To become a Buddhist

Buddhists often come from two main reasons: One is due to the traditional influence of the family; Second is the belief in adhering to the teachings of Buddhism. Nobody comes to Buddhism with the intention of finding the path of liberation, relying on the Buddha's teachings to convert the xinxing that some people for the sake of personal gain, gradually transformed Buddhism. superstition and loss of the practical meaning of Buddhism in the world.

To learn how to become a true Buddhist, please take a look at the answers of the Most Venerable Thich Tri Thu through the following 60 truthful Dharma questions:

1) QUESTION: A Buddhist must first understand and what to do?

ANSWER: - First of all, it is necessary to understand the basics of the Buddha, secondly to the righteousness of the Three Jewels, and finally practice the five commandments in daily life.

2) ASK: Why do you have to follow that order?

ANSWER: - Because of what to do, to understand the purpose of it. There is a new understanding of faith and practice to bring benefits for themselves, for the family and for society. The Buddha taught: "Believe in Me, but I do not understand Me to destroy Me".

3) QUESTION: What are the basic points of the teachings?

ANSWER: - Do not do evil. Do good things. Keep your thoughts clean.

4) ASK: What is evil?

ANSWER: - Being unreasonable, harmful and harmful, both in present and in future.

5) ASK: What is good?

ANSWER: - These are jobs, words and ideas that are logical, beneficial and beneficial both in present and future.

6) QUESTION: What is pure thought?

ANSWER: - It is thought to be right, not to be angry, not jealous envy, do not cause suffering for yourself and for people. Pure thought when discovered in the action, the genuine action, when the word is spoken, gentle words, make life and human life happily beautiful.

7) QUESTION: Doing well and avoiding things that no religion or doctrine teaches, no Buddhism?

ANSWER: - Yes, that's right. But saying one thing, practicing as well as saying it or not, is another thing. That is not to say the good, the evasion is reasonable or not, because if the proponent of a theory that is not a truth enlightenment then the theory is difficult to complete.

8) ASK: Where is the proof for correct theory and practice as well as theory?

ANSWER: - Look at the history of the life of the founder of religion and the history of propagation of religion he knows.

9) ASK: How is the life of the Buddha?

ANSWER: - Most consistent with his teaching. So perfectly suited to Western archaeologists when they first studied Buddhism that the Buddha was a fictitious mythological figure in history.

10) QUESTION: What about Buddhist missionary history?

ANSWER: - An innocent history that has never hurt a nation, has never waged war with anyone, despite being called the Holy War. In contrast, Buddhism is where peace comes.

11) QUESTION: So, how do we conclude about Buddhism?

ANSWER: - The Buddha and His followers have spent nearly 26 centuries as examples of good doing evil.

12) QUESTION: Why does Buddhism keep this whole?

ANSWER: - Thanks to the third special point: keep your mind pure. Thought to enlighten the way for action, guidance for action; The thought is pure, the action of course must be pure.

13) QUESTION: So, should Buddhism pay special attention to the role of thought?

ANSWER: - That's right. The current wisdom of the current transmission teaches how to distinguish what is the right idea, what is evil thoughts; Eight thousand four thousand methods of spiritual practice are purposely filtering thoughts for pure.

14) ASKING: What do you want to accomplish with these three key points?

ANSWER: - It is the righteousness of the Three Jewels, because in the Sutra teaches: "Proverbs of merit" means: "Faith is the origin of virtue, the mother of virtue."

15) ASK: What is the faith?

ANSWER: - To believe the right things, reasonable, there are practical benefits, such as good news will cause good results, any results as pictures with balls. Do not believe the vague, unreasonable and not as practical benefits as the god of evil spirits.

16) ASK: What is the Three Jewels?

ANSWER: - Three treasures: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.

The Buddha is the shortened word of the Buddha in the Sanskrit language, only the sages have been completely enlightened and thus completely freed from the cycle of birth and death. Chinese translation is the enlightenment

Dhamma is the Chinese word translated Dhamma in Sanskrit, the teachings of the Buddha, because the teachings that properly represent the truth of the human universe, use gold mold, ruby ​​in the eradication of suffering root and bring peace forever.

Rising is the abbreviation of Sanskrit in Sanskrit, only one group of four or more, following the teachings of the Buddha and live in the spirit of the Republic; Chinese translation is the harmony of them.

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha is the goal that Buddhists must aim for.

17) ASKING: Why call the Buddha, the Dharma, the Three Noble Truths?

ANSWER: - Usually gold, silver, ivory or high prestige is important, but try to ask when the scene of mournful life, such as bribery robbery, disease epidemic, etc. These things do less suffering. can not Or is it more painful for us? That is not to say rich fortune has dissipated, gold and ivory are nowadays can not be kept forever. In this impermanent world, his scene is not rare. There are Buddhas, Dharma, Sangha permanent, often happy, often honest, often pure and often save us without discrimination you fake body. Because four virtues, Lost, Falling, and the great vow that should call Buddha, Dharma, Tang is three treasures.

18) Q: What is the benefit of the Three Jewels?

ANSWER: - The main benefit of the Three Jewels is that they can not speak and can not think.

19) ASK: Please say some of the benefits of the Buddha Faith?

Answer: - In the Kinh said: "The Buddhas in ten directions, remember children as mothers love children". Mummy misses her so, so now I respond to her mother's boundless love, put all the trust in her immeasurable wisdom position, then like the person who went to the night with a torch light, at risk I have a mentor, no anxiety anymore?

20) QUESTION: What about the true faith of the Fa?

ANSWER: - The Buddha taught how to create good health, enjoy good results, create evil people bear bad results. The causal law is an authentic law. Buddha teaches: "All sentient beings are Buddhas to be" means that they are capable of becoming Buddhas. So if the news and practice the Buddha's teachings, will definitely be enlightened, the suffering is happy.

21) ASKING: The Buddha's teachings are only about that?

ANSWER: - Much, much. But the general rules are not causal.

22) QUESTION: What are the benefits of righteousness?

ANSWER: - Rising is the replacement of the Buddha to continue the work of teaching as the Buddha did in the world. Changed Buddha is the increase. In the face of merit, the benefit of the faith of the Buddha how the benefits of faith increase like that.

23) ASKING: What has to be done?

ANSWER: - Take refuge in the Triple Gem

24) ASK: What is refuge?

ANSWER: - The definition is back; y means to rely on. Sentient beings who are delusions should be attracted to temptation, to be submerged in the ocean of suffering, without any support, like the wild children love the roaring call, rolling into the dust , tasted enough sour taste, now suddenly sensing, want to end the life of three dug floating, back to the country to seek refuge, so called refuge.

25) ASK: What is the Buddha's refuge?

ANSWER: - Turns to rely on the Buddha, worship Buddha as a teacher, swear life does not worship the god of heaven.

26) ASK: What is the refuge?

ANSWER: - Turns to take refuge in the teachings of the Buddha, taking the doctrine as a torchlight, swearing for the rest of his life not to hear the temptation of evil pagans spreading teachings oblique.

27) ASK: What is called Sangha?

ANSWER: - It is back to rely on the elderly, see the elderly as the Buddha in the world, enough exemplary worthy of imitation, I swear life is not close friends vicious evil gangs.

28) QUESTION: Heard there are immeasurable Buddhas in the ten worlds, so which Buddha worship more?

ANSWER: - Being the same enlightened, every Buddha has the same wisdom and the same sentient beings. But depending on the sentient beings have more grace to Buddha, worshiping the Buddha, as the Pure Land Buddhist monk, worship Buddha Amitabha, the secret to worship the Buddha, etc. Japan ... But if worship Germany Buddha Shakyamuni is the most complete, because He is our mother in the present.

29) QUESTION: Are you a real person in history or just a legend?

ANSWER: - He is a historical figure, born 2,500 years ago, named Siddhartha, the son of King Suddhodana and Queen Ma Da in Kapilavadi province in northern India (now Nepal). ). At the age of 19, he was about to join the throne of his father, the 30-year-old, who became the Chief of the Enlightenment under the tree of Tat Bát, meaning Bodhi Tree, the name of Shakyamuni Buddha. After the Buddha, he lectured throughout India, saving countless beings escaped suffering, 80 years old died in Sa La Long Tho forest in the territory of the sentence. How he teaches how his life is practiced.

30) ASK: Is the teaching complete?

ANSWER: - Keep intact, including all three organs, Law, Comment and have been translated into many languages, China has fully translated into Chinese language long known, called Chinese Tripitaka. Vietnam is just beginning to translate some. The teachings, Sanskrit called Datama and Chinese translation is French.

31) QUESTION: How old are the Sangha?

ANSWER: - Because of the Sanskrit word in Sanskrit, let the disciples of the Buddha from four or more people live in harmony in the spirit of hygiene:

Body in harmony: body harmony, eat the same. 
Inverted invisible: the united mouth does not quarrel. 
Harmony agreement: agree harmony, agree with each other. 
Harmonize fellow practitioners: co-preserve gender. 
Conciliation of the solution: the same only to explain each other. 
Harmonious forces: the same benefit sharing. 
32) ASK: Do not take refuge in the Triple Jewel?

ANSWER: - There are many harms. First, there is no chance to be closer to the Sangha to be shown, to promulgate the method of cultivation on the main road; What is not close to the French to find out and distinguish the wrong foot puppet; Finally, it is not possible to cause good conditions with the Buddha to save the Buddha. In the teaching: Do not take refuge in the Buddha will fall into hell; Do not take refuge in the Dharma; Not to be raised.

33) ASK: Why?

Answer: - Because of the origin of suffering samsara is greed, hatred, si. Do not take refuge in the Buddha, do not imitate the compassion of the Buddha, the anger every day increased, which anger is the cause of hell. Refusing the Dharma, do not learn the Dharma, to distinguish the righteous, the easy consultation, which is the cause of the evil. There is no Sangha, there is no peaceful mirror for us to imitate and no way to guide the way to avoid evil doing, the si si more and more dense, but ignorance is the cause of the animal.

34) ASK: How do you seek refuge in the Triple Gem?

ANSWER: - Find a practitioner of dignified digressions, learned erudite, on behalf of them Increase the white Buddhist ceremony of transmission of three refuge before the Buddha. While listening to the three refuge, the long-term focus on the Three Jewels and eagerly, vow to keep the three lifetimes, regardless of circumstances do not change. Thus, the refuge ceremony was accomplished.

35) ASKING: The Buddha's message that has not yet been refuted is called a Buddhist?

ANSWER: - Only beginning from the moment when the life of the three precepts of refuge before the Buddha, by the pure initiation of life is officially a Buddhist, or more accurately, a Precious or a Precious Di Di.

36) QUESTION: What are you, What are you?

APPEARANCE: - Uu Ba Tac, Uu Ba Di is Sanskrit; Chinese translation is close male, female close or translated as good men and women. As the men or women close to the Three Jewels, serving the Three Jewels and the Three Jewels always hold.

37) QUESTION: What is the life expectancy of Buddhist monks, Buddhists need to do anything else?

ANSWER: - On the path towards the goal of the Triple Gem; As the two eyes, the five precepts as two legs. Eyes look at the target but at the same time foot to step forward to achieve that goal. The Five Precepts are the beginning of the divine status.

38) ASK: What is the Five Precepts?

ANSWER: - 1. No killing.

2. Do not steal.

3. No sexual misconduct.

4. Do not lie.

5. Do not drink alcohol.

39) ASK: What is not killing?

ANSWER: - Do not mind or kill lives, even if the lives are animals, because they also know as suffering. On the contrary, always have to respect and save lives of all species. Big crime is nothing more than killing; Great merit is nothing by rescuing.

40) ASK: What is not stealing?

ANSWER: - Do not directly or indirectly deceive to take the person's. Great witchcraft is nothing more than greed, no merit greater than generosity.

41) ASK: What is non-adultery?

ANSWER: - Do not indulge with his wife, husband, or with his wife, husband. On the contrary, it is necessary to be thorough, vigilant with all people of the opposite sex.

42) ASK: What is not to lie?

ANSWER: - Do not speak evil words, do not say embroidered words, do not say double tongue, do not say fraud, as say no, do not say yes. On the contrary, to say honest truth straight, benign, benefit yourself.

43) ASK: What is not drinking?

ANSWER: - Alcohol is a mental disorder, intellectual loss. At present, alcohol causes many diseases; In the future, alcohol is the cause of dull darkness. In Kinh wine more evil than poison. The purpose of the Buddhist is to cultivate wisdom, promote wisdom to learn the truth is absolutely not drink alcohol. Neurotransmitters such as opium and spices such as chives, squash, garlic, etc. are not allowed.

44) QUESTION: What is the practical use of the five precepts?

ANSWER: - Creating human beings with dignity, dignity and respect. In the family, father, gentleman, out of the country, it is good people. If all mankind keep the five precepts, the peaceful society, the world of peace.

45) ASKING: Keeping all five episodes difficult?

ANSWER: - The person who holds the full five rings is called Uu Ba Tac (if it is a man) or the whole of Uu Di (if woman). Men only keep the two sex called the Pregnant or Pregnant. The holder of the Three Precepts is called the Preeminent Partial or the Preeminent Part. The holder of the four precepts is called Most Uu Ba Tac or Most Precious One. If it is not enough to keep all five gender, then choose two sex that you can hold hold to keep the vow. After the graduation will be volunteering for more life full five.

46) ASK: What if there is no gender?

ANSWER: - There is a Buddhist who has refrained and still have many evil evil!

47) ASK: How do you keep your precepts, unwilling or unwittingly committed?

ANSWER: - Repent in front of the Three Jewels and do not recidivism. The essence is that while repenting, the heart is self-embarrassed and sincere repentance, the new sin dissipates and the new body again as pure as it did not.

48) ASK: Only keep the five precepts that do not take refuge in the Triple Gem is not?

ANSWER: - Refuge Tam Bao is the right view, life expectancy is the world precepts. Right teaching is more important than right instruction; If only keep the five precepts do not take refuge in the Three Jewels, the future still enjoy the riches of wealth in the heavens or the human realm, but because not guided by the Three Jewels is not as good as the higher the higher the lost.

49) ASK: Refuge the Three Jewels and take care of the five precepts, should advise others do not like?

ANSWER: - It is a great merit. It is advisable to add a refuge, keeping the precepts for society a miserable misery. The teachings: "In all the offerings, offering the Dharma is over all" that offering the Dharma means that they live in accordance with the Dharma and advise people living by the Dharma.

50) QUESTION: What is the cause and effect of the above? And what is related to the Five Precepts?

ANSWER: - Very relevant. But first find out what the cause and effect are.

Multiply is the cause, as the seed in the seed; The result is, like the fruit on the tree. The fruit is born from sprouts and sprouts produce them, not mixed up. Seedlings of sweet fruit produce sweet fruit, bitter germ of bitter fruit. Laws of cause and effect are not caused by one or more causes, but there are causes of course to have results. Law of cause and effect governs the whole of life and covers the whole universe. Nothing goes beyond the law of cause and effect. Even the great teachings of the Buddha just to explain the cause and effect only.

51) ASKING: What is the relation between the law of cause and effect and the five precepts?

ANSWER: - Do not kill, but still release, that is the cause of long life without disease. Non-theft, on the contrary, generosity, that is the cause of the rich to sustainable. No sexual misconduct, that is the cause of the fruit, warm in the family. Do not lie, that is the cause of love, not be deceived. Do not drink alcohol, which is the cause of the fruit of wisdom. This is just a few common results.

52) QUESTION: Why do people from small to large work diligently, without stealing anyone, but throughout life is still struggling?

ANSWER: - It is the result of the cause in past lives. Laws of cause and effect are complex, not simple as ordinary people. There are causal at the same time, there are causal anomalies, there are causal changes, etc. ... Cause and effect is the same as the knock on the ear to hear the sound; Annoying effects are like growing rice today, three months later to eat, or as a careless job from the previous year, hundred years later to see the damage, causal change is like good plants planted in bad soil and Fertile fertilizer will turn out bad.

53) QUESTION: All things in this life in accordance with the law of cause and effect, father father father, son child enjoy, the two parties involved?

ANSWER: - Naturally like that. But in life all the meet by the grace of that. Someone who falls in love with a house, of course, depends on the kind of homosexuality with that house. There are large families where children are smart and gentle, stupid and cruel, that is due to the mind and behavior of parents at conception. If the pregnancy during the parents do many good things, good character, the baby must be born into a good baby. Left, all encountered bad children. So the parents eat in the newborn baby is filial intelligent.

54) ASK: Law of Cause and Effect, who sets?

ANSWER: - It is a natural law like the laws of science, no one puts it all. Buddha enlightenment that invented the law, the way to us. It is the law to create good good effects, bad causes bad effects, no gods or gods that resist or intervene to punish.

55) QUESTION: Then worship Buddha and worship Buddha for what?

ANSWER: To express our gratitude to the Buddha and to contemplate the Buddha every day, following the example of the Buddha 's Compassionate Hypocrisy, so that we gradually learn the virtues that make us daily closer to the Buddha. In addition, the Buddha is also a way of cultivation to purify three karma, speech, mind. When the Buddha, the body to see the Buddha to see the pure silence; Reciting the name of the Buddha, do not say the wrong words, the net bar, thought to four virtues of compassion and harmlessness of the Buddha said in the Kinh, no thought interfering, . Because of the sarcasm, because of the three karmas, the three karmas are pure karma.

56) ASKING: What is the benefit of Buddha's recitation?

ANSWER: - Reciting the Buddha means remembering the Buddha. Remember to think of Buddha, of course not remember to think of other, help the purity of mind as mentioned above. Dhamma disciple or Pure Land method is the most magical and easiest method.

57) Q: What is the benefit of chanting?

ANSWER: - Chanting as well as nembutsu, the benefits can not think. When reading the recitation of the Buddha's teachings, we meditate on the pure virtue of the Buddha, naturally every day we approach the Buddha one step, chanting until we between the Buddha and the other way to prevent each other, our mind mind of Buddha, mind of the mind of the Buddha. That is the end of the recitation of the Buddha.

58) ASK: Then why not eat vegetarian food?

ANSWER: - All creatures have the same qualities as us, they know suffering as we are, that is, living beings are afraid of death as well. I would heartlessly hurts other creatures, while I myself am suffering with pain!

Therefore, the Buddha should eat vegetables to show mercy to animals. He has already taken refuge, at least have eaten two days vegetarian a month, on the full moon and the first.

59) ASKING: Does Buddhism admit to having evil spirits?

ANSWER: - In addition to causality, Buddhism does not admit anything. But the person who wants something (the person) has that (fruit). If you always remember to think the ghost is. In the Kinh there is a ghost story as follows: There was a woman raped by the devil and used hundreds of thousands to remove but no results. Later, thanks to meet a Bhikkhu Master for three refuge methods, she spent the night learning the three legal methods, naturally no longer see the devil again and return to live happily as before.

60) ASK: When chanting the Buddha's recitation, want to ask the Buddha to help for something, so is the correct Dharma and have not?

ANSWER: - If you bring all the faith to your heart as the Buddha's heart, to cause good people are naturally with the Buddha with each other. Good luck will be there. Wanting to achieve the fullness of the virtue, it is essential to keep the thought pure, do not do the evil, diligent good things, as the Buddha's teachings in the Kinh

"Wrath of the monsters

Good service

Confidently agreed

Buddhist monks. "

Mean:

"Avoid doing evil deeds

Doing good deeds

Keep your mind clean

That is the Buddha's teachings. "

And

"May this merit

Look around all over

Disciples and sentient beings

To complete the Buddhist " 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.22/7/2018.