The monk (Part 2) .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

"Buddha is the father, Dharma is the mother. Consistent with the Buddha's words, following the Dhamma is acting right with the parents."  The monastic renounced all, escaped from the family, took the Buddha as a father, and took the Dharma as a mother, then must have the right activity with that parent. So the problem of practice is considered the main part, the must-have result of the explanation and the necessary cause of realization that the Monk, true to his name, cannot not have. 

5. General Precepts of the Monks

Outline of the Precepts

Kinh U-she-rule says:  "Gender means prohibiting only: the capacity to ban only evil karma called gender; gender means step up: the ability to step up to heaven to the so-called worldly wisdom" . These two definitions clearly show the nature and power of the precepts. The nature of the precepts is to suspend all wrong actions, the power of the precepts is to bring the holder from the bliss of the gods to the enlightenment of the Buddha. The status of all classes of Buddhists, both in the home as well as by the ordination, are regulated by the world-law that he maintains. Leaving the precepts away, all Buddhists, are unsuccessful. This conclusion is forever the true statement in all space and time: "The precepts are still, the Buddha-Dharma remains."

The entire precept has 5 parts

1. Precepts: each precept is separate to prevent it from eradicating each distinct sin against it.

2. Concentration on the realm: the power of meditation to prevent the sins of distraction.

3. Path realm: the power of the senses to eliminate sins arising by delusion.

4. Photography sense sense: the ability to prevent the liberty and delusion of the senses.

5. Non-world: the precepts train the mind, causing a capacity that can prevent and eradicate sin in future lives.

Although there are 5 such parts, but in fact only the first part, "special world" is the real precepts. This section outlines three categories:

1. Secular world.

2. Winning the world.

3. Mahayana gender.

The worldly world is the precepts that only bring peace in the scope of samsara, such as the 5 forbidden precepts and 10 good karma that sustain the purpose of blessing in humans and in heaven. World world, with that definition, it includes pros-she-rule world, pros-world-world, a part of eight boys world and one part of ten good-karma.

On the contrary, it is the victory-meaning world. Victory-meaning precepts are the precepts capable of liberating samsara. Therefore, the sense of the world includes all the qualities of the renunciant: sa di, sa-di-ni, wake-massage-ma-na, female-stilts, female-stilts-ni.

Apart from the above two categories, Mahayana is not limited to any extent. Home-and-home life are both. Bliss in the cycle of reincarnation due to the Mahayana-world that has, the holy results of liberating samsara are also due to the Mahayana-world. The breadth and outcome are dependent on such Mahayana, but the purpose of the Mahayana is to attain Buddhahood, full liberation and great enlightenment.

The content of the three types of precepts above is not beyond these 4 articles:

1. About Dharma: is the kind of precepts set by Buddha-da.

2. World World: is the power to eliminate evil that arises in the mind after taking the precepts.

3. About Action: is according to the world that acts in the body, mouth and mind in a right way with the world-France.

4. About General: This is a movement that only maintains and works according to the regulations of the world.

 

General Precepts of the Monks

Although the precepts are of three types, but within the scope of the Monk-renunciant, here only the outline of Thang and the Mahayana world is presented.

A. Won-mean world  is key 10 precepts of Sa-di and 250 precepts of Male-stilts. Satan, the nuns, and the monks are subject to these two parts.

1)  Outline of the 10 Samaritans. Consists of 2 parts:

a. Tanh-gender: the precepts refer to the inherent sins, ie the first 4 precepts of the 10 precepts.

b. Precepts: the precepts refer to the conditions that arise from inherent crimes, that is, the following six precepts in the 10 precepts.

2)  Outline of the 250 Male-stilts. Divided into 8 categories;

a. Prohibiting only the "first" sins that are committed crimes, then the status of the Priest is completely dead, as the first is no longer a reason to live. This category has 4 things, called the ba la di.

b. Prohibiting only the sins of "rising and falling" are the crimes that are committed, the status of the Monk is near death, only a little extra life, if they do not repent, they will not be able to be fully restored. This category has 13 things, called the monks and nuns.

c. Prohibition of "indeterminate" sins are sins that can be a first step, possibly an exacerbation, possibly a sin. This type has 2 things, called the delicacy.

d. Prohibiting only the crimes of "depravity" are the sins that even disregard the things you committed will still fall to hell if you do not repent to the monks. This kind of thing has 30 things, called the three-story Buddhist nuns.

e. Prohibiting only the sins of "single slavery" are the sins that, although there are no things you have to commit to eliminate, but also fall into hell if you do not repent with them. This category has 90 things, called the three subjects.

Prohibit the sins of "repentance direction" are sins only before other female-stilts that repent. 

This category has 4 things, called amnesty.

g. The "learning preferences" are details that need to be known and kept. This category has 100 things.

H. The "passing away from the dharma" are the methods of making each other sincerely admit and confess sins. This category has 7 things.

Eight kinds of such a thing are really sinful, only 5:

Type 1 is one; the second is two; the third type is just one of the two categories above; the fourth and the fifth are three because copper is a crime of hell if they do not repent, they only increase, only the thing we commit and there is no thing; the sixth is four; The seventh is the year, this type is also called "sudden keel" which translates to an abomination, which means unworthy gestures. As for the eighth category, it is the method, not the gender.

B. Mahayana world  , all are included in the following 3 types:

1. Suspect law photography.

2. Photography world law.

3. Sexual photography.

Doubtful law is an all-encompassing type of morality aimed at suspending evil. On the contrary, the Realm of good faith is the kind that includes all the things aimed at the realization of good deeds. And the Real Estate is the kind that includes all the things aimed at the benefit of all sentient beings. These three categories not only include all the qualities and details of Mahayana, but all of the Bodhisattva's deeds are also captured in it. The above three types form two ways of keeping:

1. To maintain (hold by suspension) means to hold the first type. This type, contrary to the following 2 types, do it as a crime.

2. Maintain (by practice) ie keep the following two types. These two types are contrary to the previous one.

In the outline of this rule, although the "secular world" part is not of the renunciants, the renunciants must know to transmit and guide the believers to keep. This part "secular world" said while explaining the outline of the "common doctrinal system of the 5 yanas" in the previous article should not say here. As for the "winning the sense of the world" and "great-surplus-world", no one is allowed to not know, because oil at the level of Sa-Di should also understand clearly for later life. The English- camel -basic-karma says:  "Newly entering the Buddha-Dharma tank, taking faith-mind as the root, but in the Buddha-cam house, taking precepts as the basis."  So, if you give up that basic, everything will be thrown away.

 

6. General Practice of the Monk

Sutras say:  "Buddha is the father, Dharma is the mother. Follow the Buddha's words, follow the Dhamma, that is to act right with the parents."  The monastic renounced all, escaped from the family, took the Buddha as a father, and took the Dharma as a mother, then must have the right activity with that parent. So the problem of practice is considered the main part, the must-have result of the explanation and the necessary cause of realization that the Monk, true to his name, cannot not have. The practice has two parts:

1. Self-propelled.

2. Turns out.

Self-propelled is self-made. Forgiveness is done for people. Part of its nature also has self-interest forgiving in the purpose of Right-Awareness. First of all, here are 3 things of the "Chemistry" section:

a. Legal worship.

b. The righteous-legal ceremony.

c. Legal activities.

Worship of the righteous-dharma is only worshiping images of Buddha-da and Bodhisattvas. But they must be stately images, whether large or small, whether they are images or paper images, they must be able to imagine their compassion, miraculous appearance. The righteous-dharma worship does not allow us to worship images of incarnations, such as the ascetic statue of Prince Tat-Dat, such as the manifestation of the Venerable Bo-Dai, or Tantric statues; for the very simple reason that the above incarnations represent only one virtue, signifying an idea, not comprehensively visualizing the solemnity of compassion and the miraculous form of Buddha-da and Bodh- slap. Especially the statue of the spirit, even the renunciant should not worship.

For example, the Jade Emperor, the Quan-Thanh statue, the Holy Mother statue. If they say that they are the god-defenders of the Buddha-Dharma and those who practice the Buddha-Dharma, it is unreasonable, because their aspiration is to uphold the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, why are the renunciants contrary to the great aspiration. Then, worship Buddha and bring your status as Sangha to worship? If it is said that worshiping them as a means of money, leading some superstitious people to enter right-faith, the opposite truth is true: the superstition has increased and the right-faith does not see them paying attention.

Therefore, to conclude this way to definitively the problem: In the old days, worshiping them was to bring some people into the Buddha-Dharma, no matter how and how, but today, because the majority of them believe that worship. is superstition, or more harmful, they mistakenly think that the Buddha-Dharma is such a superstition, so they must be hidden.

Nowadays, people mistakenly think the Buddha-Dharma is superstition, the Buddha-Dharma will destroy them, people think that worshiping is superstitious, they will not come to the Buddha-Dharma anymore, so obviously, worshiping them is contrary to their great vow to support Buddha-Dharma. Because of the destiny of the Buddha-Dharma and out of respect for them, the renunciant should think there. As for the matter of guiding people, also due to the above remark, we see in the past, worshiping them was to guide people into the Buddha-Dharma, but today, if you want to guide people into the Buddha-Dharma, you must. Hide Them.

Ritual of the righteous-Dharma are two parts of words and tones that must be in accord with the Dharma. This restriction eliminates witchcraft and transformative rituals, such as star offerings, earth offerings, blood flocks, and oaths. Save, only the ritual that the word is extracted from the three organs or y according to the three organs that compose, and the tone is from voice to voice, there is only one meditation. The purpose of all non-solitary rituals is for the super; So, if we want to be peaceful, want to be super-born, how can we achieve the evil words of the pagan religion and the voice that reflect the smell of meditation? The Buddha's teaching, one word is a god, one word destroys karma like eternal sa, why don't we chant and read the meaningless words, the bullshit of the pagans? As for the intonation, the chanting voices, the chants of chanting, falling down with the pure meditation, rising up with the magnificent mind meditation, why do we go away, use the melancholy tones, sorrow, or stirring, wiggling? The words of the pagan religion, the sound of the evil spirits, what do those things lead us to other than suffering people to add suffering, to increase samsara, and tears to shed more tears while lust worsens lust? On the contrary, the Zen-flavor tone, on the contrary, illuminates the profound meaning of the teaching of the Buddha's words. Even though listeners do not understand that meaning, they still feel liberated through the Zen-flavored tone. That is the driving force that brings them to the Buddha-Dharma, to the truth, to eternity. but through the rhythm of meditation, they still feel the liberation. That is the driving force that brings them to the Buddha-Dharma, to the truth, to eternity. but through the rhythm of meditation, they still feel the liberation. That is the driving force that brings them to the Buddha-Dharma, to the truth, to eternity.

Activities of legal-legal: this just looks at the word legitimate-legal also see its scope. For the renunciation, for the purpose of propagating the Dharma is housework but taking the profit as a career, so eat, dress, stay, these three things are often not affluent and depend on believers. On the contrary, the renunciant left the job of propagating the Dharma, a lucrative career went to eat, dress, stay, no matter how, the activity was not legal anymore. Not only illegal activities but, as such, the status and life of the Monk was also lost. The life of the renunciant is "hue network", so the food is France-the subject of the lake, the shirt is patience-humiliation, the house is the great compassion-compassion mind. Living in the three realms, the renunciant considers himself a passerby, looking to pass by quickly to never return again, or on the part of the renunciation, The Monastics themselves take on the task of bringing that spirit of liberation into the lives of all, in order to realize that it is better to dress and help each other, not that the purpose of life is just to dress up. because of it, the war is immense. Therefore, even if they dress up, it is all greedy both practical and harsh, but the Priest must try to fight on their own until they conquer that greed. "Bringing impermanent life in exchange for permanent life"  is a verse that says like ancient virtue, great new life, complete death, new life forever. The Monk should always recite that verse.

In short, worship is a symbol of a religion and human emotion by image, ritual is a voice between divine and human sensitization with both sound, so it is necessary to keep the righteousness-dharma for the sensitization effective, especially effective right-dhamma. And the new life needed more, in alienation. People often see a religion through their followers. That the Monk is the personification of the Buddhist spirit. Thus, the activities of the renunciant must conform to the righteousness to look at it, from the realization of the Dharma and seeing the spirit of the Dharma. The Priest guides the believers, not by directing his own people, but by the capacity of his renunciant. Life is one of them. That status is legal to complete the task of "alienation".

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The "Self-Reliance" part of the Monk, includes all the Buddhist teachings. The alchemy is just one part of this part. Therefore, if we want to have a method that is both inclusive and unique to specify all other disciplines, in this "self-practice" section we highlight the "recitation of Buddha" method.

What does reciting Buddha's name mean? Normally, when people hear the word reciting Buddha's name, people immediately think of the recitation of his name. Thinking that was too narrow turned out to be a mistake. Reciting Buddha's name means reciting Buddha-da. This definition must add a little more clarity, is to remember the qualities of the Buddha in order to incorporate these qualities into his mind, his actions. So the purpose of reciting Buddha's name is exactly as in the Lang-Nghiem sutra taught, that  "sentient beings remember Buddha, think Buddha, the present as well as the future decide to see Buddha".  Seeing Buddha, it is a result that both realizes the pure land, the pure birth, and the fullness of merit and wisdom; In short, seeing the Buddha is going to decide to become a Buddha, the Di-Da Sutra says "with respect to the Supreme-righteous-turning-sense no more change" is this meaning, so Quan-Kinh says: "If sentient beings recite Buddha's name, that mind is Buddha, that mind becomes Buddha."

Reciting Buddha's name is reciting something of Buddha? As mentioned above, reciting the Buddha-da is commemorating the qualities of him in order to incorporate those qualities into his mind and deeds. Thus, reciting Buddha-da, in any way, is to commemorate the Buddha's nature, to practice these qualities, to actualize them. One can for example, someone determined to be a hero should commemorate them. Memorial of heroes is to commemorate their qualities in order to exercise them for themselves, in order to create a hero like them. The recitation of the Buddha's name is in the same mood. The practitioner of this method is a person who commemorates the Buddha's nature in order to exercise them, creating himself into a Buddha-like Buddha.

But what is the nature of Buddha? The commentary Photography-Mahayana-Mahayana writes: The Tanh Tanh of Buddha-da has 7 things that everyone reciting the Buddha must also remember these qualities:

1. Self-mindedness.- That is wisdom that reaches all beings, understands psychology and knows all methods of overcoming that psychology, absolute freedom for the transformation of all beings.

2. Permanent resident.

3. Dark infinitely contraband.- Means that has eliminated all current and the seeds of afflictions and intellectual obstacle.

4. Useless.- That means all the work of a Buddha to do, that work has been completely mature, so it only arises uninterruptedly and arises, but no longer has to work. and outsourcing (work and process new to work, the work must have a discrete character but not a popular personality).

5. Dafa bliss.- Is true that the world is pure (pure), has enough and uses all the wonderful bliss of the Chief Justice-Mahayana.

6. The glass of defilement.- is present in the worlds, born in the mundane realm, but all the things of the world cannot be defiled.

7. Successful great.- Show all the body until the manifest of Christmas, enlightenment, nirvana to teach living beings, whoever is not mature, make mature, whoever is mature, make the solution. exit.

How do you commemorate the Buddha's qualities? Asking like that means asking how to recite Buddha's name? How many methods are available? There are three types of reciting Buddha's name:

1) Accept the title,

2) Visualize the image

3) Recite the Buddhist Dharma body.

Means commemorating the qualities of the Buddha-da by remembering the title, by visualizing his image, or by reciting his dharmakaya, because that title, image or dharmakaya, is partly included. , also embodies all of the above qualities. Commemorating a hero, one can commemorate through his name, image or personality. So is the person reciting Buddha's name, whichever of the three ways above, if practiced correctly, can "train to concretely realize the qualities of Buddha-da into his mind and deeds. ".

Commemorate the qualities of Buddha by upholding His name. - But among the three methods above, the method of "title retention" is now the most popular, so even though all three methods are equally vindictive, but here only is the method of title retention. Roughly explained, most people follow that interpretation and correct practice. For the sake of understanding, we ask the following questions that answer:

a.  What is title retention? Literally the word grasping is holding. With regard to the Buddha's title, gather all your energies, remember with mind, read by mouth, walk without forgetting, lie down without abandon, calm as well as move, never leave the name of Buddha , so called perseverance.

b. What is the title of the Buddha to be maintained? As mentioned above, the name of the Buddha includes and manifests the entire quality of his nature, maintaining that name means exercising his qualities into oneself so that it is worthy to be accepted and must be observed.

c. What Buddha is holding the title of Buddha? Any Buddha is fine. Having come to the position of Buddha-da, any Buddha is the one who fully possesses all the qualities of a Buddha mentioned above. Although their titles are different from each other, the qualities that that word envision are only one. The Buddha qualities mentioned above, recorded, are of two types: great liberation (the result of great merit) and great enlightenment (the result of great wisdom). These two types of qualities, any name of the Buddha, are explained also include.

d. So why often only maintain the title of Buddha Amitabha? Because 1) The title is also full of both kinds of virtues of the Buddhas, so "Amitabha" translates to "immeasurable" meaning accomplishing immeasurable qualities of great liberation (so called is immeasurable feeling) and great enlightenment (should be called immeasurable light). Maintaining a title makes it easy to "unrestrained one-pointedly", but our mind has been chaotic and persisting in many titles is difficult to have the required effect.

e. If so, holding any Buddha's title is okay, why do people only hold the title of Amitabha? Because to give birth to Dewachen and Buddha Amitabha have more conditions with us. The Bridge of Birth of Great-Bliss is because there is birth of Great-Bliss, which can easily complete great-liberation, great-enlightenment, and fully save all species. And Buddha Amitabha has more conditions with us than because in the sutras, when he did not become a Buddha, it was because of us that he vowed to create the world of Great Bliss; Because of that predestined relationship, everyone recites his title and prayed for the birth of his world. 

What is the effect of maintaining such titles? Must do so that "one-pointed unrest" This unrestrained, effective one-mindedness has two layers: 1) The mind is dedicated to the name of the Buddha without remembrance of anything else; To imagine this, the ancient Buddha often said at least 10 hours of reciting the Buddha's name but still one-pointedly was born. 2) Act identical to the nature contained in that title without thinking and doing anything else; imagine this, in the sutras saying the mind reciting Buddha's name is Buddha, that mind is the Buddha. It must have the effect of such unrestrained single-mindedness to truly realize the results of all methods of reciting the Buddha's name.

g. What is the result of all Buddhist chanting? It is 1) realizing the pure land, 2) forming the pure land, and 3) passing away the pure land. Realizing the pure land means that because of the unrest of one mind, my mind thinks, the actions I do are the same as the great liberation and great enlightenment of the name of the Buddha, which means that the mind and action have been purified. Even in the realm of pollution, it feels like being in a pure realm, there is no more pollution. To create the pure land means that by the unrestrained one-mindedness that the mind thinks and acts, are just like great liberation and great enlightenment, creating for everyone liberation and enlightenment, making this world empty. still suffering caused by their cruelty caused by ignorance. The pure land rebirth is due to the above unrest, mind and action are identical with great liberation and great enlightenment, so when the karmic retribution ends in this world of suffering Sa-she generation, it is true that the result of karmic retribution in pure bliss generation. Such realization, creation and rebirth in the pure land are the result of all methods of reciting the Buddha's name, not just the method of holding up titles.

H. What is unrest one-pointed mind that has such great results that should have been accomplished by the Bodhisattva of the world? The Bodhisattva of great happiness is gathered both on the great merit of great liberation and great wisdom of great enlightenment. The restless one-pointed mind is the mind identified with the great liberating and great-enlightened nature of the Buddha which is included in his name and not mixed with anything else. The mind identified with the Buddha's nature is concretely all the karmic Bodhisattva, but the karma arouses more or less, whether or not it arises, whether it is caused by conditions or not, more or less. only a little. Therefore, unrestrained single-mindedness is the good base of unrest, unlike other good roots that are not discovered by the nature of the mind that is identical with the Buddha nature.

The Amitabha Sutra says that it is impossible to bring the good root of a little birth of Dewachen, but to maintain the title of Buddha Amitabha who is unrestrained one-pointedly. The time of reciting the Buddha's name to get one-pointed unrest, even in the first layer of this effect, is not easy to achieve, let alone its end. So the Sutra Di-Da said that accepting the title for 1 day, 2 days or 7 days, but being unrestrained, the Pole-bliss is money. That said, I know, even if it's 7 days, let's say 6 days. 5 days to 2 days a day, if you get unrestrained one-pointedly, that person is truly great great deal of wisdom, frustrating that Extreme-Bliss is making money at the time of death.

But for us, all our life reciting Buddha's name and our mind is still disturbed, we should not see the seven-day Buddha's teaching and be unrestrained, but think that the method of reciting Buddha's name is easy to cultivate and inferior. However, the unrestrained one-mindedness has not been recited with sincere faith, only believing in Buddha, not believing in the demons, this is also the starting point of unrest, so the result is equivalent to reciting the Buddha's name. not without. The Sutta says that the birth of Supreme-Bliss has nine steps, the method of reciting the Buddha's name can be practiced by anyone, and the world of Supreme-Bliss can be born, which is this meaning. Extremely tall and extremely broad is the Buddhist recitation method, which is the most effective unrestrained mind of that method.

What should I do if I want to be unrestrained one-pointedly, that means I want to practice the method of reciting Buddha's name? There must be three conditions: credit, virtue, and prayer. Tin is confident that he has enough capacity to practice to achieve the Buddha recitation method, is convinced that the method of reciting Buddha's name effectively is the realization of Dewachen, and is convinced that Buddha Amitabha is the master who guides him and is the one. but I try to cultivate (and will be) like Him. Happiness is to uphold the title of Buddha Amitabha by remembering it carefully by mind, reading it with your mouth and acting by following the nature of great liberation and great enlightenment. that title signifies. May it be bringing that virtue to realize the pure land, creating the pure land and rebirth in the Pure Land of Bliss.

The pure birth of birth is to escape Sa-Ba, abandoning sentient beings, in short, is destructive, right? Are not. Because before rebirth in the pure land, it forms the pure land between human beings. After being born in the Pure Land, re-enter Sa-Ba, forming the pure land with all the supernatural power that if you do not die, you will not get Bliss. So the birth of Pole-Bliss is the necessity that the necessity is because in order to transform Sa-Bà world into the world of Supreme Bliss, educating all sentient beings to become Montagnards-Friendly-Human beings.

In the "self-practice" of the renunciant, if one-minded practice "Reciting Buddha" as above, then as we have seen, also includes all other disciplines already.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.18/11/2020.