Vinaya is a moral foundation, an open field for the cultivation of healthy seeds. People know how to live prudent, discipline, delicate, friendly, fresh, etc. not only peace of mind but also bring stability to others. In a social community, if people know how to act, talking cautiously, they will avoid many unfortunate misery, most of which is caused by lethargy, carelessness or lack of discipline. Indeed, precepts play a vital role in bringing endless benefits to human life.

-  Avoid bad habits : Lung slack, sloppy, disciplined, not self-made is the process of forming the habit of despicable, bad habits can be a failure of a lifetime. People know how to live cautiously, homemade in every gesture can not fall into bad habits. And if there are bad habits, it is easy to escape the virtue of caution to help him know the right and wrong to adjust.

- No harmful consequences : People who do not know how to self-restrain themselves will cause harm to themselves and others through their wrong actions. More seriously, carelessness can lead to accidents, injury, illness or death. For example, a negligent driver, a careless worker, a doctor, etc., are not responsible for others. Careful people can avoid such damaging effects easily.

- No regret : He acted carelessly after making a mistake, often tormenting himself, biting, and at the same time being deceived by the people, so they are always tense . In contrast, people with mental well-being often cool, fresh, peaceful, relaxed.

- Do not be afraid of the crowd : People with guilt are often lack of confidence so they are always confused, afraid, nervous, anxious in the crowded. They do not like to meet anyone because they are almost obsessed with their sense of guilt being discovered by others. In contrast, the virtues help you confident, calm, so not afraid in the crowded place.

- There is a natural temperament : A cautious actress will easily find the right thing wrong to regulate his or her behavior. Therefore, although not trying to create their own way they still have the style of calm, natural, comfortable, natural many people believe love.

- At death do not panic fear : Sinners will certainly be very afraid, panic at the moment of dying, because their bad image automatically appear before a film. Sometimes it is an impressive detail in his sinful behavior, like bloody knives, pungent gunpowder smell, etc. Sometimes it's a horrific sight like a bad omens. It is the karmic access of those who do evil. On the contrary, a person who knows the virtues of his pure behavior, will go away calmly.

- Be the basis of meditation and wisdom : The slumbering person usually acts in a negative way, so that he is unable to focus (due to lack of concentration), and because of being driven by impulses Should not be wise enough to know the truth (lack of wisdom). While the person acting, cautious talk (with precepts) will be easier to focus on, and thus be able to see clearly and clearly. In other words, the action, the good word (tranquility) leads to the calm mind and the enlightenment will illuminate all things. Therefore, the most important benefit of gender is to provide a solid foundation for meditation, wisdom, liberation and liberation of knowledge.

- Give others the gift fearless : You might think that the new service selfless action, and morality is only for his own benefit. That's a misconception. A virtuous person does not harm anyone, meaning that they do not dispel anxiety and fear for others. They do not seem to do anything to anyone, but they are actually helping others live peacefully, not fearing harm. Therefore, keeping the precepts is not self-interest, it is also seen as altruistic actions: A gift of fearlessness to people.

Ask:

- I find it difficult to keep all five sexes in the relationship today, especially the liar and drinkers. So can adapt to adapt to the circumstances are not?

A:

-No one has the right to tell you or not. You must contemplate yourself, discover how the nature of causality in your actions will then know whether you should do or not. There are a variety of laws designed to limit the activities of others to protect the interests of the employer or corporation. For example, the laws of the landlords set for the peasants, or colonial countries imposed on the colonists. So there will be resistance to reclaiming justice. In this case, breaking the law is good and courageous. On the contrary, Buddhist precepts only help you self-awareness of your behavior to identify the true-false nature, good and evil, no evaluation from outside. That is why gender is called learning. So why do not you take that lesson to see yourself? Buddha just for your sake that hint, No one binds you, you have the freedom to manipulate how you customize. There is something you need to discover the nature of right and wrong wrong in your acting because it is your responsibility and interests and not anyone else.

Ask :

-The farmer who wants to protect the crops must kill pests, how to avoid the crime of killing? So what is the solution?

A:

- People, who claim to be "superior to all species", know how to make a living to protect themselves. But if you protect your life and despise the life of all species has become "the most scary in the world"! Humans do not have the "advantage" at all only to know their own interests, greed for everything, ravaging the habitat of all species and willing to harm anyone who is unfavorable for themselves. Science now demonstrates that indestructible insect destruction has caused a serious ecological imbalance that not only harms sentient beings, but also destroys their own habitat.

We exploit forests, the sea, etc. so that many species of plants, medicinal plants, seafood, animals have become extinct, along with the weather changes that cause natural disasters. Pesticides have made everything toxic. So today we need flowers, food, air, clean environment healthy to live safely.

For the immediate benefit of no long-term disaster for all life on this tiny planet, it is important to review it seriously. Let's see if we are protecting life or are promoting bottomless greed, selfishness, cruelty, and destruction. Perhaps we still do not understand the full meaning of the depth of gender as learning. If people really want to learn, there is no way to protect life without destruction.

Ask:

- Confucianism is synonymous with Buddhist precepts?

A:

There is the same, different. Confucianism emphasizes the human nature of human beings, in the relationship between the king and me, father and son, husband and wife, etc. or ritual sacrifices of God, including the god. In line with universal human morality, there is only one that fits with the feudal monarchy.

In the Buddhist precepts too, some things are just adaptations to the situation, others represent the virtue of being human, but not the specific age or social class but the moral. weak and universal, suitable for everyone and all time. However, the main purpose of Confucianism is to stabilize the social order of human beings, while the Buddha's law aims to free us from wrong and unwholesome actions in order to be fully enlightened.

It is because the rules are those that regulate the behavior of the people in feudal societies according to the hierarchy of order, so that they are more effective in the organization of political institutions than in the nature of the institution. the core of morality. Although the "feast of education", but only the control of external desire and desire deepened pent-up, hidden inside. So Lao Tzu complained: "Oh! It is the fragility of fidelity, the clue of chaos. " Meanwhile, Buddhist precepts are considered as factors leading to peace and liberation (Silena nibbutim yanti).

Ask:

-We have seen many people keep their precepts very strictly, but they seem to be obstinate and condescending, despise and condemn people who do not hold back as strict as they are. Why is that so?

Reply:

- Simply for the following reasons:

1) They focus only on the external appearance of the world without seeing the true meaning inside, so they are too strict with themselves and others.

2) They borrow gender to create prestige and identity for themselves or for their organization rather than living honestly with themselves and others.

3) They are based only on finite things to judge right and wrong, not to do it to learn to see and adjust their moral behavior.

4) They simply believe in the framework that the rule of law prefers to abstain rather than believe in the careful discernment of complex psycho-physical events between the right-sideways behavior. His morality.

5) They always have one of two psychological attitudes: self-esteem or self-esteem. When you find yourself holding more serious than self, high self-conceited, but when breaking gender is easy to fall into the state of self-esteem.

Ask:

- Teacher, there is no crime, but sin, reverse, transgression without sin is not?

Reply:

- Well, this is a difficult question! I'm wondering how to answer this? It is difficult to have a definite answer whether or not from others. You need to understand thoroughly all the world, in particular in each case can answer yourself or not. Otherwise all answers are just nonsense. On the other hand, if you hold on to the overconfidence, it is difficult to recognize the creative flexibility that only shows the hard surface of the gender.

The following are situations in which you can use your intelligence to see which case is guilty, which is not.

The first scenario is that someone wants to kill the robber, but does not succeed, meaning that he has not been murdered, stolen and should not commit any crime. Or someone else, more cunning to wriggle out of the boundaries, such as he likes to drink, but it is a prohibited world, unless the use of alcohol with drugs. So he spoiled to drink the so-called drug wine because it does not exist. So you think that person is guilty?

The second scenario is a tragic one: An army is urgently withdrawn from the fighting field, leaving a wounded soldier unable to save lives. carried away. Do not let your lonely one twist the pain in the horror of the battle, so the captain decided to shoot his teammates. In terms of sex and life rules, the captain violates the rules, even if he can be tried. But if you are the captain, then how will your conscience tell you? Are you blessed or guilty? END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/1/2018.

Buddha nature is a subject that the Buddha did not preach in the first turn. It is not that He holds back some of the great discoveries that can only be passed on to the best and brightest disciples. Like a responsible teacher, he focuses on the basic principles before addressing higher topics.

Talking about Buddha-nature, it has nothing to do with virtue and the manner of a person in yellow robes on the way to begging. The word Sanskrit in the literal translation is literally "enlightened." If considered a title, this word is usually given to Gotama-Gotama, who attained the ultimate enlightenment 2,500 years ago under the Bodhi Tree.

However, the Buddha Nature is not a title. It is not a feature reserved for the historical Buddha or Buddhist practitioners. It is not something that is created or imagined. It is the essence or essence within all beings: an infinite potential for action, seeing, hearing, experiencing an event. Through the Buddha nature, we can learn, can develop, can change. Every one of us can and has the right to become a Buddha.

Buddha nature can not be expressed in terms of relative concept. It needs to be experienced directly, and direct experience can not be expressed in words. When we look at a majestic setting, we can say that it is majestic, that the cliffs are red, the air is dry and the smell of cedar trees. Well, our description can not really contain all the experience felt in front of that majestic. Or when we try to portray the view from Tapei 101 in Taipei, one of the tallest buildings in the world, is considered one of the seven modern wonders of humanity. We can talk about the panorama, the road with cars and people are seen as ants or we have to hold our breath when standing in a place too high on the ground. But we still can not convey the depth of our experience.

However, although the Buddha Nature can not be described. The Buddha made some suggestions as the map helps us know the direction and the path to that indescribable experience. One of his methods is to point out the three characteristics of Buddha Nature:  Infinite Freedom : the ability to perceive in a self-reliant manner everything past, present and future; infinite power : unlimited power to bring us and all beings out of suffering; and  infinite compassion : unlimited consciousness of the interconnectedness of all things, a consciousness that extends to others, which is considered the driving force in creating favorable conditions for all. beings are evolving.

It is unquestionable that so many people believe in the Buddha through study and practice, able to experience that unlimited freedom, strength and compassion.

In many scriptures, we see the Buddha always ready to talk to those who have doubts about what he says. He was the only teacher who traveled throughout India in the fourth century BC with the aim of convincing the public on many issues. Unlike many passers-by, however, he does not attempt to convince the public that the method he finds in the liberation of suffering is the only method. An important point throughout many Buddhist sutras can be summarized in today's language: " That's just what I do and what I realize. Do not believe what I say because that's what I say. Practice yourself to show your experience . "

The Buddha does not strictly prevent others from choosing what they should learn and how to learn. Instead, in the Buddha's teaching, he presents to the audience a kind of thought experience, calling them to discover from within their own experience.

They express the Buddha nature at all times of daily life. He presented this experiment with a picture of a house in which a lamp was lit with shades and closed windows. The house represents the dense view of the dependence on the physical, psychological, emotional ... The lamp represents the Buddha Nature. Even if the ghosts and windows are closed, a bit of light from the inside still shines through.

Inside, the light from the lamp provides clarity to distinguish between a chair, a bed, or a rug. Just as the light of the lamp can penetrate dark spaces and windows, we can experience the light of wisdom as an intuition, a "seeing in depth."

Words and tales shine through the windows in these moments when we, spontaneously, help or comfort one another, not for the sake of self, but for feeling it should do. It may be a very simple condition for a person to lean on a shoulder to cry when they are suffering, helping a person cross the street, sitting next to a sick or dying person. We all have heard people who do not think of danger to jump into the deep water to save people who do not know ...

The power of Buddhahood often manifests in the overcoming of difficult events. Recently I met a person who has practiced Buddhism for a long time. He's been investing in securities since 1990, and when stocks slip, he's lost everything. Many friends and co-workers also lost money and some fell into crisis. Some people lose confidence and are no longer capable of making decisions; some fall into depression; Some look like in the 1929 economic crisis, jumping through the window. But he is still confident, not lose confidence, not down. He calmly invested again and rebuilt his strong financial foundation.

Looking at his calm face in the big events, some friends and associates blamed him for how calm he could be. He replied, " Yes. I got all of that money from the stock market, then it came back to the stock market, and now it's back. Conditions change, but I still. I can make decisions. I can stay in a big house for a year, then sleep on a friend's house for the next year, but that does not change the fact that I can choose how I think about myself and my socks. All the problems around me. Actually, I find myself very lucky. Some people do not have the ability to choose and some do not realize their options . "

I've also heard similar comments from peTople who deal with chronic illnesses in their parents, their children, or family members, friends. A man I met recently in North America talked about trying to keep a good relationship with his wife and children while continuing to visit his father, Alzheimer's ). He said, " Of course it's hard to balance things. But that's what I do. I do not see any other way . "

Simple statement how fresh! Although he had never attended a Dharma study, had never studied the Buddhist scriptures, nor had he considered himself a Buddhist, his description of his life and how he The approach to life has represented a spontaneous expression of the three aspects of the Buddha-nature: wisdom sees the depth and breadth of his situation, the ability to explain things and act upon the See your self, behave spontaneously according to compassion.

When I hear you talk, I realize that these three properties of buddhahood can be summarized in a simple word: courage - especially the courage to be, as we are, right here and right. Now, with all our doubts, our uncertainty. Direct confrontation with experience opens us up to the possibility of realizing that what we experience - love, loneliness, jealousy, joy, greed, sorrow, and so forth - from nature is an infinite potential manifestation of the foundation of our Buddha nature.

This principle is in the "diagnose" of the third truth of the  Four Noble Truths . Whatever troubles we experience - subtle, intense, or at intermediate level - will sink and we will overcome attachment to limited vision, depending on and depending on them. I, to begin to see with our own ability, to experience things in its entirety. Finally, come and stop in the Buddha nature - like a bird stopping at home. There the suffering ceases. Nothing to fear, nothing to resist. Even death does not confuse us. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/1/2018.

The responsibility of a teacher is not small and not simple, because if we are clumsy in the way of education and guidance, the Buddha said in the Anguttara Nikàya: "The good deity teaches Peace to the gods and humanity, the doctrine only brings suffering to all beings. "

In Buddhism, the meaning of the "Great Teacher"  is more closely reminded by the Buddha through the related sutras of  gratitude and gratitude that a Buddhist child must practice to bring peace and prosperity. The ultimate happiness in the practice of life is to be able to perfect and evolve from an ordinary human being filled with craving and ignorance to becoming the pure, immaculate, pure and pure sages. .

 

The moral or fundamental foundation of Buddhist precepts is based on the spirit and spiritual principle. Even in the ethical and moral treasures of the Vietnamese people, we also have the phrase  "first class, post-graduation" or "most self-taught, semi-self-teacher",  etc. so the spirit of religious education is a fundamental virtue not only of the Buddha or any other follower of the religion, but also the common ground for the whole of humankind as they begin their journey into the path of learning.

 

Thus the word  "teacher"  is known as the divine role of a third person in human life after the parent. If parents bring forth and nurture us to grow into human beings, the teacher is the one who cultivates, builds and transmits as well as equips us with the basic and useful knowledge to do the stepping stones. life.

 

Every day baby baby
 

Now I'm grown up like this
 

Father, mother, teacher
 

Think of the early childhood

 

The Master is seen as a second father in our lives through two  extremely sacred "master" words that we often hear when calling a teacher in religion. Master, teacher is the father, father is the Han language. Being a teacher and being a father is not easy for a person to bear the responsibility of a pedigree. Because it involves both the responsibility that a pedigree should bring to his students, the spiritual children that he must teach, care and concern about his heart.

 

The Buddha itself is a living image of the character as well as the role and responsibility of a teacher towards them, his disciples. The Buddha was not only a teacher who instructed his disciples to walk on the path of holiness but also to be gentle and caring in taking care of them and preserving them in daily life. This extremely vivid image was seen in the Dhamma Sutta 41 when the Buddha himself heated his body to wash the body of the sores, smeared with the blood of the Great Pūtigattatissa when the great virtue brought witness. leprosy, stingy sores make people afraid and shun the great virtue. The Buddha not only frightened or alienated his disciples, but also graciously disrobed, cleaned and sanitized himself for the great virtue of Pūtigattatissa, and later personally changed his mind. virtue,

 

After the pure Pūtigattatissa was completely clean, the Buddha graciously sat down next to him, grasping the student's rough, rough, and old hands and teaching the disciple about the decay of the body. The five aggregates and the mind of the great virtue Pūtigattatissa enter the pure and pure path. Finally, before devoting his breath to the glorious teacher, Venerable Pūtigattatissa became a saintless, arhat, completely purified and purified both in body and mind. That is the heart as well as infinite love of a teacher, a father that we often call the master through the image and example of a three realms, from the four species as the Buddha our.

 

In the Sà la La Viet (Sankara Sutta) of the Dìgha Nikàya School, the Buddha also teaches the Brahmin student of Singha lama about the teacher's character towards the student and learns. For the teacher corresponding to the Southern ceremony as follows: "Hey master, there are five ways, disciples to serve the master as the South: Stand up to greet, teacher, enthusiasm study, self-service teacher, attention to learn career. Behold, the disciples served as the South in such a way, the chief masters have compassion on the disciples in five ways: Train the disciples what they have been well trained; Teach your maintenance to be well maintained; to teach proficient occupations; praise disciples with familiar friends; Ensure career for disciples in all aspects. This is the chief master, who is served by the disciples as the South in five ways and the head of the compassionate disciple in five ways. Thus the South is sheltered, become secure and free from fear. "

 

Thus, in the spirit of this sutta, we see, the Buddha has raised the five faculties of the teacher to his students and vice versa, the student also has five obligations to the teacher of I fully and fully to be considered worthy to be celebrated as the Southern ceremony.

 

In the environment of the temple, the responsibility of a teacher is more heavy than a teacher in life. Teachers in the realm of knowledge transfer and the teacher in the temple must lead his students to go a long way endlessly. Not only lead and impart the methods of practice to purify the body but the teacher in the temple also have to care for, protect, shelter and nurture their disciples with the responsibility of the father, as mother.

 

The Buddha said of his four methods of education to his death with the shepherd of the king as follows:

 

1. Use the flexible method
 

2. Use the hard method
 

3. Combination of soft and tough
 

4. Killing

 

The above three methods do not need to be discussed as we all understand easily because it is the most widely used educational method in pedagogical environments. But the last method the Buddha explained to the shepherd that the Buddha killed is not the same as that of a killer that the Buddha wants to say is the dependent grace. If all three methods are applied: Teach the security of good life; Second is the teaching of the misery of the sinful life; Three are taught about the suffering and happiness of cause and effect, but in the end, the disciples still do not understand and practice according to what is good, then the Buddha must be dependent on the karmic dependence of beings.

For that disciple, the Buddha, like a bowl of flip-flopped bowls, can not contain anything or round nuts that can not rest on the smooth calf. Therefore, it can not be taught anymore, so that stubborn stubborn self is born self-kill. The teachings of the Buddha are always directed towards immortality, but if one does not practice it means that they automatically accept death and agree to roll in the cycle of samsara.

 

But in truth, with the kindness of a monk, especially the Buddha, we are known as his disciples, although there are many stubborn, hard and difficult to teach, difficult. education but in the end, even the most bhikkhu-like Bhikkhunī Channa (Sānthattha), the most trusted servant of Siddhattha, can attain Arahatship after virtue Buddha entered Nibbana.

 

The responsibility of a teacher is not small and not simple, because if we are clumsy in the way of education and guidance, the Buddha said in the Anguttara Nikàya: "The good deity teaches It is only in suffering of all human beings. In any pedagogical environment, it must also apply the methods of education based on the spirit of compassion and wisdom. intellectual property. As a teacher, the more you have to cultivate virtue and enthusiasm with the noble profession of being "the teacher of the world". A virtuous, virtuous teacher is a good example for students to follow. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/12/2017.

The basis of Buddhism is integration or integration, there is harmony that does not dissolve. Dissolve is the path of destruction, will even lose the faith. To the country where every seed of Buddhism sprouts, roots and grows, it creates a distinct Buddhist tone. Even in a country, depending on the region, the sect-sect that Buddhism is different. This difference is the means but completely identical in the basic understanding of the Dhamma, in the view and purpose of practice is the achievement of liberation and peace.

The means of grace is one of the characteristics of the 'dynamic and enterprising' of Vietnamese Buddhism, especially the Theravada Buddhism. But the essence of the problem is "dependent grace in immutability." Depending on the charm that accidentally or deliberately oblivious to immortality is the danger to the Buddha Dharma.

First of all, the problem is 'in a covered temple'. Temple of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Patriarch, Dharma Protector. Mother worship and the Divine, Divine, etc. .. The teachings and methods of Buddhism and Methodology are inherently different. For some reason, from the ancient times, 'in the temple is covered', it is possible the means temporarily acceptable. But the new temple that is not really should be built. From the point of view of the Dharma, the Buddhists, the right view is unclear, the faithful are not firmly attached to god, the increase (Ni) need training. Particularly monks (Nuns) members of the UBC that participate in holy saints, in the field of superstition is corrupt, causing the Buddha Dharma decadence.

Of course, the important function of the pagoda is to pray for the Buddhists. However, the security by the Dharma does not have positive stars, the term. Monks and nuns have the right understanding that every one of them is created by virtue or evil, and there is no reincarnation. Therefore, want to karmic evil results do not 'show network' then the need for industry, not expired. There is no way to pray that can be resolved, transferred to work. The Buddha did not teach us to pray for the deadline to expect the career. Want to solve the business, turn three from the body of good words from evil to good, actively do good to bless the newspaper.

Monks (nuns) use the credit, in addition to cultivate the Wisdom to liberate themselves, you also take the responsibility of sermon to repay the four deep. It should be noted that the teaching of Buddhism is not the task of the teacher but of all the disciples of the Buddha. In it, monks (Ni) must be pioneers, because the 'Sangha in the monk'. This theory is not only teaching, but includes reading, reciting the world, telling stories of the Buddha, sharing the experience of practice ... to establish libraries, create business records, provide business documents to people.

Monks (nuns) do not preach for many reasons: You may not see the importance of the sermon, you may not fully understand the Dharma, or be embarrassed when your religious practices are incompatible. with the Dharma etc. If the monks do not care about the sermon, do not guide the practice, saunas on the means of worship, the Buddhists will find out the Dharma, and of course, the Buddhists will self Establish a path for your own practice. This is a fact that is the root cause of the foreign-policy trend in some Buddhist societies today.

At present, the abbot of the monastery is protected by the State and the Church as well as sanctions. As protection and sanctions only focus on the state management should create the phenomenon of abbot gradually become absolute power in the monastery and followers. This is also the opportunity that is also the challenge for the abbot. Opportunity because the abbot has conditions to promote the virtue to serve. Challenge because each abbot capacity, level, perception, different wishes. Unfortunately, if the abbot on the basis of 'depending on the coast', but not rely on the 'immutable' of Buddhism, the pagoda has the risk of turning into am, shrines, cover, from the road, specializing in watching the offerings, generally spread many things of the Dhamma. And frankly, the UBCV does not seem to care, paying attention to these things.

Therefore, not due to regional cultural differences, not due to the sect-denominations, because the Dhamma is not distinguish, only one is liberation, peace. The reason is mainly due to an individual member of the Sangha (Ni) for various reasons did not understand, practice, use the correct means of the Dharma. On the other hand, the UBCV has not fully promoted its role of management to correct, correct in time. We hope that the UBCV is more and more complete in every aspect, promoting the brave Emperor to destroy the main show, raise the Dharma, benefit the good life.END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/12/2017.

Buddhists also recognize that if only understand the Dharma, although understand a lot, deep understanding, but lack of application we can not call the person who is familiar or enjoy the practical value of Buddhism.

Indeed, although we have to study the mind of many methods of cultivation, but without the practice, not to lay down elaborate, our understanding is just understanding, is the interpretation only. Therefore, you should pay attention to the practice. Sophistication is the work of one's own, not of anyone. We also can not wait, rely on a teacher. Right now, the most essential thing is to practice each one. Ancient teachings: Buddhism is not much, longevity is difficult. Learning as the original mind, then the director must have. Previously not changed, the new teacher is actually.

Through the above teachings we clearly see, understand or study a lot, without regard to the onion, the tu does not wish to have a date of accomplishment. Dhamma is not much, you keep the original mind, practice the most specialized, new people are interested in learning the Buddha. We know the key, know how to open the door, we can open the door into the house. The person who is eligible to open the door to the house, just outside the door, not allowed to open the door, still suffer from wandering.

The Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas, the sages, the good ones of our knowledge have passed through the stages of experience is so deep, so to place, so they are peaceful. What they teach us is from that experience. A Buddhist practitioner is not a philosopher, not a poet, not a scholar, but a practitioner. We can only base ourselves on the point of discussion, rather than just finding out how to run the sword outside. We say the practice, say the application of Buddhism that does not cure defilements, not crazy crazy island, the confusion left in the heart too much can not be called the Buddha. Therefore, the obstacle of gas, greed, anger, jealousy, jealousy ... startled lively. So the Buddha's children should pay attention to their study.

The ancient teachings of Buddhism do not have much, ie the Buddha said the general rules are only the key points, only enlightened beings help us to eradicate the original ignorance, afflictions. Those who receive, practice properly, experience or live with the law, certain peace. It is not necessary that we have to practice the whole series of learned sutras, just take a part in it, and then have peace. Sometimes we learn a lot, remember, know, present more and more as more distraction. Because of this, growth is insight, and the growth of insights is unstable.

We just need to understand the main things and not match with the basis of their own can be applied then. Knowing that method, we will definitely enlightenment, liberation. The ancient teachings of Buddhism are not very good, because if the Dharma many, we will not practice all. I practice the law suit with me, the other parts only. For example, test yourself or hot tempered, remember the Buddha's teachings of compassionate treatment hot tempered, the direct method that work, to the right place to place. So we can treat his hot temper.

Studying Buddhism is to cure illness. Diseases of beings are diseases from many generations, so the treatment time can not be faster. Because we are delusional should be swept along the birth of death. The bad habits, the gas, the greedy defilement is deeply ingrained roots, if not persistence to the force is hard to expect. Knowing that, we now aim to cure our illness. We do not have much teaching Dharma. Just take the main part, the part that really fits with you and determination to practice.

Dhamma is understood to apply to him, his cure. Brothers and sisters of fellow students are the same ideal, a tendency, a karmic conditions. For these people we should encourage the same to learn together. Actually speaking the same practice, but the real practice is for yourself, not for anyone.

Persons are hard to have, who have the persistence, the will to practice the Dharma to the place is rare. Not without, but very rare. We ourselves too, the morning happy sad afternoon, bright excited, noon want to give up, roughly like that. That means we have the worst disease. By the most should be but the determination to persevere, brave practice to the place where so few people are. The old practice as long as the new Buddhist heart, in this section we lose many ancient people.

Studying the spiritual history of Truc Lam, we see Truc Lam, a heroic king of the nation. When he was a monk, he practiced the virtue of the momentum and achieved the virtue under the forest. We have to think of such a powerful person, so enjoy it, it can not cultivate, but if there is also easy to fall into his inconsistency. But not! The king of Vietnam malego to the forest, the forest in the first six years of the school, Guran and then propagate profits benefit. So now two new writings he left us are: "Faithful miserable" and "Surreptitious forest.

The ancients did, we can do today. In the Tran dynasty, as we do, we can also attain that. The Enlightened, enlightened to be his job, today we also enlightened enlightenment, his job. Because the spirit of enlightenment, that escape is not reserved for anyone. It is the result of devotional practitioners who assert themselves in the practice. Therefore, the practitioner must have the will, persistence perseverance, certain successful tu.

If our initial care is preserved continuously, there are no difficulties, obstacles that prevent our footsteps. The mind is the beginning of enlightenment, the mind of the Buddha. If you cultivate that mind, then cultivate continuously throughout the course of cultivation, definitely will succeed. Buddhists should remember to chastise the Buddhist practice as long as the new Buddhist heart, not change, not because of a predestined relationship to interfere with the practice. If all the Buddhists have developed the mind of the monk, the mind of the learned mind has kept his original mind, the number of people into the Buddha so much.

We have seen the deep, the magic of Buddhism to the new faith of faith. Evangelization is voluntary, not compulsory. We find the mind to learn, to religion and study. Surely you see the special value of the new religion to the faith. In life, if you talk about status, many Buddhists have the title, but obviously it does not really bring peace, so you are heading towards religion. When we enter the religion, know the value of religion, we are determined to practice. Although elaborate obstacles, but feel the value of the direction, we resolve to step up, so will definitely direct the direction.

What is the Sangha? Can we be direct? OK. First comes the spirit of applying virtue into life. There are people say: Ethics says liberation that life is collision, defilement, whirring ... Two ways opposite, how to apply to achieve the director? Ladies and gentlemen, listen to it like that, but really ethical is to apply to life. Life has a new misery has room for us to apply morality. It is the contradiction that helps us to achieve the moral of life. Cultivators must be smart, smart application, the benefit of the moral is within reach. We can grasp, reach, live the doctrine. And so, we can be peaceful, liberated.

Before us have the chiefs, they have accomplished. Today, on the way we go, there is a map, there is clear direction of the people ahead, we will definitely accomplish if we take steps. Song, if lack of durable heart, no will not hope to achieve. People have no understanding, but do not have the will to persevere, do not have the will, practice a sunshine ten rainy, step to step back three steps, where to go. To come out here requires us to have the will. Willing to work well to the place. Those who have difficulty leaving, meet the discouragement will not go to where.

When we see the special profoundness of the teachings, we learn and peace of mind, nourish and promote the will. Must be strong, must be durable, be strong. This year we have not done the end of the year or early next year to do. I do not give up, not discouraged, but firmly resolve to do. The person who performs the work and then the heart will glow. We overcome a defilement, treating a bad one is step by step in the elaborate, in our hearts there is joy, there is excitement. The joy will be the momentum, the opportunity for us to step forward. That joy will be full of time, bright in our hearts.

If you do not believe in faith, no joy, will not come here to place. These joys do not have to look outside, but flow from the practice of ours. For example, before you start to elaborate, I have heard patients say the ear is in the heart. We do not want to practice anymore, elaborately elaborate that dang daui, no gas, no progress. Such kinds of afflictions are woven in our hearts, we have no way of repelling, it will grow. It develops in conditions, in life, in our everyday approach. The more I develop, the less I want to cultivate, in the end, the mind of Bodhi retreat and we lost all elaborate, abandoned always.

I say the only affliction, not the main afflictions such as greed, hatred and delusion, but also so harmful. If we do not have it, they will grow. One day the sadness will be sad, the more ignorant, etc. Since then we have no capacity to advance on the path. The mind is inert, blurred, blurred, sad but not sad but listen to troubles in the heart, lazy lazy. If we are not resolved, depending on the afflictions arise a lot in a day. I do not know where else, but it appears that way uu renders. This type if not definitely very difficult to treat. Therefore, people are not wise, not resolved for the Buddhist religion difficult to place to place. It must be intense, I am happy, I can improve.

In the daily life, if the cultivator lack of control, lack of positive, we can easily get lost in the way to the bottom, not going anywhere. To become a cult practitioner. Because this is voluntary, self-development, no one is obliged, my job, I have to do, no one waiting. Although we have to wait, finally we do, but outsiders can not do it. As we now have teachers, assuming that the Venerable is the religious, teaches us to cultivate, but we do not try to practice as he teaches, let the outside of the scene to break the purity of the mind, have mercy, want to degree as well as not. Master students who do not practice is also difficult to achieve. Because it is my job, I love to teach carefully the method of cultivation "I have to do so, to pass like that ..." But we pass, not the teacher. So determination or persistence is to cure dependence, hope, wait. The things around us change so quickly, can we see if we can wait? As such, we all have to struggle, overcome the practice. Each of us is a practitioner who must come home to enjoy the benefits of Buddhism.

Learners must be well-informed, both have the will and know well. Know what? Know your own mind, know the Buddhist religion, learn the place of practice. Know what to do? In order for us to be your master, you decide for your progress. Studying the same direction that I also withdraw themselves. Therefore, the cultivator must have knowledge, must be patient, know a sure way to do everything. Here we must understand the practice, must understand us. Understand that, so clearly hope for new knowledge.

Speaking of the word "antecedents", sometimes you think "sure this is only for the ancestors, but I do not see the nature." That's not true. We must be faithful in the presence of the precepts. Once it's available, getting it right out of reach. The person who sees the nature is the one who sees the truth. That's all. We see the ability to practice can become his Buddha. Or, on the contrary, I know the disease clearly to treat health again. What is the nature? Tanh is not changed, is true. I see the truth of the law, my own truth, called the nature. The person who is a spiritual teacher guaranteed, certainly not retreat. So what is so scary, why do not we dare to accept the availability of their own?

We can say, we have to understand the nature. The above I say we must know, must see clearly. Now know, see clearly, must see the nature, must see the truth. Buddha: We have the ability to be Buddha. We are capable of enlightenment. All beings, no one else has that ability. I'm sure so, from which elaborately initiated. We come to the virtue of seeing, knowing our own, practicing virtue from seeing, knowing that is seeing our nature. So elaborate practice also from the nature that the director. That I can do, done, achieved in this life.

Zen meditation does not put serious problems. I do not say that because we are afraid of wrong, not yet thought it was. Here with the meditator raised the spirit of antecedents to make us strong, prepare the practice, how to brighten their work. His job is called the founder. The founder who sees the Buddha, see the ability to make his Buddha. If you go to the temple to learn the Buddha that "eternal beings do", then only, tu chi tired! Which raw materials like that do not benefit?

We know the Buddha has been available for a long time, but there is no opportunity to receive and live. Now that I have a friend who has a Buddhist path, we have to wash away all that buildup around the Buddha nature for a long time, to live with the awareness. That is what I can do. In the daily work, sometimes we teach a very normal method, but if smart practice, we can brighten our work. For example, remembering what you did next, that is, being led away. Now it comes out, you remember but left, do not follow. It is thanks to learn the Buddha, understand the Dharma, have practice, have sitting meditation, I know that things are not true. So even though he has three heads, he does not follow him, not letting him pull himself. So I'm indifferent to everything. If you practice continuously, you will be insightful, will be the brightest of your work. From then on the Buddha.

A person who practices Buddhism according to the Buddha's teachings, even if he does not speak the Sangha or the Sangha, but naturally has the Buddha's peace, he will manifest. The expression shows that he is very peaceful, very calm by the surrounding conditions. In our lives we are easily passive by this and that, so the practice of meditation is very necessary. The susceptible person is the person in the mind is not stable or not bright, so it is necessary to practice more Dharma. If the test found that they are not active in the work, the interior is not bright yet, how to organize the practice for the bright. Practice here is no way to be safer than knowing, knowing, active, do not let loose by anything. Being dragged by something is lost. Try to master,

We each have a deep dilemma, the Buddha called karma. Want to treat these habits, must be meticulously. Want to treat the habit, we must first be calm. There is calm new wisdom that can manage his career. Venerable teaching must be province, right. How do we always wake up well, that is normal, normal when approaching all things. Having a clear mindfulness, with the habit of being able to control, can be mastered, not led by it.

Habits are karma. As a person who has a habit of smoking, when practicing, they tell themselves to reduce or quit smoking. Under favorable conditions, not attached to drugs, they are easy to remove. But when meet charm, meet you addicted to drugs, naturally old habits appear. As well as music enthusiasts, passing the music shop naturally want to stand back to hear. So we want to control the old gas, we try to master ourselves. Effortlessly we have to try, to strive to be new master. People who know how to continuously elaborate in every situation will brighten their work is not difficult.

If there are elaborate, we will recognize the Buddha's own wisdom will show. From there all the gas can not do anything to us. Actually, the air is very thick, although I have meticulously, but to treat the air that requires determination. In order for the gas to have the opportunity to kick off or develop, our practice will encounter obstacles. Many practitioners elaborate for many years that the results are not much, because they do not master the gas. Each person has different aptitudes, no one like them. I know what I have to do is aim straight at that tu.

Once we wash the air, we will be gentle, peaceful, liberated. Then do not say the word of religion, but we achieve all that. In ancient times there were practical practices, they taught us only. Like the Tran masters, they teach us to look at ourselves, not to follow the outside. "Self-reliance, the unforgiven." Looking at yourself, rethink yourself, not being dragged outside things, this can be done by anyone. Just do not be brave, do not do continuous so not accomplished. If we brave to try to continue such a practice, will definitely achieve worthy results.

We hope that in any situation, Buddhists can master the teachings of the Buddha and apply them. For a long time we have forgotten, so it took a long time, have not tasted the benefits. Now we see clearly the method of cultivation, will definitely reach the spotlight, living with his sense of nature, not the gas to obstruct. Peaceful life, liberation is the life of the Buddha child. Vietnamese Buddhist Meditation male, through the experience of the Patriarchs, they taught the truth.

May all Buddhists care and try to apply what the Buddha taught. We have enough grace and understanding to arrive in the place will enjoy the most peaceful values ​​in Buddhism.

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ASK:

 We have constant knowledge, unmistakable immortality, but when we have an unconscious accident, such as we were given anesthesia for surgery, we do not know where it usually goes. 

ANSWER:

This is my immediate question. You know, my health is weak, I have just undergone surgery, was taken anesthesia. During the time of the anesthesia, I have absolutely no feeling, do not know anything. When in the operating room, the doctor just patted me one, he took something on my nose, then I forgot to hear some people flapping, to open his eyes, then drink water, that's how I wake up. The length of time from the anesthesia to waking up, at least two hours or more. I remember in the Buddhist scriptures also say Bodhisattva how to warm also worry. Warm way is that when we leave this body until we receive the body after, in that we forget about the previous life.

Here in particular with meditators like this, the advocacy of meditator is wisdom, alertness, clarity. So the Buddha should be promoted to wisdom always glow. As soon as we are healthy, if we do not try to receive the true wisdom of not being destroyed, then when we close the base, we will have no chance to catch up. Therefore, in the case of anesthesia is temporarily closed, so Tanh know no place to show out. But does not mean it does not. Just because we have not received and lived with it, the body is closed, we feel we do not know anything. For those who reach the direction, if leaving the body of the four elements, Tanh sense of harmony with all over. This place must be self-contained, can not use reasoning that knows. It does not lose, just not enough grace is not revealed only. This can be demonstrated, Because when the drug is gone, some people wake up we immediately know. If knowledge is not available, how do you know? It is the predominant, which is available to us, which manifests itself through the six roots. If the six faculties stop temporarily or ceaselessly, that Tanha will return to its stillness, when it is sufficiently conditioned it will emit.

We can only make that explanation, but in fact we have to know the true self, can not think and understand. Thought is not right. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/11/2017.