The Buddhist scriptures have eighty-four thousand dharmas that are widely and widely practiced in the ten method realms. Sentient beings also have boundless karmic obstacles and many physical defects, but they are all contained within the eighty-four thousand karma of sentient beings. Sentient beings have eighty-four thousand negative karma. Answer: The Buddhist scriptures have eighty-four thousand dharmas that are widely and widely practiced in the ten method realms. Sentient beings also have boundless karmic obstacles and many physical defects, but they all fall within the eighty-four thousand karma of sentient beings. , each living being has eighty-four thousand negative karma. It means that the nature of sentient beings is boundless, but the Buddha's dharma is also boundless in treating diseases, making sentient beings pure, eliminating afflictions, greed, anger, and ignorance and liberating the cycle of birth and death. In the Nikaya Canon, it is not mentioned that the Buddhist scriptures have eighty-four thousand teachings, but in the Elder Sangha verse 1024, the Nikāyaṇī, the Buddha taught as follows: I received from the Buddha, Eighty-two thousand teachings. , Also received from the Bhikkhu, Two thousand more dharmas, A total of eighty-four thousand, Is the dharma I convey... Indeed, from Buddhist studies eighty-four thousand dharmas, including 82,000 dharmas of Buddha and 2,000 dharmas life of monks. This is the meaning that the Buddhist scriptures have 84,000 teachings, the meaning is that the Buddha's teachings are boundless, the Buddha's dharma is as it is, like the agada medicine that specifically cures the diseases of sentient beings. For example: If living beings are stingy, the Buddha teaches almsgiving; If sentient beings are ignorant, Buddha taught them to cultivate wisdom; If ignorant beings are taught to practice pure meditation; For sentient beings to go astray, the Buddha's Dharma is a bright lamp of wisdom that shines in all the dark souls of sentient beings, making them close to the Dharma to escape reincarnation, evolve smoothly and promptly integrate into a peaceful lifestyle. According to Doan Trung Con's Buddhist dictionary, during the time when Shakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment, he preached the teachings of the Middle Heaven, teaching the Buddha's Dharma mainly to help sentient beings practice and liberate them. However, the teachings the Buddha promulgated were divided into three periods to clearly understand the natural energy of sentient beings and show how to practice to attain enlightenment. Spiritual practice therapies during pregnancy 1. Dharma period The Dharma is true, noble, pure, has two parts: Physics and Physics: The meaning of the Buddha's teachings is not misleading, not false. The morality from the beginning to the end is pure in character, always liberating sentient beings. The criterion for sentient beings is to escape from reincarnation, so it is called correct principle. Body: Dharma, that is, the foundation of the Dharma within the Three Jewels. The essence of the Dharma is also included in the four dharmas: the doctrine of virtue and fruition,is the rule for the monks of Buddha's time and future disciples not to step out of those four principles. Those four principles are: - The teachings are the voice and sentences of the Buddhas. - Reason is the meaning in the Dharma. - Virtue is practicing according to the meaning of Buddha's teachings. - Thanks to practicing precepts, concentration and wisdom, one can attain fruition. In general, the Buddha's teachings have the power to make all sentient beings eliminate all diseases in body, speech, and mind to enter the Buddha world. During this period, monks near the Buddha heard the Dharma to practice and attain enlightenment exactly as the Buddha taught, so they were called Buddha-like. 2. The period of Buddha's teachings There were many people who heard the Buddha's teachings, but there was no enlightenment. If there is, it will only resemble Buddha, not like the Dharma period. There are many people who listen to Buddha's teachings but do not attain enlightenment. If there is, it will only resemble Buddha, not like the Dharma period. Visualize, similarly, the Dharma is similar to the Dharma, but times weaker. Many people practice but few attain enlightenment. There are many people who listen to Buddha's teachings but do not attain enlightenment. If there is, it will only resemble Buddha, not like the Dharma period. The period of Dharma statues was also the period when the great patriarchs promoted the Buddhist teachings, integrated into the current of life, and went to countries that believed in Buddhism more than followed Buddha to practice. Therefore, in this period, the patriarchs promoted the Dharma, deformed many good dharmas, and reduced practice, saving for the merit of spreading the Dharma. Enlightenment and practice are only based on work. understand Buddha's meaning but do not act like Buddha. That's why attainment of enlightenment exists, but very rarely, and if there is, it is only imagined, not like Buddha. The meaning of reciting the Medicine Buddha Sutra and chanting the Medicine Buddha 3. Dharma Ending Period Ending is decline. Dharma is in a period of decline, human beings are too far away from Buddha. There are many evil people and few pure people, so very few people practice enlightenment. The end of Dharma is also very difficult to practice, because sentient beings do not have time to sit and study the principles to practice. Many people build temples, fight for rights and power, divide into factions and kill each other. There are no people who seek quiet, secluded places to practice to attain enlightenment, but only people who cherish material things and serve. for himself, to glorify himself and fatten his skin in the Zen forest, causing chaos at the Zen temple, people not knowing what is right and wrong, monks eating meat and drinking alcohol, knowing little about diligent practice. Therefore, in the Dharma Ending Age, there are many people chanting sutras, reading sutras, and studying sutras, but there are no enlightened enlightenment results, or there are far fewer people than in the period of Dharma Dharma. At the end of the Dharma, people only understood Buddhism and then propagated it.Instead of cultivating and attaining the Dharma, we can preach the Dharma. Therefore, there are no cultivators who attain enlightenment, no cultivators who attain enlightenment, but only those who vow to keep the religion and spread the Buddha's teachings, right and wrong without clear distinction. Many people who violate Buddha's beliefs and precepts without knowing it still claim to be teachers. Your practice process I also commend you for having a great desire to practice, practicing many methods, reading many sutras, no different from the monks and nuns in the Zen forest. But we "read the prayer for reason", finding reason for Buddha to take the right path for our own liberation. Chanting and studying the sutras a lot is good, but there are times when we are "overwhelmed" about receiving the sutras, especially Buddhist vocabulary, making us no longer know which direction to practice. Knowing too much sometimes makes our mind heavy, making it difficult to describe all the aromas of the essence of the sutra. Knowing a lot but not digesting or resolving it logically makes the reader like a bookcase, reading many sutras like a worm eating a sutra book. The scriptures are all corrupted, but no dharma has been attained. Reading a lot of books is beneficial or harmful. But you must read and learn from low to high, from the cross like the books "Buddhism at the top of textbooks", the book "General Buddhism" by Venerable Thich Thien Hoa, the book "Buddhism". Essentials" of Venerable Thich Thien Tam, "History of Shakyamuni Buddha", "Background of the 33 Patriarchs Tay Thien Dong Do", "History of Vietnamese Buddhism". After learning to read these books, you will learn the "five vehicles" which are Nhon vehicle, Heavenly vehicle, Sravaka vehicle, Pratyekabuddha vehicle and Bodhisattva vehicle. Even after studying the Mahayana sutras like that, it takes 10 to 15 years for you to become an old sect of Buddhism. You should not just enter the temple steps and read books like Vajra Prajna, Avatamsaka, Nirvana, Cau Xa Luan, Duy Thuc... which will definitely make you mentally unbalanced. On the other hand, it is not certain that you study many scriptures to practice. Even monks and nuns who are highly educated and knowledgeable, even Buddhists who study many Buddhist scriptures rarely discuss the practice of Dharma. Go to Pure Land ceremony, Zen retreat, Tantric retreat. It seems that I no longer think about cultivating myself during practice sessions. This is a great harm to Buddhists. If you know too much, you will despise and ignore the Dharma. If you know too little, it will be difficult to practice and not understand the Dharma of Buddha, and there will be no way to reach your destination. Do not practice many dharmas (miscellaneous dharmas). Practicing many dharmas makes you lose focus, contemplating many topics will cause you to lose mindfulness. Based on the elaborate sessions in temples, practice properly. At a pagoda belonging to the Northern sect, in the morning, diligently chant the Shurangama mantra, in the afternoon, diligently chant the minor sutras of Amitabha, the Red Names, and repentance.In the evening, chant the Amitabha minor sutra, or the Universal Gate Sutra. Occasionally open a course to chant the Medicine Buddha Sutra, a course to chant the Ksitigarbha Sutra, a course to chant the Lotus Sutra... Pure Land pagodas recite the Buddha's name at 11 p.m., while Zen temples and Mendicant's monasteries do so. Sitting in meditation without chanting, at Tantric temples, they recite mantras... Thus, in temples and monasteries there are 3 simple practices; One is meditation, two is cultivating Buddha's name, and three is cultivating secret speech. If you are a pure Buddhist, you should devote yourself to reciting sutras like temples do. Your practice will be extremely diligent and effective because you do not practice mixed dharmas. As a Buddhist, you should not practice one dharma today, practice another dharma tomorrow, receive meditation dharma today, tomorrow receive pure dharma, tomorrow receive secret dharma, but should choose a method to practice for maturity, either practice meditation, or practice pure, secret practice. In the short forest there is a saying: "Practice one dharma, you will attain all dharmas". Practicing one dharma makes the body, speech, and mind pure, and when the body, speech, and mind are pure, then one can maintain all dharmas, all dharmas return to one thing, making the consistent contemplation of other dharmas that arise all pure. At that time, benefits, spiritual benefits, and miracles all arise, good dharmas arise, making you even more diligent. At Dong Nai, a temple in Bien Hoa city, practice has many variations of Dharma: The abbot practices Zen, teaches his disciples to practice Purity, invites Tibetan shamans to practice Tantrism to transmit the Dharma to his disciples, and makes them I lost my direction, did not know which Dharma to practice properly, and became chaotic and mixed with Dharma. In the end, they teach their disciples to "practice any Buddha's dharma", causing Buddhists to disturb the Buddha's dharma and practice "miscellaneous dharmas". As a Buddhist, you should follow the Dharma to practice. You should not choose your own Dharma. Study the scriptures too much. In the end, you will lose direction. If you are good, you may be good, but you do not know which Dharma to choose to practice properly. To quote an anonymous story: "An old man took people across the river. One day, it was raining, stormy and windy, the boat capsized, but fortunately everyone on there, including the monks, knew how to swim, everyone was able to swim. During the swimming process, you must remove all your luggage to be light and avoid drowning. Only one monk threw a load of prayer. The monk was worried about retrieving the sutras, afraid that if he abandoned the sutras, he would offend the Buddha and lose his wisdom. He was so worried about retrieving the sutras that due to the cold rain and storm, he was "broken" and drowned along with the sutras in regret. The boat sank, everyone abandoned all their luggage just to escape, so they were able to live, but the monk drowned due to grief. Enlightened people do not expect to read many sutras to become enlightened. Enlightenment is enlightenment, enlightenment does not come through reading and chanting sutras.Reading and chanting a lot only benefits your intelligence, which is smarter than the world, but does not help you liberate. If you want to be liberated, you must choose a dharma. In choosing a dharma, it is not necessary to study scriptures like the world, because it increases the ego of ordinary people, leads to arrogance, and blocks your path of practice. Chanting sutras has boundless merits. Reciting and reading many sutras. Reciting many sutras is very beneficial. One is to make the mind more fluent in the practice, and to thoroughly understand the wholesome dharma; The second is to clean up karma (after the ceremony, the body and mind will feel refreshed and light); Third is to make wisdom arise. When wisdom is born, the higher the liberation criterion. However, sometimes people who read the sutras a lot are not sure that they practice well. In this world, doing anything that is beneficial will inevitably cause harm, even if it is Buddhist scriptures or Buddha's teachings. Sometimes Buddha's teachings were spoken by him, but mistakes caused listeners to misunderstand and follow them, which is pitiful for the disciples. Sometimes the Buddha's teachings are also passed down, but they are transmitted in a short-sighted way according to one's own ideas, creating a local environment, giving rise to arrogance, causing those who follow them to do the same, also giving rise to arrogance. Reading the sutras without understanding anything, claiming to be a Dharma Master, a preacher, preaching, but not practicing or practicing anything. Unfortunately, when it was passed on to his disciples, Buddha's disciples also developed arrogance, read and learned almost all the scriptures by heart, memorized all three canons of the Holy Scriptures, but did not practice. Without the process of diligent practice, without the slightest bit of wisdom, how can there be a basis to help practitioners become true Zen practitioners, let alone talk about cultivating enlightenment and becoming Buddhas? You "study the sutras" just enough to practice, your friend advises you to "study the sutras" a lot so that you can understand more and practice more easily. You "study the sutras" just enough to practice, your friend advises you to "study the sutras" a lot so that you can understand more and practice more easily. Studying according to the sutras and cultivating the sutras is also very difficult. It is true that in the Zen forest there is a saying: "According to the sutras, the teachings of the Three Worlds of Buddha are unfair, disseminating the sutras one by one means becoming a demonic theory." Recite the sutras a lot, study the sutras well, but if you cling to the sutras, you will be unjust to the three generations of Buddhas. For example, in the Pho Mon Sutra, Buddha taught: "The person who specializes in reciting the name of Avalokiteśvara and prays to give birth to a son will receive a son. The person who prays to give birth to a daughter will receive a daughter. The person who recites the name of Avalokiteśvara enters the fire. does not burn, does not sink when entering the water... That is, the person who recites the name of Avalokiteśvara prays to attain full compassion (girls) and wisdom (boys). The fire does not burn, the fire here is the fire of "desire", the water here is the water of "desire". That means the person who chants the name Avalokiteśvara will no longer be contaminated with desire.Worldly desires are also freed from suffering. Thus, those who uphold the sutras and understand the principles of the sutras and the Buddha's meaning will not "injustice" the Buddhas. However, if you do not base your practice on the Buddha's teachings, or preach the Dharma to everyone who listens without basing on the Buddha's teachings, that is equivalent to demon theory. For example: If you do not read the original text of the Pho Mon Sutra above: "The person who specializes in reciting the name of Avalokiteśvara who prays for a son will receive a boy; if he prays for a daughter, he will receive a daughter. The person who chants the name Avalokiteśvara will not be burned when he enters the fire, or will not sink when he enters the water...", in order to explain the sutra for everyone to understand and practice, if you omit the sutra, or at least one word, that's fine. is also guilty of being "in agreement with demonic theory". You "study the sutras" just enough to practice, your friend advises you to "study the sutras" a lot so that you can understand more and practice more easily. In the world of monks, this interpretation is not very certain because sometimes "studying the sutras" just enough is easier to practice than "studying the sutras". Because "studying the sutras" is just enough for you to have time to practice, "studying the sutras" is so busy with "studying the sutras" that you have no free time to practice. Besides, you are a "storehouse of sutras" and need someone to keep the "storehouse of sutras", worrying about reciting and preserving all the sutras in the "storehouse of sutras", there is no basis for practicing meditation and chanting. Reading and chanting sutras is practice? To be a Buddhist, you must understand the Buddha Dharma. The Buddha Dharma is the Tripitaka. When listening to a teacher preach somewhere, if you have the means, immediately make a conscious effort to go there and listen to the Dharma to practice, or diligently study the teachings to understand the profound Buddhist teachings of the Buddha. However, we should not "cling to ignorance" and become confused. We must know that the Buddha's teachings are nothing more than a means of building a treasure of knowledge for sentient beings to use as a basis for gradual practice without departing from the Buddha's true teachings. As in the Diamond Prajna Buddha Sutra: Subhuti, you should not give the Tathagata the meaning that "I preach the Dharma". Don't think like that. Why? Because if someone says: Tathagata preaches the Dharma, he is criticizing Buddha and not understanding what I am saying. Subhuti, preaching the Dharma without having any Dharma to preach, that is called preaching the Dharma. During the process of becoming a disciple of Buddha, a person who has taken refuge in the Three Jewels, observed the five precepts, practiced the Eight Precepts, and practiced the Ten Virtues means that he has learned the Buddha's teachings. In addition, we must also research Buddhist teachings, learn basic Buddhism, and cultivate some knowledge of Buddhist principles to have a basis for determining what is right and what is evil. Mainly, we must study the teachings of the Three Wisdoms and the Three Outflows. study and the Five Vehicles to progress in practice. During the process of studying Buddhism, don't let the teachings, language, and words of Buddhism overwhelm you, that is, using Buddhism you have to digest and progress.Know how to apply Buddha's teachings to daily life, your vows will shine, and your virtue will be fulfilled. Understanding Buddhism needs to have a real basis for progress in order to feel free from ignoring the Dharma, repeating many times like "a parrot can speak human language but cannot do human things". You should not view Buddhist teachings as a philosophical basis, view Buddhist teachings as a place to research, translate, distribute and sell... If you do not have any of the above problems, you can still read a lot of sutras according to the advice to concentrate on the teachings. tons of practice. Discovering the Amitabha Sutra of Tu Duc's time at the foot of the Buddha statue. Buddhists need to understand the teachings. According to some commentaries in "The Way to the Pure Land", the Dharma of Great Master Nguoi Ich, the Dharma will end, the Dharma will end. gradually comes to destruction, all classics gradually disappear. Why? Because sentient beings lack blessings, have deep karma, and have no cause or condition to read the scriptures. There is no need to talk about the future, right now there are people without eyes, hands and diseases, so not a single word in the sutra is seen. It is true that karma creates obstacles, this is the end of dharma. People with eyes cannot see and understand Buddha Dharma clearly. In the Dharma Ending Age, all the sutras were destroyed, first the Shurangama Sutra, then the other sutras, and finally the Amitabha Sutra. This Amitabha Sutra will remain in this world for more than a hundred years to save all sentient beings. At the end of that time, the Amitabha Sutra also disappeared, leaving only the six-word name "Namo Amitabha Buddha" remaining in this world for another hundred years to save all sentient beings. After a while, only the four-word name "Amitabha Buddha" remained, remaining in this world for another hundred years to save countless sentient beings. Finally, the four words "Amitabha Buddha" also disappeared. Up to this point, the Buddhadharma can be said to be completely destroyed (The way to the Pure Land). According to the Dharma of the Great Master Nguoi Ich, even at the time of the destruction of the Dharma, the Buddha also predicted that the Dharma would only have 4 words: "Amitabha". Buddha". But those four words are the "encapsulation" of the dharma realm. "If you recite Amitabha Buddha to maturity, the ultimate teachings of the Tipiṭaka and twelve volumes of sutras are all contained therein. One thousand seven hundred koans, the key points pointing upward, are also contained therein. Three thousand majestic postures. , the eighty thousand virtues, the three collections of pure precepts are all included in it." If you have a predestined relationship, you will still practice and study Buddhism without any obstacles or thoughts. People who do not have the means to study Buddhism, my friend! The Buddhist scriptures are truly precious, one of the Three Jewels, both the heart and mind of the three generations of Buddhas, as well as the fragrance and color of the Buddha's preaching. Being a Buddhist living alongside life is not easy at all, but being able to practice alongside your family is extremely noble. You cannot not study Buddhist teachings, you cannot not understand the teachings. You cannot help but practice diligently. However,In your life as a Buddhist studying Buddhism, you must have a schedule that clearly delineates life's work and religious work, when to practice, when to do housework, and social work, so there is no need to worry about right or wrong. When it comes to studying Buddhism, learning is understanding. Every day, in your free time, you also need to read and study Buddhist scriptures to practice, and study Buddhist teachings to expand your wisdom. Learning is learning, but we should not be too stubborn and adhere to the sutras, causing diseases that are difficult for living beings to treat. To be a pure Buddhist, you must be truly steadfast in your Buddhist work and protect the Three Jewels. Protection has many meanings: One is making offerings and providing sustenance for monks and nuns to propagate the Buddha's teachings; Second, practice diligently; Third, establish Buddhist conduct as a typical example for everyone, encourage everyone to enter the religion, take refuge and become disciples of the Buddha.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN ZEN BUDDHIST MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/6/2024.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.