BUDDHA IN  BUDDHA.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

Many people when referring to  Buddhism  are often  ascribed to  the word  pessimistic ,  cynical . According to their conception  ,  Buddhism  is reserved only for the elderly,  unsuitable  for  youth  , the active age of  activity :  Buddhism  is only a  pessimistic philosophy  ; those who are  Buddhist  are those who are  bored , just  lamented , looking for forgiveness through the scriptures; Through Buddhist vision  , everywhere we  see suffering.  Being miserable ,  suffering ,  suffering , dying , desires must not be suffering, contrary to one's heart, is misery. They  argue  that, if the mind always contains  the concept of  suffering,  people are  born depressed,  negative  and lazy ...

Before  judgment  to the  prejudice  narrow and  personality  sided  on,  we  try to  learn  see how pessimistic? What is optimistic?

We  give a  concrete example   to  understand  these abstract nouns   .

A patient was writhing,  hurting  in the hospital bed. Relatives  invite physicians to come and treat.

- The first physician looked at the sick and shook his head:

"The disease is too  dangerous to  pass, it is useless to cure and run."

- The second physician looked at the sick  conclusion :

"Oh, no problem, it's too light, you don't need medicine to stay away."

- The physician took the hand Tuesday palpate patient,  learn  the patient  fell ill  in the  case  yet, the illness was,  the cause  of the disease and  progression  of illness, and prescribe medications.

- The first one is too  pessimistic , the second is too  optimistic  and the third person  judges  according to the situation of the patient, not  pessimistic  nor  optimistic .

Buddha  is the  physician , to find apartments  for patients suffering  of  beings , only one  wish  only  is  finding  the causes and remedies to  treat  illness was to help them  get rid of  the pain  painful  throes of  illness suffering . That is not the attitude of  pessimism , but dare  to face  the  truth  in order to  seek to  cure.

In fact, the word  suffering  in  Buddhism  means not only the pain of  moaning . Suffering  though translated from  the term Pali  dukkha ,  the truth first of  the Four Noble Truths , but  rarely  understood fully  accurate . Because the dukkha translation is miserable, many people believe that  Buddhism  advocates life only as suffering. Way of  interpreting  and explaining  this very  misleading , has caused  confusion  Buddhism  is  pessimistic cynicism .

In fact , suffering is just one of the many meanings of dukkha, such as imperfection,  deceit , falsehood ,  insecurity , transience, emptiness,  meaninglessness , unsatisfactory, undesirable, should not  cling , should not be  trust  etc. It is difficult to  find  a suitable word   to translate the full meaning from dukkha. When it comes to dukkha  Buddha  does not deny having  happiness  in this life. He  recognizes that  there are many kinds  of  spiritual  and  material happiness  like happiness  of  sensory satisfaction  , happiness  of  life  family  harmonious  filial ,  happiness  of  success ,  happiness  of heart from  improving  selfless  etc. and further the  happiness  of  life  in solitude  and meditation ,  happiness  of the  exit clear force ,  happiness  of  life  gentle  serenity ,  equanimity  liberation  etc. Even happy  in  heaven Fitness world, Meditative scenes  organic identity ,  formless  with mind  at peace , purity is not out of dukkha. Because they are all objects of change, imperfection, temporary ... should not be demanded, should not  cling ... It means that all  happiness  of the world  is in dukkha. Thus, dukkha not only has misery but also includes touch and joy in  the three worlds .

Standing before  sickness  was of  humanity ,  beings ,  Buddha  was  contemplating  the  wisdom  to find out  the cause of  sickness and sought to help  sentient beings  escape  chronic illness has dogged them  from countless  lifetimes. That is the  truth of the  Four Noble Truths that  the Buddha  was  enlightened  under the Bodhi in the night  of enlightenment .

After  realization  of Supreme Enlightenment , ie  comprehend  the true nature  of  things , he has the same row  Thanh Van disciples  actively  bring  the truth  he  taught  for life, bringing  peace  to many. Depending inborn  level  of each person, he just taught how  to practice their religion  in particular, but the general rules still lead to a  goal  only  as  escape suffering. He always showed  people  that : this is suffering, this is  suffering, this is the  cessation of suffering  and this is the way to  eliminate suffering .

We  can say all four thousand eight  teachings  of  the Buddha  just to  target  "escape  ignorance  craving ,  defilement suffering".  For patients suffering  of  beings  unspeakable, but suffering  great  most  sentient beings  is also  damnation within samsara .

There must be suffering. But in fact the suffering of the body is not  significant , it is because of the belief that this body of mine,  or in  other words, is the  ego , brings true suffering. Speaking of  ego  we  must say to  cause  profound  of it is ignorance or  specifically  is  wrong . When the mind is still dark, it is not  wise  to create  akusala kamma , and must be reborn  to bear fruit. The  Saint does  not fear the fruit but is afraid of humanity, and destroys the root of the  afflicted , then kills suffering. Suffering  is to kill immediately the cause that makes the  real goodness  arise. When  akusala  dhamma is no  longer  enough to  stir up, once it has  eradicated the  source of  suffering ,  it  will surely  be  free from  suffering.

The method of  extinguishing the suffering  of  Buddhism  has a lot but it can be  summarized  into the  following three mainpoints  :

-  Prevent  the  unwholesome  legal expression through body and outside.

-  Tame  the  unwholesome deeds  that arise in the mind.

-  Eliminating  disturbing  sleep deep underground in  the unconscious  which  primarily  is  ignorance , because  ignorance is the focal point of all suffering  beings .

In  order to prevent  evil actions  from manipulating the body and speech,  we  need to  keep the  precepts . Wants to conquer  the  evil  of doing stir the mind  we  need to cultivate  meditation  specified . Want to eradicate  negativity  latent least  ignorance  we  need to  practice meditation  wisdom vipassanā .

In short , the suffering that  the Buddha  mentioned in  suffering  is the suffering created by  ignorance and craving  , so if you want to end suffering, you must destroy the  ignorance of craving . The  most effective method to  eliminate ignorance and craving  is  to practice the Noble Eightfold Path . Thus,  Buddhism  has not only  found the cause of  the disease of sentient beings  but also has a treasure of spirituality and magic to cure  suffering  for  beings . That is  the attitude wise,       calm ,  positive ,  selfless , dare  to face  the  truth  in order to  solve  the root, not  pessimistic cynicism  or  pretendedoptimism  to self-  deceive  yourself. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.9/6/2019.