Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Women's Sutra. When she heard the Buddha's teaching, the old woman was overjoyed and immediately said to herself: "Thanks to the Buddha's virtue, I obtained the Dharma eye. Although my body is old and weak, but now I am enlightened and fully understood." This is what I heard: Once, the Buddha came to Quang Nghiem city and stopped to rest in the garden of Music, with 800 Bhiku and 10,000 bodhisattvas. At that time a poor old woman came to the Buddha's place, bowed her head to the ground and bowed down to the Buddha, then said to the Buddha: "World Honored One! I have a question to ask. [I hope the Tathagata will allow it." Buddha said: "Good! Just ask." The old woman said: ["Venerable One! ] - Where do you come from and where will you go? - Where did old age come from and where will he go? - Where does the disease come from and where will it go? - Where does death come from and where will it go? - Where does the material feeling of perception come from and where will it go? - Where do eyes, ears, nose and tongue come from and where will they go? - Where does the land of fire and wind come from and where will it go?" The Buddha said, "Good! Very good question. - Birth does not come from anywhere and does not go anywhere. Old age doesn't come from anywhere and doesn't go anywhere. Illness doesn't come from anywhere and doesn't go anywhere. Death comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. - Form feeling, perception, and practice do not come from anywhere and do not go anywhere. - Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and affection don't come from anywhere and don't go anywhere. - The land of wind and fire with nothingness comes from nowhere and doesn't go anywhere. Laws are like that. For example, when two sticks of wood are rubbed together, they emit fire, and the fire returns to ignite the wood. When the firewood is completely burned, the fire goes out." The Buddha asked the old woman, "Where does this fire come from and where does it go when it goes out?" The old woman replied, "World Honored One! When causes and conditions come together, they will catch fire. When causes and conditions separate, the fire is extinguished." The Buddha said, "All dharmas are like this. When predestined conditions come together, they are formed. When causes and conditions separate, they disappear. Dharmas come from nowhere and go nowhere. The eye that sees the color is the mind. Meaning means color. Both are empty and empty. So is destruction. Dharmas are like a drum. It's not just one factor. If someone hits the drum with an awl, the drum will make a sound. However, the sound that was coming from that drum was also nothing, the sound that will come out is also no, and the sound that comes out is also no. That sound is not coming from wood, leather, awl, or the hand of a person beating. Due to meeting enough predestined conditions, the drum sounded. Sound from zero and dissipates to zero. All things are like that. The primordial is pure and has no place. Due to causes and conditions, dharmas are born out of nowhere. The dharmas are also nonexistent. For example, if the dark clouds come, it will rain immediately. Rain does not flow from the dragon's body, nor does it flow from the dragon's heart. It is all due to the predestined work of dragons to have this rain. Dharmas come from nowhere and go nowhere. For example, an artist first prepares a white drawing, and then mixes the colors and paints as desired. That painting did not appear from a white drawing, nor did it appear from a human hand. It is up to the artist's discretion that each detail is drawn. The same is true of birth and death. Each species, depending on its karma, produces results. Hell, heaven, or human. Those who can understand are wise, and are not attached to false appearances." When the old woman heard the Buddha's teaching, the old woman was overjoyed and immediately said to herself, "Thanks to the Buddha's grace, I obtained the Dharma eye. Although my body is old and weak, but now I am enlightened and fully understood." At that time Khanh Hy changed his clothes, knelt on both knees and said to the Buddha: "World-Honored One! As soon as she heard the Buddha's teaching, this old woman immediately understood. What is the predestined cause that the old woman has such wisdom?" The Buddha said to Khanh Hy: "When I set my mind to study the Way in my previous life, that old woman was my mother." Mr. Khanh Hy asked the Buddha, "Lord. Ton! Why did this old woman have to suffer so much poverty?" The Buddha said, "In the past, in the place of Buddha Chu Ying-doan, at that time I wanted to be a Taoist, but at that time my mother was too attached to it, so he did not allow me to go forth. So I was very sad and did not eat for a day. Because of that predestined condition, during her next 500 births in the world, she had to suffer poverty. After her life in the present life ends, this old woman will be reborn in the land of Buddha Amitabha and in that land make offerings to the Buddhas. After 68 million kalpas later, the old woman became a Buddha, known as Bodhyaṅgapuṣpakara [bo go an ga bu touching three ca ra]. The country is called Hoa Hoa. The people in that land will have clothes and food to use as in the heavens of the Thirty-three, and they will all live for one kalpa." When the Buddha finished preaching this sutra, the old woman and Khanh Hy, the bodhisattvas, were , the Bhikṣu, With them, the gods, the gods, the dragons, the humans, and the celestials were all very happy. They bowed their heads to the ground in front of the Buddha, and then retired.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN ZEN BUDDHIST MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/3/2023.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.
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