Buddha Amitabha and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss .

Generally, it is known that there are many Pureland, many of those celestial realms whom we call enlightened Buddhas. Pure Land of the Buddha of Boundless Light, Amitabha, is truly a unique place. There are four Pureland in the East, West, South, North, and in the center. Among them, the Pure Land of Buddha Amitabha is the easiest to get and so very special.

 

Thanks to the establishment of a special wish to be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, we can achieve the transformation of our consciousness to that realm. The capacity of the prayer, the capacity of the wishes and fervent devotion is all that is required. In relation to our world, the Pure Land of Buddha Amitabha in the West and in our part of the world. We have to adopt a worldview and realize that the world has many systems throughout space. I'm talking about a very vast system. Let's define our position.

 

What I am saying - in the range of great systems - runs as follows: Sakyamuni Buddha the Enlightened major disasters in the world a great profile. This means that the entire system is called our universe with the sun and the moon, the stars and planets, as a unit. Multiply that by a thousand times, and then multiplied by a thousand times, a thousand times more. It is trichiliocosm world. Shakyamuni Buddha dominates one of the world's natural that profile. Realm of the Buddha of Boundless Light, Amitabha even transcendental cosmic system. I am teaching originating from a prayer composed by Karma Chagme demonstrated powerful aspirations to be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. In the prayer, said Karma Chagme Bliss Pureland have such vast scope, far beyond ordinary reality of our own eyes and we never could see it. It is not something that can be physically seen. It is so vast; Its scope can not be compared with any standards. We know that it is beyond the perception of our senses. It is far and wide, so completely beyond my measure.

 

We can see the stars and go to the moon, but our senses will never be aware of the reality of Dewachen. For the thinking and our ordinary perceptions, it is too far and too immense. In that sense, we can not go there with any material medium. However, when the mind has been purified, is eradicate the mistakes, when they return to the pristine state of its own, we can directly experience the reality of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. How to perceive the Pureland is through the mind, not through the senses. So, let's set that vision in your mind and imagine that dwells in the heart of the vast Dewachen, contained all the Lord of the Pureland of Buddha Amitabha, the Buddha of Boundless Halo. His body has red and looks like Buddha Shakyamuni. He has all the 80 major and 32 minor signs of a manifest incarnation omniscient. His example has protuberance that you see in the statues and thangkas of the Buddha. In the hand he has wheels and so on. as you can see there are many different signs. Two hands in meditation posture balance, Indian meditation, and in the hand is a bowl. He looks very much like the Buddha Shakyamuni, the only other point His skin is dark ruby ​​red. He looked gorgeous and brilliant. He sits on a lotus and moon seat. Behind him is the Tree. His right side is Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with white color. He left Germany Vajrapani (Vajrapani), The Lord of The Powerful Means. This is the third leader of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. Talk a little about the history of the formation of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, the Buddha Amitabha Pureland that is a no flaws. It is perfect in every way.

 

The awareness of the Pure Land does not appear without cause. The cause of this perfect celestial realms is what? Very many aeons ago, before a Buddha, Buddha Amitabha was a monk named Dharmakara (France Tibet), which literally means 'root causes of the French.' When He practiced as a bodhisattva, he made a series of prayers, or the powerful aspirations, the way of things when he completely Enlightenment. He said: "There are many Pureland and those to be realms are beings that have renounced evil deeds, who have accumulated a wealth of merit, and was diligent practice. They can go to the Pure Land, but it's very difficult. And everyone who does not abandon evil deeds, not accumulate a lot of merit, and could not practice in a rigorous way, why? I will establish a Pure Land to the people that can easily get to. I vow to liberate all sentient beings no supernatural qualities of practitioners that go to the Pure Land of Buddha all the others. "There are many versions of the prayer (or vow) of the Buddha A Amida formed when he was Dharmakara (France Tibet). Tibet alone has 500 different versions of the prayer.

 

In China there are many texts about lapnhung Vow of Amitabha. Generally, we can say that all of his powerful aspirations can be arranged into Forty Eight Vow. Bliss Pureland become a reality thanks to one such Vow Forty Eight. This is the cause of the existence of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. Pure Land does not exist without a cause. The cause of this is the existence of Bodhisattva activities - Career became the Buddha Amitabha.

 

Generally, all the Buddhas hold all beings in the minds of him with kindness and compassion. Because of His great compassion, they formulate powerful aspirations. They make great volunteer, working through many generations; while training as a Buddhist bodhisattva before to affect all beings in countless ways. Like rubbing two sticks together long enough and strong enough that you can create fire, thanks to the accumulation of merit and primordial wisdom, everything can be accomplished. In this case it is achieved is the establishment Bliss Pure Land in the west of the world we live by the accumulation of immeasurable merit and his primal wisdom. Again, let's examine the metaphor of two sticks needed to create fire. Fire does not occur naturally from a stick. You need the stick and required efforts by rubbing them together in a special way for some time. Direct final spark leaps from a combination of two sticks and a fire starts. In a similar way, all phenomena, all reality, all legal, manifest by the combination of emptiness and interdependent causes (dependent arising.) Everything is fully reciprocal relationship with each other . That is called interdependent. It's a stick. The other stick is emptiness: The truth of emptiness, the absolutely no inherent existence of all phenomena. Two sticks together, the actual nature of reality. This is true of everything, of all reality.

 

Let Pureland aside for a moment and let us examine the realm in which we live. Our world is too. It is the product of the non-duality of clarity (clarity) and emptiness, of form and emptiness. These things appear in a way that completely unobstructed, and yet they have no substance. Their essence à l no [no nature]. That means that every possibility of the experience derived from the non-duality of form and emptiness. Let us examine the manifestation of our world or of the Pureland. Everything is not merely an empty because they can appear, is not it? We can see clearly everything. Everything seems to have existence and everything seems to have a fundamental matter in our world.

 

It is a part of the equation denotes a clear manifestation of the phenomenon, of the experience. However, such clauses can not be without emptiness. If all the solid existence, physical, internal, nothing can exist. It is because of emptiness that things can manifest as appearances. Just because there is emptiness, all the new things cothe existence. There is no emptiness, there will only be a solid monolithic. As thethi will only be one thing. Nothing can form relative existence without laying mainly in the emptiness. So thanks so gioichung emptiness that we exist. Thanks to emptiness, Bliss Pureland The capacity is set by the aspirations, the accumulation of merit, and the primal wisdom of Enlightened A Dida. I think if you're new to Buddhism, this is hard to understand, but it is only because there is emptiness that is form.

 

Now let's continue to explore the special qualities Pureland is formed by the aspiration of the Buddha Amitabha called Dewachen (Dewachen). We also know that there are many other Buddhist realm, but in order to reach them, we must fully achieve an exalted status. For example, to go to the Pure Land of the Buddha other than a tenth stage bodhisattva, or approaching the gates of the awakening and fulfillment, and have accumulated a great deal of merit. The ordinary beings are difficult to aspire to this. For us, Buddha Amitabha has established the powerful aspirations. Although His Pureland world seems very far away but for those of us living beings like us, to be the realm of relativity that easy.

 

That is due to the power of the prayers and wishes of Him. As said above, there are many versions of the prayers, supplications and wishes of the Buddha Amitabha. If you include them in a single sentence the essence of prayer, invocation, and aspiration is: "May the Pureland is set to the normal beings with impure now, these beings evil, evil people who do not abandon the happiness that can come to be. "when you get to the Pure Land of the Buddha, you will attain enlightenment through your exalted status that existed prior to that. Also in the Pure Land, you can go there, but that does not mean you have enlightenment. What happens is that you will not return to the cycle of birth and death but rather, you will have all the positive conditions and good to accumulate merit and primordial wisdom. In that realm you can abandon any evil and practice to subdue and cultivate your mind until you can master to achieve enlightenment. Thus it is a general introduction Dewachen.

 

Now I will preach on a wish to be reborn in Dewachen (Bliss) by Rag-Astrs Chagme Karma Rinpoche compiled. First, I will start with a description of the topography of the Pure Land. The ground is not the same with the ground in our world. It's not rough and covered with stones. It is perfectly smooth and flat, and is composed of jewel dust. In the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, you always have a sense of broad vision. It was immense. No changes of light and shade. An all-pervasive light emerges from the physical body of the Buddha of Boundless Light, Amitabha Buddha. The entire realm steeped in the glorious of enlightened form of Amitabha Buddha. Dry ground is not solid. It is soft and if you fall on it, you will bounce. You will not stub your toe. In Dewachen everything is soft. There were lots of trees, they are jewels like the tree you anything you need. Trees full of birds of all kinds. All of them are the reincarnation of the Buddha Amitabha. We have wonderful melodious voices. Rather than the normal song, we sing the Dhamma as your heart joy and peace. Everyone there to hear the melodious sound of Dharma become peaceful, happy, and satisfied. There are many rivers, streams and creeks and water is not a normal country. It is perfume. There are pools where you can relax there and flower bath. The ground was covered with brilliant shower and fragrant, it swells and from the stigmas of each shower emanated rays. On top of each ray of light is a Buddha. All Buddhas preach France. Thanks to hear him lecture rid your mind of all negative emotions. In Dewachen no sickness, no poverty, aging and death. There is no discrimination between men and others. All are beautiful. All are full of good qualities. None of these shortcomings, the faults, the pollution, does not have the kind of suffering, even the word 'suffering' can be heard in the Pureland of Great Bliss.

 

How to be born in Dewachen is establishing a trust and a strong desire for the Pure Land, and desire to be born there. When you give birth, you are not born with a normal process. In our world, all of us were there in the hardships and worked in sorrow. Here the birth is a painful process. In Dewachen, you are not born through a womb, but rather you are born miraculously of the pistil of a lotus blossom. If you pray with one heart and great fervent belief was born there, you'll be like that. If you harbor any doubts, you may still be born there but will be born in a lotus blossom. You are bathed in the luminous light of the Buddha, but you can not recognize all the qualities of the Pureland arbitrary and can not wander about at will. You are in a closed lotus blossom until the last vestiges of doubt and negativity are eliminated. Then the lotus will bloom. If you do not have any doubt, you were born in a lotus bloom. This kind of prayer attached to make to be reborn in the Pure Land that you make at the moment of death. Please keep in mind the distinction is very important between the two different types of birth in the Pure Land. It is extremely important to establish proper aspiration to be reborn at death. Let's do this in a powerful way without any doubt.

 

If you allow doubt to enter your mind, you will be born in a closed lotus blossom. If at death you establish this strong aspiration meanwhile, has not experienced anything else, you were born in a lotus flower blooming pistil in the presence of the Buddha of Boundless Light, Amitabha. One of the magical qualities of being reborn in the Pure Land is, if you ever read the brochure about travel to the Pureland else, you can go there immediately as it wishes . You can move a miraculous way to any other Pureland only by establishing wish to go there. From this world, you can not immediately go to the Pure Land, but from the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, you can. Do you have a passport, visa, and all tickets necessary to go to all the Pure Buddha of any public, in every way, and whenever you want.

When you're born in a lotus blossom, you are not perfect yet. You have eliminated from your stream of consciousness all negative things, even though you are not a Buddhist, but you were born in a form that has many positive qualities like the qualities of a Buddha. You are born with a brilliant golden body. You have supernatural powers and super senses. You will benefit in kind of extrasensory capabilities. Other qualities that you as a baby's everything you need to make offerings to the Buddhas, but now you are aware of your physical eyes is in the Pure Land, we will automatically manifest in your hands . In this way you can easily accumulate merit and perfected it to accumulate wisdom. Moreover, eventually the accumulation of merit and wisdom leads to Buddhahood will happen very quickly in the Pureland of Great Bliss. As opposed to other Pureland, in Dewachen (Bliss) process accumulating merit and wisdom very quickly.

 

The Buddha Sakyamuni said: "Therefore, pray to be reborn in accumulating merit Dewachen much as if I offer seven types of jewels and other treasures filled with three thousand world (in question previous update). "generally, we can say that any sentient heard the name of the Buddha Amitabha (consistent with the vow of Buddha Amitabha) established voluntary rebirth in Dewachen and engage in practices that can be recycled in Dewachen. Those who have accumulated the negative of felony year is difficult to achieve that. Even so, even for heavy sinners like, if they practice strongly, they still can be reborn in Dewachen.

 

In summary, the teachings of the Buddha Amitabha and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss is very common practice in all countries of Mahayana Buddhism. Why? This is because the nature of the prayers of the Buddha Amitabha. Practice Buddha Amitabha Pureland and suitable for ordinary people, and anyone can practice. You are not a great exalted being abandoned any evil. You do not have to be a great yogi. Depending on the capacity of the vows of the Buddha Amitabha, you can engage in this practice. This is a practice Sutrayana. Therefore, it is the teachings that people can practice. It's very democratic and it is for everyone.

 

Q. Once you were born in the Pure Land, whether we have the opportunity to return to this world to help sentient beings attain enlightenment?

 

A: The purpose of rebirth in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss is to attain Buddhahood. Thus, the meaning of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss is you've got to be good conditions to achieve full enlightenment and fulfillment thoroughly. When you are fully enlightened, then that state is not one-sided enlightenment to rest in Nirvana. It is the Mahayana enlightenment is based on emptiness, enlightenment Nirvana, and life and death is not something to attach to. The key of all practice Mahayana is Great Compassion. Pure Land itself is set by the power of the Great Compassion Buddha Amitabha. If you realized emptiness is compassion then automatically manifest. That emptiness with compassion - is what constitutes Buddhahood - also made up of complete liberation and fulfillment. When you get rid of that, you will not be limited to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. You can bring any manifest way you want. You can go to any Pureland you want. You constantly manifests in countless different ways for the happiness of all beings.

 

Q: On the one hand, to be reborn in the Pure Land may sound easy. On the other hand, at that time to get the real peace we will have to strengthen ourselves, really desire to achieve Bodhi. So that it seems to have a great challenge in the desire to help others and not just care about themselves. So perhaps it is not so easy.

 

A: The rebirth of Dewachen (Bliss) is only difficult if you committed a crime in Five Weight is not atone. If you do not commit one sin that is very easy, because all you need to do, depending on the capacity of the formation of the powerful aspirations to be reborn in the Pure Land. What that does is to unite you with the antidote to all the non-obscuration and your ethics. That's the power of the great prayer of the Buddha Amitabha. Other factors contributing to the formation you wish to connect this practice and be reborn in the Pure Land.

 

Another reason why it is quite easy to be reborn is the moment of death is every moment. Dharma teaches that everything in a state of constant change. All things are impermanent and towards death all the time, so in each moment, something dies and something recycled. What is your experience depends on your mind towards how. Your current thoughts will lead to your subsequent experience. If you set up a continuous aspiration from moment to moment, understand that any moment may be at death, in each moment you are longing to be reborn in Dewachen, you has established the continuity of that aspiration. That will be your experience. The cause of that moment will make the results of the next moment. Everything is a transformation in consciousness.

 

Q: Rinpoche, you can preach to us the more light in the closed lotus? How we shine that light?

 

A: In Dewachen, everything is imbued with light. Like everything else in and around Dewachen, it is an incarnation of the Buddha Amitabha. It is the whole Buddha Amitabha. Everything is perceived in Dewachen is a spread of the Buddha Amitabha. Light is the Light of Compassion. It is Light of Compassion maturing beings.

 

Q: (inaudible)

 

A. The formation of prayer reborn in Dewachen is a personal matter. You can not develop a wish on behalf of someone else. But you can help others by making them heard the name of the Buddha Amitabha and let them know of the existence of Buddha Amitabha in the Pure Land. It is said that even hearing the name of Amitabha is also very beneficial. Another thing you can do to help others is the time they die you can do practice different Amitabha. Such as at the time of death you can do Ph'owa, and it is a practice transference of consciousness of the dead out of themselves. Other rituals and puja is performed at the time. There is a ritual called Shitje. It is the ritual is performed at the time of death. Many things can be done even though he was dead. Their mental element is addressed and are guided by different ways.

 

Q: (listen unknown)

 

A: We have to talk a little about emptiness. The teachings of emptiness absolutely no assertion that what we perceive is absolutely non-existent. We are not saying that these things are made of atoms and molecules and physical reality (literally) does not exist, and in that sense, is illusory. We are saying that we do not have self-identity. They have no inherent existence. They have no real solid, real, corresponding to how they appear. They seem to exist an intrinsic way, but not so. This is the teaching of the great Middle Way Phai - Madhyamika.

 

There are two different schools, Mission Duy Tam (Cittamatra) say that they are all self-interest. The only thing that really exists is the mind and everything else is a projection of the mind. Catechism Mahamudra (Great India) said that the actual nature of reality that it transcends accepted or whether or not, there is no no, there is not. This is called 'Extreme Four' (Four shot). Mahamudra transcend their views. Stood at the level of our relative truth, in Tibetan saying is 'Kun-Zop Dempa' means a sentence enchanting. 'Dempa' means truth. 'Kun-Zop' means absolutely wrong. So 'completely false truths', relative truth is the result of our wrong perception. We perceive objects have intrinsic existence when in fact they are not. Our minds cling to what we perceive as solid and real. By grasping this in mind, we materialize what in fact empty. That was a mistake. All phenomena are our experience. They are experienced by and in our mind. Otherwise we will never have experienced. All the external appearance is a projection of the mind in the sense that it is experienced by the mind. It has no inherent existence firmly from its own side. It was a mistake in perception.

 

Q: Is there any way that I can stay in the Pure Land, except on termination of life literally. On the other hand, this is what can be achieved in the present life? Probably go to Pureland in this life?

 

A: Yes, when the last breath has been exhaled, before the next breath is inhaled. At the time, there is a death and a rebirth. There you can experience the Pureland in the period between breaths.

 

Q: Rinpoche, he said that one can experience the Pureland in between them, so in that case, what is the Pure Land?

 

A: What is the Pure Land? Pureland is the primordial awareness of our own pollution. If from moment to moment, you regain its shine and maintaining the pristine nature of your enlightenment, it is the Pureland. Everything comes from your own mind. Understand that, remain there: it's Pureland.

 

Q: If interdependent appear in emptiness is how it can exist without the artifacts of emptiness?

 

A: Emptiness and interdependent, the duality. We are one. Even when it comes duality is to miss the mark, because it implies that there may be a duality was overcome. From time without beginning, we always are one. There is no difference between them. It's not like there are two parts. When you see emptiness and dependent arising Vasu dualistic way, it is the analogy of samsara, the cycle of birth and death. Go beyond duality, and you also see cause and effect. When all the copper that appears.

 

It is emptiness and fullness interdependent, duality. In the text, many examples have been used to illustrate this truth of the unity of emptiness and interdependent. But let's take the example of this cup. As a manifestation or appearance relative structure of our perceptual experience, the cup is something complex. It is made up of tiny particles. Is it? It is made up of atoms and molecules can become especially soil quality, water, wind, and fire. All these things are combined in such a way as to make up what we call the cup. Then it is decorated, painted and carved. That is what is creating that Tibetan we say is 'Dutshe': complex, something is created. The causes and conditions come together in a way to create a relative manifestation which we can use and interact and perceive as what is called a cup. However, if from its own side and not dependent on causes and conditions, there is no something called the 'cup'. Nothing appears as the 'cup' in itself and belongs to it, but separate from the whole process of the causes and conditions coming together. It has no nature. The essence of it is empty. In Beijing 'Prajna Paramita Hydraya' (Heart Sutra): "Form is emptiness, that is no identity, no other identity No, not other non-identity." All phenomena have the same exact nature. Whatever is experienced in samsara or its transcendence same nature are exactly that. The essence of it was empty and it is experienced as a result of interdependent origination. Perceiving things as alternate visions of emptiness and interdependent, it remains an ordinary sentient beings. Overcoming the dualistic vision, perception of things at the same time is emptiness and interdependent, it is Buddhism. Great saints Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna) said: "The cycle of birth and death of its transcendence (samsara and nirvana) not two. Understanding the nature of samsara in its essence is the transcendent. "END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/2/2016.MHDT.