Buffalo with Buddhism. From the past up to now, buffaloes and cows are not only valuable in their working life attached to the fields, but also enter the minds of Vietnamese people. But people like a bias, often hear "buffalo start an inheritance", and the cow is only for meat? In fact, the buffalo had to work harder, and the fields were shallow, all fields could plow, and they could also pull. Cows will accept, step down, feet will be muddy. The two animals are also different in that the cow is not water resistant, whereas the buffalo likes water, so the buffalo in Chinese is also called Thuy Nguu. Farmers often drive buffaloes in areas with puddles to soak their buffalo in water all day. When I was a child, I heard that the buffalo meat was not eaten completely, tied up in the well for two or three days and pulled it up, but it was still fresh, but I could not see it. While teaching in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle, in the five major countries, someone's buffalo died under the sutra. At that time, I witnessed the spectacle of farmers gathering together to pull their buffalo which smelled immeasurably. At first I thought people pulled it up to bury the environment. But no, they cut the buffalo meat to remove the stench from the outside, the flesh inside is still edible red. How strange! From the past up to now, buffaloes and cows are not only valuable in their working life attached to the fields, but also enter the minds of Vietnamese people. From past to present, buffaloes and cows are not only valuable in the working life attached to the field but also enter the Vietnamese mind. The image of a buffalo also enters people's consciousness through proverbs of poetry and poetry. Honestly, I do not know what lessons students grow up to remember when they were young, generations ago and then my generation, even though they are old, they still remember many lessons of memorization in grades Three and Four. . Especially the articles with pictures of buffaloes: - Buffalo, I told them Buffalo went out to the field to plow with me. Plow agricultural capital. in the field the buffalo eat. Or like this post: - A buffalo has one tooth, eats grass from the plain drinking water from the pond. When you are weak, I am great. I turn to the flag. The knife handle has a thick comb. When a buffalo works hard, when it is weak or dead, it should be cared for and buried by someone. On the contrary, death is still uneasy, it is very painful for her fate. Another paradox is that, the vegetarian temples do not kill animals, and bring buffalo skin to cover the drum to recite the sutras. But if not, then what is the drum seal? It is a force majeure. The image of the buffalo has also been illustrated in lectures by Zen masters, or included in Zen works, poetry or painting. The image of the buffalo has also been illustrated in lectures by Zen masters, or included in Zen works, poetry or painting. In the year of the Ox, a buffalo shepherd: The Shepherd's Pastors Meanwhile, the image of a buffalo appears a lot in the Buddhist scriptures. The Dhamma Sutra is the Mahayana sutra containing many profound philosophies with many examples. The example of the fire house is one of the outstanding examples of this sutra. A housekeeper has a big house with only one way out. The house was set on fire, his children and grandchildren refused to run out, he had to use goat, deer and buffalo cart to lure the children. The fire house here indicates sentient beings' consciousness which is being burned by lustful desires and then the mind is insane. The elder man using three cars is an image that implies that Buddha uses the three yanas of Shravaka, Pratyekabuddha, and Buddhahood to guide sentient beings out of samsara. In the Four-Tenth Chapter Sutra, the Buddha used the image of a buffalo to refer to the ordination that the monk had to endeavor to practice: "The monkhood practices like a buffalo carrying heavy weight in the deep mud, so hard it is not daring to I turned my head to look at the sides and I had to go quickly, then out of the deep mud I could rest. ” Even in the days about to enter Nirvana, the Buddha once used the image of a buffalo to teach his disciples about mindfulness, keeping himself pure “just like a buffalo, keeping a watch, not letting it. let go of the crime against the rice of people " Obviously the image of the buffalo is familiar, the nature of the buffalo is not aggressive, pure, diligent, easy to teach ... but sometimes still do wrong, stupid. The image of a buffalo comes alive when entering Buddhist poetry. The Ly and Tran Zen masters used to write many poems with buffalo silhouette. Tue Trung Thuong Si, whose real name is Trần Quốc Trung, son of Trần Liễu, brother of Hưng Đạo Vương Trần Quốc Tuấn and instructed King Trần Nhân Tông - the founder of the Zen Truc Lam Yen Tu sect, in the beginning of his cultivation. onions. He has many poems about buffalo such as Dieu Tien monk: The most infertile song is called willow, Dam will turn over the old country. The first place was over the lake Ha Huu, Nhat fish and the nudibranchs in island ky. (When I finished singing the song of infertility, I took the flute to the old village. Ignoring what was before, nothing. Wearing to ride the buffalo upside down). Or as the article of the Taurus shows a person's journey from being a buffalo shepherd, to go to repay the country, then back to happy with his paternal family without the need for a privileged mandarin: Quy Son spontaneously obtained a wild lion's unicorn commitment to his work as a monk King Duc trach drilled like the sea of ​​Tuy, in our own country, in the spring. (Quy Son in that hamlet suddenly turned to Cam, the buffalo herding in the wild. Thank you, the King was like a tank. Separate fun with streams and flowers). With the image of a buffalo in the above ten pictures, Buddhism cleverly brought the meaning of practice into people's minds, reminding people, especially those of the Buddha, about "herding buffalo". mine. With the image of a buffalo in the above ten pictures, Buddhism cleverly brought the meaning of practice into people's minds, reminding people, especially Buddhas, of "buffalo herding". mine. The silhouette of a buffalo through a knife, Vietnamese Buddhist proverbs The image of a buffalo has also been illustrated in lectures by the Zen masters, or included in Zen works, poetry or painting. Thirteenths are the names of ten buffalo-shepherd paintings that were composed in the Song dynasty. These are typical paintings, presenting the quintessence and essence of Chinese Zen Buddhism. Since its inception, it has become very famous, the influence spread to countries according to Mahayana Buddhism with its own meaning, corresponding to each picture: Picture I: Finding buffalo - Buffalo represents the mind. . Finding buffalo is to find the mind, to find yourself. Picture II: Seeing signs - Finding traces of buffalo's feet means that there are traces of one's mind. Picture III: Seeing the buffalo - Thinking where far, the buffalo is still lying there, right in front of his eyes. Picture IV: Catching buffaloes - Got buffalo, but the wild nature of the buffalo still wants to run. Picture V: Buffalo herd - Meticulous practice like buffalo. When the animal is pure, even if you let go of the rope, it will not run. Picture VI: Riding a buffalo home - The mind is no longer wandering, returning to the original source, as well as the buffalo returning home. Picture VII: Forgot buffalo and people - No longer have to herd the buffalo so people are gentle. Picture VIII: The buffalo forgot - Hope returns to the feet, so the people and buffaloes are all. Picture IX: Return to the roots. Pictures of birds flying back to the mountains, water flowing back to the source. When we return to our original roots, we can see going from I to VIII is like a dream. Then the success or failure is a normal thing. In the morning, eat rice, drink tea in the evening. Then, people who have a different worldly view see that the mountains are really mountains, rivers really are rivers. Do not see the high mountains, shallow rivers as before, but the mind is crazy. Xx X: Hands on the market - Light must shine through the caves and alleys. People who come here cannot sit and enjoy alone, but have to transform sentient beings. The market is a crowded place with many differences, but people who are no longer different have to mingle. If people were shunned from us before, now the market will find them happily. In short, with the image of a buffalo in the above ten pictures, Buddhism cleverly brought the meaning of practice into people's minds, reminding people, especially Buddhas, of the.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/3/2021.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.