The meaning of retreat.

  

Buddhism, unlike religions such as Judaism or Hinduism, does not fall into the extremist form of nonviolent principles. The first settlement also allowed you to bury trees and insects during the three rainy months, in order to respect and protect the lives of animals; Second, avoid the hardships of the world and the pagans. 
Dependent Origination:  According to the Tibetan Buddhist Law, in the early years of Sangha ( Sangha  ) The Buddha did not legislate to settle, then when the rainy season came to the tree grows the proliferation of countless insects. Some Pagans of other faiths also have regulations to stay in the rainy season to avoid trampling on the victims of their lives; But Buddhist monks continue to travel in the three months of the rainy season. 
This incident has crushed the masses and critics: "How can the Shoguns, the sons of the Shakyas, go in winter, summer and even in the rainy season, They trampled on green grass, injured, killed many creatures'? "In the rainy season, birds, ants also know to nest to shelter the rain, the disciples Gotama go on forever and kill insects . " (1) This event was reported to the Buddha, and then he used the wisdom of the label to consider and find the coast has come, should issue the annual Karmapa to people who leave the practice of peace. He said, " Now, I say, monks have to live in the three months of the rainy season. (2)  Since then, the tradition of sedentary practice has been practiced regularly in the Sangha and has brought many benefits. Not only for the practitioner but also for the Buddhist home. 
Meaning of terminology:  The term Pāli:  Vassa,  Sanskrit:  v arṣā , translated into English as:  'Retreat season' meaning the rainy season. Chinese translation is the (rain period). The shortened name of Vu An Cu (雨 安居), also known as Lower Hut (夏 行), Hang Ha (坐 夏), Hang Lah (坐 臘), Lower Lung (夏 籠) , Lower (夏 書), Lower Economy (夏 經), Lower Section (夏 斷), Lower (夏). It is called the First Nine Week (一 夏 九 旬), the Nine-week Retreat (九 旬 禁足), the Retreat of the Retreat (結 制 安居), the Consecration (結 制), etc. It is called Kiet Ha (結 夏), at the end of An Cu is Lower (解 夏). 
The Fourth Law section of Law Enforcement Agency Volume 4, explaining the meaning of the sentence as follows: 'Collected peace and quiet mind is an, period must stay is resident'. The Envy Decree defines: 'Settle in a place called Kiet; karmas defines: the fruition of the body into a static place called An '. Residential also means' a heart, The body is still in a place and the mind is peaceful, pure called relaxation. 
During the three rainy months in India monks are not allowed to go anywhere else, because during this time the plants and insects are born, so as not to damage them, Death of the Buddha usually concentrated in one place, banquets, set the rules of Zen meditation practice during the three months of residence. 
Leisure time: About the time of residence, usually most take one to nine weeks (ie three months) as a term. Fourth Section Sanity Act of Duplication, Volume 4, taken April 16 is the first day of settling, July 15 is the last day, the next day is self-sufficiency; Ma Ha Book Vol. 27, the date of July 15 as the fourth day. The date of the regulation, depending on the country, climate, to conduct appropriate settlement. 
According to the Vinaya ordinance, the Buddha prescribed two time periods in the rainy season: sedentary and sedentary. The settlement should be on the next (month full moon) month  Āsāḷha , post-settlement should be when (full moon day) month  Āsāḷha  has passed a month. O bhikkhus, these are the two rainy seasons. "(3)
The Theravada Buddhist tradition should begin the  Vassavas from June 16 ( āsālha month  ) and finish on September 16 ( Āssina month  ). If the settlement starts on June 16, it is called the  Purimikavassa . If there is no condition for a deposit, it must be postponed one month later, beginning July 16th and ending on October 16th, called the Pacchimikāvassā . And the number of settlements that a bhikkhu has been used to calculate the age, There are also some specific provisions on legal residence (such as suitable residences, clinics, ...) are clearly recorded in the law.
Today, Buddhist traditions in Vietnam are often called 'retreat,' or cessation of residence for three months in accordance with the tradition of Buddhism in the North. After the lunar month of the lunar month, the monks begin to settle down, until the end of the full moon day of the seventh lunar month, the self-sacrifice ceremony and the end of the season. This shows flexibility, depending on the conditions in Buddhism. Depending on the soil, weather, climate and conditions for settlement. Time is different but the content and meaning of security are the same. 
Subjects and residences: The first settlement system was practiced by Brahmanism in ancient India, later adopted by the Buddhists. In School A Functions vol. 2 Business Travel, Buddhist scriptures Hanh Book vol. 39, recorded the story of the Buddha and his disciples resettled. The Book of Lauds The Book of Compulsions, lists the names of places where the Buddha sat down for about forty-five years. The place where the Buddha, after enlightenment, and the disciples celebrated the first sedentary, the scriptures say different, however, usually take much of the garden for the first time. first.
According to the Law of the Book of the 24th, the five monks were monks, monks, nuns, novices, novices must celebrate the settlement, the two are in the Uu Ba Tac and Uu Di are not settled. Back in the year, monks and nuns in the monastery in a place to practice; Monks and nuns, as well as monks and nuns in a place to practice religious practice. According to the Vinaya, the Pāli: Vassupanàyika - kkhandhaka Pāli says that if Bhikkhus do not dwell, they will be guilty of wrongdoing (Pāli: Dukkara, Prajāla).
Regarding the place of residence, the Vin prescribed the monks in the area to choose a suitable residence to carry out residence. The abode may be a monastery, a flat, a net ... where the monks have appointed and the practice of ghosts. Rule Four, Volume 37, Contains the following places: Under the tree, small house, mountain cave, tree hut, boat, village, etc., or refuge in the herdsman, The woods to settle. Law of the Five Elements vol. 19 The law is not allowed to settle in places where there is no rescue, such as: In the middle of the grove, without trees, roof of fur (also feathers), land drums, etc. Before retreat, to renovate the clinic, at the same time, to distribute the clinics and other things to the public equally.
The Buddha in the world, by the monks traveling four degrees, should reside very simple residence. Accordingly, according to the Note, a suitable accommodation for accommodation is the doorway with shelter and roof plus any of the roofing materials in the five roofing materials that allow for accommodation arrangements. Not listed in the Vinaya, including dwelling in a tree niche, on a tree stump (like a hunter), living outdoors, living in a non-living place, living in a house The parasol lives under a parasol, or in a jar of water.
Note: If you choose to live in a tree niche or a tree with appropriate roofs, walls and doors, you are also allowed to live there. Also considered to be okay with a parachute if attached to a wall is nailed to four piles - meaning that if built similar to a tent can be allowed to settle there. 
There is only one procedure mentioned in the Vinaya ordinance for the beginning of the Rain Season where we prepare our habitation, get water and cleanse, and clean up the place. there. However, the Annotation asks us to make an official determination: after the observance of the observance, etc., we should read the following verse one or two times:

Administrative procedures are also simple, the monks formally requested the repentance of the Three Jewels and repented each other in the same order of age. Then you determine the boundary of the chosen area as a place of mass residence during the three months of the rainy season - which usually covers the whole area of ​​the monastery and by changing the determination by:

The most important thing to do to stay in the abode is to have someone who is proficient in the precepts, who reads the precepts of the jurassic priest and knows the rituals of repentance, daddy ... Therefore, Meet the precepts before entering the retreat season to ask the Venerable Y only resident. Most Venerable Y is the resident, the noble dignity, dignified morality and proficiency in the precepts. He is able to solve the obstacles in their rise during the season. (right to question). Before settling into An Residential, facing the Y only resident to express the idea of ​​settling, known as rival An residence; There is no refuge in the mind, said in the mind to make an An residential settlement, called the mind of An.
On the other hand, the Sangha also needs to be restrained. The smallest is in an old-lam. The biggest monk of the monkhood is the 10 th -a lot, about 18 kilograms. If the center is the school, this side 9 km, the other side 9 km to increase on the two sides to the Bố-Tát for convenience. If you are afraid of not being able to go ahead, you have to go early to catch up with him. On the side of the Ni, kingship is a lotus, ie about 1.8 km, which is the largest. (5) No bigger, if not greater than the world, is guilty. 
Reasonable time in the holiday season: When the karmic sedentary residence, the practitioner must comply with the law, not to go out of the realm of the world but to live in a place to practice meditation, the end of the sense, to growth career . If a retreatant voluntarily goes out of the home, he or she is guilty of breaking the law, which leads to the breaking of the precepts and becomes ineligible to receive the special gifts he or she is entitled to receive. Holiday Season. 
However, there are two exceptions to this rule: it's legal continuation to do the job for seven days and break the place of residence due to the reasonable return. 
Day Seven : During the period of residence, it is forbidden to go outside the prescribed area, if any person fails to comply with such regulations, the crime is committed. However, according to the Fourth Rule, vol. 37, if one can return within a day, they are allowed to go out; It is possible to go outside within seven days, fifteen days, this method is called the Four Noble Truths.
According to the terms of the Commentary, this means that we can leave the dwelling place within six mornings and return to greet the seventh sunrise at the place of Resurrection. If a person violates this rule, he or she will be criminalized, called An Lien, destroyed, will lose the ability to receive the distributed offerings. But, if for the accident as: Run away from the beast, snake poison, fire, water surrender, the king arrested, chase, hit, female, kinship, etc., If you leave the residence, it is not guilty. 
Meaning: Buddhism, unlike religions such as Judaism or Hinduism, does not fall into the extremist form of nonviolent principles. The first settlement also allowed you to bury trees and insects during the three rainy months, in order to respect and protect the lives of animals; Second, avoid the hardships of the world and the pagans.
However, the Buddha was more interested in attitudes, not in form. The residence regulations aim to create a good opportunity for you. Bhikshuni focuses on the practice of cultivating the world of wisdom, making the path of enlightenment towards enlightenment. Consequently, the establishment of annexes not only benefits the individual but also increases the trust in the Three Jewels of the lay Buddhists. Executive Residence is aimed at maintaining the traditions of the Buddhas in the past. As a result, the sedentary season has become important and meaningful to the four disciples of the Buddha.
So whether the Kiet Ha or Kiet Dong immigration, the main purpose is to promote the mind, cultivate the moral. Monks or nuns who are not interested in practicing meditation to nourish their minds are not worthy of being a learned disciple. This rigidity is also only because the Buddha wants to protect the vitality of the Sangha by developing the individual's spirituality. 
If one of the disciple of the Buddha disciple does not honor the Buddha's instructions, watching seduction is a constraint, a small means that he not only self-denial self-interest bad influence for the Sangha. Just as the farmer has to farm every year, if the year of neglect does not care for the crops, the farmer will be poor hunger.
If there are no dates for cohabitation to mutually influence each other, how can there be conditions to form a capacity for harmony and to verify the value of purity? The end of the retreat is the self-sacrifice, a form of ultimate importance to summarize the process of progression or retreat of individuals through three criteria:  see, hear, suspend.  Those who move beyond the precepts, let go of the three karmas, act by instinctively inherent, will be charged with public misconduct.
Regardless of the practice, if properly practiced by the masses, it is a great source of energy to reinforce the pure harmony of the Sangha; Bodhi mind growing stronger, durable; Helping the cause of the gradual realization of sentient beings. The good men and women also rely on the great virtue as the sea of ​​the Monk that spiritual advancement; thanks to the study of Buddhism that wisdom developed; thanks to sincerely volunteer Dharma offerings that rich blessings, deep grace to the Buddha Dharma will be firmly and firmly ensured forever. 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.21/5/2018.