Three Dharma Seals.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. During the Buddha's time in the world, in the Sangha, at that time there was the venerable Ananda, who was the Buddha's attendant, often accompanying the Buddha. The venerable has a superlative memory, all that the Buddha preached was fully remembered by the venerable, without omission. When the Buddha entered Nirvana, the venerable was trusted by the masses to assign the task of assembling the scriptures. From there, the concept of "Six Races of Achievement" was established, this is the first mark to determine whether it is a sutra taught by Buddha or not. A sutta with a full set of Six Achievements is considered to have been uttered by the Buddha himself. Three Dharma Seals The Six Achievements include: Literature achievements (I heard: people listen and narrate, show Mr. Ananda); Credit achievements (like this); Accomplishment period (once upon a time: just give time to say that sutta); Master of Achievements (Buddha: just let the chairperson speak that sutta); Land of achievements (only the place to speak sutras); They are accomplished (only for the masses present at that time to listen to the sutras). At that time, a sutta usually begins with the sentence "Like Thi fallow, for a moment the Buddha was at... evil.... Bhikkhu” means “Thus I heard, at one time the Buddha was at…. Among the Bhikkhu-stilts ... taste". For a long time, people took the Six Races of Achievements as a testimony to determine that it was the Buddha's teaching. But later on, many new suttas appeared, added by later people, and even those that were said by other religions but were named because the Buddha said to direct people to wrong views. misunderstand the Dhamma and lead the practitioner astray. Gradually, the Six Races of Achievements is no longer accurate in distinguishing Buddhist scriptures, so there needs to be another factor to distinguish. That factor is the Three Dharma Seals, which are the three seals: Impermanence, Suffering, and Non-Self. If a sutra is in harmony with these three elements, or makes people see these three elements clearly, it is a Buddhist scripture. On the contrary, if you don't focus on these three factors, even if there is a sentence "Like the human body ..." or "Buddhist theory ...". Nor is it a Buddhist canon. In particular, there are also a number of suttas that are not taught by the Buddha, but spoken by later people, but are in harmony with the Three Dharma Seals, so they are also classified as Buddhist scriptures. These can be mentioned as Luc Patriarch Dan Kinh (Fa Bao Dan Kinh) of Sixth Patriarch Hue Neng; Eight Great Nhan Giac by Master An The Cao; Luong Hoang Sam of Master Chi Cong; Mitien Q&A…. Thereby we also see somewhat the importance of the Three Dharma Seals. Once upon a time, in feudal times, when the king wanted to give an order, he wrote a decree and stamped it. That edict can replace the king's words, and the seal can replace the signature. When you want to hear that edict read, you have to kneel down to receive it very respectfully, and see it instead of the king's presence. In Buddhism, too, the Buddha is called the Dharma King (Dharma King), the Buddha's words are the Dharma Treasure, the Three Dharma Seals are the seal. Now the Buddha is gone, only his teachings exist in the world; Therefore, any sutta that is compatible with the Three Dharma Seals is considered a Dharma Treasure - one of the three precious persons of Buddhism. Thanks to the Three Dharma Seals, people, after studying the scriptures, do not go astray and fall into the scriptures of pagan pagan religions. Impermanent: The first Dharma Seal is Impermanence. Meaningless means no, Permanent means permanent, lasting forever. Impermanent means that nothing is permanent, unchanging exists forever, but all dharmas are always changing and dissolving. Impermanence can be understood on three fronts. The first is the impermanent body. The human body is always changing from birth, growing up and getting old. Still the same person, but at birth the body shape is different from that of ten, twenty, or thirty years old. The same person, but when he opened his eyes at birth, the first cry was completely different from the time he took his last breath. It is the same person when healthy, he walks with ease, his strength is strong, unlike when he is sick, he walks unsteadily, his body is tired and exhausted. We perceive the body as impermanent, not in the course of one hundred years of human life, but as impermanent occurring every second of every minute. Every second in our body, many cells die and are replaced by new cells. By observing so deeply, we can see the impermanence of the human body. The second is the mind is impermanent, the human mind changes constantly, one moment is happy, the next second is sad. Today is peaceful and happy, but tomorrow, when things are not right, they will fall into sadness and suffering. The Patriarchs have used "Mind Vien Yi Ma" to refer to the constant change in the human mind. The mind is like monkeys swinging a chain of branches, passing from branch to branch in an imperceptible speed, the mind is like a herd of wild horses without a handler that makes it run everywhere. The third is the situation of impermanence, which means that the environment around us is constantly changing. There should be a saying "Beach with mulberry trees" when the sea moves up to flood all the sandy beaches, when the sea recedes to reveal tidal flats, it turns into a place where people grow mulberries to raise silkworms. The change in the external environment also has a strong impact on people, when they live in high-rise houses with wide doors, when they are at a disadvantage, they sell out their houses and go out to the streets to beg. Sometimes they get on the carriage, get off the horse, someone takes someone to pick them up, sometimes they go home alone and no one cares. Sometimes people praise and praise, sometimes people scold people. So there is a funny saying: “In the time of horseback archery, The time for riding monkeys is over to shoot flies with rubber bands". The sentence is light and cheerful, but it also generalizes the impermanence of life. Suffering: It is because of not observing and clearly seeing the impermanence of the body, mind and environment that people fall into a miserable state. Suffering means bitterness, suffering, oppression, discomfort, etc. If we talk about suffering, there are many kinds of suffering in the world, but in general and most often mentioned, there are eight kinds of suffering. The first is suffering, a baby just born, it cries, why is it crying? Because he felt the first suffering in his life, he cried. Indeed, when giving birth, both mother and child suffer, before birth, the mother has to carry eight months of weight, all activities are difficult, the child is wrapped in a dark veil; When the mother eats hot and cold food, the child is affected. At birth, the mother's pain such as broken intestines, broken liver, when the child comes out of the mother's body, also suffers equally. That is the pain of birth. Similar to birth, old age, sickness and death also bring people similar sufferings. When a person's body begins to age, his eyes begin to blur, his ears begin to fade, his hair turns gray, his teeth fall out, and his limbs are now weak and difficult to walk. From old age begins to lead to disease, when the body is sick, the body is in pain, the spirit is panic, the appetite is not good, the sleep is restless, the heart is always restless and worried. There are seriously ill people lying in one place, with no one to take care of, urinate on the spot, then life is like torture, wanting death to come as a relief but can't. But in the end, death will come, the time of death is the most painful time. In the sutras often describe the suffering of people at death as the pain of a turtle being stripped of its shell, how painful it is when a tortoise is stripped of its shell, a person's pain at death is the same. There are people who can go through all four stages of human life, which is considered happy, but there are also people who have just been born without getting old and sick, but have died, some people who have been sick and not old yet also die. Some people have accidents of drifting water, fire, traffic accidents, work accidents, and die unexpectedly, die in a hazy scene, not knowing that they are dead is even more miserable. These are the sufferings of old age, sickness and death. Next is the "separation of love" and "resentment" of suffering, which means that the loved one has to part, the one who hates but always has to meet is called suffering. For example, couples who love each other but see the one they love with someone else is extremely miserable. Or in the family of loved ones such as parents, spouse, children, if one day they are no longer with us, we can no longer see each other, it is also very miserable. On the contrary, people who have animosity with each other but have to live in the same house, every day they go in and out, they have to see each other's faces, every time they see each other's faces, quarrels arise, quarreling is also really miserable. The seventh suffering is the "requiring and not getting" suffering, which means that our wishes and desires are not met. I want to have material possessions but no one gives me, I want to achieve a position of power and no one supports me. Finally, "The Five Warms of Suffering", These warm years are the elements that form the body and mind of a person. The material warmth is the human body. Feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness make up our mental apparatus. If this form body wants something without knowing right or wrong, we immediately provide it, or a thought in our mind arises that doesn't need to know right or wrong, we immediately respond, which means that we have been rejected. the five aggregates wrong history, causing us to serve it, so it will definitely lead us to the place of suffering and fall. The above is an overview of the eight kinds of suffering of life. or when a thought arises in our mind whether it is right or wrong, we immediately respond, which means that we have been wronged by the five aggregates, made to serve it, so it will definitely lead us to place of suffering and devastation. The above is an overview of the eight kinds of suffering of life. or when a thought arises in our mind whether it is right or wrong, we immediately respond, which means that we have been wronged by the five aggregates, made to serve it, so it will definitely lead us to place of suffering and devastation. The above is an overview of the eight kinds of suffering of life. There is also the Three Sufferings of suffering, the suffering of practice, and the cessation of suffering. Suffering means suffering, difficulties, and pain piled on top of each other. For example, having this human body is suffering, but there are additional psychological conditions that govern human life and make people insecure such as sadness, happiness, anger, joy, love, hate, etc. . Suffering means the impermanence, the change of dharmas that cause suffering, such as the change of the human body from young to old or the change in the human mind from joy to sadness. Destruction and suffering are gratifying things, pleasant things that must be lost, destroyed also produce suffering like the loss of material possessions, loss of position and pain especially when life ends. . Those are the three sufferings. Unselfish: From impermanence, people can see that this life is suffering, and from suffering, we also suddenly realize that everything in the world is not-self , without a definite form. Everything, everything is due to causes and conditions that have a mixture and dispersion. When there are enough conditions, they form, when the conditions are exhausted, they disintegrate like the original human body, borrowing the father's charm and mother's blood and then borrowing the elements of the four elements to form. The flesh is borrowed from the earth element, the blood is borrowed from the water element, the warmth is the fire element, the air circulation is the wind element. If the four elements are in harmony, the body is healthy; On the contrary, if the four elements are not in harmony, the body and the person will immediately arise disease. Until one fine day, the four great elements disintegrated, the flesh returned to the earth, the blood returned to the water, etc. Then the human body also disintegrates. According to the thought of the Heart Sutra , the human being is composed of the five aggregates, but the five aggregates themselves do not have a certain true form "the five aggregates are empty". From there, it is clear that the selflessness in human beings is clear. Humans are selfless, then the possessions belonging to the person or the whole world that exist through human perception are called egos.is also impermanent. However, because people do not see this selflessness and non-self, they often have the mentality of grasping that this is me, these are my possessions from which suffering arises. For example, if I say this body is mine. If this body is ours, then we own it and we have to be in complete control of it, but can we control it? We prescribe it “That body! You have to stay young and not get old, you have to stay healthy and not get sick, and you have to live forever and not die.” But will he listen to me, old he is still old, sick he is still sick, dead he still dies like me must be the owner. From the human body, it can be deduced that everything is the same, through which to realize clearly that all human beings are selfless. In the Eight Great Human Enlightenment Sutra there is a passage "The world is impermanent, the country is dangerous, the four great sufferings are empty, the five warms are not self" which summarizes the nature of the Three Dharma Seals. This is a very important teaching in Buddhism. If a cultivator realizes these three things, sees the true appearance of life as impermanent, suffering, and not-self, then no longer clings to temporary values ​​in life, so he directs himself straight on the path to liberation. Enlightenment, escape from the six paths of birth and death.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/11/2021.