Living with the word 'depending grace' .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

Thus, depending on predestined conditions, there is usually no delusion, no blurry, depending on predestined conditions, it is not set into a "self" in it. That is the important thing, but depending on predestined self in it is not dependent. 

In terms of predestined meaning, this is a place of life, not a place of reasoning or imitation, because when we imitate it is no longer conditioned, because when imitating it has a mold .

When your mind is still heavy distinctions, you still like delicious and bad, also like beautiful and ugly and say that depending on predestined not afraid to watch out for disease, must understand that idea. So is this a predestined meaning that penetrates real smoothly? It is not easy, so it must be real, not copy it.

In terms of predestined meaning, this is a place of life, not a place of reasoning or imitation, because when we imitate it is no longer conditioned, because when imitating it has a mold . So this meaning is very important that many people misunderstood for a long time and easily misused it as well.

So want to be dependent on how is the coast to know the meaning?

1. The first is to see the new law, depending on the grace, but not yet see the right reason to say that depending on grace, it is just abusive and misunderstanding. It is said that depending on predestined relationships, then letting go in love according to predestined conditions, that kind of predestination is to run according to the scene and not depending on predestined conditions, that is being charmed by it. Depending on that type of grace, it is called "depending on career conditions," and career goals, very dangerous!

So want to live, want to see the right meaning depending on the coast, you must see the right. In this right view, the first is to clearly understand the Emptiness of Bat-elegant.

Emptiness is what? Bat-elegant teaches all things in this world "there is no one thing is really fixed", that is, from one's own self to the external things are predestined. Interdependent intercourse has so called emptiness, is no fixed nature, there is no real of it. Precisely because Tanh is not dependent on conditions, but it can all arise at the same time, if it is fixed, then there is no condition. For example, fixed is a solid block, it can not be dependent on grace to turn into other objects.

Just like a mirror, it doesn't have any image in it, so it can show all the shadows, if it has a fixed shape inside, like a circle, then it doesn't show. to be square, but to be as beautiful and ugly as a square is because it does not have anything in it, is not fixed.

His mind. His mind is not a thing at all, so he can think only about everything, if he is fixed to something already, he certainly cannot think everything.

Or like nothingness, nothingness is not anything, so it shows everything. Then what's the closest? His mind. His mind is not a thing at all, so he can think only about everything, if he is fixed to something already, he certainly cannot think everything. But he thinks enough, everything he thinks about, even the so-called no, he can think of it because he has nothing.

Through another point is, even the body is the five aggregates, the Bat-elegant Heart Sutta says "the five aggregates are empty", the five aggregates are emptiness, unreal, so it is up to the coast to be large and small. ugly, fat, sick and sad, heavenly people are also sufficient, because it is emptiness, not fixed.

If it is fixed, for example, the five aggregates are fixed already, of course it does not show the sky, just as it is already fat, it cannot show sickness. Since it is not fixed at all, it does everything. So Bo-slapped Avalokitesvara has thirty-two applications, sometimes the male and female, then the Bhikkhu-stilts, the Bhikkhu-stilts ni, the present king, the show is enough, how is this?

Therefore, scrutiny, obviously there is nothing fixed, then we cling to a place, what to do to suffer? So show, understand the coast, you must see the emptiness. Clearly, the emptiness of the dhammas then depends, at that time there will always be the Bat-elegant light, so depending on the conditions, there will be no mistake. Also closing the eyes at grace is going down the hole, we have to see that meaning clearly, for example, blind people who close their eyes to harrow and have to fall into a hole.

Recalling the story of Tang Zhao when he was sentenced to death, he asked for permission to postpone seven meals to finish the Tibetan Treaty and He would die. Try asking until then what souls sitting to write an essay! But he saw it as a joke, and even before he died he read the verse:

Five non-organic co

Four great hybrid version not

Similar first forest white ring

Most self-appointed spring maple.

It mean:

The warm year didn't exist

Four great old this time

Bring your head to the sharp knife

Exactly slashing spring breeze.

Did anyone get killed in it? So he casually considered nothing. If I then fall off limbs, also where the soul to sit writing books, let alone dying even say shelves! So that really is depending on predestined. And that charm easy to copy?

Because he saw clearly the five aggregates, all four are emptiness, are all non-self, without the true self, what is in it which is dead and which is cut? If there is no guillotine, what is there to suffer? As for me, because I have the "I" who was slashed to die, that's why I suffered.

Because he saw clearly nothing really at all, so as long as there is a predestined relationship with the Buddha, then all will be gone, not trying to hold back a place to suffer. As for me, because I have the self in it, so I try to cling to live, if I cannot, then I have to get the newly assembled self, the new self that goes in samsara. Understand like that, seeing such reasoning is clever, depending on predestined relationships. That is the first point is to see clearly emptiness.

2. Secondly, to go one step further to realize our true Nature, that is to see, to realize that the true Nature is always present in us, so what is our predestination? It is up to the predestined condition to live back to that true nature, not to have thoughts, thoughts or take or leave, just to be with the nature to live, how not to lose it, that is our living place.

This place is to live, knowing that we have a true life, then depending on predestined, predestined to continue, predestined through it, no obstinate, no more desire.

Like the stanza of King Tran Nhan Tong, many people who are familiar with it become disdain:

In happy life, please be predestined

When hungry, eat and sleep immediately

There is only treasure in the house

For heartless scenes don't ask meditation.

What does that mean? That is, recognizing one's true nature here or of the treasures already in us, then we don't have to run, we have to seek and pursue something outside, that is, don't let the scene pull us, it does it. lose yourself. So we live right in the heart of this life, in the middle of this world but still happy with the religion, that is depending on predestined conditions, but that dependent fate is for what? To live with your Nature, to return to your true Nature, besides nothing important. It is called dependent predestined to live with nature, destroying old karma without creating new karma.

Thus, depending on predestined conditions, there is usually no delusion, no blurry, depending on predestined conditions, it is not set into a "self" in it. That is the important thing, but depending on predestined self in it is not dependent. Just like here, "when hunger comes, eat and sleep quickly" but what if there is a notion that hunger should or should not be eaten? It is inserting what we get into, that is, what should or should not be eaten? It is all predestined. So depending on the grace here is to follow Nature to live in the world, so that it is always present everywhere, that's the true charm.

The predestined relationship of predestined couples

Mr. Sung Tin after being enlightened, he asked the Zen master, enlightenment master, "How can I take it (keep it)?" Guru Enlightenment said: "Wearing the nature of a knife, depending on the grace and generosity, only all human beings, no other saints are explained." Means wearing love according to that nature, but spending the knife at liberty, depending on the grace of grace, only how can I stop all this love, this love and not having any more holy interpretations. there is nothing else, it is dependent. Depending on such conditions, how to copy?

This place is to live, knowing that we have a true life, then depending on predestined, predestined to continue, predestined through it, no obstinate, no more desire. That is because there is a stable living place in this place, so it is up to the coast to be new, to consume old and new karma without creating more.

Zen master Thien Y Nghia Hoai has a poem:

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Just like a swallow flying in the air, a swallow flying through a shadow shows up in the water, the swallow does not intend to trace the water. And after the flight is over, the ball is lost, the water does not have the heart to hold the ball back. It is up to predestination, swallow is to fly through the coast to the shadow it appears in the water, the coast has passed and the water does not save the ball.

What about me? Sometimes charm has not come yet call it to! Then the fate through it will not keep it through! That's why suffering. Even during meditation, I still want to keep it. Meditation recalls, retains, stays in this, that is not known depending on grace, and knowing the predestined mind, the mind is always clear, where there is anything left in it, what is there to prevent?

A monk asked Mr. Zhao Chau:

- What is Trieu Chau stone bridge?

He replied:

- The fool level.

Near the place of Mr. Trieu Chau Tung Tham, there is a stone bridge made by Mr. Ly Ung, the stone bridge is also famous, so it is well known that anyone who knows about the Trieu Chau stone bridge. But here Mr. Tang asked "what is the Trieu Chau stone bridge". He replied, "The level of fooling the horse", that is, putting the horse to the end. So do you understand why "Trieu Chau stone bridge"? Have you seen the "Zhaozhou stone bridge" yet?

Often asked to ask for a stone bridge, people immediately thought of a stone bridge. But here, he means that everyone knows this story, he is there, he already knows, no need to ask for anything more. So asking this stone bridge is asking something? That is only for the real reason. So Mr. Zhaozhou responded "the level of fooling the horse". Any horse asses are all degrees, all go through. A donkey is an animal, the horse is also the animal that the stone bridge completely drafts, but the kick bridge is not a donkey, not a horse, not assimilating it with a donkey with horses, it is predestined.

What about me? Degrees should be how? Must be the upper class, Bo-slaps not fooling horses to let go. Without letting go, it means that there is a self inside, covered by the self. So here we want to see the truth, it must be like that, the level of deceiving the horse, whatever is predestined, everything goes through but it is nothing, not assimilated to anything.

It is not required to follow a self, not to be born of thoughts of arising or falling away, it is dependent. As for me, I have to choose, but also have to choose, that person I love for me is new, and if I do not love, there is no degree, that is still stuck. And here, the end, just agree to live to return to the Nature, to make its Self always present, not absent, always bright in all conditions, it is clever predestined, predestined, but rightly without mistake. So how much can you do with this predestined meaning? Understand that, the meaning of grace is very deep.

3. One more point, depending on predestined conditions, must understand the world is relative, that is the truth of the world. The world is always relative, everything that exists is in treatment. But seeing here is not a trivial view, for a long time people who listen to the dharma too much understand it, also see it but not yet. That is to see when you cultivate, see clearly with your own wisdom that will help you live. Do not understand the way you sit here to understand but to forget, to sit here, to understand the world relatively, everything is treated to each other, nothing is real, but when you go out to talk, everything is real. Understand that is not.

So here you have to see with your own wisdom. Seeing clearly in this world is all relative, good to evil, to harassment that there is, as well as joy to sadness that there are, even teachers for students that have, if no students, there is no teacher, just like you do to me, I don't take anything to have you.

Always treating each other, not having something to stand on their own, so why should one be demanding? There are many who ask for more, for perfection, for everything, perfection! But the truth of the world is that it is all about playing, never having, just imagining, there cannot be a whole without living with a true person. The world is relative, how can there be perfection!

Buddha said the verse:

More guys are more resentful

The loser sleeps restless

More than losing two are discharged

He was safe to sleep.

That is, there are more losers, how can that be beautiful? Which is more than there is defeat, since there is resentment, there is suffering, there is this, there is that. That's more than not necessarily quiet, and losing is not necessarily finished. Losing warm memories also suffer, so how can that be beautiful? Usually I like to ask for perfection, living with anyone also requires that he or she is good to me, I feel annoyed if I don't feel good sometimes, but try to ask myself if I am perfect?

The world is relative, the human mind is impermanent, today is like this, but tomorrow it is no longer impermanent. Therefore there is no perfection, demanding perfection is mesmerizing. Because if you look carefully, you are not perfect, even your inner self, sometimes even contradicting yourself to talk about the outside. So how do we want everyone to be perfect, want everything outside to be beautiful!

For example, outside is like being happy but sometimes suffering in your heart, in addition to making fun but in your heart of suffering, or sometimes you feel like wanting to give up to practice but then a few meals will change your mind and regret again. . So when you want to discharge, then who wants to discharge, then when you come back, unfortunately, who intervened in it? It is only in my heart. I myself have contradicted myself already, or sometimes today I am going to listen to the dharma but then I plan to go out to play, or vice versa, I will go out and change my mind to listen to the dharma. It's me and me but why does it have that? So to see that even in our own place is contradictory, so how to claim the complete beauty outside. What about failing to claim? Suffering, that is simple!

Therefore, even as the Buddha we call the omniscient one, the one with merit and dignity, is Buddha criticized? The Buddha also criticized someone, some criticized the Buddha for being filial and abandoning his father to become a monk, leaving his wife and children to go to the forest. There are people who praise, there are also criticism. So does a drunkard have a compliment? There are also people compliment each other.

Thus shows no so-called complete. That's why the Buddha taught in the Dhammapada: "Old, future and present, there is no such event: the utterly blamed, the fully praised." He said that in all three times there was never the fact that someone was completely praised as well as someone who was completely criticized.

Therefore criticism does not matter. Until it is lost, too, there is a loss, there is never a so-called integrity. Knowing the meaning like that, understanding that, if we move smoothly, we live happily, and persistence on the one side is miserable, for example, the bigotry is to have that and it cannot be miserable.

Like Mrs. Bhikkhu-khưu (Visàkhà), she was a great benefactor in the Buddha's time. When I left I did not know how the girl had forgotten. What if I meet like that? Probably scolded and beat him badly, because this is a very expensive cape. But with her, she asked the servant to say, "I am going back to the monastery to search, but come there and ask if any bhikkhu has touched the sleeve then don't take it back." The servant girl went and asked him if Ananda saw anyone forgetting, so he took it for him.

The servant returned, and when she heard that, she immediately told the Buddha that she would sell her shirt to make an offer to a Buddha. Buddha said to make a monk for monks, she was very happy. But the shirt was so expensive that no one could buy it. She bought the shirt and bought the monk with money. When the construction was completed until the day they were offered to Buddha and finished, she asked the servant again, saying, "Today this reason I earned this merit is also thanks to you, this merit, please share in half, give me half." , grandmother. "

Can anyone find me doing that? What you lose is what turns you into a good person but also fun. Losing the shirt was not sad, turning it into a blessing and being happy again, but also having a good part of it: the monks and nuns also happy, then she was happy to make fun, and the servant girl happy and even now I am going to hear it. What if the angry at that time cursed and beat? Not only does vuimà also create more misery, then the body beats people to create more karma, so suffering becomes even more miserable!

Show just because clinging to the gain, the loss that suffering. Now that you know the loss doesn't matter, so it's fun to switch back. So clever to live, it is not obstinate one side, obstinate is suffering. Therefore, in the book "The Flower Outlines" by Zen Master Minh Chanh in Vietnam, there is a poem about Mr. Thuan-da:

Very good Pure-da, Very good Pure-da!

Stop talking, don't discuss it,

Bad or bad, please bother.

The one who wants to look smart becomes clumsy,

The man who tried to shoot the wolf accidentally.

Recognizing the mist of the early morning,

Phu wealth long dream business.

It is not clear whether this is an object

Elaborately frantic lifelong one.

Thuan-da was the last offering of rice for the Buddha before Buddha entered Nirvana. Later, someone criticized him as a blessing, because Buddha finished his meal and then passed away. Buddha knew that so Buddha praised, Buddha said that the two people who had the greatest merit were those who offered Buddha 's meal before the Buddha attained enlightenment, and who offered the last meal before Buddha entered Nirvana. Buddha praised him so that he had no regrets.

So here Mr. Minh Chanh takes it to express the meaning that the world is relative, we have to overcome the relative meaning, do not get caught in the compliments. He said, "Very good Thuan-da, very good Thuan-da! Stop talking, don't talk good, bad or good, please bother. ” The good story, the bad story is the only treatment, there are those who praise, there are also criticism, do not bother about it. So what? "The one who wants to find skill becomes awkward", wants skillful but becomes awkward, because the skill is next to the awkward, just as the person who is waiting for a sparrow shoots but no doubt there is a wolf it woo, just falling down it took away running. Shoot the sparrow but get it then take that, the one losing side by side.

"Fame of fame" means the name of the boss of the whole world as well as the mist so soon, there and then there. Here I live, I have a clear experience, a person who is famous but suddenly gets caught up by something. As well as being "rich and wealthy of businessmen", riches startle people, just like dreams. How much wealth, but also plague empty handed. In fact it is like that.

Basically, "not clear the past without a thing" that is unknown the truth "once upon a time" that "elaborately wretched a lifetime", that is to understand the truth of this past there, to live in such a true place is not to be elaborately exhausted for a lifetime; If not cling to the elaborate, the lost, the treatment is in birth and death will eventually be destroyed.

For example, just like here, being bored in this world, becoming a monk, cultivating and praying to heaven, is it all miserable? I pray that there will be fewer blessings for those meals! Because it is elaborately arising and falling away, so it also lurks in there. It is necessary to understand clearly that "once upon a time" there is no way to live with that to go beyond the treat, and to cling to the treat is miserable. Which is why sticking in here is why? Is because we see that we have clung to that self, then there is suffering, there is anger, there is a curse and that.

Understanding the truth of the world is relative, if we treat it, we can open up our attachments, knowing how to live according to the conditions, such conditions as the end of suffering. Understand that, it depends on the new coast, but depending on where the charm is not.

Understanding the truth of the world is relative, if we treat it, we can open up our attachments, knowing how to live according to the conditions, such conditions as the end of suffering. Understand that, it depends on the new coast, but depending on where the charm is not.

4. Then one more point, we understand this then we have to know flexibility is not obstinate. Because depending on grace is flexible, is not obstinate. His suffering is because of stubbornness, but stubbornness is not known depending on predestined. Having understood the truth as above, there is no such thing as integrity, if there is no fixed thing, what are they persistent? How do we make life flexible and bright, not holding onto a place, it is called sickness.

In the Confucian house, there was a story: Mr. Luu Chien Chi was walking one day when suddenly someone mistook him for wearing their shoes. My shoes are wearing and they say I wear the wrong shoes, so they have to use them? When he heard that, he took off his shoes and handed them to them, "I'll give you my shoes if you want." But later, this person found their shoes, hurriedly returned the shoes to him, but he insisted on not accepting: "You have already accepted, yours, I did not accept."

Then there was a case like that, when Mr. Magistrate was walking one day, some people also mistook him for wearing their shoes, he took them off and gave them to them. But then mistaken, they came to him, he happily said, "It's not yours, I'll accept it".

So who do you want to imitate? Mr. To Thuc, or To Dong Pha, commented that: "This is a small thing, but in our life we ​​should behave like Mr. Lan Si, not like Mr. Ngung Chi." Why? My shoes are wearing and someone is coming to take them, I am ready to take them off, that is very precious. But when people know that they are wrong and people give it back, they must feel sorry for them. star? I sometimes do not have to.

Here people know the error, know the wrong, then just accept it is good or not, okay? As for me, if I refuse to let them regret it in my heart, it is not good. Cleverly known as that is to understand depending on grace, and the other is obstinate. Although it is good, but persistent good is not good enough.

That is about Confucius, and in the Zen house, there is Zen Master Bach An Hue Hac, he is very famous, everyone praises him as a very clean, very good person. Near a Buddhist monk there was a family selling food, one day the family found out that their daughter was pregnant, and the family got angry and scolded who the author of the fetus was when she said Bach An. Her father heard that and was so angry, he went to the temple to see the monk. He threw out the most severe words in the world. When he heard that, he said, That's all.

After the baby was born, the family brought it to the temple and handed it to the monk. After a while raising the baby monk lost his reputation, no one thought of him anymore.

Some time later, the girl felt uneasy in her heart, and she confessed that her father was not Bach An but a young man who sold fish in the market. Upon hearing that, her parents turned upside down, panicked and rushed to the temple to repent and ask the baby to come back. At that time Zen Master Bach An just said: "Is that so!" That's it, simple.

It is dependent, but this grace is truly dependent. Okay, losing reputation doesn't matter, accepting that job is like losing all reputation, like how much I am sad but with just "that's it!" is done. Because he saw nothing important, who said wrongly, who was wrong, he still calmly did not feel anything at all. When accepting the baby, the monk was not upset, but he did not reprimand the child,

Depending on how this person is in here, who can imitate? That is because he saw clearly in this world nothing important, especially without the "self". If we don't have what we have, we can take what we can get, if we have what we have, we have it because we have this reputation, "we have" fame, now "we have" fame, and without self, what is lost? ? who lost? Seeing so clearly, it is not a problem for the monk to lose his reputation, it is also natural to accept the child, to return the child is also indifferent.

In the Enlightenment there is a saying: "Where this body is not even real, where does love hate from birth?" The body is not really there, where does the love of hate come from, where do you cling to? The reason I feel that I love or hate is there is to be lost because I have this self. If this self is not true, then we can take anything, love hate? Seeing so clearly really knows the grace. This predestination is a very deep point.

5 - A further point, depending on the coast is to break the ego, the ants take ego. Because we always see that there is a true self, there is a real thing, there are real people, all are real, and then our seeing and thinking are also real, so we are persistent in sticking to one place. What is always with the world? I say one is one, two is two, and cannot be changed. I protect my thoughts to the maximum. That's why there is struggle, only death, because we think that is right, otherwise it is not possible. But what is our mind? Looking closely, our thoughts are not fixed, I think that a few times and then change to other ideas, it is not fixed, there is no Reality.

So in the Kim Cang Sutta, Buddha taught: "The Tathagata says the ants are not self-ants, that is called the ants." That is, saying the ego is not really there, just because of the attachment of the people only. I heard that there is an attachment, if there is an attachment, then I think that there is no real attachment, not the fact that he said it was just a delusion, my expectations and not real. As our thoughts, consider carefully, look for what is the fixed body of our thoughts, we cannot find, we cannot find out.

When such an exclamation is to open the eyes of Bat-elegant, seeing the mistake is so wrong. Just seeing that our thoughts are not fixed, how can we be sure? If you do not cling to one place, then you will have conditions, so it is right to say that it is right to break the ego, break the attachment, and accept the attachment. really.

A simple and trivial matter, for example a diamond to your mind is precious, but what if given to the baby? It made the marble shoot it. So whose thoughts are correct? Depending on the mind of the person alone, I used to think like that, then I think so is true, but the truth is not necessarily true with others. I think he is precious but with the baby he feels like a bullet he shoots playing, nothing is precious. If I see that it is a game, I will accept what I think is right, I will punish it? Is obstinate, then suffering.

Understand that, then it depends on the mind of the person who turns out to have a wrong mindset without having fixed, less clinging. This is less about the mortgage here, do not say all the mortgage is not. Less accept the less suffering. Learning to meditate undo your attachments to ease.

In the Great Contemplation, there is a passage, someone asked the question: “I find that people who study the religion do not need to keep the precepts, nor do they take care of their majesty, nor teach other beings but leave love alive. What is the meaning of comfort? ” In it replied, "But within practice there is no interruption." The outside looks comfortable but inside one practices without interruption, it is called grace.

There are cases where they do so to break the concept of attachment to cleanliness and filth. For example, as we accept here pure practice, we here practice properly. But whoever said that he or she is practicing is not pure and indecent? Then anger, it is attached to your purity, until people say impure is angry. And here is breaking the concept is clean, whoever says it, does not matter to me.

But this point must also be considered the opposite. But that is not easy to imitate, because it is easy to mistake. I heard that doing things like that is not attached to the form, and then I imitated to do so in order to be like freedom, but that is imitating, not actually living. Here it should be noted, the important point is that while the outside is like that, the inside is practically uninterrupted, that is, the interior is always bright, without delusion is the truth, not in the style of arrest. If I do that, I won't touch that stick.

There are also cases when doing so to show that we are the one who understands meditation, this is the person who does not accept anything, or is a person who is free. But saying we accept nothing at all, and that itself becomes an attachment, that is, "accept and accept not accept". Usually people accept this and that, but now accept the attachment, that is, we do not accept So it doesn't matter. That is the dangerous, the attachment to the not accept is sick. But the disease but did not know the new disease should be difficult to treat, how to treat? Remember this is the real place of life that has enlightened the religion, if it is not so then it cannot be imitated.

There is one more point here, remember that when we say that doing so to break the mind of discrimination, is there a mind of discrimination? Not clean all the new distinction, do not clean all then destroy something else? So it is not really free, that is where we have to see carefully. Don't say that I did that to break the handicap, I am free now, but what would the truth be if I broke the handicap? Also breaking that is still differentiated, also discriminated ie not self at. So if anyone hears me say I break this mortgage, I break that mortgage, that is, the handicap is breaking, not really all. Those are things that must be seen for delicately.

6. One more point, depending on the coast is that we should live well with all other people should not be different, is not eccentric, because that fate. Not different from people, not eccentric to show that this is a religious person, we are liberated people, that is predestined. Because when we are different from others to prove our attainment, that is another general of the self. Here do everything, eat and sleep like everyone else but always don't leave the Nature, don't lose the light of Self-interest, that's what the grace is. Do not depend on the grace to make a difference with other people, to show that "I am" is a person who does not accept, is a free man, so there is an attachment in it, and there is a general in it. To make people pay attention to you, that is sick.

Therefore, depending on predestined conditions, it is always shining brightly, living normally but not losing his true place of life, which is the right condition, if not, then he will be stuck. In short, depending on predestined conditions, we cannot cling to any place. Because nothing is fixed. Just clinging to something is all predestined, but also living back to the past.

In history, one day a pagan came to Buddha

- What lecture did you preach yesterday?

Buddha says:

- Yesterday we theory the law (ie the certain law).

The heathen asked:

- So what about your sermon today?

Buddha says:

- Today we have theory of uncertainty.

The heathen decays:

- Yesterday taught the law, why teaching illegal today?

Buddha replied:

- Yesterday was decided, today was uncertain.

The Buddha responded so well, that was to break his fixed attachment. If really a surface is the law, how can today? Yesterday, there is today uncertainty, so Buddha said that yesterday the sermon theory, the sermon today, that is flexible.

We persist on one side and we die in the past, that is, the lack of creative flexibility. I heard that the law is tightly bound to the law, so I heard the uncertainty and I immediately asked. Here the Buddha said clearly because of uncertainty, so today, only yesterday. The truth is clearly so, how to accept it as such?

I heard yesterday saying that I am going to talk, today when I speak uncertainly, I see how the Buddha talks. But that is not to see the meaning of grace is not fixed, that is, there is no real dharma. I cling to the yesterday that I only remember the past, living in the past, not creating. Understand that, then can see the meaning depending on grace is always flexible.

Lam Te, when he left Hoang Ba, he asked where he went, "He did not return to Ha Nam. He returned to Hebei." This word speaks of his mind living according to the true conditions. What is predestined here? It is always present money, also bright, that truth always follows me, so it does not stop at any place, not to Ha Nam, then to Hebei, wherever we go it is there. We can now say, "Not in the city, in Truc Lam", do not come to Tram Lam and recite a base in the city that is framed in a dead place, not flexible.

7. Add one more point, depending on the grace is infinite. To live in the universe is to be conditioned, but not to be head-to-end in grace, because to be head is to die. In the book "Gathering Sand Stone", there are two brothers who cross the stream to see a girl dressed in beautiful clothes who wants to go through the stream but is afraid of getting wet and does not dare to pass. The elder brother said "come here, I will give it to you", and then he carried her across the stream. From then on to the temple two people did not talk to silence. When he went to the temple, the younger monk said,

- Why don't you keep the precepts today?

- How not to keep the precepts?

- Why do you carry the girl over the stream?

The elder brother smiled and said:

- Really? I let go of the girl there, and did you come back here?

Obviously, the elder brother is predestined to meet him, and the younger brother embraces it forever, going from the stream to the temple through many roads, through so many steps but his mind is still stay at that stream. Head like that is losing this money which means losing the boss. And the elder brother let go of it, so the boss always lives on the money. So depending on grace means no-universe, no-universe is like that. Such ingenuity is really smart at the grace, the story is gone without holding back, without remaining.

8. At this point, you will see the meaning is slightly deeper. Up one more level depending coast predestined to the full, customary presence, not inclined not skewed to one side. That is called deep dependence.

Some monks asked Zen Master Quang Dũng:

- Van-enemy is the teacher of seven Buddhas, so Van-enemy has a teacher?

Mr. Quang Dung replied:

- Meet grace immediately.

Mr. Tang asked:

- What is Mr. Van-enemy?

Quang Dung immediately erected waving tree. Mr. Tang said:

- Is that just right?

To end, the grace is always shining in freedom, there is no place to cling, it is dependent. Hoping that all smart lives are predestined, right meaning.

Mr. Quang Dung immediately threw a waving tree and crossed his arms. This is called dependent custom that often exists, reasoning of completeness. Van-enemy is only for Basic position, is the true nature. Buddhas can become Buddhas as well as enlightenment to this basic Reason, to live with the Complete Mind, to become Buddha. So-called Van-enemy is the teacher of the seven Buddhas, so who is the teacher of Van-enemy anymore. But here Mr. Quang Dung said "what if you have predestined conditions"? That is, it is not completely ignorant, it is immediately charming, that no one can be a teacher.

As soon as bringing up the crown, the predestined encounter, it immediately appears, so is that teacher. "What is available", that is the reason, "having instant affinity" is that, the reason is always complete. And if you don't see, teacher is seeing a logical side, or seeing a party with a teacher is seeing one side of things. The argument here is always complete, seeing that it is not stuck on either side.

When you bring up the alms tree, the true nature will always exist in the alms tree, the view that it is always present. What happens when throwing a waving tree with crossed arms? Who stood there with his arms crossed? It is also there. The True Body it is always present but it has no appearance to see, but it can be fulfilled everywhere. So called can use, or rational, always complete.

Also, my mind doesn't have any form but when it is predestined, it shows all forms. Meet whatever fate it appears that minister. It exists everywhere, depending on predestined conditions, rather than being stuck to one side. Seeing like this is the deep idea inside the meditation house.

In conclusion, what is predestined? Depending on conditions, there is no clinging, flexible, non-stop. All things are karmic conditions, without a true dharma, why should we cling to one place to suffer. And can grace be imitated? When imitating is all predestined, because imitation is to have a mold, a new pattern to imitate, so imitation is all optional. In addition, the important point to remember is that, depending on predestined conditions, there is also a fall, to remember that point!

Once there was a Zen Master, he lived in a mixed eating, had no choice, met salty, salty, vegetarian, met and ate, met with alcohol. There are many disciples who see that imitating, living so comfortably. One day, he asked all his disciples to go to the place where people burned his body and presented food, he took the remaining pieces of flesh that were burned, not burnt out, mixed in food and said:

- Come here to eat with me.

The disciples vomit ran away. He sat and ate casually, then told him:

- You guys can eat with me this dish, then you can continue to eat and drink as I am, but if not, then stop copying from now on.

They are afraid not to imitate anymore, take care to keep the discipline properly. Because He has been austerities for many years and has become like that, how can the disciples not imitate it! So to see that, if your mind is still distinguishable, how can you be predestined in that way, and your mind will be clean, so eat naturally.

When your mind is still heavy distinctions, you still like delicious and bad, also like beautiful and ugly and say that depending on predestined not afraid to watch out for disease, must understand that idea. So is this a predestined meaning that penetrates real smoothly? - It is not easy, so it must be real, not imitative.

Therefore, depending on predestined conditions, there is also one in here that is still attached, but being attached is not the right meaning. Many times, when we are trapped, we are stuck with dependent conditions. the whole life is not over, not to mention the ultimate reasons blue clouds.

To end, the grace is always shining in freedom, there is no place to cling, it is dependent. Hopefully all cleverly lives are predestined, according to the meaning. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/7/2020.