Sunday, March 21, 2021
THE BUDDHA'S TEACHING AND TEACHING ABOUT THE WEST OF GREAT BLISS.
In the sutras there is a story happened that hurt everyone while the Buddha was still alive. A person because of being too greedy, brutal, and regardless of father and son love, is Prince A Xa The when he was fascinated by the disciple De Ba Dat Da. The revealing of the throne was unsuccessful. Father Tan Ba Sa La, instead of killing the rebellious son, abdicated the throne, ceding the throne to the crown prince.
He did so so that the prince would not be guilty of usurping the throne, but because of his aggressive, brutal nature, the prince responded to that sentiment by ordering his father to be locked up in a dungeon, after officially ascending the throne.
He forbade anyone from bringing food in, except Queen Vi De Hy, his mother, was allowed to visit. Because she was afraid of her husband dying of starvation, she tried all kinds of ways to hide the food brought into the prison, but she was discovered by King Ashoka. She was very miserable because she had a child that was cruel and cruel, so she took a bath and washed it with buttermilk on her body, but she was also discovered.
Even more cruel, A Xa Thế let her go to cut the skin of her father's feet and then put salt on it, and set the fire to death in a grief and grief. When death was slowly tormenting his father in a dungeon, at that moment the first child of King Arahant was born, he hurriedly ran to find his mother to confide with affection!
Dear mother, I have just received the news that the infant is born, my heart is now filled with infinite love, an overwhelming emotion I have never known. Mother, right now I love you more than myself, I wonder if you loved me like that in the past?
Hearing this, the mother Vi De Hy choked, angry, "Why did you ask me that? I am sure no one in this world is as rich in kindness as your father was when he was in office. My father and son just heard the news that you were pregnant, was overjoyed, leading to forgetting to eat and sleep to take care of the mother. Then the mother suddenly craved the blood of my father but did not dare say it out of fear of him being sad. Seeing mother increasingly pale, thin, and thin, father and son find ways to comfort and comfort. I just confessed to my father and son like that. My father immediately blamed me for not saying so early. After saying that, Father cut his hand to let her taste the blood, and since then she has been eating and drinking normally. Because of that omen, the prophets surmise that the son may later kill his father to usurp the throne, so he named his son A Xa The, or "Enemies in the womb". Hearing this, the mother was extremely scared so she intended to have an abortion but the father and son refused,
King A Xa The heard here in his heart, feeling choked and touched, two tears welling up in the corner of his eyes, he sat stiffly like a man who lost his soul.
Queen Vi De Hy just continued: You know, when I was a child, I had pimples in my fingers that could not stand it, I screamed so much that my father could not bear it.
I was having a meeting with courtiers, but my father and I rushed to go to the palace to embrace my child, put his fingers in his mouth to help me relieve pain and sleep well. I wonder if the pimple was broken, causing blood and pus to flow, afraid my son would wake up, so my father swallowed it all. Upon hearing this, King A Xa The panicked and cried out in panic, "Where are the troops now, where are the troops now, hurry and release my father immediately!" King A Xa The shouted, running like a lost soul to find the dungeon, but when he arrived, King Qin Ba Sa La died a long time ago.
Oh father died, two hours of sadness.
Time of repentance, it is too late.
Oh earthly, where are you looking for your father?
When being a father, you love fatherly love.
That's what life is like! When human selfishness and greed arise, reason and conscience are dulled. Having been forgiven by the father of the father because he thought he was still immature and ready to give up the throne, yet the son was still stubborn, rebellious, did not understand the morality of morality, so he tortured the father to death.
Yet, King Tan Ba Sa La, after his death, still returned to dream of his filial son who was born Thien, so he told his children to rest assured and not to grieve any more. King Qin Ba Sa La is truly a benevolent, virtuous father unique in this world.
A few years earlier, Prince Si Dat Ta passed the monkhood to pray for religion, and heard that King Xa, Kieu Tat La country was a place with a high spiritual life, so he came to this country to learn enlightenment and solve the problem. exit.
King Qin Ba Sa La heard the new news to meet the crown prince. He was willing to divide the mountain to help the people settle down. The Prince, who did not care about fame and prestige, said, "I have given up all the golden palaces, beautiful wife and beautiful children to go out to seek the truth and wish for the attainment of bodhicitta, to save all sentient beings, please sympathize and forgive me ".
Knowing that the crown prince could not be persuaded, King Qin Ba Sa La said, "When you become enlightened, please remember me and my family!" After becoming enlightened under the Bodhi tree, Buddha first leveled 5 brothers Kieu Trần Như, followed by him to degree 3 brothers Ca Lettuce, then he returned to the citadel of King Tan Ba Sa La and his relatives.
Since King Tan Ba Sa La received the teachings of Tathagata, he was no longer eager to serve the court, but only because the crown prince was too young. Knowing that A Xa The wishingly wanted to usurp the throne he did not feel sad.
Reading the history, we rarely see a king like that, with rich and precious flowers touching before his eyes, but he still does not indulge, only considers the throne as torn sandals, a true devotion, no sorrow, lamentation. something. We have nothing to let go of but stick with it all the time, what a shame for the post-graduate ranks!
Family education is an important foundation for outreach to the social community. Parents are their children's first teachers ever since. The mother is very sick, the father will worship, nurture, and hope that the children will grow up to continue to inherit the good traditions of the family.
King A Xa So, because he was too greedy and brutal, had to brutally kill his father, until his first son in life did not know how to cherish his father and son's love; Although it is very repentant, regretting it is too late, being a father will love fatherly love and sympathize with his parents' feelings for their children.
And father with red heels like a son
Until father dies, your heels are black.
If King A Xa The did not have a moment of foolish delusion, now would not be as happy, when having a father who is the emperor to guide him with valuable experiences for the benefit of the people, less wasted time. strength.
The above story teaches a life-long lesson about how to behave in accordance with the morality of a son to a parent, if the impeachment of sin, there is no more serious crime than murder of the father, even though he is tortured for life. Life has not been washed.
That is why King A Xa The was always tormented when he remembered that his father was slowly dying in prison. In his grief and grief, retribution occurred, filling his entire body with scabies.
The famous physicians across the country were moved to receive treatment, but they all gave up and said hello to defeat. In a seemingly desperate feeling, he lamented to Mrs. Vi De Hy, “I am all miserable, gentle and virtuous father, but I have no choice but to kill. I have heard that the crime of killing father is one of the 5 great sins that will go to hell and suffer many continuous sufferings… ”; Because he thought so, King A Xa The was always sad and sad because of his obsession with killing his father.
After relying on the curator Ky Bà advised, "Your Majesty's illnesses only the Buddha can be saved. I commit to ensure this with my life The Buddha is a fully liberated enlightened being, he is always compassionate, compassionate, and generous. Your Majesty should listen to your Majesty, you must come to the Buddha for help tonight. "
The King was too afraid to say, "Ky Bà, are you crazy?" Do you not remember, when I used to lend a drunken elephant De Da Da to kill Buddha, do we still have any face and face to ask him for treatment? Buddha cannot forgive me. "
Ky Ba said: “It's okay, you can rest assured, you are the one-of-a-kind fully enlightened person in this world, so you conquered the three most famous Ca Lettuce brothers into Vuong Xa, Even the two houses of Brahmin-wise, such as Xa Loi Phat and Muc Kien Lien, also surrendered to his disciples. As ferocious as the bandit general, Khuong Quat Ma La, once disturbed the country of Kiều Tát La, once killed thousands of people without disgust but now also takes refuge in the Buddha's head ”.
King A Xa The asked: "Did the killer cut his finger and make a string to wear it?" “I want your Majesty, that's true! The same cruel name as the Demonic Bodhisattva also asked the Buddha to regain his admiration.
That very night, the king and Ky Ba went to Ky Vien pagoda.
King A Xa The heard the Buddha's words was touched and admired by his merciful heart, indeed the mandarin's words were not wrong, thinking that it took a long time for the king to regain his composure and confess, "You are the king. A Xa The ruled the country Ma Kiet Da became Vuong Xa, I mistakenly killed a very gentle and virtuous father, so today, my body and mind are in extreme suffering. I sincerely hope the Buddha opens a generous amount of compassion and compassion to help me overcome sin. Since the father's death, I have not had a moment of relaxation, I always see the figure of the father, crying bitterly ".
Buddha said: "This great king should know, in the world there are 2 types of people who can achieve true happiness. The first class, from small to large, has never done evil, or helped save people. The second class of people who once committed sins can repent and repent, promised not to do so again. Both have equal capacity for enlightenment. "
"King A Xa The just confessed, but I committed the crime of killing my father." “True, cause and effect are not wrong, the wind will reap storms, kill people must pay for their lives, cause and effect are always fair when there are enough conditions to bring results. But by saying that, accidentally everything becomes fixed, no one can cultivate in this world, so evil people will be evil forever, unable to renew themselves. If the great king has regrets and guilt, in the end, he can do nothing but make this body and mind suffer. "
"So how can the Blessed One help me to repent of my mistakes?"
"The dead man can never be raised again, if the king is still sad and compassionate, it will not be of any benefit, if at present he makes a vow to repent, decisively not to do evil but or to do things. good, help people settle down, settle down, stabilize a long life, always love, support, and help people in the spirit of selflessness, selflessness, love transforms hatred, always compassion, degree quality, tolerance and forgiveness ”.
After being introduced by the Buddha, King A Xa The was calm, rested, no longer sorrowful and immediately took up a vow to take refuge in the Three Jewels, taking refuge in the three jewels of Buddha-Dharma-Sangha, eternal and eternal. people who keep 5 virtues and do 10 good deeds.
King A Xa The, since receiving the teachings of the Tathagata, became open-minded, determined to rebuild the life taught by the Buddha, with love to eliminate hatred, to build a strong spiritual life. compassionate-happy-discharge, treating subjects as their own children.
Thanks to that, during the reign of King A Xa The, unexpected things were done. A rebellious, rebellious king changed his mind from meeting the Buddha, from being a man who killed his father to usurp the throne to a benevolent, virtuous king guiding everyone to live according to the Buddha's teachings. the spirit of solidarity, love and mutual help.
The A Xa The Sutras are a profound philosophy of humanity that the Blessed One has cultivated for kings and queens in the feudal era. Many kings turned to the Three Jewels such as King Tan Ba Sa La, King of Persia Nac and who once conspired with De Ba Dat Da to harm Buddha to dominate the world. However, the Buddha still opened his hand to allow King A Xa The because the Blessed One did not see who was an enemy, but only someone who did not sympathize.
In the discourse there are two sides that our post-graduate students are interested in and contemplate, the main character whom the Buddha wanted to transform the criminal who killed his father was King Arahant in this life, with practical actions. benefits for yourself and many others.
The supporting character is Ms. Vi De Hy who can inherit the ultimate grace whatever she wants as the Empress Dowager. On the contrary, she was in great pain when King Qin Ba Sa La, her husband, was imprisoned in a dungeon by his rebellious son and not given food or drink to gradually wear out physically and mentally.
She tried all kinds of ways to bring food to her husband, but she was discovered and strictly forbidden by A Xa The. Standing in her situation in the present moment, she feels extremely suffering, it is because of this suffering that she gave rise to the thought that in this world is there any realm where there is never suffering?
Buddha knew her mind, so it was a means to help her reduce suffering by saying that there was a realm of Bliss owned by Amitabha Buddha with seven solemn newspapers, which were all of the virtuous and benevolent people, so she lessened suffering. to be happy in the present life.
Ms. Vi De Hy is a queen with full servants, whatever people want is where everyone wants. Yet, her life fell into miserable circumstances, it was miserable by the brutal, brutal greed. Her body lived in the golden palace, but her mind was extremely painful and desperate, the pain of pain for her husband because of being tortured by a dead child in every moment. The person who made her suffer so much was the only son she gave birth to, she felt lost in the mood of King A Xa The in the process of writing and practicing the five precepts, the ten good things for her. and others Buddhism teaches true spiritual practitioners starting from literature, privacy and practice, called the three school. Literature means learning from books or listening to the teachers who are listening to the teachings to learn. We listen to the teaching about cause and effect, when we study,
When we listen, we must have an open attitude, must be mindful to have a clear understanding and want to practice those instructions, thus called the listener. And if we listen only to talk rather than lose, listen to criticize, criticize others, hearing like that only contains more knowledge that gives rise to self-pity and finds ourselves better than the rest of the world.
Self means contemplating, contemplating, examining things that you are reread from scriptures or learning from the teachings of teachers. Buddha teaches when we hear something, even if it comes from a famous guru we must consider, think, analyze thoroughly, know the purpose clearly, then I have just started cultivating.
When we hear and think about it, it is as if we have planted the seeds of wisdom in our hearts, and we begin to practice that seed of wisdom to let go of greed, anger and delusion.
If, after hearing it, there is no practice, then listening is of no use at all, because after all, we just listen to it. In the process of writing, writing, and practice on the path of transforming suffering caused by wrong knowledge that causes many sins for oneself and others.
Thanks to the literary, personal and spiritual process, we can clearly see the cause of the endless suffering of samsara, due to the delusion of craving and the ego-clinging of this body and mind. From there, we will think, speak and act without hurting people and things.
When listening to the Buddha's teachings, he knew how to think, examined those teachings and sincerely repented, turned to the Three Jewels with his sincerity, but took up his vow to live a virtuous life and help the people. they settle down with ten good karma.
The main purpose of the scriptures is to educate the cause and effect for people to have enough faith by their own understanding, through literary methods, thinking, listening and meditating and applying the practice to get rid of disturbing emotions. brain suffering.
Thanks to that, the Buddha was able to obtain King A Xa The, first by listening to the advice of Ky Ba to persuade the Blessed One, then by his instruction, who later became the Buddhist king. There are many great contributions to the propaganda of the Dharma "Good religion, good life".
He was the first king to stand up and maintain the first collection of Buddhist scriptures on Mount Ky Xa Quat. After the Buddha's completion, he stood out to divide the relics of Buddha among the eight countries.
Read old stories for us to ponder together! A ferocious, cruel king if he did not meet the Buddha, so many mishaps happened to the people of Kieu Tat La country.
Usually, violent kings are talented. If they know how to use their talents in the right place and at the right place, they will help all people to live happily and happily with human love in life. If used wrongly, people will suffer because of dreams of expanding hegemony, annexing invasions, expanding realms, causing mourning and suffering for many people.
King A Xa The was a talented king. Through the transformation of the Buddha, he realized his mistakes, repented, repented, renewed himself, and redone his life. By doing practical works, he has helped people to settle down in the spirit of the Buddha's teaching, to know the direction of the Three Jewels, to preserve the 5 moral things for the whole life, to live exemplary life, to sacrifice for everyone, to take the joy of heaven. make fun of yourself.
The king often advised people to minimize the killing of sentient beings and or to free life and save the savior, always live honestly, not use his powers to exploit others or rob others of others, recommend almsgiving. apparently, respectfully nurturing grandparents, parents and elders, helping to share when meeting unhappy people, not supporting my husband-in-law's opinion, advising everyone to be faithful as monogamous, not speaking lie to people and always speak honestly, do not use alcohol to drink or play excessively but harm people's life.
Thanks to the acceptance of the teachings of the Tathagata, a lifetime helps people settle in peace and karma according to the Buddha-taught spirit, unite, love and help each other for the benefit of sentient beings with human love in life.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/3/2021.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
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