Buddha Shakyamuni  
32.

4- Lower 24th in Jetavana (-566)

Bodhi Tree Ñnanda at Jetavana monastery [1]

The Buddha left the capital Campa of Anga, traveling northwest, to the village of Lechanankala in Kosala. Then from Lechanankala to Sàvatthi in early June. The Buddha resides in the parish of Pubbara (Dong Vien), where the Migaramatu Hall is located. Visakha visited the Buddha and said:

- Buddha, he wandered around the merchandise, just before the rainy season in Savatthi. Our disciples often remember Buddha, to the clinic is not met. Sad, we only know three rounds around the net of the Exalted and then leave.

- Visàkhà, there is no Tathagata, there are also teachers and her to learn about catechism and practice. Do not for the absence of Tathagata that neglect the study.

Venerable Ānanda asked:

- Buddha, the object can be used to beings worship, offerings, every remembrance of the Buddha? Blessedfully expressed instruction.

- Ananda, there are three types. The first is related to the body (Sarrara, amnesty), the second is the objects related to private utensils (Pàribhogika), the third is the memorial (Uddesika). Beings can worship, offering these things when remembering Tathagata.

- The Blessed One, while the Exalted Son was born, should set up the image or build his tower?

- Should not. Things to be worshiped offerings related to the body should only be created after the Tathāgata died. Things worth giving birth ceremony worship and memorial Buddha completely spiritual, without material basis. The three types of objects mentioned above are only symbolic. But the huge Bodhi tree that once had sheltered the sun for the Tathagata is a worthy object to be worshiping offerings, whether the Buddha was in the world or have died.

- Buddha, the Exalted go sermon afar, vast Jetavana Vihara no longer helpless. Goodwill from far to Jetavana do not know where to worship, offerings. Mr. Anathapindika (Anathapindika) thanks his comment about this. I wish the Exalted Lord to allow me to take the seed of the mother of the mother of God in Uruvela, planted near the gate of Jetavana, as a refuge, devotion, offering to the good of the Cross when the Buddha was absent.

- Well , Ananda, grow up. To do that as always, there is Tathagata in here .

Venerable Ānanda and Visàkhà are very happy. Venerable Ānanda asked the Venerable Moggallàna to bring to Sàvatthi a ripe fruit from the Bodhi Tree in Uruvela. Then in the great ceremony of Bodhi Tree, Mahatma Ananda offered this fruit to King Pasenadi. The king handed over to layman Sudatta Anàthapindika planted. The nun Sudattà planted a tree near the gate of Jetavana. This Bodhi Tree is named Bodhi Tree anda. Visàkhà also planted a tree near the porch of the Pubbrasma (Dong Vien). Bo Janda Ñnanda is very caring care should grow up quickly. Venerable Ānanda requested the Buddha to manifest the divine enlightenment under the tree Bodhi. The Buddha says there is no place other than the Mahabodhi area in Uruvela that can endure the power of attaining the highest eminence of righteousness, So the Buddha only entered the temple overnight alongside the Bodhi Tree Ānanda to give spiritual power to this place. From then on, whenever goodwill crosses to visit Jetavana, they pay homage to the Bodhi Tree of Ānanda.

Twelve Causality (Paticca samuppàda [2] )

One day, in the lecture hall at the Jetavana monastery, during the sermon, the Buddha said [3] :

- Hey mendicants, all beings were predestined copper 12, also internal, also foreign. The twelve causes are: The negativity of the past is called  ignorance ; Past kamma is called the  practice [4] ; In the present life, at the beginning of pregnancy is called  consciousness [5] ; Five parts of the conception, not four (eye, ear, nose, tongue) called  rupa ; When four full bases are called  continental [6] ; no distinction suffering happy called  contact [7] ; To distinguish suffering is called  feeling ; Love near the five desires called  love ; Ask for things inside and outside called  hands ; By virtue of things inside and outside that initiate the body, speech, mind, Called organic ; The present life is called the future  birth ; Current identity, identity, contact, life, called the future  , illness, death . All beings from birth to aging have all 12 such conditions; Except for the embryos (kalala) [8] at the time of inadequate 12. The beings are not real life color 3, 3 contact, 3 love, no old, sick, but also considered complete 12. Being realms of no-identity without color, no record, feeling, feeling, old, sick, but also considered complete 12, because the decision was so. Therefore, it should be said that beings are full of 12 conditions. All beings from birth to aging have all 12 such conditions; Except for the embryo (kalala) [8] at the time of inadequate 12. The beings are not real life color 3, 3 contact, 3 love, no old, sick, but also considered complete 12. Being realms of no-identity without color, no record, feeling, feeling, old, sick, but also considered complete 12, because the decision was so. Therefore, it should be said that beings are full of 12 conditions. All beings from birth to aging have all 12 such conditions; Except for the embryos (kalala) [8] at the time of inadequate 12. The beings are not real life color 3, 3 contact, 3 love, no old, sick, but also considered complete 12. Being realms of no-identity without color, no record, feeling, feeling, old, sick, but also considered complete 12, because the decision was so. Therefore, it should be said that beings are full of 12 conditions. Because the decision was so. Therefore, it should be said that beings are full of 12 conditions. Because the decision was so. Therefore, it should be said that beings are full of 12 conditions.

Stopped for a moment, Lord Buddha continued [9] :

The Tathagata, remembering past lives, when not attaining right awareness, alone in the desert, samatha meditation and vipassanà, began thinking as follows: "Questions The problem of the world is birth, aging, illness, death, change, life expectancy. But beings rely on life as if they do not know anything about the suffering. "I immediately started thinking in order to find the source of the tribulations of beings. We ask ourselves: "What should be born, what should be born should have?" After careful consideration, we know "there are [10] there should be birth, because beings should have Birth. I ask myself again, "What should be there, what should be done?" After careful consideration, we know "Because there are players [11] should have, should have. I wonder again "What French should have Player, After careful consideration, we know "Because of accepting the dharma, falling in front, thinking, thinking in the heart so craving growth. Because there is Ai should have Player. Affection, Grace, Grace, Cause, Disease, Death, Good, ball, suffering, brain . Thus, Ai itself is the source of suffering . [twelfth]

"Hey saints, what do you think? For example, thanks to the oil, the heart of the lamp, the lamp is lit. If the oil and heart increase, the lights are bright for a long time?

- Well, that's right. If the oil and the heart as much, the longer the fire.

- Hey mendicants, as well as, if for six ceiling of color, sound, smell, taste, touch, legal but as grasping, wrecked before, think, enjoy, lingering, craving increases. The more and more people, the property, birth, aging, illness, death, good, ball, suffering, the brain as well. Therefore, we must know that love is the cause of suffering . [13]

"Oursmen, I ask myself again" France should not have no old, sick, death? What French kill so old, sick, death? After contemplating, we know "If there is no birth, there is no old, sick, death. If the kill is born, old, sick, death no longer. "I ask myself again" France should not be born? What is the dhamma that is destroyed? "After insight, we know" If not, then birth; If perishable, then birth. Continuing contemplation like that, we know "If you are not free, if not, then you do not." Therefore  if the player AI kill kill, the kill is mortal, mortal shall kill, kill, then aging, illness, death, grief and lamentation, pain, brain are destroyed . Thus, want to end birth, old, sick, dead, suffering brain, one must first eliminate craving .

Hey saints, what do you think? If you throw out the heart of the lamp, pour out the oil, then the other fire or not?

- Buddha, no heart and the oil lamp to turn off course.

- Yes, this teacher, if for the Dharma teachers do not cling, on the contrary, the teacher initiate impermanent, impure, suffering, no, separation, dissolution, cessation, Do not remember thinking, not before sinking, love is not born. When the love ended, birth, old, sick, dead, dead, suffering no longer where to be present, to exist .

Buddha said this business is complete, the mendicants are happy to live the faith.

By evening, Ven. Ñnanda came to sit next to Buddha, said:

- Lord, the Paticca samuppàda is important, because this business indicates the practice of liberation. But I find this business is not difficult, easy to understand and remember. As Svastika first heard the new but smooth, no wonder.

- Ananda, you should not think so. This sutra is very deep and difficult to understand. You only understand the current level of the teacher only. You do not understand all the high meaning of business. You should continue to contemplate to find out more. Wisdom as Sariputta teacher is also not fully understand the high meaning of the twelve causes. [14]

Listen to the Buddha, Ananda recalled the conversation between Venerable Sariputta and Venerable Maha Kotthita (Mahà Kausthila), in the garden of the deer at Isipatana near Benares. One afternoon, after meditating, Venerable Sariputta went to Venerable Maha Kotthita, asked each other happily, then sat down to talk. Venerable Sariputta says [15] :

- Brother, I have something to ask, brother free to answer?

- Brother asked, what know I will answer.

- Brothers, how? Are you old?

- Yes.

- Are you dead?

- Yes.

- The old man is made by himself, or made by others, or whether he himself was made by others, or not himself is not made by others, not made by anyone?

- Brothers and sisters, death is not made by oneself, not by others, not by others and by others, not by oneself, by others. Just because there are birth should have died old.

- Thus birth, possession, love, love, feeling, contact, six sense, [16] is made by himself, made by others, both himself and others, or not himself Nor is it done by others, not by anyone?

- Brother Sariputta, the identity is not made by yourself, not made by others, not just made by yourself and not made by anyone else. Just because there is consciousness [17] should have rupa .

- Brother, is the self-made, made by others, both by himself or by others, or not himself not by others, not made by anyone?

- Brother Sariputta, do not have to do it yourself, not made by others, not just made by yourself and not made by yourself and others. Just because there is a rupa (6 and 6, the body and the mind), there is consciousness .

- Brother Mahà Kotthita, brother before said, "because consciousness should have a good name." Now, he said, "because there are so many good qualities." Why do you say the opposite?

"  Brother Sariputta, let me say, for example, that the person listening to the example immediately understood. For example, the three mop trees were erected together in the vacant land, rely on each other to stand firm. If one tree is removed, the other two can not stand; If you remove two trees, the other one will not stand. The three reeds have to rely on each other to stand firm. Consciousness and cetasikas, too, have to rely on each other to be born again [18] .

- Awesome! Awesome! Brother Kotthita (Greed), in the disciples of the Thrifty of the Buddha, brother is intelligent communication, smartly subdued, not afraid, see the French dharma. Due to the dharma law that full experience. Brother Mahà Kotthita, with unquestioned discourse, answered all questions about the profound meaning of the twelve causation. As the precious jewels of the precious world above my head, I respectfully receive the teachings of Brothers.

- Brother Sariputta,  old death is a boring disaster; Want to die old age to abandon sex, eradicate craving . When you know that boring birth, possession, love, feeling, touch, six sense, rupa, rupa must be abandoned sex, eradicate craving. Exhaustion, eradication of craving is the bhikkhu master of the bhikkhu old boring death. The place of communication, eradicating the six consciousness is the method of education, eradicate craving to free themselves from all worldly constraints, out of samsara. That was the true Master .

"Brother Sàriputta, in the disciples of the Buddha's Throne, who has the wisdom, clever subjection, fearless, see the dharmas, the dharmas themselves fully experienced, that the main Brother Sariputta. Thanks to the dexterity of the wisdom of the mind, precious as the priceless peanuts are valued by the world over the head, so I have the opportunity to answer and learn more. "

Venerable Ānanda thought, "The two brothers Sariputta and Mahà Kotthita meet with each other so thoroughly that the Buddha also said not fully understand the meaning of 12 conditions. From now on, we should meditate more and more on this topic. "

In the 12 conditions, cultivators should pay close attention to the three most important causes are Ignorance, Consciousness and Enlightenment. Because these three conditions are most easily eliminated to be freed. Another noteworthy point is that what originates in ignorance? Buddha says ignorance is not original. In the Surangama, the Buddha said " tri-tri-tri ignorance ". Meaning: From the pure, real, indivisible, without appreciation of the Enlightenment, to create a sense that distinguishes the subject and object, then entangled in the ceiling (love, Hate, praise, criticize), that is the root of ignorance.

Want to exclude ignorance, must learn the teachings to know (Enlightenment) our Pure Mind, then practice daily life with that Pure Mind by contemplating impermanence, suffering, not, not self.

Wanting to eliminate consciousness and love, you must stay in the Pine , ie to keep the six bases are pure, not infected with six bare, not born caring, not born consciousness to distinguish.

Buddha allowed to eat after lunch and keep food overnight during illness

In this year's retreat at Jetavana, there are many mastiff malaria cases. Many masters are pale, not enough to hug the begging bowl. They had to lie down waiting for the other masters to beg for food. But most foods are rice or chapati [19] with curry juice, which is too hard and dry for the sick. In this case, Visàkhà and the lay people brought to the porch offering porridge of milk, honey, fish sauce and oil for the sick masters.

One day, the Buddha heard crows screaming in the yard. Buddha step out of the am see some of the mendicants are feeding crows of precious food has been specially donated to the sick. These masters were appointed to look after the patients. They told the Buddha that the reason for having to eat this precious food was because there were many masters who had fever in the morning so it was not possible. Over time they are not allowed to eat anymore. Food is not allowed to spend the next day should be brought to the raven. So some patients have to fast for a few days. The Buddha taught:

- The teachers, from now on, during the illness, the masters have the right to life after hours, and also have the right to keep food until the next day, but must notify the leader (team leader) in advance. .

Venerable Sariputta was slandered when a young monk [20]

Venerable 24th complete, Venerable Sariputta retired Buddha to set out the way. Buddha wishes the virtuous way, gentle body, meet many favorable conditions on the way of education. Venerable Sariputta thanking the Buddha, from the mendicants and soon after.

A while later, there was a young mendicant, who was not praised by the Venerable Sariputta, who came to the Buddha and complained that he was flouted by Venerable Sariputta. How the Buddha asked how not. The young menditer replied:

- Buddha, I find this question Sariputta brothers going for the trip. I asked him where to go. He did not answer but pushed the child down and left without apologies.

Buddha told master attendant Ànanda:

" Ananda, sariputta is not far away. Please ask a novice to find the Venerable Sariputta here. Tonight we will meet them at the auditorium to handle this.

Monk Ānanda obeyed the command. That afternoon the Venerable Sariputta returned to the monastery with the novice novice. He presented with the Buddha. Give newspaper :

- Sariputta, we will be meeting tonight in the lecture hall. There is a mendicant accusing him of throwing him down and leaving without apologies.

That evening the lecture hall was not lacking in anyone's face. Everyone wants to know how the Venerable Sariputta will respond to those who have long been jealous and angry. Everyone knows that Venerable Sariputta is a great disciple of the Buddha, very beloved by the Buddha, and so he was the target of many misunderstandings and jealousy.

More than eight years ago, at the Jetavana monastery, there was a teacher named Kokàlika [21] who hated the two Venerable Sariputta and Moggallana, who were unconcerned. You tell Sariputta and Moggallana are false practitioners, often acting in craving. Once the Buddha called him and said:

- This is Coca-Cola, do not say that Sariputta and Moggallana are the ones who are subjected to craving. They are people with genuine morals and temperament is very gentle.

But Mr. Kokàlika was angered by his anger, so he did not believe in listening to the Buddha. Finally, he left the monastery to leave. Then he suffered from a very strange disease. His skin became rough, then he grew spontaneously growing small pods of bean seeds, growing up with beans, then burst out, filled with blood. Any medicine can not cure. He sent a message to the clinic for treatment, but he refused to return. Then the network master. The Buddha was very merciful, teaching that:

- Teachers,  anger is the poison that causes cancer of the heart, destroys the body and can cause accidents or strange diseases . Teachers need to be careful not to let the poison of hatred into the minds of the teacher.

Back to the meeting that night. When the Buddha entered the lecture hall, all the masters stood up and lowered their hands. The Buddha invited everyone to sit down, and he also sat down in the courthouse, signaling the Venerable Sariputta to sit in the low chair on his right. After everyone sat down, silent, the Buddha turned to Venerable Sariputta:

- Sariputta, the mendicant said he pushed him down and left without apologies. So, before the mass, please make clear how that happened.

Venerable Sariputta stood up clasped Buddhist hands, amnesty, and said:

- The Blessed One, brothers and sisters, one who has not cultivated, is not aware of the body, is not aware of the mind, has no sense of his actions and words, such a person can poke Fell a friend of his and left without apologies.

Ruihula teaches Rahula at the age of sixteen, about 13 years ago. The Buddha taught Rahula to study the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire. I have learned and practiced the lesson for 13 years.

" You have practiced the earth, and the land is always solid, vast, vast, capable of absorbing and transforming." Even if people pour clean substances like perfume, fragrant milk, or Spread on the soil dirty, stinky like feces, urine, blood, pus, the soil always accepts these things in a calm and equitable way, not praise, not hate .. World Exalted, I used to be mindful of body and mind as earth, I can not take action to knock a friend down and leave without apologies.

" I practiced operating the like water . When people poured perfume fragrance to the water, or when people are cleaning dirty things in the water, always calmly, equality, not praise, not love to hate. Emptiness Lord Buddha, I used to be mindful of body and mind like water, I can not take action to knock a friend out and leave Without apologies.

" You have practiced like the wind ." The wind blew away the scent or scorching without ever having the intention of committing or disliking the winds of equality, immensity, circulation, capacity to neutralize and purify themselves. Well, I used to be mindful of my body and mind like the wind, I can not take action to knock a friend down and leave without apologies.

" You have practiced the fire, the fire burns all the good things, bad, clean, dirty, fragrant, but never felt covetous, humiliated, angry or bored. Lord Buddha, I have often contemplated body and soul as fire, I can not take action to hit a friend and leave without apologies.

"Lord, I usually look like a baby lineage ragged, ragged clothes, hugging bowls in the neighborhood begging, I do not have a little pride, always humble. I can not take action to knock a friend out and leave without apologies.

Venerable Sariputta wanted to say more, but the mendicant accused the Venerable Stand up, stepped in front of the Buddha, kneeling down bowing to the three prostrate, then clasped hands:

- Buddha, the world has committed, the accused brother Sariputta a miscarriage of justice. I repent before the Blessed One and the general public to be celestial purity, and vow not later to repeat it.

Give newspaper :

- You have received the error in public and repentance is very good. The public has accepted his repentance. So Venerable Sariputta should also be happy to calm the mind, gentle.

" The Blessed One," said Sariputta, "I have completely ignored this.

Then the monk turned to the other monk, said:

- I also asked brother joy to ignore the mistakes I made in the past made brother sad.

The mendicant accused him of stepping in front of the Venerable Sariputta, who bowed and bowed to him three times. The masses are very happy. The atmosphere is very open and relaxed.

Catvari pratisaranena (Four Teachings of the Buddha)

After the holiday season, the Buddha traveled many places in Kosala. One day he went to the town of the tribe Kesaputta Kalama [22] . Youth seek to meet Buddha is very crowded. They had heard Gotama but never met. A young man asked Buddha to hand:

- Ladies and ascetic Gotama, some time has many masters visited Kesaputta to teach morality. Everybody says that only their Dhamma is good and often denigrates, criticizes other Dhamma. We are so confused, we do not know who's right, who's wrong, we're all born suspicious. Dhamma is the master of enlightenment, please tell us who to believe and who should not believe in anyone? Who is right and who is spreading heresy?

- Hey children, Buddha said, if you have the birth of doubt, it is only natural. You do not have to believe in anything even if it's what people say, whether it's in the scriptures, or whether it's a famous person. You should only accept and believe what is right with your mind, which has been agreed by the ancient sages, which, when put into practice, will bring good results to all. people. [23]

- Please tell us more clearly for us to understand.

- Hey, grandchildren, such as having a person who is ambitious, angered and deluged with his mind, is he and the people around him happy or miserable?

- Master, ambition, anger and delusion lead to crime. So the person and those around him often suffer.

- So living in ambition, anger and delusion is the way of life that the sages accept and encourage? Is a lifestyle that brings good results to people?

- No.

- For example, some people who follow the rules of compassion, compassion, joy and equanimity, often bring joy to those around them, often help those who are in need, Do not try to thank yourself and people. So he and the people around happy or suffering?

- White masters, living in the way of life, words, joy, discharge, not only bring joy and happiness to the people around themselves also happy happy.

- Thus, "to live in the virtues of compassion, compassion, joy and equanimity will bring happiness and happiness to oneself and to all" is to be rational, which is accepted and encouraged by the sages. The thing that when put into practice will bring good results for yourself and the people around. That is what they should accept, should practice and encourage others to practice (Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 65).

"You, in addition to the use of reason to comment, the learner also need to know under  the Fourth method [24] (Catvari pratisaranena) as follows:

1.  Medical Justice, any medical personnel (Dharma pratisaranena bhavitavyam, na puggala pratisaranena) should learn and learn Dhamma, rather than insisting on the name or the general appearance of the speaker.

2.  Y means, any medical terminology (Artha pratisaranena bhavitavyam, na vyanjana pratisaranena) should be based on the meaning, not to accept the language, script.

3.  Y position, regardless of medical knowledge (Jnana pratisaranena bhavitavyam, vijnana pratisaranena na) is so lucid wisdom to learn teachings and practice, rather than relying on the senses or emotions (the life and charity) of Myself.

4.  He put his business sense, regardless of any medical meaning willow (Nitartha pratisaranena bhavitavyam sutra, sutra na neyartha pratisaranena) should follow the business is the only true truth, not serving under contract with the level of said listener rather than just right leg physical.

"Such a disciple will certainly follow the Proper Dharma, not afraid of being misled.

" Master, today is the first time that we have heard a teacher teaching rational things, not believing in a blind faith in a divine or a dogma. . We are very happy as if the person in the house was in the dark by the light, like the lost in the forest find the way out. We respectfully request that you take refuge in the Three Jewels, as your disciple.

The Buddha gladly accepted.

A monk like a log floating in a river [25]

The Buddha went south to the city of Angels, and then westward, along the banks of the Ganges River, toward the Kosambi capital of Vatsa. One day, standing on the banks of the Ganges River, Buddha saw a large log flowing in the flow of water to the east. The Buddha called the mendicants, showed them the log and said,

" Teachers, if they are not caught on the banks, if they are not picked up or decayed, they will continue to float until the day they reach the sea." Teachers, too,  on the path of cultivation following the Proper Dharma, if teachers are not entangled in the pitfalls of daily life, if the teacher is not dragged out of the path of life progression, if the teacher Not self-deprecating, then surely the teacher will also go to the ocean of complete liberation and enlightenment .

- Lord, please clarify for us to understand.

- Teachers, "not trapped in the trap of daily life" is not entangled in the six sense doors and six ceiling, is when the six contact with the six ceiling does not born six with compassion hate Pardon ... When six consciousness is not born, six are purified. Then the teacher will be free, no longer afraid of being trapped in the afflictions of life anymore.

"No one is drawn out of the path of progression" is no longer wrecked sensual pleasure and fame in this world again. Due to the skill of mastering the world, talent, identity, real, lobes are no longer attractive to teachers anymore. On the contrary, the teachers will enjoy the serenity, peace in meditation and mindfulness.

"Do not be self-deprecated" is when the teachers have understood the Dhamma and have practiced many good results, feel the joy of joy in meditation. Then the teachers will firmly believe in the Three Jewels and firmly believe in the ability to become his own Buddha.

" Teachers, learn the Dhamma, firmly believe in the Three Jewels, purify the world, practice meditation and mindfulness, and practice the means necessary to bring the teachers to liberation from suffering. Born, old, sick, dead. Definitely not wrong .

While the Buddha stood on the banks of the Ganga River teaching mendicants, a 16-year-old buffalo teenager stood nearby. This young man named Nandà, with the same name as Nandà, his half-brother to Buddha. Nandà heard the Buddha, very much. Em mon men approached the Buddha to follow the Buddha as a mendicant. You say :

- Bacharach, my name is Nandà, I want to be like the monks with solemn appearance. I want to study like them. I promise to try to do the things of the teachings taught to be like a log to the sea without being caught on the shore, not picked up, nor decayed decay. I beg you to take my son as his disciple.

- How old are you?

- White monks, children 16 years of age.

- Do you still have parents at home?

- Dear father and mother are all gone. I have no brothers, relatives. I just kept the buffalo for the rich and the rich in the village only.

- Can you eat one meal a day?

- Yes, I have been eating like that for a long time. Every morning, we take the buffaloes to the fields, bring the rice to eat, and bring back the buffalo to the evening.

- Nandà, should be 20 years old to be accepted into the mendicant congregation. But I have the desire to cultivate Tathagata to allow children to join the congregation as novice to practice the ordination. By the age of 20, I was ordained as a monk. Now you should go to the buffaloes to pay for the owner, then I ask permission to leave the employer. Finished me back here meet me.

- Asthma, you can follow the monk now. These buffaloes are very clever, they know their way back to their cages when it's dark.

- Yes , but you have to drive them back to the barn. Deliver them to the owner properly. Then ask for leave. Then the Tathagata can give children to follow the congregation.

- Bacharach, I was afraid to return here will no longer meet the monk and teachers again!

- Do not worry. We will stand here waiting for you.

Nanda was happy, hurried back to the cage. Buddha turned to guard Svastika:

- This Svastika, Tathagata assigned to the teacher (upajjhàya, àcariya, guardians, teachers) guide and teach the baby this herd.

Svastika hands clasped hands. He is 33 years old. He was introduced to the Buddha in the village of Uruvela at the five Kondanna brothers had just left. At that time he was nine years old. Parents died early, he had to go for buffaloes to a loving boss to feed his three children: a younger brother named Rupak, seven, and two sisters, Bala, five, and Bhima, three. After the Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, he was acquainted with two sisters, Sujàtà, the village chief's son, who taught them to read and write, and material help to support their three children. . In recent years, on a trip across the village of Uruvelà, Svastika saw the tent of his parents as they were old and dilapidated. Three of his brothers are family, children and home. Rupak, after marrying his wife, went to settle down in another place. Two younger sisters, Bala and Bhima, After being married, they stayed in Uruvela, and each had a son and a daughter. Among them many children also go to the herd of buffaloes as the old ...

Svastika remembers that Rajah is 30 years old. He remembers the things that Rahula taught him when he first joined them, which was 13 years ago. He remembered the Buffalo Buffaloes of the Buddha lecture after the new monk was a few months. I vow to bring all my life and teacher experience to teach the nandao nandha. Just thinking about it, Nandà is back. Svastika comes back to the present moment. He told Nandà to approach him, and told him that he would be the teacher (y-arya, Ācariya), his mentor in the study. That night, Nand was given a nod to her hair. This new monk was shown how to wear a shirt, holding bowls and walking, standing, lying down, sitting in accordance with the Dharma.

The Buddha teaches about the Eight Awakening of the Enlightened One [26]

The Buddha went to Kosambi City for a while before leaving for Rajagaha. One day, sitting in the forest Bhesakala next to the mountain Sumsumàra (Crocodile Mountain), the Buddha told the mendicant:

- Teacher, today Tathagata wants to tell you about the eight enlightenment of the great (Bodhisattva). This is the subject that Venerable Anuruddha had contemplated and discussed with the Tathagata in the Garden of Ceti, when the Venerable is hiding there. According to the Venerable Anuruddha, these are the eight realities that a Bodhisattva who is enlightened should bring to teach those who are deluded:

" The first is the realization that  all dharmas are impermanent and not self ." Observing the impermanence and non-self nature of dharmas avoids suffering and gradually reaches liberation and peace.

" The second is enlightenment that  the more desires the more suffering, the less desirable the less suffering.

" The third thing is that the enlightened  know simple life (sexual minorities contentment) is the source of peace . He said the new simple life and mind power have time to practice and help others.

" The fourth thing is the enlightenment that  diligence can attain the attainment of enlightenment." Lazyness and enjoyment only lead to the falling into the world of mindlessness and defilement.

" Number five is the enlightenment that  live in ignorance and unbridled be confined lifetimes of misery of the cycle of birth and death . Only the life wisdom of mindfulness and new formula leads to success Wisdom, enlightenment and liberation.

" This Friday is the enlightenment that  generosity is a very effective method to help themselves and help people, both physically and mentally . It is thanks to the new Bell kill ego and legal compliance.

" The seventh thing is the enlightenment that  the practitioner in the life to the chemistry, must always keep a simple lifestyle, transparency, high moral standards, the compassionate discharge of harmony that treat all people .

" The eighth is the enlightenment that  all beings share the same Buddha nature . All beings are equal and deserve to be respected, because all have potential to become Buddha. Therefore all actions, words, Thoughts are intended to self-interest, self-sense, to reach the sense of fullness.

When they come into their lives, they bring the Eight Enlightened Things to publicize and teach people. The teacher who developed the Bodhisattva should also practice in parallel with the practice of Six Degrees.

The Buddha finished talking, the mendicants are happy to receive credit.

Buddha visits Vakkali's dying mendicant. [27]

Arriving at the Venuvana monastery in Ragagaha, Lord Buddha was told that Vakkali Venerable Thich was seriously ill, looking forward to see the Buddha before his death. It was the attendant of the Venerable who came to bow to the three prostrations at the feet of the Buddha and said,

- Buddha, he was seriously ill children, is at home a lay potter mountain Isigili. The teacher asked my son to come here, respectfully bowed down three times, the forehead touching the Buddha, invited the Buddha to bless the son.

- Okay, this Ananda, let's visit Vikkali Venerable.

When Lord Buddha and Venerable Ānanda entered the door, Vakkali struggled to sit up, but he could not sit up. Buddha teacher back down and said:

- Hey Vakkali, do not try to sit. Lie down comfortably. Tathagata and Ananda sit on these chairs.

Buddha and teacher Ñnanda sit down chair, then asked Buddha:

- What is your current health condition? Was there any recent remission?

- Well, the disease is not reduced at all. Your health is getting worse. I feel very upset. In my body every bit of pain.

- Is your mind safe? Are you worried about regret?

- Buddha, the anxiety and regret that a long time I wanted to visit Bhagavan that I could do it. Thankfully today I was looking at the face of the Buddha, so I was satisfied.

" Hey, Vakkali, we need to see each other to be close together. Every time the teacher diligently practice, the pure world is the Tathagata on the side. The five-body warmth has 32 good general, 80 this beauty is also a fake. The pure mind of the teacher and the pure mind of the Tathagata has no boundaries, there is no separation . Hey Vakkali, who sees the Fa is seeing me, who sees me is seeing the Fa .

Silence for a moment, the Buddha asked:

- Hey Vakkali, do you find that formality is impermanent? Do you miss it?

- Buddha, you see very clearly. Your child's health is losing momentum by the minute. Your body is also dying and perishing hour by minute. Your feelings and perceptions also fade away. I do not cherish this body because it is hurting me now, and I do not see what is really yours, what is really mine.

- Vakkali, the universe is impermanent and without self, but "the universal knowledge is impermanent,  there is no self" is the knowledge of the Buddhas, the buddhahood of the Buddhas, Buddha Tanh, Chon Tam of all beings are never destroyed . Want to prove Chon Tam often, lost, net, that first must be removed from the self, the legal.

Vakkali smirked, then two tears streamed down, he said:

- Buddha, in this difficult moment I have been blessed territory invaluable teachings of the Buddha. From the day that the Buddha was ordained, I often contemplate "all things are impermanent, no self" and "all living beings have Chon Tam, Buddha full of four virtues, lost, net" . But today I heard the bhikkhu's reminder at this moment. I feel so happy, so happy, I would like to thank the Sun. Now I feel my mind is perfectly safe, my body is not aching anymore. I make an appointment to see the Buddha in the Dhamma.

Venerable Ānanda fell in love. Buddha said:

- Goodbye, Vakkali, master of courage. As Lai is always beside him.

After Lord Buddha and Venerable Ānanda stepped out of the door, Vakkali told his attendant, who carried the bed to the Isigili mountainside, under the shade of a large tree, next to a black stone. He lies calm in his mind until late afternoon, he passes away.

Be informed, the Buddha told the mendicant:

- Vakkali was liberated.

The Buddha taught how to overcome suffering [28]

Staying at Venuvana and Griddhakota for two weeks, the Buddha left for Nàland, then to Vesalia. At the Dharma Hall (Kātàragà) in the Mahàvana mansion, one day the Buddha taught the masters how to overcome the suffering. He said:

- Teachers, life is the suffering, which is to live, old, sick, dead, love, ohan society, unexpected. So there is no one in this world without much suffering. But ordinary people, the cultivator, the one who realizes the fruit of suffering different feelings. Ordinary people, due to greed and greed, increase the suffering, the greater the feeling of suffering. Cultivators, suffering tolerance, do not increase suffering but do not know how to reduce suffering. The sage, meditated by meditation and contemplation, makes the six bases refreshing calm so the feeling of suffering gradually descending. The more power and mental power, the six pure bases, the less the painful feeling decreases until the end .

Then the Buddha said shelf:

"The practitioner,

"Keep your eyes on your tongue

Pure heart,

"Super escape all suffering. (Dhammapada, 360, 361)

Buddha holding a stone raised, asked:

- Teachers, stones in the hands of Tathagata here and Mountain Gayàsìsa (Statue Head) Which is bigger?

- Lord Buddha, compared with Mount Gayàsìsa, the stone in the hands of the Sun is very small, almost meaningless.

- Also, the teachers, the same misery, people do not know there is religious feeling Gayasisa large as mountains, still has feelings holy suffering only by stones.

"Teachers, for example, have one hit by an arrow, and one aches and pains, but if a second arrow comes right to the wound, the pain is certainly greater than the pain." section. And if a third shot flew to the right immediately into the wound again, the pain is even greater than a hundred times. the teacher should know  delusion, ego is, falling love, greed, hatred, ignorance and Like the second and third arrows, they make the suffering sensation increase in multiplicity .

"Teacher, when a saint enters the city, there are 500 vehicles passing in front of him, or thunderstorms are not disturbed, and all sensations are silent. To find peace, never feel harassed. For he has no fall and fall, the base and the ceiling is no longer where to be born to wake and feel more.

"Teachers, practitioners of the righteous abode,  are the means of eradicating the sensations, including the feeling of suffering." [29] The six faculties for the six sages do not produce six senses without any causation. To arise.

" Master, when you are destined together, you should concentrate on the contemplation of the body, the feeling [30] , the mind [31] and the object of the mind (the Four Foundations of Mindfulness) to see clearly. The body, the feeling, the mind, and the object of the mind are impermanent, dependent, without self, that refines the suffering and helps the teacher to be calm and alert. Next, the teacher should recite the Buddha's name or sutta so that the mind is purified for being born in the realms .

Today the monks heard a precious time treasure never before so the teachers are happy to receive credit.

Ignorance, action, consciousness and nåma within the 12 karmic conditions [32]

When the first rains fell down to alleviate the summer heat, Buddha left Vesalia, en route to Sàvatthi. This year, both men and women alike have settled in Sàvatthi very large.

At the lecture of Locà (Migàra matas pasada) in the Pubbàràma, while the Buddha taught more about the moral condition, a mendicant stood up white:

- Buddha, 12 predestined, Bhagavan taught  by the knowledge that mentality . So does the entire universe arise from the mind?

- That's right. Master, the "name" refers to things invisible, whose names are without the generals. "Sacred" refers to things with their names like scents, lights, sounds, and objects that can be touched. All nåma and rúpas are present because there is perception . If there is no discernment, what is the basis for saying something or not?

- Buddha,  if rupa arising from informal knowledge is indeed the origin of the universe and everything. So can we know the source of consciousness? Can we understand why there is consciousness? And when is the mind?

- Teachers, the idea of ​​the beginning and the idea of ​​the final also arise from the mind. Actually, there is no beginning at the end, there is no existence without the non-existent. We should not say that rupa arises from consciousness, but we must say that consciousness has rupa . Because of ignorance, new sentient beings have the notion of discrimination on the basis of ignorance so they have the notion of discrimination and existence. ). In other words,  due to ignorance should be active and awake . Onion is the flow, transformation. Consciousness is knowledge of the distinction. Action and awake together that have. Due to the "movement, transformation" there is "knowledge of the distinction". Due to the "knowledge of the distinction" found "

- Buddha, Bhagavan said, "within samsara without beginning and without end", why speak of the "round of rebirths termination"?

- Teachers, teachers should know, "round birth and death" is not real. That is just illusory, is the illusion caused by the "sense of identity". So when the cessation of consciousness distinguishes the illusion of "ring of birth and death" is no longer. Fantasy photos are not real things, what do you have in common?

- Buddha, he puñña · Mantaniputta (Purna Man From Death) asked, ignorance is the first element of the 12 conditions. So where do you have ignorance?

- Punna Mantàniputta, ignorance  has no root, not due to coast charm . Tanh Giac (Chon Tam) is always pure clarity, knowing all without a sense of distinction. Tanha can not arise ignorance. In the pure sense of awareness that sudden realization of the realization of the distinction between subjective (subject and object) [33] . The perception of the distinction is ignorance. Ignorance has been born so not real, there is nothing original . Ignorance which is hope so all the see by ignorance arise are delusions, delusions, not real . For example, lecture Sugar Loc, beings use sense of distinction, depending on the sense of the six sense that the lecture is true. The noble man with the wisdom of the eye of the lecture hall only see the land, water, wind, fire mix merge only. If you use the Buddha's eye view, only see the fullness of Enlightenment, because the land, water, wind, fire are the same foot, same foot. All calm, clear. [34]

The Buddha looked over the crowd, then said gloomily:

- The novices, beings by the idea of ​​accepting the sense of discrimination, for it is true, for it is true (self) or so is (his) to be transported. Birth and death in the three realms (sex, color and formless). Now you want to attain Bodhi, Nirvana, want to return to the primordial sense, first of all to eliminate the "sense of distinction", transfer all the falsehood of destruction into calm (calm , Tablet) of Chon. Use the bowl of wisdom to reflect deeply on all things to prove and not fall. Until then, the birth and death of samsara will not be used to exist anymore . [35]

What is Right View?

Stopped for a while, Lord Buddha continued:

- You should know the path of liberation that Tathagata called the Noble Eightfold Path. Right Understanding is the basis of Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. Because there must be Right Understanding before the seven other practices. But what is Right View? -  Right is seen like the men know all things as facts, not feelings and consciousness distinguish deception .

Venerable Ānanda knelt kneeling white hands:

" The Blessed One, we foolishly do not know" see the truth "is how to see. Blessedfully point out further.

- Ānanda, the teacher asked the right time, Tathagata will listen to the students to further clarification. Listen to them. If, in the moment of seeing, there arises the concept of yes / no, big / small, good / bad, or / bad, right / wrong, right / wrong ... is perceived as not true, because of sensation and Consciously distinguish fool. Righteousness is knowing by wisdom, in which there is no notion of yes / no, good / bad, right / wrong, etc.

- The Lord, what is known by wisdom is elegant?

- See with the wisdom of the noble is to know that all things are impermanent, consistent, no self, so are equal, no sense of distinction:  all harmonious, A whole body called Chon Tam Chon, Tanh Giac .

The mute silent, hard to listen, understand that the 12 conditions are only the continuity, the new Enlightenment is the feet, want to see the Enlightenment to practice Right View. All are happy to see that their path of cultivation is full of brilliant future, will definitely lead to the fruit born.

What is Right Concentration? [36]

Righteousness (Samadhi, Tam-ma-subject) is a method of practice that is aimed at liberation, leading to the Supreme Self-Righteous Enlightenment. Which is not aimed at liberating the mind is the devil, not the Chief.

One day, during the sermon, the Buddha said:

- Mendicants, Right Concentration is the highest step in the Noble Eightfold Path. There are four methods of concentration practice. How is four ?

1 -  Method of practice, due to practice, make full, leading to the present stay . That is the first four meditations. Divine education, glass of lawlessness, the heart of ecological happiness, has the range of four, the first meditation, reached the District of Pleiades. Abandonment quartet, internal static center, the first meditation, achieved Saturn Birthplace. Ly peaceful residence discharge, friendly feel that the saint called the Shrine of Refuge, the three meditation, reached the Divine Pleasure. Discharge of suffering, discharge, happy glass has feelings before, the meditation meditation, reach the Pure Land.

2-  Method of practice, due to practice, make full, leading to knowledge . It's a foreign method (kasina). While meditating on the idea of ​​light, comforting in the light of day, the day is like that night, the mind is open until the light pervades the space.

3-  Method of practice, due to practice, to fullness, resulting in mindfulness awareness . That is the method of mindfulness (vipassanà). Know when to enjoy, longevity, longevity, longevity, longevity, birth, ending. Know when the illusion, birth defilement, residing, the end. Know when the sex, the range, yard games, harmful birth, reside, stop in the mind.

4 -  Method of practice, due to practice, make full, leading to the end of the gag or . That is the method of contemplation of the destruction of five aggregates (Prajna). This is the starting point, this is the decay stage; This is initiation, this is the end of life; This is the idea of ​​initiation, this is the idea of ​​extermination; This is the initial practice, this is the killing process; This is the mode of initiation, this is the mode of extermination. Such a view to see clearly all five aggregates is impermanent, is not self, is Nirvana, so that the dhamma is not and not fall.

Master, that is the method of cultivation of Right Concentration to bring enlightenment and liberation.

The Buddha says Ullambana sutta [37]

Venerable Moggallana (Moggallana) is very diligent in meditation. A week after leaving home, at the village of Kallavala, Moggallana practiced the Four Elements (earth, water, wind, fire) by the Buddha who became the most disciple of the Buddha. At every free time, he often looked for solitary places to sit in meditation for many consecutive hours. A few days ago you witnessed five of the six miracles. The Chalabhinna is the six miracles meditated by purely meditation (samadhi). Green pines include :

1.  God label (dibbacakkhu): Can see all things big and small in the realm of Education and realms.

2.  God atrial communication (dibbasota): You can listen to all the great little sound in the realm and the realm Sac Education.

3-  Tha mind communication (cetopariya nana): Can know the thoughts of sentient beings.

4.  Spirit sufficient information (iddhividha): In a moment, can make to anywhere in the realms and realms.

5.  Additional network (pubbe nivasanussati): May be aware of your own past life or of a being.

6.  Gonorrhea make informed (asavakkhaya nana): The mind is clear, no negativity and delusion, and know how to show others to be like his practice.

After attending the seminary for several days, Moggallana tried to use his new abilities. Then he suddenly thought of the image of his parents. Do not know where your parents are now? I remember when he accompanied the Buddha through a grave. There is a large bones of bones on the side of the road. Buddha quietly walked to the heap bone. The masters found it very surprised, do not understand the reason why the Buddha bones heap. Master Ānanda asked:

- Buddha, he is the one Enlightenment, is the master of all heaven and the human world. Why today, the Sun worshiped the heap of bones.

- Teachers, the Buddha replied, beings in the three realms of life, Sacred and Innocent immersed in the cycle of birth and death, not very sad. In innumerable births and deaths, there may be relatives. In this huge bones there are certainly bones of our own or our own parents in many previous lives. Tathagata bowed to the bone to pay homage to the gratitude of parents in many previous lives.

Master Moggallana thought that "when the Buddha saw the dry bone he remembered the gratitude of his parents in many lifetimes, so today we try to find out where our parents are now." Master Moggallàna immediately used celestial eyes to see the heavens, not see the parents. I search in the human realm to see his father living in a Brahmin family well-off, but have not seen where his mother. He tried to look hard but did not see it. He was very surprised, then he try to look at the realms of ghosts, he saw how many tragic scene, misery, hunger due to negative karma, hatred, greed, the previous generation. Suddenly he saw the shadow of a mother like his mother, a woman thin as dry skeletons, hair, ears, painful face scared, eyes looking for food to compete with the ghosts. other. I see for a moment that my mother, Moggali, is in a tragic situation. Master Moggallana immediately used the spirit to communicate in front of his mother, he called:

- Mother! Mama! I'm Moggallana here. Do you miss me?

The ghosts are struggling to eat, including his mother is Mrs. Thanh De saw the teacher suddenly arrived, generous solemn, bright aura, then panic, fell to bowling. Teacher Moggallana sat down on her mother's shoulders, then tenderly said:

- Dear mothers and children here, children are Mahamoggallana here. Do you miss me?

- Ờ! Oh! Moggallàna here? Why did you come here? What did you come for? Is it It's hard here baby! I am very hungry, do you have anything for me to eat?

- Yes. Please sit here waiting for me, for a moment you will bring food to my mother.

He disappears during the stretching of his arms and back again with a bowl full of hot rice and aromatic curry. Mrs. Thanh De saw, rejoiced, rushed out of the right hand grabbed the bowl, then left the left bowl over bowl. Grandmother :

- Watch out for the starving people to eat all your mother.

Then she just covered the bowl, just eating, eye hazily watching the crowd of ghosts. But dear! As soon as she reached the mouth, she felt the rice hot as fire, hurried away. She was afraid of hurrying, she rushed to grab another rice to bring up the mouth, but again hot, she thrown again. In a moment the bowl of rice has run out, but she has not eaten anything yet. Mr. Moggallana, in the face of such tragedy, was also helpless. Years of miracles of teachers do not help your mother. Mr. Moggallàna, feeling pity, retired mother, returned to Jetavana monastery, to hear the Buddha. He bowed at the feet of the Buddha and said:

- Buddha, I just came to see my mother in life preta. Your mother's hunger is miserable. I brought the rice to the mother that she could not eat. Each time the rice is brought to the mouth, the rice becomes hot as fire. Lord Buddha, please teach the child how can save her mother from the preliminaries! Is it

" Moggallana, your filial piety has touched the gods, it is a good example for the posterity. But even if he has enough years of miraculous power, he alone can not save his mother from the ghosts. Want to save his mother, he must ask the power of the monk current and ten of the Three Jewels, hope to escape.

"Moggallana, on the fourth day of full self (Pavàranà), monks are full of pure moral precepts. He should take the opportunity to offer his son increased with all the delicious food and fruits, incense, oil, candles, beds, clothing, medicine and daily necessities, The teacher's patronage is devoted to the parents of seven generations [38] of the monks, who are drenched in rain, peaceful and calm heart.

Then the Buddha turned to the mendicants continued:

- Teachers, from now on, on the fourth day of fullness, if there is a hospitable proprietor of Vu Lan ceremony, offerings to raise boys to pray for parents and grandparents, the obligation they rise first must Dedicated to volunteer for the parents of the seven generations of the donor, then offering food at the Buddha table, then to be self-service.

Soon, to the end of the day, Venerable Moggallàna according to the Buddha, Ullambana ceremony to worship the boys increased to pray for the mother. By the force of ten Tam Protection anniversary, she Moggali (ADD Recommended), his mother Mahamoggallana, from the hungry ghost realm suddenly found heart healthy, repentance of sin, soon was reborn in heaven Quang fruit [39] (Vehapphala ). Master Moggallàna used the celestial see so, very happy, immediately came to pay homage to the Buddha to give thanks. The Buddha was also delighted to praise his filial piety, and told the mendicants to teach the Magyal name to the people.

Did the deceased enjoy the sacrifice? [40]

One day Brahmin Jànussoni went to the Blessed One, upon arrival, greeted the inquiries and asked the Blessed One:

- Venerable Gotama, according to our brahmins, people often make alms to the dead or sacrifice for the deceased relatives. Do not know whether the deceased or deceased relatives have benefited from those donations and sacrifices? Is there any benefit?

- Brahman, if the sacrifice corresponding to the status of the dead can enjoy, if not compatible time can not enjoy:

Evil ants, who cause a lot of bad karma, after the death of the same body in hell can only eat food in hell to survive, not enjoy the real food sacrificed by relatives.

The bad guys, causing many negative karma, after the cadaveric necrotic birth to the birth can only eat the food suitable for the birthplace, not enjoy the real food from relatives sacrificed.

Those who have the right view, create a lot of good karma, when the network is common, is also bearing the medium can enjoy the appropriate food provided by relatives; But after reincarnation, human beings can only live with food that is suitable for human beings in the place where they live.

Those who have right understanding, cause much good karma, have many blessings, after the body of the same birth in heaven, they use dishes suitable for the gods in the place where they live, and can enjoy The purity of food is appropriate by relatives sacrificed.

- Gotama, if relatives die not enjoy those sacrifices, who enjoy?

- Jànussoni, other relatives living in the corresponding realms can enjoy these sacrifices.

- Evangelist Gotama, if no relative living in the relative realm to be able to enjoy these sacrifices, who will enjoy?

- That can not happen. But this Janasussoni alms-giver not not get the good results after he also has created a karmic career, karma.END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLSH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.14/5/2017.