What rules for spiritual practitioners?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

As a true renunciate, we first need to understand the importance of a disciplined life, discipline, and discipline. If there is no discipline in our religious life, it is difficult for us to overcome the affliction of desire. Because delusions of desire are like crazy buffaloes, which can lure and draw us into the path of demons.

 

Many people want to make a personal transformation, but the practice of many lifetimes keeps pushing them on the path of stray, because they are not clever in organizing a structured life, so when they are about to enter nirvana, Germany Buddha taught his disciples to take precepts as a teacher. In Zen paintings, the precepts are symbolized by a bowstring.

Some people misunderstand Zen, saying that the teachings of " Zen  dependent on old karma, innocent dressed in Siamese" , or  "hungry, sleepy and sleepy" of the Zen masters mean Zen advocates freedom freely, No need to follow formalities. In fact, freedom is not loose and loose, do whatever you want. Freedom cannot be separated from discipline, morality, whether in daily life or in a religious house.

The Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha taught: "If you do not uphold the precepts, whether achieved meditation, also falls in ma" . For Zen masters, because they have realized and lived with Buddha nature of their own, the innocence, depending on predestined originating from nature and expression of action. They live freely, in reverse and against each other, they are morally moral.

And we, when not completely living with a pure mind, never forget the precepts to preserve, never assimilate the liberal liberty of those who have realized with the freedom of freedom of mortal mortals.

Buddhism is a religion that is not heavy on theocracy, but gives people its inherent values; man is the master of the universe and his own. Therefore, Buddhism is a self-reliant religion, based on the cause and effect principle and a very high human spirit. Usually, when we encounter misery or unpleasant things, we often blame others and forget to look back to see if we are at fault or not.

Buddha taught, from countless lifetimes, because our body and mind have created so many good and evil deeds, then followed the karma of birth and life, lurking in the cycle of birth and death. These things are called luck or risk. There are causes, plus conditions to support, there must be fruit.

Causal cause and effect is an eternal truth, so people who understand the religion always have a sense of responsibility and self-reliance, not looking outward, and never blaming anyone.

At the time when the Buddha was about to enter nirvana, Ananda asked the Buddha four questions as follows: 1. Which dharma method do you rely on? - Relying on the four foundations of mindfulness. 2. After Buddha extinguished, who to take as a teacher? - Take the precepts as a Master. 3. What is the beginning of each script? - Like a prose. 4. How does an evil monk cure? - Treatment by wearing clothes.
   

   














Here we discuss the precepts only. Truly the precepts are the great masters of the four of us Buddha. Whatever method we are cultivating, we must follow the roadmap of unsurpassed learning, which is gender - concentration - wisdom. To observe the precepts is to stop all evil deeds, to do all good deeds, to build oneself with a basic moral life. The monks and nuns want to build a high intellectual, must build a strong rule of law.

At the time of the Buddha's life, each year from the full moon in April to the full moon in July, the monks had to follow the mode of settlements, that is, to stay in a place of residence to take photos, to make efforts to practice the precepts - to - wisdom. The first reason the Buddha set up this regime, is because in the three months of summer, in India, it rains heavily, the water floods the aisle, after which the insects proliferate, making it difficult for them to propagate and go into insect trampling love.

After three months of detention, the Buddha noticed many bhikkhus who attained Holy fruits, thanks to less travel, to avoid less affinity and drastically practice. As a result of that, after that, the regime of detention and settlements for three months was maintained in the Sangha forever.

Settlement must go hand in hand with the precept. Monks' activities during this time are different from weekdays. On normal days, due to the chaos of the chaos, you can travel to Buddhism, discipline in the Sangha sometimes lax. But in the three months of the summer, everything was neatly arranged, the monks were walking within the confines of the monastery; only those who have special predestined affinity, have to ask for permission to go out.

At first glance, the monks seem to have a free time, not bothering about their livelihoods because of the Buddhist support of offerings; but actually your inner self is a battle field! On the one hand, you have to close yourself in a very strict discipline, on the other hand you have to fight non-stop with how troublesome temperament is. Thus, after the fetters, if anyone keeps the precepts, tries to practice and has the awareness, there will be significant progress.

Where a serious monastic institution is able to produce people of great renunciation, if the organization loosens it will be difficult to train the Sangha. Thus, the renunciate who, if arranged the work, to avoid the predestined, can annually organize for themselves a certain time to retreat.

As mentioned above, spiritual practice does not mean focusing only on the three months of the lower month, because it is a continuous and long-term process. However, on ordinary days, due to many buddhas having to be exposed to scenes, the impulse of body and mind is not as strong as the time spent in a calm environment, with the masses gathered. Especially with the young monks and nuns, the lower school is also a favorable place to be close, to learn about the morality and the monastic behavior of religious dignitaries, those who have high moral standards, who have experienced the cultivation process.

Back to the question of discipline, in addition to applying to each individual practitioner, there are principles of living together in the Sangha group. The spirit of continental harmony is the driving force for the Sangha's development and perfection, in which equality is the focus: material equality (body of the head, benefits of the army), equality in law preparations (about fellow practitioners), harmony in thought and speech (ants reconciliation, the idea of ​​approval, and export of peace).

Thanks to living in this spirit, the masses have the harmony from form to content, as the Buddha taught:  "To increase the monk's stability, to keep the monks hard to keep, so that the good monks are okay. try on your own ” . Purification of mind and body of each individual and harmony in collective life is the profound and noble meaning of the two words Sangha (Sangha).

Sutra of the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Buddha taught:  "Precepts are the root of Bodhi, the gateway of Nirvana, and the boat that leads beings through the sea of ​​life and death" . Buddhist precepts are not dogma, rigid legal regulations, but voluntary principles of spiritual practice.

Each person has the right to uphold respect or not, and enjoy his or her own good results or suffer bad consequences according to his actions. Purifying the monastic life through the precepts not only has a special importance to the monastic community and individual monks and nuns, but also has a profound impact on the surrounding environment and the whole society. .

Because every human being has an organic relationship with everyone, a monk with three pure karma will have a great deal of appreciation for the community, not only by word of mouth but also by body. Therefore, the pure sangha will help purify human life, thereby contributing to social security.

To actively uphold the precepts is the first and basic content, always upheld and reminded throughout the religious life of renunciants. From that first step, the new monk deserves to be the Head of the Tathagata, a dharma master in the Sangha, bringing Buddhism to build the world, making Buddha Dharma clear, all sentient beings Thanks to France. /. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.30/6/2020.