The "Buddhist Lifestyle", a topic that Shabbir himself has preached many times, but specific and clear in the Buddha's sermons the Buddha taught his son Rahula, La family. These texts are translated in the Second Sutra, Sutta 61 and 62 and in the third Sutra, the 147thEthics in Buddhist life.
Sutra. This Sutra was written by King Asoka, , calling on all monks and laymen to recite this sutras.
We are not sons of the Buddha, but Rahula is the spiritual son of the Buddha. The words of wisdom and wisdom of the Buddha. The wisdom and wisdom of the Buddha to Rahula, nearly three thousand years ago in India, also teaches us all, the Buddhists of Vietnam, monks and nuns. male, female as well as young as well as old.
Today, on the solemn Day of the Vesak Day, let us reflect together on the Buddha's teachings on the Buddhist way of living.
The Buddha said, "Rahula, what do you think? What is the purpose of the mirror?"
Rahula replied, "The Blessed One, the purpose is to reflect"
"Also, the Buddha said," Rahula, after reflecting on many occasions, practice karma, after reflecting on many occasions, practice karmic retribution, after reflecting on many times, .
lifestyle religion is life there is always reflective, no drift, no bohemian. the mirror that the Buddha said is not a mirror surface, which is a mirror soul illumined back all thoughts, words Whether or not it works or not, the Buddhist way of life, as the Rahula teaches, is harmless or harmless to one's self, for myself and for others, bring happiness or cause unhappiness for yourself and for others
Why does the Buddha advise us to reflect on many times?
This is due to the process of karma, which can be divided into three stages: the first stage is the period of consciousness, also called the mind. Often, we call it will. Today's example is Buddha's birthday.But from yesterday and before, there is a desire to today's Buddhist temple, listen to lectures, do many Buddhist and other good. But there are also sure that only a small number of holidays on the Buddha's wish to see the fortune-teller, see the math, looking forward to "on the bridge" a trip to develop, fortune.
At this stage of our will, we must also reflect on whether we want to be right or wrong, whether it is right or wrong with the way of life, the Buddhist way of life, benefit ourselves and the person or No, bring happiness or cause pain, for yourself and for the good or for the two.
If at the stage of the will, you reflect on the day of Buddha's birthday that the fortune teller considers math is not appropriate, is the superstitious superstition for your wife, children, friends and others you precious. Please give up that desire. On the contrary, for the intention to go to the temple, Buddhist ceremony, listening to lectures, do many Buddhist and other good. Reflexes see that it is good, bring peace to yourself and to others, now and in the future, then you firmly do that desire, but also because the great majority You have such good intentions, so today we have good reason to preach in a crowded and exuberant society like this.
If everything we do, every word we say, all our thoughts are reflected in the careful consideration of the stage of will, as the Buddha taught Rahula, how many mistakes, Crimes and misfortunes did not occur in this painful world.
Buddha said, "Rahula, if you reflect on me." This body I want to do, this body can lead to self-harm, can lead to harm, can lead to both. This is akusala, leading to suffering. Such a rival, Rahula, you definitely do not do. Rahula, if you reflect on this, you know: "This body I want to do, this body can not lead to self-harm, can not bring harm, can not bring harm. Second, this career is good, brought to peace, bring peace karmic results, a good deed is good, Rahula, you should do.
The second stage is the stage one has started to do, is doing. At this stage, the stage of work is going on, we continue to reflect: whether we are fit or not fit the lifestyle, Buddhist lifestyle, do damage to themselves, for other people, for both or not, or vice versa, bring peace to yourself, to others, to both or not? If through reflection, it is not harmful for yourself, for people, for both, then let us resolutely continue to do that, despite difficulties hindered.
Just as today, you are happy to come here to Buddha, to hear the teachings, to do good deeds and to Buddha, in your heart feel peaceful, happy, intellectual growth. If you think so, then you can rest assured, on this Buddha's birthday as well as on other Buddhist holidays, or whenever conditions permit.
On the contrary, there are things you are doing, doing, but in the process, you find it not good for yourself, for people, not for both, even if the original intention is good enough Also, you should end the work immediately.
The Buddha told Rahula: "Rahula, when your house is a cure, you need to reflect on it as follows: This body I am doing, this body of my self to harm. , leading to harm, bringing harm to both, this career is akusala, leading to suffering, bring about painful consequences.He Rahula, if in reflective, you know the body is doing But if, Rahula, while reflecting, you know as follows: the karma we are doing now is not conducive to self-harm. To bring harm to people, not to bring harm both, this good kamma is good, leading to peacefulness, bringing good results, Rahula, you need must continue to do. "
Stage three is the stage when a job is done. We also need to reflect on whether the work we have done is consistent with the Buddhist way of life, whether it causes harm to ourselves or to human beings, whether it causes damage or not. , bring peace and happiness or not to yourself and to others or to both.If we reflect and realize that we have done harm to ourselves and others or to both, then we must sincerely eat, repent, honestly reveal faults with the guru or with others. fellow practitioner, his companion. Then, resolving the determination from now does not do such a harmful thing again. But if, through reflection, realize that what we have done is in line with the Buddhist way of living, bringing happiness to oneself and others, or to both,
The Buddha also warned Rahula to do the same, after each of his deeds: "Rahula, after your completion of a career, you need to reflect on that as follows: "This karmic act, we have done, this karma leads to self-harm, brings harm to others, causes harm to both, this kamma is akusala, brings suffering, brings suffering results, If, while reflecting on this Rahula, you know as follows: This body we have done, brought to harm, brought to harm, brought to harm both, this kamma is akusala leads to pain Suffering, bringing suffering results. Such a ritual, Rahula, you need to say, need to reveal, must be presented to the master, or to the brave Pham Hanh. After giving up, expressing, presenting,
"Again, if you reflect on this Rahula, you know as follows: This body I have done, not to bring myself to harm, not to harm, not to harm both, pro-life This is good, brought to peace bring good results. Therefore, Rahula La, your home to stay in the joy, self-study day and night in the French.
For every work of the body, that is, even when it is desired, or when it is done, or after it is done, the Buddha advises Rahula as well as all Buddhists. Should be sober, good or evil, if it is good, then study day and night to grow those good deeds. And if it is not good, then try to day and night to get rid of, remove, precaution, repent, repent, so that those unwholesome things never again.
Not only for the work of the body, but also for speech, for every thought budding in the mind, the Buddha also advised us to reflect on the reflection of good or evil. If it is good, then learning to promote growth, if it is not good, then strive not tired to eradicate, remove. And only after so many reflections on our work, words and thoughts, can we advance to all of our three karmic, karmic, karmic, and career paths. Clean and bright, completely consistent with the lifestyle, Buddhist lifestyle.We gradually follow the teachings of the Buddha, as recorded in the Dhammapada:
"Do not do all the evil,The intention of keeping clean, must be the constant and leading concern of all our Buddhists, monks or at home. Why? Ladies and gentlemen, this is because, usually, people think first and then say, do, we all meditate on the first verse of the Dhammapada:
Achievement of good deeds,
Mind keep clean,
The Buddha taught."
"The leading French,Meaning: the mind is immoral, unclean, full of greed, speech, action with such mind will also unwholesome, unclean, full of greed, and bring suffering results.
Italian master, the creation,
if with the pollution,
speaking up or action,
suffering brain following steps,
as wheel drag objects"
In contrast, as the Dhammapada says:
"If with pure intention,Life style, Buddhist lifestyle, life style with pure heart. It is also a happy lifestyle. A happiness that I create for myself, not for others, neither parents nor children can do. That is the idea of verse 43 in the Dhammapada:
Say or action,
Happiness step behind,
As the ball does not leave the picture."
"What the mother, father, childrenThe main direction is good heart, good heart, pure heart.
can not do,
Eight main directions to do,
Do better!"
On the contrary, the man who has the akusala citta is also the most unlucky person in the world, a greater unhappiness than the evil the beast brings to him. The Dhammapada:
"Oan harms justice,Why does the Dhammapada speak like that? This is because the akusala citta is the enemy within, the enemy is implicitly harmed, so also the fearsome enemy.
enemies the enemy,
not with deviant mind,
evil for self."
There is a question: How to keep the mind is always good clean? How to keep the mind does not think evil, think evil? How to avoid greed, less greed, although greedy ignorance is wrong, suffering?
That is a very legitimate question, the Buddha once said: "Loyalty to mankind!" (Kandakara Sutta, Middle Sutra II Sutta 51). Someone who smokes is harmful to the smokers, drinking alcohol is harmful but still drink. That is the power of habits, a scary power. Just as a person goes on forever in the dew, how the shirt also dew. Want to dry your clothes, how many days to expose? For the mind as well.People think evil or good thoughts are also habits. Which has become habit, especially bad habits, it must also elaborate, take time to remove.
First of all, you have to create a good environment with good environments, good intellectuals, as the Buddha says. In the Great Sutra of 110, the Buddha introduces us to what is the lifestyle of an unwholesome person. An unwholesome person is a person full of akusala, such as no faith, no shame, no fear, no hearing, no lazy, lost mind, less intellectual. An inconvenient person thinking like an illiterate, thinking to harm themselves, thinking to harm others, thinking harm both. Negative people speak like liars: Lie, say double-edged, speak evil words, say frivolous. Negroes act like nefarious people, killing, giving innocence, sexual misconduct. So,
Buddhists regularly visit the Buddha, listen to the teachings of the Book of the Phat, together talk ethics, doing the Buddha and good deeds, that is to create a good environment to eliminate evil thoughts, arise healthy thoughts, good thoughts. It is difficult for a person to do it, or to start working.But if there are organizations, many people do the same and many times, the familiar, the hard work will also be completed well.
Having a good environment, having good friends, we have to work on ourselves.
An Introduction to the Truth (The 20 th Sutra, Sutra 1), teaches us the right way to nourish good thoughts, eliminate evil thoughts. Kinh An Trieu says there are five measures:
- The first measure: is the pursuit of healthy thoughts of evil. Take, for example, the compassionate thought of the anger of the Buddha using the example of a carpenter, using a wedge or good idea to strike another wedge (evil thought).
- Second measure: To reflect on the disastrous consequences of evil thoughts will lead to evil and punishment. Just as one observes that he is wearing a dead dog's body around his neck, afraid of it, throw it away. Just as today, smokers think smoking can cause both themselves and their children (smoke cigarettes) with cancer, scared to quit smoking.
- The third measure is to try, forget the concept of evil, do not think of it anymore. For example, a Buddha closed his eyes so that he would not have to see something that could motivate him to do evil.
- Fourth: Stop the evil idea, let it weaken. The Buddha uses the example of a person running, moving to, then moving to standing, then sitting, and lying. I can take the example of smoking to illustrate the Buddha's words. An addict, see the pack of cigarettes, take the drug match, inhale the two three always. Now when we see the pack, take the bag, and when the bag is picked up, drill the rqa, drill the matchstick, or match it, then drill in one breath, etc. Because each time To stop this, we can all reflect, remember the doctor's instructions on how cigarettes cause cancer, how the message of the wife how much money to smoke, etc. so that it can stop smoking.
- Fifth measure: using the will, the power to control evil thoughts, not let it arise, Buddha example a healthy person falls a weak person.
The above are the five measures to control and eliminate the concept of evil, which the Buddha preached in the "An. These are practical and specific teachings that everyone can apply in their daily lives. One thing we need to remember is that all thoughts are impermanent, whether evil or good, if they are not nourished by corresponding thoughts and especially by corresponding actions. I take the example of smoking cigarettes. It is nourished by thoughts such as smoking that is harmless, smoking addiction, smoking a cigarette that can last a few seconds, such as laughing at an hour or seven seconds, etc. If we do not adopt the concept of smoking with such thoughts, on the contrary oppose it, eliminate it with thoughts such as smoking cigarettes, smoking lung, smoking costs money, etc. The concept of smoking can gradually disappear as we did before. And we can move on to quit without any difficulty.
One more thing, we also need to keep in mind that good thoughts are generally stronger than evil thoughts, just as light is stronger than darkness. The evil that dominates us is because we do not know it is ac. If it is found to be evil, it will naturally disappear. Therefore, the Buddhist sutras advise us to always be mindful of awareness, know what we are thinking, what to say, what to do and that thought, that saying, it is good or not good, Peace or suffering for yourself and for you. Some people think evil and do not know that they are evil. It is very difficult for a man to practice evil. Just as someone who does good does not know how to do good, it is very difficult to grow good.
The life of the Buddhist must be a life of consciousness, good is good to promote the inherent good, learn the good things have not. At the same time to know evil is evil to remove the evil that has committed and protect the evil has not started. In short, increase the goodness inherent, learn the good things have not, remove the evil inherent, avoid evil has not: it must be the diligent lifestyle of all our Buddhists.
It is also the definition of "Right Effort," Samma and Yama, in the Noble Eightfold Path the Buddha advised all Buddhists that we need to practice. "The holy disciples live diligently to abstain from evil deeds, attain the good deeds, persevere diligently, do not give up the burden on good." (Tang Chi II, p. 18).
Over here, we have said using the ancient concept of evil chasing evil. You may ask what kind of a good idea?
The Buddhist teachings often teach the practice of "eight leaders" by the right knowledge, right thinking, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, Eight methods to build a perfect Buddhist lifestyle, practical application to real life. A good man of course must be a man with righteous thoughts, righteous thoughts, righteous thoughts, three righteous karma, right livelihood, a mindful mind and meditated feet. chief.
It is wrong to have someone accuse us of Buddhism as destroying all human emotions, such as non-human beings! On the contrary, it is possible to say that Buddhism is the most human way of life because it is said to help all people strive to be perfect men and women in this world. best virtues of compassion and wisdom. Human beings have great wisdom and love (compassion): it must be the direction of all of us, because that is the model, the human being is perfect from the Buddhist point of view.
It is a concrete direction, no distant future, the Buddha and many generations of his disciples enlightened demonstrating that perfect man is not a complete structure that is not a structure that was not. Being, being, living beings, reality if you try to strive the way. Eightfold path that the Buddha has outlined.
The immortal value of Buddhism is that it outlines the concrete path that makes each one of us human, a happy person and a free man, a man of wisdom and love. wide.
It is also the message that the Buddha left us: the message that calls us all to strive to become perfect people, who are free from the three linguistic, the liberated minds and liberated minds, worthy students of Buddha, children of the spirit of the Buddha.
In this world of hatred, let us live without hatred, set the example of a life full of love. In this shadowed world, the darkness of war, and the unethical lifestyle, let us light up the light of wisdom, understanding and understanding.
Society does not look at us, judges us through the Buddha's book and the Buddha's statue, but looks at us, evaluates us through our concrete person, through our specific work and words, can to be loyal or to contrast with the idea of compassion and wisdom of Buddhism.
The Buddha, too, seeks us to judge us not by the statue, the Buddha, whether the Buddha recorded his words are true or not, but through the specific daily life of Buddhist monks we have It is a way of life, a Buddhist way of life or not. If we really live, behave, act in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha, then whether the Buddha entered Nibbana three thousand years ago, but he is always by our side, follow the instructions , encourages us. 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.13/9/2018.
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