CHAPTER 4

THE RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF  RESIDENCE 

Layers , generally a person with personality,  responsibility  and duty to  himself ,  his family  and  the  social community . For  Buddhism , any person who, without  distinction  circumstances  backgrounds , color or  position  of social ,  vow to  follow the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha ( the Three Jewels ), keeping  the five precepts  ( Five Precepts ), operating 10 The good and  the study  at home are called  Buddhists.  

Buddhist layman  is one of two  components  disciple  of  Buddha :  Renunciation and  at home . Disciples Renunciation , holding 10 world called  novice , holds 250 world called bhikkhus. Female  priests  hold the 348 world called Bhikkhuni. 

Both rows  disciples ,  ordained  and  lay , are able to keep  bodhisattva world , if self  willingly perform  acts love, pity, Hy, Conditioner,  selflessness ,  altruism ,  sacrifice themselves  to save  sentient beings . 

Customers  ordained  retired from  relatives  and  secular , barber to the temple, living  the life  singles , with  the task  practice ,  propagate Dharma ,  leadership spirit . 

Customers  at home  with  family  and duty to  community  society , have  the task  of guardian ,  supply  needs, food to every  renunciation . 

Each party shall have the  status ,  duties  and  powers,  separate, non-overlapping but  contrary  to respect and  support  each other. Buddha  often for two rows  disciples  ordained  and  lay  like two wings of birds, meet both, the new  operating effectively  is. He  emphasized  the equality of two  disciples , not only  the  newly  ordained ordained  and  realized ,   

Of course  ,  the  monk is easy to learn, easier evidence than  at home  because  theconditions are  convenient to practice , home goods  ,  there are many things in life such as finding  livelihood , teaching children, public duties people,  time  spent in  practice  not much more is hard practicing every  ordained  much. So have a saying: "The most difficult is practicing  at home , the second difficult market cultivation, hardly three pagoda." 

The duty of  lay people  living in  the family 

Kinh  Thien Sanh  aka  Beijing Church  Life  Poetry La Vietnam [13] (Singalovada Suttanta), spoke to the  interested  profound  Buddha for the behavior of people  lay religious  home , the bond  Relate  to  family  and friends by  relatives , as follows: 

There is a young man named Sigala,  obey  loving reminder  probe before his father died,  daily  often facing six Phuong East, South, West, North, Above, Below, to  prostration . The Buddha  told him that  according to the Dharma , Six means different. 

Buddhism  teaches that the Orient is  a parent , Southern is the teacher, the West is  his wife and children , Northern friends,  relatives , neighbors, Method Under the workers and workers', Method On the  monks  and  Guru . He taught Sigala to  honor these  six. Here the word  honesty  is   very  special meaning , because people only  respect  what is  sacred , noble,  respectable . Buddhism  considers these six groups as  sacred , deserving of  reverence . 

But how to pay homage? 

Buddha  taught that only can express their  reverence  sincere  by doing their duty with them. These obligations are  the Buddha  expounded clearly  for Sigala as follows: 

First:  Parents  are  sacred  to their children. Parents  are Heaven. According to  the thought  of India ,  the word  "God" to  the symbol  of the noble and  sacred  one. So at  times  , over the  family  according to  Buddhism  devout , morning and evening every day , children  still  act to show their  reverence  their parents . They have to do some duty towards  parents  follow  the teachings of Buddha:  Care  when  parents elderly,     

As for  parents , they also have obligations to their children, to  preserve ,  teach  the children away from their wicked ways, encourage children to do the  good  and  benefit , the children were given a background  education thoughtful, find the  family of honesty  for their children to marry and the children have  grown up  , then divide  the inheritance  to them. 

Second:  the relationship  between teachers and students. The student must  respect and  obey the teacher, must pay attention to the  needs  of the teacher, if he needs, to take care of  school . To the teacher, must  conscientiously  taught to  students in a caring way,  introduce  you to the game and when the game good graduation, then try  to find  employment  to  ensure  a livelihood  for the game. 

Third :  relationship  between husband and wife. Love between husband and wife is considered almost a  lifestyle  religion, have  personality  sacred . Between husband and wife must have  trust ,  respect ,  sacrifice , and obligations  to each other . Husband must always  respect the  wife, not a lack of respect for his wife, to  love and be faithful to his wife, to  ensure the  location  and  amenities  of the wife, and should  please  his wife by giving her  medicine Dress  and jewelry. ( Event  Buddha did not forget to mention the gifts to the wife that  we  see the sensitive and  delicate than  duplicating  his conviction for  emotions  of the  human  normal ). To the wife, to homecraft attentive, do  please  guests, friends,  relatives  and employees. The wife must love  and be faithful to her husband, be sure to keep  the estate, be smart andactive  in the work. Relatives and employees. The wife must love and be faithful to her husband, be sure to keep the estate, be smart and active in the work. Relativesand employees. The wife must  love and be faithful to her husband, be sure to  keepthe estate, be smart and  active in the work. 

Fourth :  the relationship  between friends,  relatives , neighbors:  Everyone  must be kind  and affectionate  to each other , talk  fun ,  gentle , work  together to benefiteach other and treat  equally.  together , do not quarrel, but to help each other when needed and do not be  abandoned  when people encounter  situations  difficult. 

Fifth :  the relationship  between employer and employee: the employer has a lot of obligations to the servants or employees, must work to get the right job , the salary must be adequate, must  provide  Medications and  occasional  rewards for people. On the part of the employee, he must work diligently, not lazy, must be  honest  and obedient  , do not  cheat,  lie  and must be dedicated in the work. 

Friday :  contact  between  monks  and  laymen : to awe you, the  laity  must be concerned  about the needs  of material  of the  monks , the  monks  to  spread the knowledge  to  lay  with broken  hearts from  marbles ,  Compassion  and guide them on the  right path , not to the  wrong path . 

Thus,  we  have seen clearly that even a people  normally  live in  families ,  attend those  living  outside of  society , they still  enjoy  the teaching  chemistry of  Buddha,  still  can  cultivate , create the  peace in the  lifestyle  of a  Buddhist . 

The  duty  of the  deacon

Layers  are  a  large part of the two  disciples  of  the Buddha . Therefore, in addition to the duty of the  family , outside  society  and  upholding the Buddha  law who  lay still have a duty to  attempt  to practice ,  practice  to contribute to  spreading the teachings , that is contributing to  turning of the wheel  to bring Light  free life. So, ministry of lay  is  extremely  important in the development of  Buddhism  in the  sense  of forgiveness  , as well as prepare  circumstances  nice  for his freedom. Historically,  there were many Buddhist kings  who  had   great merit in propagating the  dharma, typically  the king of Asoka in  India , King  Tran Nhan Tong of  Vietnam,  and  Emperor Wu of China.

In the task of contributing to the  spread of the teachings , the  Buddhist doctrines need to do and do is to  keep the  precepts  because of  the precepts of  the Buddha in order  to prevent  the  motives of  appetite  harm , help develop compassionate  heart  to  protect Protect peace  and happiness  for yourself and others, as well as for  the social community . A  Buddhist  home  always  keep  the five precepts , do not do evil, do  good works , rich in heart  empathy ,  altruism, humble and often  to help others, as a person  as a person with dignity,  ethical high, the  way  the missionary  ideal  of every  Layman for people  around. People  around  are often unaware  of Buddhism , so they do not have  time  to learn Buddhism , so  they  tend to  judge  Buddhism  through  the behavior  of the religious people they  come in contact with  every day. In his conclusions  about  the role  of guardian  of the  lay Buddhist ,  Venerable  Thich Thanh Tu  said  that " time is spare,  Buddhists  talk  intimate  in the  family , or visiting neighbors sick .. These are the  flexible lectures   of the  layman . How to eat in  the house, neighbors treatment of  morality , he is post  sermon  lives of  Buddhists at home .    

In the line  of Buddhists at home  there are the  Bodhisattva  life of  Bodhisattva Precepts , for anyone who wants to  develop mind Bodhi :  on the  Buddha's path , under the  salvation of sentient beings . This is an important Buddhist force  at home  , both support the  monks and nuns  in teaching the  Dharma , as well as the bridge between you and the masses of  Buddhist masses . At present, there are many localities without pagodas, without Master, so the  preaching activities of  these places are mainly done by the precepts  . Currently  in  Vietnam  the number of Buddhists in Family Life  Bodhisattva Vow  not crowded, each  University World Forum  held in  Vietnam  the number of  verses Bodhisattva Vow  not exceed the number of 100; So the  Layers who  have received the  Three Jewels  have the desire  to bring  Buddhism  to every home  everywhere , the desire to contribute to the hand of the  suffering  of  beings , should be encouraged to  join  the row. This one.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.17/4/2017.