As humans, everyone carries inside a dream, an ideal seeks peace and harmony, because this is what we lack in our lives. But how are we to live peacefully? How to maintain harmony in the mind, maintain peace and harmony around us, so that others can also live peacefully and harmony? To achieve that we need a living art.
Buddhist Pali language as "buddhasasana", translated as "Buddhism". English words are now no longer in vogue in the West anymore, which is translated by "The art of living", Vietnamese-called "art of living". Why are Western Buddhists call such nouns? Answer: Buddhism is not a religion as the name of any other religion. Buddhism is simply an art of living, bringing people to peace and happiness. Buddha, who have experienced and put his great artistry to the Sangha, where the monks live pure and free.
The Buddhist Sangha life with distinct characteristics, there are flesh and blood human beings live together with fellow believers, love, harmony, equality and selflessness, ready to forget the mistakes, the wrong that someone else accidentally caused. Buddhist monks picture bareheaded, walked barefoot carefree calm steps, go into his heart, touched from within, that moral values are multiplied and people's lives become more complete, happier.
Let's try to think about what value to give people happiness and peace, there is altruism, harmony, love and equality between man and man? Yet nearly 2,600 years, national leaders around the planet are still pursuing a full model can bring happiness to people their country, why is that? Because the minds of ordinary people's property illegally, full of greed, hatred and delusion how to get the perfect, ideal as our Buddha, higher education, legions contraband. Therefore, today, when the demand arises happiness and Buddhist moral values are replicated, the leaders were caught where Buddhism great contribution in building a peaceful world , happy.
Buddha entered Nirvana long ago, and pictures Sangha, the successor model of moral, spiritual life has kept the traditional model was gorgeous. The model with the characteristic Sangha harmony, equality, democracy and selfless. It is an ideal model of society today.
"In Buddhism, the ideal society is a society in which equality, democracy and human rights are respected, progressive morality and spirituality is encouraged and people interested in the moral life. It is a society that help for the needy, make strong the weak, bring harmony to those who do not harmonize, bring happiness and light to those in sorrow and darkness, " [1] . Those are the standards that a society should take to bring happiness to people. From these criteria, we find that while we caught the similarities with the model of the Buddhist Sangha, but it absolutely can not breed, but, there is also the general standards as set issue price ideal treatment. In the Tang Chi III, the Seven France, page 77, as harmony of the Sangha is expressed through six measures:
a) Let's live together harmoniously, please get on board, Caring, rather than the use of force to suppress another.
b) Let's talk to each other a gentle, mild-mannered; if there are any questions without controversy, it would have to argue in a peaceful, respectful.
c) Be nice harbored for each other, let's cultivate virtue petal; Never enemy hostility, envy each other.
d) Keep the same precepts right, take the first discipline. Indiscipline is not a community that may exist.
e) Please expound upon understanding, his opinions to others. People who understand many it is the duty of showing people their habilitation and led her away promptly.
f) financial interests Divide evenly collected for the same people to live with them, so that everyone is satisfied, pleased this.
In business there after school A-levels: One day, seeing the shower or have buds, or near bloom, or bloom round, Buddha then said: "All round shower sweet swells, are comes from the stinking mud. " We also clearly have no blooming lotus flower in that clean? Showers always come from mud and slowly reached out mud, from water to then blossom fragrance. And flower blossoms and flowering yet alike, lotus seed also came from mud. That statement of the Buddha showed us that the nature of equality in Buddhism beyond the scope of equality earth, and He has told mankind that "no class in the same red blood and water eyes and salt ". Buddha has opened a new page for humanity, it is like a wake-up call, cut off from all the chains of injustice in society.
According to historical records, the Buddhist Sangha has admitted all those who wish to extricate sordid though inferior, relating to your wealth, men or women, for that all beings have the ability to become a Buddha. According to many researchers, " the Buddhist Sangha was held first in harmony equality in human history, to accept all members of four castes without any discrimination " [2] . The main reason of this statement can be clarified from Business Class (Sutta-Nipata) that: "It is not born people became Brahmin, not by birth one becomes an outcast. Because people act becomes a Brahmin, one action by becoming an outcast ". [3]
Buddha was the first in mankind protestations of caste and overthrow the stronghold ethnic divide India into four castes: Brahmins, Sat glass substrate, and Lamb old monk mandala amnesty. Main Sakyamuni while finding religion, told a shepherd like this: "Every person born without carrying the mark 'Tin Ca' (own mark peerage) on the forehead, not carrying the class in red with blood and tears and salty " [4] . A league of the most impressive historical Buddha Sangha is fully present 7 thereof (monks, nuns, novices, novices and nuns, ma na massage mode, laymen, laywomen).
In it, the beauty Sangha is selflessness, tolerance is expressed in a positive way when each member of the Sangha accept liberated life, learning and practicing self. Selflessness put on happy tolerant, selfless behavior is renunciation of negativity caused by someone for you, the mistakes that others made, will soon be forgotten, and instead is love love and harmony interest. Just because that spirit of selfless presence created beauty of the monastic spirit.
Nowadays, though ancient traditions inherited, but circumstances change, the development of science and technology that transformed people's lives, including Buddhist monks, and adaptation of the Sangha Buddhism is considered to be quite slow, and it takes more time. In any organization, human resource is the most important factor for growth. Buddhism in general and in particular Sangha, although the development of human resources use but compared to the requirements of the masses of suffering around the planet are lacking. Therefore, human resources is a challenging problem for modern-Sangha in the spreading liberating value of the Tathagata.
Recent trends, developments and reign of materialism affect life of the monastic tradition, especially personality alienation of young clergy. This is a big problem, a major challenge for modern-Sangha. For before these circumstances, we think the Sangha should apply the traditional characteristics inherent to clarify two input values and secularized world. This difference is sometimes very hazy in the minds of the young clergy to perform religious practices engaged. Besides being required urgent need for effective measures appropriate to regulate the Sangha.
In society today, the ongoing violence between ethnic acrimonious, between different religions. They always find a way to resolve the conflict by force. So but, life grounded Sangha nonviolence, taking encouraging everyone knows patience, communication and compromise as salvage to live in harmony with each other. Thus, the Sangha has always encouraged people to find a way to solve all social problems through understanding, tolerance and compassion.
Currently, due to rising consumer demand, the viewer is happy to satisfy. Therefore, greed took control of human reason, human labor on making money without thinking of the consequences. As a result, hurt the environment at an alarming rate. Deforestation for timber, exploitation of resources, the development trend of industrialization and emit large amounts of toxic waste, appear a series of diseases can not be cured. Recently, the phenomenon appears contained, global warming, and countless natural disasters earthquakes, flooding and that no other people are actors. Photos sangha is seen as the most vivid voice for humanity to simple living, mixed, friendly nature, known through the life of Buddha when he was born, attained enlightenment and passing Desk.
Another feature shown compassion are friendly with nature in life Sangha is: Sangha traditionally rainy season retreat. Aim to focus and avoid stampedes studied young shoots, insects proliferate under low soil moisture. This is the explanation for the "correlations" between man and nature, man can not live alone, at around humans, nature is dying.
This is a major task that the Sangha other face in the world today: How to arouse the conscience, consciousness and responsibility of man, when the action they generate serious impacts to life of millions of people and threaten to cause harm to countless others. In it, the biggest problem is the ethnic conflicts and destructive wars. The consequences of it are poured on top of innocent citizens, women and children who suffer the most severe way.
Sangha in the full sense of the Three Jewels as a large body of ancient trees, large museum, no matter how many times replace the wings that remain lush luxuriant. That is thanks to intense sap (purity and harmony) help plants survive by transmission of nutrients throughout the tree. Plastics that life was nourished from the traditional characteristics that the early construction of the Teacher. Harmony, equality, love and tolerance are qualities indispensable when testing the value of a social ideal.
Modern Sangha patrimony inherited traditions mix with firm steps hectic as lotus species from reaching their legendary mud of marshes, expressed fragrance four attacks. Photos Sangha with simple lifestyle, know enough, is the presentation live for solving today's global problems. The model of the monastic impressive modern society caught belatedly, but the problem is still not as helpless as now, if that value is applied broadly across society .
According to history, we've seen this pattern when emperor Asoka, after a bloody war in Kalinga, was "shore earlier." Tran Nhan Tong Buddhist kings, how many times the Mongol invasion quelled, build moral life, prosperity and happiness in the history of Vietnam. Can affirm to the world that the ideal model only in Buddhism with artistic life that Buddha, Higher outflow position, was built.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN PRAYED BUDDHIST NUN MONASTERY.THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN PRAYED BUDDHIST NUN GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,NEWCASTLE,SYDNEY.18/8/2015.
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