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Each year there are three months of residence for monks and nuns, from the full moon of April to the full moon in July. As a result, I was present at the ceremony for you, but since I was not present that day, so today, as usual, all monks and nuns remind me of your spiritual practice. This settlement.

This year's residence in monks and nuns is very crowded. You are in the hospital as well as foreign Normal Hospital Cheddao is applied exactly as the Buddha taught three months retreat.

 The meaning of meditation retreat, the following will add more necessary. Everyone knows that April is the beginning of the rainy season in Vietnam, in India this month a lot of rain. In the old days of the Buddha, monks and nuns often go to teach here and there, at least in one place to rely on the Venerable Masters, Venerable virtue high professed reminder only teachings. In rainy season, the beetles are very angry. Monks, nuns going, going there will trample them. The Buddha, because of his compassion not only loved the people but also loved all the small ants, did not stamp on them during the flood season. Therefore, Buddhism made three months to settle in a place to avoid killing insects.

Thus, the three months of residence is to allow monks and nuns not trample the same antecedent offenses committed murder, speak of the immeasurable compassion of the Buddha. Next, in the retreat season, monks and nuns gather in one place, invite the high virtue reminders, teach the practice. Thanks to those experienced on the path of spiritual advance, teach only to the next. Therefore, in the mass of people have enough conditions to progress, not obstacles, do not step back.

In short, the season of residence has two meanings: to show compassion that does not harm sentient beings, and concentrates on teaching the monks. Thanks to the virtuous leaders who taught for only three months, monks and nuns practiced diligence and good results. Thus, in the past, there were monks for three months. If they approached a good result, but the rest of the day settled, they asked the Buddha to stay in further to achieve the results such as Tu-momentum, Tu-momentum, etc. Sedition is the monks' season, nuns try to cultivate to advance the fruits or the deeds that did not advance before. That is the main point that all monks and nuns today must remember.

 According to the Buddha's teachings, we also calm down. This time I do not show compassion like the Buddha's time, only together in one point, an area to try to diligently practice. Regardless of the previous generations, understand more, instructors only teach us to try to achieve good results. Thus, the focus of today's sedentation is more a matter of study than fear of dying ants. So three months of residence is very precious.

One twelve months we are busy with issues, such as Buddhist communication, or because of other conditions you go here and there, not in an effort to cultivate. By the season of settling everything is set aside, devote all your energy to the study only, hoping that all of you must try to bring all your energy and learn to achieve good results.

Although three months not long, but with strong will, with enthusiasm without boundaries, we can also do some of the results on the path. Already a Buddhist monk, or monk, or nun, can not learn secular things. We are not economists, architects, diplomats, scholars ... but practitioners. Why do I say so? Because on the path, when it comes to effort, to try to cultivate is to refer to the liberation of life and death. We are enlightened to realize all the truths of man and of the law. Therefore, we put a lot of effort to achieve results.
Religious practitioners can not afford to make money, but instead concentrate on spiritual practice. So, our time can not be focused on other things. The practitioner is honest, peaceful, not a good communicator.

Monks and nuns must do in their lifetime to realize the truth, to free themselves from birth and death, not to make people's hearts. If the cultivator is willing to let everyone be happy and satisfied, it is unknowingly that we become a diplomat, not a monk. We learn to understand, understand to cultivate, not a high degree scholarship, the function of this department. If for the degree, because of that office, it is the scholar not the priest.

The Buddha's teachings are very true, that is the truth, that when the religious education is still narrow so do not understand. Therefore, must be the first step, the master instructors only teach to understand, understand and application of tu, not run by degrees, is satisfied. This is very important. Thus, a monk must practice how, what to do, today I will remind all monks remember.

We need the most and simplest is to have two sides, compassion and wisdom. Compassion should hurt all beings, love all people, all species. Bring loving compassion, help, shelter for sentient beings. Compassion is not enough, it must be wise wisdom, see the truth, achieve truth, to bring that truth just tell everyone to see the same enlightenment as yourself. Therefore, wisdom and compassion are not separate.

Ordinary people always think of compassion before and after the wisdom, but really wisdom must come first and then compassion. Because, seeing the truth, knowing the truth makes us free from misery caused by ignorance. When we see the truth, looking back at our fraternity, our friends are still in the darkness, we do not have the heart to let them suffer, so bring all their knowledge to remind friends, relatives, All people see, understand to help them less suffering. It is compassion.

Wisdom and compassion are the two keys of the spiritual practitioner. So, when it comes to refuge in the Buddha is to say refuge with the level of ductility. Ambition is twofold, blessing and wisdom. Blessed full, full knowledge, it is the Buddha. We always respect, respect the Buddha because he is full of wisdom and compassion. How do we follow the Buddha must do? It is also full of these two parts, so there is the saying: "Blessed two-dimensional method of Buddhism." Blessed is compassion, wisdom is wisdom, both are completely new to Buddhahood. Those who lack the blessings, lack of wisdom is never a Buddha.

On the way, although the Buddha taught a lot of methods, but the basic truth is enough blessings and wisdom. Without these two, they are not worthy of cultivating. Whenever monks and nuns gather, there are also quarrels, which are lack of compassion. Because of lack of compassion, they do not love each other, do not forgive each other, do not teach each other, so new born quarrels, won the fight, not worthy of a practitioner.

Tu is to learn, to develop wisdom, try to meditate for the glowing wisdom, thus fully qualified as a monk. This is essential for all monks and nuns. It can be said that we can achieve all, we can not lose everything. What was all is? The purpose we are cultivated on the courtesy gratitude are: parental grace, the blessings of the Buddha, national grace, blessings; Under the help of three lines of suffering. If we can be able to reciprocate four graces, to help the three lines of suffering, that is all. On the contrary, if you can not cultivate it, then lose everything, because you can not answer the four graves, do not help three lines of suffering, so lose everything.

You are in the hospital as well as the hospital, have settled, try to correct the meaning of sedentary. This is the focus, is to create good conditions favorable for all monks and novices. If we can not cultivate harmony, we will face the opposite how do we cultivate? Therefore, cultivators must always remember the graciousness, because of the gracious reward, we have to work hard, try to practice worthy.

What is the Four Points? That's parental grace. If we can cultivate the blessings of parents. The Buddha taught a son enlightened enlightened parents are born natural. The Buddha after the enlightenment, his mother and father are also full of merit born in heaven. It was the Buddha who gave his parents.

The Buddha did not have to wait when the parents died and then the new gift, but when the parents still have money, to practice for good results. Parents see the monk, moral growth, also happy depending on which the following. Because of the way to escape suffering, not fall into the evil tam, the next life can return to being or birth in the realms. Although we have not yet attained enlightenment but with the determination to cultivate righteousness can also bring concrete benefits, parents, brothers and sisters to develop the same mind with us. That is the gift of parents.

We can cultivate the new Buddha or the Patriarch. The Buddha or teacher want to teach disciples practice good results, so in the Buddha used the sentence: "Temple is not a blessing Buddha Temple. What is wrong? The Buddha has entered Nirvana, the same foundation, but because of sentient beings, they only teach us to follow the light of wisdom, to illuminate beings. We obey Buddha's words, try to torch light for light, guide people to escape the night of suffering. That is the Buddha's blessing in the spirit of moral application, according to their wishes. This is very noble, very precious.

Next is national grace. If we cultivate enough virtue, then teach people to live honestly, lovingly, with each other with compassion. Ignoriously see bugs do not do, try to do things or beautiful. Thanks to that, bringing security to the country, happiness for everyone, helping the country prosper. It's a national gift.

We do not have to make rice for ourselves, but we all look after our benefactors. Buddhists treasure the monks' nunners so this maid, the maid, so that we can safely practice. People with great merit help me cultivate, can not forget. We cultivate well, welcome home the results are worthy, they also study together. It is our grace.

Thus, thanks to the four reciprocal we pay tribute, also thanks to the monk who saved the three suffering: hell, hungry ghost, animal. Monks and nuns teach Buddhism to avoid doing evil. Do not create evil should not fall into hell, so as to save beings from hell. Due to the greedy, slippery, malicious, should be hungry ghost. We cultivate and bring the dharma, compassion guide only teach people less greedy heartless, no evil spirits. So saving them does not fall into the ghost. Animal beings are not distinguish good evil, good evil, blame, etc. We cultivate wisdom by clearly seeing blasphemy, evil good and evil ... From that guide only teach people to avoid evil do good Blessed, abandoned by the main evil. That is to save people from the animals.

To save the three paths of suffering is to save oneself not to suffer the fruit of the three paths, not to mean the three paths to save all beings in it. Rescue here is to save the hell, the demon ghost, human birth. Human rescued, it will definitely escape. Obviously thanks to the temple on the four gifts, under the help of three lines of suffering.

We wear dressage monks in the temple or in the ventricular without trying, without effort, we have nothing, for the grace, the evil do not help anyone. By not helping anyone lose everything. Therefore, monks and nuns should strive diligently to practice, take advantage of the three months of sedentary life, each of them self-effort to fulfill the obligations of a cultivator. That is essential.

Furthermore, if practically a cultivator, you must practice these three key points. The first point is to remove defilements. If the cultivator that morning sad, anger, so there is something called tu? Because we try to embrace hugs happy sad, no joy on the way, how to benefit people. Therefore, the practitioner must first remove the defamatory anger. Whoever speaks better than me, who despise me, that is also a fantasy game. Here, we must expand compassion, to be enlightened, not to lose, to harass, afflicted to lead ourselves in misery, where there is no benefit that embrace forever. Already in the cycle can do nothing else. I myself am corrupted, also ruined all people rely on me. Therefore, the person who is determined to cultivate, to remove all afflictions in the heart. Angry ai, sad ai, hum, ai bother all set aside. Remember it's not worth the kid games, no problem, go away. We have been the Buddha, the Children can not do children, the work of the fool.

Initially you try to clear up the afflictions, the good faith in the faith, good.

Next, the second step, when we abandon the afflictions, then we open our compassion, love the people, love everything. Seeing a fellow traveler who is in adversity, we can help, trying to help you to progress. It is compassionate, compassionate companions, by our side. Do not ever have the idea to impede others' spiritual practice. If compassion is not pervasive throughout the world, at least around the neighborhood, around you, how happy everyone is, and safe to cultivate together.

Do not think I cultivate or despise cultivating people, making them afflicted. Or this person sees the other person has a lot of means during the practice, his lack of frustration to say oblique, said piercing, etc. .. never have that mind. We have to cultivate compassion, sincerity, love, help each other, how can everyone around, progress. That is the real people who are religious.

Third, there must be wisdom. Monks and nuns come here to come, not because of a trivial reason. So we have to open the eye of wisdom, can not cultivate dark blindness, do not recognize the righteous. Therefore, the first point is diligent study, to promote the teacher, then try to meditate to calm the mind. The mind is calm, the wisdom is illuminated. From the moment we step into unlearned, we have to work, need to open these two bright, do not let the dark blind. That is the so-called true practitioner, according to the Buddha's teachings.

If not do these three is not tu. If you do not get it all you expect is lost. Today, I am reminded of all the monks and nuns who are trying to save me. Three months for spiritual practice, which we do not try to practice, is a blame. We do not fulfill our duty to support the people who are waiting, is irresponsible. I wish all monks and nuns in Changshu Indo-Indochina, as well as foreign hospitals, to strive diligently to practice meditation for the rest of this year to achieve the best results. Those in the institute must set an example for everyone around him. Such a worthy is the disciple of the Buddha.

Every year after the retreat season, all the monks and nuns of the congregation gather to celebrate my birthday, which is to congratulate me one more year. I also congratulate all of you to be one year older. Usually in the world, each year to the first day of the New Year people celebrate one another. In the direction of the full day of July as the day of celebrations, congratulating each other. Life expectancy is the life expectancy of the body, the life expectancy is the life expectancy of the body. The two sides are different.

The one-year-old's body is near to death in part, so the longer the life expectancy, the closer it is to death. In contrast, the longer life expectancy in the path is, the closer to the Bodhi fruit, not near death. The retreat season is the time we accumulate merit, spiritual effort to grow virtue, intellectual growth. Virtue, intellectual growth, growth of the body of wisdom. How do Buddhists cope each day each wisdom grows to fullness, called the fruit Bodhi.

Each year monks and nuns try to cultivate in three months of diligent practice, always alert, thanks to that virtue that intellectual growth. If each year wisdom increase, the path to the fruit of Bodhi is as close. I think that through a retreat season, all monks and nuns are happy to be nearing the Bodhi tree of the Buddha. Then a religious age is a happy and happy. One year old is worrying, scary because of dying. So the noble age is very precious, the disciples ordained by the Buddha, everyone tries to make a worthy of a religious director. Do not leave a sedentary season, add an age that only on the number, on the form, not on virtue. That is sad.

This year, monks and nuns are blessed with a new blessing together in one place, on the lower teacher has friends, around the Buddhist support for his tu complete, not obstacles. Intellectual knowledge always pushes us forward, it is great grace, must strive to comply with the vows, meaning three months of retreat. I remind all monks and nuns to clearly realize the importance of such a calm season. Must remember and practice well.

Next, I reminded the monks and nuns of all religious practices in all time. All those who have vowed to go home are called monks. It was a cultivator who did not accept his personal position but determined to reach the Divine. If you accept the faction, let the hair in life, do not go to practice? We shaved our hair is not like, not buried in the mundane world.

Volunteering to practice free practice, immediately to proceed to the Divine. Wanting to go to the Sacred Heart but only speaking in tongues, ideas, not practicing the teachings of the saints, can not advance to the saint. We leave the habit of renouncing the habit, the old habits of the secular, follow the saint. How about the temple discharge rate? Full discharge 100% or discharge, but unfortunately. About three-quarters of a dozen percent, still retained the sixty dozen do not discharge, is that not? That's not right.

We remember the discharge from the family form to the problems in the mind. The day before living with the parents of kinsmen, now leave the secular family, let go of what the warriors enjoy, like the true fame, to step into the direction of the Holy. All that the world is drowning, we crossed over. It is very difficult to step out of the secular house, but the habit of practicing the world we are not exhausted yet? It's a question everyone has to ask themselves and answer themselves.

Sue love is where beings are sunk, Buddha said very pitiful. How do monks and nuns practice as we are? As long as love or escape from the net of love? If they are submerged in the river of love, then the cultivators are Bat-sailors rescue them up. What is Bat-elegant? Is wisdom Beings are we must light, beings are infected, we must be freed. That is the true meaning beyond the river of love. I crossed over to rowboat Bat-save people rescue.

Are you currently boating Bat-elegant, or are you racing with beings in the river of love? This question should be re-set for each of them. Are we sailing Bat-salvaged people who are engulfed in the river of love or we are also diving in the river of love like they? If you are swimming in the river like the delirium as people are then a great disadvantage for yourself. Because beings do not have the vow to escape, so they dive in it. We have the vow of escape, but also how to swim in it? People have hair, let's say sailors meet in there, they raise their heads up, take the hair pulled on the boat also. The bald head, where the hair that grabbed the handle, there emerged no one can pick up. I say jokingly but it's a fact.

A cultivator who does not recognize the truth, does not recognize his own worth, then he is no longer saved. It is better to be ignorant that can awaken, can save. Already a cultivator who is still immersed as life is not saved. I say that for you to understand the meaning and value of cultivators.

We have gone to the monastery, determined to practice liberation, there is no reason to turn back to secularization. I ask monks, do you regret the mundane? I do not know if it's a pity that sometimes a couple want to turn their heads around. So we have to understand and remember our responsibility, not to fall into the unfortunate circumstances. What I'm doing can not be any different, can not be forward but regret the story behind. Have the courage to rise, move forward, not backward. Back is lost both. Losing normal people because they live in the same way and lose their minds.

So I went to practice that is discharge. Discharge from the family form, dress outside, and even indulge in internal contemplation. Whatever form of equanimity that is ritual discharge is not only the secular form, not the other mind. We have been ordained but have not yet attained the result, but the mind is directed towards the path. Having turned to the result of the world, all things of the world must be cut off, let go, not grip, regret. So worthy is the cultivator.

Discharge form is not difficult but very difficult to discharge. Those who left the house to go to the monastery initially very grateful, thought of all the discharge but into the temple and then again can not discharge. What does not float? In life there are good names, I go to the pagoda is no longer not good, so it is easy to discharge the fame, but flabbergasted try to fall over, it is difficult to lose.

Although the temple has the form of a cultivator who still accept more than that loses, we must be wrong, we are right wrong, we are the other evil, etc. We do not discharge that mind. So worthy to enter the temple then is the gentle man, the teacher, the Buddha teaches how to do exactly the same, but in fact not so. A brave man is ordained, but what is opposed, what is left, so that happens as usual.

At three or four people, there is a resentment of three or four. In one or two people there is a dissatisfaction of two people. At seventy-five people there were resentment of seventy-five people. Always not satisfied, not satisfied. Not satisfied, not satisfied who? Of course, the other person, according to the world, is the enemy. Those who face me, I am not satisfied, not satisfied. Just remember this person, not the other person, but if you ask yourself if I agree with your satisfaction, then it is difficult to answer. This is all you have to ask yourself.

How do you recite in the past? Promise to parents, promised relatives what, now done right? That does not remember but remember this person does not satisfy, the other bothered his heart, etc. .. The sadness of annoyance other people do not remember that he himself is not worth anything. For parents to leave the family, parents must weep, sometimes being dragged not to practice anymore, but still decisively decisive. Won the story and then lose it must be very childish harassment left out, you think? Have the mindfulness of the philistine has not disappeared?

If you do not renounce the mundane mind, then more to lose it here, it is the obstacle on the way, making the Bodhi mind dark. From then on, the ambition to become enlightened becomes the ashes, into bubbles. Desire to achieve the vow that only the hollow, how to achieve true results? If there are only bubbles. So you have to cultivate, remember the vows, the sincerity of the original.

Many of the elderly are married, have children see the suffering of human life, see the ignorance of beings, so determined to go to save their lives. But then, the secular habits of dispossess not, eventually also around the vicious, want to the extent of the person that he or she is not qualified, then who? So be courageous, have a look at the truth, you yourself always review.
Every day, every month, every year must see clearly, how much progress has been, has been good points, left any bad points. Seeing to clear up the bad things that have been learned before. No longer clinging to mundane habits can go on Holy Street. Thus, you will see the noble life, precious extremely. That's the habit of trying to get people down.

Next are the habits of anger, hatred. We should go to sad who seven days seven days, who anger five years, seven years and love anyone, hate or not? The Buddha also teaches us: "Uncontrollable hatred". They were angry at no more than one night. The monks should not have the right to be angry, but they also comfort their anger, not to be angry for more than one night. Are there too many monks and nuns living in the same place overnight, or five, seven, one, two years?

All of us are not saints, nature is bad, bad things are not happy. Not happy is angry. For those who do not know when they are angry when they embrace in the heart to take revenge. For those who know when cult or angry when meeting the wrong idea, then instantiate, do not nurture in the heart. So that's how people are cultivating. Who shaved his head, dressed in a dye that when angry demanding payment like this is still the way of the cult anymore? Such people are not worthy of cultivating.

The people who do wrong, not enough to win immediately, at least one day or seven years after the resolution, that is really a cultivator. All you have to do is always remember in mind, I was the one who gave up the position of ordinary people to advance to the throne, to abandon the old secular habits, not to nurture it anymore . That's me talking about sadness and sorrow.

Next, talk of love is love. Buddha speaking according to worldly people is the most serious disease of beings. The world is engulfed in the river of love, I have to climb up to shore, where there is no right to sink in it. I have to go out of the sea, still drowned in the sea where the cultivator is called, then there is something wrong. That is a very bad thing. We have to be brave to pass, not to repeat the old things I was tired of.

The devotee has an affection that is courageous to cut off, do not let it drag. Okay, let's go back to the Bat-sailing to save the people who are engulfing the sea. In the sutras often teach: "Never drowning can save the dead sink." Want to save the dead sink is the boat people, rowing can be saved. If you sink to the galaxy and say that saving people is not true.

Speaking of spiritual practice, we must definitely eliminate the diseases, such as anger, sadness, eczema ... These are mundane habits. We do not accept being a villain, we should not harbor those things. This is a real possibility.

Religious practitioners should walk leisurely on the shore. Gem is a peaceful shore. Why say leisurely on the shores? Because all the straps have been cut off, what makes us busy is what makes us obstructive. It is advisable to swim along the corridor. In the Master Song, Master Huyen Giac said: "Often monopoly is often monopoly, gaining the Nietzsche. It means that the enlightened ones often go alone on the shore of Nirvana. The elf is also called the Nirvana.

One side sank in the river for love of the sea, one for the leisurely side of the river, which side do we choose? When you come here you have decided, so from now on monks and nuns should be restless, leisurely on the path of enlightenment, on the shore of Nirvana, no longer be born dragged. Obviously one dark side, one bright side, the happy side we have chosen then now must keep exactly what was originally chosen.

We go to the monastery to do more and more advanced, higher nobility, the more beautiful, no more reason to go and more and more afflicted, worse worse than not yet. That is what monks and nuns really have to review themselves. The teacher who comes first, guiding us on the path that does not go, is sadly reprehensible.

Remember to refer to the tu refers to the value of a person to the ceiling, liberation, not the cliche, immersed. We have many merit should be gathered together to practice together, to nurture this grace is growing larger, do not let it wear down. The person who decides to cultivate a straight face on the path of enlightenment, should not regret looking back to the mediocre things have passed. There is a future that is worthy of the Bat-sail boat savior beings from the life of birth and death. That is the essential place, the unforgettable duty of the monks and nuns. Those who forget these things are already supporting her parents, benefactors, benefactors Master instructed.

Through a monastic residence of monks and nuns who have a moral foundation, from here on, they have to go forward energetically on the pathway, not to fall into the old way. Tu must be aware, definitely not let love. Well worth it enough practitioners merit. 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.20/4/2017.