Buddha's Sutra "The Poor Old Lady Enlightened the Dharma of Dependent Origination". Talking About The Unique Path Concept. Introduction: For example, we draw an equilateral triangle ABC, then draw a median line AH, point H lies on side BC, we have two more right triangles ABH and ACH. These two triangles have a common side AH, ie Triangle ABH has side AH of Triangle ACH and vice versa. So, if it comes to this Triangle, there is the hiddenness of the other Triangle, that is, they are present in the relationship, appearing through refuge — “This is there, that is there; When this is born, the other is born. This one doesn't, the other doesn't; When this ceases, the other ceases", that reason is called Dependent Origination. "The poor old woman understands the Dharma of Dependent Origination" is the sutra we introduce this period. Original "Buddha's theory of old woman and woman 佛說老女人經 (Vṛiddhastrī-sūtra)", 1 volume, Layman Chi Khiem from Nguyet Thi country (Kuṣana – is a race that lived about 3rd century BC to 5th century AD, located in the northwestern regions of China, Western Region...) during the Ngo period - AD 222-280, Dai Chanh 14, number 559, p. 911. This sutta has the same content as the Old Lady Luc Anh (Buddhisattva's theory of the old lady Luc Anh sutra 佛說老母女六英經 - Vṛiddhamātṛi-ṣaṭpuṣpā-sūtra), 1 volume, Mr. -la translation of the Liu Song period and the Old Lady (Buddha preaches the old mother sutra 佛說老母經 - Vṛiddhamātṛi-sūtra)", 1 volume, the translator's name is missing, Dai Chanh 14, number 560, 561, p. 912. Summary of the content of the sutra: When the Buddha was preaching the Dharma in the Lac-yin country of Vaisali (Vaiśāli), a poor old woman came to the Buddha's place to pay respects to the ground. World Ton! I have something to ask. – Good luck! She kept asking. - Where do you come from and where do you go? old, sick, Where does death come from and where does it go?… The Buddha said: “Good! Such a good question. Birth does not come from anywhere and does not go anywhere. Old age, sickness, and death do not come from anywhere nor go anywhere… All dharmas are like that. For example, when two sticks rub together, they emit fire, and the fire burns two sticks. Once the tree burns out, the fire goes out.” The Buddha asked the old woman: - Where did the fire come from and where did it go? The old woman said: - When predestined to harmonize fire, if predestined to separate, fire will also be lost. Buddha taught: - The same is true of the Dharma. Predestined for new harmony, the predestined for separation is to destroy. The Dharma has no place to come and no place to go… For example, the void is not made by one thing. When you start to want to become a city, you must have a leather, a tree, the person holding the awl hits the drum, then the drum will have a sound... That sound is not from the skin, not from the tree, not from the drumstick of the person holding it, have to combine things to make a drum sound. The sound comes from zero, so it ends up being zero. All things are like that, which is pure and has no cause to create dharmas, and dharmas have no possessions... The dharmas have no place to come and no place to go... So is birth and death, each of which depends on its activity. Like disasters, falling into hell, being born in heaven or being a human being in the world are the same… not naturally occurring. The old woman heard it, then happily said: - Thanks to the grace of the World-Honored One, I have obtained the Dharma eye, even though my body is old and weak, I am also enlightened. Ananda adjusted his clothes and knelt down and said to the Buddha: - World Honored One! Why did the old woman have such wisdom, and as soon as she heard the Buddha's lecture, she became enlightened? Buddha said to Ananda: - This old woman was my mother in the previous life. She has a passion for religious studies. Ananda asked again: - As a mother, why are you so poor? The Buddha said: "In the past, in the time of Buddha Gou-ri. I wanted to be a recluse, but my loving mother refused to let me go, so I sadly missed eating for a day. Therefore, five hundred lifetimes she was born in a world of poverty. At the end of this life, the old woman will be reborn in the Amitabha Buddha land, and after sixty-eight kalpas will become a Buddha, known as Ba Kien. That country is called Hoa Hoa.” The Buddha finished speaking the sutras, the old woman, Ananda, the Bodhisattvas, the Bhikkhu-stilts... were all happy to bow down. The Buddha preached the Sutra of a poor old woman who understood the Dharma of Dependent Origination. Conclusion: In the summer, listening to the cicadas chirping, watching the school yards with phoenix flowers bloom, that scene reminds me of school age even more. Then autumn comes, winter comes, the sound of the cicadas stops, the phoenix changes its leaves, the school age passes, few people wonder about the world of phenomena around them: where do the other cicadas go when the seasons change, and maybe the color changes? Red phoenix only in summer? But, nearly three thousand years ago, Some people think about the world of that phenomenon: "Where does old age and death come from? ... Due to birth, there is old age and death... No birth, no old age, no death, birth and death, old age and death." That is the principle of Dependent Origination that the World-Honored One thought and realized under the Bodhi tree. All things in the phenomenal world are caused by conditions that come and go, have birth, and die; When conditions are met, they manifest; when conditions are absent, they withdraw. Their actual nature does not come, do not go, do not arise, do not pass away. So the Buddha explained, birth, old age, sickness, death, come from nowhere and go nowhere. Fire burns in the tree, so does the sound of drums; Falling into hell or being born in heaven, being a human being in the world… also, due to ignorance of the conditions (creating good or unwholesome karma) there is such a thing. The above theory of Dependent Origination is a thought endemic to the enlightened Buddha, Later, the commentators took that as the basic teaching, developed into doctrines of the system of Dependent Origination, such as: Karma is dependent on origin, that is, due to the force of good or bad karma, there is good or bad retribution. Alaya dependent origination, is due to the seed (seed) stored in the Alaya consciousness (store consciousness), met with condition, then manifests, from the present reaps the seed, thus as cause and effect. rotate. Therefore, although the old woman was old and poor, the seed of her previous life was not lost, and when she heard the Buddha's teachings, she immediately became enlightened. And because the previous life as a mother caused the Buddha not to leave home but suffered the result of poverty for many kalpas. The loving old woman who prevented the Buddha from leaving home to be poor is a metaphor similar to the example in the Lotus Sutra (Product of the Life Book of 500 Disciples): A poor man had a precious jewel (Buddha nature) in his shirt. without knowing it, live a life of poverty. Fifteen years later, the poor man reunited with his best friend and told him that he had a pearl in his shirt. Only then did his poverty come to an end and he became rich. In the same way, the old woman's son is the future Buddha, ie the Buddha nature in her body, but she prevented her, as if she had lost her Buddha nature (jewel), so she suffered five hundred kalpas, and then was revealed by the Buddha, predict the next life to become a Buddha. The idea here is to refer to Truth as Dependent Origination, Tathagatagarbha, Dependent Origination, ie all sentient beings have Buddha-nature. Because of their impure conditions, they produce dharmas, but their Buddha-nature is not lost. In the past, the World-Honored One preached dependent origination to an enlightened old woman. Now we borrow words to express for everyone to understand. But if we want to understand and be enlightened, we have to go beyond the concept of language, experience through real life, live with the eternity of life, face life-death, joy-sadness, still-lose, victory. -lose, yes- no… calm.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.27/11/2022.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.