Think about the full day.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

 In the past, after each season of retreat, the monks returned to pay homage to the Buddha and made offerings to the Blessed One, the Holy fruit of Arhat. It is the highest achievement that they have worked so diligently in the past nine weeks of detention.

Then the Buddha was very happy. After the ceremony of the Buddha, you will go back to the road, each teacher will teach a way, bring Buddhism to life, bring the truth to all people.

This tradition to this day has always been referred to as a shining example, an ultimate goal for the Buddha's monastic disciples. Mind knitting sharp lipstick. Dao members. Only that is not religious with the teachings of the Tathagata. Unfortunately, we do not have a pure Dharma to present to the Buddha like the old teachers. My Bodhi fruit is still green. Worse, there are many prickly fruit. This breed does not know where to?

Time to go. Going on the road is not to leave, but to return. Leaving is a dream, returning to be home. Leaving or returning is only one way, only different ways. This Buddha said in the  Surangama Sutra . One day, the Venerable Ananda asked the Buddha "What causes sentient beings to be circulated in samsara, and how do beings come out of samsara?" At that time, not only the Buddha Shakyamuni but the ten directions of the Tathagata said unanimously: "The cause of the circulation in samsara is his six sense doors. The way out of samsara, attaining Bodhi results. also from his six houses, not anywhere else ". Clearly.

Obeying the Buddha, more than a thousand years later, Senior Monk Tue Trung - a Vietnamese Zen master - ordered himself and for the Zen sect of Truc Lam: "An autistic judge is obliged to do his or her duty, to be indifferent", which means "Rot to be yourself is the main duty, not from outside that ". To turn around is to return, to get out of circulation. Zoom in is to leave, to be immersed in a sea of ​​roughness. Samsara with objects or Nirvana path is also only in the mind. We know that, but strange one thing is that sometimes we both leave and return, so cultivating until now only lingers at the point where we start.

Monks in the past, thanks to the Buddha's blessing, the practice was very powerful. Today we are far away from the miraculous Buddha but still joke about you with external conditions, not self-restraining nor needing help from good friends, it is a disadvantage, a great failure. On the day of the young monks' completion now, at most we will gain a lower age with many conditions, many busy Buddhas, let alone a one-year serious initiation! Does thinking about this bring our brothers a profound question?

As a Buddha, who does not want to be like Buddha, but why are we not like Buddha? Is it because of karma that comes out. Where the Buddha did not warn this story. Karma, it has that force! Having power, it dragged the three great heavenly worlds to throw storms and storms, creating crazy waves and waves, flooding all three realms. Beings immersed in it from countless eons to now have not come out, do not be there but engrossed with it. It is time for the words to be closed, to make room for the mind to die, for the three karma to bear peace. "Do it, don't say it" is always an imperative of deep wisdom.

The Blessed One is the enlightened one, has self-reliance and full forgiveness, all thanks to this wisdom sword. The perfect days have passed in the lives of the Buddha and his saints, but the strength that comes from their practice has always been the power to guide them forever. The image, teaching and life of the Tathagata have stuck in our minds with sincere concerns and concerns. From there to revive the seed of Buddha which is always available in our mind to sprout up. Where to reach it depends on the practice efforts of each practitioner. The highest peak is enlightenment, liberation, peacefulness. Then comes life.

The secret of success is simply perseverance and effort. Try not to stop. Will, energy, talent ... without effort, nothing can be achieved. Living together in the monastery, when the work is about to be finished, the masses are tired, we often encourage each other "Try a little more, brother" to be done immediately. Tu is the same. Try your best. A little more!

Tran rushed out of extraordinary,

The best guy in the school system,

Disagreement in a radical session,

Plum flower painting plum blossom.

 

Escape from the ceiling of unusual work,

The wire end holds the stance,

If not a cold,

Apricot flowers are not easy to smell.

When soldiers are in battle, the most cavalries are discouraged, let go, discouraged. Just go forward, silently progress, definitely advance. Move forward to overcome, to win over yourself. The results will be unexpected and this is the most worthy reward for our efforts. Practicing forever is like that, at first tired but very strong after that.

Actually, I am tired because I don't know how to practice. Buddha said that we are not tired, we are not tired, we are tired. Because cultivating is letting go, how can you be tired if you let go! In the old days, the monks were happy with the wind, played with the clouds, hid in the depths of the mountain with their cups, never afraid of losing things, because they had no things to lose. External conditions have been like that, in the mind what else is there to grasp? Where does the Six Nest do not say "The hybrid version is so many things, who is the land of the land?"

We are the opposite, the more we practice, the more we hold, even though we have nothing to grasp! So I'm tired. The donor offering is of the ten directions of Tanh, not one's own. Yet when it is in our hands, it becomes 100% of our own. Who can not touch it. Outside is like that, inside the mentality contains disarray, all things must be given up. Dead unload yet! All because of that karma. Greed and ignorance, this root of ignorance is still intact, do not expect to have a perfect day like tomorrow star to offer the Tathagata offerings, to the ancestors, in order to repay the gratitude in eternity.

So thinking about today's summer, why don't we try to ask ourselves "This is the second retreat in my life, and I still sit here ..." Why ask like that? To throw away the spoiled ambitions of uncertainty. To return ... with all effort.

And when the Vu spreads, we disciples today, looking forward to something, respectfully celebrate the inauguration of the Tathagata, the inauguration of the Tathagata - our teacher in life and forever. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY =VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.11/8/2020.