INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A REAL THING ... (p. 4)

Monk Thien Tinh

CHAIR CLEANING

At the Buddha's residence in Wang-amnesty, Thien Thi Thien-do as a fake.

At the Buddha's day, he preached for heaven to listen to. As a rule, attendants can not go on vacation in front of the teacher. Because the Buddha sitting for so long that Thien compassionate thought evil, white Buddha that:

- Please meditation meditation hurry, the devil Tar-la there.

Thien Bao Thien:

- He is a fool. Do not you know that the Tathagata is a lieutenant?

Noble see that new Buddha that:

- Class of people that is also into the Dharma?

The Buddha said:

- Also in the Dharma. They also have Buddha Tanh, will be the ultimate Bodhi. Because of Intellectual Dhamma, Thien Tinh still has no faith.

Once the Buddha entered the Thi-pho-al-begging, countless beings want to see his footprints. Thien Tinh in the rear, go to where rub to that, but not rub it, again sentient beings have bad connotations for themselves.

When entering the city, found in the distillery there is a Ni-mantle sitting squat, busted with food, Pure wisdom with Buddha:

- If there is an Arahant in his life, that person is above all. Because that person claims not to bear fruit.

Buddha told Thien tinh:

- He is a fool. He did not hear Arahants not to drink alcohol, not to harm people, not to lie, not to steal, not to lust? Ni-kien that killed his parents, eating alcohol, what is called A-la-drought? Ni-kien-death that, after the death of the A-hell, A-la-Han eliminate all three evil lines, why call him Arhat?

Thien Tinh said:

- The nature of the four elements can be changed, decided not to have him fall into hell A-tì.

The Buddha said:

- He is a fool. Do not you often hear the Buddha say honest words?

Although the Buddha said how Thien Tinh has no confidence.

One time, the Buddha in the city-amnesty. In the city there is Ni-mansion-name of Dac. He often declared that: "Defilements of sentient beings do not have no coast, no liberation nor human charm". Compassion with the Buddha that:

- If there is A-la-drought in life, the time of suffering is above.

The Buddha said:

- I say he is a fool. Love is not Arahant, do not understand the Arahant.

Thien Tinh said:

- How do A-la-dah go to jealousy with Arahants?

The Buddha said:

- He is a fool. I do not give birth to jealousy with A-la-drought, it is he himself born evil conception. If you say Dhamma is Arahant, the time you should hear this, seven days after suffering will be hit, abdominal pain that died. Dead man, born in the devil eating vomit spit of people. His classmates would leave him alone in the forest of Tha-ma.

Thien Tinh immediately brought this word back to the Dac, and then said:

- The elders should smart thinking, find means of practice, so that Cu Dam words hope.

After listening to Thien Tinh said, the real success. On the seventh day, eating black sugar drinking water abdominal pain that died.His friend brought a carcass into the forest of Tha-ma. Dusk causes hunger, eating spit vomit.

Thien Tinh or news, immediately to the forest Tha-ma, see suffering squat squat death squad, asked:

- Virtue died?

- I'm dead. 

- Why die?

- Abdominal pain that dies.

- Who brought out the great virtue?

- You learn me.

- Where did you leave?

- He is a fool. Do not you know that this is Tha-ma forest?

- What dear life?

- The body eating vomit.

Answer, told Thien Tinh:

- He should listen carefully, the words of the Tathagata is good words, words, legs, words right time, true words, legal words, why he did not believe the truth of the Tathagata. If anyone does not believe in the Tathagata, he will take life as my body.  

Thien Tinh returned to white with Buddha:

- Dac was born in the heaven of heaven.

- Hey fool! Arhat is infertile, why birth heaven? He is currently suffering from hunger.

- It is true that he is suffering hunger now.

- The words of the Buddhas are true words, never wrong.

- Even so, I still do not have faith.

The Buddha often lectures for Thien Tinh that Thien Tinh does not have faith in.

Although Thien tinh recited the twelve sutras, the four meditations, but did not understand a verse, a sentence, ring to a letter. Being close to you evil should take four meditation, evil biography that says that no Buddha, no law, no nirvana. He said that the Buddha can know the mind as well as other things are just good numbers.

Buddha told him Ca Lettuce that:

- This is good man! Thien Tinh in the Buddha's immeasurable merit, but not all benefits, is because of the distance, because of you evil. As a person into the sea of ​​jewels, but because of the liberation without obtaining jewels, again killed by evil friends.

This is good man! If the former poor people are poor at the same time, the mercy is not much. But with the former wealthy, later fall again, the mercy of this person deepened. Cosmopolitan too! He had recited the twelve chapters of the sutra, the four meditations, but the rot is very pitiful mercy. For so many more than to leave the good ... For many years, we often close to Thien Tinh, which Thien Tinh self-produced evil, do not give up evil.

That is the story of the Buddha, recorded in the Nibbana business episode 2, product Bodhisattvas Ca lettuce. From the story, we can learn many interesting lessons, break the wrong views for yourself and the world around.

I. The Importance of Right Understanding

Being close to the Buddha, reciting the twelve sutras, attaining the four meditations, but not enough faith and right understanding should create hell.

Faith, Sutra said: "Mother of all merit." Commentary Tri said: «The sea of ​​Buddhism, the news is in." Before there must be faith, from faith, application of legal practice. Applied then, the new value of what the Buddha said. That belief will help us deepen into Buddhism.

Right understanding is the right view. What is the real name?Because that view is consistent with the reality of the world. This view, at first to rely on the text and the good knowledge. After, will experience yourself. Having seen that lead, I do not fall into suffering, liberation, nirvana. So in the Noble Eightfold Path, right view leads. There is right understanding, what is the main, what is evil behavior. From there, right speech, right livelihood, right concentration.

The world today, despite the strong development, but the danger is more and more, is due to human lack of right understanding. Few people know and believe in causation. Because we do not know which one to result in, we have the wrong behavior of personality.Instead of happiness, we reap the fruits as well.

1. Right view on the practice of cultivation 

In cultivation, right understanding is very important. It is the guide that brings good results for spiritual practice.

a. Nembutsu of the Buddha

The Amitabha says: "It is not possible to use the virtuous virtue of virtue and virtue to be born in that realm. Sàa-interest-phat! If there are good sons and daughters who hear the Buddha Amitabha, then accept the title of the Buddha, either in a day, or two days, or three days, or four days, or five days, or six days, or seven days, one-pointedness disorder. At that time, at the time of dying, Amitabha Buddha and the holy ones appear in front of him.That person, at the time of death, was not insane, immediately rebirth in the Pure Land of Amida.

Not just a little good that can be on that realm. What is the key to rebirth? It must be full of three items Tin, Happiness, Vow. Credits, is the world of Amitabha Buddha. May, is the desire to be about that world. Hanh, is the recitation of the Buddha's mind is not disorder. The mind is not disordered in the mind only one sentence Amitabha do not mix anything else. ^[5]  Just one day without such a single mind, immediately on the Buddha realm. It is necessary to recite the birth. Not yet born again. Although not yet, but still have a happy result, is the human life after progress. Understanding is the right view. If only recite the Buddha's three variables, the mind also interwoven with the notion, also has not thought of satirical sarcasm, which think rebirth, is not the right view.

Understood like that, if you want to rebirth, we must recite the Buddha right now. Remember wherever and whenever you can recite. By whom ever recite the Buddha and then see the concept of the Buddha was cut off by the stream of thought. One day of unanimous thought, as a result of a long process of chanting the Buddha, not to wait for death to recite, or to recite several three times that can be single mind disorder. Understand that there is right understanding. Without understanding, there is no right view.

b. French meditation

Often people are afraid to learn more will fall into the so-called "meditation head", so do not dare to learn, also prevent others from learning. Seeing other people learn pout pity. But do not learn how to know the way to cultivate? Becoming a "meditation master" is also due to lack of education, not to school to the place, the school is not worth studying, the school is not worth much. It is because of lack of right understanding that I was "meditated beginning" it tied. Because of the lack of right understanding, publicity is not much but the result is not much. Therefore, strengthening understanding is necessary for meditation.

Meditation is the foundation for peace of mind. Because the body is moving, it is necessary to keep the knees so that the body can not move. Because of the scattering mind, it is necessary to bend the pillow to focus on the mind. So, sit and sit for a long time is necessary to help us peace of mind, but it is not all to vin into that attachment. If you sit for a long time, immediately it is holy, or just sit for a long time as a guideline, we are falling into the so-called generals.  

The Six Teachings Teach: "This Good Knowledge! What is meditation? Besides, for all the good and evil worlds, the mind does not start, called the coordinates. In, self-immovable nature, called meditation. This is good knowledge! What is meditation?Apart from the generals is meditation. In the chaos is determined ... If you see all the scenes that mind is not chaos, is the footprints.

The essence of sitting meditation or meditation is in the mind, not sitting in the prime minister. Sitting and sitting for a long time is the means to help ease the mind. If you are able to reach the heart, when confronted with the scene, I do not start. If initiated, there is the possibility of mindfulness. With scenes make me greed, I do not greed. With the scene makes me pitch, I do not pitch. I am immobile with the outside world, the great mesmerizing mind. So, sitting is the means to peace of mind, sitting long is also necessary for meditation, but that is not the end of meditation. If you do not see that, besides trying to sit for a long time, I will leave other things. Not to mention that when attached to sitting for long, you are susceptible to the kind of foreign gas temperament, etc. ... fascinated.

Biodiversity practitioners Biology, by the breath opening the acupuncture points to the body, so they sit for a long time. New people practice a few months, sitting 2 hours is not difficult, but they do not intend to abandon the greed. Because of your initial intention is to cultivate healthy body.

Long time that the peace of air, the coast of the heart do not start to play, loving expression, then sit well. Also sit for a long time that exposing the scene does not master the greed, the more the greed when not sitting, then you should reconsider your sitting. Either I am accepting to sit there, the birth of the mind, the greed that comes out. Or the long sitting of his not meditation out, only because the craving effort, too much momentum, the mind is not calm, air is not air, the yard that start. Know how to sit then how to peace of mind. There is no such thing as falling into the so-called "attachment to prime minister".

2. Understand in eating

Just eat a meal, do not eat dinner is very good. But that's just the means, not the end. As a medium, it is not universal but graceful.Dependent, my charm, how to eat it. Eat star to «immutable».Immutable say, only for the spirit that the Buddha wants people to see through not eating dinner. It helps to prevent craving, help the mind conditioning better.

If you eat a meal, but the body of the mind to become good, then there is nothing to table.

If you eat like that in addition to retaining the majesty of a person who does not eat the afternoon, the rest you can not do anything, people are always weak, not mind, can not benefit anyone else ... Being accepted into the general eat forget the spirit Buddha wants to teach.

She cultivated the soul. More than 50 years old but look at her only about 30. She did not eat a meal or two meals that are likely not eat two to three months. Last time, and then wait not to see her about the corpse, want to smell it should be buried. It shows that people eat less or not eat is not true cultivating right Dharma, do not say is enlightened. So, eating righteousness is good, but it should not be taken as the universal standard for spiritual practice, and then use that to look out. In doing so, we are turning the means of salvation. Lost!

Mainly to eat so that the mind thing is good, greed on a shallow day. Truc Lam said: «Hungry to eat, tired sleep. Eating how to break the desire, discriminating mind, is important. Avoid the two extremes: eat too short and over, snack, eat where to eat.

Where to eat is a form of expression for craving. Do not know the restriction of desire in eating and sleeping is a manifestation of desire. Eating too short is not enough effort or work, become a burden for others. Sometimes it costs a lifetime just because trapped in the general eat.

II. The benefits of literature

Thien Tinh, reciting the twelve sutras, the four meditations, but «do not understand a verse, a sentence, ring to a letter», so that evil ants go to hell. So with the problem of learning, the ancient class divided into three classes:

Literature , listening to lectures or reading the textbook.

Tu , is listening to read and then need to think.

Tu , is thinking then must apply the practice.

Reciting the Buddha to be born Buddha, tu Only to birth force, etc. are very good things, but in addition to the time required confidentiality, we have to consult the Buddha's teachings to develop wisdom, dominant prejudice. Why?

Because when there is concentration, it is easy to achieve extraordinary phenomena. These extraordinary phenomena, without the need for right understanding or wisdom, still appear. If I do not have enough wisdom, I will rely on those things that are born conceited. Born deliberately, then the right concentration, the right to life network. Not enough intellect, I easily misunderstood the phenomenon that is the result of the mind. From that confusion, thoughts of selfhood fall into the so-called "unreasonable use of self-nature" and so on. In the Sutra, the Buddha speaks of Devadatta: "He falls in this evil spirit through three paths." At first sight, not enough intellect that much force is not good enough.

Therefore, the life of Dharma, is the intellectual age of beings are not weak, or rely on generals that judge the problem, the Buddha does not give disciples use divine birth. If you have used then you must be naturalized.

Know that then, to learn French is important that the teacher teaches that it helps to remove greed and greed. If you can get rid of it, then whatever it is, that is where you should study. Do not let the miracle phenomenon dazzle. The disability of the majority of sentient beings, always want to find yourself a perfect or miracle to rely on, so where not satisfied. Not knowing that you are perfect, the beings who are filled with affliction can not come near. Because your realm is not in sync with your realm, what do you get together? Despite the merit of the past and then see the Buddha as compassionate, through the prejudice of sentient beings, you are also lame. Thien Tinh is a typical. Because, usually what is in the new perfect, but what is it? Is the servant of ignorance.According to it, only more people fall into the market.

Should visit the temple, should set the goal of cultivating clear: To hear the law, meditation, offering or doing all the Buddha mainly to remove his greed, not to be cherished or because of the item any other destination. Tham, yard, si have to break the peace that has new feet, new often.

III. Everything is self-contained

Thien Tinh was near the Buddha for many years, but by persistence, everything just in his opinion should end up hell. The Buddha said: "I seek a little good in the Spirit to save, but all day looking for bristles that do not get good hair, because this should not save the hell of hell." Thanks to the ancient past should be the Buddha in the adjacent, but due to the evil before the life plus this life too deep, so even with the Buddha, the fourth meditation, still not aware of themselves, full force as Buddha also potay.com.

So, if we are present good life close to the adherents or relatives of the forest, try to awaken and try to practice. Do not let your destructive obstinacy. Not like that, relying on good he is enough, then born condemned, released, abandoned the karmic practice, running the karmic life, the end of life do not know where. This is what practitioners need to be aware of.

IV. The harm of the discharge

In the practice, the discharge is the sabotage of great moral virtue.If you are not liberated, make friends with Ni-kien-death, so that the dominant ants are not to hell.

In the Detective Flower Detective, the Hien Thu "excerpt" into 10 types, accompanied by 10 legal arguments.

1 / Slack: The first release that made his practice of stagnation is lazy. Idle for good, not lazily with the lawless.

. For those whose chanting and meditation are the primary ones, idleness is manifested by not observing the prescribed time. At the time of chanting, do not chant. At meditation time, do not sit. Tu Only a little peace, immediately listening to lectures or study books, also neglect the benefits to people, etc ... are the form of lazy mind.

. For those who are mindful, mindfulness is neglected. The figure is still strong force that does not submit to delusions, so that the mind floating on the scene outside ... etc are in the form of a reporter said here.

In order to counter these cittas, the only way to obey what is necessary for spiritual practice. Temptation in the Decimal, the key is used to counter this lazy mind.  

2 / Discrimination: This is an overly comfortable type of practitioner. About, if not holding the meditation is intended, is just the devil. Hien Thu said: «In addition to the interests in the wrong settlement. It does not refer to righteousness or righteousness, because of its pure or impure manifestations in life.

Names and interests are not things that the layperson must keep, but entangled in that he has the right to be called deviant, to make mistakes in the five precepts. With the same renunciation.

Wanted to cure dispossessed disruption of this world must keep carefully the world he had lived. According to Huayen Economic, not only the precepts but also the "Pure Purity". Pure purity, there are three meanings:

- Do not create evil karma.

- Not for fame.

- No start-up vision.  

3 / The world is preferred: worldly preferred. Even if at home, if the Bodhi mind has been developed, this must be considered.Prefer beautiful clothes, like to eat, enjoy eating, listening to music, watching movies, like gathering, like talking, like many things, like to talk about life, enjoy sleep, prefer to gather here ... are the world's favorite form here.

Wanting to counter this mind must be far removed from the world.Far away, then the new departure. At the same time, we must become familiar with what belongs to the world. Instead of going to the music, reading the meditation, sitting meditation, reciting the Buddha, chanting, etc. Usually, if the person is strong enough, when the mind is released and after the mind, the worldly interests are almost no longer. . But with the consciousness of the majority of sentient beings, it is necessary to practice gradually. Instead of a month watching the movie four times, now tu, then try to reduce 2 times, slowly to once, then ... end. With all the world, according to that do.      

4 / Interest riot: Just because you can not stand the silence, where noisy, then find, where quietly panic. This kind of extravagant sabotage meditation very much. So with the meditator, we need to be conscious of it.

For this type of liberation, we must practice the opposite. Noisy, noisy, if you like also decided to leave. Try to live alone, live quietly. This is very difficult when you are used to the scene too. At first it was difficult, but slowly. Buddhists in Phan Thiet, many have prepared for their own space, to practice themselves gradually.Doing this for a while, everything will become familiar. By habit, then I will not like chaos anymore. Endued grace is beneficial to people. Abandonment of the coast to the net that mind, not rush to find the noise to solve the shortness of a disturbance.    

5 / Prefer small good deeds: This is for those who have developed Bodhi mind. Instead of setting the goal of spiritual practice to clear the mind, then back to work good blessings, enjoy the blessings of heaven.

To counter this mind, the Sutra says: "It is necessary to cultivate the kusala of good deeds." Buddha if it is, is the legal support for the path of his Buddha.  

6 / Secondary preference: is the preferred bar, Texture, do not like to develop the Buddha Bodhi. To counter this mind, must develop the Bodhisattva mind.

7 / Infection of merit: Infection of merit, the practice of merit, but before the merit. Follow the Buddha, there is no work to lay out, do not like the results of the creation of merit, the generals of the virtuous symbol of the spiritual practice, etc. are all manifestations of infection. before. In order to counter this mind, Huayen Sutra says: "Often accumulate merit that mind is not contaminated".Hiền explained: "Although the great merit of the Bodhisattva without seeing the ability - tu tu, should not be infected.

8 / Bodhi: is confused with bodhi. In order to counter this mind, it is necessary to "go away". If you want to get away from it, you need to use the means of Buddhist monks such as samadhi, Just ... Hien Player said: «For Bodhi, not an idea - It is not the mind that separates the mind.  

9 / Loss of mind: To counter this mind, to let go of the meditation, mercy of all sentient beings. Y words that the object is dissipated by the mind.

10 / Full birth: The birth of the mind is not part of the Bodhi, liberation, nirvana. In order to counter this mind, it is necessary to "clever or to distinguish one's self." Know your body has four:

. Know from the coast that has, fall from the fall.

. Know your power if the weak in the scene of afflictions can not be strong.

. Know the power want to be strong, must be hard to create progressive progress.

. Know your body has a Bodhi strain, will become a Buddha.

That is 10 kinds of liberal that practitioners need to know.

V. There are friends

The meditator is still advised to be «monopolistic». In addition to the meaning of not attaching to all dharmas, "monopoly" is a necessary stage for meditators. But when new, good knowledge and good friends are always necessary for the study, especially in the Dharma.

Why do you have to be close to you good without being close to the bad guys? Because good and evil are good enough in every being. Near you heal the current healthy, follow the same practice, do good deeds. If there is wrong, then you have a good counsel to remind. This wrong has many forms, from thought to action.

As I, know everything from the birth, the realms and all that I meet today are good and bad karma of their own. It has been experienced not only in books. But sad sad I still start the gas beings: Soi blame one person. May, my friend is a kind of good friend. Do not rush to explain that stoppage time. Refusal is annoying, but it is true that you also have to reflect. As a result, the old habits are reduced. In return, I was also a good friend of my friend. Get you good, is one of your blessings.

You, which also agree with what you are not sure that you are good. Helping us to do things more, losing, right, harassing, setting up friendships, etc., is worse. So no other gasoline with fire, to separate each other is harmless, meeting together fire again, for yourself and no one else, not only in the present but the next life.

Thien Tinh is close to the right level, but why? Because in the past, you have done too much evil. This life, follow the Ni-kien who praised the past know how to make friends with the deep Ni-mysterious. He collected more depth than the good meeting with the Buddha, so this life near the Buddha but his mind directed toward Ni-kien-death. The footsteps, the words are clear and still do not change the antics.    

Being good is one of the very good conditions to help your charity is increasingly trained deep and solid, while the evil strain has no current conditions, will gradually tomorrow. Pure Land teaches people to recite the Buddha for the purpose.

As soon as he is in good spirits, he is able to recognize and subdue it. Thus, it is possible to «Pilgrimage to become a Buddha,» can be «fervent» into the evil that the Bodhisattvas. No place to dare to.No place to rest immediately. But what is the world of sentient beings? An then Bodhisattva happily lost his seat.    

VI. Loving kindness

With a stranger, I can start feeling merciful, but with a person like Thien Tinh, did not listen to the words, and also French law, cunning, etc., I will definitely indignantly no less. I want that person to leave his eyes as far away as possible. The Buddha is not so, not only keep Thien Tinh with him, but also told Ca Lettuce that: "This is good son! If the former poor people are poor at the same time, the mercy is not much. But with the former wealthy, later fall down, the mercy of this person deepened. The Buddha only saw mercy for his mistake, did not feel disgusted as sentient beings.

If I live with my Buddha, I also have compassion like that. The word that expresses the Buddha's mind is money. So, in such cases, if one's mind is merciful - then the mind, not the mouth - knows that one is wise for it. If you hate, you do not have the wisdom to do it.

Why do not you say that kindness is wisdom? Because of the wisdom, the compassion that shows is the compassion. Otherwise, it is only a manifestation of fiction. From the wisdom, so the Buddha clearly see each of the evil of Thien Tinh, straightforward error for Thien Tinh hear, but good intellectual destruction of his teaching, but still starting the mercy. Unlike sentient beings, only the compassionate mind starts when one does not touch him, either because he does not see the evil of the person, or because of compassion.

Except the Buddha and the great Bodhisattva, as the voluntary go, ie your realm is by virtue of having, the rest, the realm of sentient beings from karma from the past. "Good and bad are not in themselves but in myself. When the picture is right, the ball does not bend. If the body, speech, the mind of his good, the circumstances around him good. Although it is bad under the eyes of people, I still feel calm as not. If your body language is not good, the circumstances that give you will be unhappy.

If the goods are intellectual, will turn adversary into pharmaceutical practice to train their own. Once I have seen the external phenomena, whether positive or negative, are legal to help me to practice, then I will have more gratitude than blame. I blame, because I lack of wisdom, I do not see the ration of causality is dominating the world.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.11/3/2018.