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455. The Story of Motherly Elephants (Māti-Posaka)

Although the elephant god must go far ...,

This story the Master told during his stay in Ky Vien about a monk and his mother had to support him.

This situation is like the story of Sàma (No. 540 volume VI). On this occasion the Master spoke to the monks, saying,

- Monks, do not be angry with this monk. In the old days, the sage, even born from the belly of an animal, and away from his mother also did not eat or drink for seven days, every wear and tear. Although they were provided with royal food, they replied, "No mother, I do not want to eat." However, when meeting their mother again, they will eat as before.

That said, he told a story of the past.

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At one time, when King Brahmadatta reigned in Balaclava, Bodhisattva was born as King in the Snow Mountain. The body of white elephant is very majestic, the god of eighty thousand elephants surrounded him, but his mother was blind. He often gave the elephants elephants delicious to bring to bring their mother, however, they did not bring anything to offer the mother, which they eat. When he inquired and learned about this, he said:

- I want to leave to feed my mother.

So a good night, the uninformed elephants took him to the summit of Candorana, where he put her in a cave under a hill, near a lake, and raised her mother very well. knife.

At that time, a forest worker in Balaclava went astray and could not find a way out so he began to mourn loudly. Hearing this, the Bodhisatta thought to himself, "It is a man in distress, when I am here, and he is in trouble." So he approached him, but he ran away because of fear; Seeing that, Lord Elephant told him:

- Hey man, you do not have to be afraid of me, do not run, tell me why you walk and cry?

- The lord, this coward got lost seven days.

The Elephant says,

- Do not be afraid, and I will take you out of the way.

Then he told the man to climb up on his back and take him out of the forest, then he returned.

And the wicked man in the city told him the news. So he marked the trees, the hills, and headed for Balaclava. At that time the emperor's statue had just died. He gave the command with a blank message:

- If anyone sees where the elephant is worthy for his royal immortal, then report it.

Then the other man came to the king's court and said,

- God, you have seen a gorgeous elephant, full body white, a deserving worthy of God to rise up. Little god ask directions. But please bring the captains to follow to catch elephants.

The king accepted, telling a woodman to go with him and a group of entourage on the road.

The worker goes with him and sees the Bodhisatta eating in a lake. When the bodhisattva saw the woodsman, he thought, "This danger certainly does not come from anyone but the other. But I am very strong, I can beat up a thousand elephants in anger, I am enough to destroy the elephant battle of a kingdom. However, if we are outraged, our merit will be compromised. So today I will not get angry, even if I have a sword in my flesh. " With this decision, he stooped to stand still.

The woodsman stepped down the lotus pond, when he saw the beauty of the ivory tip, he said:

- Hey baby, come here.

The pillow grabbed the horn like a silver rope, leading the elephant to Balaia in seven days.

When the Bodhisattva mother saw her son not returning, she guessed he must have been captured by the king's army, and she mourned:

- Now the trees are still growing, but my son has gone away.

And she drenched the two following shelves:

1. Although the Princess Elephants have to go far, 
herbs, mushrooms still grow out, 
grass rice, peach, white gun, 
green cocoon in the room still blooming flowers.

2. Statue to the top of the Noble 
Crown of noble noble, 
Make up the pearl of gold, King of kings, 
Oai heroic victory over the cell.

Now the elephant trainer, while still on the road, sent a message to the king. The king ordered the whole city to be beautifully decorated. An elephant man leads a Bodhisattva into a cradle decorated with fringed wreaths and corolla and surrounds each curtain with brilliant colors, and then to the king. The king brought the delicacy to the Bodhisattva, but he did not eat anything at all:

- Without my mother, I do not want to eat anything.

The king pleaded with him to eat, and to recite the third verse:

3. Go eat a piece, this elephant, 
Do not be sad, do not faint skinny, 
To serve the king, much work 
will be done by the Elephant.

Hearing this, the Bodhisattva recites the fourth verse:

4. No, on the top of Mount Chien-ma-gia, 
Wretched woman, eyes are blind, 
stomping one leg into the ancient roots 
Because no princess, her son.

The king recited the fifth verse to ask the meaning of his words:

5. Who is on the hill of Joppa, 
who is miserable, is blind? 
Stomping on one tree, 
for there is no elephant, your child?

Elephant responds through the sixth verse:

6. My mother in Mountain Lamb-furniture, 
Miserable truth laments blindness, 
Stamp one foot in ancient origin, 
Because the Lord he is us.

Upon hearing this, the king gave him liberty, and sat down on the seventh verse:

7. Elephants support their body, 
Should be free, just wear, 
let the elephant go to mother 
And reunite with the family.

The eighth and ninth rungs are derived from the Master of Wisdom of the Buddha.

8. After the captivity of escape, the 
bondage, the forest elephant, 
some advice to him, the 
elephant back to the mountains thousand.

9. Then the other cool in the lake, 
where Elephant still come in how many times, 
Using the suction hose from that lake 
Tung waving throughout the body of the body.

But Bodhisattva's mother thought it was raining, so he took the tenth verse to cover the rain:

10. Someone brings rain in time, 
god is so cruel, oh dear! 
Because young children are absent, 
old children often serve me.

At that time, Bodhisattva recited the eleventh verse to reassure her:

11. Why are you always there, mom? 
Hey, my mother has come home, 
Catherine the Great, Mr. Wisdom, 
Peace baby is restored.

The mother answered, thank the king through the last rhyme:

12. Long live forever, great king! 
You bring the mighty water, 
The freedom you pay for that child, 
To the mother, the child is full of respect!

The king was very happy because of the virtue of the Bodhisattva should order to build a town not far from the lake and he often came to serve the Bodhisattva with his mother. Later, when his mother died, he went so far as to a dormitory called Karandaka. There are five hundred wise men staying and the king usually offering them. The King re-invented a stone statue of the Bodhisattva and often worshiped to pay tribute to him. Gradually the people of Yin-chit (India) gather together to celebrate the festival called the Elephant Assembly.

*

When the Master terminates the Dharma talk, he proclaims the Truth. At the conclusion of the Truths, the monks supporting the mother were residing in the Preliminaries.

Then he identified precursors:

At that time, Ānanda was the king, the mother of Mahārāja, the mother of Elephants, and I, the elephant lord, nourished his mother.

-ooOoo-

456. The Story of Wang Yuqiang (Junha precursor)

The Great King heard this saying ...,

This is what the Master said during his stay at the Discipleship, about the privileges that Sun Janda received.

The attendants of the Blessed One are not just one person: At the time of Sunnah Nāgamāla, when Sunnahatta, Upavàna, Sunakkhatta, Cunda, Sāgala, Meghiya, meanwhile, is to serve the Blessed One. One day, the Buddha said to the monks:

"O Bhikkhus, I am old, and when I tell you to go this way, some of them are on the other side of the road, somebody drops my bowl and medicine down the road. So please choose a monk who is always close to me.

Then, the Sangha raised up, starting with Venerable Sariputta, and holding up his hands and saying,

- Dear Lord, I would like to worship the Buddha, I want to serve the Blessed One.

But he refused to answer:

- Your request has been known before, enough is enough.

Then the monks said to the monk Ānanda:

- Sage, sage please apply for the position of attendant.

The author replied:

- If the Blessed One would not give us the robes he would have received, if He would not have given us his alms, if He would not allow us to be with him in Peace, if He would not. Let us go with him to the place where he was invited. But if the Blessed One will go with us to the place where we are invited, if we will be allowed to introduce the congregation at the moment the congregation from remote areas or foreign countries come to see the Blessed One, if we are met The Buddha when doubt arises, or if whenever World Buddha lecture that we are absent, he will preach the Dharma to us at the moment of return: Then I will serve the Blessed One.

The monks pray for these eight privileges, four "no" and four "yes" and the Blessed One all. Then he regularly serves the Master for twenty-five years. So after having achieved the five virtuous qualities and after attaining the seven blissful "Bliss of the Dharma, the bliss of the teachings, the bliss of the causal knowledge, the bliss of the observation His merit, bliss for being in a holy one, the bliss of ardent need to be enlightened, blissful about the ability to achieve enlightenment. In the presence of the Buddha, he received eight favors and became famous in the Dhamma of the Buddha, as bright as the moon in the sky.

One day, the Sangha began to talk about it in the Dhamma:

- This gentleman, the Tathagata has satisfied Singer Ānanda by granting the wishes of the author.

The Master came in and asked:

"O Bhikkhus, what are you talking about while sitting here?"

Increase them with Him. Then he said:

- This is not the first time, the Bhikkhus, who in the past as well as now I have complained of Ānanda with a privilege; In the old days as now, whatever you want to ask, I give you all.

That said, he told a story of the past.

*

One day when King Brahmadatta reigned in Bala, his son Junha or Nguyet Quang Vuong was attending Takkasilà.

One night, after listening carefully to the professor's teaching, he left his home in the dark and headed home. A Brahmin went begging, and was on his way home, while his son, who had not seen him, ran to Ba-la-fall and cried out. He returned to his compassion, took hold of the other two hands and held up. Brahman said:

- Baby, I broke my bowl, so give me money to buy a meal.

He replied:

- Dear Brahmin, now he can not give you money for meals; But minor is Junha, the king of Kàsi, when he was born in the kingdom, he could meet the baby and ask for that money.

When the boy finished his studies, he fell from his teacher and returned to Balaclava to show his father his studies.

"I saw you before I died," the king said, "and would like to see my son throne.

Then he made the empowerment for his son and his room on the throne. With the title of Grand Master Junha, the ruler is righteous.

When the Brahmin or the Believer, he thought that now I can get back the meal already. So he came to Balaclava, see the entire city was decorated glowing and the king was riding in the procession is very majestic toward the people, parade around the city. Standing on a high place, the Brahmin shouted:

- Great King wins!

The king passed by without seeing him. When the brahmin saw that he was not paying attention, he immediately took a rhyme to ask him to explain:

1. Dai Dai Vuong, listening to this old saying 
It's not unreasonable for the old man to come here, 
Often tell me: I should not go beyond 
The wandering man on the road.

Upon hearing these words, the king pushed the statue back with his gemstick and swayed the second:

2. I stand listening, the Pho immediately said, 
Why did you walk to this place? 
He desires a certain favor, 
Which must find, tell me clearly.

And the story of the king and Brahman interrogating each other is told in the following verses:

Ba-la-subjects:

3. Five senior villages, 
seven hundred cows, one hundred female cows, more 
than a thousand golden ornaments, 
two wives of the same generation.

King:

4. Do you have a penitent? Do you have repentance? 
It's terrifying to say, 
You have many mantras or spells, 
Are devils ready to obey? 
Or petition for honesty?

Ba-la-subjects:

5. No repentance, no mantra, no charm, 
no devil obey my command, 
no reward for help, but 
before we meet momentum, 
This is the truth must show.

King:

6. I can not remember, last time, 
That I had been living in the past, 
I'm telling you this 
when you meet, where, old?

Ba-la-subjects:

7. In the capital city of Gan-dhà, 
Supreme Lord, Tak-ka is a place to live, 
dark night like ink, where 
he and his father hit the shoulder,

8. When we are standing there, sir, 
The conversation begins to be friendly, 
Only that time we see together, 
Before it does not and then not.

King:

9. When the personality has met, La-disc, 
the life of the person should not leave 
Friends of the old man trying to hide away, 
not why, do not forget old work!

10. It is the fool who denies the old. 
And abandon the old love does not remember 
Those people they once met; 
Stupid people do a lot of nothing, 
They forgive and they forget.

11. Song has never forgotten the past, 
friendship, acquaintances, always attached, 
small things made by friends 
also not be rejected, forgotten, 
the right end of life thank you.

12. I made five fine villages, 
seven hundred cows, one hundred female servants, more 
than a thousand gold jewels, 
two wives, with him the same level.

Ba-la-subjects:

13. Great prince, when good people harmonize, 
As the full moon we see between the stars, 
As I here too, Lord, 
because he kept the old covenant.

Bodhisattva immediately show more respect for the other Taoist.

*

When the Master has ended this Dharma talk. He said:

"O Bhikkhus, this is not the first time I have made Ananda compliant with the privileges I have done so in the past.

With these words, He identified precursors:

At that time, Ananda was Brahmin, and I was the king.

-ooOoo-

457. The Story of the True God (Dhamma Precursor)

I am right in the world ...,

This is how the Master told us about how Devadatta (Devadatta) was swallowed up in the ground.

The Sangha gathered in the Dharma talks:

"My friend, my great-great-great-grandfather was hostile to the Tathagata and was swallowed up to the ground.

The teacher came in and asked what they were talking about sitting there. Increase them with Him. He replied:

"Bhikshus, now he was swallowed up in the ground for inflicting a blow against my glorious power, but he was against the authority of righteousness, and was swallowed up in the earth; Fall into hell.

That said, he told a story of the past.

*

One day, when King Brahmadatta took the throne at Bala-bah, the Bodhisattva was born into the realm of celibate realm as an angel, called Dhamma or Dhamma, Is Adhamma or Dhamma.

On the day of the full moon, in the afternoon when the rice is finished, the people sit in front of their homes in the village, on the street or in the city, Dhamma appears in front of the crowd, standing on the air, riding on the His paradise and the splendor of the celestial mantra of the congregation, he taught:

Do not take the lives of all beings and avoid the ten martyrs, fulfill the responsibilities of supporting your parents, with the righteous father (right chief, right speech, right mind), so that you will To be reborn in heaven and enjoy all the wonderful glory.

Thus, he advised the people to practice the Ten Commandments, and he wandered around the realm of Yield-edifying (India) a majestic round towards the right. But Adhamma taught the people:

- Kill the sentient beings.

And so he instigated the people to follow the Ten Evil and paraded around the Sun-edifying earth to the left.

At that time, their two heavenly stars faced each other in space, and their entourage asked each other,

Who are your followers? And they replied:

- We are the followers of Dhamma.

- We are Adhamma's followers. Then they take up space, making the aisle divided. But Dhamma told Adhamma:

This sage, you are Adhamma and I am Dhamma, I go to the right, so turn aside to give way to me.

Then he recited the rhyme:

1. The righteous conduct in the world, 
The reputation of the people are given 
, The sage, the sage, praise forever, 
Part of us, the road, revered, The 
way we are 
, So please avoid the road.

Here are the next syllables:

Dozen:

2-In the herd of Ta 
dh , dwell on that throne is me, the 
hero is not the scarecrow, 
so I did not before myself to give 
room, now give way 
to let the Dharma pass over?

Lemon:

3. The first dharma has expressed, the 
god of victory, the senior, the 
wrong young man because of late delivery, the 
stepfather gave way, command superior!

Dozen:

4. Whether he is virtuous or begs, 
Or if justice is natural, 
I also do not give concessions, 
Today we fight immediately, 
Anyone who wins, 
He is made first place.

Lemon:

5. Throughout the near and far, we are known as the 
heroic champion, the glory, 
In this form, this form carries 
all the power to combine into, 
this Dhamma, we are the Dharma, 
How did you win the section? Myself?

Dozen:

6. Thanks to iron, the gold is beaten, the 
gold smashed iron, see ever? 
If the wrong boss that Ta won, 
iron as beautiful as gold.

Lemon:

7. If you fight heroically, Your 
words will not be good, 
I will forgive the evil, 
And if you do not want, give way.

Two of the six sprouts on the counter to reciprocate. But just as the Bodhisattva recited the verse, Adhamma could no longer stand in the car, but kneeled down to his feet and opened his mouth to swallow it, and he was reborn in hell.

*

The Buddha realized that this was happening, and he immediately recited the final verses that came from his Virtuous Wisdom:

8. It is said that the higher self, the 
other Fa has fallen dive, 
horror fate for Ta Dafa , 
Want, we do not fight.

9. So Ta dau fight brutal, 
Because of the meritorious amount of tolerance, 
Death because of being swallowed into the ground, the 
Chief of peace, great hero, 
Protect yourself with the management, So 
far away .

10. At home who do not respect each other , 
the clergy, sage, at the common network, 
Vandalism, tossing the rope tied, 
From here the living in the place 
Straight into hell right now, 
rolling.

11. At home who respected his parents, 
Rabbi, sage, common network time, 
body damage, bondage rope tore, 
Coi Thien headed the mortal self, 
as he was on the far Dharma prices 
go to the heaven of good ring.

*

When the Master terminates the Dharma, he says:

"O bhikkhus, not only now, but all the days of old, Mahadhat struck me and was swallowed up in the earth.

Then he identified precursors:

At that time, Adhamma-adamma, the followers of the Ta Dafa is the entourage of the Lady-to-multi, while I was Dhamma (Dhamma) and the disciples The Buddha is the followers of Dhamma.

-ooOoo-

458. The story of King Thiện Lai (Udaya precursor)

Her color is clear, full integrity ...,

This story the Master told during his stay in Ky Vien about a rotten bhikkhu.

This case will be explained in the Kusa Prophet (No. 531 volume VI). The Master asked this person:

"O Bhikkhu, is it true that he is rotten as a monk?"

He replied:

- Yes, White World.

He said:

- O Bhikkhu, why are you rotten in Dhamma like Dhamma leads to liberation, but all because of desire?

The wise people of the past, who were king in Surundha, a thriving city of twelve miles each, despite all the seven hundred years living in the same room with a girl as beautiful as Lady Lady, was not attracted. Into lust, even never look at her with desire.

That said, he told a story of the past.

*

At one time, when King Kaisi was ruling Kàsi, at Surundha, he had no children. So he ordered the king of phi phi. Then the Bodhisattva from the Brahma realm down to enter the maternal form of the Chief. And because he was born to please the masses should be named Udayabhadda, ie Thien Lai. At the time when the toddler was born, another person appeared in this life from Brahmanism, entering the maternity domain as a princess of another princess, and she was also named Udayabhaddà.

When the prince reached maturity, he mastered all academic fields, and moreover, he was so pure that he did not know anything about the fleshly acts, even in dreams, his mind did not turn to evil. virtue. The King expected that he would not go to the throne with the royal throne, and would like to act for his entertainment, so he ordered it. But the Bodhisattva replies:

- I do not set the throne, my heart is not towards evil.

He was constantly pressed, but he responded by defending a female statue of pure gold, then presented to the couple with the words:

- When the orphan finds a woman like that, he will receive the throne.

The goddess takes the golden statue all over Yin-suk, but they do not find any women like that, they finally make up for her beautiful Udayabhada and take her out against the statue, She even went far when she stood by it. So his servants brought her to the Bodhisattva as a royal princess, even though both of them did not want to, for she was the princess Udayabhaddà, her biological brother, the throne.

Both of them together live a pure life, not sexual love. Over time, when the couple died, Bodhisatta ruled the kingdom. They share room, but give up their desire, so that they never look at each other with desire. Not only that, they both wished that if one of them died, one would return to the other from the realm of rebirth, to announce, "I was reborn there."

At the time of the empowerment ceremony, the Bodhisattva lived seven hundred years and died. Since none of the monarchs was in the throne, the order of the Udayabhadda theorem states that the court must rule over water. Bodhisattva has become Sakka (Thich) God of heavenly realms thirty-three, and because this glorious scene is so splendid, he did not remember the previous life in seven days. So after seven hundred years according to human estimation, he recalled and said to himself: "I want to return to Princess Udayabhaddà and will test her heart with precious gold, and then roared the lion roar, Spear, so we accomplish the old prayer. "

At that time, it was said that human life lasted ten thousand years. Then, at night the lock was closed, the guard was carefully arranged, and the princess was sitting quietly alone in the magnificent palaces in the upper floor, reflecting on her conduct. At that time, Thich Thien held a gold plate full of gold coins and appeared in the room in front of her, and stood out. He began to recite the first verse with her:

1. She has a bright color, integrity, 
She sits on the floor, her appearance is lonely, 
Dieu kieu, looks like a lady, 
Please be with her tonight.

The princess responds with the following two verses:

2. This wall is covered, deep densely, 
How hard it has come lately, 
while the tower is high and wide, 
the room is united with the sword. 
3. No teenagers, heroic

It's easy to get in here, 
say, what's the deal 
?

After that, the god of divine intervention, fourth verse:

4. Great is My name, 
For her, I appear now, 
We give her favors, Her beloved , 
Golden plate, receive my.

Heard that, the princess immediately soaked rhyme fifth:

5. Since childhood Thien Vinh, 
we do not ask, whether you or god, 
Or the next, this Emperor, 
Do not come here, not near.

Listen to her lion voice, the Master no longer stood still, but made a retreat from her and immediately disappeared. The next day, at the same time, he held the silver bowl full of gold and came to tell her the sixth verse:

6. Blissful together know clearly, 
Completely complete between couples, 
Make the life of evil, 
OI lady, she must not hurry! 
Silver cup, look, I give my 
respect , Dear, smiled faintly.

At that time the princess thought: "If I let the other talk nonsense, he will come forever. So I do not say anything to you. " So she did not say any more words. Thích Thiên chen saw she has nothing to say anymore, should disappear from the stand.

The next day at that time, he took the iron bowl full of gold coins and said:

- Dear Princess, if she gives me her love, I will give her a gold cup of gold.

When he saw her, the seventh poet sat down:

7. Men want to flirt with pink pants, 
Give the other gold to rise, 
until she is satisfied, 
But we consider the way of angels 
where he is different: now he comes, 
presents seem to go down gradually.

Upon hearing these words, the Dai said:

- Dear Princess, I am a very careful trader. We do not waste our wealth in vain. If she increases the spring color, I will increase the number of gifts for her, but her beauty is dying gradually, so we reduce the number of gifts only.

He finished saying three words rhyme shelf:

8. Oh, my beauty, my fading colors, 
My dear middle-aged woman, 
Today she's older than me, 
So my gold is falling.

9. So, ladies and gentlemen, 
before our eyes are admiring her, 
During the day and night, 
her beautiful color will fade.

10. But 
if she is willing to be contented, to 
keep the path and to be pure, 
she will always be beautiful.

Soon after, the princess recites another verse:

11. Devas are not like naked people, 
skin is not old, no wrinkles, 
how they can not be celestial body? 
This is, Great to say the end.

At that time, the goddess explained the matter through another rhyme:

12. They are not like the world, 
not old, the skin does not see the lines, 
Mai here and forever, the 
heavenly bliss, fine art.

When she heard the richness in the heavens, she asked the way up there through another verse:

13. What terrifies the students, 
Ask in life, the Epiphany, 
Clarify the good way, 
Please explain how clear 
How to go to Heaven, 
Where there is no longer afraid.

Then the Master explained the matter in another verse:

14. Who clever to maintain the mouth, the mind, the ground 
to make negative karma about the body, 
In the house we see a lot of food, 
generous heart, credit foot, 
generosity, sweet, good intentions, 
will be natural Gender is not terrified.

When the princess heard his words, she thanked him through another verse:

15. Like a mother, like a father, the mighty 
man is teaching me, 
You 're the best , 
you're the one, right.

Then Bodhisattva dipping:

16. I am Thien Thinh, my auspicious, 
For the promise, come to her, 
Now said, I quit, 
The old promise is bound!

The princess sighed and said:

- O Lord, are you Udayabhadda Udayabhadda?

Then she sobbed, tears flowing like streams:

- Absent from God, the god can not live. May the Lord teach me how I can live with God forever!

She finished talking again:

17. If Dai Vuong is the God of Thien Lai, 
come here for wish, not wrong, 
Then teach me, Oh, Emperor, 
To live together forever.

Next he soaked four rhymes to teach her:

18. Moment, spring is too fast, life is 
not stable, all beings are born, 
dead, live again later, 
corrupt, this body is fragile. 
So do not let go, 
go, step up, keep your heart.

19. If all the world, all the gold and silver 
belonged to the rule of an army, 
Saints are far superior to him 
In the competition between the world, 
So do not let go, the 
faith hold fast, step up.

20. But dear relatives, brothers, 
and wives (with money back to grace), 
All go out in droves, 
This one away from the other rotate, 
So do not live free life, 
Keep faithful durable , Step up.

21. The other body, remember, will be made into 
food for many kinds of beings, 
the pleasure and joy of suffering 
just as transient moment passed quickly, 
stilled forever serial afterlife, 
So do not let loose, keep faithful .

The Great Master lectured the Fa so. The princess was very happy with the way she was taught, and she thanked him with the last rhyme:

22. This angel speaks sweetly, 
The world sees clearly short life, 
sad life, short life, 
Life, do not leave mourn. 
Passing away, I go, 
From the capital of Cà thi up.

After such preaching for her, the Bodhisatta returned to his realm.

The next day, the princess assigned water to the courtiers, and she became a hermit in the city, in the garden full of peace. There, she lived on virtue until she was born, she was reborn in heavenly Thirty-three, the town of the Bodhisattva.

*

When the Teacher stopped this Dharma talk, he preached the Truth. At the end of the Truths, the bent-bodied lovelorn was residing in the Precinct (Project).

Then he identified the forerunner:

- At that time, Lauren's mother was the princess and the Goddess of Love was Me.

-ooOoo-

459. The Sake of Drinking Water (Formerly Paniya)

Another sip of water is also his friend ..,

This is how the Master said during his stay in Kyiv for the submission of the crimes.

We know that at one time, the five hundred people of Siddhartha were the owners and friends of the Tathagata who went to listen to the Dharma and ordained. While living at the Infantry on the Golden Path, at night they are immersed in sensuality (the details are known as in the previous story). According to the order of the Blessed One, Venerable Ānanda gathered to raise them. The Master sat down at the place prepared and did not need to ask them: "Are you immersed in sex?", Which he taught them to increase by general words:

- Monks, nothing is considered a small mistake. A monk must master all the sexes when they arise. The old man, before the Buddha was born, knew how to gratitude and reach the wisdom of a Buddha alone.

Along with this teaching, he told the monks a story of the past.

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At one time, when King Brahmadatta ruled Baal, there were two friends in another village in Kàsi. These two people, carrying two bottles of water in the field, they hide in the road while digging, when thirsty again to drink. One of them, drinking water, saved the water in his jar and drank water in the other jar. In the afternoon, when he got out of the forest, he thought, "What mistake have I made today, or by bodily harm, or by any other?" At that time, he remembered drinking the thief How, and grief cried out:

If this desire arises within us, it will cause us to be reborn into the realms. So I decided to shoot for mistakes.

So due to this sip of thieves he gradually gained the meditation and attained the Pacceka-Buddha's Hall of Fame and he stood there thinking about his Wand gained.

Then the man after the bath finished saying:

- Dear fellow, go home.

He replied:

- Come home, home does not mean anything to me anymore! I am a buddhist monk!

- Oh, the Buddha alone is like a gentleman?

- Then how are they?

They have two-finger long hair, yellow robes, and live in the Nandamùla caves just above the Snow Mountain.

The other slapped on the head; Immediately traces of a secular disappear, a pair of red yarn around him, a yellow strap around the waist, a red lipstick over one shoulder, one The black algae, like a cloud of storms, lay across one shoulder, a yellowish earthen bowl hung dangling on its shoulders, and he stood firmly in the air. The clown lowered, until it reached the Nandamùla mountain cave.

Another person also lived in a village in Kàsi, a landlord who was sitting in a grocery store and saw a man lead his wife. As soon as she was a gorgeous gorgeous beauty queen, the other man broke the faith and glanced at her. Then he thought: "If this desire grows, it will cause us to fall into the realm of the beast." He had just cultivated the mind to initiate the meditation and attain the mind of a buddhist monk, then stood in the air and preached the Dharma, later also flying to Nandamlah.

There are two father and son of Kàsi village, traveling together. At the entrance to the forest there are many hijackers. These robbers, if caught both father and son, will keep the son and take the father to go, said:

Bring your son to ransom his son.

Or if they are two brothers, they will keep their brother and take him back, if they are two teachers, they keep his master and take students away, the students want to study will bring money and they Will release the teacher.

At that time, when the father and son saw the robbers lying on the floor, the father said:

- Do not call me father, do not call me child.

The two agreed, so when the robbers arrived, they asked what the two are for each other, they said:

- We are nothing to each other.

Then they lie a thought already in the past. When the two of them got out of the forest and took a rest after the evening was done, the son reconsidered his virtue and remembered the lie, thinking to himself, "This mistake, if it grows, will sink me into the realm. Evil I resolved to correct the mistake. He then meditates, attains the Noble Truth of the Buddha, stands in the air and preaches the dharma to his father, and then goes to the Nandāla Cave.

In a village in Kàsi there was also a landlord who ordered the ban on killing. Then it was time to offer sacrifices, a crowd gathered and said:

"Master, this is the sacrifice, let us kill goats, pigs and other animals to offer sacrifices to the gods.

He said:

- Just like you did before.

The villagers do a killing mission. When he saw a large number of fish, he immediately thought: "They killed all these creatures, all because of my words only!" He repented and when standing by the window, he practiced meditation and attained the virtue of a buddhist buddha, then stood on the sermon finished, also went to the cave Nandamùla.

Another landlord resides in the Kaiser state, banned from selling spirits. A crowd came screaming:

- Master, what should we do? This is a long-standing love of the car!

He replied:

- Just like you did before.

People hold congresses, drink spirits and cause each other, broken hands and feet, headache and headache and many penalties for this. The landlord saw this, thinking to himself, "If I did not allow this, the people would not have suffered so." He felt sorry for even that little thing. He then practiced meditation, and attained the Noble Truth of the Buddha, standing on the doctrine of the Fa, advising the people to awaken, and he also went to the Nandāla cave.

Some time later, five Buddhas alone came down at the gate of Baal, to find food to give. The men and the lower leg of the children are neatly and neatly dressed, they go begging to the bow of the king. Very pleased to see them, he took them to the palace, washed their feet and rub the aromatic oil, offer up enough of the hard and soft epitaph, then he sat down, and said With the following:

- The worshipers, they are young men who have lived the religious life, how wonderful! At this age they were hermits, and they saw the suffering of the wicked. What cause has led to their actions?

They respond:

1. TIFF other is his friend, 
I drank theft, though intimate, 
Bored belittle have just committed mistakes, 
vow later becomes 
hermit, retired from secular life, 
Since e recidivism its part .

2. The wife of the other, missed glances, 
In the heart of the desire to burst out, 
Tired of mistakes that I just committed, 
I decided later spontaneous release 
from the world as a hermit, 
Because e recidivism mistakes.

3. The robber in the forest to take the father, 
I said to the other people: 
"This person is not a father," 
I know right away lie, 
hate my mistake, 
later I wish to cultivate Body .. (as above)

4. The suicide killer, 
not the unwillingness of yourself, 
disgusted mistakes that I committed .. 
Later I have developed into the heart .. (as above)

5. All of them old one, 
Together is really drunk, 
Fight together cause many people suffering, 
It is not not agree with me. 
We hate the mistake we made, 
Next we wish the glass, The 
secular world, the monk, 
The fear we have committed the old. 
They recite the verses in turn.

When the king heard the explanation of each Buddha, he said:

- The worshipers, their practice is very worth it.

The king was very happy about their dharma talk. He gave them medicine, medicine for them, and medicine finished, immediately left the Buddha alone. They thanked him and returned to the place of his departure.

Then the king was born disgusted with sensual pleasures, he was greedy, he still uses fine delicacies, but he did not talk to the bourgeois, nor looked at them. Boredom arises in the mind, he retreats to his magnificent palace sitting there looking straight into the white wall in front until he enters meditation, feeling in his mind the pleasures of meditation. Absorbed in joy, he indulged indulgent desires:

6. I decided glasses lust, dissatisfaction lust, 
Four tasteless, stabbed thorn! 
Never again, even before 
I have followed the error, 
Pleasure we have met, 
This is the pleasure of the heart.

At that time, his chief minister thought to himself: "The king listened to the teachings of the Buddhists, and now he himself confines himself to the boredom of his magnificent palaces. We have to take care of him. " So she went to the king's door and stood at the door, listening to his delightful expressions of disdain for greed, saying:

- Your Majesty, you just disparaging desires! But there is no pleasure in the pleasure of pleasure.

Then, in order to crave greed, she soaked another verse:

7. Former gentle smoothness is hard to predict, 
Animal is more than love, 
Who follows this 
Happiness Happiness in the high pearl road!

So the king replied:

- This evil female! How strange, what are you saying? Where does Karma come from? There is more suffering followed to pay for sensual pleasures.

With these words, he recited the last verse to show his disdain for greed:

8. Greedy sex, really worth it, 
No longer suffering more severe brain, 
Who follows this 
malady after to Harvest the sorrows of hell.

9. Desire longing desire is not quench, 
More than sharp hand sharp grinding, 
Than the knife stabbed into the chest, Lust 
should be spit nostalgic.

10. The other pit is about the size of human body, 
The charcoal is burning bright red, 
The plow burnt in the hot sun, The 
greed is more toxic.

11. Toxic poisoning is the maximum harm, 
Oils are dangerous to our body, 
rust that cling to broken decay, 
lust is more than them.

The Great Master has taught the Dharma to her. Then he gathered the courtiers and said,

- Hey, you have to rule the kingdom. I am leaving the secular.

And in the midst of the cries of the masses, he rose to the ground, standing firmly in the air, and preaching the Fa. Then, in the direction of the wind, he flew to the region of the highest mountain, in a place full of peace, he erected a venerable, where he lived the life of a wise to the network, he was born in the Brahma.

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After ending this Dharma, the Master added:

- Monks, there is nothing called a small mistake, even the smallest mistakes must also be the mind of the subordinate.

Then he proclaimed the truth. At the end of the sermon, five hundred bhikkhus have been consecrated to the holy fruit (Arahant).

Then he identified the forerunner:

At that time, the Noble Buddhas of Nirvana, Rahula's mother was the grandmother and I was the other king.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/7/2017.