What is Tathagata Thanh Tinh Zen, Zen Tong and Patriarch Meditation?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

The original Prince Siddhartha Siddhartha had four questions:

  1- Where do people come from this world?

  2- To this world, then be born, old, sick, dead?

  3 - When you were in this world, fighting over, losing, killing each other, did you eventually have to leave everything?

  4 - Where will death go?

     Four of those questions, at first Prince Tu Dat Da asked, studied with all the highly educated people in the court, but no one answered the Prince to satisfy. Continuing, the Crown Prince went to ask the highest and most famous Buddhist monks, but he could not answer either. After the Prince left home, immediately left the house, to learn the four questions mentioned above. Initially, the Crown Prince used the practice to attain meditations such as:

   1-Sister meditation.

   2- Second meditation.

   3-Tam meditation.

   4-Four meditation.

   5 - Zen Africa thoughtless.

   6 - Meditation Killing.

   Although he had reached such meditation scenes, he did not know the four questions. Finally, Thai Tu meditates so that his physical mind is pure, silent, eternal, suddenly his mind glows, sees and knows all his questions, thanks to the attainment of this meditation method. , so He called "Pure Tathagata meditation". As a non-productive meditation, it is necessary to let nature be pure.

    In the present, the Buddha "invented" the "formula" of pure meditation. When He was about to leave this world, He transmitted this Meditation meditation to the Maazen of Lettuce, the first Master of Meditation meditation. The following Patriarchs passed on this meditation method, they called Zen Buddhism.

    Why is it called Zen Buddhism?

    Because of this meditation method, the Patriarchs share each other, there is a true contemplation of meditation. It is transmitted according to the way the Buddha taught. In particular, there are episodes Huyen Ky that Lai passed on to posterity. Because of its own lineage, it is called Zen Buddhism. The monks meditate for each other, so they call the meditation master.

   Zen Buddhism is a practice that  does not use  any practice , which means that it is  not hard to meditate ,  one or another , but simply  recognize your own Buddha Nature  and live with Buddha Nature that is enough. Why?

   Because Tu means fixing. But everything that is physically new can be fixed.

   For example, we fix the house, repair the car, fix this body for it to be more beautiful ... And our Buddha Nature is very precious that we will not accept it and live with it, but will fix it. . When he was enlightened, the Buddha was enlightened, he uttered:

- It is "it" that is not an old thing!

- It is "it" that is pure!

- It is "it" that is always clear!

- It is "it" that is not born, does not kill!

- It's "it" all over ...!

But it was "not a thing", how could it be fixed? Therefore, today we hear that the number of spiritual practitioners is a lot, and the number of "attained" people is not really this reason. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY,9/5/2019.