INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A REAL ... (p.5)

Paintings and blessings

PEOPLE AND HAPPINESS 

"Life gives us very unexpected gifts, in the form of opportunity or in the color of events. Accept it by the status of a person who knows and knows to master himself. A simple sentence, but bold philosophy can live happily life before the change of life.

Most people want goodness to themselves rather than misfortune.I come to the temple, practice, blessing also to be blessed, né painting. But not everyone gets what they want. Often, happiness and suffering are intertwined. When happiness see joy. When suffering is beyond me. Some have committed suicide. It is because we do not have enough knowledge and can not master ourselves in both situations.

Little one knows in the graphics are blessed, in blessings have graphics. Phuoc, sometimes a man-made graphics. Tiffany, sometimes the artificial blessing. Dao Duc Kinh says: «A haven, a place of comfort. Blessed are the hiding place of the creature ».Blessing unpredictable, if not know that the most attached to the blessing, it is not sure that the suffering.

I. Blessings

In the Nirvana Sutra, the Buddha tells the following story:

The other house, a woman walked in, who just beautiful wearing ivory jewelery throughout the body. The landlord saw this and asked:

- What is your name, where?

- I am the Great Buddha.

The landlord asked:

- What are you doing here?

- Where I come, I can give the gold, silver, crystal, pearl, agate, horse elephant, car, servant ...

The hostess was so happy to think: "Because I am full of merit, she has come to my house." Thought and then burn incense, carpet flowers, welcome glass.

Nowhere, suddenly looking out, she saw a torn clothes, flesh skin cracked, gray face, dirty, stinky waiting at the door. The landlord saw this and asked:

- What is your name, where?

- My name is Dark. Where can I make that house cost me money.

The house owner finished listening, took the knife threat:

- Please go. Otherwise I will cut.

The girl said:

- You are foolish, without wisdom.

The host asked:

- Why are we foolish without wisdom?

The girl replies:

- The beautiful one standing in the house, is my sister. I usually go with you. If you chase me, you also chase me.

The landlord asked Cong Duc Dai Thien:

- Outside the door is the girl said her sister is right?

- Really my sister. I go with it never leave each other, although I often bring goodness and it brings evil. I often work benefits, but it brings attrition. If anyone loves me, then I must love it. If I reverently respect him.

The host said:

- If there is both good and bad, we do not need. Invite her two for.

The two sisters went together, leading each other to the poor one.This poor man is very happy and immediately says:

- From now on, please stay at my house.

Cong Duc Dai Thien asked:

- We were just banished, why did you invite us to stay?

The poor said:

- Because she should I have to respect her. So I have to invite both to stay.

The story speaks of the truth in the world. There are birth, there is good, there is evil, there are blessings, there are short, there is good, there is bad, etc. ... This one is the other there, this is not the other. I want this to mean that I have to accept the other when it is sufficient, especially for the problem of birth and death.

"You do not have wisdom," the girl said, not saying that he did not see the reality of Dependent Origination dominating the world.Because he did not see, he wanted to catch this one and throw it away. Because he saw that the treatment, he did not expect the blessing nor fear. Blessed are not happy, drawing to not sad.Absolutely, calm, not see it as blessing or graphics. Sutra said: "Great Bodhisattva too, do not wish to heaven, because life has death. So they both quit, without any attachment. The ordinary man does not know the misunderstandings of old, sick, dead should join life ».

Huai Nam Tu writes: "The painting is the root of blessedness.Phuoc is the root of the painting. The blessings of rotation. That change can not be seen. Can only be known when the result of it appears. Therefore, when being blessed, do not be too happy but forget about the graphics will come. When experiencing pain, do not be so sad that the spirit of harm. The life to chance to risk, the risk of difficult to measure all. We should imitate him, but keep calm for the ups and downs of life.

Mr. King, an old man near the border with Lake China, had a horse.One day the horse ran through the lake and disappeared. People in the neighborhood heard the news. The old man said,

- Maybe the horse ran away is good for me.

A few months later, the horse returned, leading a horse of Lake, high health. People in the neighborhood or news to congratulate, also recalled the old man said before. The old man was not happy, just said:

- I know that getting this horse will lead to disaster for me.

It is not wrong. His older son loves to ride horses, see high horse Lakes like it, jump on his back to run. Unbelievably, Lake horses should not purely jump dance. The boy was thrown to the ground, fractured his thighs big disability. People in the neighborhood to condolence. The old man said,

- Know this thanks to the other blessing.

One year later, Ho led the invasion of Trung Nguyen. The border area must be encamped with anti-enemy troops, dead clean. The son of foot broken foot is not affected, so alive.

The above discussion is quite appropriate for the practitioner meditating on the practice: "Eight winds do not move. It is not moving, but it is not moving. Because all of them are compatible, there is no real substance.

Actually, not when there is blessed graphics, or graphics are blessed immediately. Sometimes it is blessed to go with the pain that may not go immediately, because it also has the life of his decision. That blessing that awakening, tu more blessing blessed blessed. That blessing that create evil business blessings.

Catholic Bible says:  « camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom of God » . T yogi-she-calf said:  « Oh men of wealth, you just moan about the disaster coming down your head » .

Saying that, does not mean wealth is a mistake. If the rich were wrong, the Buddha, like Jesus, did not advise everyone to give. But you advise all generosity to know that riches are not wrong, even blessed, because it is the result of good deeds. What the Bible means is that it is the hidden potion of that richness.

If wealth is open to generosity, not arrogant, do not spend money on the harm people, take time to understand the book to know what to do, what should not do, then the That wealth does not lead to the pain and disobedience for yourself. But usually when the rich, then everything changed.

The thing that the rich or the most troubled is the arrogant. Pride, expressed in many ways: Ordinary people, tongue overwhelmed people, no need to hear the advice of anyone, do not make themselves pleasurable boycott etc. Etude is the cause of evil karma, so it is a kind of sabotage ruin the virtue of cultivating a lot.

Apart from arrogance, his life has also changed a lot. No money can eat anything. There is money, everything is fussy. Instead of eating the killings available in the market, now must be fresh, kill immediately. Before, there is meat to eat, may now be the monkeys, dove, human fetus, etc. Such things are the cause of disaster and disaster.

Having money, it is easy to get many bad habits such as alcohol, gambling, boys and girls ... which are things that if there is no money, things are more limited. Not to mention the fact that life has become a necessity, the quest for money becomes the ultimate goal. In the fame machine, it can not fail to cause more or less. It is the cause of the pain when enough charm. Blessed in the blessed, is the blessing. Being rich without wisdom is not necessarily a blessing, but the cause of the affliction. That is why Jesus and the Judeo  warned his wealthy sheep.

At first sight, those who are prosperous, who are willing to go to pagodas, read books to teach, to correct their mistakes, , certainly not the ordinary personality.

Life in the world is, so there are many things to discuss.

Self-interest and benefit are the two main items of the Buddha.Self-interest, there is nothing to discuss. For the benefit of tha, the merit of the virtue began from that. Once the benefits, then before the same. But when the benefits and then the brilliant report, rich material, they worshiped crowded. Breaking from that also. This has happened in reality. Some seem to be more glamorous than others, but they collapse more quickly than anyone else. Is due not aware of the  « art of blessed, blessed art »  it here. No sense should the results cometh, immediately loosen the rules, let arrogance govern, just like listening to praises, not to hear a jarring though it is beneficial for you etc ... Watch out,  success more frightening than failing so much when we lack awareness.

Therefore, when one is accomplished, it is necessary to be aware of it rather than halo or craving. Remember the blessings are available in the graphics. Awakening is not the result of that lead, nor because of that result that change the mood, causing the creation of unwholesome karma, causing the sprout to sprout.

II. Phuoc in painting

A farmer with a donkey accidentally fell into a shallow well. I do not know how to do that. At last, the farmer thought about how to insert the well. Thought, he and his neighbors shoveled down. The donkey found the sand poured down to bury themselves, the more evil. But then suddenly im quiet. Everyone looked down, every layer of sand falling down, he left the man for the sand to fall off his feet and feet. So the soil level is higher and cheated out of the mouth of the well.

In life, what I consider bad is not necessarily bad. What I consider good, is not necessarily good. It's important that you have the same trick, know how to shake off the disadvantages, and use that disadvantage as a springboard to overcome the difficulties in the present or not.

When I still have business karma, in the business sometimes have to borrow to pay for advance purchase. One time, the loan was not. People, usually or for his loan, now do not give. It is very annoying to see the loss of interest, frustration of his time, frustrated with his difficult. But in the end it is clear: If the loan is the right hug blood. Do not know where to get money to repay.Because the owner of the ship had taken the money away. People are being beaten up countless. At that time grateful to those who do not lend themselves.

There are many other things that make us more experienced with the lost in the world. Oh, good, not bad. It is good to live and work well. Good kamma itself will have its own fruit when enough charm. In life, it is hard to know what is bad, what is good ...

Often, those who have enough good fortune can "get something out of it. What is it, then? I do not get the blessing. Do not calculate the yen, but it does not, or out back. The beginning of the "betrayal" was the death of my father when I was 12 years old.The desire to make big plans for the future. The "traitor" is constantly repeated on every small matter, so I have to incorporate them into a living theory for me: It is necessary to stop thinking, wanting as well as calculating for the future. to preserve the network. Therefore, any worries for the future arise, I set aside, only to do well the present. Unbelievably, the practice is consistent with the law «The hope does not follow» that the Master taught. It is consistent with what the Royal Family said: «Forget the wish, the Buddha will be present».

Song into the then, only know to "pass through" is not enough, it is necessary  to use wisdom  screening so that what was «cast aside» that does not exist in the subconscious. Looking at the outside world is a blessing in your own.

In return, my friend, because of what is also, should be forever. Go on the line that life can not stop. It is easy to get off work, it is difficult to quit. Poor affliction so easy to cultivate. Money lovers are up, leaving success is not easy. Who can be said to have the upper genus. To speak, to speak to the seed. To multiply the need to concentrate.

III. summary     

Worldly blessings are relative phenomena. Relatively opposite.Mutual birth is born. Therefore, good deeds for good retribution are to be done, but not to be attached to it. For this we need wisdom and concentration. Wisdom, to penetrate the essence of all things.Power, stop new things to do.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.