The Buddha's teachings teach difficult things .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

Faced with such humiliating circumstances, people often resentment, sometimes protesting back by fierce retaliation with non-cultural language or worse than beating or killing. harm.

1. Understanding and understanding the Buddhist scriptures is difficult

The Buddhist sutras are common to the Tripitaka, which belong to the golden teachings of Buddha, including the Sutta, the Law, the Abhidharma and even the teachings of the Dharma Masters and the lay people. Understanding the Buddhist scriptures is a very difficult thing, because the Buddha according to the root of every person that teaches so there are many types of sutras not similar to each other.

Who wants to enlightenment and liberation, the Buddha teaches the Four Noble Truths, twelve conditions. If you want to become a Buddha, then you will practice alms, Bodhisattva, practice alms, virtue, meditation, patience and wisdom. Wanting the next life to bring people back to live with a moral personality, Buddha advised to take refuge in the Three Jewels and preserve the five moral virtues: not killing, not stealing, not committing adultery, not lying to harm people and not drinking alcohol. skimmed or used harmful stimulants such as drugs, drugs. Whoever wants to be born in heaven to enjoy what he wants, the Buddha teaches the ten good and good things and the levels of meditation.

The teachings of the Buddha teach only three purposes: One is for renunciants to liberate samsara. Two are practicing Bodhisattva conduct until becoming a Buddha only. Third is the practice still in samsara samsara enjoy the heavenly realms.

In short, understanding the Buddhist scriptures must be a difficult thing, we just need to master the three essential principles, when reading Buddhist scriptures easily realize its profound meaning. And we will not be stunned when there are so many kinds of sutras, all because it depends on the medicine of everyone. Beings have many diseases, the Buddha Dharma has many medicines to treat, whoever fits with any medicine will quickly recover. So understanding the Buddhist scriptures is difficult.

In short, understanding the Buddhist scriptures must be a difficult thing, we just need to master the three essential principles, when reading Buddhist scriptures easily realize its profound meaning.

2. Being at the same time as Buddha and meeting Buddha is difficult

Being born during Buddha's time is very difficult and meeting Buddha to learn His teachings is even more difficult. Buddha was born over 2600 years. The Buddha is an enlightened, fully awakened person who is no longer harmed by craving for craving. Depending on his predestined predestined beings not tired, boring. He is a flesh and blood human like all of us. He is a great man above the great men. He is not a god who blesses, treats.

He is just a guide in the group of astray who helps us to know the truth of life, we do good to be blessed, we do evil and suffer. Therefore, being born at the same time with Buddha and meeting the Buddha is a great blessing that few people have a good cause for. That's why we keep on suffering from samsara.

The birth and appearance of the Buddhas were rare, but the predestined encounter with the Buddha was even rarer, because if there were not enough blessings of virtue as the old woman kept the treasury for the Venerable Level of Solitude, she was born at the same time. Buddha without meeting Buddha. Meanwhile, both the family and the clan of the elder have met the Buddha and thus all live with benevolence and virtue because they know deeply the cause and effect and believe in themselves.

3. Tolerance rings are difficult

Rings are not limited to enduring insults, detractors, or criticisms or slander. The ring here has a deeper meaning than not being passionate, not being immersed in the sense of wealth, beauty, fame, eating well, sleeping a lot.

People experiencing resentment, patience, not getting angry, having contrary things to endure, enduring patience without getting angry or showing sad attitude. Such a ring is considered to have a high level of rings already, but it is not yet a noble ring. Known as the rings of origin, is the ring of lust. Eyes that see sharpness are not attracted to making vibrations and slavery to color.

Lust is very intense, because it is the second strongest instinct of man. The first instinct is to live and be afraid of death. The second instinct is that enjoyment always urges people to seek pleasure; The highest pleasure is sex between men and women. Buddha taught: "If there is one more attractive thing like sex, then it is difficult for us to cultivate to enlightenment and liberation."

Like there was a girl working in a big hotel, when she saw a boy dressed in a dashing, elegant figure that made her heart flutter when she first met. In her heart always sobbing at the call of the heart, she did not know how to get to know that boy. Finally, she also found a plan to accidentally fall into the boy's heart, so that night that she had no self-control, so she gave her life to that boy. The habit of enjoying sexual desire makes people always lust, regret and feel uncomfortable in remembering it.

And the important thing in our lives is that sexual desire is in high demand among many people, very difficult to endure. The bondage of lust is as varied as the hose of the octopus. The sutras refer to the bonds between men and women are the bonds of beauty, through laughter, through words, through singing, through tears, through clothing, through gifts, through contact touch.

Buddha was very compassionate so he was not afraid to speak out our delights. We are bound to be bound by love forever without a day to escape! So when we see beauty, we want to see and possess it, followed by words, laughter, voice, tears, clothes, gifts, and smooth touching, making us dazed in that attachment.

"Even after death, a woman is still a male attraction." Therefore, it is difficult to call sex rings. If the ring is lustful, the path of sage is opened, so we must close the door of love to rise up to overcome life's pitfalls.

As we all know, the harm of sexuality can ruin a person's moral character when we are attached to it by passion. Here, the rings are lustful to be conquered, possessing the six bases, not letting them be immersed as the eyes see the beauty of pleasure to see and take over, to listen to the voice of the female student who is lustful and attached. craving, the nose smells the aroma of perfume, feels the flutter of hearts, the tongue tasted the sweetness of love, the body touched gently, gently, and the mind felt regret.

An enlightened Zen master should say, "Seeing sound is like a flower planted on a rock." Seeing the beauty of hearing the voice of a woman who feels like growing flowers on the heart, so there is no attachment to lust. How can flowers grow on rocks, if not grown, then see the sexuality is the same, nothing that bother.

Therefore, sexual rings are a rare work that few people in this world can do fully. Except those who are determined to practice to escape from this cycle of reincarnation or the great Bodhisattvas or Buddhas have overcome it. However, the Bodhisattva Buddha can do it, we will also do it, we have the determination, the courage to let go of bad habits or not and try to do good and good things.

4. It is difficult to be good without greed

Therefore, sexual rings are a rare work that few people in this world can do fully.

Beauty is one of the elements of aesthetics. Beautiful according to the common notion that the eyes see the label, making a good impression on the viewers and readers. Based on the viewpoint of Buddhist philosophy, beauty is the covenant values, depending on the views of people, customs and traditions. There are some here that are beautiful but in others they are bad.

Seeing good means seeing beautiful people, good things, good jobs, in general, all things that are pleasing to your liking. Everyone who sees beauty wishes that beauty will be yours, and everyone wishes to own it. Because everyone wants good things, good things are the object of contention, fighting and killing each other. Due to the desire for good, when we encounter something bad we generate discontent, frustration, and seek to fight to eliminate it, so life becomes troubled, and disturbing anxiety.

But in general, beauty, it has a certain value from the perspective of everyone, is also a rose that some people consider beautiful but others consider it ugly. And based on its value, beauty is still attractive, compelling people to want to possess it. Looking at a beautiful flower, even though the flower is inadvertent, it still impresses the viewer with passion. The beauty itself that exists without sin, is determined by humans. But if we look at it with the look of greed, loved by greed, then that beauty becomes the rope binding our liberation.

Those who see beauty without desire are those who clearly see the dangers of beauty, and that beauty is also impermanent, so they do not expect that beauty to depend only on predestination. Thanks to the wisdom of contemplation, we can see deeply the nature of things, which are not permanent, so we can master the psychology of our wishes. But few people have the wisdom to overcome common temptations. So called beautiful, good to see without desire is hard.

We see all things with an insightful vision, knowing that they are non-reality, their presence is just a predestined convergence, precisely because of its impermanence and non-self. Its beauty is only temporary, not for long it does not have a fixed value.

Remembering in the 1980s, when we were working on the exploitation of giant umbrellas in Binh Phuoc province, I had a friend named Trang who often came to Tu's family to talk and drink very intimately. But cruelly at that time my friend wore a nice-looking citearen watch worth about 5 centimeters of gold. Greed arises because of wanting to usurp that coin, Tu and his family beat my friend so badly that he still traveled with his daughter and stripped that watch.

You see because of the beautiful desire and wealth, to show people that people have to be so heartless. Especially nowadays girls like to wear jewelry to beautify themselves and make people charming. The throngs of thieves took advantage of that place, arbitrarily robbed, causing misery for many who lost their sins and were imprisoned.

On May 1, Nhan waited for his car to go to Chanh Phu Hoa Social Protection Center in Binh Duong Province. A girl was waiting for the car at the green cargo junction when there was a honda carrying two people closely to snatch the necklace the girl was wearing. Because the girl's regret should grasp the chain, they dragged her along the curb, did not expect to see a knight running across the road for a rolling bicycle, he controlled two robbers and delivered to Ward police nearby.

In order to transform the mind to be beautiful without greed, we have to look at all phenomena of things and people in accordance with its nature, so that, the person in love with the view feels beautiful but still retains a calm attitude. initiated to desire it, possess it, not make it our property. We know it is present but not as beautiful, as not beautiful, so we are not attached to attachment, thus, not causing suffering to ourselves and people.

5. Being insulted without resentment is hard

Dishonored behavior is another's behavior that makes us feel uncomfortable. It stems from the mentality of jealousy or jealousy with anger caused by uncontrolled self. Humiliation, if expressed in words, is a slanderous, slanderous, cursing, cursing oath of an utterly hateful way that makes the abused person suffer as much as he could cut off each of his intestines. . If expressed by the action of the body, a limb can be used to cause injury to the subject. If expressed by consciousness, is the implicit harm to the person and openly despite all its consequences. All three bring others psychology of anxiety, fear and suffering by the state of anger, anger and hostility.

Faced with such humiliating circumstances, people often resentment, sometimes protesting back by fierce retaliation with non-cultural language or worse than beating or killing. harm.

Only those who have truly practiced transformation can understand its harmful effects, so they do not fight back but use kindness to calm down the conflict. If hatred destroys hatred, hatred becomes even more piling up. Only love can transform hatred. Being slandered and humiliated about a bad deed, we feel touched by pride for everyone, we get angry, we get angry and feel extremely miserable.

In the past, there was a high monk who raised nearly 500 of them, until he was old and weak, ill and could not choose an heir. In order to find the method of meditation in the meditation house, this high monk laid out a tiger dance tactic that spread the news of having stolen the Three Jewels money, causing everyone to be confused with each other. One day they were sleeping at noon, the high monk shouted, "Steal, steal."

Everyone ran in panic, shouting, a large disciple came in, the high monk immediately grabbed his collar and said that he had caught the thief. The disciple said, "No sir, I am not a thief, I hear thieves, I run in to help you catch thieves." No tangible evidence in front of their eyes can be denied, the legal brothers in them all can see clearly that their teachers have grabbed the sleeves of their brothers' robes and stole them.

So the great disciple was expelled from the temple immediately, without any explanation. After chasing him, he also wrote papers to other temples that could not contain him, because of the crime of stealing the Three Jewels. This disciple has been entrusted by the Sangha to the prime minister position in the temple, and is also a pedagogy who taught them the Sangha. Suddenly, today, it is the name of a thief, personally taught by his teacher to expel and declare it in public. In just a few moments, so many bad voices were poured into the brother and were despised by everyone for stealing.

Whoever is in such a situation is really poor for the brother, the way is also a solemn, dignified general in the temple, but now he has to swallow the bitter pain of pity and bitterness, before an incident. Unexpected.

Being humiliated by such a teacher in front of the masses, so much prestige from the past until now suddenly shattered with smoke. But this big disciple did not have any sadness on his face or showed resentment towards the teacher. He still has a reverence and respect, so please teach your teacher to be compassionate for sleeping outside the gate, so that every day you can learn and help them to work, but the teacher will not say that. that if he is there, he has to pay for sleeping.

Although it was difficult for the teacher to destroy the humiliation, he still had a great respect for him and diligently practiced diligently. Such a period lasted nearly three months, but the disciple still had a heart of faith, not a complaint or a blame.

Finally the high monk also found the true lineage, that day he officially announced to the masses: "I have now found a successor, hope that the public will be present when I pass away, listen to the word." Teach your brothers only ". After saying the teacher retired from mass, then calmly went away.

In the history of mankind, so many great sages and sages have been slandered, but they still calmly prove their innocence, with the material of compassion and nothingness. selfless. If the disciple did not meet such a harsh situation, the teacher could not know that his disciple had overcome eight real winds and that all of the masses would have enough faith to rely on and learn to practice. If you meet any teacher who is still too weak, when you are unfairly accused of such a price, you will probably resent your teacher for a lifetime.

As a result, the teacher knew his disciple through the eight winds, lost, praised, famous reputation and misery. Adversity or predestination for the wise is only a challenge, so they remain calm and calm when they are destroyed with false truth in front of everyone. Suppose at that time, we were in this situation, maybe I would use my anger and hatred for my teacher, and leave without saying goodbye.

The Buddha taught: "Being humiliated without anger is difficult." Anyone who can tolerate such contradictory situations without anger or hatred is considered to have achieved the dharma.

6. Having unreliable power is hard

What is difficult to raise here is a difficult problem, worth it for those who need to be balanced, leaders, need to think, ponder more. Often, those with high authority or dependence on power, bullying the lower people are forced to pay tribute or suppression in many ways.

In social life, the critical line of literary reality in our country has written pages of clear history, attitudes, and oppressive and unjust actions of the bureaucratic officials who rape the good people from ancient times. That is the consequence of the feudal regime with the very authoritarian notions, we are the center of the universe, we have the right to kill ourselves in our hands by the power of the superiors. But the most dangerous aspect of dependence, dependence, is most present in the fascist, fascist regimes.

They are fanatical, authoritarian people who do not listen to the voice of the oppressed, unjustly and in vain. They live peacefully trampling on the suffering of many others. From there, they added more resentment and hatred in the hearts of innocent people. The laws of the king were very illogical and unjust, but they had once forced the people of the country, or the children of the family, meaning those who were short-lived had to bite their teeth to endure harsh policies. , force everyone to endure but dare not cough at all.

So, having the power without relying on such trust, no prestige, that is, I have created for myself a life of righteousness, righteous karma, and not spreading bad karma to anyone. And such a person is useful to the people of society, who knows the good direction, always benefits many people. Yes, it is indeed precious.

7. For the mind not to move is difficult

For the mind to be moved is the first step to heartlessness, which means that we are no longer attached, immersed in money, beauty, fame, good food, sleep a lot or form, everything from ear to ear, nose smell, tongue tasting, body touch, Italy predestined. People find money not greedy, attachment is really difficult because money is a means to feed themselves and your family. People for all colors, have just seen instant start enchanting concept, then the preferred idea to think of the color, so greed immersed in feeling bad and attached to it. If the attachment becomes bigger, then the bodhicitta is overshadowed, so arousing disturbing emotions causes the mind to be unstable.

Not only for color, indulging in color, there are such harms, but chasing after the sound or softness attached to it, chasing the fragrant aroma absorbed in it, following the sweet taste of delight, body the soft, pleasant touch and the effect on it, there are similar harms.

The person who sees color is not chromosome, but the eye sees the color and the mind still dwells in righteous thoughts, so it does not follow the sensation or pleasure. Did not run after feeling, the mind does not cling to where identity. See how sharp it feels like that. No initiation to distinguish the attachment of attachment, constant in righteous thoughts, awareness, then the negativity bare suffering does not arise. One day, Venerable Phu Lau Na came to pay homage to the Buddha, saying, "White World Religion, I want to go to a secluded place to practice. Please respectfully, please teach me a simple and easy-to-remember method of cultivation, so that I can go there to cultivate quickly and quickly.

The Buddha taught, "Eyes that are uninfected beforehand, if you are not attached, then you will attain the dharma, the ears will hear sounds, the nose will smell, the tongue will taste, the body will not touch before infection, if you are not attached, you will attain the dharma." On the contrary, if infected before, if attached, then forget yourself according to things ”.

Buddhist teaching is very simple. Why is the eye seeing chromosome before being attached to the worldly people? Our eyes see the color, is that view the same? If there is a reflection on the inside, then seeing is just seeing, how things are clearly seen like that, and if there is a distinction between being beautiful and ugly, the attachment mind arises.

For example, there are four people who come into the store to buy fabric, there are many bundles of fabric of the same type but different colors: white, blue, yellow, red, black, purple, blue, pink ... When buying goods, guys choose white Some people choose blue, others choose yellow, others choose pink, depending on their preferences. People choose white for beautiful white, people choose blue for beautiful blue, people choose yellow for beautiful yellow, people choose pink for beautiful pink. Each person has different opinions and interests. So which color is beautiful? If everyone thinks that the color they like is the best, there is definitely a fight.

So if you see clinging to it, then get infected first, then protect your view. By defending my view, whoever says otherwise is against it. Since then born negativity anger, which caused much suffering to each other. So it is difficult to watch the mind not to move, because we still have the view of ordinary people.

The hearing is the same, many people listen to the same music, some are good, others are bad. If two people complain about the dispute, they will quarrel! By the smell, the nose usually smells aromatic, everyone smells, the nose everyone knows foul odor. However, some people compliment the fragrance, others reproach. For example, people who have never eaten durian tasted durian; and people familiar with eating durian compliment the fragrant durian. Fragrant or foul according to each person's taste, it's not fixed.

Next is the tongue tasting, is the tasting the same? Let's eat the same dish that good people complain about. For example, the cook used to eat salty, cooking the food she cooked to suit her taste. When serving up the guests away from eating salty. The speaker is salty, the speaker has just eaten, so who is right?

Now the body touches. Touch body is not the same anymore. For example, in the winter, a person with a fat body and a frail body is in the same room. People with a stout trunk feel cool, and lean people feel cold. In the room, how many windows the sick are closed to keep warm. When closed, the fat person feels uncomfortable hot. Let us see that the touch is not the same, so depending on the location of each person that touch feels different.

In a nutshell, the affective contact with the unscathed mind is difficult for those who do not know how to cultivate, who is a little elaborately easy to master the predestined scene, but there are times when the unconscious mind is thought to make the Bodhi mind dim.

8. Learning broadly, studying a lot is hard

Study wide, study much to find out, comprehend, dissect the problem to the place of destination. It belongs to the literature in the literature of the Buddha. A student who wants to achieve a high score must be diligent, diligent, persistent and then review and then use his awareness to consider his learning so that he can succeed in the future. Also, the person who learns enlightenment and liberation on the bridge to become a Buddha under saving sentient beings cannot be neglected in his extensive study. It must be accompanied by the new literature to help us achieve its fullness.

In the cause of national modernization and construction today, our society is growing and progressing rapidly. Along with that, an understanding of the level and a wide range of research are indispensable for each person. Learning is an activity of acquiring the knowledge of humanity which has been summarized over thousands of years of history. We can learn at school through the teacher's transmission, learn from friends; self-study in books and real life.

Study a lot of research to improve your understanding. For example, a doctor brings the knowledge gained during the six- and seven-year training at university to apply it to the healing of people. Architects and construction engineers bring the learned knowledge to design and execute many projects such as factories, hospitals, schools, parks, to serve human life.

The ultimate goal of extensive research is to serve every job more efficiently. If you learn the theory, no matter how sublime, without putting it into practice, it will only waste time, effort and money in vain because it does not help anyone.

Because in the work that people need, people are most concerned about the product of labor achievement rather than theoretical knowledge, once you do not reach that goal, no matter how much you study. it will be in vain excess. As a very good student, her subjects' grades were always high, but when she saw an old beggar falling down on the road, not only did she not help but she also showed disgusting contempt for her. Through the above example, it has partly shown the harmful effects of extensive study and did not help anyone. On the contrary, what good would it be if we brought our knowledge to help the people who saved them?

As students while at school, it is difficult for us to study well. Learning encompasses both culture, literacy and life experiences to improve knowledge in all aspects, and to provide opportunities for family service and practical contributions to society. That is enough to see how much research and valuable research is! It is because of his extensive study, true Buddhists know the right things and understand the truth of life. Knowing where is the main, what is evil, what is right, what is harassing, what is good, what is bad and what is right, what is wrong. What is the way forward to help us go all the way to achieve Buddhism?

Studying and studying widely becomes a guideline to make luggage on our spiritual path, it is also a map and a necessary item for all areas of our lives. Therefore, we need to improve our knowledge, improve our level by learning a lot of listening, in order to bring good success in the present and future.

9. Eliminating the mind of high drain is hard

The Buddha taught, "Bhikkhus, whoever eradicates the mind, cuts off the roots, makes no longer exist, he is the saint who lowered the flag, put the burden down, is no longer any. any consequences. Therefore, eliminating the conceited mind is hard work ”.

A high-drain man is one who values ​​his ego first. It is a manifestation of a filial piety, arrogance, high respect, lack of courtesy, modesty, and refusal to yield to anyone. People with conceit often go hand in hand with the obstinate, conservative and authoritarian mentality.

The high self's devotion and despise of the human being are the offspring of this physical attachment to self and mine. Its use is always to respect oneself or to despise others. Even though that person is more real than me in every way. But because of their heavy self-centered ego, they always find themselves or better than people, so they can easily despise others.

When a high-ranking person falls in love with a successful job, they appear to be bossy as if this is the most talented person in the world. They see themselves as people with great merits, then despise to kill others so leading to many people do not like. That is, they are suffering from a "heavy" illness without knowing it. And from there, people will seek to alienate and hate them. That is the consequence of the cause of the high heart caused by the sewer.

As we know the ego is one of the six basic afflictions, that is greed, anger and ants. It has deep roots from the delusion of ego that comes out, not everyone can easily eradicate it. In order to eliminate it, the only way is that we have to try our best to cultivate and let go of the mind at the moment where each thought arises can transform them. The main thing is that we have to be constantly aware of every moment, reflect deeply on its nature, to see that its nature is inherent without reality.

If we don't let our guard down and enslave it, then the consequences will be disastrous. If there is mindfulness of awareness, then we can clearly identify it. And like that, it can't harm us. It is due to the will to strive and effort and elaborate practice of each person to eliminate it quickly or slowly.

In the Buddhist scriptures, there are three types of conceit: "Falling in love with youth, falling out of love and life of life". Youthful conceit is the subjective, conservative attitude that dominates the mistake. Chronic disease is not sick is not easy to give birth is to rely on the body. Disappointment of life is the hope to live long and work unwholesome about the three karmic body, mouth and mind. All three types of conceit cause people to immerse, fall into the negative karma. Because conceit is clinging to attachment, is high drain, and is the most attachment, so the person who leaves conceit will escape from all ties and consequences.

The Buddha taught, "Bhikkhus, whoever eradicates the mind, cuts off the roots, makes no longer exist, he is the saint who lowered the flag, put the burden down, is no longer any. any consequences. Therefore, eliminating the conceited mind is hard work ”.

10. No contempt when people are not yet learning is difficult

Article 11, the Buddha taught a wide variety of studies is difficult. Article 12, the Buddha taught, it is difficult to eradicate the heart from falling high. Combining these two things, we see that if studying a lot with much research and having a high self-centered mind, that much study will not benefit much for everyone. Because he is just an arrogant scholar who only likes to criticize, criticize and criticize others without constructing much contribution to the education for himself and him.

If you study a lot without studying your heart, that knowledge will be spread widely, benefiting many people and truly progressive society. Through this 13th thing, the Buddha taught that it is not difficult for a beginner to despise a beginner. This teaching also implies that the highly talented people often have the disadvantage of "inhumane subordinates" meaning that under their eyes there is no one more and despises less educated people. Another point is that indirectly advises us the higher the school, the lower our humility for people, the greater our quality and value.

It is often said that knowledge without a moral character is dangerous and harmful, much more than cruel people without qualifications. Learning the Buddha's teaching "do not despise the uneducated", we see that compassion is as great as the humanity in Buddha's life that is clearly shown in all cases.

And this teaching also makes sense for the selfless selflessness, promoting Buddha's equality of the Uncommon Bodhisattva Bodhisattva in the Lotus Sutra: Although he was cursed and beaten, He did not show anger. , blame anyone. But also said, "I dare not despise you, because you will all become Buddhas." END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/5/2020.