D- TIME TO LEARN EDUCATION

From 29 to 35 years (6 years).

1- Leave (-595)

595 years BC, Prince Siddhattha was 29 years old [1] . Princess Yasodhara has just given birth to the only son of Rahula [7] for seven days.

After the dinner party honored grandchildren of the king's birthday, the night was too late, everyone tired. The god Sakka Indra [3] is used to force all the princesses and ladies to fall asleep, all over the place. The prince felt anxious not to sleep, thinking himself should take this unique opportunity to leave. He looked at the princess Yasodharà and Rahula for the last time to say goodbye. The mother and son lying side by side create a warm image of harmony, sacred, noble, innocent, passionate, gentle, causing the crown to touch. Suddenly remembered to the river of love infinite suffering of beings to suffer for countless lives, he immediately rushed out to call Channa:

- Channa, you have led Kanthaka here for me.

- Prince Siddhartha, now it's over midnight, what do you do with your horse?

- The time has come, we go out to direct, do not interfere with me, do not dislike me.

Channa shuddered, stealing from the horse. The prince shook his horse six times. Channa barely clung ponytail, the four he Uranus [4] flew down to hold four foot horse hurtling through the gate eastward [5] , then go south to where hermit Bhargava (Baht Aging or fishing Mrs. ) ascended down the land. At dawn the first day of February 8 [6] year of tiger (-595), Prince Siddhattha and Channa finds himself on the other side Anoma river banks [7] , how to Kapilavatthu 36 miles (58 km) southwest [ 8 , in the village of Anupiya, Malla.

The prince pulled out his sword and made a vow: " I cut off this tangle of hair to get rid of all the defilements and obstacles ." Sakka Indra throws his hairdo and flies to the basilica and builds the temple. Prince thought again: "This sheet of planes also have to change the new master of the family." Sakka Indra knows the idea of ​​being a hunter, holding a bow, and wearing a yellow cassock. Prince Siddhartha asked,

- Why do you wear the clerics' clothes to go to work killing such?

" Sir, I'm wearing this dress so that the deer will not run away. So I hunted a lot.

- He was dressed in a cloak that did not kill him properly. And I want to release the globe without a priest shirt. So you should change your shirt with me.

Sakka Indra in honor of taking off his robes. He also took off his shirt. The crown prince dressed in cocktail [9] , the use of natural modification, thought: " From here I have a formal appearance ."

Before leaving [10] , Prince blandly told Channa:

–Hey Channa, we see the world, the body far apart, but when they are together, their minds still follow each other. There are close relatives but the mind does not match their minds are far apart. I leave the palace throne only you follow me here. I will stay in this deserted area, but you bring my costume to offer to His Royal Highness and said: Your Majesty, for the honor, power and pleasure in life, Crown Prince do not think, do not wish, nor beg for birth to the heaven to enjoy the five pleasures, nor the irrepressible, angry, but because the wrong way wrong people, do not know the main road, In the cycle of birth and death, the Crown Prince volunteered to find a way to rescue them. Please do not be sad for the Crown Prince. If the Sultan says we are still young, should not be ordained, then he said:Your Majesty, there is no age limit to the life of an impermanent, who is old enough to die . "He said to his aunt," They are born in the world; Except for the suffering that should go out of school, please do not forget what to do sad sorrows, You should also tell the princess that I want to break the ignorance, Return to lead people on the way to liberation.

Channa finished listening to the princess salute, tearful tears, horse back to the city.

Channa came to the palace; Queen Pajàpati, Princess Yasodharà and the two women, Gopika and Migranana, and the women who saw Channa without seeing the Prince were anxious to ask:

- Where are you now?

- Dear Queen, Prince has left the five pleasures to seek relief. He is currently in the forest, wearing a tassle, cutting his beard, becoming a monk. Please queen of joy!

- I have aunt what you, queen said, how dare you leave the Prince alone in the cold, wild animals, poisonous, what to ensure the Prince's life?

- Ladies and gentlemen, the prince took the child back to present her these costumes and please her peace of mind, do not worry sad, soon the prince attained the righteous thoughts will return.

" You do nothing to harm me, Princess Yasodharà," he said, "what have you got back here yet?

- Ladies and gentlemen, the prince surpassed the family is the god of the gods make everyone sleep, then four goddess down the four feet of the horse to fly to heaven, I just grabbed the horse tail to fly never mind. Please forgive me. But that is great, precious! When Prince Siddhartha flew over the gates of nature, there was a bright light in the sky. It's strange !

Upon arriving at the royal palace, Kanthaka is sadly saddened, left without food for several days, and then falls to his death, reborn in the Tàvatimsa [11] .

Prince Siddhattha, now known as Gotama, stayed at the Anomiyah River for seven days. Here the nuns have the opportunity to observe the ascetic way of Bhargava group (The. These ascetic men cover their bodies or leaves, either by grass, or by bark; When eating, use the plants, grass, flowers, fruits, have him eat one meal a day, or two days, three days a meal; he worshiped the god of water, fire god, he worshiped the sun, the moon; Have him stand one leg all day, have him put his hands into the sky all day, have him lying on the thorns, or lying next to the fire, or in the water. Getama (Gotama) asked:

- How do you like this ascetic?

- We hope after death will be born heavenly enjoyment.

- Being born to the heavens, ascetic Gotama said, but real fun, but when all the oppressed and blessing also optimistic, samsara in six road [12] . I want to find a way to eliminate all the basis of suffering.

Discussion no one found any good methods. Gotama asked to leave to continue the path. Mr. Bhargava see Gotama has a good general and great grandmother said:

- Dear fellow, about 120 miles southeast of the Vassilic capital of Vajji (Batu Ky), there is a very well-known, profound, well-educated, well-educated master named Ālaà Kàlàma (A La La Ca Lam) [13] has 300 disciples. So you should go talk to them.

Gotama thanked Bhargava and then went to seek Guru Kālàma.

King Suddhodana after the news that the Prince surpassed the monk, the night remembered, heart disease. He summoned the spirit of conversation and sent the wrong teacher led a group of spirits invited the Prince returned to the palace. In that group of five royal honor Sakya [14] that he Kondanna (ascetics), Bhaddiya (Baht Recommended), Dasabala Kassapa (hexadecimal Mahakasyapa) also called Vappa (She Division Three), Mahanama Kulika (Ma Ha Nam), Assaji (Assassin, A Xa Du, Ma Thang). Delegation to the forest by the river Anomà, meeting with Bhargava, asked:

" Sir, Prince Siddhattha has left home to come here?

" Sir, there is a pupil who has come here to talk with us, but now he is probably staying with the Venerable Ālàra Kālàma near the Vassilic capital of Vesali.

The delegation immediately retired Bhargava and continued to Vesalia, seeking to direct the Dalai Lama. When he saw the Prince in his dress, he kneeled down and said,

- Prince Siddhartha, though he knew the Prince wanted to leave school for a long time, but he still day and night remembered, morale, body wear. Prince Siddhartha soon return to the palace, the King will set aside a quiet place to the Prince peacefully studying, as if in the deserted forest.

- I do not know the distress and intimacy of the Sister. It is because I want to solve the root of the suffering of the living beings that I have to leave the path. Besides, I now have my grandson, Rahula, at my side, to comfort me and to continue my career. Please return to the King, when the settlement of the suffering of the above beings I will return.

Seeing that the Prince was full of generals, a group of five Kondanna brothers volunteered to stay with Prince Siddhartha to return to the king.

The first guru: Ālàra Kàlàma [15]

When Gotama sat down, he met the guru, Ālàra Kālāma, and said:

- Master, please teach the guru and live a spiritual life under the guidance of the master.

" Stay here with me, young man, my way of teaching, to help the intelligent person to immediately perceive the higher teachings with his own intuition, and to realize life in enlightenment." there. The practitioner must eliminate the clinging of the body is falling, until the achievement of consciousness leaves the body like a cage bird, wearing free flying in the three [16] , that is liberation.

- Master, the sublime teachings that the guru realized with intuitive wisdom must be practiced and how the results?

Ālàra Kālàma then explained to the Gotama dharma how to practice and realize enlightenment in the following way:

1.  Do not live in fear of death, do not desire the world property, mundane worldly pleasures, willing to cheerfully leave all the advanced  meditation [17] , reached the District of Pleasure. Practice: Divide the glass of evil, using Games and quarters except for delusions and afflictions, enter Ly Sanh Harms, proof and stay meditation. After the general network, can be born to the Brahma parisajja, Brahma purohita, Mahà Brahma. The first meditation such as brass water (mind) for a long time, sediment (affliction) settling down 8/10, the body is gentle fun; But when the water is disturbed, the residue becomes irritated.

2.  Away from the secular pleasures, specializing in meditation, the second Noble meditation [18] , Satisfying Satanic Happiness  . Practice: Quit range and quartet, internal static,enter the Pleasure Sisters of the United States, evidence and second stay meditation. After the general network, can be born to the Parittabha, Appamanabha, Abhassara. The meditator such as brass water for a long time, the sediment settling down to the bottom of the brass, the water becomes transparent, the mind is light, clear, clear. But when the water is disturbed, the residue becomes irritated.

3-  Five [19] pure. There is no sense of happiness in front of the scene, the mind is always peaceful in mindfulness [20], then the  Tam meditation [21] , reached the Divine Pleasure. Practice:Ly peaceful residence discharge, mindfulness awareness, discharge the concept of residence, enter Ly Hy Dieu Lac District, evidence and stay Tam meditation. After the general network, can be born Parittasubha, Appamanasubha, Subhakinha. The three meditations such as brass water are deposited in, all sediment is settled to the bottom of the brass and was removed out 8/10.

4-  Six [22] pure. There is no sense of discrimination, no longer stubborn right, wrong, bad, bad, enchanted, righteous. The mind is always peacefully, pure, transcendental, not obstructing the  four meditation [23] , reaching the Pure Land Pure Land. Practice: Discharge of suffering suffering, glass of pleasure, enter the Pure Land Calm, testify and stay meditation. After the general network, it can be born to the heavens of the Vehapphala, Asanna, Aviha, Atapa, Sudassana, Sudassa, Akanittha. The meditator is like pure water pure water, there is not a little residue. Water can be disturbed, but still clear, not cloudy.

5-  Out of all the shades, eliminating obstacles to think, do not interfere with the ideal, harmony in the infinite boundless. Feel yourself and everything can contract a nature, and dissolved in nothingness without borders, the prime  Infinity of(Akasanantya yatana), is itself not. After the general network, may be born into the first realm of the Formless Heaven. Acquired Borderless As the water has evaporated, no longer see, but can be turned into clouds, into rain. Acquired Borderlands can be the Spirit of Tuc Thong.

6 -  Beyond Borderlessness, no longer find themselves with the body, only the mind is boundless, equality with beings like no other, the Contemporaneous  Consciousness(Vijnanantya yatana), is awake. After the general network, may be born into the second heaven of Formlessness. The Borderless Country as water evaporated slightly, can not be turned into clouds, into rain again. Acquired Perseverance can be Thien Nhien Thong, Thiên Nhĩ Thông and Tha Tâm Thông.

Except for the  infinite Consciousness, the realization of the dharmas are not, nothing of their own, nothing to attain, nothing necessary (no use) , the  Noble House (kkincannà yatana), the French. After the general network, can be born into the Third Formless heaven. It is the highest heaven I have realized. There is nothing else. Acquired status as Water has evaporated slightly, beyond the atmosphere, only a little wet. Avatars of Possession can know some of their past lives.

Gotama according to the instructions that practice a few days also realize the realm of Unfilled Kingdoms. But he was also disappointed that he did not know the supreme truth that he desired. Master Ālàra Kālàma rejoiced that his outstanding disciple succeeded swiftly, praising:

"My dear friend, I am very happy to have a respected fellow practitioner like you. The teachings that I have realized with insight and declared successful, now the same path has realized as me. So let's stay here with me, let's join together to lead this group of Taoists.

- Dear teacher, consciousness left the body is still fall, also birth and death . I find myself needing to progress further because my mind is not completely calm, the original birth and death not end, the realms of nirvana have not enlightened, the real truth has not communicated. I would like to say goodbye to continue the path.

The second guru: Uddaka Ramaputta [24]

Kondanna advised Gotama to go to his former teacher, Uddaka Ramaputta ( 25),near the city of Rajagaha ( 26) , Magadha (Magadha). The rajagaha, also known as rajagriha, is about 160 km south of Vesalia. Getama, along with five Kondanna brothers, traveled ten days to see Uddaka Ramaaputta. At that time the guru was 75 years old and had 700 disciples, 300 studied on the spot and 400 in other places. Teacher teaching:

- Ordinary people accept the appearance of all things, or accept that things are without form, so it is misleading. Should be considered for a certain, only to receive the color of the body (l 'essence, the crystal, the feet) of all things . It must be out of the property to prove and abide the Phi Phi Dream. Such should avoid any prospect of self, human, beings, life authors [27] , the mind is no longer thinking (which is thought not), that results in liberation High First, do not suffer anymore, and born of heaven Phenomenon Phi Phi.

Gotama entered a few days to confirm the N'eva sanna nasanna yatana, no knowledge nor no knowledge, the mind becomes so delicate that it can not say there is. or no consciousness. For example, water is broken down into oxygen and hydrogen, not water, but water. It is said that Uddaka Ramaputta is very happy to say:

"My friend Gotama, I am very happy to have a respected fellow practitioner as a virtuous one. What I have understood and realized now, my friends are as knowledgeable and enlightened as me. Then let me stay here to lead the group to me, because I am too old now, no longer in this world.

- Dear teacher, I saw in the realm of Phi Phi Tuong is still the subtle actions to multiply  the following eight subtle suffering :

1-  Center concept was born, it was born of suffering.

2.  Mindfulness successive anniversary, that old suffering.

3.  The mind is not finished, the power is not stable, it is suffering .

4 -  The force can also be rotten, that is death.

5-  Remember the velvet, that is the separation of suffering .

6.  There is something not satisfied, it is resentment suffering .

7  When there is no intention to interrupt, it is undue demand .

8-  Tho, the idea, the action, the consciousness is not complete, it is warm suffering .

The supreme leader, desiring to eradicate the root of all forms of suffering. I have not done so, so I ask permission to continue the gospel to the path.

"  Gotama, the master of Uddaka Rapaputta said, the noble aspirations of the faithful are so admirable, so when the success of the Buddha, please remember me first.

By chance, Seniya Bimbisàra visited Uddaka Ramaputta, and so he came to pay homage to Gotama and offered to give him half his life if he stayed with Magadha. After the monk Gotama refused, the king asked the monk to succeed after remembering his reign.

4- Six Years of Asceticism in Uruvela [28]

(from 595 to 589 BC)

Gotama found that no one else was better for him to take refuge, it was time for him to self-fulfill his aspirations. He went with his five buddies Kondanna, Bhaddiya, Vappa and Dasabala Kassapa, Mahalàma Kulika and Assaji. (Ramadan, dukkharakrya) in Uruvela village, near Gaya city, about 30 km south-west of Uttar Pradesh, to practice asceticism. At that time, so far in India, there are many masters who strongly believe that ascetic mantras can overcome and purify the mind, eliminate all lust, and leading to ultimate liberation. Of course, Gotama decided to test this method.

He went to a remote cave in the middle of Dungsiri Mountain, beginning a fierce struggle to overcome the body, with the hope that once he had mastered all the complex and troublesome needs of the body, the mind will be freed from the dominion of matter to attain sublime liberation. He strives to achieve the same level of asceticism. Eat only leaves, roots, sesame seeds, beans every day, sleep very little, meditate or meditate throughout the day. His body was bare skin, the navel near his spine. The Buddha later recounted in the Maha Saccaka (Majjhima Nikàya 36), his ascetic practice as follows:

" At that moment the thought came to me: Or we try to bite the teeth, curved tongue pressed close to the upper jaw, and use good thoughts squeeze, control and destroy bad thoughts. Then I bite my teeth, curl my tongue against the top of my jaw, and try to squeeze, dominate, destroy bad thoughts with good thoughts. As I struggled, the sweat from my armpit poured out. Like a strong man who presses down a man's neck weakly, presses himself downward, and subdues him, and so I fight to surrender to unwholesome thoughts. My strength is strong and indomitable. My spirit is stable and unwavering. But my body was not able to endure the effort to hold on to it. Even though those painful feelings are in my body, it does not affect my mind at all.

"Then I thought to myself: Or do we meditate on holding our breath again! Then I tightened control of breathing and exhaling through my mouth, with my nostrils, with my ears. And when I hold my breath, my head hurts. Just as an athlete squeezes my head with a hard leather cord. However, my strength is strong. Those painful feelings have nothing to do with my mind.

"Then I thought to myself: Or do we meditate on holding our breath again! Then I hold my breath with my mouth, with my nostrils, with my ears. When I was controlling my breath, a strong throat pierced my stomach. Just as there is a skilled butcher or beginner who is using a knife to sharpen my abdomen. However, my strength is still strong. Such painful feeling did not affect my mind.

"Again, I thought to myself: Or do I meditate on holding my breath again? Then I controlled the breath in and out of my mouth, with my nostrils and with my ears. When I hold my breath, a terrible heat burns my body. Just as two athletes were holding my limbs on a charcoal bunk until my body was burned. However, my strength is still strong. Such painful feeling does not affect my mind.

"At that moment, the angels saw me, saying to one another, Asma Gotama died. Others say: The ascetic Gotama is not dead, but is dying. While some say: The ascetic Gotama is not dying, nor is he dying because he is an arahant. This is just the way of an Arahant.

"Then I thought to myself: Or do we try on a complete hunger strike? At that moment, the angels came near me and said: Sir, you should not be practicing hunger strike completely. If you do so, we will pour the heavenly crystal into your body through the pores to feed you. I think: If we say that the hunger strike, the angels poured celestial bodies into the body through the pores to feed us, it turns out we cheated. Well, I do not have to go on a hunger strike.

"Then I thought: Or do we just live a pint of beans or vegetables every day! When I use only very few solid or liquid things, my body becomes thin as dry as the reeds. My seat is only with the camel toe. My spine is like a string of straggled up and curved. My ribs are like a collapsed house. My eyes are like those of the stars at the bottom of the well.My hair fell out, wrinkled like a dried thyme. When I want to touch the belly skin, my hands touch the backbone. When I want to touch the spine, my hands touch the skin of the abdomen. Because of the lack of food, my belly pressed close to my spine. When I wanted to get up and go to the urinals, I fell down. I pounded my limbs for life. Alas, at such a beating, the hair on my body is falling to the ground because of death. Those who see me say so: Dark Gotama. Some say: Gotama's skin is not black but green. Some say: Gotama is not black, not blue but dark brown. My bright skin is so bad that it lacks the real thing.

"Then I thought to myself: No matter how past ascetic or brahmans suffer the painful, painful, painful feelings of the past, this is the same, no more. . Although the ascetic or brahmanas in the future will suffer the feeling of pain, pain, pity how to the extent that this is the same, can not be more. However, despite the many ailments, hardships and pain, I have not yet attained the ultimate enlightenment of inner being beyond human beings. Or is there any other path leading to the ultimate realization? "

When Gotama was near death and had not yet reached his will, Mara immediately approached him and said [29] :

- Thy slender, poor body pantomime! Death time is near. Your body is dead, there are only a thousand. But live, Tao, life is very good. There is a new life to create blessing. Be celibate and sacrifice fire, you will create many blessings. How do I live ascetic life like this for? The path of persevering effort is truly difficult, difficult, not easy to accomplish.

Gotama replied:

- This devil is evil, devil, dear sinner and lazy. You only come here for your own sake. I practice with firm conviction, with strict control of body and mind, with diligence and wisdom. I have resolved so, why do you want to wobble me? Dry blood, dried honey, meat also worn out. The more we wear out, the more pure our mind. The more pure the mind, the stronger, the wiser, the more stable the force. The more painful the body is, the more distant the heart is from craving. Then we know clearly what is the purity of a being.

"Ambition is your number one army. The second warrior is dissatisfied, the third is the thirst, the fourth is the craving, the fifth is the dull, the sixth is the fear, the seventh is the cynical, the eighth is false, benefit, praise, honor, tenth is high self and contempt.

"Mara, it is your army, it is the guests who always hide inside the evil demons like you. The weak cowboy can not win, but whoever dominates the army is happy.

"I am on the banner of our grass clusters Munja [30] . To live in cowardice in this world is humiliating! I would rather die on the battlefield than live and fail.

Listen to here, Ma Wang look disappointed, depressed, sad, leave.

After nearly 6 years of ascetic training, the power of Gotama dormant is increasingly weakened, the body is thinned by fasting, awake, awake. Sometimes he fainted while sitting meditating under the tree or walking. There is also a stone cave in the middle of Dungsiri Mountain, Uruvela, about 5 km north-east of Bodh Gaya, commemorates his ascetic practice. Before the stone is a Tibetan temple.

One day, sitting meditating by the river Neranjana, Gotama suddenly heard a professor of music teaching his students on a boat passing by: " Remember, the strings must be just right. tension, tongue new tao. If the wire is too soft then the soft deaf mute, if the string is too tight to break . At the end of the body, Gotama ignorance of meditation. 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.5/7/2018.