LESSON 10: THE LIFE OF BUDDHISM

UNIVERSAL BUDDHISM 2

SRAMANA=THICH THIEN HOA.

COURSE V:  HISTORY OF BUDDHISM,

10 RELIGIOUS AND UNIVERSE OF CHILDREN

Lesson 10:  THE LIFE OF BUDDHISM BUDDHISM.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. OPENING 

Already a person, no one does not wonder where he has come from? How is my presence in this world? How do my situation live? etc ... How many problems, how many questions make people wonder, wonder, eat insecure, sleep insomnia. 

To address these problems, philosophers and religions all offer answers; Those answers or justifications on that "living problem" are called human views. 

Being a religion, having a very high philosophy, Buddhism of course also devotes a great part to talking about human life. 

Human life is like? It is a problem that every Buddhist we cannot ignore. This knowledge can help us identify human strengths and weaknesses and help us to arrange our lives and live a life that is meaningful and beneficial for us and for society. 

B. BACKGROUND 

I. WHERE DO THE HUMAN RESOURCES HAVE? 

First of all, the problem that makes us wonder the most is: 

Where do people from? 

To solve this problem, Buddhism has the theory of "twelve conditions". 

Of those twelve conditions, ignorance is the basis. What is ignorance? That is, for reason, the unknown is true. So that was born delusion, it is true to be fake, pretending to be true, wildly hopelessly accept ego, legal accept, distinguish yourself, people; then according to the reversible scenes that cause negativity, so also called "or". The word enchanting creates karma, either good or evil. The artifact is called "Action", the second of twelve conditions. 

Due to good collective data, the group consists of "karma". This career according to the place of training and maturity, and being born into the mother's womb, is the "consciousness", the third of twelve conditions. 

In the mother's womb, gathering the blood to humiliate the body, the mind and the physical body are called "Nama rupa" which is the fourth of the twelve conditions, (Danh: Consciousness; Sac: Humiliation). 

From Danh identity times the statue has enough six bases, called "Luc green". That is the fifth of the twelve conditions. 

After getting out of the pregnancy, the six senses, six senses, heat, cold, pain, tenderness, etc. should be called "contact", the sixth of the twelve conditions. 

Because of that touch, the mind gradually recites discrimination, then there are sensations of joy, suffering, and so on. That is "feeling", the seventh of twelve conditions. 

Due to the feeling of joy, suffering, and commemorating the feeling of hatred and attachment, that attachment was born with "Ai", the eighth limb in the twenty-two conditions. 

Because craving should seek to grab the good or the good, the favorite. That is called "Prime" in the ninth of the twelve conditions. 

Want to satisfy the previous infection, favorite of "Ai" and "Thu", should create a career. This karma can strike a karmic retribution, so called "Huu", the tenth of the twenty-two conditions. 

If "Huu" is a seed, then there is "birth" as the eleventh one of the twelve conditions. 

Having had "Birth", there must be "Lao and Tzu" as the twelfth of twelve conditions. 

Of the twelve conditions, "Ignorance" belongs to "or" and "Onions" belongs to "karma." That is the past. Because of that past, there are five results of "Suffering" currently: consciousness, mindfulness, six doors, contact and feeling. 

As a result of the "Suffering" present above, it arises "Or" is craving and creating "Karma" is useful, so as to multiply the result "Suffering" after being born and aging in the future. 

Thus, from the past past, to the present result, and the present result, again to the future, the three lives continue to rotate forever, like a spinning wheel, up and down, down and up. no stopping. 

Based on that, it is known that people not only lived one life in this present, but before, back to the past, they did not know how many lives. And later, in the future, there will be countless lives. People now live here to die, but death is the kindness that makes future life. 

Thus, life and death continue in succession, like waves, one melting away to unite another, never ending, if there is still wind. Man, if the wind of ignorance is still blowing, then the flow of life will still circulate, roll away, sink forever.  

II. HOW BODY? 

After we know the cause of the existence of people in this world, another question that comes to our minds is: What is the human body like? Beautiful or ugly, real or fake, precious or despicable? 

To solve this problem, Buddhism has many theories, depending on the Hinayana or Mahayana, one sect or another. These theories, though many but not contrary to each other, are complementary to each other, making the problem presented in every aspect, from narrow to wide, from shallow to deep, from outside to inside, from generals. to be, from general to general ... 

Here we would like to present these concepts sequentially from Nhon admit to Thien Vehicle, through the Second Vehicle and finally to Mahayana, so readers have a full concept on this issue.

1. The concept of Nhon legacy: Human body in harmony, due to the parents' spirit and consciousness, contributing four substances: Hard, wet, hot, and motivated. Active in that is consciousness (career knowledge). By the human consciousness, the conditions of meeting to form human bodies. The karma that came from being created by the previous life was gathered in the mind to succeed in having a human nature, able to feel the body. Thus, from the mind of self-created kamma, the karma comes back to train the karma of the self-centered karma, until the kusala karma reaches maturity, meets all the conditions, have a human body. So the body is not natural without cause, nor is it made by others, but it is created by the mind and the mind appears, so there is a saying: "The mind creates the most worldly" and the phrase "Three realms of love," good old career ”. The body follows the karma that exists, the karma is finite, so the body sometimes falls apart. While the body is still, from the heart self-created karma to succeed the body-sensing technique later, and the body will later become the present; when the previous body had followed the karma to destroy. So Buddhism, for death, is just a turn of karma in the mind to replace the old body and get the new body. 

While everyone, because of a narrow understanding, mistook the body for birth, and after it completely ceases. 

Death to change the new body, birth to replace the old body, rotate in place of death and birth, birth and death, replace the old body to get a new body, get a new body to replace the old body, like someone who changed clothes. 

So the body of the present person is only one body of the infinite bodies. The person who has changed does not know how many previous bodies, later he will also have to change many more bodies, otherwise a recitation of "reflective reflection". 

The present birth, just one birth in countless births; and death today is only a phen death in countless deaths. 

Buddhism with regard to birth, not greedy, because it is impermanent not long lasting; to death, there is no fear, because it doesn't have to be completely gone, it's just an old change. No greed, no fear, so Buddhism is different from the normal body in life. 

It is seen in people who really understand Buddhism, when dying as when alive, sometimes painful as when strong still calm peace. 

The body present here is the result of kamma created earlier and the body will have later due to the creation of the karma now, so people in Buddhism who receive the present body, whether suffering or joy, receive it. cheerfully and patiently, because of how depressing, cannot do anything once the results, but only worry about personal improvement, can change bad things well, so that enjoy good retribution in the future, that is, practice good deeds, and eliminate the mind of atrocities 

The human realm belongs to the wholesome way, although it has not yet ceased suffering, but it is possible to cultivate karma to enjoy much happiness in the body. People will say, or will feel the joy, the happiness of beautiful, healthy people, all the needs, and the suffering, the harm in ugly, sick, deprived people. item.  

In the dharma talks at Ta Kiet La Long Cung, the Buddha pointed out to the masses the difference in the body of all species, the devas, the beautiful and majestic body, the eightfold set of powerful might, the dragons of the whole body. ugly vulgar shape, weak and stinking crabs. This is the body, why is there good and bad different? It is at the time of birth, where the body, speech, and mind are good or cause evil. Good karma feels good; the evil sensation is wicked, created by the mind and then initiated. In order for sentient beings to have a healthy and healthy body, to enjoy happiness in the human realm, in the Buddha's sutras, the Buddha carefully instructs how to eat legally in the family on the religious path, taking the five precepts as a basis. Murdering to create goodness and goodness, the result of a beautiful and healthy body to live in the future Do not steal greed to make good karma, enjoy fully satisfied results for a good body. Except for adultery to feel respectful body, enjoy the family. Avoid echo to get the voice harmonized, clear. And abstain from alcohol to avoid the above things, build up in the present and the future, the wise mind. 

2. The concept of Mahayana: All five precepts have been completed, humanitarian has completed, certainly trained a good human race in the mind, and after maturing, you will feel the human body, good health, longevity, good voice, and brains am to enjoy happiness in the realms of people. In the human realm there are also the heavens, physically, all aspects are better than people; unlike the body of a pregnant person who has a filthy and miserable birth because the gods are born. The body is extremely beautiful, the same height, the bases are full, see all the time, listen far away, be supernaturally liberated at will, natural necessities, until all the diseases. The body is usually healthy always, forever young and not old; unlike the human body, it is inevitable the suffering of sickness, urgent because of old age. The body of all species in the world, only the heavenly body is above all, from the good of the body, the rings to the longevity. 

Where does the tactile feel come from? As stated before, creating what karma will take care of that karma, and will turn into true results.  

So right under the sunlight, the shadow of the object is straight; on the contrary, the object must curve, if you want to get the ball straight, you must fix it immediately. Just as if you wanted to enjoy Troi's body, you had to cultivate the karma of Heaven. The Buddha taught 10 good things called "Ten good karma", which are good qualities, arising from body, speech, and ideas, and practicing all ten good karma. Self-pure mind, the karma has a good function, will feel the body won, not sick, from old age, longevity in Heaven. 

The Buddha taught the causes and effects of karma and austerities, so as not to be wicked and miserable by the bodies and to feel the strong, happy bodies of God and man; it is "Nhon inherit Buddhism" and "Buddhism inheritance" to the body. 

Although happy in the human body, but the human body must be suffering eight things. Although the enemy won in the body of God, but the body of God has not been out of impermanence, when the karma has been satisfied (the five prime minister appear). Because God and people are still ordinary in the three realms, the human body and the Heavenly body are not desirable places, so in Buddhism there are also three Hinayana transcending from the suffering of the three realms, that is: Thanh Van admit , Pratyekabuddharma and Bodhichitta 

3. The concept of the Second Vehicle: 

a) Impure body: Take the eyes of the Second row to see where the body, just a messy, due to many unclean harmony. They just feel that it is a phenomenon of all kinds of misery, binding without even the slightest value of pleasure, so there is the phrase "The body of hardship and obligation". And the body is a place of filth, contributing all the mess, together and then falling apart, so there are the words "Impure body, how to defile", and "Impermanence, all dispersed." Test where the suffering in the world come from? Affordable due to the body; the sufferings such as cold, hot, hungry, thirst, fatigue, pain, naughty, etc ... belong to the place where the feeling takes place. of the six senses, so suffering takes the body as the root. Besides, people in life are not as miserable as: when they were born in pain, they screamed, when they got old, they trembled in clusters, when they were ill, weak and uneasy,

In the past four monks gave in life fear, anger, lust, and hunger as misery. Was rebuked by the Buddha for not considering the body is the root of all suffering. If not relatives, the suffering: fear, anger, sex, hunger from where. Thoroughly replace the sentence "Body of misery" and "Body as injustice". The stinking stench of the body is indescribable. People do not remember the past, do not think about the future, only look at the present place and use any clothes to cover, which is musk marijuana, to fascinate themselves, before the stinky stench. 

Try to look at the substances from the Nine-Tails (9 holes) in the body outflow, also himself was too disgusting, not to mention the body of others, so in the sutta there is the phrase "Chu saved impure impure". 

Thin skin is a thread that is full of blood, pus, meat, bones, drooling and defecation, etc. What is disgusting when a human body is stripped of its skin and torn. The phrase "How to defile" has come from Buddha's mouth to alert the drunkard. Where does the current filth come from? From the old days: the fine points, the drops of blood mingled while the karma of delusion was delirious with the intercourse of the parents. The filth of the blood, the greed of the fetus, is beyond description, until later the knowledge is far away, the body will be hard, will be chapter, will be cracked again to make a nest for the maggots to make room for the ants to land, and to secrete the most sticky and stinking things. New time combined: delusion of pure blood; when large,: talk, pus bloody feces impure. At the time of disintegration stinking impure. Thus the human body is the most impure of impure objects. From beginning to end, when the new birth comes to the end, all are impure. 

In that filthy, disgusting, filthy body, there is one thing that, if one understands, one will have no desire for the body. From time to time, always assembling the boundary to destroy. Youthful, old-fashioned. From the fresh, strong, soon changed into weakness, tired, wrinkled. During that period of time, countless changes were impermanent. The previous year's body was not the body this year, the previous month's body was not the body next month, today's body is not yesterday, until every hour and minute, every moment has changed. There was a change, there must be a moment of annihilation, no one could stop the rapid change of body, and there was no guarantee of the hasty state that everyone was afraid of: "death." Life is no different from hanging blinds, only to break the cord is to break, so there is a saying: "Networking in the breathing space". A breath that does not inhale, that is, the life of the body is gone, is about to collapse soon. Alas! The body is miserable, the body is impure, the body is impermanent, nothing is frightening, nothing is boring like the body. In the body where there is no machine, you can only call it affectionately and pitifully! 

The practitioner of the Second Vehicle, observing the body like that, should be bored in the body, frightened by the impermanence of life and death, disgusting and sticky, so should hurry to take advantage of self-interest, hurry to escape, and cultivate Dharma practice super kill escaped three worlds. Some people see that the body is miserable, dirty and impermanent as above, then too afraid, too greasy, rush to find a way to leave quickly: "suicide". Those guys are wrong. They commit suicide to get out of their bodies quickly, without knowing that they are fostering themselves for the long term. Because the body is out of karma, the body is the result of karma, to get rid of the result, you want to get rid of it. Now, just create and keep sowing but want not to bear fruit, definitely cannot be. It is like a person who is afraid of his shadow, wants his shadow not to show, but keeps running in the sunlight. When Buddha was still alive, there was a person who had this wrong idea, that was Phuoc Tang monk, hated the frail old body suffering, attempting to escape by hanging from the stream, he was rebuked by Maudgalyayana who was foolish, and explained the truth to him. Fear of being old, hurting, living, dying in a hurry to give birth, truly coming back to cause aging, pain, life, death. One can abandon the current body, but cannot leave the thousands of bodies that will be in the future, when karma or still. Karma or even when one body is corrupted, everything forms another body, another body must be old, hurt, live, die, miserable. Thus, want to get rid of suffering for the body, must eliminate the original appearance of the body, that is to stop or karma with karma. but it is impossible to leave for the thousands of bodies that will be in the future, when karma or still. Karma or even when one body is corrupted, everything forms another body, another body must be old, hurt, live, die, miserable. Thus, want to get rid of suffering for the body, must eliminate the original appearance of the body, that is to stop or karma with karma. but it is impossible to leave for the thousands of bodies that will be in the future, when karma or still. Karma or even when one body is corrupted, everything forms another body, another body must be old, hurt, live, die, miserable. Thus, want to get rid of suffering for the body, must eliminate the original appearance of the body, that is to stop or karma with karma. 

b) Assuming proper body: The root "or karma" has subtracted, then the tops are "body" must suddenly dry. Nhon was no longer the fruit also lost. The body is no longer feeling, the suffering is not dependent on where there is, that is, peace and liberation. End of career or wealth, then smuggled Hue, a bother of the Second Holy Holy multiplication. At this point the body for these problems is no longer physical loss, but only the construction of the five elements, or the dual origin. Whereas ordinary people perceive damage as having a body, have a head or face, hands and feet, have a picture of the movement, which with their insight sees form, sensation, and consciousness; or see are: color, silence, flavor, taste, contact, and law; is the eye, the ear, the female eye, the eye, the mind; Each dish has its own taste, nothing can be called a body? It is like being in the distance where you see a cluster of overgrown communication forests, but when you come close, you only see discrete trees, the body of the forest is no longer real. The realm of that for the witness has not come, it's hard to understand, the body just does not really have, it is only there with our knowledge only. It's beautiful, it's lovely, it's just in line with polluted expectations, beautiful for humans, not necessarily pretty for other species. She Tay Thi people praised as beautiful, lovely, but birds met birds afraid of flying away, fish were afraid of hiding. So Tay Thi's body must be really lovely and lovely, so why are fishes scared? Affordable beauty, just by colleagues of the human race. Until the shape of the body works, only with the human eye. An extremely gorgeous beauty, if we use radiographs, then the beauty is no longer, but only appears to be a pink and white skeleton, and if we use a magnifying glass more than a thousand times, we only see that it is a pile of discrete flesh, spaced apart. 

Hue eyes of the Second Divine Mercy, too. For ordinary people the body is beautiful, to them the body is not even, let alone beautiful. It is not other conditions, but there is a difference. Also the same scene, but because of different knowledge, so the place found not into the same. Because they no longer see that there is a body, they no longer have attachment to the body no longer have thoughts: body, body, because all are cozy, the six bases, the ceiling; under their wisdom, and moreover, are the four great pundits: skin, flesh, tendons, bones, hair, nails are all earth; sperm, blood, sputum, viscous, tears, sweat, all about water; temperature belongs to fire; the same movement as the wind. Four great if contrary, then the body how to have. Knowing the body is delusion, then all afflictions eradicate, 

4. The concept of Mahayana 

a) Body as illusory: Expanding the concept of mind, the body for the Mahayana monks, is a dharma solution due to the structure of mind and mind, which does not leave the mind. Because of the quotations, the ego, the three-faceted possession of the self-consciousness, forming the name and the rupa of the supernatural, when enough conditions arise, it becomes the body, and then clinging to the body, the self-being, the sensation, and with his relatives and co-danger; when consciousness is no longer upholding, then the body dies. The body does not have itself, due to the transformation, there is no body, taking consciousness as a body, the whole body is awake, in addition to the bodyless consciousness. The body is due to the supernatural energy, the supernatural power manifests, because of the karmic conditions that result in the awakening. Causal karma comes out, it depends on the body that arises that the body is a false Dharma, due to the manifestations. But from where the body creates karmic infection or tranquility, it prides the mind to train in the mind, causing the mind to turn into infectious or pure energy. The body and the supernormal ability to turn make each other more charming, there is no real loss, no loss, no illusory truth. Because of that, with the Mahayana position, the body is as illusory. Because as illusory is not really there, should not fall into the increased benefits of ordinary people, along with errors often accept the accept of the pagan. Because as illusory, fake is not not necessarily, so from being reduced error of the Second admit and accept the cessation of cults. 

Bodhisattva where illusory body, tu as illusory method, ending illusory love, the illusory charming, illusory results. Because the body is like illusory, full of hope, no longer in front of the body, so negativity is not born. Do not love in front of the body, then from the body that must rot virtue. Endless life, austerities go through countless lifetimes, but with the Bodhisattva, there is not a single chance to recite the thought that there is body life, and there is self-discharge. 

Me not even conceptuality, let alone any number of lives, should have the sentence: "Life market suffering ... life number non-life". Because the body as dependent as illusory being, being unborn; body dependency as illusory kill instant death, should have the sentence: "We coast charm false, hopeful reputation being born, they coast dispersed, disappointed vanishing fame". No birth does not kill ie "real minister". Ancient virtue has a saying: "Illusory self-emptiness, being born as a scene in the image - The most enlightened willow, illusory self-realization of a true hero". It is from the body, the shop "fake" enter "no", the "middle way".  

b) The body and the universe are one: One more time, the Bodhisattva's body, the whole universe, is the whole of beings. Why? All things are up to do, to treat each other. One of these things comes out, it is because of the other things, the other things out, because of this law. The existing body, because the universe treats grace, the universe returns due to the treatment of the body. Dependent in the universe that has the body, then the body is the universe. Dependent on the body but has the universe, the universe is the body. The universe and the body are not different. The body and the whole universe, the human body also the whole universe. Until the bodies of all sentient beings, are also the cosmic body. The whole universe is the body, but the whole universe is also the body of all sentient beings, so the body is also the whole body of all sentient beings, and the sentient body is the whole body. The universe is complete, 

III. DIVERSITY OF THE JUNIOR OR UNIQUE CONNECTION  

1. What are the circumstances and positions of people in the universe? 

As in the part of the universe that has been said, the world is divided into three levels: sex world, gender identity and formless gender. Living in the Realm are creatures who are wrongly manipulated and manipulated by sex, such as sex and sex. The species living in the sex world are: animals, hungry ghosts, hells, astral beings, humans and gods. 

Thus, the person also lives in the same realm with the above mentioned species. Still know of the six species, the status of the human being ranked second, but nonetheless, it is to live in a situation that is not bright, because the situation where the subject is sexual. So Buddha often taught: "Tears of sentient beings are more than four seas", that's it! Sexual desire requires material desires such as cravings, sleep, craving ... In short, the desire to satisfy the sensual pleasures. But not all! Man also desires to satisfy the spiritual needs: the desire to usurp, the desire to tame, the desire to show off ... that means taking part in the greed and greed. 

But if craving is satisfied for all, then it is less painful. Here, on the contrary, sex is never satisfied. Fortunately, it can be temporarily satisfied for a while. And that is even more dangerous, because it is like a thirsty person who drinks salty water, the more thirsty he drinks. 

Humans are bound to the lust, like a horse is tied to the neck of a carriage, dragging and running, never resting. 

Moreover, that desire is the germ of conflict between one species and another: everyone wants to satisfy their sexual desire, so they are born with selfishness, suffering for others and others to make themselves happy. Therefore, every being is an enemy of all other beings, and this world is a battlefield, where every minute and every second, there are countless soldiers who have fallen. Therefore the realm of that battlefield is also an extremely large graveyard. According to Buddha, it is a vast sea of ​​suffering! 

The ocean is immense, waves and waves flood, 

The naked man rode a drifting boat, 

Who's sailing against the wind, who swept the wind? 

Review, the same sea carpet only!

2. The impermanence and non-self nature of man

Man suffers because of sex, he suffers even more because of the following two basic qualities: 

a) Impermanence:  Everything in life does not stand still, but changes mobile every minute and every minute. Last minute body, not the next minute body. Every minute, how many millions of cells in the person are dying and being replaced. Man is greedy to live, but he is dragged to death. The more you want to live, the more you are afraid of death. The swift transformation, from blue hair to silver hair, was like a dream. 

b) egolessness:  Man, like all things, is caused by harmonious conditions. Man is just a name, is a fake name to call the combination of the five aggregates: rupa, sensation, thought, action and consciousness. When they are predestined enough they gather, then called life, when it melts, it dies. In the five aggregates, there is nothing mastery, most homogeneous? Besides, even in those five aggregates, none of them is homogeneous, but also due to the gathering of the mainland. 

Unusual that thought is often, not falling that is thought to be self. That is also the greatest delusion of man. And it is because of that confusion that people suffer even more. 

3. Human ability

Considering the above, the human condition is very boring. So we must despair, let go of his hands and mourn to wait for death or what? What beliefs do we have in people? 

Yes of course! Buddha taught: "All beings have the ability to become Buddha". In other words, humans, although living in suffering, all have Buddha nature. With that Buddha nature, one can escape from his darkness. To get out of this situation, people do not need to kneel, to pray to someone else, but by their own strength and actions. Only I can free myself. Man, is the creator of his life. When people fall in love, they make themselves miserable, but when they know that they love to find a way out of delusion, then they are the ones who build up their own happiness. 

That is the advantage of man, it is also a great belief of man. On the one hand, the human condition is boring. But on the other hand, people are excited. 

So it is not true that Buddhism's pessimistic outlook on life is pessimistic, and that optimism is also not right. Optimism or pessimism depends on the aspect of his observation. 

C. CONCLUSION 

Drawn from the above comments, we can conclude that: When in delusion, the human condition is tragic. But when people start to get fascinated, people can change their situation and life. 

But how to convert? How to turn maze into enlightenment? How to turn suffering into fun? Fortunately! The teachings of the Buddha are there, He instructs the method of transforming delusion into enlightenment, turning suffering into joy. 

We can only process our practices, which will also transform our sad situation. So the Buddha often taught: This scene is also this scene of Buddha. He is also Buddha. . END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.12/1/2020.