LESSON 6: CONTENT (BUDDHISM AND BUDDHISM)

UNIVERSAL BUDDHISM 1

SRAMANA=THICH THIEN HOA.

COURSE IV: ENJOYING AND BODHISATICS BUDDHISM

Lesson 6: CONTENT (BUDDHISM & BUDDHISM)

FIRST PRESENTATION: LIVING THIRD LIFE.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

A. OPENING 

Buddhism is often referred to as Compassionate Buddhism, because the love in Buddhism is so vast and profound. The Buddha, because of compassion, ordained to seek relief for sentient beings. So Buddhists, when following the Buddha's footsteps, must also take compassion as the main gesture for their practice. 

But how to express compassion and make it grow? The most miraculous method is the practice of the giving of the Paramitas, one of the six disciplines (continents) that Buddha devised for a practitioner with a broad mind to practice to save himself and others. Sea of ​​birth and death and reincarnation enlightenment. 

B. BACKGROUND 

I. DEFINITIONS 

Father is the same everywhere: giving is giving, giving is giving. Almsgiving is all-around, for everyone, everything, everywhere. 

Paramita is a Sanskrit vowel, Paramita. Chinese translates to "Belgian", in Vietnamese, "to the other shore". 

Almsgiving, which is a practice of giving, has the function of a boat, taking you and the person from the delusion of sentient beings to the enlightened shore of the Buddhas. 

II. INGREDIENTS OF THIRD LETTUCE  

The generosity of alms includes the following types: Talents, Dharma experiments, fearless acts. Below we turn to find out the meaning of all kinds of alms.

1. Talents.  Talented means giving away your money, wealth, real things. Talents have two types: 

a) Internal assets.  Are your most precious personal things like your body, your life. Testing internal resources here means sacrificing one's life to save others from danger. In the precursor stories of Shakyamuni Buddha, we have seen many examples of internal merit, like the story of the merchant, while sailing by the boat sank and sacrificed his life by letting go of the mast. that I'm clinging to, to make room for the other ill-fated passengers from drowning. 

To test the internal wealth is the most noble gesture of sacrifice that can only be done by those who are merciful and compassionate. If you still consider your own life to be precious, more important than the life of others, you can never make this kind of giving. 

b) Beyond financial ability.  Foreign resources are things that we often use such as food, clothing, money, cars, fields, houses, etc. To bring those things to the needy and needy is called foreign talent. 

2. Dharma experiments. Bringing good words, reason, right truths, precious teachings of Buddha to show and advise others; or according to the Buddha's precepts of sincere practice to model for the imitators, abandoning the good according to goodness, the righteousness is the dharma. Dharma has a greater value than talent, because it only helps others to be materially needy for a while, or at the very least to save a person's life. But the dharma helps people spiritually, not only for the poor, but also for the rich and the title; not only has a good influence in a period, but also a good cause for many afterlife. Because of these reasons, a true Buddhist can never miss an occasion without doing the dharma, 

3. fearless experiments.  Fearless means no fear. Fearlessness is to make others not be afraid, to be afraid. This test just sounds like it doesn't matter at all. But if we think critically, we will see that the Buddha is extremely profound when he invented this method. 

Let us think again, is it true that in one human life, fear has already taken over half of life? When we are small, we are afraid of scolding, afraid of beating, afraid of the devil ...; when young people are afraid of lack of food, lack of clothing, fear of enemies, fear of lack of fame and career; When you are afraid of pain, afraid of being sick, afraid of being old, you are afraid of death. That is not to mention the time of chaos, still afraid of high taxes, heavy taxes, fear of greed, corruption, fear of robbery, hoodlums, fear of imprisonment, fear of guilt, fear of slashing, fear of killing ... How much the fear that piled up on their heads, making their heads dare not look up, their backs bent, their knees about to collapse. In order to have a symbolic image of fear, take the image of the people of the Vietnamese countryside during the French colonial period clearly: Their hands are ready to prostrate, their eyes dare not look up, 

Life was miserable, even more miserable because of fear. So to make people stop being afraid, it is to save them less than half the suffering in life. The compassion of the Buddha could not believe that sentient beings suffer in fear, so they invented a fearless test. 

To practice this method, one must first train itself with a virtue that is not afraid of anything. But the true spiritual practitioner, who understands the teachings of the Buddha, is afraid of what? Their money, they are not greedy so they are not afraid to lose; fame and fortune, they don't care, so don't be afraid of missing; life, they pretend to be temporary, so they are not afraid to die. Due to that mentality, their hearts are always unwavering, their faces are always calm before all changes, arduous dangers. The fearless practitioner is ready to jump into the water to help the person who is about to die, to jump into the fire to save the dying person, to storm the bandits to save the honest people, to knock on the door of the public, to vindicate the innocent. ... 

In short, cultivators are very fearless, wherever they go, they bring a calm and peacefulness to everyone and everything. 

III. HOW MUST LETTER TO BE LEGAL?

We have known through the ways of the Paramitas. At this point, we also need to know clearly what the attitude of austerities almsman must be like. 

Almsgiving as mentioned above, actually not difficult and not uncommon. A lot of people can do it. In our life, we often see many wealthy people bring thousands of thousands of thousands of silver to alms, there are many people who put their entire fortune to set up hospitals, pediatric hospitals, schools, many people dare to risk their lives to burst into fire to rescuing the dying, jumping into the water to save the drowned; there are heroes who bring talents to protect the weak, or dare to confront the invaders to preserve the country. 

In terms of experiments, there are many people who bring ethics everywhere to talk, everywhere they show that we understand and direct. 

If viewed from the outside, those actions are alms. But in terms of psychology and inner motivation, there may be two different cases from each other. 

1. Alms generals accept.  Means giving with an impure mind. We know almsgiving is caused by kindness. Almsgiving is a discipline for self-help and forgiveness. But if you give alms with another mind such as praying for fame, praying for wealth (for a little but pray for a great return), or because of competition, or because you want to humiliate the person who is grateful, or because you are forced, or a mentality of contempt, regret or giving with a psychology of deception, injustice, and bias; if giving with such a mentality, such an attitude, then it is almsgiving. 

Such as bringing money to set up hospitals, schools to be featured on the newspaper, to be reminded to always; or jumping into the river to save drowned people for "appreciation" for the "beauty"; or kill the enemy in order to earn a medal, or preach morality to show that we learn a lot. Those beautiful outside behaviors, the inside are really worthless. 

Almsgiving with psychology, with such motivation, is not almsgiving; and the merit of those actions belongs to a very fragile possession, like clouds floating in the middle of nowhere, having the wind blowing away. 

2. Alms don't accept generals.  Means giving with a clean intention, true to its meaning. 

While giving, the practitioner because of loving kindness, treating sentient beings as children, should not be selfish, indifferent, impersonal. Practitioners because they know their property as well as their bodies are temporarily fake and impermanent, so they are not greedy or regretful. Practitioners know that the "self" is not real, so when we do not see there are people who give and receive, not arrogant, egotistical. 

Alms with such a pure heart as above will be blessed with pure piracy, the new alms Ba la security. 

IV. FORMULA DECLARED THREE LIFE  

Dharma giving is the benevolent cause of bliss in the world and in the world. In the universal record of virtue, almsgiving is first, because it is relatively easier to do than all the dharma, but merit is beneficial to both the recipient and the giver: 

1. For the recipient  No one is full life. The one who gets this part is lacking another part: the person who gets material things is dismayed, counting fully mentally lacks material things. 

Those who are lacking in food to be eaten, those who are lacking in clothing to be dressed, those who are in pain to be comforted, comforted, and those who are afraid to be sheltered are so fortunate and blessed. In a society where there are many rich people of compassion, always seeking to help people, that society will surely be happy and prosperous. 

2. For the giver. Almsgiving has been beneficial to the recipient, but also to the equally precious giver. In addition to the happiness to see themselves working, to see the happy, happy, practitioners also thanks to almsgiving that advance quickly, far on the path. Whenever giving wealth, the practitioner has an opportunity to overcome greed, greed, selfishness and compassion; whenever he sacrifices his life to save people, he has the opportunity to test his greed for life, to fear death, and to cultivate the benevolent and calm nature. Whenever giving without regard to the enemy, the practitioner has the opportunity to fight with anger, and cultivate more virtue of compassion and equality. Whenever giving without thinking of the giver more than the recipient, the practitioner has the opportunity to fight the ego, ego, ego. If you practice the dharma method, those are your chances to remind yourself, 

C. CONCLUSION 

We have clearly seen the value of the Dharma of Paramitas. Its merit is not only for the recipient, but also for the giver. It is both moderately moderate. It functions to bring oneself and man from the delusion to the enlightened shore, from the sublime status to the Bodhisattva fruition. 

So please advise all Buddhists to develop Bodhicitta, cultivate the practice of giving, giving, giving on the Buddhahood, under the sentient beings, to the Three Jewels.

SECOND: WORLD BUDDHISM  

A. OPENING 

Regardless of a group, any organization in society, want to be organized, have a way to progress, there must be discipline or discipline. The tighter the discipline, the faster the life of the organization, as well as the individual in it, will progress. On the contrary, an undisciplined group is a mob of people, no matter how large and powerful at first, it will soon disintegrate. 

Discipline is always set by the leaders. The more insightful a leader is, the more experience he has, the more rules and the precepts they create, the more practical and valuable they are. 

Buddhism is a religion that aims to bring people to enlightenment, and its founder, Shakyamuni, a fully enlightened being. So the precepts, the teachings of Buddhism, of course, must have a value, a valuable and valuable utility for those who want to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha. 

Because of the importance and the great benefits of such a precepts, the Buddha repeatedly reminded his disciples, to strictly observe the precepts. He often taught: " When there is no Buddha, take precepts as a teacher ". Kinh Pham hammock also wrote: " The world is as bright as the sun, and the pearls like the pearls of pearls, the Bodhisattvas, because of the pure precepts and the awareness ". 

B. BACKGROUND 

I. DEFINITIONS 

"Tri" is to keep the precepts closely; "Precepts" are the precepts, prohibitions, rules that the Buddha has devised to guide his disciples into the main path, and to avoid giving them deep pitfalls that they may fall into. , on the way to Buddhahood. 

So maintaining the precepts is a practice to reach enlightenment by upholding the complete and complete precepts that Buddha taught. 

II. INGREDIENTS OF LAW  

The basis of sentient beings is not the same, and the practice of Buddhist disciples also has many ways; Therefore, the Buddha had to devise a lot of precepts and divide many types to apply closely to the inborn quality and the way of practice of each class of people. However, we can divide Buddha's precepts into three parts and two levels: 

- About home for Hinayana goods. 

- About renunciation 

- About Dao and customary practice (Bodhisattva world) for Mahayana goods. 

1. About at home.  The lay precepts are the precepts for those who have not been ordained in the Hinayana, i.e. the male and female servant (laypeople). These people may take one to five precepts (the Five Precepts) or the eight precepts (the eight precepts). 

2. About renunciation.  The renunciants consisted of five of them: novice monks, novice monks, bhikkhunis, monks and nuns. These people, depending on the practice of low or high, male or female that holds gender more or less: 

- novice monks and novices must observe the 10 precepts. 

- The manna-consciousness must keep the six precepts and practice 296 morality. 

- Monks must keep 250 precepts 

- Monks and nuns must keep 348 precepts. 

3. About customs clearance.  The secular practice is the Bodhisattva precepts. It is the world that Buddhists at home and ordained in the Mahayana life must maintain, after having generated the Bodhisattva's mind to practice the Buddha's breadth and transform beings. 

The scope of this article only talks about the Mahayana Bodhisattva vow, and here are the precepts that the cultivators of the three perfections must know and keep right. 

Bodhisattva world includes: 

-  Divine Ruler.  The life of maintenance "photographic law suspected of gender" is someone who decided to keep the ten important precepts and forty-eight contempt, meaning that the decision not to do any evil at all. 

- Photographers of France.  Life maintenance "photographer good world" is someone determined to do all the good deeds. 

- A lot of useful worldly.  The person who maintains this precepts is the one who is determined to cultivate compassion and joy, to do things that benefit all sentient beings, not a single species but no chemical. 

III. HOW MUCH TO WORLD ABOUT TRUE?

As well as the practice of generosity said in the previous article; maintenance of the three precepts also has two ways: Preserving the wrong Dharma and maintaining the Precepts of the Dharma, or saying from the Buddha's name: Maintaining the doctrine of the general and abiding not accepting the general. 

1. Preserving about the general.  Preserving the doctrine of attachment is the observance of the precepts but only the external appearance, but the inner is very polluted. For example, maintain the precepts for eager to win the praise of the people; maintain the precepts with an egotistical mentality, more self-centered, and despise transgressors; maintenance of the world because of being forced, should lack of joy that birth mind sadness, reluctance ... Such world is lack of sincerity, is false, deceive himself and people. Such a world is of no use, only takes more time and is not the precepts of the Paramita. 

2. World Tri not accept generals.  The world of non-attachment is to strictly follow the precepts that the Buddha has taught, not because of fame and fame, not because of victory, or not being forced by circumstances. 

While keeping the precepts, practitioners do not think that they are better than people, nor do they abide by the rules, disdain for transgressors. Practitioners just because of the virtue that is not pre-infected, which benefits all sentient beings and sees the "observance of precepts" is their duty not to be missed. Maintaining the world like that is the precepts of the Paramita, the virtue will be boundless. 

IV. FORMULA BEFORE BUDDHISM  

As mentioned above, the observance of the Paramita has a great effect on the Buddhist practice. Buddhists maintain the precepts of pure solemnity, then at the moment the mind is peaceful and peaceful, there is nothing to regret. For the country, practitioners are respectful, especially for the believers, who are always happy and precious. In the future life, practitioners will certainly be a Bodhi fruit, escape samsara. 

If we compare the practice of generosity with the moral precepts, we will see the morality of the precepts more than one-level charity. 

A talented Buddhist who does not have the precepts, he cannot become a Buddha, because he has both created merit and sinned, because he does not maintain the precepts, so he can cause good and bad karma to mix up. perfect and expect to witness to the Holy fruit? 

On the contrary, Buddhists, if they just take seriously the precepts, they will surely become Buddhas. Why? Because while specializing in maintaining the world as having talent and France for the pilot function.

When practitioners maintain the precepts are pure, the mind of compassion, joy and discharge all over. As long as they see anyone doing alms, France for whom, immediately birth mind happy wedding favor, so that he or she is part of merit "depending on the wedding". 

Moreover, when the practitioner is sincere in his observance of the precepts, he practices in accordance with the Buddha's teaching and sets an example for imitators, that is, he has given the dharma by his body. And when practitioners recite the precepts for proficiency, that is, the method of oral discourse. 

Seeing that, then observing the precepts of the Paramita is a very magical dharma, which can include alms and morality, will surely bring practitioners to the shore of liberation. 

C. CONCLUSION 

The value and function of the precepts of the Paramita has been clearly demonstrated, we have no doubt about it. Now we have a definite decision to develop a strong mind for maintaining the Precepts. 

The practice only remains in practice. No matter how smart your intelligence, no matter how deeply you understand the doctrine, without practicing, it is useless. We should not forget that the word "practice" usually follows the words "learn" and the word "tu" (study, practice). Dao Nho also has a saying: "learn children learning the time spent". Buddhism teaches more strongly: "Cultivation without learning is blind cultivation; Learning without practicing is a book". Especially when having brought the Buddhist name, took the precepts but did not keep the precepts, then it is like bringing the Buddha's precepts and defaming and making fun of the world. 

So we would like to recommend that Buddhists, after having realized the noble values ​​and great benefits of the Dharma Precepts disciplines, hurry up and give this vast mind to cultivate this precepts, to quickly escape the cycle of birth. death of suffering. . END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.8/1/2020.