa-subjects" (can not practice sa-mon). That is because sentient beings have immeasurable conditions and conditions, their spiritual practice is also different from each other, each person is different, no one is the same. I stole thought: The sutras divide the dignities only briefly to explain the hierarchy; This is just depending on the disease for the medicine, depending on the theory of the sermon, so we should not be one-sided, attached to the writing. I stole guess that in the Amitayus conference, Mr. A Nan was the chance, there were ten thousand two thousand great bhikkhus, five hundred monks and nuns present. Such great virtues are worth participating in the rank of birth.

Besides, this sutta is the first sutra of the Pure Land, so the teachings in this sutta are the righteous rule: The monk who is ordained to be a superior is a normal thing, so the Buddha follows conditions That said, the person who passed away in the Upper order is the renunciant, leaving education, practicing the sa-subject.

The sutra is different from this sutra: The opportunity in that conference is Vy De Hy lady, Ananda and Muc Lien just standing on either side of the Buddha; Like, Pham the gods stood on the rain of flowers [offering]. In the assembly, there are only two A Nan and Muc Lien who are great monk-stilts appearing, no other monastic steps. In the conference, the one who listens to the Dharma and is born of the upper class are mainly lay people like Vy De Hy lady, etc., so the Buddha, according to that predestined relationship, does not talk about renunciation in the teaching about the High Priest. birth.

The Sutra also teaches:  "Vy De Hy data of the five encyclopedia, Buddhist literature, the instantaneous view of the Supreme Bliss in the world of chi generals square, attaining the Buddha body updating the Bodhisattva, joyful birth mind, admiration Friends, great treatment, treatment Vo Sanh Forbearance. Five female department stores, born A Nau Da La Tam Mieu Tam Bo Mind, aspires to be born in the country. The Ton all signed, the period of birth. Born in the country, planning to obtain the Buddhas of Tien Tam-muoi, immeasurable gods, emitting Supreme Path Mind " (Vy De Hy and the five hundred maidservants listened to the Buddha's teachings, immediately saw the vast form of the Great Bliss world, saw the Buddha body and the body of the two Bodhisattvas, the mind was born joyfully, praised that there was no one, of course, enlightenment, attaining Unborn Forbearance, Five hundred maidservants develop the mind of Supreme Righteousness and Enlightenment, aspiring to be born in the other realm, the Buddha will sign them, they will all be born. Money tam-mu. Immeasurable devas emanating Supreme Dao Mind).

We see clearly, in the Quan Kinh legal assembly, the full capacity is the Mahayana atmosphere, all of which are at home. Such people are certainly unborn in the upper class.

Besides, Vy De Hy, the woman who attained the Immaculate Conception in the present life, must belong to the High Sanhedrin in the realm of Dewachen. Vy De Hy, who is a home woman, has attained the dharma ring right in the present life, High Priest died; sufficient evidence.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/10/2020.