The Eagle.

C waterlogged Eagle is an important rite of ritual transmitted each afternoon at the monastery as the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, especially during the annual Retreat. According to the narrative, one day the Buddha traveled to meet a eagle bird catching small birds eat meat. This eagle has a very large dimension, each time its mouth open, a sucking of it occupies a range of several kilometers, all the small birds are attracted to its mouth. Seeing the killing too much so the Buddha was compassionate. He taught that "  all living creatures die of fear of death, so do not kill and do not kill ." The Eagle himself thought: "My daily food is raw meat of birds, now the Buddha does not feed, take anything to feed this body ." The Buddha said:From here to the nearest temple to the monks for food. 

Similar to the ritual offering of Mongol porridge in the afternoon, the ritual of offering the Eagle at noon was born there, and over two thousand years this tradition continues to be preserved and maintained. Some wonder that, just offering seven (7) rice seeds, can fill enough eagles, and seven rice seeds can replace raw meat? As stated in the verse, "  Faith is unquestionable, compassion is unconstrained, broken in the world, universal in the world. " Meaning: " French force hard to think, compassion limitless, seven seeds turn ten, turn around the boundless realm. The Venerable Master also teaches that due to the mantra of the Buddha, the seven seeds of rice will turn into mullahs, which will cause the Eagle to eat enough, thanks to the blessings of kindness. 

 

The first year I was taught to present to Chen Chen San, Head of Hai Duc Pagoda, Wen is a virtuous monk of PG Khanh Hoa; He has a younger brother who is also a Buddhist monk and is staying at Nghia Dung Pagoda in Dien Khanh, Khanh Hoa. Wen Chun San General who is tall and beautiful, good in ritual, although the Khanh Hoa but famous in the clinical diagnosis Hue. Wen told me to listen to Eagle, I immediately press the orange on the forehead and start shouting: 

Illustrated by T. Pho Huan

Kim attending Eagle  Minerals Than They gem  iron from the blood Fund  Nectar All Fullness.  Enlightenment (7 times). Interpretation :   "Birds of gold Eagle wings  , wild devils with her  mother La Rong  Huong rich orange."

Wanna hear the shake of my head because I'm too bad. Wen then instructed my voice training, the first three sentences must be voiced, the end of the fourth sentence must be down, the mantra must be correct 7 times and to break into 3 times, the first 2 times each turn, and three times a turn, stretching out and down the accent. When rehearsing several times, San Chen San jubilantly nodded and I became a real attendant for the next four years at Hai Duc Pagoda. Every noon, I hold the responsibility of eating animals, marking, offering eagles and attendees for the two in the Tri Nghiem and Wen Tu (HT Thien Sieu). I occasionally went to work as a attendant for Wen Ziyi in Dieu Quang Nunnery, Kim Quang Pagoda or Long Son Pagoda in order to extinguish the eagle, then I also have the opportunity to take the road and shout eagle when Wen Hung (from Phan Thiet) in Nha Trang. 

Often, the work of attendant and echelon of monks, nuns, or newly ordained monks. From the day of my household up to now, I have heard a lot of people crying loudly, some people shout very well, but there are people who can not hear, there are also strange how to listen (people shout the first 4 to 3 times). From the day I went abroad, I also heard many new eulogies, but last year, during the retreat at Quang Duc Monastery, Hạnh Đức (Disciple of the Venerable) preached Very well, right tone and clear. 

The above is a very small detail in the activities of meditation, but if the subtle attention to the review, we see the Buddhist teacher uses many means of birth outside the thinking of the world. The compassion of the Buddha spread across all kinds of sanh linh, including grass trees, soil, mountains, rivers, sea ... conveyed to the disciples of the Buddhist practice, so the disciples of the Tathagata Ca can not fail to perform the compassionate virtue of the Buddha.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/3/2018.