Concentration hard to avoid - Retribution of poverty due to jealousy and hindrance from making offerings to another bhikkhu.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. 24. THE DREAM IS HARD TO AVOID THEM In the Buddha's time in the world, there was a monk who was somewhat unlucky. Although the monk practices very diligently, his conduct is dignified, but he is never satisfied. The number of "bugs" pursued him until the end of his life, after he had attained Arahantship. On the day of his death, thanks to the divine power of Venerable Sariputta, his teacher, he ate a full meal before he died. He has been unlucky since he was in the womb. Not only was he unlucky, but he also brought unhappiness to the group in which he was present. Thay is the son of a fishing family in a coastal village of 1000 households. Since the teacher entered the womb, the whole village went to the sea and couldn't catch any fish for a whole month, everyone had to eat seaweed to avoid hunger. They begin to suspect that there is a dark family in the village that has brought disaster to all. Therefore, they tried to find that unlucky family to remove them from the group. The method they do is to divide the number of households in the village into two groups, each group of 500 families to do their own business and live separately. As a result, one group started to prosper again, another group continued their bad luck. The group split in two to find out where the unlucky family was. When divided into two subgroups as before, 250 families started well and 250 families were still unlucky. Divided into two in turn to find out which group the unlucky family was in, they finally discovered the family of that monk. His whole family was excluded from the village, roaming like Jews. The mother discovered that it was from the day she was pregnant with the teacher that disaster came to the whole village and to the family, so she wanted to let him die. However, a person who has only one last life left to be liberated (Arahantship, no return to the world), no one can kill unless his own karma. So in the end, his mother still had to give birth to him, and raise him until he knew how to beg for food. During the time of having such a bad luck child, she struggled very hard to earn a living. Until one day she couldn't stand it anymore, after pushing the teacher to beg in a certain house, the mother escaped. The child - the future Arahant - was bewildered when he came out and did not see his mother, nor had anything to eat, so he wandered around the corner of the street to pick up pieces of bread that people threw on the side of the road to eat to avoid hunger. During that "journey", the child happened to meet Venerable Sariputta. Moved with compassion, he asked: - Whose children? Why are you so skinny? - Venerable Bach, I am a child who brings bad luck to everyone, so no one will feed me, I must be hungry. – Do you want to become a monk? - White Venerable, I really want to, but who will accept me? - Come here, I'll make it up to you. The child happily followed the Venerable. Venerable Sariputta led him to the lonely garden, bathed and fed him, and The Phat took refuge in the boy as a novice monk to chase away evil spirits [Note: "The novice monk " is too young. has not yet reached the age of ordination – 16 years old – has not been able to do anything but keep them from making noise during the time when the monks sit in meditation.] Growing up, reaching adulthood, Venerable Master gave him a full ordination. bhikkhu. The bad luck followed the monk's footsteps for the rest of his life. Every time they go for alms, people just put a spoonful of rice in the teacher's bowl and find that the bowl is already full, making it impossible for anyone to put anything more. When he returned to the temple, there was only one spoonful of rice in the bowl to keep him from starving to death. Just like that, until the day of his death, he had attained Arahantship, and he had never had a full meal. Knowing that the teacher was about to end his life in the world, Venerable Sariputta was moved with pity and thought: "Losaka (name of the unlucky monk) will die today. I will do all I can to help him eat a full meal before he dies." With that intention, the venerable led the bhikkhu into the city of Savatthi for alms. But because of Losaka, the Venerable could not ask for anything, he had to ask him to return, and went alone to beg for food. After the alms bowl was full, the venerable brought it back to v? monks. He stood holding his bowl in front of his disciples and said: - Please eat. The monk hesitated to eat in front of the teacher, and especially let him hold the bowl, even though the teacher was very hungry. The psalmist urged: - Don't be shy, I have to hold the bowl to wait for you to finish eating. Because without me holding the bowl, all this food would disappear, and you would continue to be hungry. The bhikkhu obeys the real life. Thanks to the divine power of Venerable Sariputra, he ate a full meal before giving up the last retribution of an Arahant. After the unlucky bhikkhu passed away, other bhikkhus gathered at the Wonderful Dharma Hall in the Garden of Solitudes to ask the Blessed One why, with a life of pure morality, practicing diligently, the monk fortune and fortune still have to bear such risks for life. Buddha taught: "Bhikkhus, his own actions in a previous life are the cause of his present misfortune. In a previous life he was also a bhikkhu, due to jealousy, he prevented lay people from making offerings to another bhikkhu who had attained Arhat status. Because of that evil karma, even though he practices in purity, he still receives the retribution of deprivation and bad luck for many lifetimes, until he realizes the results. DISCLAIMER : Although illusory, cause and effect are not lost, actions and consequences follow each other like shadows and images. Therefore, the wise are only afraid of the cause, not afraid of the effect, while the fool is very afraid of the bad effect but does not sow good causes. The monk disciple Venerable Sāriputta, although he was tormented by a dreary fate until death, always single-mindedly practiced pure and pure practice, did not give rise to jealousy and sorrow, thereby finally attaining the fruit of No. born (Arahant). That is to be happy to pay off old debt without creating new debt, which is the karma that leads to the destruction of karma .END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.8/10/2021.