General Buddhist Studies: Course 8 - Lesson 2, Chapter 2, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva

Universal Buddhist Studies

SRAMANA. Thich Thien Hoa.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

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The second lesson

II. Chapter Pho Hien

1. Mr. Samantabhadra asked Buddha: 

At that time, Mr. Pho Hien Bodhisattva, standing in mass, stood up and walked around the right side of the Buddha for three rounds, then prostrated his hands and knelt straight and said:

- Venerable Venerable Mahā-Bodhisattva, ask Him for the Bodhisattvas in this association and all sentient beings after the Mahayana, compassionately teach the method of austerities to enter the pure Vien Giac realm.

White World Religion, if sentient beings know the dharma are like illusory, body and mind are illusory, then what should we practice? Why are you using the "illusory" assistant to practice the "illusory" method?

Again, if all the illusory phenomena are destroyed, then this body and mind will also cease; If the mind and body all pass away, whoever will practice is called "practicing as illusory"?

White World Religion, if the beings are not austerities, still in the illusory birth and death without knowing it, then how to eliminate the delusion, to liberate samsara?

Please, because of the sentient beings of the next generation, to teach the means of practice and how the class of practice is, so that sentient beings when they hear of this pure Vien Giac realm, according to which they practice, are forever separated from the huyễn.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva sometimes so like that three times, respectfully bowed to Buddha and then returned.

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The idea of ​​this paragraph is that Samantabhadra Bodhisattva asks Buddha:

1. If all beings know the dharma as illusory, then there is no need to practice because it is illusory. Why are you using the illusory (body and mind) practice like illusory?

2. If sentient beings are illusory without cultivating, then they remain in samsara, how can they be liberated?

May Buddha mercifully teach the means of practice and how to cultivate sequentially in order to enter into the pure Vien Giac realm?

2. The Buddha praised Mr. Pho Hien

Then The World Honored One praised Mr. Bodhisattva Bodhisattva and taught:

This good men, precious! He because of the current Bodhisattva and the sentient beings, asking about the means and class of the practice of "like the illusory Tam soot" (1)  of the Bodhisattva, makes beings separate from the illusory. So you should listen attentively, I will because you tell.

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(1) The word "Tam black" Ships translated as "Dinh" or "Chief Justice". Because the mind is focused on one spot, there is no distraction, so it is called "Dinh" - Mr. Ton Mat said: "It is clear that the body and mind are illusory, silently united with feet like, so called" the Chief Justice ".

The figurative shadow of the word "Tam black", refers to the work that has been mastered. But people who recite the Buddha's name, sometimes when they recite but forget it, still have mixed thoughts, so they haven't been samadhi. When people recite Buddha's name, only a single recitation of Buddha's name (unconscious mind), there is no other concept of interfering, walking and lying down, no matter where or now, from year to month, still remember reciting Buddha's name, so called "reciting Buddha's eighteen".

At that time, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and the general public were happy, discreet and attentive to the teachings of Buddhism.

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Van Man and Samantabhadra are the two great Bodhisattvas, Mr. Van Man represents great wisdom. His Excellency Pho Hien represents great virtue. There is a new position (base position) to destroy the base of ignorance. There is great virtue to achieve the virtue of Buddha. A spiritual practitioner must always have both "Tri and Hanh". Only "Tri" can destroy ignorance and understand the truth. There are "happy" to achieve the truth, complete Buddhahood.

This paragraph Buddha praised Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, because beings that ask the dharma "as huyễn tam soot"

We shop things are illusory; but sometimes it is true, so has not been "like huyễn Tam soot". Whenever we sit and lie down whenever we find a place or everywhere we see the dharma completely corrupted, so we can receive the dharma of "Like illusory tam soot".

3. Buddha answered for Mr. Hien Hien

-This is good man! all the illusory scenes (world, beings) of beings, are born in the mind of the Enlightened One of Tathagata. The method of illusory destruction has matches, but nature Vien Giac still does not kill. Just as spotting birth in vain, the illusory spotting flowers have other destruction, which emptiness does not perish.

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United spotting is a scene, nowhere is Vien Giac. The main idea of ​​this passage is to say the false dharma false illusions in the middle, are born in Vien Giac (Chon Chon). The legal damage illusory destruction that Vien Giac mind does not kill. Just like the spotted speckled fish in vain, the spots can cease without vain.

4. Buddha taught the Dharma to enter Vien Giac

When the illusory scenes are gone, the illusory mind of the practitioner will follow. Until the illusory (energy and facility) are all destroyed, the mind Vien Giac does not expect self-arisen.

Because for illusory hope that "Vien Giac" should Vien Giac also become illusory, because it is still in the same treatment. To this realm, if said "there is Vien Giac" has not left illusory expectations, but said that "not Vien Giac" would not leave illusory expectations.

Therefore, the illusory expectations (yes and no) must all be destroyed, then called Vien Giac.

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This argument profound wisdom, there are 5 each:

1. Illusory veneration scene

2. Illusion also dies

3. The illusory (energy, facility) kill all, "Vien Giac display.

4. Because of the illusory expectation that calls "old members" should Vien Giac also became illusory. Because it is still in a round of discriminatory treatment, it is not yet "Vien Giac".

5. If "accept Vien Vien Giac", then in the illusory circle that "accept not Vien Giac" is also in illusory. The illusory hope: yes, no birth, kill, must not v..v .. all have to kill then, that's the true "Vien Giac".

The intention of this paragraph says: "Tanh Vien Giac" (Chon mind) can not use words that discuss, nor use thoughts but think. If you have the mind and mind to think, the holy saying, that this is hope, that is chon, so that is still in the round of treatment, as long as there is discrimination, it is all illusory: must leave the new illusory true is "Vien Giac".

5. The Buddha taught the illusory Method

Hey Thien Nam! All Bodhisattvas and sentient beings should be separated from the following:

1. Away from the illusory illusory realms. But what about the "mind knows far away"

2. The "mind knows to leave" that is illusory, so it is also far away.

3. That "distance" is also illusory, so must also leave

4. The "departure from the far" is also illusory should also leave always

5. Must not have anything to "leave" again, as the new car called the illusory.

For example, people pulled fire, used two pieces of bamboo to rub against each other; brush until the fire emits, back to fire two pieces of bamboo; The fire burned to the end of the firewood, and the fire to the ashes flew away.

Using the "illusory" from the "illusory methods" is the same. When the illusory ceases all, it is not dodan, but then Vien Giac nature manifests itself.

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The intention of this paragraph says: austerities must first leave the illusory scene, after the illusory mind; leave until there is nothing left, so all the illusions are left. At that time the non-illusory "awareness" appears. As the case, "Vien Giac awareness" is not the cessation.

As the fire puller (for example, as an illusory monk) initially used two pieces of bamboo firewood to rub each other (for the mind and the scene), when the fire emanates back to burn all the wood until the fire burns out of the ash (the mind is all over), then only vacant land (example for Vien Giac).

6. Buddha taught: "Enlightenment" is not sequential, "left illusory" without means

-This is good man! When knowing the illusory method, that is to say, the illusory, do not need to have any other means. Leaving the illusory quadrilateral clusters "sense" does not have lang lang sequential layer.

All Bodhisattvas and sentient beings, just like that, will be able to leave the illusory

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The Buddha taught people who know the dharma that is illusory, so that they will no longer be obstinate and attachment to the dharma, which is to leave the illusory, without any other training method.

This sentence is similar to the verse in the Sutta Pitaka: "Enlightenment, delusion," (Enlightenment, delusion, and delusion) Like people who know that they are dreams, they no longer dream.

Leaving the illusory hopes, "Vien Giac" was immediately displayed, so no lang class was bothered. For example, when light comes, the darkness will disappear; dark medium just the light has just shown, no lang word from the chi themselves.

The previous paragraph, Mr. Pho Hien, asked how to practice the illusory class. By this point the Buddha answered already.

7. Buddha Speaks Verse The meaning

Then the Blessed One wanted to summarize this meaning, so he said:

Pho Hien! He should know

The illusory ignorance

Of all beings,

From beginningless to now,

Are born in Vien Giac

Of the Tathagata

As well as the spotted flowers

Born in nowhere

The spotted flowers have already disappeared,

Nowhere remains in the net,

The illusory from "Giac" born,

Illusory destruction, "Giac" fullness

Vien Giac was not disappointed

The present Bodhisattva

And sentient beings later

Often far away illusory.

Far away for illusory

Like fire from a being

Back burned all the trees;

Ash burned to the end.

"Enlightenment" is not sequential

No "medium" is needed.

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The intention of this verse is that Buddha taught: The illusory hopes of sentient beings from beginningless time till now, are born in Vien Giac's mind. By the time the illusory delusion is gone, the "Vien Giac" mind appears, there is no order and no other means.

For example, the spotted flower is not working. When the flower is completely destroyed, nowhere is left in the net. And like the fire from the tree of birth, returning to burning the tree, until the firewood ran out of fire, the smoke cleared ashes, at that time only the sky was clear.

Note

In this chapter of Samantabhadra, we should pay attention to the question of the Samantabhadra and the answers of the Buddha, because it is very relevant to our spiritual life.

Prussian Master Hien asked, "What is illusory, what do you need to cultivate? Why do you still use your body and mind like illusory to practice like illusory? ”- This section we misunderstood, so it is impossible to not produce births and illusions: If you heal them all, it is very dangerous.

So we need to consider carefully the answer of the Buddha. The idea of ​​the Buddha taught that: Although knowing the dhammas is "illusory", it is necessary to cultivate to reach the "non-illusory" position (Chon). Also like: still know the "knocking on the board" of the teacher, it is impossible to eliminate all the noise of students. Until the noisy noise of the student, the knock on the board does not need anymore.

The founder taught: "You know how to be in danger, how can you discharge the principles of Buddhism?"; meaning that the austerities belong to the property of breaking, although known to be hopeful, but if left alone, it is difficult to become a Buddhist. Old people taught, "Throwing thorns and thorns," or "having to fight against the enemy" is also the same meaning.

Still know "Vien Giac" Tanh "Not illusory, but want to enter enlightenment, you have to use illusory illusory. When the illusory kill all, then "Vien Giac" appears

Ancient Germany taught: "real geography any real life, the average subject any real discharge discharge France", that is: about the true nature of truth (Vien Giac), the life of a mundane life; But about the general practice, do not give up a small thing.

This is a rule from ancient times. Austerities are fruited, no one goes beyond this rule. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.6/2/2020.