Kinh Bach Du.

Buddhist monks and nuns composed Tieu Te Na Bhikkhu translation

Vietnamese translation of  Thich Tam Chau

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VOL 1.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

1.- SALT RICE PEOPLE

In the past, there were fools who came to other people's homes to enjoy their entertainment by their owners and made meals for them. While eating, the food is a bit flat, the fool does not seem satisfied, criticism is less than the taste. The owner heard, wronged, he took more salt to bring up. Bring up, the fool adds salt to the dish. Eat well, the fool immediately thought: “Perhaps this taste is due to salt. Giving it so little is good, let alone giving! " The fool does not know anything, so he immediately ate salt, mouth blisters, became ill.

The pagan religion heard the abstinence of eating and drinking, and the passage of food for seven or fifteen days, only made himself hungry, and did not benefit the religion. Just as fools eat salt, no difference.

2.- FOR MILK

Formerly, there was a fool who wanted to serve milk He thought: "Every day milk is kept in a box, milk every day has no room, it is sour, not equal to us right in its stomach, when inviting guests, we will squeeze out, better! ”

Come to think of it, he took the cows to one place. After a month of inviting guests to come, he took the cow to milk, the cow's breast was dry and dry, without a drop of milk, the new-comer was angry, and people laughed indescribably.

The fool, who wants to practice almsgiving, says, "Wait, when you are very rich, I will give alms without hurry!" Before he could collect enough money, he was greedy, flooded, burned, or robbed or killed before he was going to give. That's like a fool spending his milk!

3.- TO BE HEAD

Once upon a time there was a fool with no hair. One day, someone took a pear and hit him on the head two or three times, breaking his whole head. It was so painful that the other person kept silent and could not avoid it.

The neighbor saw that, asking, "Why didn't you avoid, letting people break your head like that?" The other replied, "He is foolish, arrogant, and strong, and sees that my head has no hair, and is supposed to be a stone, so he broke my head with pear branches!"

The neighbor said, "You are a foolish man, tell him you are foolish." If you're not stupid, why don't people break their heads and avoid? ”

A person who practices enlightenment and liberation, does not practice Tin, Gioi, Van and Tue fully, only corrects to the majesty and wishes for the benefit. Like the other fool, so that people can break their heads and avoid them.

4.- SCAM IS DEAD

Once upon a time, a fool took a beautiful, very loving wife, but the wife still did not allow her to believe and love her. After a period of marriage, the wife is in love with another person.

The heart of the west was so strong, the wife wanted to leave her husband, follow the call of the love-lang, and implicitly told an old lady: “Grandma, after I left, you helped me find a dead man's body. -other, put it in bed and tell my husband that I'm dead! ” The old lady agreed. Stalking when her husband was away, she took her dead body to bed. The husband came back, and she said, "My wife is dead!" The husband came to see, believing that his wife was dead, merciful, crying-brain-clothes, oil-repairing, cremating wood, collecting bones in a bag, and wearing them with him at night.

Some time later, the color fade, the wife went back to the old house, told her husband: "Sir, I was your wife before!" The husband said, "Ma'am, my wife died a long time ago, you are a stranger. The wife mentioned two or three times that the husband still did not believe.

Foreign-directed religion heard Ta-theory, the mind is said to be true, determined not to change. Although, when they hear the righteous teachings, they still do not believe in them, they are ... like other husbands.

5.- DRAINING RIVER WATER

Once upon a time there was a fool, who was thirsty one day - so thirsty that his eyesight, seeing that sunlight was water - wanted water to drink, and ran to the banks of the New-Headed River (Sindhu). Come here, he stood watching the river, did not drink. The person on the river, seeing that asked, "You are thirsty, now you have water so why don't you drink?" The fool replied, "You can drink it all, I will drink it! The river water is too much, I cannot drink it all, so I do not drink it! ” Everyone laughed.

The pagan religion was too inclined to reason, for he could not keep the Buddha's precepts without daring, so he did not receive any later teachings and had to be saved in samsara. Here and that fool is no different!

6.- CONFIDENTIAL DEATH

Once there were foster people, who were seven children. One day a child died. Seeing me dead, the other wanted to leave the house alone, leaving elsewhere.

The neighbor who saw it said: "Born and killed, you should arrange to be buried far away, why are you planning to leave the house alone and want to leave somewhere else?" The stupid person heard and thought, "Don't be at home to bury, kill another child, carry two heads for the scales!" Come to think of it, the fool killed him right away, left his head behind, carried it to a field far away. In contemporaries, everyone laughed and frowned.

People who practice liberation, breaking a precept, are afraid to repent, be silent, hide and hide, speak for themselves of purity. Someone knows how to say: “The religious people who liberate and keep precepts like keeping the pearls of pearls and pearls, don't let them fall and fall. Now breaking the precepts, why don't you repent and repent? ” The other replied, "If you have to repent, to commit more, go out and sin as well!"

Like a fool, here too!

7.- RECEIVING PEOPLE WHO

Once there was a beautiful figure, intelligent, abundant, and praised by the people.

There is a fool who sees that person, recognizing that he is my brother - because he has wealth, he can use it whatever he wants - After he borrowed it, he said it was not him. The neighbor said, "You are a fool, when you need to use your property, call people you, until you say you are not debt?" The fool replied, "I want your money so I accept it is you, not you!" You have to bring in debt, so what do you mean! ” Everyone laughed.

The heathen listened to the good word of the Buddha, stole his own, when the people nearby told them to practice, they did not say, There is no problem at all, when we practice spiritually

Like a fool, so is this.

8.- KING OF THE KING

Once upon a time, everyone stole items from the King's treasury and fled. The king sent people everywhere to find and take back. The king asked, "Where did your other shirt come from?" - Everyone replies: "This shirt is a treasure left by my father!" - So you wear it? - the king said. Everybody wears: The sleeve is worn on the knee, the back of the shirt is over the head. The king saw that it was true that the robbery robe gathered at the audience, made the head and tail clear, and turned to tell everyone: nonsense? Because you don't know how to wear it, you should know that this shirt is the one you stole, not your old thing! ”

Borrowing as an example: "King" such as "security-organ-like" (truth-truth) of Buddha; "People of all ignorance" such as non-religious eavesdropping on the Buddha's righteous dharma inserted into his dharma, arguing that he has. However, because of not knowing, arranging Buddha-Dharma flipped up and down, not knowing what the dharma-generals (the Buddha-dharma-generals-the condition of things) are. Like everyone who is king's precious clothes, do not know turn-by-turn-tail-tail too!

9.- KHEN DUC-HANH CHA

Once, there was a crowd in the crowd who praised his father's virtue: "My loving-hearted father did not harm anyone, nor did anyone steal; or tell the truth and often do almsgiving! "

A fool listened to that, saying, "My father's virtue is much better than your father!" Everyone asked, "What virtue does your father please tell us?" The fool replied, "My father has been a lewd, immoral, ever since I was young." People laughed and said, "How can your father have lust for you?"

The wise-minded people in life, want to praise his virtue, not knowing his true virtue, on the contrary turn into deceit. Fools, the will to commend your father for a mistake. This is the same!

10.- THREE-FLOOR STORAGE

There was once a rich man who didn't know anything. One day, when he came to visit another rich house, he saw that their house had a three-story house, high-wide, beautiful ... wanted one like that. He thought, "My money is no less than theirs, why haven't we built a house like that before!"

When he got home, he called a carpenter, and asked, "Do you know that house's upstairs house?" - The carpenter replied, "That house I do!" - He said: "Now do you help me with a building like that!" - The carpenter accepts, raises the soil, digs a foundation to do. The fool saw that and asked, "How do you do it?" - The carpenter replied, "Make a third floor!" - The fool said, "I don't like making two floors below, please make me the first floor first!" - The carpenter replied, "Can't do it: can't make the bottom floor how to do the second floor, can't make the second floor to make the third floor!" - The fool tries to say, "I don't use the two lower floors, you try to make me the first floor!" At the same time, everyone laughed and was disgusting.

As the renunciation-in-home disciples of the lazy Buddha do not tu-glass-Tam-security: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha want to direct the result, saying, "I am only praying for the Arahantship, rather than three results: An-na-function, Tu-da-function, Tu-da-complete. " These disciples are also laughed at like other fools.

11.- KILLING GERMANY

Once there were Brahmin people (6) for industry, art, and figurines ... figuring that they were all through.

Wanting to show his virtue, he went to another country, hugging his son and crying. Someone asked, "Why are you crying?" - He replied, "In seven days this baby will die. I loved her so I died so I cried! ” - The people there said: "It is difficult for people to know, to calculate or to mistake, what if he does not die in seven days, so why should he cry first?" He replied: "The sun, the moon may be dark, stars may fall but, my recognition is not wrong!"

For the sake of profit, all seven days he killed his son to witness to his words. And, after the locals heard that the man was dead, everyone praised, "True wisdom, right and wrong!" Since then they have created a heart of faith and respect.

The Buddhist disciples for the sake of nurturing themselves are enlightened, bringing the foolish-man-loving dharma, killing the wholesome seeds of sentient beings, displaying mercy and compassion ... suffered immensely. Like the Brahmin people want to experience their words, kill their children to fascinate people, not different.

12.- COOKING WATER - THACH-SECURITY

Once upon a time there were people who made jelly, and one day a rich family member came to his house, and he thought, "I bring this jelly to invite him to drink!" Thinking then, he took some water for the pot to put on the fire, get fans to cool down quickly, entertain guests. The neighbor who saw it said, "Don't beat the fire below, you fan like that, how to cool down?" Everyone laughed.

Foreign-religion can not extinguish fire-affliction, go to work less austerities-austere as lying on the thorns ... looking forward to President-static, bar-wage-time absolutely not, just let the fake-mock laugh. And, in the present sufferings, catastrophes are even transmitted to the afterlife. This is the same person who cooks jelly-water.

13.- SAY PEOPLE HATE

In the past, there were people sitting with many people in the same house, praising a non-virtuous person who had good virtues but still had two errors: one was angry, and the other was impulsive work.

Meanwhile the other person walking outside the door heard an angry voice right inside the house, grabbing the other person, fighting once. The bystanders asked, "Why are you beating people?" He replied, "I have never been angry and worked rashly, yet this man dared tell me to be angry and hasty work!" The people on the side said, "Wow, your appearance of being so angry and hasty is so obvious that you're still taboo! The person who said such a bad thing, created such resentment, decided that everyone would criticize it as stupid-or! ”

They drank a lot of drunken wine and made many things frightening. They saw the critic being born with resentment and hatred, citing the misery and self-clarification. Like a fool who refuses to hear his fault, sees that the one who comes to talk about wants to fight!

14. - KILL THE MASTER

Once there were merchants who wanted to go to the tank, needed to find a guide to guide them. Find it, go away together. Going through a wide field there is a temple of heaven. If you want to go to this temple to be peaceful, you have to kill a person to sacrifice.

When they faced a difficult problem, they thought: "We are all close friends, if we kill to sacrifice to the heavens, now this teacher is a stranger, we will kill him!" After calculating, they immediately kill to sacrifice. After finishing, they all lost their way and didn't know where to go, after which they got miserable and died.

People want to enter the "Buddha-Dharma" pool to collect their treasures, and need to cultivate virtue as a teacher. Now destroying the good, long-term life-death decision not to get out, must undergo the way of evil, suffering-suffering forever. Like the merchants, about to go and kill people to lead, to get lost on the shore, even to death!

15.- BIG DRUGS OF MEDICINE

Once upon a time, the king gave birth to a daughter, and immediately called the physician and said, "I have just given birth to a daughter. The physician replied, "I will give a good remedy. The princess will drink it immediately." But, there is no remedy right now, I have to go far away; Although slowly, please do not expect the king. And, from now on, please do not often visit the Princess, wait until I bring the medicine to the Princess to drink, and then I will bring the Princess to the audience! ” The king agreed to.

Then the physician went to another country immediately. Find the net-decay twelve years. Medication taken for Princess to drink. After drinking, the physician brought the princess to the king. The king, who was so happy, thought to himself, "The doctor is so good, let his daughter take medicine so quickly!" Thinking then, the king sent false-courtiers jewels for him. At the time, everyone laughed at the king being insane. He did not know how to count the years and months.

People in life, too, came to the level of the good-knowledge (good friends) saying: "Now I want to pray, please teach me how I can become the wise-knowledge person right away!"

16. COCONUT NINE COFFEE

Once, two sugarcane growers swore to each other: "Those who grow well are rewarded, those who grow badly have to punish".

One of them thought, "Sweet cane, if you press water to irrigate its plants, it must be sweet, very good, I will win against that person!" Thinking then, he pressed sugarcane juice to sugarcane hope it will be bold, better, unexpectedly, the sugarcane sprouts are spoiled, all the crops have been broken.

People want to be blessed, to rely on themselves for riches, to rely on power, to bully ordinary people, to exploit their possessions and to do blessed things, to expect good results. But, they do not know that later on, they not only received nothing but many accidents. Like a fool presses a cane to water the cane, the two sides lose

17. BRING HALF DEBT

There was once a merchant who owed another person half the money. Unable to pay for a long time, one day he went to pay, went across a large river, had to pay two ferryboat. Upon arrival, the other person does not meet, returning and must pay those two again. So, half in debt, losing four money, extra hard way. Debt a little, lose a lot, everyone who heard this story also laughed.

People pray for a little name-benefit, cancel almond-behavior; temporarily-body, not considering the ceremony-meaning, now have a bad reputation, the following suffering-newspaper as well!

18. UP TO GRADE

Once upon a time, there was a poor, poor, and miserable man who worked in a long-time king, thin-body and wicked. The king saw new pity for a dead camel.

Being camel-camel, he brought the skin but, blunt knife can not peel, have to look for grinding wheel. Finding a sharpening stone upstairs, he brought a sharpening knife and peeled down. Peel the blunt back to sharpen. Just like that, go away, it was too tired, he thought of a plan is to bring the camel upstairs, near the knife sharpener. Everyone sees everyone funny.

The fool destroys the precepts, earns much wealth to make good wishes go to heaven. Just as the camel hung upstairs, the number of grinding tools that the results were not much.

19. CROSS-SHIP TRAINING

Once, a boatman passed a tank and dropped a silver bowl into the water. He thought, "Now I make water mark, back I will grope!"

After two months, when he came to another country, he saw a river with water coming down to search for an old cup. The locals saw and asked, "What are you curious about?" - He replied, "Before I dropped the silver cup, now I am taking it back!" - Asked: "Where did you drop?" - A: "When I entered the tank I dropped in the tank!" - How long have you dropped! ” - A: "Two months have passed!" - Asked: "It took two months in the tank, why are you curious here?" - A: "When I dropped, I have a water line to record: the water where I marked it first with the water here is the same so I groped here!". The locals said, "Although the water is no different, before you dropped it elsewhere, how come you can find it here!" Everyone laughed.

The non-virtuous non-virtue, in the same good deeds, accept the need, making the body miserable hard-to-pray for liberation. Like a fool takes a cup and finds a place!

20. SPEAKING THE VIOLENCE KING

In the past, there were people who said that the king was very tyrannical in his work and ruled, politically unreasonable. The king heard that he was angry, and did not consider who was the culprit, trusted the flatterer, and immediately took a sage and a hundred taels of flesh from his spine.

After someone proved that the sage-god didn't say that, the king's mind regretted bringing a thousand taels of flesh to patch the old spot. In the middle of the night, the sage-god groaned, suffering-the brain of the king, when he heard a question, "Why is it that suffering-brain, taking hundreds of taels of meat, a thousand-temple temple is not enough?" The bodyguards answered, "My Lord, King-King, is like cutting off your head, but even a thousand heads cannot save your son's death. Now, this sage, ten times stronger than meat, can't help but suffer from suffering? ”

Fools in the world are not afraid of the next life, craving for the present joy, making miserable sentient beings, digging for hundreds of them, earning a lot of wealth to do good, hope to kill sin, and be blessed. Like a king who snatches human flesh, bringing other flesh and flesh in hopes of not hurting is really hard!

21. Dan-she wants children

Once, a woman who had one child wanted to have another child and asked another woman: "Ma'am, who can make me have more children now?" In that place the old lady said, "I can tell you how to pray for more children, by sacrificing heaven!" The other woman asked, "Ma'am, what do you need to sacrifice to heaven?" - The old lady said, "Please kill your existing child to get blood sacrifices for a while!" The other woman obeyed, trying to kill her son to take blood to heaven, next to the house of the intellectuals, she called out and scolded: "You idiot has no wisdom at all. will you go now? ”

The fool in life also wants to be born in heaven; not born yet, have immersed themselves in the pit of fire itself! (7)

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Note:

(1) This series is called "Bach-Du Kinh". The whole content is an example, implying to teach the foolish, ignorant, to go straight to the path of true knowledge, so now it is changed to "Buddha-learning of the Fables". .

Bach-Du Kinh Kinh Kinh book number 209 (episode 4, pages 543-557) In the Great Tripitaka-Sutta. This sutta is divided into 4 volumes, translated by Mr. Cau-Na-Pi-Dia (India-India) from Pham into Chinese characters.

This sutta has a few differences: 1 / The part "I have heard ..." to the end of the first volume, not to start as usual of the sutras. 2 / Under the title of the sutta and the last verse, the title "Ton-fake: Sangha-na-na-compose" that according to the practice of practice in the sutras had "I have heard ..." in time No fake author. 3 / Bach-Du should have had 100 examples, but this is only 98 articles. Despite these differences, but directly acknowledging the contents of this series are all very good teaching implications, we have translated it to devote to Buddhism. Complementing the difference in the above differences, we bring the phrase "I have heard it myself ..." to the beginning of the sutta; draw 2 lessons in the other to add to the full 100 and then, not divided the same book as before, but there are notes at the end of notes to the end of the book to facilitate surface (translator-translated words).

(2) See the Quan-Yin experience signed.

(3) Theology of Brahma: The Brahmin people have strange doctrines, different from Buddhism.

(4) Pentecost: Five commandments: no killing, no stealing, no adultery, no lying and no drinking.

(5) Tu-da-complete (Srotàpanna-phala): Chinese-Chinese translated as "Enter-save, Reverse-save, Save-save" and means that the monk goes against the flow of birth and death, ordinary people was part of the Saints. This is the first of the four fruits of Thanh-Van. Tier Thanh-Van tu Tu-sole evidence 4 results: 1 / Tu-da-complete. 2 / Tu-da-function (Sakràgami), Chinese-Chinese translated as "Nhat-lai": a human being must be born, Thien. 3 / An-na-function (Angàmi), Chinese-Chinese translation is "Real-hybrid": not born in education-world. 4 / A-la-drought (Arahat), Chinese-Chinese translates as "Non-living": no longer being born and death.

(6) Indian-religious clergy. 

(7) Coming here is the last volume.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/7/2020.