Brief History Maitreya Bodhisattva.

A. VISITING Through the brink of tears, people fear life. To live is to go to the dead, or live to reflect on the search for happiness. Buddhism distinguishes two kinds of happiness.

Happiness with sensual pleasures and happy life escaped death. In the Buddhist scriptures also have the sentence: "Many sentient beings, multifaceted medicine." If there are many diseases, there are many ways to treat them. If there are 84,000 beings, there are 84,000 Buddhas to save sentient beings. Buddha Shakyamuni also introduced Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara, Tibetan Tripitaka, Maitreya, etc. In particular, Maitreya had a very beautiful, very happy image, a dharma teacher, It is also a great aesthetic value. One can hardly distinguish the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with the Great Treasures, Manjushri and Samantabhadra, but with the Maitreya figure, even those who do not know the director looked at it as he was with a smile. joyous release, causing many people to admire.
Here we briefly describe the study of biographies, legends related to Maitreya Bodhisattva, a teacher who exemplifies the teachings of sentient beings into the path of wisdom, wisdom and security. enjoy the supernatural happiness.

B. CONTENTS
1. Biography

The word Maitreya is derived from the Sanskrit Maitreya (Pàli: Metreya). The translator is from the town, Ajita (Ajita), Vô Năng Thắng. This is the most Bodhisattva birth of the land where Buddha Shakyamuni will become Buddha in the future. Maitreya Maitreya Indians, born in the Brahmin family, after taking refuge in Buddhist monk awareness of the discharge before the Buddha. Maitreya Bodhisattva born in heaven will yield on it four thousand years (4,000) - Based on the years in the world is sixty thousand seven thousand years (607 million) then born in this world to practice In the garden of Hoa Lam, under the tree Long Hoa Buddha, Maitreya. According to the mystery of the Bodhisattva, human beings from the beginning have not eaten the mind of beings. According to the Buddhist sutra vol. 1, Tu Thi is derived from the Four Noble Truths (Words, Bi, Hy, Rati) of the Buddha is the beginning. From that, born from Tathagata, have the capacity to make all the world does not end the Buddha, so called Tu Thi (Thi is ethnic, they are). Từ Thi means the kind of compassion and joy. The word Maitreya has sometimes turned into a metaphor, to express joy or joy, such as Spring Maitreya, Maitreya laughter, Maitreya abdomen, at which Maitreya is the Great Master, by wearing a cloth bag. People sculpted Him everywhere. How do you know how popular Maitreya beliefs are?

The Master of Righteousness. According to the Most Venerable Thich Quang Lien, the author of the book, Duyen Meditation Center, published in 1972: By the fifth century, Bodhisattva Asanga, Thiên Thân continuation of his works, ingenious use Flowers are very valuable contributions as the basis for the Dharma, They succeed in the task of philosophical thought through the expression of the mind, the law of the mind, the rúpa ... grace, object subject, object. Psychological, physical, as well as physiological separation, resulting from the consciousness of action and discrimination, the current race of seed, the current race. 
- Essays by Maitreya include:

1-yogacaryabhuni is the main source of the translation of the Han language. 
2. Mahayanasutra Lamkara-Sastra (dignified and dignified). 
Dababhumikasutra Sastea 
4- Madhymita (Vibhaga). 
5. Kim Cang Bat Nha.

2. Meaning of the logo

In the Buddhist temple of the North, in the middle of the temple is the Three Gods, Thich Ca in the middle, the right is Sakyamuni Buddha, the left is the Maitreya Buddha, Amitabha Buddha is too Buddhist. The Maitreya Buddha is the future, and Shakyamuni is the present Buddha. According to this way of worship, the Maitreya Buddha sitting on the lotus is also a good symbolic meaning. Because the lotus is denoted pure and free. The lotus pond where the lake ponds and still radiate pure scent. This is a characteristic that can not be found in other flowers. Maitreya also lived in the colorful life, the sound that he still practiced peacefully.

The General Council advocates the transformation of consciousness into an infinite form of infinite, as the famous saying of Maitreya Bodhisattva, by Hoy Son the Great Goddess Proclaimed in his lecture recorded: "Distinguished The mind is indistinguishable. Based on consciousness is infection, based on the mind is net. Infections are mortal, net with the Buddha. "

He has innocent eyes, happy smile, happy body, fat body expression of peace in the midst of life. Life is too painful, tears and cry so much and so confusing! Seriousness, stress, what to do, to smile lightly rejoice before that life is also happy.

Then there is the image of a venerable monk, grinning, dressed in his chest, showing his big belly, surrounded by six children harassing. This is based on the legend of the Great Abbot.

The Great Master appeared in the Liang life in China, where he wore a slim shirt, where he usually carried the big thing, who gave him something to pick up the item he was accustomed to, meet the children to distribute and Teach them to recite the Buddha, do sage. They like him very much! On the day of his imminence, he sits on the rock beside the Temple of Song Lam saying:

Maitreya Maitreya 
cemetery relatives memories memories 
in times of the time of 
self-consciousness

Translate:

Real Maitreya Maitreya Divided 
hundreds of memories 
Always present for life 
People do not know themselves.

Image Maitreya has a bulge belly symbolizes emptiness, the five children around Maitreya symbolize the year of the ceiling: color, bar, flavor, taste, Dhamma is not a form that can not be expressed here). Six as the enemy, the eye hook, the hook ... the six senses, rebellious kind of karmic desires, "mental mind" in the mind consciousness of Buddhist practitioners, This is because of the distraction, but it does not interfere with the self-serving smile of the "free man". This is a very characteristic expression of this image.

In life, often laugh is better than crying. Among the implications of human life, the times are laughing comfortably, laughing serenely, laughing happily ... even though it was just moments short happy too. So far, people have studied the psychological state of different types of laughter.

- Victor Hugo writes: "The smile dispels the winter away from the human face."

- Léon-Tolstoi said: "There is nothing to bring people together with a gentle smile."

- Dostoevsyky writes a very interesting idea: "If you want to judge and recognize the soul of someone, then you learn. Not the way he is silent, talkative, crying or being touched by noble ideas, it's best to look at him smiling. "

In Buddhism, Shakyam's smile is called the peaceful smile, the smile of the Maitreya Buddha is a happy smile. If in our life we ​​always exchange with each other with unobtrusive smile, how peaceful this life will be.

3. Psychology of reality: The image of Maitreya is based on the incarnation of Bodhisattva, both mean deep meaning, so someone asked poetry:

"The ceremony with the Buddha Maitreya 
Abdomen contains what you want to know 
Laugh that the mind that is like the 
Shake is no no, transcend life."

The image of the Maitreya Buddha is typical smile in the natural self. Buddha mind, the mind is the heart of the feet as beyond the dominant of the ceiling-consciousness, that is, the subjugation of the enemy in the outside. Because we have seen the method of arising, not real, only the fake, so the mind does not accept the law, although birth defects are still not lost lost also increased. One day, the Emperor Bao Phuoc meets with the Pope, asking him,

- What is the Buddha Dharma?

Big Dad dropped to the ground, standing crossed arms.

Next question:

- "Just like that, or is there any other direction?"

Father Dai is on his shoulder, go.

Through the above action, we see his expression is Hy, ritual, the Buddha Dharma is to let go of all sensual pleasures for the pure mind, while still clinging is not able to reach the Buddha . But, exhausted by trying to force, but still nostalgic nostalgia, that discharge is not really discharge. Buddha discharge by fun amusement, then the discharging that really makes the mind contempt.

Until the second question, he carried his shoulder. Because happy that discharge, also due to discharge should be fun: So, he laughed forever regardless of any circumstances. Like five children play with naughty children, the mouth of the mouth, the child pointed in the eye, the ear, nose to nose, stabbed to the chest, the lung in the hip, he still smile in transform them into cute pupils; That is the magic of the highest mind of enlightenment.

4. Common spirituality

We follow the example of the Maitreya, discharge all ego, legal. Defeat Dharma, then the hackers have no destructive to brain disorder. I have won them and surrender them to the merits. When we are enlightened, these six bodies become the six divine powers (divine wisdom, divine nature, divine beings, divine communication, the network of communication, illegal communication).

Knowing that we are learning to live without self-attachment. All of us are happy, our mind is light as the ball flies into nothingness, innumerable wisdom arises, the mind is peaceful and joyous as a mind of a pupil not dust. So, what makes us miserable, as the sky is high, the sea is deep, no longer angry, passionate, spirituality is empty.

5. Meaning His life and human life

In Buddhist life, the time is immeasurable, space is extremely. Moreover, there is a Buddha wherever there is a Buddha. Time in every moment, there are also birth - abolition - spring - born, young, revenge, winter. On the first day of the Lunar New Year is the Di Ma. That is the meaning of life happy, happy, sympathetic to the Vietnamese folk beliefs.

A new day people look back to the past, looking forward to the future with each other hope the best. Therefore, choosing the anniversary of the Maitreya Buddha at that time with the image of joy, worshiping Him is very happy and optimistic. Trust, hope to make energy supplement material for life is very needed. In the Upper Maitreya Buddha said: "Those who devoted themselves to genuine spiritual practice, creating many beautiful blessings for themselves, for the people:" In the future life of course meet Maitreya Buddha bless, "Long Hoa hearing loss results".

6. Maitreya Bodhisattva birth

One researcher, Pham Cong Thien, said: "Ideology is illusion," indicating that the ideology has no basis for reality. Here the ideal Maitreya Bodhisattva born heavenly, lowered the human beings into the Buddha recorded in the original Sutra (Business of the Snow, Central A Ham), developed by the Mahayana teachings popular propaganda .

In the Great Reciting Sutra of the Sutra, the official sutras speak of the birth of the heavenly heavens, from the heavens of the highest heaven, into the Pure Land, into the Buddha, the country, the weather, race , enlightenment, enlightenment and turning the wheel of the Bodhisattva Maitreya.

We only look at two main systems related to His ideal birth.

• Ideal siddhartha (Upper Middle Divorced)

Believers believe that the Maitreya Bodhisattva is speaking French on the sky. The Upper Classical sutras describe this heavenly place. This is the fourth heaven in the six realms of the heavens. Although the realms of education, but this heaven has the superiority that other heavens do not have. The Royal Palace has two parts: internal and external. They are still in the exile, but they are only in the hospital, where the Maitreya Bodhisattva is teaching the Dharma is close to the Pure Land, , meditation, after the network will be ascendant as well. Maitreya Maitreya does not lead, but whoever has the strength to come, he and the saint received the joy.

Ideal Bodhisattva Maitreya is very early in India. In China, there were His Holiness Dao An (314-385) Dao Kieu, Huyen Trang, Khuy Co (the Tang Dynasty), Vice-Chairs, Dam Vo, and so on. the system of the General.

In the writing of this period such as Compassion Cards, Tam Thuy Thuy Em, Emperor Leung, we see much talk about the religious belief. But from Yiu Qin later, when Amitabha was translated to China, many people volunteered to the Western Pure Land, by Amitabha Buddha and the saints in the west have led people to recite the Buddha .

• The ideal birth (the Maitreya birth of Buddha)

Compared with the ideal of the birthplace, ideal birth is very common. The ideal that the future Maitreya Bodhisattva lives in the realm of Buddhism, under the Buddha, and the sermon of the Three Kingdoms to convert the sentient beings. Therefore, there is the theory of "Longhua triad". If beings born to create charms, blessings, antibiotics in Yushui. When Maitreya Bodhisattva Maitreya will be directly educated.

Song, Emperor Minh Emperor (465-471) wrote Long Hoa Thot vow, Nam Nam Hiep Tu composing Vow ... The story of Maitreya birth.

Due to the ideals of the birth of the Chinese emperor, the Emperor's relic of the Maitreya Buddha in China was extremely popular and influenced the countries of Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Generally speaking, beliefs are born but do not go deep into the doctrine, leading to some unfortunate unhappiness in the history of Buddhist development, such as the apocryphal scriptures, claiming Christmas Maitreya to serve bad deeds, or assume that the end of the world, near the Longhua Society, to benefit the people do not worry about doing business, dreaming delusional dream, disease poverty; hunger for food, no pain to drink!

Maitreya Bodhisattva Faith

Ever come to Long Hoa? That question has been going on for thousands of years, becoming more and more urgent in the late 20th century. Now that we have stepped through the 21st century, there is still a whisper about the Dragon Flower Society. Maitreya rescue save those who practice good deeds, and evil people will be bad consequences!

So far, "Maitreya Buddha" is still in place! Heaven does not collapse, soil is not soluble; But the faith of man is still there. There are many people discouraged rotten mind!

From the Tang Dynasty in 689, Vo Tac Thien profited from the title, claiming to be the Reincarnation Maitreya. In 613, Song Tử Hien and Huong Hai Minh proclaimed themselves Maitreya to gather people in disorder ... etc.

In fact, the birth of Maitreya also has positive values, in order to advise the monk to accumulate virtue, do good and avoid harm to himself and his benefit. But if you do not smart to find out, blindly manipulating the scriptures, it is the poor thinking. The Buddha taught: "I believe that I do not understand that I am defamatory."

Maitreya Bodhisattva birth as it was calculated to have 57 billion 60 million years Maitreya born new theory of them. This is the prophecy of Buddha Shakyamuni

Life is short, the night of illusory illusions, dense wars, illness, poverty, environmental pollution; Everything threatening as the scythe of death hangs before human life. Living in many anguish and fear, people are weak, so one needs a spiritual fulcrum, a place to return, a place of trust. There promises a long-lasting peace, joy, no robbery. Is it a paradise of utopia? Are not ! It still has that! Where ? Just in the smile of Maitreya.

Compassion is the Pure Land Maitreya, the place where the previous zero (mind not sticking, staying righteous thoughts, letting go) is sitting at the Long Hoa, practice the world, Dinh, Hue, listen to the three. sermon, and the mind that is immeasurable is the Buddha on earth. Sixty billion years are also now, waiting for what, looking for, when the legal world to show the Buddha.

Each master of the Buddha as a virtue, such as Di Divine master of solemnity, Shakyamuni pure purity, so the Maitreya of happiness happy discharge. What do you believe in Maitreya? Be mindful of love and joy. If the present Maitreya is born that our mind anger, afflictions, creating business, then how to participate in the LongHua conference!

C. CONCLUSIONS

Living in this world, the enlightened one progresses in self-liberation, wherever he is, he is happily blessed with eternal Buddha-nature. Why do people dream of the illusory, do not worry as practiced in the Golden Lotus in the Flower Adornment study wisdom with the Bodhisattva Manjushri, learn Quan Yin listen to the sorrowful sound of sentient beings consider suffering ... Maitreya Bodhisattva can nail three times open the floor of the Vipassana, see the three Buddhas benefit beings. Bhikkhu Gia Na represents the Buddha Dharma Pure. The monk elaborately reveals the pure Dharma body is the Maitreya Bodhisattva shows that the Buddha Price, Maitreya Bodhisattva is holding the Pi Lo Price Na floor, which he uses the feet of the Buddha and sentient beings, deserve to be considered as the Sensei.

Dao An Tao, the legend of Xuan Tan, Chu Tang Dynasty; In recent times, Thai Hui great master, From the Lotus statue in Taiwan are all vows where Heaven meets Maitreya Bodhisattva. Before he was born, he followed Maitreya Bodhisattva to radiate Buddhism for a while.

We are treated as compassionate as the Maitreya Bodhisattva is happy as the spring to the immensity of the earth, under the radio, in the warm embrace pagoda with the words mourning ... Eradication of sorrow Heavy will recognize the smile Maitreya Bodhisattva to shake Tam Thien and bowl for the apricot, chrysanthemum, peach blossom forever beautiful mid spring. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/2/2018.