Do not rely on it.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

 

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In the reincarnation, good and bad cause and effect, right and wrong, the present grief in the present will continue to the next life, so when it comes to suitable conditions, it will have a strong impact, making us accept without knowing the cause. ! Many people do not understand that there is a god god, powerful enough to bless the world?

As if a boatman was carrying passengers across the river, suddenly there was a big wind. Many people were too afraid, so they tried to recite the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara to ask him to save their ears from death.

The boatman said, all of you calmly sit where you sit, sit there, then he continues: "You have to carry more Buddhas and Bodhisattvas too, watch out for you and your son. ! ”.

This is a deeply hidden parable, reflecting the weak psychology, fear of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva of all people on the boat, when normally not worrying about Buddha, Bo- Slapping until the accident just asked for help.

That psychology is always popular everywhere, when no one normally thinks about spiritual practice, when something happens, we go to the temple to pray and beg for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to help. If the ears passed through, then happily gloating for that Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and not being able to suffer, suffering and suffering, blaming heaven and earth, not extending their hands to help me.

Those who are weak, often psychologically depend on or sanctify Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and adore as supernatural beings, supreme authority, capable of blessing human beings. So they always look forward to their prayers and help them, but they do not know that they are the owners of all things.

If it is in its true meaning, Buddhism is not a religion but a transformation method, in order to help all the dark and obscure people who are obscuring their pure Buddha mind.

In fact, life, more than 2600 years ago in India, has a human being like all of us, due to the determination to let go of all the attachments that become the Buddha's name, Shakyamuni. The disciples of the Buddha are also human, relying on the Buddha's teaching but the testimony should be called Thanh Tang, Thanh-van Tang, A-La-Han, Bich-chi-Buddha until the Patriarchs later. leading sects or lineages are real figures in history.

And other Buddhas with the Bodhisattvas, said by Shakyamuni Buddha in the Kinh texts, are not historical figures, but we can understand them as symbols of the mind, Buddha nature. human wisdom or commitment to contribute to life.

Assuming the boat in the above story sank, many people came to save the passengers, those who we call a compassionate person, the embodiment of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, should be ready to help forget. my network.

Shakyamuni Buddha shows us how to practice spirituality to transform the suffering of pain into immeasurable wisdom, to escape the cycle of life and death. Whether or not to cultivate is because we decide, we cultivate well, reduce our greed, anger and confusion if we do not cultivate when the bad fruit comes, even if we have Buddha and Bo-slaps, we will not save us, evidence.

Buddha is the one who shows the way to go or not is because of me, who does it, who cultivates in this samsara. Buddha cannot bless us, because blessing or painting is created by ourselves, we must accept it, when we have enough conditions.

Some people do not understand the divine issues, just worship and beg for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas excessively, so they lose themselves more and more into superstition. When listening to the Buddha's teaching, we must reflect, consider and apply spiritual practice, people often rely on others, rely on others and lose themselves.

In the face of material temptations, people who desire too much should always demand satisfaction. It is those desires that bind us, make us nervous, tired, insecure, even leading to despair.

This world is always in the cycle of treatment, if we cannot accept life with bad and good things that dominate us every day. The rich have the suffering of the rich, the poor also have the suffering of the poor. Let us consider, reflect on, analyze every problem, look directly into the sorrows that are hidden deep in our hearts.

With the material life of the better-off, many are not suffering because of poverty but suffering for ... greed, anger, and ignorance. Therefore, if we do not have the capital, the spirit of spiritual and spiritual as a fulcrum, to return to ourselves, we will easily be tempted by the material.

Making people have desires, but we have to know which needs are needed for our practical living situations. If we desire and are beyond our means, watch out for heavy losses. We have to know the abstinence to reduce our desire to be less aware, so we have less fear, live peacefully without falling into despair.           

Buddhism looks at all phenomena of things without a separate entity, but due to the conditions of harmony, enough conditions are formed, all conditions are broken. The things that are created by grace together are very fragile, there are then lost ... People still desire to have a peaceful and happy life without cultivating merit, so they suffer dominant pain. Often we suffer, because we want something to be sustainable and lasting.

We want to have long-term happiness in love, then the fame, money, career ... will come to us forever, so when there is a change or loss we feel regret and suffering.

People in society, too, because of their different practices, have a form, a dissenting mentality, but in each person there is a  "wise knowing" , because everyone's blood is red, everyone's tears are good salty, everyone wants happiness and fear of suffering.

If relying on material life, no one is content with the present, but based on the spiritual life, we will be content with what we have. However, that consent does not mean negativity, we do nothing but we are still positive to promote wellbeing, but know how to master ourselves.

So whoever is waiting for dying and reciting Buddha's name, asking Buddha Amitabha to come to the ultimate bliss realm is a very wrong conception. Don't wait until thirsty to dig a well. If in this present life our hearts are full of greed and anger, longing for the death of Amitabha Buddha will come to process, will touch the head of life, this cannot be. We also should not wait for good business, full housing money then at that time to cultivate, it is difficult to fulfill our ambition. 

What do we cultivate for? To be reduced to suffering and ultimately enlightenment to completely free thoughts, words and actions that harm others. When we remove the self-centered self, live with the attachment of unconsciousness, stripped away all distinctions of prejudice, we will bathe in the river of happiness, but be at ease in all circumstances.

Just like those who have accidents or uncertainties in their lives, often pray to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara for salvation, but are they all okay or who are they? So, does Bodhisattva love this person and hate the other person? It seems that Bo-slapped is still biased, so he takes this person seriously and despises the other person. If anyone thinks so and says so, it is unjust for Bo-slapped too much!

Most of us, because we do not believe deeply in cause and effect, do not believe in ourselves, so when we get into an accident, we have difficulties, we ask Buddha and Bo-slapped the family or save us from the accident. We often have the disease and thanks to it, praying to the Buddha, the Bodhisattva, so we always ask Buddha, Bo-slapped to comfort, share, help or support us all the suffering but to be happy and happy. happy. But in fact, asking for it is available, some people don't. Is that why? Because the charm has matured, even though I don't want it, it still comes because of the cause and effect.

So most of us Buddhists go to the temple to ask for more than to sow the fruit to reap the fruit, even if someone rubs the Buddha's dust to put it on his head and even says that doing so will give grace, blessing Let me find good luck.

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is a symbol of compassion, equal love, willingness to help share the sufferings of pain or bring joy to all sentient beings. Assuming the boat in the above story sank, many people took action to save the passengers, who were embodiments of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, an expression of compassion willing to help people when they had tribulation. Bo-slapped Samantabhadra is a symbol of happiness and commitment to contribute, Bo-slapped Manjushri is a symbol of a wise person, so he is not disturbed by anger and delusion, etc. His Bodhisattvas are committed. lifeless, boring life.

Amitabha Buddha is symbolic of immeasurable, immeasurable, meaning that when we live with our Buddha's wisdom, there is no longer samsara, so it is called immeasurable. And there is full intelligence so it is not dominated by the worldly defilements.

Because some people sanctified, worshiped the Buddhas, Bo-slapped excessively, watching them as gods blessing, so many people mistakenly believed. Instead of putting our faith in the Dharma, in the cause and effect, owning ourselves, mastering the destiny according to the spirit of Buddha taught: "Light yourself up and go, light up with the righteousness"

Because we do not understand the Buddha's teachings properly, we lack confidence, relying on, neglecting and being lazy because of greed is too much and we lose ourselves. In each of us, there is a Buddha who is wise, and when we see our eyes, we hear that in our ears, our tongue is like that.

Whoever is begging is someone who has a strong heart and is too weak because he does not believe deeply in karma, does not believe that he has the ability to do what he wants. People have a mind that relies on and thanks to the strength of others, it is difficult to succeed completely on the way of life because of the lack of will, energy, deep belief and cause and effect and self-confidence.

The cultivators too, if they ask too much, it is easy to lose their faith because it is not easy for them to do anything. If they cannot, then they say Buddha and Bo-slaps are not flexible and should not go to the temple anymore. For true Buddhists, they must know how to transform, leave, change bad habits, which have a personality of harming people, harming animals, and not a pleading, begging.

Almost everyone has greedy disease, more or less. Buddha taught to take medicine to cure illnesses, but we could only take the prescription to read nostalgia without dare to buy medicine. The Buddha taught us to learn to apply practice, practice, and transformation, not to give Buddha, but most Buddhists keep asking Buddha for nostalgia, cultivating as long as they are fully transformed. , angrily. Because I take so many things, I don't want to leave the Buddha for a long time, so I want to leave Buddha and leave the temple, because Buddha can't help me.

If we ask not, what are the benefits of following Buddha and Bo-slaps? We learn to understand the Buddha's teachings to apply in daily life, to treat the greedy mind, anger and ignorance, to become countless compassionate wisdoms, so naturally our minds will recover clean. When the mind is clean, all illnesses, greed, hatred, envy, jealousy, anger, resentment slowly follow.

If we want to be rich and rich, we must know how to give, give, help and share with our devotion; In addition, we have to be diligent, need to work, save and not spend wildly. That is, we know how to cultivate by using Buddha's medicine to treat our illness.

Many people think that prayer is useless, has no practical benefit; How can it work, when we bow, pray before the statues of earth, wood, stone and cement? The Buddha statue, the Bodhisattva is certainly not the real Buddha, it is just a symbol of the image, so that we can remember the virtue of Him and try to imitate, practice to follow. When we tilt our heads respectfully and respectfully to the flag, it is not that we respect the cloth but the meaning of the flag that symbolizes the Fatherland through the spirit of the Vietnamese nation.

Also, I worship Buddha, bow to the Buddha in order not to pray, but I prostrate to remember His noble thanks, so that we know the good and the bad in life. Buddhists scrutinize it carefully until now, we go to the temple because we beg or to cultivate according to the Buddha and the Bodhisattva?

We go to the temple sometimes only offering a little fruit or a banana banquet, franking; When you worship then you pray for everything, which is "Buddha blesses your family to be peaceful, happy, prosperous, prosperous, prosperous, prosperous, prosperous, good in your family. Luckily, children and grandchildren know filial piety with their parents ...; So, do we ask for or practice to transform suffering and pain?

Usually, the baby relies on the cover of her parents, the rich child when she falls, she will cry and cry for the family to come and comfort her, she will stop crying. On the contrary, the child of the poor family fell when he fell, and he looked back and forth without anyone standing up. The unfortunate people often expect to rely on sponsors, benefactors, so they have difficulty in advancing and believing in cause and effect.

Women often rely on men and husbands to rely on their wives to indolence and not sit and gather together to gather up the slope, gambling alcohol and making family members suffer.

When we were in the world, when we were in prison, I knew a person and went to his house to play a few times. The wife sold pork in the market, raised a husband and two children, the husband did nothing but was drunk and money, the wife provided. If you eat and drink, then you will be cursed and beaten and beat your wife and children. After many times, the wife will make an application for him to stay in prison for three months to improve. At that time we were chiefs so we had conditions to go home with him to play, to know the real situation.

Apparently men like that, they relied on the business of their wives, who were willing to enjoy vile pleasures, eventually leading to imprisonment. The dependence of this man deserves to be criticized, because psychology depends on lazy labor and his wife to feed. On the contrary, a woman can endure her life with the manly dependence of men, but they will despise those who only know to live on "wife's strength". Men who live under the lapels of women see later, yet this world still has such people.

Students rely on teachers so they are not diligently diligent to study, they rely on their parents. Almost everyone who relies on it, has little success in life because psychological idleness relies on others.

Practicing the same way, we have to believe that we are the owners of so many blessings, so we do not rely on Buddha and Bo-slaps but try to let go of what is evil, by heart love and understanding to transform sorrow and suffering into happiness and happiness.

Thus, we go to the temple to ask Buddha for this, for that, for everything. But in the end, what can we all get? We each have to experience what we ask for, and if we can do it all, then surely the Buddhists will be happy and happy, no one will suffer, will they? But in fact, life is more miserable than happiness. If Buddha has the ability to bless us, then Buddha does not recommend that we diligently practice diligently for what?

In short, we go to the temple to follow Buddha in order to transform suffering, pain, happiness, happiness and believe that we do good and receive blessings, we do evil and suffer, not Buddha, Bo- Slap can't be given to us. Buddha is only a guide, only to tell us the path to peace and happiness, but whether or not we can do it is decided by us. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.13/2/2019.