Before Sakyamuni, the golden silver is just nothingness.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

Shakyamuni Buddha was the Prince Siddhartha, the son of the King of Sanskrit, living in the City of Shakyamuni more than 2500 years ago. He had a happy life in silk but gave up all to seek enlightenment.

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The heart aches with misery in life

One day, the prince asked his father for a guide to walk out the door to admire the scenery, to the East gate, he saw an old man with white head, his back and cuffs, his teeth falling, walking in a difficult way. Arriving at Nam's door, he saw a person lying curled up on the grass screaming in pain. Arriving at the West gate, he saw a dead man lying by the road. Seeing those three tragic scenes, the prince recognized the true face of life as suffering, the lavish scenes in the palace were only false. 

A few days later, the prince again asked to go for a walk, this time to the North gate, he saw a person sitting in an old tree under a tree, casually not noticing the people passing by. Seeing that, he had a feeling of affection for him and gave birth to a path to save the suffering of old age and died in his mind, and immediately returned to his father and asked his father for ordination, but was rejected. 

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The prince submitted the king to four things if the king could solve it, he would give up his studies, that is: How do people stay young and old? How can people stay healthy and not sick? How do people live forever without death and How do people run out of misery. The King heard Him ask like that, sadly unable to solve it and said: "Those things are often in life, of course, old, sick, miserable, dead, there is no way to deal with it, it can't be helped".

At this time, the King again found enough ways to retain the crown prince, but since seeing four scenes at the four gates of the city, He experienced: "In life is suffering, all is temporary, even my body tomorrow. will also go to dust. I must find the truth to save me and save all sentient beings. " He was determined in the heart of the path to find the truth of liberation. The golden palace of gold, the status of wealth, the beautiful and good-natured wife, living happily ... cannot match the great liberation and save sentient beings from suffering.

In a late night, everyone who was sleeping soundly, the Prince looked at his wife and children in peace, and together with the horse keeper quietly left the castle in the dark. At that time, he was 29 years old, but he had a strong and mature age, but he left all to go out to find his religion with empty hands, to live a life of unknown future.

Overcoming thousands of difficulties to cultivate the results

The next morning He stopped on the sand, used his sharp-edged sword to shave his hair and handed the swordsman to the horse-keeper to return to the king. He put on the orange cloth as a garment, volunteered to live the monastic life and accept all material deprivation.

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From a person who lives in rich and precious silk, suddenly becomes a wanderer in the cold, cold, like an uncertain person in the wind and mist. The head of the sky, foot pedal, no hat shoes, only one piece of cloth covering the body, not the door. Master Dao Dam took the shadow of the tree, the cave was the house to protect the sun from rain, stormy residence, bring the bowl to beg for food.

From a strong healthy body gradually to a body that is only skin and bones, using countless means of austerities to cultivate, He only eats herbs to meditate, holds his breath to meditate, only eats a few seeds beans and some water every day to meditate etc ...

The body of Co Dam's morality became so skinny that the table bones sat like a donkey's, spine's nails like beads of beads, his back was cuffed down, his ribs were exposed like flanks of a house, his eyes were sunken like stars below. Deep well bottom. When touching the abdomen skin touch the spine, unsteady walking, dark color as the skin of the dead.

After spending a long time of asceticism, near death, unbelievable truth, intellectual decline, tired spirit, he decided to definitely give up the ascetic practice. Because he needed a healthy body, a clear mind to meditate on the truth, he began to use crude food again.

Deciding to give up the ascetic lifestyle, but he also did not return to the fortunate way of life, but pointed out the way to cultivate the Middle Way, he knew that cultivating by the Middle Way would work as a ring, acting as a self-centered, operative intention to bring to mind, will lead to enlightenment.

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The five fellow practitioners saw that and blamed them: "The Taoist Taoist Master is not patient enough", they immediately left; not so rotten and discouraged, alone in the deep forest to practice. 

At that time, the warrior Co Dam thought: "I have searched all the places, no one is capable of leading us to achieve the goal we want, because no one is out of ignorance." He went to the outskirts of the Kingdom of Ma Kiet, where he practiced alone, where the river was clear, the trees were green and the flowers were fresh. 

Going under the Bodhi tree taking grass as a meditation cushion, he vowed, "If you do not reach the truth even if the bone is broken, you will not leave this place." He has continuously experienced many inner challenges of greed, hatred, ignorance, doubt, etc., and then has to fight with the externalities. Tian ma uses all evil deeds to hinder him from meditating. Finally, he triumphed both inwardly and externally, his mind calm in meditation.

On the 49th night, at about 10 o'clock at the two-hour watch, He witnessed "Suffering proves", clearly seeing all the past lives of a lifetime, two lives, three lives, ten generations, hundreds of lives, thousands of lives; This place, what is the name, how is life, where did you die ..., all of you know. Continuing to meditate, until about midnight at the third watch, he witnessed "the eye of the eye", seeing all the cosmic beings, how the structure of the universe into a pillar of destruction knows all. Still steadfastly meditating, until about 2 am at the time of private watch, he witnessed "Smuggling to the sky", being smuggled, clean of pollution.

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Knowing Suffering, the source of suffering, how to eliminate suffering, and the path of fullness and fullness. He said to himself: "I have been freed, no longer reborn, the spiritual practice is complete, the work is done, no longer returning to the old state."

He slowly opened his eyes wide to see the sparkling Morningstar, suddenly "Whole", thoroughly understood the truth of the universe, the great divine powers, He reached the Supreme Path, became the "Official Political" so called the Omniscient, Tathagata, the Buddha Shakyamuni. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/6/2019.