Vesak Day MEANING.
 

Each year on the feast of Vesak, Buddhists are to review the history of The Teacher to experience and practice. Since The Teacher enter Nirvana so far, hundreds of thousands of books, poetry, myth has been composed to praise Him. But everyone praises, praises or beautiful though it is, can not cross the human-sized perfection, the perfection that humanity has worship Him God is the master of species and species, is the level most of the plane's precious.
Praise and think how best to praise Him, to please him most probably studying him, trying to live up to the words he instructs, go the way he went. It is the Noble Eightfold path, road, concentration, wisdom. The road took gender, lifestyle fundamental ethic. About ie 5 men, 10 good for home cultivators; 10 presented to the novice; 250 sex for goods, monks; 350 sex for goods, monks and nuns.
Laypeople who live the 5 men, 10 good, the Buddhist monastic world lived under 10, 250 men and 350 world ... is the "respect, devotion, worship, offerings or feast Tathagata best way ", because morality is pure serious such as" achievements Dharma and Dhamma, live uprightly in the Dhamma, practicing the Dharma and Dhamma ", and" It's cozy seems paramount to the Tathagata, "as Buddha has taught in the Nirvana.
Virtue, concentration, knowledge of the three basic disciplines of Buddhism. We Buddhists, whether ordained or lay, no matter which side is natural. Keep the world without religious, religious insight, just enjoy being rewarded born to heaven or go back to people, the chief newspaper reported good health, wins; it is still not enlightenment helps ocean beyond life and death reincarnation suffering. But if practicing without combining with the precepts, moral life, is easier lost in ghost scene, engrossed with the disease condition called Meditation; and if religious wisdom without being religious precepts, only achieve worldly wisdom, intellectual or dry, is not imbued with refreshing waters of mercy.
As the Buddha taught in the Maha Bat-niet- table : " This is morality, this is specified, this is wisdom. The same convent with the world will bring to fruition great, great benefit. Property along with the convent will bring to fruition great, great benefit ... ".
In the Buddhist tradition of Vietnam, Tran Thai Tong is a king with a teacher's bravery. But the king, who studies and teaches Zen meditation, but the king very seriously and moral precepts. In "Life Comment world", King led this essay as follows: " About as ground, all good from there was born, presented as an excellent physician and cure diseases, such as jade ovum world, shattered all darkness, presented as boats, overcome the suffering. About as pearl buds, etc. solemn legal body . "(Lock damaged record).
Buddhist precepts have two utilities: stop evil, do good. As verses of the Dhammapada 183 says: "Do not do anything bad, all well good achievement, keeping in mind the cleanliness, the words Buddhas".
Buddhist ethics clearly distinguish good from evil. Recently, there are a handful of people, influenced by Western skepticism, for good and evil that are difficult to distinguish, they even said: Pole evil is good and good is evil extreme.
Buddhists, we can not have such misconceptions. For us, good or bad behavior is transparent: Killing is evil. Liberating life is good, good taste is born. Taking what is not said to be evil, almsgiving is charity. Adultery, sexual misconduct life is cruel, life is good right action. Lying is evil, honest and good. Said division is evil, say unity is good. Say evil is evil, speak gentle easy listening is good. Talking nonsense, no time is evil, say useful, said time is thien.Tham is evil, not taking as good. Golf is evil, not the field is good. Evil is wrong, wrong is not good. These are 10 good and 10 Buddhist evil. The distinction is clear-cut. Buddha has used a series of images vivid examples to distinguish the boundaries between good and evil: "It is far away, the distance between the ground and the sky. It is far, far away, the distance between this side of the sea and the other shore. It is far, far away, the distance between the place where the sun set and sun rise. But far, far more of the measures of good and evil approach ".
According to Buddhism, good or evil is evil from the heart, in thought, as soon as her mind, the thought had not revealed the words and actions in the mouth and body. Because the mind arises from the evil thoughts that we do not stop in time, the evil words and actions will follow soon followed, leading to unavoidable suffering results. But for us Buddhists, mind everyday practice, observing the mind, heart protection, any evil thoughts that arise, are immediately ... Gradually rid our mind becomes pure charity , brightly. Wholesome mental peace, life and happiness. Breakfast and then see things as they really are, find the truth, find direction. Should know what makes our mind is not calm and dim. These are unworthy, that is the thought, speech and evil action. If we turn away from the practice which is education, the legal separation from evil, then we will be brilliant mind and calm.
If individuals are aware of all the dangers of lust and immoral methods, each individual can be boring and permanently separated from them. That awareness of the role of intelligence. It's called morality, religious insight, combined with large outcome will be, of great benefit. Want to cut through the education, rooted in greed, hatred and delusion, people have to know based on the Buddhist teachings, learn the essence of education is how, and how their impact on the body and mind . Buddha recognized the sweetness of sex, which is fun, but a desire to be satisfied temporarily giving us. " This, monks, how is the sweetness of sex? ... The label base material due to perceptions, the flavor perception by rate base, the base location awareness due to injury, the body-base contact due to awareness, endearing, pleasurable, attractive possibilities attention ... " (University of Suffering aggregates, No. 13, Beijing Central).
Buddhism is so admitted, when the five senses eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body exposed to the external environment, such as color, sound, smell, taste, touch, they can engender a feeling of blissful, preferred to varying degrees. Buddha called it the sweet taste of Education. But even then, the Buddha analyzed the dangers of sex: " Do get as sex workers, sexual posturing get that one must go through many hardships to get the asset, must fend off the cold, prop hot, endured touching of flies, mosquitoes, wind, solar heat, reptiles, starve, die of thirst "(Majjhima, above).
" He, if such efforts, such diligence, that result does, he will be sad lament, mourn, coma. 'Oh! The truth is that our efforts futile, diligence results do not really '. This, monks, there is the danger of sex "(Majjhima, above).
Then the Buddha continued to analyze cases he collected major asset, but must arduous to protect the assets that "How the kings from the plunder them, how thieves from robbing them, how the fire from burning, water from the washed away, and unworthy heirs squandered vandalism etc ". And although the property is very thorough protection like that, but ultimately lost, so he left a more phen anguish, sadness, mourning, because the wealth has been lost. In short, no wealth is suffering, there is then also suffering, pain and loss of assets. This is the pain of desire like to have many properties.
For other kinds of desires beauty, of fame, of eating, sleeping, the situation is the same sort. As such dangerous passions, the Buddha advised people should be aware of sexual renunciation, know enough to live life, low sexual desire, replacing temporary sweetness and vile pleasure of sex with durable, authentic cup of education, ensures us a calm state of mind, in order, harmony.
Take a good living on the legal value immoral, sexual minorities to live this motto to get rid of desire. That's the advice of the Buddha. Look to the great joy and endless life of a moral way. Be aware boring vile pleasures of sexual years, less sweetness, much suffering; because, as the Buddha taught in doing Anguttara, " hobby like feces ."
To praise the best way The Teacher us, Buddha's birthday's this year, each of the Buddha make a conscious way, live by lifestyle radiance of Buddhist ethics, life in the white mountains snow, clouds, the moon is not. " Who used the well-healed, do evil deeds blur, this life will shine, like the moon freed clouds " (Shelf 173, Dhammapada).END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.13/5/2016.MHDT.