The virtue of the monk.
Why are you ordained?
In the perception of King Koravya, as well as the perception of many, one who renounces secular life for ordain is due to falling into one of four cases: sickness, old age, corruption and bankruptcy. And broken family. However, King Koravya observes that the Devout Raṭṭhapālo ordained completely did not fall into one of the four cases. Then why, for any possible reason that Raṭṭhapālo, the proud child, parents pampered, decided to renounce the family?
Exalted Buddha -
Raṭṭhapālo, a wealthy young man, in the village of Toulouse, in a visit to the Buddha sermon has released the devout Buddhist center, but encountered the opposition of the family. Tragedy had to go on a hunger strike to show his determination to renounce his family. The family mobilized all relatives and friends of Lai-tra-la-la to advise him to abandon his intention to go home, live the pleasure that generosity, blessed blessings, but again- Trainees definitely do not change their stance. Eventually the family had to give up, accepting him to leave in the hope that he will not be able to live a happy life but to abandon the religion.
However, Lai-tra-la-la not only did not renounce the religion but also achieved the ideal, achieving the purpose that a good man shaved hair beard, To live without family education, is the only imperfect completion of the virtue, in this present life self-awareness, self-realization, self-realization, attain Arahantship. About nine, ten years later, Lai-tra-la-la asked the Buddha to return home to visit his parents.
During his return visit to the family, Lai's parents brought back the property piled between the house and once again advised him to apostate. Venerable deity talked to parents and went away. From then on, the scent of the whole world, the king of Koravya admiration want to be close, prostrate.
In the context of that, Tonight, said Lai, through seeing, hearing, understanding Tathagata four generals of the world: This world is not protected, not to rely on; This world necessarily goes to old age; This world is not often, need to leave; This world has no satisfaction, without enough knowledge, is the servant of love, should have left home. King Koravya, after listening to Dr. Phraya-la-la analysis of the four generals of the world, would like to be ashamed! first
Recurring before the monastery was aware that living in a prison house in the nuisance, unable to complete life pure spiritual practice.
Live the good life
The monk is a lifetime to purify the practice of virtue, ie life throughout the world, protection of the door, pure net and mindfulness awareness. These are the noble qualities of an Arhat. Bhikkhus, bhikkhuni, the teacher you ladies that we see everyday, no one has the lowest results, but their daily routine is to live the personality, the virtue of a holy saints. terracotta.
This personality begins with a life of self-discipline. The rules and the beautiful nature are the pontoon lifting the weak footsteps continue to stand and go on the road to security, over the same birth and death, samsara.
Where is the sea of birth and death? In the eye! The eye is the big sea of man and the other is the wave. If anyone who has the peach trunk will cross the other side of the sea of the eye, with waves, vortex currents, vicious insect pests and llamas. Ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; They are the sea of man, the sound, the scent, the taste, the touch and the dharma are the waves. If anyone can tolerate this dichotomy, they will cross the other side of the sea of the eye, with waves, vortex lines, wormholes, and llamas.
Those who "to the rúpa are perceived by the eye with a loving thought; Due to the concept of being immersed in the consciousness, often in the awakening and bound by it, it is held tight so it is impossible to enter Nirvana in the present life. For the ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind also. " 2
Therefore, we must always hold 6 units, do not let 6 scene infected, called defense room. Just as the turtle lives in the riverbank. One day, a hungry canine went to find food, just saw the turtle, it hurried to grab. The tortoise saw that, with all its tail and four legs in the apricot. Idiotic wait for turtle head stick, legs out snap shot. But wait so long, that certain turtles do not stick head and legs out. Dare too hungry, suddenly leave.
"Monks, today you know that too. Ma Ba-week always looked for opportunities beside them. Expect the eyes are immersed in the sound, the ear, the smell of the nose, the taste of the tongue, the touch body, the memory of the law that instigated the birth of six infected ceiling. So monks, you must always keep the law of the eye. Having kept the eye on the law of the eye, no matter whether the eye has been born or a scene, evil Ma Ba week can not find the opportunity. The ears, tongue, body and mind are the same. Although the other six are born or graceful, they can not find the convenience. Like turtles, dangers can not find a chance. " 3
Net net promotion
Every person in the society has a role, responsibility, job, occupation to support themselves, help family and build society. How do the novices feed their lives? King Ajātaśatru once asked the Buddha: "What do the monks do? What is the current performance of Sa-nature? " 4
The monk do not need to plow, do not weave cloth and eat rice, have clothes, it is the benefit of the monk? Not only that, they have big pagodas, large houses, comfortable rooms, it is the benefit of the monk? Some people are supported by the royal monarchs, patrons revered in the air sent to the soldiers, under the people are not harassed, but naturally fun, free, free, that is beneficial. Of the monk?
Ancient people have the verse that:
"The grain of the donor
Big mountain Tu di
If great director fails
Bring the horn band to pay. "
See here enough to see, the monk if the clothes, shelter, fame, but the monks are in the disaster without knowing! The so-called benefit of the monk is to release the defilements, extinguish the ignorance, the proof of the lawlessness, the will of birth and death, that is the more noble, In the sky, people. If it were not for this, even if it was rich to the silver and gold and silver, until the glory of being the magician of the seven emperors, there was no benefit at all!
Actually, the means of nurturing the lives of the monks is simply following the traditions of the Buddhas. The lineage of the Buddhas has four lineages, that is, covering the body with three parts of algae, maintaining humility with a bowl, sleeping under the tree, wilderness, desert forest, cave, graveyard and fun paragraph. Except negativity. 5 "Hey Ananda, I told you about the Holy Trinity. Monks, bhikkhuni get the bad raw y but know satisfaction, tri tuc, not because of clothes that desire to satisfy their own. If he is not he will not be melancholy, do not cry, do not beat chest, do not fool. If you have the clothes are not infected, not before, not desire, not greedy, not hidden, not hoarding. When using y, it is clear that the accident and know the cup. To gain such benefits is not an indulgence but an understanding. It is monks, Bhikkhu-ni main right where the ancient saint. About the cuisine and the home is also so. Desire to get rid, enjoy the excuse, desire to tu, enjoy tu. He wants to remove, enjoy the excuse, want to cultivate, enjoy tu should not you, do not despise. Such benefits, not dissatisfaction but right mind. It is called Bhikkhu-bhikkhuni, the true place where the ancient saint. " 6
Fine qualities
In ancient times, Lien Master Grandmaster 7 has mentioned the ten virtues of the ancients so that the latter can learn and train the worthy qualities of the monk . Accordingly, the monk must identify himself to have abandoned all the defilements of the secular, so to live for the noble, simple. But the high bar, which is not strictly serious, is just the highness of the tragedy. The study of the Buddha must take care of the three of the body, speech, and net for the new opportunity to achieve the profession, so the second good thing to learn is serious. Serious behavior must rely on teachers to avoid new mistakes. The teacher is a pedagogue, raising us into a person, so the third good deeds are to respect the teacher. There are parents who give birth to me, raising me big, then can receive the teacher's education, Forget the gratitude parents are unfilial, village. Besides, the law of discretion is very much, but the most important thing is still filial piety, so the fourth virtue is filial piety. The deity comes from a filial son. Ethical integrity must be fulfilled, only know the relationship, do not know there is a gift of the country, that is the behavior of self-interest.
In the book it says: "One who is blessed, ten thousand people ask," is the saying when there is a regent of the virtue of regency, national security, we can thus be released, free Again, the mountains and streams of the rivers and streams to hide habitation. National country is great too! So the fifth good thing is to be loyal to the country. But if you only know the medium of the doctrine, that is, only communicate with the authorities at all levels, without regard to the people, the believers who have supported the practice do not do the same. Should remember to remember those who muddy hands, impoverished poverty, that is the sixth good, from the object. Words and love are very close. The monk who is born of compassion is a great obstacle to spiritual practice, so the seventh good thing is to live for nobility.
Those who leave home to keep their distance from each other is to practice themselves, on the one hand is to cultivate themselves, accomplish their self-determination mission, then, when elaborately practicing diligently then naturally Happiness is bright, then it is time to return to beings. That is the eighth good, careful. Caution is careful to hide, find no place such as leisure is also reluctant, because the virtue is not deep, so suffering, it is good ninth.
However, there are people who are afraid of hardship in their life, but to go to the mountains and forests to escape from life, to become injustices, to eat the Buddha's door, it is not an arduous act. Which is borrowed the Tao of life, the mind has shrunk. Once the spirituality has gone backward, then no evil will not dare to do. In fact, the theory of causation does not leave anyone, although small as hairs dust has never been different. Therefore, the monk can not fail to think of cause and effect, it is the tenth good, touch, that is to always remember the law of cause and effect.
The ten virtues above if the complete practice, the new virtue finishing, become a talent can admire the Dharma. Just as the soil is fertile and fertile, then it can be planted and sown well. So also the mind, once pure, the moral can believe, life expectancy; The great Bodhisatta can not expect great achievements. If not the above to practice is only a smuggled smuggled ward!
Dirty life
Loveliest people smuggled lingering in the temple called the class of 'loan lifetime training', which, according to classics, is a class of 'Sa-subjects'. It is a class although the form of Sa-subjects, but the mind is not Sa-subjects, often run according to the five, immersed in the title, benefit, but self-proclaimed monks, venerable, venerable ... "Like a donkey, go into the herd and say, 'I am also a cow!' But its two ears look unlike cows, horns are not the same, the tail is not the same, the sound is different. " 8 This class of people is the same, whether honored with any title, They are not Sa-subject.However, there are monks who depend on the hamlet to live, in the early morning, monks carrying a bowl to beg for alms without grasping the body, Do not stay mindful, But he goes back to the house where he preaches; Dhamma is taught by the Buddha, or by the sage, so that he may gain, such as clothing, food, drinks, bed mattresses, medicine, full of necessities for life. After gaining benefits, he is more and more immersed in front of soft contact, no disaster, can not discharge, wear life. Monks pretend to practice evil, evil achievement, stand near the edge of the sea, become bad, corruption, not a virtue that claiming to be happy, not Sa-subject that claims Sa-subject . They are monks have dirty life, live like otter, like birds rescued, vultures, eat birds, wolves, crows. 9 He is immersed in front of soft contact, no disaster, can not discharge, wear life. Monks pretend to practice evil, evil achievement, stand near the edge of the sea, become bad, corruption, not a virtue that claiming to be happy, not Sa-subject that claims Sa-subject . They are monks have dirty life, live like otter, like birds rescued, vultures, eat birds, wolves, crows. 9 He is immersed in front of soft contact, no disaster, can not be discharged, wear life. Monks pretend to practice evil, evil achievement, stand near the edge of the sea, become bad, corruption, not a virtue that claiming to be happy, not Sa-subject that claims Sa-subject . They are monks have dirty life, live like otter, like birds rescued, vultures, eat birds, wolves, crows. 9
Not because of poverty but family
The lifestyle of an otter, like a savior, a vulture, a bird, a wolf, a crow, lives for food! This is because they do not live in their lives by their own labor, so they find their way to the pagoda's living door. With such a mind can not have the virtue 'on the bridge to Buddha, under salvation beings'. A person who can not afford to live on his own will have the highest aspiration of being 'boundless beings'? Is it self deceiving, deceiving people ?!
At that time, in Sa-cho-to have three good men son Sun Devotee, Sun Tzu Nan-Tzu and Venerable Kim-si-la are new school children, To enter this dharma not long. All three gods are the children of the noble family, living in silk, rich luxury.
When the Buddha visited, he immediately asked "monks practice peace"? Why did he ask that? Because all the disciples of the Exalted are those who go to study the religion not because of fear of robbery, not because of fear of debt, not fear of terror, not because of fear, nor For fear of not living in life but must leave school. A-na-law-momentum, Nan-topic and Kim-sila is the 10th Tenth trienism must be due to the noble idealism of the monk, because of disgusting birth, aging, illness, death, Crying, sorrowing, or wanting to break through this great suffering should leave school.
The Blessed One for the purpose of living peacefully in the present life, and for the mercy of living beings after life in the wilderness, in the mountains, under the trees, like in the high, deserted, There is no evil, no shadow, depending on the coordinates. Disciple of monkhood and home of the Exalted have many, many witnesses holy. But it is not because of the tendency of the person who speaks, nor of the deceiver, nor the pleasure of the person when the practitioner dies, the Tathagata recognizes that this person will give birth to this place; . As the Tathagata declared the realization of the holy result, or birth place, the other place of the disciples is to let people know as it is true, if those who practice the correct Dharma certainly have benefits, Peanuts, liberation; And that statement is for everyone to follow, in order to live in peace,
Epilogue
The monk is accepting alms rounds, begging beggars, the lowest living allowance, the same companion, the ordinary people hate. For what purpose? For purpose, for the ideal of the marginal part of suffering; Because of disgust, horror of birth, old age, sickness, death, sorrow, mourning, excitement, suffering, brains.
With such a mind that the school of education, but live the greed, sunk to the end, the pollution of the heart, jealousy, unbelief, lazy, lost mindfulness, not right mind, Do not get sick, do not grow large, it is bloody people wash blood, get dirty dirty, dirty but dirty, take the excuse Excrement, only increase defilement only; give place to place opaque to opaque, leaving darkness to darkness at 12 .END=NAM MO SHAKYAMOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/6/2017.
