Why did the Buddha enter the fetus in the white elephant form?

The elephant is a very special animal, once trained it is especially obedient and loyal to the owner. The fact that the Buddha entered the fetus under the six-tailed elephant symbolizes the power of compassion and wisdom. The six tusks symbolize the genie overcoming every obstacle, the evil, thereby promoting the perfect holiness including generosity, morality, patience, diligence, meditation and wisdom.

On a full moon day, the future mother of the Buddha, Queen Ma, who was the princess of the Koliyan clan, The Bodhisatta of All-Siddhartha from the Precious Realm in the form of a six-month-old ivory tree that infiltrates her fetus. At that time, elephants played a crucial role in the war, shipping and are considered as powerful symbols of a country. In particular, the white elephant (ivory) also represents the perfection of mind and the royal authority. Under the usual military arrangement, the king held four warriors, the statue being the pioneers acting as a solid shield, the second being the cavalry, followed by the tank (Fighters), and the rearguard is the infantry.

Enter into the womb of your mother as an elephant symbolizes the power of compassion and wisdom of the Buddha. It also implies that he will triumph in the fight against ignorance, by using six tusks symbolizing the eunuchs to overcome all obstacles and demons, thereby promoting the perfect holography. Generosity, morality, patience, diligence, meditation and wisdom.

In an ancient kingdom, a man brought an elephant to the palace and offered his elephant king. However, the king said, "You should tamed the elephant first and give it to me."

Under the king's orders, the man trained the elephant, and then returned to the palace to offer elephants. The king congratulated the administrator and said: "I want to ride this elephant into the forest for sightseeing, be prepared for the trip." The elephant masters eat a lot of green leaves and bananas in a pleasant way. The next morning, the administrator lined several layers of silk night into a square wooden box, tied it to the elephant's back and put on his head a lot of gold and silver jewelry, like the royal carriage. The clerk climbed onto the elephant's back, sitting firmly on the elephant's neck to control it. The king sat comfortably in a square wooden box with silver-trimmed edges.

When they arrived in the middle of the jungle, the elephant sniffed the smell of the elephant and ran fast to chase after them. The stronger the aroma, the faster the elephant runs in the direction of his or her desired mate and leads them astray. The caretaker attempted to restrain the elephant by screaming, screaming at the raging animal and whipping it with a whip. Furious with desire, the elephant becomes out of control and crams up as if running away from a terrible fear. At this time, the poor elephant was completely overpowered by desire for the elephant.

The king and the administrator were scared. Fear for the life of the king and himself trying to linger on the back of the elephant, the administrator tried to shout loudly to the king: "To your Majesty, please cling to a clump of trees and let the elephant Follow its will ". And both, in panic, managed to cling to a protruding branch to save their lives. The king was very angry and instructed the administrator to punish his elephant severely when they returned to the palace.

The monk was afraid of being dumbfounded, his palms imploring the king: "To your Majesty, the elephant god is very loyal and hardworking every day, Command. Your Majesty, if you can be generous, please be patient and wait until the elephant returns to the palace. It will come back when peace returns. God only trains it on physical strength and working skills, not training it on mind and desire, because god does not know how to train these skills. If you believe in god, god will punish the elephant of god in front of your Majesty the royal yard.

A week later, the elephant regretted returning to the palace, guilty of guilt and shame. The master, with deep sorrow in his heart, heated an iron ball in fire to catch the elephant's breath as a punishment. The king and the royal family are present. The magistrate, afraid that his beloved animal might be subjected to a heavier punishment of the king, screamed angrily to be strict with the animal, then ordered the elephant to kneel on the ground and gape.

The dreadful elephant opened his mouth trembling with tears in his eyes. He prepared to accept the punishment by swallowing a hot sphere of iron like repentance for failing to fulfill the task of the king and his master. Its entrusted. The magistrate, a little hesitant, trembled and cried as he thought of the terrible pain that the beloved animal had to bear.

While observing, the eminent king and other royal members felt embarrassment rising and grief with terrifying thought that the elephant's soft tongue and mouth would be burned. Each moment passed, the trembling of the frightened elephant shook the ground. At that moment, due to being stirred to the bottom of his heart by the sensitive mind and noble of the elephant, the king suddenly stood up, screaming and preventing the administrator from performing the savage punishment. To the wretched creature. Overcoming the veil of concealment and the privileged position that obscured his vision, the king experienced a sudden realization that transformed his whole body.

In that moment, instead of ordering the punishment of those who dared to commit wrongdoing to a man of great supremacy like himself, the king chose to open his heart to compassion, forgive. Humility realizes that all of us, like elephants, can suffer blind passions until we have perfected ourselves through meditating on our own mind, the king asked. The administrator: "Who can train the mind and eliminate the lust in the mind? I will be very happy to know that any person who does not have sexual desire and maintains his vows with all the people will follow his path. "

The administrator replies that a person has completely renounced and excluded desire and greed, the only one who is fully enlightened, who is called the Buddha, who has mastered the nature of emptiness, Completely free from the cycle of birth and death. At the moment of hearing the name of the Buddha, the king's hair stood up and he felt an inexhaustible bliss. Immediately he aspires to attain enlightenment in the future and prays: "May you be like the Buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings." When the king recited this prayer, he recalled many of his previous lives, and all the gods rejoiced in the merits of the king. This is the time when Gautama Buddha initiated bodhichitta when he was a king in his previous birth.

Lust is the dark veil that causes suffering to all sentient beings, whether they are human or animal alike. This is why the Buddha says that all sentient beings suffer the same due to greed and ignorance. Thus, first of all, our minds, which are full of greed and lust, need to be tamed by following the eightfold path and realizing the truth of the Four Noble Truths.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.