ORIENTATION OF THE SPACE. The sea of ​​Buddha Dharma is immense. The forest is deep in meditation. If you do not have a wise and friendly master, knowledge and guidance to help you, it is difficult to avoid going astray. We are born in this weak magic time. Right evil mixed, holy God is difficult to separate. If a person learns the religion, does not observe carefully, does not think properly, is not careful in finding his guide, but only knows how to follow the call and groan his ears, then it is difficult to avoid the accident. Orientation, not find a good teacher and friend, so there is nowhere to find a true method to study, lose the basis of relying on, and then blindly know where to go, must be disappointed in suffering unjustly for a lifetime. At that time, even if you want to guide good practice but still not succeed! For many years I silently prostrated to the Buddha, recited Buddhist scriptures, According to Mr. Duc Niem, listening to the lecture on Buddhist scriptures, Buddha's thoughts slowly seeped into my heart, my mind also followed that which was brighter. When we know the Dharma, there are times when reflections clearly reflect the wrong and right. I regret that I was born in order to be too far away from the Buddha, the dharma is weak and strong, and I add the country to dissolve, bring the body to live and send to the countryside, but also a bit of goodwill every week to the International Buddha Institute to listen to the teacher. lecture on Buddha sermons. I am awakened, life is an illusory dream, a sea of ​​constant misery. I soon decisively thought of turning the boat around, no longer superficially letting time pass in vain. No more pursuing pleasures in life as before. I have found the direction for my belief through one of his sermons. I have found a way for a spirit of uplifting and holy life. One of the stories inserted in the lecture of Venerable Duc Niem today I would like to offer you. Dear friend! On a Sunday afternoon like Sunday afternoon. But today is the day Vu Lan won the festival. Day signaling! With the dignity and calmness of the Buddha's temple, he turned towards the good faith of the cross, raised his voice to support the beginning of the Dharma, he said: "Today I would like to talk about the topic, choose the path to study". Teacher continued: Ladies and gentlemen! Normally, people always greed a lot, pray for perfection, like to be bored, forget to deny grace, betray meaning, worship holy worship, fight for their rights, like to claim themselves as the first to be the patriarch. on sitting in front of the world. That is the worst disease of most people! These qualities leave the human nature binding upon man, causing him to abstain from his body, pursuit to satisfy ambition. But when you think about it, where in this world are there people who are fulfilled according to their desires? Yes, ladies and gentlemen! Man is a small animal among all animals. The tolerance of the weather of humans and animals is also far behind. For example, buffaloes, goats, deer, birds, etc., most of them are born and immediately adapt to the situation of being self-reliant, looking for food to live by themselves. Meanwhile, people have to spend three or four years thanks to the care of their mothers and fathers. However, many people often show themselves off, without any hesitation, towards their superiors they do not know the fear of blasphemy against the benefactors, the holy ones. For under me I do not know self-shame with conscience and self-shame with all species. Greed too much but rarely knows enough. Let yourself live with pride and dive in the five lust, fame, love, drink, play and sleep. A Buddhist student who lacks a teacher to guide him, does not truly practice the practice of righteousness, nor will he go out of the norm of craving. It means taking advantage of religion to create your own advantage. The Buddha's practice method has many thousands of disciplines. There are a number of Buddhist practitioners who want to include all temples, so every temple will go, every teacher and teacher will come. There is no clear cultivation practice. The everyday people are often referred to as cultivators of the cult. Those are the people who do not know what Dharma is, just outside the gate to listen, and then talk along. It is like a boatman quickly passing through the water of rivers and lakes, only knowing briefly on the water surface, but unable to know the depth at the bottom of the lake or lake. Practicing this roundabout for the world is morning, in the meantime, one's own cultivation is awkward. Because all day, we just keep our mind running around to find out the world's miscellaneous things, watch the world bad or good, good and bad, but forget to find and choose a teacher, choose a friend, choose the method to practice diligently, all day long. Everywhere running around was present, to listen to this teacher, that monk, that Buddhist woman, then criticize and criticize, at the same time forget to observe and criticize the worldly mistakes of self. It is the type of person who carries water for bathers, but forgets to bathe on their own. Bringing water to the drinker but thirsty himself. Kinh Thu Lang Nghiem Buddha said: Twenty-five kinds of informants, Maitreya Bodhisattva only contemplate the consciousness of the mind, the destination of the only realization. Avalokiteshvara only cultivates the home base of information, entered the three ghost sites. The Great World Bodhisattva recited only the Buddha, but attained the pure six sense bases. Tri Dia Bodhisattva contemplates flat land that enter the member of the intelligence. Nguyet Quang pupils, due to contemplation of the water, were unable to be born and ring. Luu Ly Quang pupils contemplate the wind, but witness the three ghosts. Mr. O So Sac Ma, by contemplating the nature of fire, proves the superior wisdom. The Bodhisattva Voidness, due to contemplation of voidness, is fully accomplished in magic power. Xa Loi Phat was observed by visualization of the eye consciousness. Tu Bodhi by contemplating the base that attains non-facility nature, evidence of entering the base of information, etc. (please see the Thu Lang Nghiem, the Hoa Nghiem scriptures, it will be clear). Therefore, we have not seen any Bodhisattva cultivating many methods at the same time, leaving the outside but forgetting to show himself, can attain many enlightened disciples, attain many attainments. Today's religious learners lack expertise. Having learned to practice meditation, turned to want to recite Buddha's name. Buddha's recitation has not come yet, Require confidentiality. Meditation, Pure Land, Honey do not know what to do, then practice Quan Yin, meditation, ecstasy, most upper class etc .. all kinds of junk! It is not enough to study Buddhism in the Dharma, and invokes the gods. I have not finished praying to the fairy, I go back to the river to find enchantments, miracles, the bowl of monsters passed down a fortune teller, etc. All through the month of May, I kept running around and running around, searching and distracting. delusional, wasting time, just praying for a little fame, being present everywhere, to get acquainted with this temple and that person. Just like that, their age is piling up, their hair becomes gray and worn out, but they still have not awakened yet, what is the benefit of the path to progress ?! In the end, going nowhere, the body is weak and weak, back to blame people, angry with the teacher, resentment, and then depressed, leaving the temple, leaving the religion. Spent more than ten years on the road of life in this American country, I have seen before my eyes the troubles of human love make me awake. I do not let myself dive into the sea of ​​dreams anymore. I know all are impure illusions. Even if I spent a lifetime chasing fame after all my life, what did you get me in the end? Or when I let go of my hands and then it is just like the day in my mother's womb, born with two empty hands, but my karma must carry it! Can the house of my wife and children of fame save us from being brought back to life? When the breath stops, will those things follow me? Or do we alone have to suffer the karmic retribution? Obviously, why do not we awaken to enlightenment soon, listen to the Buddha's teachings, listen to the teacher's advice, to try to cultivate our mind. No one loves me as much as I love me. No one knows me better than I know me. No one saves me more than I save myself. Husband and wife and children only added bonds, only bothered each other. Thanks to my parents like heaven and the sea, I try to pay off. National homosexuality, we try to serve. And all fame, love, love life is fake temporary, binding, troublesome. The poet has said: There is a lot of injustice in the world. Born to be born, he suffered decades of fighting. In the end, the water dissolved, and relatives and relatives had to disperse. People left, living in the state of birth and divorce. People living in the countryside as well as in the countryside, all have to work hard to find a living. Uneasy living, suffering more or less fun, all kinds of human exile. What else is not awakened? What else is there that must attack and destroy each other? Poison snakes spray their venom to harm people. The slanderer destroys the sage, more dangerous than poisonous snakes. Cổ Đức said: "Oh! People in the world talk about hammering in their mouths. Blood sprayed people, before dirty mouths." Slanderous destruction of sage is an act of conscientious dissipation, lack of human personality. Believe in this type of people, we accidentally open the door to the pit of crime, step closer to the realm of demons, love ghosts, downsides to hell. Those who stalk, tell fortune, defame the sage, to satisfy the jealousy, to show that I am more knowledgeable, are those who have dried up faith and moral goodwill. According to the Holy Sage Ngu Luc book, those people above belong to the following two categories of people: One has just escaped from the devil, yelling. Second, they are human, but their mind is a ghostly goblins, seeking to harm virtuous people. "Sometimes they show a desire to chant Mahayana to satisfy their curiosity with their arrogant evil mind. They recite the vegetarian sutras, thinking that most of all, hoping for compliments, thinking that their deeds are better than that. These types of people live in a false sense of fame, dug their own grave, and open the door of the three evil paths themselves. To say the same root, thoughtfully to be able to summarize a word: "Those who like fame, lust are those who love to slander the sage", Because they want others to pay attention to them. They want to assimilate the virtuous people as lowly and impure as them. They are human beings who do not fear sin, do not have belief in samsara, karma. Buddha said: "There is no more darkness than a person who does not know cause and effect. There is no crime like someone who dares to blaspheme a good man, but does not know repentance." People like that, they live no good for themselves, but also harm the life. As for beliefs, they only hurt religion. Whatever religion they worship, they will be slandered first and foremost. They are close to their fellow believers, and they will eventually put bad words in their mouths. That is natural. Then, what more meaning is there to be called Buddhist study? After all, such people are ineligible to be a demon who can fully initiate the Dharma, let alone be qualified as a disciple of a revered religion, then how can they be qualified as a disciple? Buddha? Ancient virtuoso sage successfully. The secret is that you know how to choose a method that suits your ability, and then diligently practice and penetrate. Every day, every minute must be careful to keep the body, speech, and mind of the three karma to be pure. Don't dare to open your mouth to distract yourself, let go of gestures. The word is like a vase. Mind mind recite the direction of goodness to remember Buddha. Serious performance. Good practice through customs. Those who recite the Buddha's name are dedicated to maintaining the title of Buddha to the very mind, no longer worrying about letting go. Those who participate in meditation, the will to calm down, must be determined to leave samsara, a mind of meditation, even if heaven and earth are tilted, their hearts are still determined not to waver, but not to practice meditation and poetry. Drink tea for fun, enjoy evil, disguise meditation. Buddha spent 6 years meditating in the forest of asceticism. Day by day with sesame seed corn for Japanese. Birds of crickets, nesting on Him. Wild beasts swarmed all kinds of dangerous things, but he remained motionless. One who cultivates mantra must be unanimous, practice diligently to the place where the mind merges, the power is incomparable. Practitioners must have a unanimous determination as one. Must always urge his body and mind, control his mindful behavior every hour and minute. Can not indulge in self. Can not forgive myself. Must take the spiritual aspirations of the Buddha, of the gentle saints as a shining example for yourself. Must keep full of sincere enthusiasm of the initial meeting to the religion until the day of death, close your eyes and leave life, before and after as one, the result has a chance of success right in front of your eyes, within reach in front of you. Cổ Đức said: "Out of mind, into residual enlightenment". This means that a practitioner is enthusiastically diligent in the religion, and with his ideals worshiped, throughout his life enthusiastically practice like the enthusiasm at the beginning, he or she has excess merit to become into a holy enlightened one. A person who practices one-heartedly with his own ideals, diligently observes morality, takes no step back, even if he stumbles for the thousandth time, still boldly stands up and goes forward like the first time, there is no purpose. not achieved, somewhere that doesn't come. Practicing such a practice, there is no sin that does not destroy, no merit without growth, no aspiration that fails, no result without any witness. When the Buddha was in his life, his disciple, Sun Jia, Luo Pan Da, spent his whole life reciting only two words: "sweeping broom", which was unrestrained at the heart, attained to Arhat Luc To Hue Nang can only remember the two words "white rice", but obtained the Fa and inherited the To Vi. Recently, the Bodhisattva Quang Duc has a very simple monastic life, only remembering the sentence "Nam Mo Amitabha Buddha, dedicating this body to the Dharma", but courageous and mighty, sitting in the fire still remains motionless. fire becomes a lotus. His concentration of concentration has resulted in the indestructible Vajra heart, the eternal history book still records, the world mankind has to be in awe. Today there are people who claim to be Buddhists, self-proclaimed Mahayana Sutra, studied for a long time, but has not yet shown any insight into the Buddha's teachings. Still have not realized where the master is to study for a while. Still have not created for themselves a firm foothold in belief. Still have not found myself a method to cultivate, a direction to come. Keep chasing fame and fame, wandering around all over the world for five months, dissipating energy in the chaotic place of false beliefs, believing in the outside form to worship the evil god, going to the temple just to be happy to meet you. Where the things are slanted, do not have anything to do with the meaning of praying for enlightenment. Such people are injustice for a lifetime, losing even righteous thoughts and righteous thoughts. Those are the types of people who do not carefully find a teacher to choose friends, do not appreciate their time and do not know well about their health and age. Just wandering along the perfect fame, Only then, he was seduced into the wrong way by his friends. As a result, the days have passed, but the practice has not yet been chosen! There is no virtuous teacher to rely on. Not truly righteous works of merit, how can the righteous karma, the body and mind be peaceful, to enter the Buddha's teachings, to be a private and good seed, in order to enter the door of enlightenment and liberation. Chanting for many, but the wrong mind before the general, going to different temples, not having a directional stance, obeying the enticing whispers, it is like floating on the water, like a singer above. stage. These people spend five months hanging out on the outside, learning to demand superstitious forms, but forgetting to purify the interior. wandering without direction. Ancient people have a saying: " voluntarily take the old robe of his child to cover his body to prevent the cold, but he had to hit animals, making turtles up to 500 lives. The jealousy, contemptuous and contemptuous stories of the Three Jewels suffered from evil retribution. There are a lot of inscriptions in the Tripitaka. Buddha taught that: 'Believe me without understanding my teachings will destroy me.' The Buddha's enlightened practice without knowing how to find a master to study, does not choose good knowledge to create good conditions without following the words. The Buddha taught, ran around to listen to this man and woman called themselves saints, to know such people lack good conditions, it is difficult to avoid mistakes on the way of practice, accidentally opening the door by themselves. cave of evil knowledge, Ma king After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha contemplated the nature of sentient beings, he boldly declared: "All sentient beings have Buddha nature. I am a realized Buddha. A being who is a Buddha will become a Buddha, if everyone can devote themselves to learning the practice of practice like I do. ”Anyone who devotes himself to the Buddha's teachings and develops a mind to study can become a Buddha. The Irresistible Bodhisattva, the forerunner of Shakyamuni, has cultivated mantras whenever he sees someone, then immediately prostrates his hand, saying loudly: "I do not dare to despise him. Because he will be the Buddha of the future. Since seeing that everyone can become a Buddha, the enlightened wisdom nature of Buddha is sufficient in all people, the Buddha firmly affirms "All sentient beings have Buddha nature. All sentient beings will become Buddhas. ”Hence, should know, contemptuous of people means contempt for the Buddhas of the future. While practicing the Bodhisattva, or after becoming a Buddha, he is still unable to contend with respect for sentient beings. Not the small merit that He overlooks. No small evil deeds that He dares to do. The Buddha's gesture bowed and pierced the old woman on the roadside was enough to see that. Contempt for destroying the Buddha-mind's nature. Contempt for a monk to be a monk means contempt for Tam Bảo, to dig a hole in the depths of his sin, to bury himself, to destroy himself like his Bodhi. The Buddha for human beings, that he gave up everything to go to the forest and mountain to practice meditation. After attaining enlightenment, he brought his whole life here and there, preaching the dharma to let sentient beings soon manifest ordinary truth, know the way to liberate suffering from samsara. For 50 years, He devoted all his energies to the propaganda of legal benefits. There is no practice that He does not say. There is no means of practice that he does not instruct to use. There is no gentle and liberating counsel that He does not earnestly express to sentient beings. No doubting that He did not calmly answer the answer. There is no method for accomplishing the multiplication of the path of evolutionary holiness that he does not analyze. Everything worth talking about, He said it all. All the virtuous deeds, he practiced perfection. You are like a gentle mother taught me, like a full moon shining on all things. Good parents can also be sad and angry to give up their filial children. The full moon light sometimes shows up when dim. But the Buddha's merciful and generous compassion never forgets any sentient being, no matter how evil they are by nature. Coming to De Ba Dat Da many times determined to harm the Buddha, but the Buddha still degrees. Therefore, the Dharma Hoa sutra says: "Buddha loves sentient beings as a gentle mother loves small children". The poet praised the Buddha's immense love for sentient beings: Buddha moved his love to do the debauchery, The emanation made the four heavenly snow fly, The flower of six-petaled lotus, ten-foot lotus, The drop of tranquility was soothing bitterness. Buddha used the suffering of sentient beings as his own suffering. The monks sacrificed themselves to let go of all the pleasurable sexuality of the world, were no longer close to offer sweet things to their parents, six rows of full relatives had left, also for the sole purpose of determination. go completely on the path of enlightenment, gain, and liberation. They are the teachers who follow in the footsteps of the Buddha, vowing to sacrifice their lives for the great compassion and enlightenment. The Buddha not only sacrificed compassion for enlightenment, but he also encouraged to instruct the Bodhisattva line, his disciples must strongly generate bodhicitta, engage in the work of liberation, to guide Beings are blissfully enlightened and liberated. Now, when do you wait until you choose your direction, to rescue yourself? The days passed quickly like water running downhill. The old birth, sickness, and death do not have an appointment. Wait until when will you stop making love to your friends, stop swimming on the road of life? The gratitude of being born of parents, why should we take it lightly and not pay attention ?! Is our presence in this world busy busy gaining fame? Can our ability to be holy Buddhahood be permissive to indulge in the time of the years? In this life, if we do not wake up early and choose a path, how long should we wait? Ancient German teaches: This life is not about getting married, how will you wait until the next time? The door of pure meditation is still wide open to welcome mortals. The boat of Bat Nha is waiting to save those who are sad, awake and step up, my friends: "The boat of Bat Nha is immense, Here at the Buddha's door is immense and constant, the water in the moon is shining and shining, Look at the place of majestic virtue. integrity ".END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/3/2021.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.