What is the Three Seals of Dharma?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH. Impermanence, suffering and egolessness are the three legal marks used to seal and certify the authenticity of the Dharma. All the teachings of Buddhism, inevitably must carry the dharma seals, if one of them is missing, it is definitely not Dharma, the Buddha's teaching. Because of this important property that the Three Seals are always mentioned in most of the sutras, from the Sutras of the South to the North transmission. Hey Ràhula, eyes, ears…; color, bar ...; Are matter, feeling ... and consciousness are impermanent or impermanent? Is impermanent, white World Religion (impermanence). What is impermanent is suffering or joy? Is suffering, white World Religion (Suffering). What is impermanent, miserable, subject to perversion, is it reasonable to consider this: This is mine, this is me, this is my self? No, white The Ton (No-self). Impermanence, suffering and egolessness are the three legal marks used to seal and certify the authenticity of the Dharma. All the teachings of Buddhism, inevitably must carry the dharma seals, if one of them is missing, it is definitely not Dharma, the Buddha's teaching. The three imprints of impermanence, suffering and selflessness of the Buddhist teachings are always the model and measure to ensure that all Buddhist thoughts, speeches, interpretations, and practices are in the correct Dharma. In addition, the Buddha also taught about the Four Seals of Impermanence, suffering, non-self and Nirvana or impermanence, suffering, non-self and emptiness (the Sutra of the Sangha). However, it is just the expansion and expansion of the non-self element of the Three Seals. Because, Nirvana is just another name for anattā and emptiness is another way of looking at dependent origination. The dhammas are created by conditions and conditions, so they are selfless. Therefore, impermanence, suffering and non-self can be considered as a standard, general determinant of the Three Seals and the Four Seals. Dharma seal first: impermanent The first dharma seal is impermanent. Impermanence , in Sanskrit Anitya, means transformation, change, uncertainty. All things and phenomena in the world are impermanent. In other words, things are never stationary or unchanging in nature, but always in motion, in motion. From the mountain, the great geography to the trees, the dust, and the human body and mind are always changing, never fixed and subject to the impact of impermanence. Not only in the physical world but also in the world of consciousness, impermanence is always present. Man, according to Buddhism, is a union of the five aggregates. In it, the material body part of the four elements (rupa) belongs to Rupa and the spiritual part includes feeling, perception, thinking and perception belong to Name. These five aggregates or nama-rupa are always in a state of change like a river that flows ceaselessly in human life. Things never stand still or are in constant uniformity but are always in motion and movement. The human body if you look deeply into the essence, it is just a transfer station of the four elements. The country that winds and fire from outside enters the body, then comes out again and the circle circulates endlessly. Thanks to that operation, this body is nourished, grows, grows old, and then returns it to the four elements. Therefore, when the four elements are out of balance, illness occurs and when the flow of the four elements stops, death strikes. In this process, humans can only partially control, and most of them lose control. Therefore, the life and death story, the loss, the absence of this body is like a breeze, the clouds flying. About human psychology, too, psychological states are always changing, changing every moment. The human mind with thousands of ideas flowed out, flowing like a flood. All happiness, sadness, hatred, forgiveness or hatred, etc., always arise and function in the mind. However, we need to thank impermanence. For in fact, without impermanence, there would be no life and no development. If the rice grain is normal, it never germinates to become the rice plant that produces white rice grains. If things were not impermanent, mankind's evolutionary history would not develop. If the body is not impermanent, then man cannot grow up. And without the action of impermanence, we would never have the hope of transforming, cessation of the afflictive qi episodes hidden deep within us. The teachings of impermanence bring insight, correct realization of the nature of the dhammas and bring faith to all human transformation, creation and development efforts. Therefore, impermanence is a seal of the Dharma; teachings that do not have the character of this seal are not Buddhadharma. Human consciousness with thousands of ideas overflowing, flowing like a flood. All happiness, sadness, hatred, forgiveness or hatred, etc., always arise and function in the mind. Dharma seal second: Suffering Suffering , according to Chinese characters, means bitter, that is, all suffering in life contains a lot of bitterness ... In Pāli language, suffering is Dukkha, in addition to the meaning of suffering, pressing, annoying, or heat. meaning of imperfection; the world is empty, contemptuous, not worth clinging to (Narada, Buddha and Buddha Dharma, p.88). Suffering is very common in human life, often presented through eight aspects: birth is suffering . Old is miserable. Disease is suffering. Death is misery. Having to live with someone you don't like is suffering. Having to leave loved ones is suffering. May not be miserable. It is the five aggregates that are suffering. The truth about this suffering was told by the Buddha to five disciples in the first discourse (the Zhuan Falun) at the Deer Park. Suffering is also divided into three categories: suffering, suffering and suffering. Sufferingsuffering means unpleasant feelings, of suffering. Feelings of suffering, pain in the body, and mental and physiological disturbances are all suffering, the first type of suffering. Misery means change, transformation, destruction create suffering. In other words, the change from one state to another, the bad tendency deterioration in the mind-biological-physical mechanism of the person brings insecurity, suffering is suffering. The practice of suffering means all conditions created by conditions are impermanent, arising and passing away every moment, thus creating suffering. The human body, the world, the life situation, and the psychological states of the person as mentioned are all conditioned and subject to the impact of impermanence. Impermanence, change leads to suffering. So in the acts, all phenomena contain the seeds of suffering, called suffering. Suffering is very common in human life, often presented through eight aspects: birth is suffering. Old is miserable. Disease is suffering. Death is misery. Having to live with someone you don't like is suffering. Having to leave loved ones is painful ... However, all suffering comes from inner turmoil and is rooted in ignorance and craving. Although impermanence is the root cause of all suffering in life, the main cause of suffering lies in the positive or negative perception and attitude of human life. Things are always changing impermanently that we think and wish they would, often, last forever. It is wrong perception, for what is impermanent is impermanent, so all suffering arises. It is necessary to recognize suffering in order to accept at the same time find the cause and the method to cease suffering. Thus, suffering is the first truth of the Four Noble Truths. Just a complete realization of suffering will reveal other truths. Therefore, it is necessary to be contemplated, constantly aware of suffering in the reality of life and also in consciousness. We can only cure a disease when we are conscious that we are sick. Likewise, people who want to get rid of suffering in life must first admit that we are constantly under the influence of suffering. It is the illusion of life that is happiness, bound in easy material life, people cannot rise above to aim for liberation and tranquility. It takes the courage to look directly at suffering to deal with, that is the basic understanding, the practice motto throughout the entire Buddhist ideology. The basis of the Buddhist scriptures is still not beyond suffering and the way to cease suffering. Therefore, suffering is a mark of the Dharma. All suffering comes from inner turmoil and is rooted in ignorance and craving. The third French seal: No-self Anatta (Anatma) is a specific teaching of Buddhism. This teaching is the result of a profound observation of the principle of dependent origination. With impermanence, we see the movement in the self of things and the whole. If we look more deeply through the prism of dependent origination, in addition to the movement, the nature of things is always heterogeneous. Each thing, phenomenon is created by conditions and conditions, which interact with each other, so there is absolutely no subjectivity, identity, and immutability in it. Therefore, the Buddha taught: "The dhammas of anatta ". When we see a falling yellow leaf, normally we only know it is a golden leaf, but if we look deeply, in the other leaf there are earth minerals, sunlight, water from the clouds, wind of the sky… and a little fluster of human hearts. Thus, the other leaf is made up of non-leaf elements, in which there is all the universe. From the green leaf, over time to the yellow leaf, it is the impermanent movement, but whether the leaf is green or yellow, in their nature, it is by non-leaf elements (dependent origination). the capital of anatta Human beings too, are the union of the five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness. Even in the second discourse at Deer Park, the Buddha taught the selflessness of the body of the five aggregates: “Hey, monks, this materiality (the body) is non-self . Monks, if there is such a self, materiality should not suffer and we can dictate "must be like this or must be like that". But since rupa has no self, this rupa is subject to suffering and there is no case of (dictating) "this rupa must be like this or this rupa must be like that". Feelings, perception, formations and consciousness are the same (sutra) In the Mahayana sutras, the meditation on the five aggregates is also emptiness is also one of the key teachings "materiality is emptiness, emptiness is rupa; feeling, perception, action and consciousness are the same ”(Bat Nha Tam Kinh). When we see a falling yellow leaf, normally we only know it is a golden leaf, but if we look deeply, in the other leaf there are earth minerals, sunlight, water from the clouds, wind of the sky… and a little fluster of human hearts. The nature of the five aggregates is no, no subject, no- self . However, because of the human karma, human beings always mistakenly accept these five aggregates as a single being, with an eternal, unchanging, unchanging "soul". Out of ignorance about such a false "self, I", people easily generate a mentality of greed, indulgence, embrace, conservative and clinging to what belongs to the five aggregates (mine). However, all phenomena always arise and fall away, changing in each moment. The birth and destruction of the five aggregates are the result of the conditions and the process of birth, aging, disease or death, or the formation, existence-change, destruction, destruction is always a truth for all human beings. , all species and all things. Because we are not aware of the egolessness of all things (ignorance), grasping, craving arises and that is also the source of all wrong views and suffering. The dharmapala of anatta not only confirms the legal nature of the Dharma but also has the specificity of the Buddhist teachings. Because of that, No-self is the third legal seal in the Three Seals.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/4/2021.