Buddha's profound teachings from the story of a raft crossing a river.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
The Buddha pointed his hand down the river, then turned to ask them to increase, "You tell me now how to cross the river?". They looked at each other in bewilderment, saying: "White Lion, maybe we have to find a boat!" Buddha smiled and said: "So if there is no boat, then how?". They increased silence, looked at each other and did not speak.
The Buddha approached the river, looked down at the immense stream flowing, saying, "If there is no boat, then we have to make friends alone." Then the Buddha called them to hear him again preaching about this raft. They sat down around the Buddha and listened attentively. Buddha told a story from a long time ago ...
The story goes that there was a certain man who wanted to cross the river but was so miserable that he was stuck on the shore, and he could not see any boatmen. There is no bridge across the vast river. River water rushed again, it was impossible to swim through and stand on this side forever knowing when to return home.
The man thought for a while, then went along the river to pick up dry wood, leaves, look for ropes and sit raft. After a while, the raft was finished. He then dropped the raft into the water, using his limbs as a paddle to cross the river. He finally reached the other shore.
But when he reached the shore, he thought to himself: “This raft is really good for me, has just helped me cross the river home, escape the sky and the sky. Then I'll keep it, bring it with you when you use it. ” Then he picked up the raft, stole it under his arm, and walked away.
It gets faster every evening. The raft on the man's hand also gets heavier and heavier. The way to his house was hilly and rugged, he had a burden on him, he kept going for a while and had to rest for a while, gasping for breath. Then, when he climbed the last hill, he was completely exhausted and collapsed on the front doorstep.
After telling the Buddha, he calmly explained: "Bhikkhus, the raft is only useful when underwater, and when it has reached the river bank, it becomes a burden. The man did not realize this point, so he was tired and tired of carrying on the raft that was useless ".
A young monk reverently said, "The White Lion, he should have put the raft neatly on the river bank, maybe it will help others!".
Another said, "In the river, the raft carrying him. On land, he had to carry the raft. "
Buddha smiled, calmly said: "That's right! And aren't there any monks who still keep us with useless things that we no longer need? After crossing the river, let's leave the raft, the more we discharge, the lighter, the easier we sublimate! ”.
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The Buddha 's words that teach them to increase "cross the river and then abandon the raft" are indeed stories of significance. At the ordinary meaning level, the lesson for us is: let go. Material wealth is only a foreign body, it can only be useful to us for a certain period of time. It is not something one can occupy for a lifetime, die and then bring down 3 meters deep. Knowing letting go is not a burden of a lifetime, being leisurely, free, enjoying life-giving.
And on a deeper level, the story of the Buddha is also a "singing stick" for spiritual practitioners: don't be too attached to compounded things. Cultivation is to eliminate ordinary people's hearts, step by step sublime up to the realm of enlightened people. In this way, one cannot go on clinging to compounded things, things which they themselves know, but regard them as truth.
Want to improve the level, want to go to "the other shore", definitely must learn how to discharge, discharge all the compounded forms to achieve greater micro-immunity in mind. That is the true path of spiritual practice.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/7/2020.
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