LOW RIVER FLOWS OF BOAT.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THI CHAN TANH.

            This is the title of the latest meditation song, musician Hoang Quang Hue popular from ten poems by poet Thanh Tri Cao, ie Thich Quang Thanh, abbot of Bao Quang pagoda.

            In the course of Kiet Ha Cu Lao 2011 in Bao Quang Pagoda, sometimes, to take advantage of the minutes before studying, the masses were taught by the teacher to listen to the theme song of the CD. So, we all remember two cute questions in this song: " Enlightenment, where are you going? Enlightened, who will do it? ”

            The lower road of the lower school is an empty yard, in front of the main hall, and is tucked into a tent to make it a sun-shaded roof. On the two walls of the "field" of the boy's street, there are verses, pious and pious paintings, including sketches of the cover image of the CD " The River Low in the Boat"

            The place I sat, often faced with these touches, so now every boy's life seemed to be like "my heart" started up on the chips ... the boat.

            Although the painting has only one boat, I am sure that Quang Thanh teacher implies that there are boats that follow each other. This river, probably not only the river of monks, but also the samsara river, bearing the monk's mark, allowed the boats to be borrowed by practitioners as a means of crossing the enchantment, passing through the sensory harbor.

            My subjective feeling is like that, because the author is a Zen master, a craftsman, a culture house, and most profound, a monk who wears Tathagata from his childhood; so the spectator wants to receive some vibrations from the work, it is necessary to have a few moments of mind, to see with wisdom, to hear with nature, to be lucky and to see for yourself!

            Once, Confucius passed by a river, stopped, pointed his finger at the fast flowing water that told his disciples:     

            -Make a comment, disrespectful.

            The idea is, the river keeps on flowing every night, flowing, flowing ...

            If the ordinary man walks across the river and says so, but if you have a companion, you may hear, roughly, "Who doesn't know the river flows without stopping!"

            But the words of the Saints must be understood as teachings, reminding us not to let the years pass; must know that a day of meaningless life is that we have lost a day in our lives, because life is still drifting, floating, there is no moment to stop.

            Before the image of a lonely and looming boat in the river, I suddenly felt astonished!

            Humanity on this earth has just been estimated at seven billion people. Seven billion people on the river of birth and death only see "looming", that is, only meager, humble, boats that want to cross the coast, pass through the senses!

            So where are most human beings? If the human body is a blessing but does not use this blessing as a means of escaping samsara, what will welcome us when the four great ships disintegrate?

            "Enlightenment, where are you going?

            Please give me a bridge.

            That river is still quiet.

            Who is the person, thousands of people after? "  (*)

            Is this a compassionate word between ability and facility, the giver and the receiver, the questioner and the respondent, as the mirror of the ball, the chi must be clear, who is enlightened, who still looks good; but the imprint of an enlightened object was a comforting fulcrum for those who still remained. That consolation is big enough, forming a belief to pray for the path of enlightenment.

            This is the power of the Church when the Relics looked at the majestic, poised demeanor of a monk who was practicing almsgiving in the city. It was the monk Assagi, one of the first five disciples of the Buddha. Only by being silently teacher, but giving out the dharma, the one who is praying must be stunned, then patiently wait for the opportunity to ask who his master is, what teachings he takes, and step by step, Each gesture of the disciple shines like that!

             "Enlightenment, who will do it?

            Let me link what

            Beautiful ideal of consecrated life

            The road is forever and forever. ”  (*)

            At this point, I am encountering the form of  "self-talkless " in the Amitabha Sutra. The congregation no one asked but out of compassion Buddha borrowed the object of the Venerable Shariputra, who preached about the Western Pure Land, to advise and urge the early beings to recognize impermanence, the mind returned Self-Amitabha.

            Here, is the invitation to go to find enlightenment, where, the enlightened person will do? Do a lot, but it doesn't work. As Unconscious Bodhisattva, there is only one thing on the way to donate beautiful things to life.

            On the river, the boat headed to Ben Giac continues to drop lotus seeds:

            "Is this mountain high, or tall?

            Door No, I open the entrance

            That department is the thickness of wisdom

            The mind is mindful, the person who gave it

            Go to the river, leave the boat here

            The steps of cavalier freedom are like clouds

            The small amphibious moon hung

            The hallmark of east-west meditation

            Then go to the river, the vigor is like that

            Love and love for true foot communication

            Beautiful feelings, sunshine

            The old river loomed on the boat "(*)

            A! Now the enlightened object is clear. He went to the other side, he was born in Belgium. The vehicle was left behind. The river was the " old river ", the past. But also the past river, which is looming in the current boat. The current boat, carrying a enlightened being!

            Coming here is the continuation of the miraculous and miraculous spirit of Kim Cang spirit " Past the heart cannot be attained, the present mind is incapable, the future of the mind is incomparable"  is the journey of mindfulness, the mind serving the mind and the mind. be mindful to move forward freely:  "Go to the river, vow as natural"          

             

            The poignant and thoughtful sharing of poet Thanh Tri Cao on the launch night of the CD "The Boat Low River" which I noted is a brief statement:  "Building and embellishing the temple is located area of ​​2.2 acres, we can complete within one year. Yes, twelve months only, Bao Quang Pagoda with the main hall was renovated and completed. But the tiny CD, which is neat in this hand, must be more than two years old, today it was born. " END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/6/2019.