Light of Dharma Flower.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH. Contradictions and contradictions are common phenomena in life. When it cannot be resolved, it leads to hatred and war. From the day there were humans on earth to this day, war has never ended. Here we seek to learn the resolution of the opposite in the Devadatta chapter, the 12th chapter of the Lotus Sutra. How is Devadatta's opposition, even to the point of harm, resolved in the Buddha's view? Devadatta was both an aunt and uncle and a sister-in-law of the Buddha when he was still a Bodhisattva. Although he was a monk with many achievements, he always opposed the Buddha for the rest of his life: divided the Sangha, incited Crown Prince Asha-the to kill his father and assassinate the Buddha. The stone on the road the Buddha was walking, let the elephants get drunk to harm the Buddha… This opposition had existed in previous lives, but there was also a time when he was a prophet to teach Bodhisattvas. In the Buddha's eyes, he is a good knowledge: “By virtue of the good knowledge Devadatta made me complete with the six perfections, compassion, joy and equanimity, thirty-two good marks, eighty beauties, purple-gold color, ten powers, four no fear, four French photographers, eighteen non-communicated dharmas, spiritual powers of the path, attaining enlightenment, generosity to sentient beings... are all due to the good knowledge Devadatta." The Buddha also prophesied that Devadatta would become a Buddha. According to the Pali system, this opposition has been going on for many lifetimes, and Devadatta will become a Paccekabuddha. Here, we pay attention to the Buddha's view (Buddha's view) to learn the bodhisattva's practice, to overcome the adversities that are always present in the world. First of all, why do we see people who are opposed to us, whose circumstances are contrary to us? Because we are finite elements, with different ways of living, with views from different focal points. The element sees something different from it, those other things opposed to it. The whole has no opposite because it embraces all that is called inverse and positive. The more we become a limited, solid part, the more the external environment opposes and opposes us. So, in order to get rid of the tension, the opposition between the self and the non-me, one has to open oneself up to become the more whole, the less conflict there is. But what about the antagonism, the conflict between good and evil? Isn't human history a war for good to gradually overcome evil, for man to become more and more perfect? It is so. Man must make good overcome evil in himself and in the world. In this battle, one must also open oneself up so that the good within oneself can overcome the evil within and without. This expansion of the wholesome mind to capture and conquer is called the four immeasurable minds, compassion, joy and equanimity. When compassion, joy and equanimity become immeasurable they pervade sentient beings and the world. This is the ultimate victory of love. Wisdom to erase the artificial division of subject and object, me and people, me and the world; and compassion to spread goodness into the world. The Buddha taught in the Dharma, 10th chapter: "Those good men and good women must enter the Tathagata's house, wear the Tathagata's robes, and sit on the Tathagata's throne, and only then should they speak this sutra for the sake of the four assemblies. The Tathagata is a great compassion for all sentient beings. Y Tathagata is a gentle and patient mind. The Tathagata's throne is all emptiness." To open the mind to embrace life and embrace the world, that mind must be compassionate to all sentient beings, and be gentle and patient to live with all sentient beings. That mind that wants to expand to embrace the world, must eliminate all distinctions and conflicts caused by clinging to appearances, that mind must see the true form of all dharmas as the One Signless Sign. In short, Buddhism is compassion and wisdom. Compassion to embrace, protect, be gentle, patient, to be one with sentient beings. The wisdom to remove the discriminating consciousness sees different, conflicting signs, which all revert to being One Signless Sign. With compassion and wisdom, the Buddha's mind becomes the Dharma Flower Dharma Realm, all is one, one is all. It is in this Dharma Flower world that Devadatta's opposition is resolved and transformed. In this Dharma Flower Dharma Realm, sentient beings and the world are no longer strangers, even opposites, but familiar, as in "your own home" , wearing "your own clothes" , sitting "on your throne": All of them birth All are my children Now these three realms are all mine. Wisdom and compassion "unify all the worlds into one Buddha-land" (Chapter of Apparitions, No. This is the Dharma Flower Dharma Realm or the One True Dharma Realm. It was in this view of the One-True Dharma Realm, the whole without excluding differences, that the Buddha resolved and accomplished for Devadatta. With this view, the Lotus Sutra is absolute optimism, and this absolute optimism makes it the highest of the sutras. Optimistic because everyone will become a Buddha even if they are evil like Devadatta. That is speaking on the level of the phenomenon that the ancients called Tich Mon. On the level of the essence or the primordial sect, everyone has Buddha nature, so everyone becomes a Buddha a long time ago. Both will become Buddhas and become Buddhas long ago, this knowing brings the realm of birth and death that opposes the conflict of suffering and conflict into the Dharma Flower Dharma Realm, where all is present in absolute optimism. Also in the Devadatta chapter on the opposite, there is the story of a dragon girl becoming a Buddha in a matter of moments. When Sariputra wondered why a female body, who could become a Buddha, soon became a Buddha: "...The dragon girl had a precious jewel, worth the value of the three thousand great thousand worlds, presented it to the Buddha and asked Sariputra and the Bodhisattva Tri Tich, saying: "I give a precious gem, the Blessed One accepts it , is it quick?". Answered, 'Very quickly.' The dragon woman said, "It is faster to use your divine power to see me become a Buddha." At that moment, the whole assembly saw that the dragon girl suddenly turned into a man, enough. All Bodhisattvas conduct themselves, immediately go to the Southern Unconquerable Realm, sit on a lotus throne to attain Perfect Enlightenment.” The dragon woman became a Buddha so quickly because she became a Buddha on the basis of "having already become a Buddha a long time ago" , ie the Dharma Realm Dharma Flower has already become a Buddha.Becoming above what has already become so quickly. In this chapter, a person, because of his own bad karma, will become a Buddha in a long time, and a person because of his good karma (instructed by the Lotus Sutra by Manjushri) should quickly become a Buddha. Buddha, but both became Buddhas on the basis that they have become Buddhas a long time ago. That foundation of Dharma Realm, the Dharma Flower that has already become a Buddha, always surrounds us, we can't get out no matter what we do. Therefore, practicing Dharma Flower is whatever we do, meditate, chant, give alms, be patient... we must know that we are cultivating on the completed Buddhahood. With that pure faith, one day we will be compatible with the Dharma Flower Dharma Realm, which is called the Enlightenment sutra. Cultivating on the Buddha's seeing and knowing, one day we can come into contact with the Buddha's seeing and knowing.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/5/2021.