The Truth Sutra number 56 (fifty-six)
Lecture Topic No. 56: PEACE
PEACE
Author: MINH DANG QUANG
LINK: 56 b.- PEACE (cont.)
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(By the version published in 1993)
Editing and translating into English, this student: LE DUC HUYEN - Translator
(Pages 831-851)
Chanting verses: Praying for Buddha's transcendence!
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A distinction between good and evil,
Two worlds, reason& war.
A civil war arose among innocent people,
One world, who is divided?
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People of the same kind lose humanity, lose meaning,
A hundred years of life, division.
Eat life in a divided life,
Peace aspiration, listen to each other: harmony!
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Peace within, receive the seat-seat,
Cultivating together, transforming kindness.
Cultivating the cessation of afflictions,
Resentful beings, about the domain of rebirth.
Namo amitabud! Rebirth in Ultimate Bliss, Buddha's national salvation to seek liberation (3 times)
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PEACE I
- a) People in the world are divided, groups, social blocks, families, and selfish individuals; hence the catastrophe of war.
- b) We were born in a time of turmoil, seeing a tragic scene, hoping to find a cure. Just realized that: The reason to live in life, no one can be selfish. Who can live on their own, without relying on all? Exactly, my body here has been created and nurtured by so many people. A point of father's essence and a little bit of mother's blood, harmonizing to form. Since birth, have been indebted to all kinds of things: food, clothing, shelter, medicine, needs, etc., which only a few people have to take care of? Everything around us, always supporting and caring, I am too petty, begging for everything, but each of us can't have anything on our own.
- c) I am all, all am I, I live for all, all live for me; my voice this is all, that is truth, the universe. Those who practice the truth are called mendicants. In Sino-Vietnamese, the word [beggar-乞] is "begging", the word [si-士] for a scholar is "study". Ask and then give, learn and teach again. Asking for food to sustain a temporary body, for goodness blessings to preserve long life. Learn by gleaning methods from all over the world, gaining a lot of experience. Teaching is to bring practice results, characteristics that "point back", (re-instructions) to people. What to ask, what to learn, what to teach, what to give, the birth of the dharma, opening a brilliant path for all those who come forward. That path is called the Way. The Way of Living is asking each other to live together, the Way of Knowing is to study together, and the Way of the Spirit is to cultivate together.
- d) This Tao is the universal truth of beings, not a private religion. Those who live strictly according to the truth, the ultimate result: enlightenment or called Buddha, in common language also called Buddhism. We are "Bhikkhus" (Bhikkhus) practicing the transmission of the true Dharma of Shakyamuni Buddha. Appearing in this country of Vietnam, to try to follow the Buddha's example. On behalf of the Buddha to repay the favor, and to repay the favor for sentient beings in eternity..., in times of tribulation!
- e) The distinctive parts of the Dhamma* (method of teaching), for the mendicant are: ☑
1. Don't Mess Up Life About Where to Stay:
Once ordained, the religion, mendicant no longer returns to the world; that is, they do not enter the earthly home, but must join the Sangha's assembly. Going away forever, liberated accommodation, not in a certain place. That Church's ashram is the realm of Ultimate Bliss, without the sound of suffering, surrounded by the Buddha's Precepts, established in a pure and dignified realm. Everyone takes off all the defilements outside; there is the determination to cultivate to achieve results. Therefore, that place has selected wise sages. Living together as one (the rules of monks and nuns do not leave the group), and thanks to the mighty power of the union, each person develops very quickly.
2. Don't Worry About Dressing Matters:
The mendicant, having a fasting meal (noon) every day, begs for alms to support his body. Every year, change a set of three robes (three robes), given by good-hearted people, freeing up the problem of clothing, not saving, not storing. Relaxing, free from greed and attachment, to practice meditation and enter samadhi. ☑
3. No Money:
Mendicants are not allowed to keep money, gold, or valuables. It is because of money that makes people distinguish: the rich and the poor, hierarchy, and class. Because of the lavish display, spending, squandering, borrowing from material things: serving the body form, standing out from other body forms. Take pride in the nobility, happiness, and beauty, inciting desire, generating struggle*, and appropriating for your own gain. It is the cause of inequality in the world, and thus produces many sins. The bhikshu's teaching method is to eliminate greed, first of all, to leave the family, to cut off sexual attachments, and to let go of one's career. God-given fortune, which each person has a share in the enjoyment of, now gives alms to the world all at once. Leaving without bringing any material things in person, for a lifetime: not knowing money, gold, and precious possessions. To be light, pure, and to fly high.
4. Equality Without Rule:
In the realm of equality of body and form, no one is superior or inferior to another, only using virtue as a ruler to measure low and high levels. In Taoism, all life is the same; the word "Bhikshu" is the same. The realm has no punishments, no power, no rulership, only one teaching, and all is at peace.
f) In the midst of the world is death and suffering; the bhikshu is the living substance that binds the blocks of separate divisions. The bhikshu is the path of universal truth, in accordance with the middle path of light, without bias to any side, and the bhikshu is a symbol of the universal teachings.
Life is living together.
Knowing is learning together.
The spirit is practicing together.
All sentient beings are mendicants. Please learn and cultivate together, temporarily change forever, go to forever, have no place to stay. To progress to the omniscient, omnipotent, all-living, all-cultivated, completely tranquil, natural, and immortal realm of cosmic ethics.
The Bhikshus' Sangha Group is a common sentient being, due to predestined conditions and circumstances, following the universal truth, to reach Nirvana! It is a moral path, not standing in the place of humanity, nor in the middle of heaven, nor having to identify itself as a family, society, or world of any kind. The goal is liberation, Perfect Enlightenment, living together to study for themselves and for all, hoping to bring about the present Nirvana, rather than the human scene.
g) The Mendicant Teachings should be the bell of alarm, humming furiously, awakening the community of humanity. Calling and admonishing the wise, receiving and saving the meek. Hence, the journeys, after enlightenment, will gradually spread to the countries... Initially went around the south of Vietnam, then moved to the central and northern parts of Vietnam. Gradually go all over Indochina, if there is a convenient way. The Bhikshu Sangha Church will go with a large number of people, just like the Buddha and monks and nuns in the past, to practice their religion in foreign countries.
The Church does not accept only lay people as its own followers. But only for those who are predestined, have enough good roots of merit, leave home and join the Way as a Sangha.
The most valuable benefit of the Sangha Travel Group, will be the model of harmony. Living together as one and equal, not fighting, sticking to all, but by eliminating greed, hatred, and delusion that end evil. That seed will definitely come to the result of Nirvana, freeing death and suffering for sentient beings and mankind.
5. Daily Dharma Practice Program:
1. In the afternoon from 5 pm to 7 pm, cultivate and rest in peace, or at the base of a forest tree, or at pagodas, temples, or caves (leaf huts), depending on the means of transport.
2. Early in the morning, beg for food on a long road or in a hamlet, village, or city.
3. Lunch at noon using food
4. In the afternoon, preaching the Dharma, preaching to the four groups.
5. Go to each place, present the books of the Bhikshu sect and the program to the authorities there.
6. Arbitrarily along the way to practice the path, helping the Dharma give for the discord. Where the group is crowded, and at the same time, ask for permission to preach. Promotion of places such as hospitals, prisons, offices, incumbents (current government), religions, and parties, etc.
Summary: The practices that are helpful to others, for themselves, and that are pure and good, can be done during the encounter. That is, practice living together to study, contemplate the happiness of the common, and ask to learn from each other. Just like the truth of the universe and Buddhism (the duty of the monk Sangha who has left home for liberation is the "Path" of Nirvana). It is the practice of Buddha Dharma, liberation from the middle path, according to the scriptures, precepts, and commentaries. That is: the Dharma Treasure Tripitaka, including the Suttas, the Vinaya, and the Abhidhamma of the ancient Buddhas taught, is: "You should practice living together to study." ☑
PEACE II
Sincerely to the monks, and the Venerable!
Today, the karma of sentient beings, payback is also near completion. The righteous duty of monks and nuns is not to be allowed to the world: create more loans again. That's why we need to be enlightened! Besides, the predestined level of sentient beings towards Buddhism, now it's time to be trendy. So we should first establish a religion, and then save the world, so that we can avoid the shame of being a Buddhist.
Thinking that, for a long time, Buddhism is like a broken bowl, it is not intact, the precepts are divided, and there is no Church. Therefore, everyone is Buddhist, everyone is Sangha, some people are like three parts, some people are like seven parts! As a foreigner, it is as if there are no monks and nuns in the world with Buddhism, so religions must arise. Then maybe tomorrow, war chaos, partisan, ideological! There will be no respect because the cultivator sleeps, and then there are no gems left. What else is there for me, people, monks, nuns, or Buddhism?
For that reason, today we must forget ourselves, forget our own teachings and ideas. Just look at Shakyamuni Buddha, that is, look at the precepts. The teacher of gentleness, purity, harmony, and equality in the Buddha's precepts. To become Buddhists with the Sangha and the whole world of monks and nuns, they are all "vegetarians and beggars". The same from time to time as one, so there is no more sin against the Buddha and other sentient beings.
That is to say, everyone practices and studies both the Three Vehicles of Teaching or the Buddha Vehicle fully, hoping to have the "True Dharma" to live a life. By establishing a religion to save lives, people will respect and preserve the Buddhadharma.
Indeed, in life, only the Buddha's dharma is wholesome and pure; great virtue is all around, it is the teaching of the world, the universe, and all sentient beings. It is only possible to save the sufferings of sentient beings today. Certainly, the Buddhist precepts of the Sangha establish peace. Then the new world will be at peace, and in the land of humanity, they will naturally live together, study together, and unite into one.
Today, the situation outside, everyone has found themselves helpless, confused, so much! So, let's move forward, first of all, in harmony and equality with each other to establish the path, to set an example, then later, sentient beings will follow and continue. From time immemorial until now, all peace has been based on the word of morality, although someone who refuses to speak first eventually must learn to speak again and again!
Therefore, today the whole world Sangha should gather, to divide into many Churches. Each Church has enough Sangha from all over the world to go together, to come together in the midst of discord: ask for a substitute. Please advise: cultivate morality, bring enlightenment, eliminate competition, just like Buddha, a Saint, in the past. They have set an example with their lives: generosity, patience, diligence, discipline, meditation, and wisdom. Then the life of suffering and death of new beings will decrease and stop.
In this day and age, it is only necessary to have the same, to have our common practice, the training of the mind, but no longer because of the personal position of the cardinal.
Rather good! If there is no permission.
Wishing, the whole world gathered, quickly set a date for the reunion.
Namo Buddha! (Homage to the three bows.)
PEACE III
Question: How can there be peace?
A: Peace is the spirit of independence, in the sense of the established whole.
Because "lone-毒", which means lonely, dictator, one must be isolated, unable to avoid suffering and death, because they have to fight each other forever. That's when I know that being independent is not equal to the whole setup, called total. In life, if everyone is on their own, they will have to fight and fail! How is it that by being completely independent, the whole thing is created for you, they keep it for you, and support you. That is called completeness, so peace is called complete, or co-establishment. So, that is the truth of living together and learning in the universe, but in life is no one can do anything by himself.
Peace also means harmony, equality, high mounds fill the lowlands, to be equal, not high, low, uneven, but tripping! That's why it's called: flat ground, universal justice, sitting, lying, sleeping for everyone. Therefore, words and ideas are not equal to deeds. Those who have words, ideas of peace, must work for themselves. Everyone's work, no one gives to anyone, and no one forces anyone to do it. It is peace that comes from within the mind, and outside the body, deeds and words of each person, family, society, the world, and sentient beings. By hunger, satiety, death, and life, the strength of the mind; by the lack of surplus, knowing how to share with each other is called the Middle Way.
Peace, which the Buddha once taught, is:
- 1. In life, only morality, spirit, and virtue of the mind are the equal teachings, because looking at that place, humanity will no longer be divided into classes of the flesh. Just like the Buddha in the past, he led a person carrying a bucket of dung to enter the path. And the king of that country knows how to worship that monk without being strict; that's called equality.
- 2. As for the peace, as in the Church of the Bhikshu Sangha without fame and gain, the monks live together in unity, with a large number of different ranks, which is called the Sangha of harmony. Because whenever there is disagreement, the Buddha said, let's be at peace with each other:
2.- Or say decisively: forget!
3.- Or I don't know, not intentionally.
4.- Or sincerely apologize that I made a mistake.
5.- Or forward to the Church for consideration.
6.- Or ask a generous person to decide for you.
7.- Or chant together the name Buddha, ignore, cover up, like grass that has just grown. ☑
That is, to be at peace with one another. The method of harmony is the rule of the Buddhas to teach the monks, from student to teacher. Meaning from petty person (petty) to being human: "gentleman" (generous), just like children in schools and classrooms.
So if you want peace, you shouldn't fight. If you want to avoid war, don't be conservative: gain fame. Let's look at the example of the behavior of the mendicants, or also, the Bhikkhus, liberated and ordained. No grain of rice, no money, a vegetarian begging for fruit and vegetables, to pass the days. Eating, wearing, staying, sick, available in life, free to worry, living together to study: greed, hatred, and delusion are not available. Often doing religious work, forever going, not staying in one place, changing evolution, not having a concept of competition. If there is no war, there is no need to pray: wish for peace at all!
Moreover, there is harmony with each other, then there is: mutual normalization! If we want people to get along, then we have to really get along first, because without benevolence, there will never be any fruit. So, let's not be greedy and do evil, and then we will tell people not to be greedy and do evil! That is, we have to cultivate morality first, show people an example of behavior, and cultivate morality after it is convenient for things. Or we must appreciate the common greed, which is the greed that knows the sharing. Not a selfish dictator, by being greedy alone, but forbidding others to be greedy. Like the scene: thieves sharing things, unfinished and troubled, how absurd! Just like we steal the leaves of the grass, we steal the branches of the trees, we take the lives of animals, but we forbid the gods and demons to kill people...Wow! It's also a very unfair thing! But why have we not yet learned to live together, because we have realized: the body is a debt, a sin for all. It is neither me nor mine, I cannot control it, for before birth, and after death, or in every moment, it is nothing. With such a clear understanding, we will see that the world is moral, and there is morality for eternity, a peaceful life. ☑ ( Continue reading the article: => Eat and Live; Ăn và Sống,)
PEACE IV ✔
Q: When will there be peace?
A: Today, the current situation of each country is available like this:
1) As liberated monastics: Bhikkhus of the Bhikshu Sangha.2) Being a lay practitioner of "religions".
3) Being a non-cultivator, living in a social family.
4) Because of the division, chaos, and complexity of that class, in the world, it has to be: "strong wins, weak lose", like tigers, big and small, compete forever.
Therefore, in each country, if you want to be at peace, you need to cultivate morality, first establish a religion, and then save for a new life. The establishment of that religion is harmony, harmony is peace, there is peace inside first, then there will be peace on the outside. The meaning of peace is like that!
Question: Why is it called inner harmony?
Answer:
1) Must cooperate with the Sangha, make the seed of the fruit first, and cooperate with the Buddha's precepts.
2) Must unite the religion of the householder, make the flesh of the fruit, then unite with the Buddha's precepts.
3) We have to reform society, the family, which is the shell of the fruit, and finally, reform it with the Buddha's precepts.
Just as the rind is attached to the flesh of the fruit, so the pericarp is attached to the seed; the rind of the fruit covers the pulp (meat), and the gut covers the seed. The seed depends on the intestines, the intestines rely on the peel: to form a round, conjoined fruit, by the adherence of the precepts. That is called the result, symbolized as the fruit of harmony within; then people in the new life will know how to cherish, preserve, support, save, and love without destruction. Therefore, to be peaceful outside, it should be called: "inner harmony, outside peace", which means peace.
Peace is the way, peace is precious because of the precepts, so it's clear that: Precepts are peace, establishing a precious path, then there will be peace and peace because: precious! Like a good, fragrant fruit, or like a precious jewel, we will keep, support, and be at peace; if the damaged fruit is bad, then how can the destruction be avoided?
Then, the precious precepts in that life are:
1) Just like Buddhism is the precepts of ordination. There are precepts to leave home, so it is called the Sangha of liberation: Mendicant or Bhikkhu. The precepts of ordination are cooperation, with cooperation, the Sangha, and Buddhism.
2) Just like the way of the gods: it is the precepts of the lay people. There are precepts at home, so they are called good devas: lay people. The house precepts are unions; some unions are gods, and there are religions of the world.
3) Just like human religion: social and family precepts. There are social and family precepts, so they are called people. Social precepts, the family is a reform, having reform is a person, having a religion of a person.
Everyone has discipline in life. For example, being a king must have more precepts than a mandarin, a mandarin must have more precepts than a person, and parents must have more precepts than children. Everyone has to be like that; when the adults talk, the younger people listen. Just as a father does not drink alcohol, teach his son to abstain from alcohol. The king did not kill, only to teach the prisoners to be kind. If officials do not steal, then the common people are clean. If a teacher teaches the Way (ie, a Bodhisattva) without lust, then the student who learns the Way will become polite. Thus, no one competes, jostles the precepts for each other!
With the precepts, there is no longer a chaotic jungle, then people will focus their minds, bright wisdom. Therefore, Buddhism, the way of the gods, and the way of people are all precepts. Sangha, religion, society, and family are precepts. The precepts are peace, the way, and the fruit. The bounding of the law is an extremely valuable result. Because living beings in a certain land have a way, have good ground precepts, be selfish, and treat each other. That means people who do not understand each other exchange with each other. No one is starving to death; that is not called external peace, lasting peace forever, because the result is the Buddha's precepts.
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