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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ASK:

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

ANSWER:

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

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

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