Morality

I). What is Morality?
Improvements are holding tight, About the things prohibited from doing, not being committed, Morality is the practice of the law that the Buddha set for execution ordained Buddhist monk while, and for laypeople to apply in life to the moral life and enjoy good retribution; thanks precepts new center is stable, why? Because if you do not keep the world as a murderous robbery of such, his mind, of course, be volatile if not chaotic, it can not be static, so it is easy to keep world attention was calm; Favoured by the birth center, new wisdom arises to control your ignorance, and ignorance will expire at the end of samsara, ie intelligent mind is emptiness, emptiness cut so enlightened Buddha.
Precepts of Buddhism not pose to punish non-compliance, but to help those who do strictly enforce your will enjoy good fruit; the rules only for the purpose of making disciples of Buddha was quickly achieved through the wall during practice.
II) - There are several types of discipline? There are three types:
1) - Precepts for laypeople (Layman ):
laypeople including lay men and lay women, the laypeople with the world: Five Precepts, the Eight Precepts, the Bodhisattva world for both laypeople and monastics.
1. Five Gender: laypeople can hold from one to five precepts are: 1. Not killing, 2. Do not steal, Do not commit adultery 3-, 4- Do not lie, 5. Do not drink. Have been analyzed in the article "What is a Buddhist, the Five Precepts."
2. Eight Precepts (eight doors): The door is, boys are not eating after noon. eight eight gates prevent sin is: 1. Not killing, 2. Do not steal, 3. No lewd, (rather not commit adultery), 4. No lying, 5. Do not drink, 6. No makeup, singing or gatecrash, 7. There are sublime harmony seat (to prevent too happy arise lust), not exceeding 8 Fasting noon (to prevent drowsiness , heart disease and easiest). Boys from the center of the world in just 24 hours a day ie round alone, he should be ordained at Wat, the program understands, and rituals, can ordination at home; should arrange bowl of life left to sex once a month, on the eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth, etc ..., if favorable circumstances, life many times as possible. While eight doors son sex life, body and mind of the practitioner are pure, but only 24 hours but very precious, than a lifetime of no practice at all; This issue is analyzed in the article "Eight Precepts".
2) - Introduction to Buddhist monastic rules:
There are four kinds of Buddhist renunciation is: novice, novice nuns, Bhikshu, and Bhikkhu Ni.
1. novice and novice nuns were first ordained men and women to hold 10 world are: 1. Do not kill, do not steal 2-, 3- No lewd, 4- Do not lie, 5 - No alcohol, no makeup 6-, 7- No singing or attend a fun, seat 8. There is harmony topping, vegetarian and 9. Must not exceed noon 10. Do not take gold silver jewels.
2. Bhikkhu: A Boost to hold 250 men, including gender Sa Di
3- Bhikshuni: As Ni to hold 348 men, including the world for novice and Bhikkhu.
Also while a Buddhist monastic again, it's Rub Formula Ma Na , which was not old enough, not a novice or novice nuns, holding 6 296 men and collective well-presented.
The world is very much for Nuns and details can not be written here; these rules are no barriers to the monks do with the purpose of helping the clergy are not caught up in the things of the world to be stable pure heart, who will take practice to liberation. As protesters backing opposition, to discuss the political debate over lost, adoption, trafficking etc ...; sincere people never do these things, because the mind will be busy doing the work that can not be peaceful practice.
3) - Bodhisattva: Bodhisattva for both laypeople and ordained Buddhist, Buddhists Development Center Bodhisattva practice is to make Buddhism the wide surface and sentient beings. Bodhisattva include:
1. Comfort international law Photography: The Bodhisattva life over important decisions to keep 12 men and 48 contempt world, ie decided not commit an evil at all.
2. To improve the legal world Photography: The life over Bodhisattva decided to do all the good work.
3. Many useful the World : The Bodhisattva life over the settlement practice compassion amnesty, do all of the benefits for all beings, not a single species without the chemicals.


III). How is morality? There are two ways:
1) - Minister accepted precepts: As for the name of morality because it is a compliment, because others were forced or morality, respect others, so proud that contention or maintenance gender; the kind of morality that, specious, reluctantly, egotistical, lie to deceive others, like morality, there is no benefit at all, because of the evil of pollution.
2) - Tri formless world: precepts disapproval Minister, in accordance with the Buddha taught that enforcement, not for glory or forced, not so respectable contention that morality. While holding the world does not think you are better than people thought contempt or the transgression, but just think morality is my duty not to practice; morality, then it's centered morality is large (Paramita).
In T atmospheric pressure AH 2 pm and Increase Page 609 First Agama, volume 3, page 551, Buddha monk: " It is better to sleep rather stay awake while thinking crazy thoughts. Better use hot iron furnaces eyes look beautiful and not so bad that a great revolt, would rather use sharp awl pierced ears and hear not so bad that a great revolt, rather hot pliers clamp off the nose rather than by love hate that starts to smell, sharp knife to cut the tongue rather not say evil, rather using copper foil wrapped around the red-hot, not start thinking lewd . "
Page 550 Buddha: "If morality reduction, the wicked rise, when the law was gradually deteriorating, increasing illegal, being in it will fall into the three evil paths. If the full morality, the transgression fell, the flourishing law, which beings are born when the public network to Heaven, The realm ".


IV). The problem for practitioners:
Precepts of the Buddha pose purposes only benefit the precepts practice, practitioners quickly attain good; the precepts of the Buddha did not put disciplinary sanctions are not followed, there is no option to perform or obtain data center itself, and also depending on which enjoy much less mercy. As in the world: live moderation, honesty is widely praised, and the irresponsibility, not celebrate diamond, disruptive, deceptive, being punished, and people decry.
For practitioners , morality full, the moon will light in the darkness between the stars. For people who do not hold the world, will have a lot of harm, such as:
First: The others saw him transgression will decry, shunned.
Second: If no one saw, no one heard him transgression but the fact he has transgressions, he will be ashamed with myself.
Third: If he is not ashamed of himself, he would never practice is to place to place, eventually he just hang around in samsara suffering alone.
For example, a monk men and women are often the same people talking, meeting and traveling together many times, this can be called intimacy; outsiders would suspect, questioned why two people meet each other often communicate? Whether someone honest to where to go anymore, but the Buddha forbade individual contact between men and women; Buddha forbid How to prevent "fire close to the sharp long straw", as well as near gas fire will burn easily. The practice is not exposed even on the same sex, the less of this and that, to preserve the six senses are the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, body, and mind, not for journalists to run, not to cling to the ceiling six is excellent, sound, smell, taste, touch and legal; The new center has been so calm, easy going to purity, so the mind of attachment, tu no avail.
Some people say: "Why do people practice the bad communication with practitioners Working out just worried religious life not to worry, but no one said anything, he still continues to blatantly like that? "The answer is that Buddhism does not advocate punish someone, if you know the other person wrong, transgression, they decry, alienated, not punishment. Therefore, he continued to have their way, do yourself the consequences will be posthumously born in the realm of evil; However, even in the present, the transgression there are some who believe, this is problematic, because people do not believe this is the transgression see him, do not see him doing wrong dignity (Decency ), so even though there are others noted they did not listen, and still believe in supporting people who transgress it.
Only thing is if a priest wants to close the opposite sex, to operate the life, the Buddha allowed of the religious robes and wearing of life, to become normal in society. He married, active life as any other citizen, the problem will be solved easily; but when he took off the jacket and monks, who usually do, no longer valid, because his words did little to influence others. Therefore, he tried to cling to a monk's robes to take advantage of the shirt to serve themselves; he lived as termites, if not speedily repent timely amended, to death in the realm of evil surely will, then there is also no longer keep up exchange!


V). Several cases Buddha:
1) - Twenty-one link: Increase In First, vol 1, page 168, the Buddha said: "If anyone has interest attached to the 21: Anger (pitch), as losses (Nhuế damage), sleep (hypnotic), racketeering (which Coliseum), doubt, ferocious (anger), fear (hydrophobic), sad (brain), jealousy (disability), bitter (unpleasant), not dishonoring yourself (heartless), not shy with people (recklessness), pretending (district), fraud, opposition (camouflage), scramble, arrogant, liberal (chronic), envy, pride narcissism (upper increased chronic), participated; surely oppressed people born evil way realms can not heal, for as long tattered coat covered with dust, if desired dyed blue, yellow, can not get into.
However, if someone does not have the above adhesive 21 with interest, he surely born to God, such as the new white evening gown cleaning dust, want to dye will do.
2) - Animals For example: Just book 1, page 206, for example about the animals to implied comparison with the practice, the Buddha said:
1. Behold, why call people such as crows?
As someone in that quiet, constant practice sexual immorality, makes the unfortunate evil, to conceal his evil actions; like crows are hungry, eat unclean, then wipe mine feared bird show, saying it had to eat crow dirty; he was criticizing the other person, alienation, after self-shame, remorse, people are like crows.
2. Kia stars as pig pig called?
If there are people in the desert, collective sexual prostitution, as the unfortunate evil, to hide his evil actions; people such as pig pig, eating every dirty, stinking place is a mess, even whirring with the other pigs pigs; the collection of lewd and wicked behavior by others criticized shameless, no remorse, for others also report commended his tribute is "one happy here", this is the same as pig pig, go to depart from this person.
3. Behold how people like donkey called?
As with the monastic school director, has the base impurity, chasing thousands of connections, ideas born of chaos, evil and for all, to himself: "I am also a practitioner." This person such as donkeys and buffaloes in claiming that "I was buffalo", but nothing like watching two ears buffalo horn is not the same, nor tails like, sounds and other. Now, buffaloes or butting horns, or get kicked, bitten or mouth; This monk like this, the base impurity, if the eye sees color, according to a great start sharp, roamed all connections, ideas born of chaos, evil and full, can not protect. Tai hear, smell nose, tongue tasting, touching the body, the said law (of all things), which form a great start traveling all connections, born of thought disorder. The evil arises for all, can not keep pure consciousness. People with dignity (Donnie) saw criticism: "Alas: The fool is like a cultivator, if you are religious, which should not be like that"; Here are like donkeys, please be away from this person.
4. A man like buffalo why?
If someone ordained directed learning, keeping six bases eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind not to algae traveling under six color bar ceiling flavor legal exposure; not chaotic mind is pure, and he is to the holy place (mold). The degree of dignity, see the other, they all exclaimed: "Good fellow Buddhist". For as buffalo buffaloes in, ears, horns, tail, sounds all right as buffalo; herd of buffalo in Eureka, each child started to lick the face; this is like the buffalo, buffalo learners should do, but do not make people like crows, pigs, donkeys.


VI). Morality anything useful?
Buddhist precepts strictly life will be peaceful in order to be respected and treated as a shining example for inspiration; practitioner dignified morality will lead to purity of mind, very beneficial to practitioners in the practice; if this life no indication religion, afterlife will be attained Bodhi escape the cycle of birth and rebirth.
precepts in that moment generosity, morality, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom, there is a performance than a level of generosity; the alms without morality, no progress is possible, why? So just make happy by giving, not just to create offense by morality, that is just being created just created sin, evil and for all so confused, how can step up fruit is?
When practitioner morality leads to be purity of mind, compassion will arise amnesty, so to see the generosity instant fun mentality praising the virtues, such as "blowing merit depending generosity"; practitioners to practice the precepts sedate, others see it mimics, such as used "teacher friendly" approach to charity.
So: Great morality (Paramita) is a miraculous methods have may include handouts and morality, will certainly give the practitioner to liberation so.
In short, we clearly see the benefits of such great morality, now the only thing we have to definitive decisions Development Center morality mighty large (Paramita). When the mind then, must practice to place to place, because the school must practice (learning), as has already learned to cultivate, if not religious school, as well as the wire, the kits words; practice without learning is flawed, but not religious practice (practice) is pointless, useless? END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTHFOLD PATH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/4/2015.