Everyone is capable of enlightenment.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH. True enlightenment is within each person and nowhere else; And whoever has a mind means a Buddha, has the ability to become enlightened to transform confusion. If you understand, then have full confidence to practice and don't need to go to see if you can practice or not? All sentient beings have Buddha nature, this is the truth that is equal to all. From time immemorial and ever since, whether Buddha was born or not, this truth has not changed. In the Great Parinirvana Sutra, the Lion Roaring Bodhisattva, the Buddha once roared the lion's voice, free from fear: "All sentient beings have Buddha-nature, the Tathagata always abides without change". And He said in the crowd: "You must also speak loudly, so loudly that all may be heard." That is, the Buddha clearly defined that everyone from the past up to now has the true and clear Buddha-nature, and the Tathagata always remains unchanged. So why did Buddha enter Nirvana? That is, the Buddha manifests and transforms sentient beings, and the real Buddha or Tathagata dharmakaya is permanent and unchanged. This is to destroy the wrong delusions and attachments of sentient beings, to wake everyone up and have full confidence to live up in the light of right enlightenment. It means that all sentient beings have Buddha nature, all have clear awareness, but because they are confused and do not realize, living according to sentient beings causes suffering. While clear awareness is the true source of oneself and each person has enough that they have never lost without realizing it to live, living with this suddenness is always nervous and afraid of losing. Because of living with this body, this body is a body with a temporary relationship, and when it dissolves, it becomes empty. That's why we are always nervous and afraid that it will lose it and die, but this truth is forgotten, while this is the latent power to promote enlightenment for each person. To have awareness means to have a power that always drives people to enlightenment. Today, everyone sitting here is also because of the urge to seek enlightenment, otherwise, they would not be sitting here. That implicitly indicates our origin is not this deluded being. And even though we are in this confused and ignorant sentient being, our buddha nature is not lost. That is the special point. That inspires everyone to have the confidence to rise up, not to bow down to accept or surrender to the delusional ignorance. Because we have a special that this ignorance is not our source, so we cannot surrender to it. That is, we do not commit to being sentient beings forever, do not accept being dark ordinary people forever. We need to tap into that source of insight in order to live back to our true nature. There is a story about Zen Master Hui Lang, when he was still studying, he asked Venerable Thach Dau: "What is Buddha?", Mr. Thach Tou said: "You have no Buddha nature." The Master was surprised because in the sutra it says that all sentient beings have Buddha nature, why did the Venerable Master say there is no Buddha nature? So the Master asked again: "What about the cows that fly and move?", that is, the birds that fly in the sky or the small insects that move but still have a spirit, what about those species? Mr. Thach Tou replied, "Those species have Buddha nature." The Master asked, "Those species all have Buddha-nature, so why doesn't this Hui Lang have one?" Mr. Thach Dau replied: "Because you refuse to accept". At that moment, the Master awakened and gained faith in him. Here, Mr. Thach Dau cleverly awakened Zen Master Hue Lang to believe in returning to the Buddha-nature available in himself, so when asked what is a Buddha? He said that he did not have Buddha nature. To say there is no, is it completely fixed that there is no? Saying no is a clever way, a clever means to awaken the Master to the question that all sentient beings have Buddha nature, why can't you alone? It is that question that delves into the true meaning. For example, if the question is not deep enough, when answering the questioner, you will not understand it deeply, but here the Venerable makes the Master wonder, thanks to the question, it should be imprinted, so when listening to the answer to the following question, he will deeply understand the problem. . Thus, Venerable Thach Tou does not have to completely deny that there is nothing. So when asked again, are animals like flying cows or not? Mr. Thach Tou said yes, then Hue Lang wondered why I didn't? Then Mr. Thach Tou said it was because he refused to accept it. That is, if you do not accept it, it is also like no. Hue Lang immediately awakened. That is the skill of the meditator. We study the way to achieve their will, should not be attached to language. Because in the world, beings mistakenly think that what they say is the truth, and then they cling to the words. In Taoism, it is only for everyone to understand that language has no real nature. For example, saying no is not necessarily no, saying yes is not necessarily yes, because the language you want to say is fine, if you cling to the language, you will be deceived by the language. Like there's someone named Nguyen Thi Bach Tuyet, so are you sure that person is as white as snow? That's just the name. Sometimes there are meaningful names, sometimes there are names without meaning, so language is empty words without real nature, Buddhists call it emptiness, so we should not get stuck in language. The Buddha clearly understood this, so for those who were attached to yes, the Buddha said no; and for those who accept no, the Buddha said yes to break the attachment. Thus, when we say yes, it is not fixed as yes, when we say no, it is not fixed as no, we must understand the meaning of the Buddha, the Patriarch, must reach the intention in it, to be a good person to study the Way. Here when the Venerable said that he did not have Buddha nature, he did not mean that he did not have it at all, but what he meant was to suggest to the questioner; When he asks questions, he will only point out the truth, and the questioner will receive it deeply. Therefore, the practitioner must understand these ideas so as not to get stuck in the language, otherwise it is easy to get stuck and be deceived. A monk came to ask Zen Master Duy Nghiem in Duoc Son: "When the Patriarch has not come to this country, does this country have the intention of the Patriarch?". The patriarch instructed Bodhidharma to go to China to propagate Zen Buddhism. That is, when the Patriarch did not come to China, did China have the Patriarch's intention? Zen master Duy Nghiem replied: "Yes". The monk further asked, "Since the Master's intention is already in place, what is he still here for?" Answer: "Because there is a reason to come". The Patriarch's intention here is to implicitly show the truth of enlightenment that each person has available in his or her own, when the Patriarch has not come, everyone has it, but because he is ignorant, he comes to remind and awaken each people who remember back what they have but forget; not He gives us more enlightenment or something else. Because he forgot, so he came to mention it, so that we can be enlightened, but if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to do anything. Here, he also wants to implicitly show everyone that this great thing or truth is available, when the Patriarch has not come, everyone in this country also has it but doesn't know it, so the new Patriarch comes to show that if he doesn't have it, even if he doesn't have it, No matter how much I teach, I don't get it. So here, Mr. Duoc Son replied: "Because there is, so come". Then each person has that and doesn't know it, so the Patriarch comes to show each person that truth. Everyone has a rare and great job but they don't know how to exploit it, so the Patriarchs or Zen masters cleverly explain it to everyone. That is the duty of the teacher, but the basic thing is that each person must admit it, but no one can take the place of anyone else. There can only be this and that way for each person to realize, and enlightened or not, each person must self-enlightenment, that is the truth. Try it, such a big and important thing that we don't know how to exploit, and worry about exploiting other things, but this truth is something worth exploiting but ignoring. By exploiting this truth, each person can transform the deluded sentient being, transform the afflictions of ignorance, and transform his or her suffering life. Another special point is, we will realize a good truth that people have no end of life, and then live with that person, will it be fun? Or people like to live with this person with a lifespan of five or seventy years, twenty or thirty years. Living with this person is always suspenseful not knowing when it will die! Compare which one is more fun! Living with what is never lost and what is always suspenseful not knowing when to lose, which one will we choose? Being a wise person must know how to choose the right path. In the world many people are also proud to be wisdom, but for the Buddha Dharma, sometimes it is not. This is to say that a wise person follows the Buddhadharma, that is, according to the Buddha's teaching, this wise person must know what is important and what is not important to choose the right Dharma. Whoever has a mind has a Buddha Having a mind means knowing, not like a tree like a stone. But it is because of knowing that there is a passion. The stone tree is not in love, but it is only because you know that you are in love. Why love? Knowing what is wrong is not true, so it is called delusion. And then it is because of knowing that there is enlightenment. That is, knowing your mistakes, knowing that it is delusion is enlightenment, and that is turning delusion into enlightenment. There is delusion to have enlightenment, so whoever has a mind has a Buddha. Delusion is the mind that is deluded and then enlightenment is also consciousness, but it is not possible outside of the mind to have delusion and enlightenment. But now where do most Buddhists find enlightenment? Few people search in the mind, but in the scriptures and then analyze this and that sutra to find enlightenment; or someone who is a little better goes to the temple to find enlightenment; There's still quite a bit more, then look on the bodhisattva, but can you get enlightenment? Because those are incorrect. I know it's good to find it, but it's not accurate. Here, I want to remind everyone to find the right one or find it right in their own mind to be the most correct, the most accurate. In the scriptures, there is also a mention of enlightenment, but that enlightenment is enlightenment in books, in words, those enlightenments that it does not know how to shine; and those enlightenments it does not know to save sentient beings. It is the enlightenment in each person's own mind that is true enlightenment, living enlightenment, so we need to understand that meaning. In the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha said: "Whoever has a mind can attain Unsurpassed Bodhi." Thus, it is clear that if you want to be enlightened, you must come from the mind, and cannot find it anywhere else. Each person should carefully look back in his own mind to find enlightenment, which is the true, the correct way, while worrying about looking outside, the farther you will find. Therefore, the ancient virtue has a verse to remind all: Self-mind, Buddha's mind, Mineral life adventure, only the deluded Bodhi Sanskrit, Tang language Enlightenment Mind is like trivia Bodhi. Translation: My mind Buddha's mind is not two- fold. Many kalpas float and sink because of Bodhi in Sanskrit . Ancient virtue taught that our mind Buddha's mind is inherently non-dual. Buddha is also from the heart that enlightened to become a Buddha. Thus, our mind and body with the Buddha's mind are not two, but only because of delusion, there is a difference. The Buddha is enlightened to the mind and body, but we forget that mind and follow the ceiling, so there is a difference. Then it is because of that difference that we keep running and looking for outside, but the more we run and look outside, the more confused we become, so it is called "carrying Buddha to seek Buddha". Most people who study Buddhism hear that Bodhi is enlightenment, so they worry about finding Bodhi in the scriptures, in words, and then one person analyzes the Bodhi meaning this way, the other analyzes the Bodhi meaning that way. , the two analyzed a breath and then quarreled, in the end they did not see where Bodhi was, but sometimes there were more defilements. One must understand the meaning of the word Bodhi, which translates into Sanskrit and Chinese as Enlightenment. It's just a noun, it doesn't know enlightenment but keeps analyzing. It is the calm mind that knows that is true Bodhi, that is, the quiet mind that knows clearly is the Bodhi that knows how to enlighten, teach the Dharma, and teach sentient beings. benefit. That is, in our own quiet and clear mind, that is true Bodhi. So to seek enlightenment is to seek in our own hearts to be the truth. Thus, anyone who has a mind has that truth, has this enlightened truth, so no one feels guilty that they are difficult to cultivate, just because they have not yet exploited it. Zen master Ban Khue once told everyone: “You should all recognize this living Buddha mind in motion. For many years the Chinese and Japanese have misunderstood the teachings of Zen, trying to achieve enlightenment by zazen or trying to find the people to see and hear. All of this is a big mistake. Zazen is just another name for the original mind, it means sitting quietly with a calm mind. When you meditate you just sit as you are sitting. When you do walking meditation, you just walk as you would, even if your mouth is large enough to swallow the whole world, it is impossible to describe the Buddhadharma in words. People who talk about Buddhism, for the most part, just make people blind." If you want to awaken people, you must awaken the mind of enlightenment in yourself. It is the mind that is functioning alive and not looking outward for enlightenment. Sitting meditation with a sitting mind or walking meditation with a walking mind is indeed living back to the Buddha mind, don't worry about looking elsewhere. That is, when we sit to meditate, our mind is also sitting there, and then when we go to walking meditation, our mind also goes to walking meditation. That's when we learn to live back to the Buddha mind, if not, then we sit in meditation, but does the mind meditate? If the body is sitting on the bodhisattva, but the mind is going home to visit or visiting the shop, that is loss of self. There was no light at that time. Here he teaches sitting meditation is just sitting. That is, the mind must also meditate; then chanting the same, if we chant the sutras, the mind must also chant the sutras. Then, if you go to walking meditation, your mind must also go to walking meditation with you, thus learning to live with the Buddha mind. On the contrary, when chanting, you chant but your mind is on the street, so only your mouth chants but your mind does not. He taught to practice both. Understanding these things and then applying them to life, we will see more and more clarity in our minds. We should not separate into two: the body is in one place, the mind is in another, it is because we live separately that we always want to find another. When you hear about the Buddha mind, you think of something and then go looking for it, that is, always looking for something else. Here, Zen master Ban Khue pointed out that there are people who talk about Buddhism, but most of them make people blind. That is to say about the Buddha Dharma, no matter how high or deep it is, it is also analyzed on words, just "talking about" only; only "talking about the Buddhadharma" but not touching the Buddhadharma. Like talking about the city, now we sit here can talk about the city but can't see the city? Just talking about the city. Or talk about someone, where is that person! Being tall black and white or something is just talking about that person, not touching that person. And if that guy is here, then there's no need to describe, there's no need to say anything else, just point him here and that's it. This is the same, just talking about the Buddhadharma, not touching the Buddhadharma. Sometimes talking too much makes people blind to see the Buddha Dharma. That is, "talking about" only, but if it is the true Buddhadharma that can be touched, then there is no need to talk. So talking about the Buddhadharma is what is outside, and the true Buddhadharma is right in our own mind, but how can we say it in our own mind! I can only secretly feel it, but how can I say it! In the same way, in Buddhism, people often talk about the truth. If you are not smart, you will quarrel and you will not be able to see the truth. If it is true, there is no arguing, but arguing is not seeing the truth. Grasp this principle carefully when you hear someone arguing about the truth, just laugh, but don't jump into the argument, doing so will make the truth more obscure. In the sutras, Buddha tells the story of a blind man touching an elephant. There was a king who wanted to know how the blind people recognized the elephant, how accurate it was. Just let some blind people come before the court and bring the elephant out and tell the blind people to each touch the elephant and then describe it to the king, whoever describes it correctly will be rewarded. The blind men immediately touched the elephant. Some people touch the big elephant, others say it softly, whoever touches any part of the elephant can only describe the elephant according to that part. Someone who touches an elephant's leg says that an elephant is like a pillar; and touch the belly, say the elephant is like a jar; touch the elephant's ear, say that the elephant is like a fan; or if you touch the tail, say that the elephant is like a broom... Then each blind person has touched the elephant, not just standing far away to describe it, but because he is blind, he describes the elephant as the part that has been touched. come. When they heard that the blind man said something different from his point of view, they argued with each other, and everyone accepted that my description was correct. And the king who had his eyes opened when he heard the blind people arguing, he only laughed. If the king jumped in and argued with those people, the king would also be blind. Those are the true meanings that religious learners need to understand. Truth is the truth of true enlightenment right in the heart of each person, not far away. Everyone needs to feel it for themselves, not just worry about talking about it. Speaking is only a temporary means, when people who do not know are still fascinated, they should borrow language to suggest and remind those who know there is something. Once, Zen master Thach Oc had to go out, and on the way to meet a stranger, the two talked enthusiastically until dark. The two had just entered an inn, and at midnight, Zen Master Thach Oc heard a noise in the room. Then he asked, “Wow! Is it morning already?" The other replied, "No, it's still late." Zen master Thach Oc thought that if this person got up from bed in the middle of the night to look for something, he must have seen the Way, otherwise he was a thief. Zen master Thach Oc continued: "Who are you in the end?". The other replied, "I am a thief." Zen master Thach Oc said: “Ah! So you're a thief! So how many times have you stolen since then?" The thief replied, "It cannot be counted." Question: "So how long are you happy each time you steal?" He replied, "We also need to see how valuable that stolen item is to know." Question: "But how long can such joy last?" The thief replied, "For a few days, after that, there was no joy!" Zen master Thach Oc said: "That's not happy either! Since you're a thief, why don't you steal a big batch!" The thief was surprised and asked: “You are also experienced! So how many times have you stolen? Zen Master Thach Oc said: "Only once!". The thief asked, "Isn't once enough?". A: "Although it is only once, it can't be used for a lifetime". The thief did not understand and asked again: “Then where was that thing stolen? Can you teach me or not?". Zen master Thach Oc immediately grabbed the thief's chest and said, "This is it! This is an endless treasure. If you dedicate a righteous life to this whole cause, your whole life will not be used up, do you understand?" Immediately the thief came to his senses, repented of his previous actions, and took refuge with Zen Master Thach Oc and later became a meditator. Zen master Thach Oc cleverly awakened the mind of enlightenment in the thief because the thief also had the Buddha mind. He aroused the thief's question, then he immediately grabbed the thief's chest and pointed out the thief's mind, this is an endless treasure, if you can steal this, you can't use it all the time without having to steal. again. He showed the thief the truth or his enlightened mind. And it is true that this thief also had good roots for many lives, so he immediately awakened to take refuge and become a meditator. So the thief also has an enlightened mind, is also aware, are we lacking? To see that each person has a precious truth that he does not know how to exploit, so he suffers wandering in samsara by delusion. Here, if you want to wake people up, remember that everyone has the truth of enlightenment in their own mind, if they know how to exploit it well, they can wake up to rise up and should not feel guilty. Remind everyone to have enough faith to live up The Buddha said this truth so that all sentient beings have the confidence to live up, not bow down to accept the delusion forever. That is, knowing clearly where each person's own mind is capable of enlightenment must be cleverly looked back to exploit. This is a great strength to help each person have enough self-confidence but cannot be weak and rely on the outside. To Quy Son once said: "If that is a husband, so am I". That means that the other person is a man who can cultivate and rise up, so do we, everyone has that ability, we can't be weak and despise ourselves to become an obstacle. As the story of Sa-di Cao is the awakened step. When the Venerable Duoc Son knew, he called Sa-di Cao out to clarify, asking: "I heard that Truong An was very noisy, did you know it?". Then Sa-di Cao said: "But my country alone is safe". Mr. Duoc Son asked: "Do you get it from reading the sutras or do you get it from asking questions?" Sa-di Cao replied: "It is not because of the sutras, but also because of asking questions". Mr. Duoc Son asked again: "There are many people who neither see the sutras nor ask questions, but why can't they?" Sa-di Cao replied: "Not saying they can't, just because they refuse to admit it". Mr. Sadi Cao had enough faith, so when he heard it, he asked: "Is it noisy in Truong An?" then replied, "My country is safe". This wants to show that Sa-di Cao has his own place to live honestly in his heart, has clarified the truth in himself. Although it was noisy outside, his living place was not affected by those things, so he replied that the country was safe. But Mr. Duoc Son wants to clarify whether this truth is his own feeling or he heard someone say it or he read the scriptures and read the book to analyze and understand. Then he replied not by reading the sutras but also by asking questions. Mr. Duoc Son continued to ask, there were many people who did not watch the sutras nor asked why not? Mr. Sadi Cao said it wasn't that they couldn't just because they refused to admit it. That is, everyone has the truth of enlightenment, but why do some people refuse to accept it, and then look for it in books or in the scriptures. The Buddha said that this enlightened truth is right in the heart of each person, that is, himself, but he runs to others to ask. Do you find it funny when you go to someone else's house to ask questions in your own home? But because I'm still in love, I have to do it, when I understand and wake up, it's important to look at myself again. Because even if you ask a master who has attained enlightenment, how high enlightenment is, if you teach it completely, you will only get half of it, the other half, you must be enlightened. So it is not possible to awaken from the outside. Like the Buddha, the Patriarch is only half of the answer for us, and the other half is what we have to supplement. Those who come to learn the Way, the teachers also give their wholehearted lectures without hiding it, but the learners also have to supplement the rest. Saying that so that everyone has enough faith to rise up, live with their own truth, that is the place to live honestly. If you understand life like that, no one will deceive you, so learning to meditate needs to be thoroughly studied there, not just stopping on the cushions and sitting postures is enough. Not so. But learning in your own mind is the truth. In the Phap Bao Dan sutra, there was a monk named Phap Dat who recited three thousand sets of the Lotus Sutra, so he went to the Sixth Patriarch to bow without his head touching the ground. The Sixth Patriarch rebuked him for being conceited. He thought that reciting the three thousand sets of the Lotus Sutra was sublime. Although he could recite the three thousand sutras, he did not understand the meaning of the Lotus Sutra. Then the monk Phap Dat repented and asked about the points in the Example chapter about the fire house and the three-vehicle example. The Sixth Patriarch replied that the three vehicles were just vehicles, while the men were sitting on the white buffalo cart and worried about looking for the three cars outside the door. That is to remind everyone that everyone has the truth of enlightenment in their place, so it is like sitting on a white buffalo cart, and looking for three cars outside the door. That is, worrying about finding this and that, that's just the Buddha's means to set up to lead sentient beings out of samsara, the last point must also return to the truth of true enlightenment in oneself. Enlightenment is the permanent Buddha-nature, that is the final place, and this and that fruit but has not reached the ultimate true place, the Buddha said that it is still on the means. When you understand, then you must carefully examine your own mind, which is the most enlightened truth, in the Zen house called "Three generations of Buddhas are right under your heels, look down at your heels to see". It is to show that each person must examine himself and see the full and complete truth; If you worry about running outside, it's all a means. Zen people call it "From the door, it's not a treasure in the house." If it is a treasure in the house, then you can take it out yourself in the house and use it, and what you bring in from the door is from the outside. In the same way, the treasure in oneself must be taken out from the heart to use, but what is learned from this person, learned from another person, and from the teacher of the Patriarch are also external, and what is outside is borrowed for a while. then have to pay it back. Forcing people to listen to the words or the truth, they immediately understand and see that they have become Buddhas, but that is also the teacher we are temporarily borrowing. Therefore, it is necessary to practice to light up your own mind, then it will be yours, at that time you will not lose it wherever you go. So learning to meditate is to learn to that place, called learning to not learning. Learning to forget to learn should be different from real life. The world learns to gain more knowledge and understanding, but in meditation, we learn to the point where we don't learn to learn back to ourselves. Learn to have more understanding, more understanding and sometimes get stuck on it, on the scum of people. Here we have to learn to look back into ourselves, to see back the truths in ourselves to move forward, then that is true study. Learning and then still having to practice, that is, learning and then having to practice, only after practicing, can you discover the truth in yourself, if you just stop at learning, it's yours and yours. So whatever we do, the basic thing is that we also have to have practical application, with practice, our place of study will be meaningful and really effective. It helps us to solve the problems of afflictions, suffering or confusion. As simple as, when learning to hear that we also have clear awareness, not this being. When you hear and understand, it's also bright, but if you don't practice, then when you encounter this and that, it will become dark again. Therefore, we must practice to contemplate that meaning within ourselves, Studying such a way is full of meaning and ensures that the more you study the Buddha, the more enlightened you become, the less confusion, less affliction, and less suffering. When you can, you can have fun yourself and then also affect the people around you. That is, when I'm happy, I create a happy atmosphere everywhere, if I'm sad or upset, it also affects the people around me. Understand and make life more fun, each person needs to apply life and practice well to make progress on their way of learning the Way and really have fun while studying the Way, that is, joy with the Dharma. . Here, I want to remind everyone who has Buddha nature or awareness, everyone has the ability to reach enlightenment. That way no one feels guilty that they can't do it. Summary True enlightenment is within each person and nowhere else; And whoever has a mind means a Buddha, has the ability to become enlightened to transform confusion. If you understand, then have full confidence to practice and don't need to go to see if you can practice or not? Everyone has Buddha nature, so everyone has a cultivation base, it's just a matter of knowing how to exploit it or not, and it depends on each person. If in previous lives, I did not grow good roots much, in this life I have to work harder. And those who skillfully plant many good roots, they exploit faster, they work less. But if you consider the three lives, no one is better than anyone else, the reason that the other person cultivates faster than himself is because he has trained for many lives, thanks to his wealth, he becomes enlightened and achieved sooner. If we are also skillful in cultivating our capital now, then the next life will be better than others. Then no one is better than anyone else. Once we understand that, we will have enough faith to practice because everyone has the ability to become enlightened to rise above this deluded being. So don't despise yourself and fall back. And if everyone is capable of enlightenment, why can't we be enlightened? The Buddhas were born to awaken all sentient beings to discover this truth for enlightenment, nothing else. The Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng, when enlightened, was led by the Five Patriarchs to cross the river to show him the way to refuge. When getting off the boat, the Sixth Patriarch grabbed the rowing tree and said to the Five Patriarchs: "When you fall in love with a teacher, when you are enlightened, you must save yourself." Everyone needs to have such a correct view, when they are confused, they must ask the teacher for guidance, when they are enlightened, they must save themselves. Do not always rely on the teacher, must have a strong will, but not rely on people or rely on the ancestor. Zen master Hoang Ba once told General Bui Huu: "Supposing someone diligently practices for three innumerable lifetimes, through the same positions as others, through a single thought, one can only witness what is available. In fact, on one's own Buddha there is nothing more. Reviewing the use of many lifetimes is all a dream job. Mr. Hoang Ba made it clear that, even if a cultivator diligently goes through three innumerable lifetimes and transcends positions, in the end, compared with a person even a single thought, it is only witnessing what is available, not what else. Those who have practiced for many generations together with those who are right here can also witness what is available, but there is no second or third addition. So he said, looking back, the use of many lifetimes of cultivation is like doing things in a dream. I mean, it's not because of long-term cultivation that you get something else. For example, a person dreams of being chased by a tiger, runs to the riverbank and meets a raft or boat, jumps on the raft and tries to row across the river. While rowing, near the river bank, suddenly woke up, then what if you sat down to calculate the work because you rowed hard to get to the other side? That is, the dream is not over yet. This is also the case, when you are in a delusion and do not know yet, you have to practice to refine and finally realize the truth that is available to you without knowing it for a long time. In the end, living back to your true self doesn't add anything else, it's something that is available, but it's not due to hard work, then you forget all about it. So, everyone has such a wonderful truth, why not go back to discover it and get it to live? That is the most important thing in this life that few people pay attention to! Try asking the question again, what about your own true origin without knowing or worrying about finding, just worrying about finding the origin of the universe and the world? The point to emphasize is that we must skillfully live back to the closest thing to ourselves and our own true origin. Must find out. To live like that is to live with roots. If I don't know my origin, what am I living with? Unknown origin means living without root. Do you feel sad? If it's sad, it's still good, if it's not sad, then I don't know what to say! I hope that each person will be smart to recognize this shortcoming in order to wake up to the true source in themselves that they have forgotten. That is the greatest joy in this world, there is no greater joy.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.31/5/2021.