LESSON 4: EDUCATION AND STRUCTURE

UNIVERSAL BUDDHISM 1

SRAMANA=THICH THIEN HOA.

Course II: THIEN THUA BUDDHIST

Lesson 4: EDUCATION AND STRUCTURE.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. OPENING 

People often race, jostling and material races, not knowing how much to fit. The person who lacks desire has to be satisfied, but the rich man, with the measure of money, still desires. 

Greed, desire never find himself full. The proverb says, " The other tank is easy to fill up, the greedy bag is hard to fill ." Indeed, "greed has no bottom", how can it be filled?

To treat greed, the Buddha advised us to "be in love and be content". In Business has said: " Tri chi chi nhon, but crouching upper land because peace, real chi chi chi nhon, though the land of heron real estate comments ." Means: People who know enough, even if lying on sandy land, are still peaceful, on the contrary, people do not know enough, even in the sky, they are not satisfied. 

So in order to be happy and happy, we need to be greedy and contentious. 

B. BACKGROUND 

I. DEFINITIONS 

Minority is to want little: Tri is enough to know. Want less is for what is not, but because of the need, looking forward to having. As if he wanted a house that was both clean and sheltered from the sun and rain; Need to go quickly, want a means of transportation what is convenient, just need to support the foot fatigue, save time is okay, not want a splendid car, hundreds of thousands, beyond my financial capacity . 

Knowing enough, meeting any situation will be an optional fate. As for eating, dressing and staying, we find ourselves having enough, not greedy more, but mental suffering.

II. What do ordinary people want?

People are often dictated by the following five things: 

a) Greed for money  
b) Greed for beauty  
c) Greed for fame  
d) Greed for eating  
d) Greed for sleeping well. 

- The greedy man wants  money , the money is stacked up, the house is horizontal and vertical, the land of the stork flies straight, not even considered to be moderate, but still wants to get rich. 

- People who want to look  beautiful , then seek out flowers all their lives; See who has beauty is fascinated, find another way to be close to the period. Once satisfied, then abandon one beauty to run after another; always being dictated by sex, losing all personality. 

- Who wants to  fame , lifelong life under the whole position, high authority, good reputation, good name. They bent over here and there, hoping for a high position. They work hard, miserable, find ways to hold on to the vanity. 

- People who want to  eat well , then spend their whole life beside the delicious delicacies , around the banquets, looking for quirks in the delicious, strange wines. Their world is narrowed down to food and wine friends. 

- Who wants to  sleep , then half his life lurk in the bed; After eating, I thought about going to bed, lying down to sleep, after sleeping I wanted to sleep again, losing my self-control. 

In short, when you desire those things, the life of those desires is narrowed down only to your desire, and makes every day a slave for sex more closely. After all, the above desires, in addition to the desire for fame, are due to the arrogance of conceit, and the other desires, due to the five desires, are the main motivation. The five sensations are: lust, desire, sensuality, taste, and sensuality. 

-  What is lust?  As the eyes-base for rupa, the mind of desire. In the "Chief Justice" is the body of the man or woman: You puffed his eyes phoenix, blushing cheeks ... In addition, "y leopard" is the worldly object: jade, ivory, jewels, precious objects antiques, splendid colors ... Those dishes, the vast majority of people immediately see the craving mind. 

- What is sexuality?  A good headset, mind is passionate; such as singing, singing, ly ly love sentences, melodious melodies, eroticism of the mind, the mind being immersed. 

- What is sensuality?  A nostril when it comes to the mundane sensation of desire; such as aromatic aromatic oil, passionate wax, etc ... Those bare incense dishes, causing people to smell them, are born in love, immersed in dreams. 

- What is sex?  Is when the tongue for the taste, being mindful of greed, like the smells sweet, fleshy, sour, salty, meat fat, fish and shrimp, spring rolls spring rolls, beautiful delicacies.

Still, mankind needs to eat many things to feed and live. So all mankind does not recognize it as the weakest need, if poor diet, the body must be thin. But we should treat eating and drinking as medicine, to cure hunger and thirst. If too greedy delicacies, just worry about living to eat, then people have nothing noble? Buddha said: "Sentient beings walk away from the earth, not from the plants, from the air, from the air, by eating the things" born of the earth, "so the body is very heavy. 

- What is sexuality?  Is the body when dealing with exposed, born of desire. Rough cloth burlap, worn into his roughness; silk is, damaging it, you know it is smooth, wood touches you hard, cotton touches you know soft, etc. . 

III. DAMAGES OF REVOLUTION 

Excessive desires, make people flutter, lose all control, and are only slaves to their desires. Once driven by greed, people cause countless sins, daring to do cruel things without disgusting. It is precisely because of the unwavering greed, that we are not aware of ourselves, so when we want to but cannot, then blame the person, that person will create competition, conflict, causing humanity so much harm . Excessive greed, causing people to darken before right and wrong things, push people into sin. For example, someone who has no capacity, morality and wants to be big and powerful, can use cunning, dark and barbaric schemes to achieve his will. Or fake, also because you want to be like your beloved wife, 

In short, the five desires do harm to mankind unspeakable: For the five desires born worry and sadness; because of five desires that are born lies, greed; because of the five desires that give birth to fierce competition, humanity takes each other into the forest named rain bullets. 

In the present greed, the pursuit of the five desires has hurt not only oneself and others, but in the future, they will also lead people into the evil place of the three devils, especially in the hungry ghosts. demons, to suffer from both material and spiritual shortages. 

That is the tragic outcome of people who are too greedy, do not know "Minority" and "Tri tri". 

IV. METHOD OF PREVENTION OF INTERESTING LOOKS: EDUCATION AND INTERESTING  

The greedy bag has no bottom, the more greedy it is, the more misery it is. Buddha taught: " The more desire, the more miserable ". Let us not mistakenly believe that once greed is satisfied, there is no desire. As long as there is firewood, the fire will still burn. The desire to be fulfilled, the desire to get bigger. The proverb often says, " Being an elephant demands it " is that. The person whose ambition wishes to burn in his heart, always finds himself in need. Do not see lack of this dish, lack of another dish, then thirsty forever, never being satisfied. Without suffering is still suffering. 

To treat insatiable greed, Buddhism as well as Confucianism both teach us to be "content". No matter how much we enjoy it, we don't lack anything for ourselves, don't look up to the rich people who are more luxurious than us, so we "know enough". 

In the Buddhist canon, the Buddha taught, "Behold, monks! If you want to get rid of suffering, you should consider the word "Tri tri". As long as you know enough, every scene is peaceful. He does not know enough, but rich and poor; people know enough but poor but rich. People who do not know enough are often dragged on by five things, making them know enough to pity. 

A man in his hands acquires all the wealth of the world, with the poor without desire, the two are equally rich. ” 

Let us contemplate those meaningful teachings. Mastering our life is our own heart. Rich poor to cowardly is only a matter of dependence. If we control desire, desire is rich; if we cannot control the lust and desire, we are poor. 

V. THE BENEFITS OF EDUCATION AND STRUCTURE 

Greed for making us miserable as much, the lack of sex and contentment makes us so happy. That is only natural. Thanks to "little greed", the ghost of lust does not lead to inconvenience; Thanks to "knowing enough", the greedy demon has no authority to wrong him. Once man is no longer a slave to despicable material, his heart begins to be set free. The human being at that time was worthy of being a human being, having enough personality and not ashamed of his status as an elder of all living things. Only then can a person claim to be happy; and even though he still eats vegetable soup with vegetables everyday, his father always wears cloth and cloths all year round. From past to present, no sage, sage, worthy of that name, did not despise matter, 

Moreover, thanks to the Minority and Triunition, the family and society are at peace and peace, no one has won anyone else's wealth, fame, goodness or strange things. The benefits of minimum education and contentious are indescribable.

BECAUSE. RESOLVING QUESTIONS ABOUT "EDUCATION" AND "TRI"

Someone asked: 

- People want to improve, they should strive to strive and compete in all cases. Buddhism teaches that you must be greedy and contentious. So is the policy to make humanity degenerate? 

- A: No! Buddhism teaches "minimal education" and "contentment" primarily prevents the path of depravity, to stop the vicious greed, boundless of sentient beings, living in the realm of sex, not the policy of preventing human progress on the way of benefiting people, benefiting the country, benefiting people Realizing the great harm of greed, the Buddha gave a very effective remedy that is "want less" and "know enough" to treat the disease to its root. This remedy will weaken the greedy mind, so the lusts and crimes gradually destroy, only a vast and generous compassion is left. Once people stop chasing after desires, chasing after temporary material happiness, pretending not to dig up other people's sufferings, in order to find their own happiness, then, 

Thus, the meaning of "Minority" and "Tri sufficiency" begin to slow down the speed of greedy desire, then stop it, ultimately forcing it to turn, change direction, and improve on you forever. healthy sugar. So, "wanting less" and "knowing enough" not only does not lead people into the path of degeneration, but also helps the genuine evolution of humanity. 

Besides, humanity is witnessing a dangerous imbalance between the rapid evolution of matter and the mental retardation. That imbalance can bring humanity to the pit of destruction. So we need to balance the material and mental evolution. To do so, there is no method other than to follow the conduct "Minority" and "Tri tri". A person who knows how to disregard matter a little, lay down a little desire, then evolve more mentally.  

Today, in the world, in terms of material, scientific, people have progressed a lot, very quickly; In terms of spirit, morality, people progress very slowly, because few people pay attention to it, but only follow the animal. Whenever the material is too advanced, the spirit has to backward, the higher the material, the heavier the greed, the deeper, the bigger, the unknown is not the same time. The scourge of war today, scattered all over the world, is also due to the bottomless greed of the "unsubstantial" human.

So, Minority and Triunism are two miraculous remedies for the serious disease of the world today, no one can deny it. 

C. CONCLUSION 

Those in real life and those who are religious, if they want to be truly happy, they should cultivate "Minority" and "Tri sufficiency." For in fact, those who are not too materially demanding, do not compare with the superiors; therefore, do not see themselves physically inferior, so less suffering. Moreover, they only compare with the ones below, find themselves better off, more complete, so easily satisfied. 

In order to avoid harm in the family and society, every person in this world must keep the common sense, do not exceed his abilities. The current world of five continents, if they want peace to enjoy the pleasure of eternal peace, it is no exception to the virtues of "minimum education" and "contentment". . END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/1/2020.