News The meaning of respecting teachers in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the meaning of "Teacher respects the way" is reminded more by the Buddha through related lectures on gratitude and gratitude that a Buddha's son must practice to lead to happiness, peace and prosperity. ultimate happiness in the monastic life. The teacher is considered as a second father in our lives through the two very sacred compound words "master" that we often hear mentioned when calling a teacher in Taoism. Photo: Internet The teacher is considered as a second father in our lives through the two very sacred compound words "master" that we often hear mentioned when calling a teacher in Taoism. Photo: Internet The word "Teacher" has been known as a sacred role of a third step in human life after father and mother. If our parents were born and raised us to grow up as human beings, then it is the teachers who have nurtured, built and transmitted as well as equipped us with basic and useful knowledge to prepare for entering the world. life. The teacher is considered as a second father in our lives through the two very sacred compound words "master" that we often hear mentioned when calling a teacher in Taoism. Master, a monk is a teacher, a father is a father according to Sino-Vietnamese words. Being both a teacher and a father is not easy for someone who carries the responsibility of being a teacher. Because it is associated with both responsibilities that a teacher must bring to his students, the spiritual children that the teacher must wholeheartedly teach, care for, and worry about. The Buddha himself is a vivid image of the status as well as the role and responsibility of a master towards his followers and disciples. The Buddha was not only a teacher who guided his disciples on the path of holiness, but he was also extremely gentle and considerate in taking care of and protecting them in daily life. That extremely vivid image was seen in the Dhammapada Sutta No. 41 when the Buddha personally boiled hot water to bathe and clean the venerable Pūtigattatissa's ulcerated, foul-smelling body full of pus and blood when Venerable Pūtigattatissa suffered a witness. leprosy, stinking sores made people afraid and shun the Venerable. The Buddha himself is a vivid image of the status as well as the role and responsibility of a master towards his followers and disciples. The Buddha himself is a vivid image of the status as well as the role and responsibility of a master towards his followers and disciples. Not only did the Buddha not fear or alienate his disciples, but he also graciously took off his robes, cleaned and sanitized the venerable Pūtigattatissa's body with his own hands, and then personally changed the new robe for the great monk himself. He changed the bed sheets, blankets and pillows with new ones while the other bhikkhus took care of sweeping and keeping the room clean and airy. After the Venerable Pūtigattatissa was completely clean, the Buddha graciously sat down next to him, tenderly took the disciple's thin, rough and old hand, and taught the disciple the concept of the dissolution of the body. the five aggregates and led Venerable Pūtigattatissa's mind to enter the path of purity and purity. At last, before exhaling beside the venerable guru, Venerable Pūtigattatissa became an unstained Saint, an Arahant completely pure and pure in both body and mind. That is the heart as well as the boundless love of a teacher, a father that we often call a master through the image and example of a Dharma king of the three realms, from the four subspecies like Buddha. our. In the Sutra of Teachers of La Viet Poetry (Sigàlovada sutta) belonging to the School of Sutras (Dìgha Nikayà), the Buddha also taught young Brahmins of Vietnamese poetry (Singàlaka) about the status of a teacher towards students and learning. The students' respect for the teacher corresponds to the manners of bowing to the South as follows: "Householder, there are five ways for a disciple to take care of the great masters like the South: Stand up to greet the teacher, serve the teacher, and study diligently. practice, self-serve the teacher, focus on learning the profession. Hey Master, being cared for by disciples like the South in these five ways, the senior masters have compassion for their disciples in five ways: Train the disciples in what they have been well trained; teach maintenance what you are well-maintained; teach mastery of professions; praise disciples with familiar friends; career guarantee for disciples in all aspects. Thus, householder, the elder master is cared for by his disciples like the south in five ways, and the elder has compassion for his disciples in five ways. Thus the South is protected, becomes secure and free from fears. Not only leading and imparting cultivation methods to purify the body and mind, teachers in the temple also have to take care of, protect, protect and nurture their disciples with the responsibility of fathers. motherhood. Not only leading and imparting cultivation methods to purify the body and mind, teachers in the temple also have to take care, protect, protect and nurture their disciples with the responsibility of fathers, motherhood. So in the spirit of this sutta, we see, the Buddha has raised five duties of a teacher towards his students and vice versa, the student must also have five obligations towards his teacher. most fully and completely so that it can be considered worthy of being worshiped like bowing to the South. Not only leading and imparting cultivation methods to purify the body and mind, teachers in the temple also have to take care, protect, protect and nurture their disciples with the responsibility of fathers, mother.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.1/2/2022.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.