Chapter One - The Buddha
Tiet VI
Tiet VI
The Educational Spirit of Bhagavan and
the relationship between him and the disciples, devas,
Evil Lama and foreign leaders.
V iết the Exalted, the researchers Buddhism often refers to him as a god cardinal has found the path to liberation and specify this path for humanity, or referring to him as a great home ideas , a social revolutionary, etc .. But there are rare these essays, referring to his work as an educator of thought, and his teaching as an ideological system of comprehensive education and advanced.
In this weather, we learn Bhagavan through the prism of education.
As we all know, education is the culture and civilization of mankind. Buddhism, for over twenty-five centuries of influence, has contributed to human culture, if not the Buddhist can do what is known as the Buddhist culture to humanity. Events this contribution fully illuminates as a Buddhist education system.Let's find out in detail:
Education, widely interpreted, such as two-way street of learning and teaching of man from birth until death, and three environments present in daily life: family, school and society .
Buddhist karma theory of the formation of the body see the five aggregates as a result of past actions. From "New Industry" was formed through intentional actions of body, speech and mind. Buddhism advocates the liberation of industries: industrial conversion from evil through good karma, and good karma coming from liberation. That means: Buddhism is the way education Humans sided enough awareness and action, from birth until death, in all habitats.
That is the first meeting point for meaningful education and distance education environment between Buddhism and education, so that it was not until the second half of the twentieth century saw new education Buddhism.
Faith Education
Speaking of education refers to the basic beliefs of say, the open development trust forever. Education of people believe there is a nearly endless possibilities, can absorb a lot of knowledge, and can adjust any of the psychological deviance, physics, physiology and thinking itself. This is why the school has taught many courses open to everyone, including those who have mental retardation.
His ability to source, called the possibility Buddhist enlightenment that everyone can apply through self-effort. Empire Way, in the Four Truths of Buddhism, is the way he applied ability. We can say this is the insight and selfless belief is opened from the teachings of Bhagavan "Necessarily selfless approach" (Sabbe dhammā anattà - Dhp. 279).
Because awareness is selfless, selfless and is so new measures can make the metabolism of awareness and legal transformation, and new creative works.
If these measures, including awareness, the self, is never possible innovative sources appear, and never the cause of education can be made. Selfless teachings of Buddhism, like, the result made the basic beliefs of education, in other words, the belief of Buddhist education. This is the second encounter.
Goals of Education
A good educational pathways always targeted two objectives: to train people and human society itself.Human society to meet social needs such as economy, culture, education, defense, politics. The man it is the whole person's physical, psychological, physiological, willpower, love and wisdom flowing. An education system that lacks one of the two goals was an education is not complete.
Bhagavan had fully human education of her face. In social terms, Beijing Singala (School Nikaya No. 31; Han organs: Business Compassion Born, school A-levels) say the construction of six perfect relationship of society: Mutual communication between parents and children; between teachers and students; wife and husband; individual and relative, neighbor, friend; owners and workers; monks and laymen.
Angutara, Chapter Seven French, referring to the seven that make a prosperous nation, France primaries comes to a good government should implement the ten so-called "Prince of legal Cross" (France primaries and Jataka ).
Beijing cakkavatti Leo pink, School Nikaya III - No. 26, said that poverty is the main cause of theft, brutality, hatred, violence and immorality. To improve his social status, need to improve the economy by providing seeds and farming facilities to farmers, providing investment capital to the merchant, and adequate pay for workers. Then Bhagavan taught, the feast of sacrifice should be replaced by the modern diagnostic and give to the people.
Personally, Exalted taught the welfare of family life. Each individual needs to perform sufficient: (1)
- Excellent workmanship, diligence, said executive job.
- Know your spending balance, receipts (keep the revenue and the expenditure).
- Know legitimate wealth creation in its labor force.
- Know the investment.
- Know befriends friendly (Yes Gender, Faith and Wisdom).
- Know your balance and psychological health.
- Know worried about the next life: confidence, For, About and Wisdom.
- Learn to live in the present, as all thinking, do not regret the past, not future fantasies ....
With educational content, the only modern school of the twentieth century, with a perfect education system including educational enough psychological, physiological, and aesthetic, caught the spirit of the new content and teaching that's Buddhist education.
Personal responsibility
The first is personal responsibility. Bhagavan does not teach people to depend upon him, to entrust himself to any power at all. He teaches "Thou shalt do thy work, because the Tathagata teaches only path" (Dhp XX 4). "You are your own refuge, who else could be the refuge". (Dhp. X II 4). "The leader of the Justice, the owner, the creation ..." (Dhp. I, 1).
Speaking of business, and the Central Business Anguttara states: "He is the agent, business owner, who is the heir of the now" (2).
Without personal responsibility, the Buddhist cause and effect there is nothing to talk about anymore, Buddhists no longer have a reason to be in life. Without personal responsibility, the school also can not establish educational, social and law enforcement will have no place, life will sort.
Spirit of personal responsibility education must always be carried out well in a perfect education system.
This educational spirit caught the spirit of Buddhist education for more than twenty-five centuries.
Individualized Education
Effective educational methods and the most reasonable of the modern school is an individualized education methods that are not mass education. Because each student has the condition, sexual, physical, emotional, intellectual and different living conditions, should be accepted the conditions and different educational methods.
Personal spiritual education reflects the spirit of education "joints" of Buddhism. The Buddha was really apply principles from the beginning contract teaching body. Photos lotus lotus ponds have not stemmed out of the mud, with just the lotus stalks out of the mud, there are lotus stems halfway up the country, there are lotus stalks themselves out of the water, absorb sunlight and fragrant shine. Likewise, there are apartments where people disagree, someone quickly understand, someone dull, heavy people participate, someone serious about golf, someone weighing about si, someone like a net, some people like hyperactive etc .. But all through the process of education, like the lotus in turn will take out of the country to directly absorb the teachings of liberation. So do not hesitate to Bhagavan teaching line, depending on the base edification, encouragement makes them the benefits, peace and liberation. Buddhist terminology is often said there are 84,000 legal subjects, to adapt to different inborn 84,000 people.
Later, during the development of Mahayana Buddhism, the spirit of "slots" to get through the teachings uphold "five ministers", "Tam admitted", "second redundant" and "Best excess" of Sutra Flower.
Bhagavan was very skillful use spirit "joints" in the linguistic expressions, manner of expression, and psychological adaptation for audiences to hear French, but we face many of the classics through Buddhism.
When to farmers, Bhagavan used language and images farmers; Sat-soles to them-profit, Brahmin, Exalted engaging expression and their own language.
In addition to the French speaking audience heard, Bhagavan also said France right time and the right place, making the effect of the French are more efficient. This meaning is also included in the spirit of "joints" thing.
Exalted precepts are also set out principles joints: monks and nuns, Male, Female lay with its own rules.
The subjects to meditate and meditation are just different training for different inborn (The evidence will be presented in Chapter Dharma).
In order to clearly see the effects of this muscle Khe spirit, we can cite the following simple example:
Rice is a nutritious food for everyone (this is the meaning "Deed"). But the amount of rice to be used differ between adults and children, amid ill health with time (this is the meaning "joints"). Rice came to me no other than the fasting time. This is also the meaning of "joints".
Modern education has applied the principle of "joints" in teaching, in the selection of courses, majors, careers for students with a good technique called technical education. Educational technology accompanied by educational psychology is modern highlights, Advancement of modern education. Rate this Carambola education of Buddhism have to wait until the second half of the twentieth century, the new man on campus use, new catch it.
Spiritual Reality, Reality
Spirit of distinguished education that Bhagavan is spiritual teaching "Practical Present", or spiritual practice, reality.
The "Tree Lau" teaching: (3)
"No coal was over,
not looking forward to the next,
living now with the current,
therefore, individualized color magic,Because of the desire to come,
Because coal was over.
Fools should wither,
leaving the branches As blue mop. "
Beijing "Ananda has come into" record: (4)
"The past is not traced,
not future desires,
past is to make an end,
the future has not yet arrived,
the current legal Only,
Wisdom is here ...".
With human life, only now are real (relative). Live means live in the present, live in the present; in other words, only the living present. Currently living right with practical spirit. Laments regret the past or future dreams not only for themselves in non-food place, and let himself entangled in psychological disorder, suffering and loss of current is, the current dynamic, new cool, creative, full of life meaning, and can now be permanent if you know convince (to dispel the notion of time).
If you do not accept the present as it is, to effectively use intellectual ability and your going to peacefulness, happiness and liberation, then, as the Buddha says, its capacity will wither identity quickly as blue mop leaving the branches. My life is happy and withered like.
If you go into a modern educational psychology, especially psychotherapy industry (Psychotherapy), we will see instant results, most of the disorders, melancholy of youth (or human, in general ) are due to human thinking caused, especially thinking about the past is not practical, the future of the flighty. There are the results of education statistical conclusion: Maybe 90% lost his life by thoughts and fantasies that mistake.
It is easy to understand! These events nasty incidents happened to her, causing her sorrow for the few, but their thinking about the events that disturbed, your troubles are many. Besides, think about the past and future lost only practical time and energy, the time and energy should be spent on bringing the joy for yourself.
Thus, the present and here as a safe island that Bhagavan has only refuge for people from crashing to sink into the ocean of delusion sorrow, and so that means life can go on, happy that thousands of people go searching.
After returning to the present, people have to know how to do all the thinking and desires (Venerable Ca-fried-performing economic interpretation Nhat Da sage): Like it or not want what, thinking or not thinking of what to get practical benefits.
In the Cula-Mãlunkyaputta (5), Mãlunkyaputta posed ten questions to ask Bhagavan metaphysical (permanent or impermanent world? Tathagata exist after death? Etc ..) Bhagavan was silent not answer . He tells a story Mãlunkyaputta been poisoned arrows. The issue is urgent surgery immediately detoxification, rather than looking for problems that industry tops arrows and shoot arrows before his surgery. Likewise, the urgent problem of man is pulling the arrow "suffering" and not to seek the answers to the metaphysical issue is not practical.
Once in Kosambi (Samyutta Nikaya V), the Exalted taught the monks: "What the Tathagata knows likened Simsapa leaf forests, and what the Tathagata teaching is less like the leaves in my hand, but here are methods other than suffering. " That is the nature of reality, real, very practical present the teachings of Bhagavan.
In other trading, the current practical significance is also Bhagavan explained: Observe self, self-interested to see what greed, hatred and delusion to rid the current practical.
Teaching about happy family life, as described in the previous section, the very real nature of the educational spirit of Bhagavan, Bhagavan was not only for his disciples to go into prayer or ritual on the way to find happiness. He taught: International Forum International Forum is meant to give, to help others and most significant international forum is the main practice of self-liberation. (6)
Spiritual practice, the fact that a prominent educational spirit of modern educational psychology. Through his spiritual practice, Buddhism emerged very nuanced as "education".
Critical Spirit
One other outstanding spirit very "college", a "science", which surprised the researchers religious, critical spirit is based on the experience of life itself between this smooth. When counsel who are bewildered Kalama previous suspicion of pagan statement only for their teachings are true, is the number one, the Exalted says: "Behold the Kalama, do not be guided by the report, or by tradition or by rumors. Do not let be guided by canonical jurisdiction, or by mere reasoning, or by inference, or by superficial judgment, or because of the theoretical interest, or by things 'seem' can occur, or by the thought 'this is our gurus'. But this of Kalama, when the Mr. himself know for sure that these things are good as well, accept and follow them. " (7)
Bhagavan taught his disciples even consider Bhagavan was evident his dignity.
Critical spirit that has always tied to reality, reality, very objective, very understanding not to let people be aware of slavery under any power, any power. Currently, critical spirit as a standard for the university spirit.
Spiritual Guidance
As previously cited, Bhagavan Bhagavan confirmed only the directions, and get the job they have to do by yourself. Beijing Venaka Mahamoggallana (Central III) Beijing Great Nirvana (the II School; Chinese organ: Bat Nirvana) wrote: At the time of going to die, Bhagavan refused leadership Sangha when Illustration A Exalted -nan ask for words of the leaders of heresy, and he came to wonder that after the death Exalted, the Sangha will be no one leader. Exalted says: "Relying on France, the French leader".France here must be understood as a path to peace, happiness and liberation. A full forty-five years of teaching, Bhagavan always the directions that never ordered or forced anyone to obey Him.
Guiding spirit of modern educational psychology, educational direction and the basic spirit of the new education, cloning. Accordingly, a good teacher is a psychological guide.
Thus, the Exalted has paved the way for an advanced education for over twenty years since the last century, through educational spirit guides are people, very human in understanding attitude.
North organ Bhagavan looked like a king physicians, patients see beings and drugs. Well, it's just the spirit of directions. In Nikaya and A-levels, Exalted uphold the miracle method, through body and speech teacher teacher, by observing and analyzing reality. The purpose of His teaching is to help people recognize themselves heard path and do your own path.
Spirit Incentives
Educational spirit "guide" is inherently a unique educational spirit was Bhagavan maneuver parallel to the psychological encouragement, encouragement that people need such as oxygen.
Nikàya and A-levels are usually recorded: "Bhagavan has preached and encouraged, making them the benefits. Until the sages school property should still be encouraging Bhagavan".
The product "Herbal Du", "crude", "Universal Worthy" of the Lotus also revive the spirit of Bhagavan was encouraging.
Until the last moment of this life, do not forget Bhagavan also encouraged the monks: "The compounded is impermanent, be diligent to let no distractions," and encouraged the steward of his precious body "Hey Ananda, let no grief, not how long it will attain what he has not attained". (Mahaparinibbana Sutta, Digha I, 1991).
From the industry expertise of modern educational psychology encouragement was called "Encouragement" and reminded the teachers, therapists, psychologists, do not ever forget that his pupil and his client are need encouragement.
It's amazing, way more than twenty-five centuries have applied Exalted skillful psychological encouragement along the way his teaching.
Spiritual confidence, self Chairman
Encouraging is preparing to build a sense of self-confidence and autonomy of the disciples.
Besides the teachings presented transparent truth about suffering, pain episodes, samudaya kill, and kill leading file format, Bhagavan confirmed that by his own efforts, humans can accomplish liberation in life present. Only for people returning to their own refuge is teaching people back to self-reliance.
Confidence indispensable for the practice of liberation. It is also indispensable for the hungry. Others do not believe we could do it, but do not believe in yourself then it is difficult to live, or false if it is possible to live the life that has lost.
In practice transformation roadmap psychology, teaching credit Bhagavan is beginning to rapture, happiness, calm ... St. Tu-momentum-completion is defined as any rotten faith in the path of liberation mine.
Events Bhagavan was born and practice until the director's credit event set itself the human being at the center of the life and death obscure, immense.
In addition to the direct teachings encouraging his disciples, Bhagavan also use indirect forms, such as the case where he claims attainment of some young students (novice). Typically, cases disciple of Venerable Sariputta and the disciples of the venerable A-recruiter-term-momentum (presbyters Raise the shelf), through some direct disciples enter old age, some of the pagan monk, some cases of such Ton Ni ni Patacara, who suffered spectacular in life to the point of despair (Theri) etc ..
Choosing Venerable Sariputta as "Dharma Army General", Venerable Moggallana predicate "second disciple" of Bhagavan (the two venerable convent after a thousand other disciples and smaller age many others) and Venerable Upali (barber) chaired the Law, also speak a certain sense more incentives, in addition to the intrinsic value of this venerable. This is the faith and encouragement that Bhagavan for Sangha that enlightenment is not necessarily related to practice time, age or social class. Anyone can attain the supreme insight, according to his practice efforts.
Exalted case the venerable Nan-momentum (Nanda) is a typical case say psychological effects of Bhagavan encouraged.
Nan-momentum venerable maze capital's beauty bride (inappropriate care) should not be religious.Bhagavan means wield divine powers put Nan-Da Hell. At that demon underworld Nan-momentum seen only pan of boiling oil, and said: "This oil pan waiting venerable Nan-da, who are lazy to practice." Then Bhagavan gave up visit Nan-momentum "Three decades celestial triangle". Here, the promised waiting Fairies magnificent venerable Nan-momentum coexist, if he came to practice diligently. Return to Earth Nan-momentum venerable wife does not remember anymore, just think of fairies and effort to practice, then, elect always Sainthood.
Depending on the sentiment that Bhagavan was encouraging, Presbyterian Increase Shelf scored a highlight color case other incentives, maternal cases of venerable Sariputta.
When alive, when he came to was the firstborn of the Tathagata, she often scolded venerable as rabies, leaving them to beg wealthy but strenuous. Whether that follow pagan mother, worship Brahma, but not the mother venerable teachers and export by teachers themselves, and did not find any better way is there to endure the scolding mother, every time he came to see her. Until the day was about to Nirvana, Venerable returned home to visit his mother and manifested diarrhea. The king of the world turn to God Education attendant please do most venerable in the last hours. Even King Brahma also to ask servant, Venerable rejected them all. After the King of Heaven to leave, new mothers Venerable asked him about the king of heaven. Venerable said: "King of Heaven to the final is king Brahma, the mother worshiped". Mothers rejoice in awe, realizing that her child was directed to make big. She spent foreclosure joyful heart ... Knowing that time the mother arrived, he came to collect the body and mind pure photography and my mom said French. She immediately attained even Tu-momentum-complete results, thanks to the encouragement previous section, venerable instant nirvana that spot.
In psychological terms joy, rapture, happiness, liberating teachings listeners can be very easy to enter.
Thus, the organ of the North, according to the best traditions often praise, praise, encouragement of people maintain life, recite, transcribe and said the classics. This is a form of self-confidence building steps for the practitioner in input liberation.
Diamond Sutra and the Lotus Sutra may be typical of the spirit that encourages self-confidence. A short that the Diamond Sutra to fourteen times Bhagavan who praised the virtues of life over, reciting, said the ...
Through the area of education in school, self-reliance is a virtue that education is responsible for human construction. By lack of self-confidence, it will lack autonomy and student dependence, no effective use of autologous ability to solve personal and construction.
Lack of self-confidence, the educational psychology can not use techniques to help educate youth to solve their problems, and no ability to use creativity. As the psychological problems of young individuals are not resolved effectively, the teaching and learning will not take effect.
Going into the national social problems, a mighty nation can not be the result of the construction of the younger generation lacks self-confidence and more melancholy.
Just a simple look like, we also recognize the importance of encouraging the spirit of education and self-confidence. The spirit that was Bhagavan educate His disciples how twenty-five centuries ago.
Spirit of Independence, Except Slavery
Buddhism teaches people to go into liberation, that is away from all bondage, all slavery. Biggest slave phenomenal world is enslaved his desire itself. Desire is the root of ignorance. It is the Noble Eightfold Path leading to alobha, adosa, delusion, escape from every yoke of suffering. Perform this road is done step by step self-knowledge, self-control, or ownership. Such an education would be the type of training to master; living benefits for themselves and society, for the happiness of individuals and society, smashing every yoke tied inside and outside.
Education independent spirit, autonomy for youth is a social objective that schools need to take seriously.That spirit of Buddhist education, therefore, consistent with the education and culture of the country.
Develop educational spirit alobha, very angrily, and an extensive si more, we see a positive spirit of Buddhism contributed significantly to the building of good society.
Acquiring unbridled greed, the youth will put themselves corrupt leadership of society, or at least does not create favorable conditions for corruption arise. In the name of spirituality, corruption-prone than those excluded in the name of other educators.
Adosa will quell some rebellious phenomenon, dispute, cause trouble in society.
Amoha will help extend the line to the intelligence and creativity of ornate factors well, and of human civilization.
It is regrettable if a direction of Buddhist education nice and not aggressive like to learn effective use of existing and new roads.
The above is not only a spirit of Buddhist education is drawn a discrete manner, which is situated in a consistent look, with inclusiveness and integrity.
The Comprehensive Child Education
An education that teaches the knowledge or expertise to an afternoon meeting the social goals of education is not comprehensive.
An education that only provide knowledge, exercise and some moral issues, ethical, full convention is not comprehensive.
An education that transmit knowledge, fitness, sexual ethics, fine education, labor physiology and does not tell the full meaning. The issue of education pathways become full or not is therefore consistent look and comprehensive human or not.
Placing such issues is the problem of educational type. What are human beings that need to be determined before deciding on the content to be taught and teach people what like.
The advanced education guidelines are often unstable in the construction of this type.
Buddhist particularly prominent in the intellectual, human and see things as they really are, so hope to be promoted to a possible ideal type.
This world born by Coast. Humans born due Coast. The world and human nature together with Dependent students should he be in a relationship of duality. Individuals, families and society in which the correlation duality.
Bhagavan defines the so-called man is only a collection of five aggregates (form, feeling, perception, volition and consciousness). These five is also the world, according to the teachings of Bhagavan (Samyutta Nikaya IV, Beijing and many other products Migajala). Human education is a comprehensive educational Five Aggregates.
On the aggregate of form, specify the human and physical world, the birth, existence and its decay.Similarly for the remaining four aggregates. Five Aggregates empty, no self, we are existence of interdependence should impermanence and suffering. However, according to Buddhist wisdom, the five aggregates, not the root of suffering. Education is key to specify craving, attachment, is the root of suffering is not the physical world often fluently, and also specify the root of happiness, happiness is wisdom or intellectual liberation. From here, Buddhist educators should identify a number of educational content: Wisdom (wisdom) rather than knowledge (knowledge). Product knowledge is only thinking of selfhood, a part of the human factor, that is not the whole person. It does not tell the reality of selflessness and true happiness self. Only when wisdom (right understanding and right thought) are present, the new comprehensive human presence. Comprehensive education is to educate both providers has facilitated knowledge for wisdom that arises.
Standard value is happy rather than moral.
If we can not deny the goal of life is happiness, the standard value of life is happiness, rather than moral principles than conventional or discipline of the old school. In the new school, the whole person accepts and retains the moral point, disciplined match headed towards her happiness.
For example, lying is bad, according to moral principles. But lying to the other sufferings. Schooling in this case, to choose the benefit and happiness of the country and its people to tell the truth rather than harmful.
Art education, emotional and physiological.
The study of music, art, etc .. emotional aesthetic and physiological needs to be brought into the schools to teach students appropriate for each age group. The disciplines needed to be assessed as the other social sciences.
An education system that does not recognize the importance of aesthetic education, emotional and physiological are also misleading, is not comprehensive. The main problem of education is to help youth know how to look and know how to live to bring happiness to oneself and to society.
Human problems with traditional culture.
Culture, tradition is a product of man. So, to put people and the happiness of man before the culture and traditions. Put people back culture, tradition is put the plow before the ox. Buddha says: "Do not let be guided by tradition ...". Comprehensive new education and maintain the traditions just good, old culture what suits this educational direction. The main role of comprehensive education is to build a comprehensive new culture.END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/11/2016.
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