Chapter I: Training.
1. Practice: Finding "The Identity of the Section".VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
The dharma that we practice is the Supreme-Dharma, which has no form, because it is the dharma in the mind.
Well then say: "I am very good"; So bad then say: "I'm the best!" Evil thoughts are always at the top, overwhelming good thoughts; so good is ultimately crushed by evil. That is not a good thing.
At that time, you see that everyone is not suitable; Seeing anything is not satisfied. Someone wanted to leave the temple because of that; or some people feel that they have no intention, so they want to be vulgar. In fact, no matter whether you are rational or unreasonable, when you arise afflictions, you are wrong!
Fear is the psychology that lets you feel only, others don't feel like you; therefore, only yourself is detrimental. When I'm not in control, then I'm afraid. Scared too, afraid forever, the birth of disturbing emotions. At that time, if the mind is not stable, there will be no more spiritual practice!
A: Don't say "it's not simple." You just do it, it will be very simple!
Question: But I am an ordinary man, so ...
A: To say that I am a "noble", that is, attachment!
Question: But I do not practice anything ...
A: Do not say that there is no practice (then no practice). You need to have faith, that: "I am also capable of becoming a Buddha. I am also capable of cultivating to a great extent." Thinking like that, you will be more diligent. Don't just keep saying: "I, I ..."; by itself (the concept of "I") is evil, obstructing you!
It is because he has no idea of "I" that he is enlightened. Therefore, let's eliminate the self-general.
Tu Dao is needed except for greed, hatred, and si; attain pure body, mouth, and mind.
You need to cultivate; Patience, patience is the basis, the root of cultivation. If you cannot cultivate patience, then it is only a waste of effort to bring the appearance, the appearance of the monk!
When you have a job that makes you excited and happy, ask yourself, "Who's having fun?" When having troubles, ask yourself: "Who is upset?"
Therefore, you need to recite the Buddha Amitabha, saying to yourself: "Frustration! Hurry away, nothing for now!" That is using mind treatment.
In the past, there were two disciples meditating together, one sitting very solemnly, and the other leaning back and forth; but their Master whipped him and sat solemnly. If he is a person today, perhaps he was angry, born of afflictions; But the disciple was extremely ashamed, asking Master to give instruction.
Cultivation is not about "right" versus "wrong." Practicing requires meticulous patience; Even if I'm right and blamed for being wrong, I also have to accept.
(Method: Recite the Buddha's name, bow to the Buddha, generate the mind to work at the temple, do not calculate. Whenever calculating, there is defilement, which means creating new karma.)
Today is today. Tomorrow is tomorrow. Whatever you do, don't get your hands up, put your nose in. That is the solid mind, the practice.
When cultivating, just cultivate, need to think, what calculation is going to study Buddhism, get degrees, do this or that? That is not all about spiritual practice.
When such things (clothes, food, home, etc.) are too affluent, lust will flare and greed will be high. Therefore, if we want to let go of our body and mind, we have to go from the place of eating, dressing, and living in the lower part.
a) Eyes
b) Ear
Say you are good, criticize you as bad: This is not because people are wrong, but actually you are not stable.
Not to say: "Every day how many bows to the Buddha, how many strings to recite the Buddha" and for that is enough; to know these are the essential conditions (but to know cultivating in the remaining times).
c) Mouth
When you open your mouth, talk about the Dharma, pray for the birth of the West. The "secular habit" strain you've cultivated in your mind is more than enough; therefore, do not continue to say mundane words or contests!
After renunciation already, in the temple there are still people who speak non-town. However, do not join them to say that marketing is enough. Do not keep opening your mouth is non-nostalgic. Whoever gossiped, sneaked up about other people, then y is the concubine.
Whenever you have free time, bow to the Buddha and recite the Buddha's name.
A: It is necessary to eat enough. Mainly not greed, no attachment.
It is not that every good food should eat a little more, and eat a little when bad food. Do not want taste, taste, contact, and dharma.
A: Recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha" for many.
There is delusion, greed, hatred and delusion are the great diseases. Delusions are still continuing the chain of samsara, unable to end the cycle of birth and death.
In order to ensure that we have mindfulness at the moment of death, we normally need to take the medicine "Amitabha"; If not, I won't know where to die!
When the mouth does not speak, the mind thinks; But don't think things that have form or silhouette; must think of letters out of form.
Now, what we do is just hard work, practice only. Because currently we have not been able to get greed, hatred, and delusion, so this is the stage of mind cultivation. Wait until those things are broken without a bit, then called the Dao.
You need to take 10 years, 20 years to keep a sentence "Amitabha Buddha" without letting go, plus the effort of faith, prayer, and practice.
When there is no sin, it is merit!
Today there is no inconvenience, being able to recite the Buddha's name day by day is enough.
Tomorrow, leave for tomorrow - don't be shy, don't worry.
Always pay attention to your own thought-provoking thoughts. When there are bad ideas, you must immediately awaken and put them away.
When cultivating, you must have the attitude of "fearlessness" everywhere and anywhere. All right, then the mind is calm, new as motionless.
What is "dynamic and static no longer afraid of?" That is, in a dynamic situation that your mind does not move: You are not influenced by external circumstances to move your mind. And when you are in a quiet situation, you have no thought of being quiet.
It is necessary to use the recitation of the Buddha's name to clear those two dusty states, causing the flowers to open; that is why you are mindful. When reciting Buddha's name, you need to transfer mindfulness - transform, turn evil thoughts into mindfulness!
Normally, treat anything to let go; No problems, the hell is afraid of something. It is to avoid the case of death, the ultimate moment, the delusion emerging that draws us into the endless cycle of reincarnation.
Having new wisdom does not create negative karma. Therefore, it is important to practice cultivating compassion and practicing Bodhisattva virtue.
When everyone wants to practice, we encourage and cultivate together. If not, people will start gossiping, generate jealousy, dispute, and become ignorant; Then, the practice in the temple will not be peaceful anymore.
When the body is gentle and contemptuous, the mind will rejoice (Bliss); when in the heart less hopeless thoughts will be wise (Minh); and when no thought or thought arises, there is no state.
If you are entangled in the realm of Lac, then fall and Greed-World, attachment to the realm of Ming is stuck in the realm of Heaven, and cling to the realm of No, then stuck in the No-color-world Thien.
1. Confidence in Faith, Tu Khat Hanh
If you have the aspirations to cultivate austerities, then in the future there will be a little magic, you will know about this and that. At that time, I feel myself, I own myself.
A. Encourage Practice
The network also decreases,
Like a shallow fish,
Try asking something fun? "
"Everything can't be helped,
Only personal karma. "
B. Happiness
A: It is not "I want to be like this or that"; because then there is still the "self", the "I." May should be made spontaneously, and for the benefit of sentient beings.
Like myself, I never said what am I like, how is it? Even if I have achievements, I do not know!
This body is false, bound to be destroyed; Even if you want to save it, there is no way to recover.
"Discharge this body" is how? That is to eat protein rice, wear rough clothes, and cover three layers of tomato; not to mention delicious, nice dress!
Once upon a time, I was on a mountain practicing spiritually, depending on my predestined relationship. Whatever sentient beings can eat, man can eat it; that is called a natural offering of heaven and earth.
If you are too hungry and you can stubbornly endure it, the body will deteriorate. Austerities need to use the mind; should not cultivate extreme things like not eating and drinking.
It is not that they do not eat rice! It is to eat to be full, not to eat well; wear warm enough to cover the body, not dress well. It is good to sleep just to get enough spirit; Do not fall asleep. Sleep a lot, it is easy to be drowsy, heavy.
If you order food without food or go hungry, it will make your body weak and it will be difficult to cultivate peace of mind. So it is a waste for you to come here to practice.
I used to work through it (fasting); Only when you are old, you know it's wrong.
A: You should not be greedy, indulging in everything (eating, dressing, and living); just being able to live through the day is fine.
Do not say that there is a lot of food to offer, then plug the head into the neck to eat, and become a slave to the mouth. However, you cannot eat too little, so your stomach is hungry. You have to eat your stomach, eat enough and be full is good - don't tell the difference between good food and bad!
Currently, food contains chemicals, or has been contaminated with chemicals, antiseptics ... When the food is really inedible, or spoiled, do not eat it. Just eat in a mess, eat more, you can die!
3. Let go of This Rotten Leather Bag!
For example, someone has a heart attack; If he concentrated on reciting Buddha's name, heart disease would definitely heal. If you recite the Buddha's name but still want to go to the doctor to check your illness, then recite the Buddha's name to return to recite the Buddha's name, the disease cannot be healed (lack of sincerity). If he can concentrate on reciting the Buddha's name, the disease will heal, but he himself does not know it!
After all, this body is an illusion; However, we must skillfully take advantage of it to practice.
When you are sick, you must more and more celebrate the impermanence of human life. It is difficult for anyone to avoid birth, old age, sickness, death, and suffering; Therefore, the more effort must be made, increasing spirituality!
"I don't need anything!" That is going astray
Man is the one in the best spiritual position; because becoming a Buddha or falling to hell comes from the place of this man's determination.
Books secular in life, you have read them all (not yet cultivated, still in society); therefore, you should not return to samsara for it in this Ta-Ba realm!
Someone (left home) still go to school (school in real life); really like a layman at all! When he doesn't have a spiritual pillar to lean on, the more medicine he gets, the more chaotic he gets.
You need to take the time; don't let time go to waste. Take time to see the sutras, bow to the Buddha, recite the Buddha's name, sit in meditation, chant the sutras!
If defilements come and you don't know liberation, then you will get stuck in defilements; That is like taking the wrong medicine, or drinking the poison. Medicine is up to you to drink or not. You must take the correct medication; Do not drink the wrong poison! What does that mean? That means you have to know "back to light", turn your mind around to see yourself (look at defilements according to the views of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the scriptures).
Morality, Concentration, and Hue are not something to be said to talk about - it is something used to practice, to cultivate (destroy) the Five Warms. Chanting does not have to be read aloud. You must be able to assemble the meaning of the Sutra; otherwise, it will waste you being ordained!
As "Self-refuge in the Dharma, may sentient beings, deeply understand the Sutras, and wisdom are like the sea." How wide is your wisdom like the sea? Outsiders take a look and they know immediately!
Not the classic is where the black and white paper is square; for the end, they are not objects of (the true nature) of you.
You must see the Sutta "Beyond the Appearance of the Sutras" - those who know how to read it will immediately know; anyone who doesn't know how to see it cannot know. Therefore, whenever reciting Buddha's name, reciting to a certain level, the Suttas will naturally be in your mind!
A: Buddha is nothing. In life (society), there are physical objects and appearances. There is nothing to study Buddhism.
Mind is "no". If there are material qualities in mind, then defilements will arise from there.
The mind in the future: also cannot be grasped.
The mind is gone: it's also impossible to grasp.
A: Must cultivate merit. For example, if we meet someone who has no food to eat, we will give him some food. Always find ways to help the needy and miserable; so is the blessing of spiritual practice (ie ending all evil by growing good deeds). And therefore, I will no longer do evil deeds (thus, the evil nature dissipates by itself, the mind does not arise evil thoughts).
Chapter IV: The Pure Land Method
Now, by listening to the Dharma, knowing that there is the Buddha, Amitabha, is the one who made 48 vows, that whoever recites his name will be led to the West. If the Buddha has such a vow, then we must also take the aspiration: the vow to die of Pole-Bliss.
We must firmly believe that there is truly the World-Great Bliss, the Great Buddha of Great Compassion Amitabha; then we must always recite the Buddha's name so that we can be mindful until we die. When dying, but capable of reciting Buddha's name, Buddha Amitabha will come to lead. However, if you still have the thought of attaching to anything, even as small as a needle or blade of grass in this Ta-Ba realm, you will fall back into samsara again!
Today, if you have time to practice is precious, it is very difficult. Let's see if you can find a way out of samsara or not. If you pay too much attention to this body, then you will not have to practice reciting Buddha's name. Too much care for this body, there is no way to liberate it!
You should be quiet, calm down and recite the Buddha's name; remember to fall asleep as much as possible. When the mind comes to a place of monasticity - just one thought - you can transcend the Three Realms, straight to the West. When practicing, you need to practice: eyes that pretend not to see, ears but pretend not knowing; just honestly recite the Buddha's name.
When you meditate again, you will be enlightened that from morning to night, the mind always closes outwardly without ever contemplating whether our mind is directed toward Amitabha Buddha. Do not let your mind be tied to the crowd of followers, disciples, or the outside realm. If you tie to them, they will be rotated and dragged away; very scary!
Some people say retreat, but they are full of delusion, not a bit pure. When you sit for a long time and feel tired, you should get up and walk.
When you recite Buddha's name and left the realm, that is Zen. You must maintain mindfulness, because there are always a lot of evil seeds in your mind.
Although reciting Buddha's name is also an illusion, it belongs to mindfulness. Therefore, we use illusory (recite Buddha's name) to destroy illusory (delusion).
A: This is also an attachment. As long as you do not pay any attention to delusion is okay (the mind will specialize). Because I told myself: "Do not give rise to thinking"; But thought is still self-provoking. Therefore, whenever we pay attention to the delusions, we are born with an additional hope; the more you pay attention to it, the more it increases!
Each mind, each thought, you should not leave the Buddha realm. Walk, stand, lie down, sit - most move, do whatever you do, recite Buddha's name. Crying also reciting Buddha's name; Take a step and recite the Buddha's name. The power of reciting the great Buddha is unmatched, can make you attain Buddha-Tam-Buddha Recitation - a kind of Dinh is not ordinary.
When I was born, I brought a body filled with karma. Therefore, don't create new karma to die and bring again; no benefit at all!
A: All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are equally good. Not to recite one taste is better than to recite the other: it is all due to your discrimination and comparison. Buddhas and Bodhisattvas do not necessarily need you to recite their names.
"Meditation and Pure Land,
Ten cultivators, ten people become.
There is Zen, there is no Pure Land,
Ten cultivators, nine lost their way! "
Just calmly just recite the Buddha's name, then relatively not go astray or happen harm.
If you know how to clear your heart and recite the Buddha's name, when you pass away, lotus, Buddha, Bodhisattva and the victorious realm will appear. Therefore, when you are alive, you need to cultivate to eliminate all mundane desires.
The purpose of the Buddha-loss is to allow sentient beings to die in the World of Extreme Bliss.
The world of Ta-Ba is born with death; In the Western realm, immortality is eternal. If we go abroad, we need money to buy a plane ticket, do not go to the West, we just need to recite Buddha's name to the point of being most specialized, there is no form (attachment). That is the "undying immortality" so. You have to recite the Buddha's name to have a place for you to deposit this life.
Reciting Buddha's name, you must recite the concept of not leaving Buddha. Recite clearly, listen to quibble, each word must be clear. The mind remembers, listening, listening, silently reciting - so that they concentrate on focusing on the Buddha's sign. Get rid of everything outside; depending on the concept of mindfulness, the mind will concentrate, specialize. Whether it's "reciting" or "reciting", whether it's "I recite" or "you recite"; Mass-everyone depends on the sound of reciting the Buddha's name, the mind will be the most specialized. Western Pole-Lac is also based on this recitation of Buddha's name.
When you do the Buddha-retreat, do not let the mundane thoughts draw your mind. If you do not pay attention, it is a waste of this precious opportunity.
Therefore, let us recite the Buddha's name with one heart and mind, and focus on the recitation.
A: It cannot be!
"If anyone remembers Buddha, recites Buddha's name,
now or tomorrow we will definitely see Buddha;
Needless means of anything, open up with my own heart. "
what do you mean?
A: Yes! Opening heart means seeing the Buddha, seeing that the Buddha of self-nature.
Do not be attached, wondering why Amitabha did not appear to continue leading!
If you still have the ambition to help sentient beings, then that desire is also an attachment, a kind of fear!
Teacher Quang-Hoa replied: Speaking according to the taste, it's in the West; According to reality, it is in my heart.
The Buddha taught that if any person in a day, two days ..., up to seven days, can recite the Buddha's name to the place "one-pointed unrest", the Buddha (Amitabha) will come to lead. However, if you don't eat or sleep, it doesn't take seven days, just four or five days is enough!
The Venerable Master laughed, saying: Really? Where is that Bodhisattva like that?
As long as Sutras, Laws, Abhidharma exist, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can teach themselves.
Don't assume that no one has the transmission, then there is no more (Buddha Dharma).
Bridging but not seeing is a good thing.
If you see them, those appearances are not reliable.
Must not expect anything; Just recite the mind of Buddha. The Buddha, the Bodhisattva appears from the pure heart of the mind, that's true.
Currently, the night you sleep dreaming, but in the morning it is also in the dream.
You are just like in a movie; This movie is very long - your whole life, but like a night dream!
(Venerable-Master encouraged Quang-Hoa to recite Buddha's name with real-form - true appearance is not form, not being born; that is true mind? , form, worldly affairs).
In the past, people used to say only one sentence was enough, today I talk too much! Wait when you come back, you will slowly comprehend and you will be enlightened and fully understood.
Everyone needs to work together. It's not that you speak out of the mouth, sending others to do it; that is an attitude to avoid. Be gentle and peaceful to carefully explain the work, how to do it, for the listener to understand clearly. For example, explaining how to grow flowers that he does not understand, let him see; otherwise, the work will not be smooth, both you and y will be suffering.
Do not call out loudly, send this, just that ... like father sends children, master sends me; that's the secular way, not good!
You are a manager, you must try to do it well. Whatever needs to be said, it must be said; because of personal feelings (the need to say but not speak), to avoid making mistakes.
Good things go back to school, bad things are thrown aside. Inward understanding is clearly enough. Just follow here to practice patience-patience Ba-la-honey.
Please endeavor to practice. If there is a difficult problem, ask Master, I will answer it.
Do not be afraid to lose face, and then set up as a grudge.
Do not divide the boundaries between yourself and the person very clearly (this is "my" job, that is your "yours"). Anyone who does not do it, you should not be angry or upset, but should happily do it for that person. Always have compassion (generosity, forgiveness)!
Whenever you see that something is not done well, you should go to do it. Do not say anything about others (criticize, question why you will not do ...), because the merit of the work belongs to you. If you go on talking about others, only create more karma.
Working is a way for us to eliminate our own karma, not to do it for anyone else.
When you have a teacher or brother to help you, if you feel afraid, fear that blessings, or think you are not worthy of help, or you are afraid of letting people help you, they will enjoy all the blessings. ; Ideas like that are all attachments.
If we want others to be blessed, first of all, we must be blessed in order to yield to them!
He is the kind-minded-intellectual - who guides the way.
Do not be scolded for one hour but immediately become annoyed, frustrated, and afflictive.
Practicing, you need to have a straightforward mind: "Yes! I will wipe it again!" This is also a test of your heart, whether you cultivate your mind or not. Therefore, practice precious in direct mind - straight mind. This is how the monk works.
For example, when cleaning, you do it very clean; then it is like you have cleaned your mind clean and pure.
Let's do it while reciting the Buddha's name, we should not neglect or be distracted.
Do not let your consciousness, your thoughts, your mind, your body, your mouth and your mind are pure.
If you worry too much about keeping this body, it will be difficult to cultivate merit; on the contrary, she was fooled by this rotten "leather bag".
Except for the ego-clinging and the dharma, wisdom will open. Wisdom has no form, cannot touch it, hold it. However, if the wisdom opens, I don't know, but whenever I encounter something, I understand at first glance, and I know what to do immediately. That is true wisdom!
Only when there is mindfulness, what we manifest or do can be compassionate; My point of view is also naturally mature and correct. This is also the mind of Buddha.
A: "No attachment to work" does not mean neglect, neglect, irresponsibility, scandal, negligence; It is not like making a mistake, plugging in the neck plug is too much; Which means that after you've done everything, nothing will happen.
When your heart is still paying attention, still freaking out, worried about work, can't let go; then that is attachment. When working in an attitude that is not attachments, it is good to do it. Whatever the attachment, the job won't be good; Because attachments lack wisdom, but working also requires Concentration, it requires concentration and concentration!
Need to have the capacity to judge and discern; Do not be like a stupid dog, seeing people throwing stones, he doesn't know what to throw but also runs after him!
Must handle the work and furniture in the temple appropriately and completely. Like planting a cluster of trees, if you don't decide in time to plant them in time, the tree will die; then, the mistake is with you.
Do not start discriminating (discussing, bragging, whining ...), giving birth to all kinds of stories (disputes, arguments, reasoning ...).
For work it is like that; for others it is the same!
"For the willow birth, for the end of samsara!"
What to do at the temple? It is to practice virtue, to cultivate the self-contained aspect.
You just look at the things around Master and you will immediately understand. After listening to something, you must also try to be able to meet, not to pass your ears.
2. The Transcendent Path of the Practitioner
A. Before and After Life i
When in the Forum, talk less and talk less with other people (or fate). Whenever you have time, bow to the Buddha and recite the Buddha's name.
Anything (in World-forums) is also very simple; you should not compare with others to see who ate well, slept well, or what was this, something like ... Tho Precepts is the time to learn majesty, orderly; This is not the time to discuss, talk, and create karma.
As soon as your heart arouses an evil thought, use the Precepts to stop it. That is called taking precepts as teachers.
B. Throwing Profits
The Venerable Master replied: "I also do not know anything about it, because they are all illusions. Nobody knows anything about me is the best!"
The questioner nodded: "That is the true meticulousness!"
C. This Mind
Cultivators need the power to "turn everything into nothing"!
A. Thap Phuong Pagoda
Do not compare, distinguish one disciple of whom, the other is a disciple of whom. Everyone who obeys the Precepts, is organized, the same is all. Everyone is a disciple of Buddha. If you go ahead and divide clearly, "You are coming from outside, I am Master's disciple in this temple ..."; then you are not a monk!
As a monk, you just need to practice in accordance with the Precepts. Whenever you practice properly, you will be respected by everyone, even Thien, Long, and Bat Bo will support and protect you, and the pagoda everywhere is your home!
B. The Misty Place
When your heart is not stable, there's no way you can practice!
A: Are you leaving because your mind is not safe or because the temple is not safe?
If your mind is not secure, even if you run to the West, you are still insecure.
When your mind wanders, restless, runs wild, and you move it immediately, the mind is calm. Therefore, keeping the Precepts is extremely important. Whenever you keep the Precepts pure, your mind will be pure. When your mind is not stable, you also have an ego-form (grasping at the concept of yourself and yourself); hence you have to see that every thing is neither me nor mine.
If you want to go to the West, you have to cultivate to the point where the mind is no longer chaotic, that is, delusions do not arise again. When faced with anything, your heart also only has a pure thought, it is the West.
The mind is not safe, so the thought is wandering forever. Therefore, you have to take your mind for peace of mind; If not, then how "an"? When your mind wants to run wild, ask yourself where it wants to run.
C. Study Visit
Therefore, the Sangha must practice ascetic practice, recite the Buddha's name for many, and bless the song tu.
D. Relations Between Fellow Practitioners
After listening to others talking about his teacher's mistakes, you bring those things he heard to everyone, so much of his sins are attributed to your body. Because it is fellow initiates' wrongdoing.
When you want to ask someone to do something, do not use the attitude of command (such as loudly, dreadfully, speaking curtly), causing them to be like the wrong father, the wrong owner; because that is the attitude of the secular.
If we are a practitioner of the Dao, we must take the Buddha Dharma as a model (ie use soft, gentle words, respectfully ask them to work).
Master-initiate has Dinh-force; otherwise, Moi cannot let you guys get closer to within a hundred steps. They do not have a tenth of righteous thoughts now; therefore, you are still in a very dangerous circle, so you need to pay close attention.
E. Patience
Do not think that these adversity hurts you and then hate them, get bored with them, look at everything that is not pleasing to you, everything will throb, and then you think: "Well, wrap it up! Go home. already!" But, where to go well? Can't get married, because you know it's more painful than that, what's the difference between living in hell?
How to observe? You have to contemplate those words as money; And when the other person spits out evil words it's like throwing money on you. If when these realms come, you are not patient, do not know how to cultivate patience, then only all kinds of negativity and frustration will be born!
When you are patient but your heart does not feel anything, don't see what happens; like when someone curses at you, you don't know they curse you; then it is true that the patience, patience, and compassionate
F. A Distinctive Concept
Everything has cause and effect, even as small as a needle, a thread, a word - all have cause and effect.
The Venerable Master replied: Don't be attached. If her bowl had been broken by someone, and there were people who resented it and wanted to take revenge on the other person, it was clearly because of the bowl that she created resentment against the sheep, causing hatred towards others!
You know what; As long as you bring up a disturbing thought, you are wrong, no need to talk about whether you are right or not!
Cultivation is modifying oneself based on the truth, not relying on others. Therefore, you must respectfully respect the Three Jewels (the embodiment of truth).
Everyone who is a living being has faults of evil; But every day to repent, to repent, to change, it will be good. Whether it is a species that hatched from an egg, or a birth from a womb, from a damp place or from a transformation - there is Buddha-nature. Many things that are animal nature are very flexible, more than human; However, it is only a sin that they cannot speak for us to understand.
As a human being, everyone has a stomach full of troubles; if I do not know the error, how to practice? Therefore, the amendment is from here, from this awareness that eliminates negativity. If not, every day you will be the same, unchanged - just eat, sleep, work, not cultivate to enlighten the Truth; you will still be the same when you get old, and your mind is full of troubles!
If when you are pressed, treated badly, you think: "They despise me like that, but still, I keep cultivating for them to understand"; you are a person of character; And so, one day you will succeed!
Seeing people in house wearing beautiful clothes (ie a kind of scene), someone thought: "How hard is it to go to practice? ... "; Some people think differently: "Oh! In this world of Ta-Ba suffering only dressed so nicely; what's so cool, strange?"
In this life, the material world is rich, it is very easy to have whatever you want. Many things, due to advanced technology, no longer need to use limbs, so extremely comfortable.
As monks and nuns, you must observe and reflect on the spiritual examples of the previous Patriarchs. Following in their footsteps, cultivating will bring an end to samsara.
I (Venerable-Venerable) do not practice for the sake of enjoyment; I want to make things like eating, sleeping, and clothes so simple. I'd rather be despised by society, think that everything here cannot match the world!
When being respected by society, between them and themselves will create a bond of affection, love, and then will lead to the suffering of being apart; The result is a vicious cycle of samsara! When you are despised and despised by society, you will be less afflicted (like taking one, owning the other, associating with one person for another), less distrust (keep thinking about things one after another, one after another, endlessly), and easier to devote to!
I don't ask for anything. Beings who see me give birth to joy; However, I myself did not know.
Currently, cultivators need to use the Buddha-dharma and truth to guide and educate sentient beings. Otherwise, everything will turn into secular; Not only can I not depend on anyone but I also lose my generosity!
(For example, Venerable Quang Kham: He never went down the mountain, but many who admire and take refuge in Him are not many.)
The monk takes kindness as the root, uses means to make use of, takes great compassion as a body. All (all roots of goodness, all methods ...) arise out of compassion.
5. The good point of cultivation
A: It 's still better to leave home! Although y (the renunciation) is miserable, but when he endures all retribution, he can return to practice. Certainly then he also became a renunciate, because he had planted many healthy roots. (A non-monk, by comparison, is worse than a monastic monk who breaks the precepts).
Looking superficially, the renunciants only know to eat three meals a day, doing something or that. In fact, being ordained is because of wanting to eliminate greed, anger, delusion, and eliminate karma.
The Venerable Master replied: Everyone who practices monasticism together will give birth to the Ultimate-Bliss World in the West; Is not that better or not?
6. One-inch High Path, One-yard Macau
1 When Venerable Quang Kham (age 83) wanted to enter nirvana, he said: "The nuns in Taiwan cannot suffer - suffering here refers to all kinds of suffering, such as doing all kinds of ascetics, be patient, or when diligently reciting the Buddha's name, bowing to the Buddha ... if your body suffers from pain, strength - you cannot bear extreme suffering, there is no way you can attain it! "
In my life, I only eat three meals a day and drift along the stream of life and death.
If a practitioner works, it is also for inner training. Therefore, the work does not need too much, should not be rushed; No one needs to praise me either; not pursuing, wanting anything. Only wearing the clothes of the West of Bliss.
Cultivators need to wash off those dirty things. Even though life is difficult, but a stable and lucid mind is enough.
When in life, everyone was chasing after the flowers. Having money is happy, not money is miserable. So calculate all the ways to make money. Then when the pursuit of the desire arises, the natural mind will be in a coma, just like a drunkard. Everything in life is not out of pursuit, of desire; Everyone wants to eat for a living.
Therefore, the renunciant must always generate righteous thoughts and thoughts in accordance with the truth; have to say the Buddha's Dharma, thus liberation.
Cultivators call themselves "the poor" (poor monk) because the simpler the life, the more corresponding spirituality becomes, not the richer and more affluent it is! If not, let the greed exist, not be eliminated; then even if you say you practice, but delusions, afflictions from that greed still flock to.
Deliver confidence, saying, "I absolutely have to become Buddha!" Saying that means that you have the intention to become a Buddha, then you have the motivation to make yourself diligent in your religious life.
Don't always boast, talk about yourself, because the ego will obstruct your cultivation.
In real life, you like to wear beautiful clothes, but when you go to a temple, those things are no longer appropriate. At the temple, you wear clothes that no other person wants to wear. Your angry, angry habits must also be modified a little. Just cultivate, then you will feel through everything.
Life of the people is like dreaming during the day, but at night is also a dream, dreaming of the dream of samsara.
The cultivators, although the clothes, the food, the accommodation are not happy, but when they are done with anything they can sit down to sit in the sitting position, recite the Buddha's name, cultivate, and their mind is pure, without disturbing emotions. that is, can lead to mindfulness.
Although we ordained us, we will practice the Noble Truth of Suffering, but if we both work and recite the Buddha's name, we will be able to meet everything in the six paths of reincarnation for a long time. Then, I will be happy that I have been fortunate to be ordained.
Recite the Buddha's name, enough, enough, wisdom will arise, and will be enlightened; When I get old, I will not be afraid to die because I have a Bliss-Bliss World in the West to come.
Ancient people taught: "One inch of Dao, nine tac of ma" (ie Dao is less but more than ghost or karma). Therefore, the more a practitioner moves forward, the more many kinds of evil thoughts, bad habits, from many previous generations will emerge. At that time, the more you have to suffer more and more to slowly dissolve the karma. When you pass, the golden lotus will appear to take you to the West.
How can people understand, so they keep pursuing sharpness, bar, flavor, taste, touch, and dhamma day by day. When the death came, the Demon of La-murder appeared to arrest them, so they could not go nor could they!
Chapter VIII: The Realm of Our Birth
'In the past not a thing,
How to stick bare dust? '
I found the toilet stinking so I couldn't stand it, so I wanted to pick up the maggots and drop them into the clear water. But those maggots are more attached to the polluted toilet than anything else, and rather die than go anywhere!
With good temperament, gentle, you can get along with everyone wherever you go, depending on others. But arbitrary also has a limit; Because for those who do bad things, we can not do it arbitrarily, but must steadfastly stand, act principles.
Therefore, the bad habits that we do not know by ourselves to correct, only cause trouble for others. Cynical mind only harms me, obstacles to cultivation. When you see anyone in conflict, conflict, then you do not pour oil into the fire to make things more trouble; but always find a way to reconcile!
There was a person before, when he talked to someone he always glanced sideways, acting mysterious; makes others look like he is defaming someone. In fact, it must be! That is just a bad habit only.
Therefore, whatever you do, you must be free and natural; otherwise, you might bring all sorts of useless troubles into yourself!
In the past in Mainland (China), the more people who try hard to practice, the more radical they have, the more will be tested. Someone deliberately uses all kinds of unreasonable attitudes to oppress and provoke him. Or someone who saw him almost complete a certain work then vandalized to collapse collapsed. However, it must be seen how the person's abilities are, before they can be tested. If he challenges someone who has no basis, righteousness, he will generate defilements.
In Taiwan it is difficult to challenge anyone. Because most of the nuns are from the cozy roof of their parents, bawdy habits; so for them, only the whole world method is required.
Those who have abilities, wisdom, immediately kneel down; then the compassionate Master teaches. The foolish person really wears sandals in reverse. And those who have no faculties will immediately get upset, creating afflictions; think that Master-is wrong, intentionally making him upset.
When the person lacked the ability to hear you talking about y, he immediately quarreled, asking why you dare to talk to him; and then y born angry, afflictive. He will think of his parents' cozy roof, which is to eat well, to dress well, to go to school ..., the old morals that make him pervert forever in samsara.
Without the exception of defilements, mindfulness (correct contemplation of the truth or the Buddha's teachings) does not manifest money.
When being fascinated by the Lost Love and the Five Sexes, all day long people only know how to pursue money, beauty, fame, power, eating, enjoying and sleeping. Here also defilements are born, and from there create all kinds of karma.
The others heard that and scolded them, saying, 'The Venerable Master is crazy! Bad talk!'
But when Mr. Han Son called the name of a pig, the pig ran to him immediately: confirmed that there is reincarnation already!
There was an official, and then brought the money (earned from doing unrighteous work) to flee abroad. Finally he must pay retribution, reincarnated as a buffalo in Taiwan.
'A life as an officer,
Nine lives as a buffalo to pay off debt '.
The buffalo has two horns, but the tiger must also abstain from fear. Gradually one day the buffalo will also understand. Like a buffalo plowing the field now, it is also helping me.
Once upon a time, the ancient people taught Chinese respect, hospitality, ceremony, meaning, integrity and wholesale; thus producing a lot of saints. Today, no one teaches these virtues, so times are in turmoil. Therefore, for those scriptures and treatises on ancient morality, we must appreciate them.
The birth and death of a man will take care of him; Rice, whoever eats it is full!
Though those who are in Heaven enjoy merit, whenever they start a bad idea, they will perish. For us, if we have sinned, we just need to sincerely repent and we will be as pure as an innocent person. The human realm is the best spiritual realm: to listen to the Dharma, to know how to cultivate.
A: The evil concept only thinks in the mind. If we repent immediately, there is no negative retribution. If the bad concept has already appeared in the mouth (speech karma), or we have already practiced it (the body karma), then we will suffer retribution. Every second we have to repent; If you have a mind of repentance, then good ideas can arise.
For example, to someone who has an inborn quality, I would say: 'Having committed the sin, you can repent. Sin is created by the mind, so please sincerely confess. ' So then the other person is guilty, but he can repent and then return to purity: no more recidivism, mindfulness of the right path.
For those who have no basis, I say that is not good. Because teaching them that way, they think that just being guilty creates sin, and the mind of repentance is finished right away! So they forever cannot sincerely correct their mistakes, even if they repent forever!
If you accidentally made a mistake, you can repent. Deliberately committing a mistake, it is impossible to repent. Confess something no more than three times (that is, do not commit more than three times).
If you know how to practice, pray to the Buddha a lot, pray for repentance, cultivate goodness, then maybe when Maitreya is born, you can be his disciple!
In the Han dynasty, teachers respect morality, ceremony, meaning, integrity and integrity. These days, the teacher himself is not finished (not enough virtue). Buddhism today is also far behind the old days.
Nowadays, no one has these things worthwhile, so the society is more and more chaotic. Therefore we must have a respectful attitude towards the scriptures.
Who today can draw a real flying bird? Everyone depends on mechanical engineering or chemical processing!
In Taiwan (China), ordination is very popular, very normal; and mostly based on education that consider the ordination.
Nowadays, the Manager-Manager comes to say your mistake (to invite you to wrap it up), you (not only don't listen) even quarreled with him; it is too far wrong!
One teacher (Master Truyen Van) said: 'It is the Buddha-nature of Master who speaks the Dharma, giving us instructions; it is not His falsified body. If we remember Him, let us develop a strong mind, practice diligently! '
If you are at fault, admit it, repent, reflect, change your personality, your behavior.
It is easy to be attached to the attachment to create disturbing emotions You have afflictions, then affect, make others also upset, and the masses are all rebelled. Then how does 'mass rationalization' make people in tune? I have to fix myself, go ahead, then later rule the country and fix people.
Listening to the Dharma is liberated, there is no self, no 'I'. Listening to mundane things means that there is an impersonal story, giving birth to the form of self (having 'I', having 'brother'; having 'right', having 'wrong'). That is a bad seed, which is difficult to eradicate later on.
In the past, some teachers taught the sutras, they all reserved a part for listeners to learn and celebrate for themselves. They do not explain everything, nor tell long stories.
A: If we are not self-controlled, it is not done. Dedicated to reciting Buddha's name, observing Precepts, and bowing to the Buddha is enough!
The more work and the situation, the more you are attached to, the more unstable your mind is. Don't be attached to the goodness of others. Those who have basic abilities, when looking at the bad things of the people, he knows how to apply (avoid making the same mistakes) to improve his cultivation. Those who are incapable only generate more defilements.
Want to concentrate, very difficult. Therefore, you must find the mind of undying being, do not seek things to kill outside. Need to find the old self-nature available. Everything that can be heard, seen, outside, has nothing to do with you (true nature).
In Taoism, there are also many people who practice very diligently, who can prove themselves La-Han (such as La-Dong-Tan, Han-Chung-Ly); However, their Arhat is not the end. The La-Han in Buddhism has been able to pass two kinds of view-or-private-or (View and Tu or are two delusions of vision and of mind that prevent us from seeing the Buddha-nature. This delusion is very profound because it is formed and nurtured from many lives and many lives because of the mistakenly defiled habit and seed that there is really the 'I' and all things), transcending samsara. On the Dao-Dao side, many of the people who are La-Han also do not have to die, sometimes they live in the mountains for hundreds of years.
We essentially need to cultivate to liberate samsara. Therefore, I need to release my body, do not be afraid that this body is miserable. Remember, to practice Buddhism is to practice so that the three karma (body, speech, mind - action, speech, and thought) are purified, the six sense faculties are pure, free from the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death. .
Everything is illusory (like images, scenes appear in soap bubbles), are not real. The work is over then stop. Just cling tightly, embracing forever, only disturbing.
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