Reincarnation.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. From time immemorial, people often wonder about life and death. There are two theories that attract the most attention. One theory holds that humans, like animals, once die, are lost forever, nothing exists after that. One theory holds that humans die, but the soul remains forever, either going to heaven or going to hell. Both of the above theories are not true. After death, it cannot be completely lost, because in this life, nothing is completely lost. Even a grain of sand cannot be completely lost, let alone a human body. But it is not true to say that the soul lasts forever, in heaven or in hell. In the universe there is nothing that can stay in one place forever, but on the contrary, is always changing and moving. Besides, what could be more unfair than just because of the causes sown in a short present life, to suffer eternal good or bad results in the future? Both of these theories are rejected by Buddhism. According to Buddhist teachings, sentient beings are neither annihilated nor perpetuated, but turned around in the "samsara" scene of birth and death. According to kanji, "samsara" is the wheel, "revival" is to return. The image of the wheel spinning back is used to visualize the rotation of each being in the six realms. When reincarnated in this world, when in another. Birth and death, birth and death follow endlessly, like a spinning wheel. Once we have recognized the law of cause and effect, we cannot deny reincarnation, because samsara is just a continuous cause and effect. The revolving wheel spins. On that circle, there is no beginning and no end. That wheel keeps spinning in the cycle of samsara of birth and death until people practice and reach the ultimate liberation. What good person, in addition to the hardships of human life, also has a transcendental life, a peaceful life. That is the life of someone who understands "truly magic". Not understanding the "true magic" people will suffer forever in samsara. True Dharma is the Buddhadharma. In the universe of all things, from something as small as a speck of dust to as large as a globe, there is not a single thing that does not reincarnate: 1. Reincarnation land: Land made into flower vases. After a while the vase broke and became earth again. This land becomes food for the plants. Decayed vegetation becomes fertilizer for other plants, or food for animals. Animals eat this plant in, or excrete it right out to become manure, into soil, or turn into blood, blood, and skin so that one day the animal's body will be old and weak, and will disintegrate back into earth. How many times change shape the earth turns back to earth after one rotation. 2. Water of Reincarnation: Water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. The vapor that rises without encountering the cold turns into clouds. Clouds gather and fall as rain. Rain flows into ponds and lakes to become water again. Or rain water gets too cold, condenses into ice. Ice meets the heat of the sun and melts back into water. 3. Wind Reincarnation: Wind is the circulation of air. The air is burned by the sun's heat, expands, and rises to form voids. To fill those gaps, air from other places fills in, creating a wind current. If the air moves slowly, the wind will be small, if it moves quickly, the wind will be high, if it moves more quickly, it will become a storm, but its nature is always air. 4. Fire of reincarnation: Fire is a heat that can burn things. When there are enough conditions, the heat emits fire. For example, when two sticks of wood are in a normal state, we don't see any heat anywhere, but when they rub each other for a while, the fire will turn on. This fire can burn the other two sticks, and these two sticks are partly turned into coal ash, partly into carbon dioxide. Other trees use their roots to absorb carbon dioxide, storing heat so that one day, meeting enough predestined conditions to burn again. Thus, heat is always available, but sometimes it is in a latent state, sometimes in a detected state. Our eyes see only when it detects, and only then we assume it exists, but when it is in the latent state we say it is not. In fact, it just reincarnates through different states, not ending or disappearing completely. 5. The realm of reincarnation: Buddhist scriptures often say: "The world is as much as the sand in the Ganges". Indeed, at night we look up at the sky and see countless stars. Each star is a world, and each of those worlds does not escape the general law of "building, staying, destroying, empty". Every moment there is the birth and death of the world. This world dissolves, another world rises, just as one wave disappears, another wave emerges, causing cause and effect, one after another, samsara never ends. 6. Body reincarnation: The human body, or the animal body, is the same, after all, it is also due to the four great substances ("four great") that are "earth, water, wind, fire". As we have seen above, the four elements are reincarnation, the human body must also reincarnate. When this body dies and disintegrates, the hard substance is returned to the Earth; wet substance returned to Water; heat returns to Fire; breath and movement returned to the Wind. Then, depending on the conditions, these four substances combine to form a plant or another person's body. When the other person dies, the four substances return to their old selves. When he became a human, when he became an animal, this year he gathered here, next year he left somewhere else, not forever, not completely lost, but reincarnation. 7. Spirit of Reincarnation: Humans are not only composed of four elements. In addition to the four elements, there is also a psychological part, or more generally, there is a spirit. The physical part has not annihilated but only transformed samsara, neither the mind nor the spirit will annihilate but only transform and rotate. As mentioned, all actions of body and mind create a karma for us. That karma changes and rotates forever according to a common law, which is the law of cause and effect. Here, we see the close relationship between cause and effect and reincarnation. If there is cause and effect, there must be reincarnation (except in the case of liberated monks); there is reincarnation and must obey the law of cause and effect. It can be said with certainty that, when we are born, we create a cause, then when we die, the karma that leads the spirit to where it receives the reward is not wrong. If you create good causes, you will be reincarnated to a rich world with a good human body. And creating evil causes, then reincarnated to the realm of poverty, bad body, disabled. Depending on the karma one creates, a being can enter one of the following realms: - Hell: if the cause of anger, evil do many sinful things, both harming themselves and harming others. - Pretentious ghosts (hungry ghosts): if you create a cause of greed, frugality, you don't know how to give and help people, from money to teachings, on the contrary, there's still heavy rain, poison, to rob people. - Animals (animals): if you create a cause of delusion, you will fall in love with love, six desires, alcohol, and assets, regardless of whether it is good or bad, good or bad. - Asura (a kind of angry and fierce god): if you create a cause in case you encounter benevolent things, you will do it, if you encounter wrong things, you will not avoid it, being both upright and cruel. Creating such causes, the result will be happy, but also a lot of sadness. - People (people): If you follow the "five precepts", then in the next life you will become a human again, more noble than all things. - Heaven (Heaven): Abandoning the "ten evils" and practicing the "ten good", after death, one will be reborn in a heavenly realm. . If you want to get out of the realm of birth and death, you must practice liberation. It should be noted that after death, a being in this realm can be reincarnated through one of the six realms above, not just a person who has just been reincarnated as a human. Animals with an almost human-like state of mind can be reincarnated as a human, as well as humans, with a wolf-like state of mind, becoming a wolf. People often have the misconception that people have human souls, animals have animal souls, and human or animal souls are immutable, whether dead or alive. Because of thinking like that, people cannot accept that: after death, the human soul returns to the body of a dog or cat, for example, and the soul of a dog or cat can take the form of a human body. In fact, karma is not the soul, but an energy that has the nature of the actions of every living being. Because of that particular nature, "karma" enters into one form or another, due to the law of attraction (corresponding synchronicity, congruence of the sphere). Instead of saying a person becomes an animal, or on the contrary, an animal becomes a person, rather, it should be said "karma discovered in human form or in animal form". With the teachings of samsara, we are excited to believe that death cannot be completely lost. But if we do not know how to cultivate the roots of happiness, do not try to live a virtuous life, then in the next life, we will be born in a dark and evil realm. The doctrine of reincarnation makes us more confident, seeing ourselves as the masters of our lives, whatever karma we create, we will bear that karma, but no one will weigh in on rewards, punishments, blessings, or harm. myself both. Now that we have understood the meaning and value of the teachings of samsara, we should try to change our thoughts, words and actions, to avoid the next life from falling into the realm of suffering. Once the bad causes have been washed away, the good results are complete, and the bad karmas are gone, then we can get out of samsara and reach the beautiful, unborn and immortal realm of Arahants and Buddhas. Living and dying is like waking and sleeping, that's all. We should not care too much about death, because everyone dies. What is more important is how to live and live so that at the time of death there is peace. Therefore, for Buddhists, we need to live a pure spiritual life, do not do anything that causes suffering to ourselves and others, especially to always be aware that life is impermanent. So the concept that "this world is a bridge, cross it, don't build a house on it". Until the mind is pure, peaceful, no longer regretful, no longer clinging to anything, then our death is like "getting on a boat to the river", liberating all suffering and peacefully passed away in peace and happiness.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/12/2021.