LESSON 1: GENERAL CONCEPTS ABOUT THE DREAM

UNIVERSAL BUDDHISM 1

SRAMANA=THICH THIEN HOA.

Course III: THANH VAN THUA BUDDHISM

Lesson 1: OVERVIEW OF ARIYA SACCANI.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. OPENING 

Causes and circumstances Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Four Noble Truths for the first time  

Buddha Shakyamuni, after attaining enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, immediately thought of bringing His teachings just to be witnessed and propagated to sentient beings. But his teachings are sublime, profound teachings, and sentient beings are largely inferior, difficult to enlighten as quickly as he is. But is it because His teachings are even profoundly and without teachers? In order to fulfill his chemical task, the Buddha means that the four noble truths of dharma are the Dharma shop, so that sentient beings can easily practice. 

Observing the roots of five fellow initiates with him, who was originally Mr. Kieu Tran Nhu's group, could enlighten with the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha went to Deer Park where they were practicing to speak the Four Noble Truths. 

After listening to the Buddha sermon the Four Noble Truths, the broken prejudice, the transcendental wisdom appeared, these five were enlightened, the A-la-Han result. Those were the first five disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha. 

From here onwards, the Four Noble Truths are the basic teaching of the Seminary (the method of slowly cultivating the dharma) and enlighten countless Buddhist disciples. 

Today, we bring the Four Noble Truths to you to present to readers in this booklet, and not for that purpose. 

B. BACKGROUND 

I. DEFINITIONS ABOUT THE DREAM 

Quartet is four; Dieu is beautiful, precious, utterly; Truth is the most certain certainty. Sanskrit is Ariya Saccani. 

The four noble truths are the four most sure, precious and complete truths that no non-pagan teachings can match. With the four truths that the Buddha has promoted here, a practitioner can go from a dark, ignorant position, gradually reaching enlightenment in a sure, non-wrong way, like a sacred torch that can illuminate pedestrian walk in the dark to the destination. Because of such a valuable, miraculous and extremely beneficial use, it is called  Dieu . 

The Word   also means the greatest, the highest Truth, which embraces all other Truths and is immutable forever, rather than the limited truth in space and time. 

In the Hinayana teachings, the Four Noble Truths are the basic teachings. 

II. WHAT DOES THE EXPORT INCREASE? 

Four magic soles, are: Suffering soles, Soles, Kill soles and Dao soles. 

1. The Noble  Truth of Dukkha. Suffering is the true truth, clearly presented to us to see all the pain in this world that every being has to suffer, such as Life is suffering, Suffering is suffering, Aging is suffering, Death is suffering, etc. ... The sufferings fill the world, surround us, immerse us like the sea. Therefore, the Buddha often likened to life as a vast pool of suffering. 

2. The sole  (Sameda Dukkha). The sole practice is the true truth, presenting the cause of the worldly suffering pool, which is why there are no such sufferings. Suffering as a manifestation of the disease; while the sole is to say the cause of the disease, the reason why there is disease. 

3. Kill the Emperor  (Nirodha Dukkha). The cessation of truth is the truth of truth, clearly presenting the situation of the peaceful and good fruits that sentient beings will attain until they have eradicated the sufferings and the causes of suffering. Removal of the Emperor as a guarantee of a physician clearly states that after the sick person heals, how he will eat, how to sleep, how his body will be, and how comfortable the soul is. 

4. The  Noble Truth (Nirodha Gamadukkha). The Noble Truth is the right, sure way to eliminate suffering. That is the truth that indicates the way to go to Nirvana. Simply put, these are the methods of austerities to eliminate suffering and to be happy. 

The truth is the same as the prescription that the physician had prescribed for the sick to buy and the instructions that the patient needed to follow. 

III. MAGICAL LAYOUT OF THEIR DIE 

The four noble truths have been arranged by the Buddha in a very clever, logical, and orderly manner. Nowadays, Western and Western Buddhist scholars, when it comes to the Four Noble Truths, in addition to the profound meaning and appropriate remarks, also summarize the praise for the architecture, the layout, the second class of the whole that method. 

First, the Buddha showed sentient beings the tragedy of the present life. Is this tragic scene right before our eyes, in our ears, even in each of us; truths that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, touched, not where they are strange. Who is a being, who is not born, who is not sick, who is not old, who is not dead etc ..? And all these states carry the whole nature of suffering. Had body, must suffer. It is a simple, clear truth, no one is not aware, if there is a little comment. 

By showing people the suffering before, around, and within each of us, the Buddha went through the second stage, which is to show sentient beings the origin and reason of those sufferings. He went from the present to the past, from the surface to the depth, from the visible to the invisible. Thus his reasoning was based on reality, on things that could be experienced, not strange, unrealistic, ambiguous. 

At the third stage, the Buddha raised and presented us with the pleasure of suffering. This phase contrasts with the first: how miserable the stage is, then this is so pleasurable. The realm of pleasures that He presents to us here, is nothing too vague, unreal, because if there was suffering then of course there must be contrary to suffering is joy. And when it became clear how suffering was, it was eager to find a way out of suffering and the desire to lead to the joy that Buddha introduced. 

To the fourth stage is the stage when Buddha taught the methods to perform that joy. Here we should note that the Buddha presented the realm of liberation first, then only presented the method of austerities later. It is a very clever, right-of-the-way presentation: before telling people to go, they must state how the purpose will come, then let people consider, whether or not to go. If people realize that the purpose is noble and beautiful, then they will be enthusiastic, effortless hard management, to achieve that purpose. 

Thus, we can sketch the layout of the Four Noble Truths paintings as follows: 

We are standing in front of a great painting consisting of two main parts: The lower part is a vast abyss, ragged waves and waves, in which boats are sunk, with countless victims diving and screaming. , crying, playing with ... (Suffering soles). 

In this part of the picture, we also see the causes of those disasters: the winds of desire, greed, hatred, ignorance ... dark ignorant clouds that obscure the face. God (Emperor). 

Looking at the top of the painting, we see the scene gradually brightening, quiet; Here, the thunderstorms could not come, there were no deep pools, no pitfalls, no victims were groaning, crying ... this was a highland region, the higher it went, the more beautiful the scenery was. fun. The people here look calm, relaxed, happy; and like the landscape, the higher the higher the level, the more beautiful the appearance, the non-way, liberation ... (Kill the king). 

In this section, if we pay close attention, we see that from a scene below to a scene above, there are paths with title signs, very interesting such as: Satipa xứ xứhāna, the four foundations, Four like comments, Eightfold Path etc .. On those roads, there are many people going up, and very few people go down. And the higher up the road, the more spacious and cool, and the less pedestrians carry luggage ... (The Emperor). 

The painting has words written in the lower part that are: "The world" and the upper part is "Export the world". 

Here, the Four Noble Truths picture clearly presents before us two realms: the world and the world, like that. Those who have seen the painting all have an attitude of wanting to distance themselves from the scene below and wish to live in the realm presented at the top of the painting. 

IV. THE IMPORTANT POSITION OF THE MAGNITUDE IN THE ENTIRE TEACHING OF BUDDHISM-CA  

The four noble truths are the basic teachings of Buddhism, not just for the Hinayana but for the Mahayana too. A spiritual practitioner wants a sure result and cannot ignore the Four Noble Truths. This practice, though slowly progressing, is one step at a time. Although this method does not lead directly to Buddhahood, but with diligence and determination it can easily bring the practitioner to the Arahantship. Then from the result of A-la-Han, the practitioner will practice another method of Mahayana, to reach Buddhahood. Based on what, any level can practice this method, not like some other disciplines, requires a high level of education and an intellectual level above average to be able to follow. Therefore, it is a common practice for both the Hinayana and Mahayana, Theravada, and Mahayana schools. Today the practice is the most popular practice in the world. Most European and American Buddhists follow this practice and study books on Buddhism, Western Buddhist scholars say the most about the Four Noble Truths. 

C. CONCLUSION 

Buddhists must learn and practice the Four Noble Truths  

A basic, important teaching like the Four Noble Truths, Buddhists cannot help but understand. Not understanding the Four Noble Truths is not knowing anything about Buddhist teachings. Buddhists, more than anyone, must comprehend the world of suffering. To do so, nothing is more than listening to the Buddha teaching about the Noble Truth of Suffering, because only the Noble Truth of Suffering speaks fully and accurately about all the sufferings of the world. 

Seeing clearly all suffering then we need to find out because there is no suffering, where is the cause of suffering. Because only when aware of its origin, can eradicate its origin. This is also not clearly stated, clearly analyzed by the sole. But to see all the suffering of life and its origin, not to be fed up, to cry, to groan. If so, nothing negative is pessimistic. Some people mistakenly believe that Buddhism is pessimistic because they have stopped at the first two parts of the Four Noble Truths. 

But Buddhists do not stop there. Seeing suffering makes life ugly, dark, suffering, then we must eliminate suffering. Happiness is not far away, happiness appears after eradicating suffering. Suffering so much as to go back to happiness, as the darkness melts away, the light will get there. Want to see the light of Nirvana, you must follow the teachings of Buddha in the Elimination. 

To perform Nirvana, there must be sufficient means. By these means, the Buddha has fully provided in the Path. 

Thus, the Buddha Shakyamuni has fulfilled the duties of a guide for us to go from the dark realm to the result of the Arahantship. He has placed in our hands a clear map of the journey and gives us all the necessary means on that great trip. 

We just have to go and walk. . END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/1/2020.