Topic: Lecture Number 57 (fifty-seven)
ETIQUETTE
Author: MINH DANG QUANG
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LINK: 37.- Moral-Ethical Life
(By version, published in 1993)
Edited and translated into English, this student LE DUC HUYEN: Translator. Page 825-864)
Verses: Ceremonies
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This is not where beings' power.
Good Discipline, Moral-Ethical Life,
Please! Kindness, that is, the Ceremony.
VOCA. caste /'kæst/n.; đẳng cấp; (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity.
A ceremony is a way to show respect.
Ceremonial is the teaching of the expression: reverent intention, or also the way of expression: respectful mind. Or is it a method of teaching, a good and important doctrine of human life?
Ritual is the foundation of love, sympathy, friendliness, good harmony with each other, which is the permission to live a good life: so it is called politeness. Politeness is a rule, a good discipline, and the polite person will have the greatest joy in life.
Especially, the worship will ease the suffering of the person, but see the soul as cleaner, lighter, peaceful, happy, and more joyful. Courtesy is a filial piety; the ground of coexistence, harmony is very precious.
One who knows how to bow, life becomes free, charitable, generous, and easy to succeed. For all eternity, there will be no more selfishness, pride, and no one hates anger: enmity, because perhaps everyone can worship and reconcile everything.
In a life where there is etiquette, there will never be wars, tribulations, and disorders among each other. Just like in the past, in the 'turbulent times', Confucius taught etiquette, so he soon had peace. As for the next life, when people are peaceful, they become chaotic, because people have gradually forgotten etiquette. Therefore, calling the ceremony: it is the Way, the disrespect is the life. Edit, that set of teachings is editing life establishing: Taoism, so! Or also called, repair, establish a new, good life again.
The teaching ritual has three parts, including body, speech, and mind, called the ceremony seed. The body is the shell, the speech is the gut. Ideas are the seedbed of the seed. The body bows down, is the head and hands, feet, five parts of the body, kneeling close to the ground! The speech of prostration is the mouth: speak respectfully, sweetly! The idea of prostration, the idea of remembrance, honesty, respect! Including all three like that, the new call should be complete: it is polite.
And if the whole seed of the ceremony, round, complete, and sure, is planted somewhere, there will be trees, flowers, fruits, and results for the future. Therefore, call the land bad: evil; good ground: good; pure land: is ethical, is the place to plant the seeds of worship, to have results, to influence the next day. Thus, that is, whoever sincerely worships evil will become evil! Those who sincerely worship the good will become good, and sincerely respect morality will become virtuous. Also, such as:;
- 1) People want to benefit the body, want the body to live long; one should respect the body of an older person. There is a saying, "Respect the elderly, attain longevity", under the subject of Ancient Language (Chinese-Vietnamese). That is, who wants to have a "long life" to live long, do not do evil, so as not to be killed early by them. But we must see the example of those old men, who are good people who do not cause evil or harm anyone, so they can live to such an old age.
- 2) If one wants to benefit from wisdom, to be endowed with intelligence, one must respect one's mind. Even though they are older than us, or younger than us, but wiser and smarter than us, that is our teacher; we should all worship and plant the seeds of worship. Because there is reverence, there is obedience, with respect, there is an example, only then can we study and act like humans, and be like the Noble Gods.
- 3) As for people who want benefits for the mind, want for the mind: truthful, righteous, round, big, one must respect the mind of a practitioner. Because a cultivator is to cultivate the mind, no matter what rank, even if a child is poor, short, or ugly, it can also be our exemplary religious teacher. But we always bow and make offerings to serve, so that we can practice like humans: that is the most precious, purest land. Let us sow the seeds of the mind, pay respects, and worship so that the next day the fruit of the mind, the fruit of Nirvana, like a Buddha, is eternal.
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That is why it is called the seed of worship, which has three benefits: beneficial for the body, beneficial for the mind, and beneficial for mind-consciousness. Or is it because of the body, because of the mind, because of the Mind-consciousness, so there must be worship and the Dharma?
Behold, people: ordinary people, great and small, people who worship the wicked do not have to fear him! It is also to fear the evil of one's mind, to practice patience, to suppress the evil in one's mind, so as not to resist anyone. It is the will to avoid death and suffering for one's body, one's own body, and all. Or is it also a homage to beg for fame, life, and needs: what to spend..., for that body? Behold, the rich, the old man, bow to the young, the poor. They want to pray for the mind, because they are lacking in wisdom, suffering astray.
Behold, the king, the mandarin, seeks to pay homage to the bad, lowly cultivators, because they need their heart, their true heart, round, great, and righteous. Then, it should be good for the great and lasting benefit: no failure!
Therefore, in the past, the Buddha and the monks were begging for food, but the kings and officials, gods, and bodhisattvas worshiped; it was nothing strange. Because the more important the position, the more self-love is born, the "true heart" will recover sin, wear and tear again. It means losing the pure equality of common sense, as it was in the beginning: there!
Therefore, the old Hui Neng scolded those who bowed their heads not to the ground, saying: Bowing is to eliminate pride, bowing so far away from the ground. Self-obsessed nature is guilty of being born, forgetting merit and virtue, and not being ranked.
Behold the Bodhisattva: Thien-Hui, head, arms, and legs, kneeling in a crouching position on a muddy puddle. He let his hair down and lined the feet of the Buddha Universal Light Tathagata, but was predicted to be a Buddha: Shakyamuni Tathagata, later. It is because of the merit of humbling themselves and respecting the Way that they attain the Way. Again, like an elephant and an ape, when they stooped down (bowed down) selflessly, offering fruit juice to Shakyamuni Buddha, they were reborn in the heavens. Indeed, he who knows himself to be short will be tall; if he is low today, he will be tall tomorrow. Our body knows that lowering is the mind will be high, the lower it is, the higher it will be. The wise see clearly the distant days: It will be so in the future!
Again, when a child walks into school, it is the 'first study ceremony, post-study literature.' And those who live in life without being polite are not peaceful, happy, and cannot live life.
The most important truth of the Ritual is that people are polite; there is never a war to kill each other, because of friendliness, there is no such thing as animosity.
For example, some generals go to war; they want to give up politeness and friendliness. That's why they: make insults, "poke", so they have to beat each other! Don't they hate each other? Where are they?
So, in the next life, we want to give the world peace, then each person must practice politeness except for: Teaching Ceremony. There is no magic; let each person save their own life, let it be!
Therefore, everyone should have etiquette, that's all!
Patriarch: Minh Dang Quang
Mr. Dat Ma said, "Stop being arrogant, you will attain Arahantship", only to end the relative cycle of birth and death. ☑
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"The high man is righteous, the noble man rules." No matter what position we have reached, we are still in the middle class. Because above us ever: there are also...others too! Because of that, those who live with the mind think that: conceit is ignorance, suffering, death, evil, lowliness, and narrowness in hell. Because the more conceited, the farther and deeper hell will be, so! And also the monks, often called: life is a thorny, dangerous pit. But the polite stick it will help people in and out slowly, stable life and even save so many people. Indeed, the ritual is the heavenly scene of the wise, cheerful, noble, and at ease. It is also the most beautiful beauty in the world, the beauty of the personality rather than the face and body of the human race. The most precious is politeness, that people know how to be polite to each other, they never go to war with each other, with sins: killing, stealing, adultery, lying, drinking, playing, cheating.
Thanks to the rites (form of ritual) that from animals, to children, all are born with kindness and know goodness. Behold, a man who is polite to all will be forgiven by all, will benefit greatly, and especially like that polite child! It is lifted from the head, placed on the back of the shoulder, without hesitation. That's right, condescension is better than anything! “If you want to be respected by others, you must first submit to others, sow your seeds, and reap their fruits: don't let those who hate you, those who love you: don't be angry.” In the past, Mr. Dat Ma bowed to Ton Thang nine times, but then Ton Thang bowed again Dat Ma returned: eighteen bows, nothing is lost.
It's like a student bowing to a teacher to cultivate wisdom and virtue, so that the next day he should come out, but the disciple will bow again, thousands of times more. The cause and effect of borrowing is revolving, but the latter is more than before.
Therefore, Confucius established: Judo is the teaching of gentleness (softness), endurance, and softness, to overcome the strong and the brittle. He said: People in ordinary life are jealous of the superior, but have compassion for the lowly. Therefore, His religion is the religion of sonship. He and his disciples all self-proclaimed "son" with "underworld". And, as a child, he practiced prostration to the point of stooping; stone, log, what... He also bows down. He bowed down to everyone, even animals, thus practicing self-forgetfulness and judo. He pointed it out, animals: there's also friendly etiquette! Two fish meet, head down, to pay respects to each other. The bird also knows how to chirp and nod, and the cat touches each other with its hand; the pig knows how to breathe and kiss each other.
Therefore, He taught the law of sacrifice that children should bow to their parents in the morning and evening, to repay the favor and to learn. As for our brothers and sisters, when we make a mistake, we have to bow; we meet each other for a long time, so we also have to bow! When leaving and returning, you have to bow to your parents, fold your hands to greet your brothers and sisters. The politeness of bowing is bowing to the living person now and then, because reverence is for obedience. Obedience is to practice, and gratitude is right at the moment of birth (currently alive), right. (That is, what is now presupposes the future, will become a prior past.)
The reason why, in the next life, people bow to the altar of the dead, that is, to repeat the previous work, to set an example: to be filial and to teach children and grandchildren. The same is the practice for children to play defiantly, to practice bowing to the dead. Moreover, our Vietnamese custom, at the wedding ceremony, is to bow to the ancestors in front of the altar of the grandparents of the two families. Thus, to get used to the time of worshiping the living, only then will the mind be perfect, new learning, and new peace of mind for later. And the rule of being a parent is to have your child bow down to you, so that your child will have more virtue. But the most important thing is that we are not quite proud, because pride is a loss of virtue. Therefore, the more a child bows to the mother and father, the more humble they must consider themselves. Thus, the people above and below are all more precious!
On the contrary, parents are proud, children are humble, that is, adults are educated, enlightened, intellectual, have a lot of experience, but are also inferior, inferior to children. Or like not daring to bow down, because I'm too bad myself! Thus, tolerance is more nurturing and harmful to both below and above the chaos. Therefore, in the past, children who did not know how to bow were considered ungrateful, uneducated; parents who did not teach and nurture.
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In the past, kings, mandarins, teachers, and people all bowed down because of them; they did good deeds and turned around. They refuse to respond with money, not for money, but stop being benevolent! Until like a teacher who teaches religion, teaches students to practice, is very selective, so in the "door of ceremony, house of conduct", there are all intellectuals of high virtue. Don't get mixed up, and also choosing a teacher or a cultivator is very difficult. Because when a student cultivates: has right faith, right view to enter the way, is to give all his good to the teacher, then! That student, he (she) is no longer voluntary, private, nothing more...just fine. Because the teacher who teaches the way is precious above all: king, mandarin, teacher, father, that too! Because the king still had to have a national teacher of Taoism, to be called a wise man, and officials, teachers, and forefathers were also required to study the Way.
Therefore, the words of kings, officials, fathers, and teachers are still wrong, but not religious teachers, who never teach wrong. And for the religious teacher, he has chosen, is that no one dares to say a word, according to his own will. Because of that, that is, the teacher will give up for freedom, but no longer dare to force it, because the student is either already more than the teacher! Or the virtue has been damaged, the mind has been confused, because of pride, self-grasping, that's it. So, since ancient times, the teaching of religion, the test to see the students, is like that! The rules of finding a teacher are also very difficult, and sometimes the teacher misbehaves with his students, to practice more virtues. Or consider the mind: right, wrong, "truth", hope, level to where, it's very difficult to become a holy Buddha. The first thing is to use rituals to cultivate virtue. By lack of manners, the teacher will not teach the way to the arrogant and evil-minded, to correct it: create a world by using the Way, harming sentient beings, causing karma, sin, for the future.; ( Or as the saying in life is "seeing personality is knowing politeness"!) ☑ ; VOCA. etiquette / 'etəkət/n. phép xã giao; sự lễ giáo; 1. rules governing socially acceptable behavior.; 1. các quy tắc điều chỉnh hành vi được xã hội chấp nhận.
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Ritual is a very precious truth, a very magical rule, a ladder: good avoids evil. It crosses to the top of the mountain, the upper floor, the upper floor; the equal place of old men, is to rise above the earth, in chaos, to be evil, to be in the depths of the swamp.
Behold, the majority of good and experienced old men are more equal, pure, and peaceful together than the wild, unruly, and corrupt orphans. People of the five precepts know how to bow to people with the eight precepts, and those of the ten precepts know how to bow to people with the 250 precepts like a master. If people in the world know how to respect the good and raise it high, and lower the evil down, how can life not evolve up: happiness. That's why the ancient sages taught that: "Listening to good words and paying homage, seeing good sages is of course respectful"! That is, to hear good words is to "bow", to see "sage people" to nurture, that's just: hearing, seeing instead! What's more, the precepts are the ladder of goodness, sentient beings...why don't you know how to appreciate them? Stick to the precepts, to step up to keep up with others, to be good, or to benefit!
Also because of knowing such morals, from the past, the householders often provided and nourished the monks (Monks), body, speech, and mind: politeness, sincerity, in the precepts. Body bowing, speech: invite, mind: self-forgetfulness, purity, but never dare to call, call it "giving" at all! It is only shown that: An old man picks up ripe fruit, picks up, picks up both hands and feet: "crouching close to the ground". To eat the delicious fruit, get it again: the seed, save and discard the rind. It is no different than a child, climbing on the top of a tall tree, eating the bark of the fruit: young, sour, acrid; has had nothing to gain, and has to fall and break his arms, legs, and body: disaster! So the truth of the ritual is to evolve more spiritually, as well as from small to large, from low to high. There is first, so there is later, no ladder, how to go up, go to.
The fate of time is going forward, but in everyone's life, everyone will be enlightened and experienced. Because of the painful deaths, it will threaten... That is, “Above people, there are people, just like humans, who are not the ultimate, or completely good”. That's it, I know that: We are in the middle forever, some are shorter than others, but some people are taller. And that's it: etiquette, rules, evolutionary ethics, eternal truth, that's it! Behold, the monastic, although their level is quite high, they have overcome evil and good, but no longer have the admiration: ritual worship, complicated possessions, outside!...
Also, outside of the time of meditation, they worship the Buddha to set an example for sentient beings. Or like when meditating, they use their inner thoughts to worship the Buddha, but they do not bow down; they are begging for patience. That's good, that: No matter what level it is, (besides Buddha, "truth mind" is equal) is also to remind, self-forgetfulness. Let's humble ourselves, kill the self-conceited "me", then we can all hope to become Buddhas alike.
The homage is like the hoeing of the ground to plant, the two hands clasped in the shape of a blade, the head respectfully means the seed. Keeping good and clean precepts, that is, good soil and manure, is worthy of being: seeding (sowing seeds), plowing carefully. Therefore, in the past, King Asoka, one day, moving a convoy of escorts, was walking outside the city, and met a Mendicant of the Samana race, who was begging. He then got down from the convoy, did the ceremony, crouched down at the monk's feet, and kissed it. A high-ranking official said: Your Majesty is a body of gold and jade. Where would you go to pay homage to a beggar monk? It is not worth it, it is very cheap!
King Asoka was silent. When he returned to the royal court, the king asked the mandarin to fetch 99 animal heads and one of the executed prisoners. Then the king told him to sell them all. To use that money, the mandarin sold all 99 of them, but no one bought a human head. The king said to bring it and call for it: give it to people, but no one will take it. The king said, begged for people, but then no one would accept. Then the king asked, Why is the head of an animal valuable, but the head of a man is 'rejected by the world'? Wish my head was too evil, too sinful for me, "probably the world, even more criticized". But why, the chief minister said, my head is valuable, precious, very expensive.
So, from now on, I will bring this worthless head to worship and respect morality. Whoever prevents it, I will cut off my head without interest! Why? Because you must know: I am still holding the throne today. It has been experienced: many battles to go to war. I used to kill! Just like, because of a word, an idea, and a small deed like a single handwriting of mine, blood flows like rivers, bones accumulate like mountains, how great is my crime! Alas, the spirit of resentment within me is full; enemies of mine, countless. I have taught evil, taught killing, giving in the world, to gain this position. It is the position that everyone craves, to kill me to take the throne. My life knows no risk at any moment. I think that: in the past, the emperors taught the good people, so they shouldn't be robbed, but now, when I rule forever...the more thieves and robbers are born. That's because they imitate my authority, fame, and gain. In the past, the emperors did not use contract collection (contracting labor), taxes, taking grace, and sacrifice as examples. Unlike thieves and robbers, so the world obeyed, but I can't be like that today, my life is in danger, my heart is in great pain.
Today, I have awakened to repent, want to drive away "enemy sheep", chase "resentment"! I want to atone for my sins, and to cultivate my mind, I want to give up the ego-loving pride of unruly evil. But people hate anger, refuse to teach, dare not dissuade. To practice ourselves: know how to read, know how to listen, know how to judge errors to cultivate the mind; practice mind: right, round, big. It's precious, like pure monks, who have precepts to live: holy life, virtue, and wisdom, there! Isn't that right, or: for me, and for the benefit of all sentient beings and the world, isn't it? But you go to prevent it, to incite "me" into the path of obscenity, of unvirtuousness, but inhumane: more! For the next life, later history will name "The king is immoral, the king: Asoka" so that people can complain and complain forever...
So since then, Asoka became a staunch follower of Buddhism, the way to cultivate the mind, and he built 84,000 towers to worship Buddha and Relics.
In that time, the world was very peaceful, thanks to the king who knew how to respect religion, cultivate his mind, practice etiquette, but forget about himself, and change disaster: doing good. So since then, people will understand, Buddhism is the way to cultivate the mind, the moral: suitable for kings and officials! For kings and officials, it is the rank that must be used: the true heart, the virtue, the one who needs to remember to forget oneself for the sake of the world. Knowing how to humble themselves, it is necessary to open their minds: honest, humble, then they can be close to the wise, and benefit, be good, long-lasting, and not fail.
Indeed, the mind is above all; having the mind is the greatest achievement.
Today, few people are like King Asoka, and the situation is like King Ashoka, so how do we know the benefits of the Ritual? So there are also many people, accustomed to pride, calling the equality of evil, low and deep. But misunderstood, despised the Ritual, to the point of knowing that the mind was broken, knowing that I had fallen, knowing that I would be in danger! But also have to endure, have to close their eyes, embrace the important pride, to fall into the abyss.
That person climbs high for a minute, but falls down forever, but doesn't know the method: how to rescue, what a pity! Yet, why do some people still call that: equality, equality of the bottom of the muddy pond, swarming, eternal evil, death, suffering for each other? But not yet clinging to the ladder of precepts, is the class of temporary Dharma; to come to the shore of the pond, the equal class of the Buddhas, all bright, all wholesome, good, beautiful! Yet, also by misunderstanding, equality is the Nirvana goal of the Buddhas. Don't still be an evolving being, where is it equal? And class is the class of the law of goodness, purity, and morality, not in the body of fame, power, or coercion. [Page 862] ☑ ☑ ✔✒ ( Please, write this Mindfulness lesson.)
Only then did I know that life without Rituals is a wild, chaotic forest. As for people in the world, it's easy for them not to be enlightened, but force them to bow to themselves! Which one has forbidden, who has the right to whom, and where their right is. That's because ignorant and disrespectful people are used to envy; they utter uneducated words, thinking that evil, good, and moral are the same: there is one.
To put it more clearly, Etiquette is a teaching of good, for the wicked in the lower classes, children, as well as a cane, it helps those on the dangerous, muddy road. Just like a temporary cage, for confinement and rescue of baby apes, they don't have accidents, where wild animals. But later, it lived and grew, and the cage itself gradually broke and cracked. It will gradually be freed, tamed, and blessed, then it will live together, equally useful, for life. It is social doctrine, family, worship, and ritual, such a cage! Thanks to politeness, human beings can first live peacefully, cultivate and study, and then be liberated: reduce time. Until they are equal like Buddha, there will be no more rules, etiquette, family, or society. As such, everyone should know the ritual. Because politeness: it is good to benefit yourself, not just for others, but you should not be arrogant, superstitious, and should not force others to bow to you. Let people's minds, unless they don't understand and want to learn, be me: enlighten them and explain the meaning to them: that's it!
And prostration is very good for Mind-Consciousness, but anyone who wants to practice must also be intellectual. It is better not to be superstitious, to have wrong views, to rely on, to be right when people ask: why? It will not be able to speak fluently, and must be ridiculed by the ignorant.
So whatever we do, if we don't understand it, let's not imitate, but follow others. Because of fear: because of the unknown, it is a lot of work when a good thing turns out to be bad, it is harmful! Therefore, the Buddha taught that: politeness is the job of the wise, not the ignorant; it is not understood, either because it is deceitful or arrogant.
Strictly speaking, the ritual is very useful; from the ritual to the sacrifice, it is a profound method. But there are also harmful places that people need to avoid, which are gifts, sacrifices, bribes (bribing; bribing; "smooth pumping"; dipping indigo [NGUYEN DU]) of money. For example, kings, mandarins, and teachers of the past did not have a coin or a grain of rice, so the underlings helped feed and provide for them. As for the next life, it's not like that! And there is an offering, which is a bad thing! It is the same as: the sacrifice is worshiping, reading the literature: gratitude, remembrance (funeral), and knowledge of ancient history. But people bring things, a life that is called sacrifice. To offer up tribute, which is called a sacrifice instead of a bribe, is humiliating, Cinderella for the reputation of Buddha, Saint, Heaven, Fairy, that's all!
The most important truth of the Ritual is that people are polite; there is never a war to kill each other, because of friendliness, there is no such thing as animosity.
For example, some generals go to war; they want to give up politeness and friendliness. That's why they: make insults, "poke", so they have to beat each other! Don't they hate each other? Where are they?
So, in the next life, we want to give the world peace, then each person must practice politeness except for: Teaching Ceremony. There is no magic; let each person save their own life, let it be!
Therefore, everyone should have etiquette, that's all!
Patriarch: Minh Dang Quang
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