What is Vu Lan?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

Vu Lan is rooted in the accumulation of Past filial piety  .

A former monk, Section Lien took refuge and became a great disciple of Buddha, and was listed as the first pine god in Buddha's disciples.

After witnessing the result of Arhat, Muc Lien remembers his mother's body, and uses his eye gaze to look down at the miserable world and sees his mother being deprived of evil spirits (hungry ghosts) in hell.

Looking at his emaciated, hungry mother, who could not eat, thirsty to drink, Section Lien used magic to reach her mother and offered rice to her mother. But how cruel, the grains of rice close to her mother's mouth suddenly turned into fire. In no other way, Section Lien returned to the Buddha's story, asking how to save his mother.

Buddha told Section Lien because of the karma of previous lives that his mother had to give birth to the evil path to be a hungry ghost. Buddha taught, Section Lien alone, he could save his mother, but thanks to their virtue rising everywhere, he unanimously agreed to pray for salvation.

Section Contact must go to the procession of monks throughout the ten directions, especially those who have achieved six divine powers, thanks to the merit of prayers, the souls of the new Section Lien escaped suffering.

The Buddha taught Section Lien to be full of all kinds of food, such as candlelight, candlelight, pillow covers, brass washes, handkerchiefs, and so forth. On the right occasion of the Full Moon in July, set up a pianist to pray. Before the real life, the monks will pay attention to pray for the parents and grandparents of the seven lives of the benefactor.

Lien Lien did exactly as the Buddha taught. His model of death was freed from the demons that gave birth to a healthy realm. 
Buddha also taught that sentient beings who want to inform their parents in this way (Vu Lan Bon Phap). Since then, Vu Lan's day was born.

Rose set on the chest

In the lunar and lunar days of the lunar year, all over Vietnam, we all reverently entered the Vu Lan season, the season of filial piety. 
By the time of the Full Moon in July, the women, the mothers and sisters, how busy they are, they are careful to prepare a full and precious tray to give to their ancestors, give to sentient beings and pass on the human message of life:  Think About Mother - Father, opening up to his kind to love each other more.

Red rose set on the chest.

These days, you will not be surprised to see emotional images: whether old or young, boys or girls attending the Vu Lan ceremony all become respectful and filled with emotion when receiving a formal rose on the chest. shirt.

Rose set shirt and Vu Lan season notice filial

Rite of the Rose to dress  according to Professor - Dr. Ngo Duc Thinh - Director of the Research Center, preserving Vietnam's cultural beliefs originating from the writings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's mother was written in the 1960s. .

During a business trip in Japan, Zen Master was very strange to see the Japanese respectfully give him a white flower on his chest. After learning and knowing the beautiful meaning of this, he chose a rose as a symbol of the Buddha's Vu Lan filial ceremony and wrote the  "Austrian Rose" publication  in 1962.

The rose is chosen as a symbol of love, nobility and aroma.  Remembering the birth and putting on the noble flower's chest is the most beautiful love, the Hieu letter to the children. With that meaning, many Vietnamese people come to Vu Lan day to install a pink flower on their clothes, which is the symbol of the Mother-Father. who lost your mother please wear white roses.

The meaning of the flower on the chest

People with roses will be extremely proud because there is Mother - Father in this world. Those who wear white flowers will see as a reminder, that they have missed the most precious things, from which to act so as to conscience. Vu Lan is a special occasion for young people to slow down and love more.

Those who came to the temple did not forget to stop and put a rose on their chests, to remind them of their parents' thanks. Red rose for those who are fortunate to have parents in the world, pink rose for those who have lost their father and white rose for those less fortunate when there is no father and mother in the world ...

Rose is a symbol of love, nobility. Remembering the birth steps and setting up the noble rose chest is the most beautiful and most respectful affection for the birth steps. With that profound meaning, many Vietnamese people on Vu Lan day set a rose on their clothes.

Vu Lan ceremony informs parents

Vu Lan is a funeral ceremony, one of the main Buddhist holidays. This ceremony coincides with the  July full moon of the death  of Asian customs.

The July season of lunar calendar is also an opportunity for us to slow down and love more.

The custom, on this day, every prisoner in hell has the opportunity to be sinned, to be free from the realm of peace. According to folk beliefs, July full moon is a day of opening a prison, a pardon for dead people, so there is a worshiping ceremony for the souls (in the afternoon) for the spirits who are homeless without shelter, without relatives on the earth Worship.

Especially for our young people when we remember Mother - Father, the beloved born, in the rapid breathing of modern life, someone has a minute of neglect and neglect. The filial season in July of Lunar Calendar is also an opportunity for us to live more slowly and love more, to express our love and real action to the poor and unlucky fate around us.

We act to see the lightness, joy and serenity, to act in order to understand the simple and profound philosophy of Buddhism,  "Tu, bi, joy, and discharge"  or  "selfless, selfless", also followed by the mainstream of ethnic ethics:  "Drink water, remember the source", "Remember fruit and planters".

You can choose a flower to set on your shirt or not on Vu Lan holiday, but thinking about this day with human and European meaning is also a way to thank this beautiful life.

Why do monks install yellow roses?

Monks have left their worldly lives to live the life of a monk. They borrowed the four great bodies born by their parents to  "deliver on the bridge, to save sentient beings".  The salvation of achieving enlightenment is the most wonderful way of telling grace for filial piety to the current parents and parents of many other lives.

Instead of installing red or white roses to show parents money, it is very true, with heaven and earth, but monks have even larger, larger and higher parents. That is all sentient beings, so install a yellow rose to show this noble ideal.

According to Buddhism, yellow is the color of liberation such as the infinite supreme blessing, the color of the Earth. On the earth, we can stomp, pedal, plow, spit or do anything ... the land remains impassive, because the earth is vital, patience, bearing all, accepting all. Because consider all sentient beings as parents, relatives, relatives and most importantly the future Buddhas.

Yellow is also the color of wisdom, symbolizing letting go, renunciation, not accepting and liberating achievements.

Therefore, despite the peace during Vu Lan's day, the monk wanted to borrow the color of the yellow flower to express the true spirit of Vu Lan season as liberation. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA.SYDNEY.10/8/2019.