(By Vienamese version, published in 1993)
Edited and translated into English, by - LE DUC HUYEN, translator.
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INTRODUCTION
According to the evolutionary schedule of modern Vietnamese Buddhism, which developed and enhanced the virtues of the monastics and liberated...
Traveling Monks: Vietnamese Mendicants.
First, it was opened by the Venerable Master: Minh Dang Quang, and passed down according to the True Teaching of Buddha Shakyamuni. (Gautama: SAKYAMUNI) Venerable Master Minh Dang Quang, real name Nguyen Thanh Dat, honor name Ly Huon, was born in 1923. His father's son, Nguyen Ton Hieu, and his mother, Pham Thi Nhan, were born and raised in Vinh Long Province, Central, Southern Vietnam. Son of a family blessed with Confucianism, in 1944, he became a monk and searched for the Dharma, traveling everywhere...He sought to study in the following ways: (South) Theravada Buddhism, and the Northern Buddhism of India (ie, sects: Conservative and Modern).
After a period of research and experimentation, He attained the Dharma and understood the truth of liberation. The Patriarch stands up to accommodate the quintessential and unique parts between the two sects of Theravada and Northern Buddhism, and to practice a path for Vietnamese Mendicant Buddhism.
Venerable Master: Minh Dang Quang decided to promulgate the Dharma...He spread the Dharma (education method) in the country and to neighboring countries...and around the world, following the vow: self-realization and enlightenment for others of the Buddha: Shakyamuni.
Because He said: The Buddhas of the three generations are all Mendicants. (We need to understand that "mendicant" also means "bhikkhu". If you don't do "Travelling-Monks: Mendicants, to beg for food and practice, reaching the path of enlightenment will be difficult: Supreme Monk, tomorrow...
Virtues of Yogācāra and Monks: Mendicant is to lower self-esteem and arrogance, considering oneself as dead. Today, take that death and go everywhere and in the many places, so that you can get recompense and repay the karma until it is all gone...then you can rest, in the eternal Nirvana! Besides, begging is not cowardly or an insult to dignity: it is human morality. It's just an elimination, using the surplus to make up for the deficiency! Exchanging harmoniously with each other, begging for food to learn the Dharma, and then spreading the teachings among all sentient beings, that is living according to the Truth of the universe. The Mendicant travels through the human world, to restore balance between the balance of justice in the universe, which in human society has become skewed! Link: 10.- Cosmic Justice
The alms-begging method of morality: "Travelling Mendicant Monks" is a teaching on equality and universality in precepts. Begging for food is "Compassion, Joy, Forgiveness" and wisdom, and to be intelligent! It is a cool heart, clearly understanding the vast horizons of the universe and understanding morality...on the path of true cultivation and liberation.
Therefore, Venerable Master MINH DANG QUANG stood up and practiced according to the teachings: Mendicant's robe and bowl: True tradition. And he practiced the virtue of the Traveling Monks: Mendicant in Vietnam, first and foremost!
After studying abroad and searching for morality, practicing asceticism, and attaining Dharma, he returned to Vietnam. The Dharma was opened, first in the cities of Saigon, Cho Lon, Gia Dinh, and successively in the Southern provinces. Wherever he went, there emerged the ashram of the Vihara, bright golden light, raining Dharma treasures. Bringing benefit and peace to countless sentient beings, thanks to which everyone is quickly imbued with morality…; Because of his path of Pure Land practice, asceticism, and liberation, he was respected by monks, good friends, and intellectuals: they all paid attention and warmly responded. Most of those who admire Buddhism follow the same direction, return to serve, and improve their footsteps: the spirit of Buddhism. Link: 56 a.- PEACE (Traveling Sangha)
That's why the duty of vowing to save sentient beings, with compassion, altruism, and charity...urged him, without stopping for a moment. Sometimes he taught the Dharma to his disciples, Monks, and Nuns...and other times he preached and encouraged everyone to practice. Wanting to make an impression on everyone's minds, he would have written a summary of the sermons. He had just given so that they could be printed in volumes for publication. So the source of Dharma is opened! Before long, the shadows of yellow clothes were flying everywhere. It's no different than the sun just rising, then the stars and lamps lights flicker, doomed to fade away...
That's why, on February 1, the year of the Horse, Buddhist calendar 2497 (1954), because of their own interests, a group of people from another sect arrested him and took him away. Currently, his disciples, Monks and Nuns, belong to a very large Church. First of all, the precepts and regulations are strictly maintained and maturely kept, to follow the direction and path that He has opened. In other words, they vow to follow "The Truth of aspiration-willing" that the Patriarch mentioned in Truth Sutra No. 20: ON THE FACE OF WATER.Therefore, the teachings of the Mendicant's bowl and robe were promoted and expanded throughout Vietnam and abroad.; Link: 20.- ON THE FACE OF WATER
As for this set of Truth Sutras, it is "universal in terms of precepts". The teachings that Patriarch: MINH DANG QUANG: compiled and wrote down here! Most the intellectuals recognize it, that's why they say: "Buddha's treasury of Dharma, priceless and precious in the universe."; Except for the Buddha, the others are just touching, on the outside! Now that Guru Holiness: MINH DANG QUANG has the key and has opened the door, these books of Truth and logic phylosophy are "treasures in that treasure." => Link: ...
But unfortunately, a major obstacle for intellectuals and scholars is the difficulty in finding the complete set of the Truth Sutra for convenient study. What is hidden in the mysterious sacredness of humans and the universe, which the Venerable Master has revealed and clearly pointed out in this book...
Even though Patriarch MINH DANG QUANG has been absent until now. The Vietnamese Buddhist Church often organizes reprints (some print individual volumes and entire books) for reprinting and distribution. But it is not enough a need to research and study. So many philanthropists and intellectuals from different places...came to meet directly, or wrote earnest letters. And please ask the Sangha to republish the entire book for you to take home, study, and apply it to practice.
Personally, I comment that this Truth Sutra has great value, because it is the key, an endless storehouse of wisdom. It includes and has enough: mind-consciousness, mind, consciousness, reason, and event, internal, external, worldly, karmic conditions, true, falsehood, etc. What a magical method, a Light: Bright Light, brilliant, great, true, a transcendent spirit, with the ultimate principle of True-Suchness and ultimate goal: complete liberation. It can also be said that this set of Truth Sutras is a Buddhist family treasure, priceless and precious. It would be likened to the founder of acupuncture is called Bien Thuoc, the physician, a guide for seafarers, a blueprint for those lost in the woods…
So if you have the opportunity to request. This classic book you need to reintroduce it or pass it on to others to read, practice, and study! Or campaigning to print and republish, then the merits are immeasurable and boundless. By the way, today, the 1st day of the second month of the lunar calendar, is the day: Great Anniversary, 18 years of absence of Patriarch: MINH DANG QUANG. We, his disciples, want to mark and record the words: "golden language and pearl language" that came out of His mouth. Gather together into a complete set, with large, clear print and a beautiful, sturdy cover, to preserve and not lose in the future.
I would also like to sincerely praise, thank, and be grateful to the Most Venerable Monks, Elders, Venerables: Monks and Nuns in the Mendicant Sangha Church. Along with Buddhist benefactors from four directions, they have been dedicatedly and enthusiastically promoting and supporting me in terms of printing the Sutras and delivering them. (Publication-Service is a book that is not for sale or buy.) "Promulgating Dharma-donation" to spread morality, so that, for so long, every year, I have organized: printing a lot of scriptures...
For this immeasurable merit, we unite the mind of victory. To dedicate and pray for salvation to the Nine Mysterious Seven Patriarchs, of the above-mentioned benefactors. Let us pray to all living beings in the ten directions in the three realms! Those who have died in the underworld are liberated, those who live in peace, their blessings and wisdom are complete, and the fruit of Supreme Bodhi is quickly attained.
Namo the Root Guru Shakyamuni Buddha
Spring of the New Pig, Buddhist Calendar 2515 (1971)
On behalf of the Council of Clergy
Sect: Mendicant
Venerable Master, Dharma Master: Thich Giac Nhien
(Notes: Buddhist Calendar = BC.)
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LINK: References Table of Contents:
Book one is Cosmic View,
Quyển hai Ngũ-uẩn căn bản khắc ghi. Book two of the Five Aggregates basic engraved.
Book three of the Six Roots of Compassion,
Cùng là "ý thức" tu trì, tu thân!
The same "consciousness" of cultivation, cultivate the body!
The Twelve Predestined and Blessing Sections,
Ấy là quyển bốn, ân cần: tham khảo !
That is book four, be considerate: reference!
Book five is the Noble Eightfold Path,
"Yes and No" Buddha said...no power.
Không trị, cõi thiền: định tâm. O ( Xá 1 lạy)
No treatment, the realm of meditation: concentration. O (Salute 1 prostration)
Quyển sáu đến bảy, chớ nhầm, chẳng thiếu.
Volumes six to seven, make no mistake, are not lacking.
"Birth and Death" is easy to understand!
Eight Men and Women love: get married.
Perfect Enlightenment: Shakyamuni.
Ấy là quyển chín nhớ mà khắc ghi.
That's the book nine memorized and engraved.
Compassionate Cosmic Justice,
Quyển mười, mười một, quyển chi? Khất sĩ! Book ten, eleven, book what? Mendicant!
Tham khảo mười quyển nghĩ suy,
Refer to ten books, think,
Lật sang mười một, từ bi tham thiền!
Flip to eleven, compassionate meditation!
Clothes and earthen bowls: True transmission,
Mười hai hạng bậc, diễn biến phát sinh !
Twelve levels, developments arise!
Note: Some phrases without hyphens in Vietnamese will not be translated into English correctly.
a. Sino-Vietnamese phrases with hyphens represent two nouns combined.(Dharma Master)
b. Hyphenated word, denoted as an adjective in Vietnamese. For example, the phrase: Vietnamese Buddhist Church
____ The Sangha Church of Mendicants. Thus, we understand that the two words "sangha" are due to the transliteration of the word "Sangha" of Hinduism.
a) A Sangha or a four-group is four monks.
b) A minor Sangha is 20 monks.
c) A middle Sangha is 100 monks.
d) A great Sangha is 500 monks.
___ Nirvana (in Buddhism) is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor a sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
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___ Sangha is the Buddhist community of monks, nuns, novices, and laity.
(From II.- The Law of Mendicants )
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The Bodhisattva who teaches the Dharma at home for lay people is THICH TAM DANG. Review the vows: I have dreams and desires.
a. I get what I want, which means "everything goes as planned and depends on fate".
b. Because I am aware that if I do not get what I want, it will cause suffering.
c. If I no longer have good wishes and stay away from evil, then the process of following fate will fail.
d. So, I always remember "failure is the mother of success, I promise to be determined from now on and forever" to do it again if I have failed.
Thich Tam Dang (under the direction of Nhien Dang Co Phat)
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Note: So I have nothing to do with Sakyamuni Buddha (the leader of the Saha world) about the karma of receiving retribution!
__ Example: I take my wife to the market. Waiting! I crave cigarettes, but no one sells them. Stop! Then recite 7 parts of Bodhi, the cyclo driver. Your blood! Take out a pack of cigarettes and offer. Three times like that, 3 friends offer cigarettes. Namo Buddha! It really works, whatever you want, you get!
__ Wanting anything and getting anything is a vague statement of wanting "his aunt". Meaning wanting your wife's sister, husband to die. I don't understand why to be jealous? (Who cares about your wife's affairs!)
IN SHORT, My wife said to me that if you quit smoking, I promise you that you will "get whatever you want".
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