Tuesday, 13 December 2011

FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MEANING LOTUS AND EIGHT LOTUS PETALS OF BUDDHISM.

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A few words about the meaning Lotus and eight lotus petals of Buddhism

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According to Buddhist legend, after the Buddha was born, his step seven steps and each step has the lotus feet of his support. Then when I go to the temple, the Buddhist view on the table, the statue of Buddha that sits on a lotus.
Sen is aquatic plants perennial, growing from roots lie in the mud beneath ponds and stagnant waters , dirty or muddy rivers and lakes. The leaf to the diameter to 20 cm - 60 cm, often floating on the water as the float and is waterproof characteristics.
My old spiny sen as small and tall Item: 0.5 -1 , 5 m. Flowers grow on the body and ascending to the surface and there are many different colors depending on the type: from snow white to pale yellow or pink. Lotus can be grown by seeds or rhizomes as water spinach.
According to Theophrastus in the flora of the Nile, then Sen is derived from the following countries: Egypt, India, China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, West Asia, Iran, Azerbaijan ... the north of Vietnam and Australia.
In scientific classification:
Sen belong Nelumbonaceae (Latin), Nelumbonaceae is a family consisting of two species of the genus Nelumbo.
Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with broad leaves, rhizomes cattle, cotton seed is fragrant as the lily is often referred to as the lotus. Nelumbo is a name derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum from. There are two species of this genus Lotus, Nelumbo nucifera and Nelumbo is aureavallis.
aureavallis Nelumbo species found in Golden Valley North Dakota, United States, and this species became extinct.
Nelumbo nucifera is the scientific name of a Sen is best known species in India, Egypt, Vietnam.
Sen ministry: Proteales is the name of the plant taxonomists use to rank the order of the species of flowering plants.
Sen of the world: Plantae
Garden flowers blooming out of the water, said display sepals, stamens, seeds and a pure scent, everyone should be favored. Throughout history, the traditions of Asian countries. The lotus is used as a sacred symbol, to represent those noble personality, energy firm, is not affected by bad circumstances. People are often influenced by social difficulties led to the circumstances, but they know trying to rise up to live worthily, in spirit, strong mind, patience, endurance and overcome through .
When its petals open, as well as a significant extension of life to speak of the soul. The occurrence of pure beauty not contaminated from dirty mud place. The lotus is also cited in the Puranas and Vedic texts.
"He made ​​his duty without attachment, give the results for the Most High, will not be affected by the impact errors, like the lotus leaf is not the stick. " Bhagavad Gita 5.10.
According to Buddhist legend, after the Buddha was born, his step seven steps and each step has the lotus feet of his support. Then when I go to the temple, the Buddhist view on the table, the statue of Buddha that sits on a lotus.
As such it can be said that the lotus is the image, harmonious, characteristic of a life cycle in the eight petals , born from the dark, muddy out that Bloom's pure perfection to be achieved.
8 petals of the Lotus is 8 typical characteristics, to understand any part of the metabolism and achievements Buddhist learning through the following phrases:
No pollution: Living in the mud than dirt, but Lotus is self-sufficient to reach her ​​from the water the flowers, offering fragrant gift away. Sludge is often considered bad pictures, dirty, polluted. In white or yellow or red direction of the lotus petals are the symbol of the characteristics of the pure, elegant and tolerance.
The picture above is meaningful to speak of patience, practice the practice of Buddhism, despite living in any environment difficulty, should also strive to overcome overcome to achieve success for themselves and to others, but this can be seen and verified death Buddha's life.
He was born and living in the stream of life, but he is not infected in the social troubles of man-made. Conversely, he also seeks to educate people escape from suffering by his own awareness.
Buddha nature is the lotus flower unpolluted available in each one, just that promote it seriously , in the practice of individuals in each day, it will donate as well as for people living around the scent, pure, perfect, to expand the real happiness right now.
Thanh filter, sedimentation, removal of toxic substances: This is a special feature of Sen, because, despite living in mud stinking, but leaves and flowers are not dirty and muddy where Sen grew, the country where the sedimentation in.
This image is meant to tell the true education, by virtue, the virtuous, and also how to behave in daily life is actually very good.
pace of life today, due to excessive eating habits, physical, physical inactivity and environmental pollution, which cause fatal diseases. If interested in protecting mental health and should be regularly purged body, by removing what is harmful to the body.
The body of the live born and raised in the muddy place, where flowers households and extended blooming lotus petals of it, to open up one lane of pure flavor, such as praise youth for life, through the said integration, environmental adaptation, filtering the dirt, by itself their own roots. It is also a symbol of transformation and success for students of Buddhism. A happiness right now, when Mental deposition, clean purity.
Be patient, wait: Sen is the flowering plants, angiosperms, the embryo of the seed include: sprouts roots, hypocotyls, cotyledons and shoots sprout. After fertilization, ovule becomes the seed. In "Principles of formation and germination of seeds" by Dr. KE Ovtsarov biological compiled, published in 1976 in Moscow has said: In the near Tokyo who was found lying in a canoe in the soil year 3000. The particles located in Sen (boat) which was later germinate and grow into trees.
It is also a sense of patience, waiting, though not developed in the living conditions, but the ability life of lotus seeds remain in the seed embryo, by understanding the laws and self-protection, self-healing in a natural way by yourself, based on the surrounding environment, to create the basic requirements for life-sustaining processes and growth.
Through the picture above shows: Patience actively working to achieve the desired result is a nice thing to do. But the truth of the results as expected, requires time to go through several evolution stages as is the time for action, but also need to know the time of waiting . Because of the successful completion of a true sense, only when there are reasonable decision at the right time.
From the long sleep of the lotus seeds in a boat buried in the ground until it meets the convenience, to restore regeneration is also a demonstration of the causes and conditions in Buddhism. Because, the good results achieved, not only depend on themselves or their own efforts, but also need to, to learn to live understanding and acceptance of reality in relation to the general situation around.
Sen germinate in the dark mud, purify dirty things to support themselves, through deep water, rising above the water, spreading leaves, flowers, is a patient process to find the life of high rise beautiful. Pictures of Lotus through the 3 stages of this growth and flowers. This is a significant help to students of Buddhism or Buddhist practitioners to manually kill: Greed, hatred and delusion that reaches the pure nature of his own life with patience.
When encountering difficulties with patience ring, rather than blow up, please remember to remind myself of the image in lotus seeds germinate in the mud up, purify everything dirty to support themselves, so you should not follow the bad consequences of actions hatred and delusion to harm themselves.
In the face of any difficulty, please use patience and tolerance, which bear the pain temporarily, than to regret eating for life skills for doing things without thinking .
sacrifice, to endure the small talk, is a trained ability to overcome great difficulties in the future.
Often we can not recognize the difference between people and behavior. We forget that forgiveness is greater than that of revenge.
Cato the Elder said, "Patience is the greatest virtue of all virtues."
Issac Newton said, "If I discover any value, Note that by patience than any talent I have. "So, what patience is and how we acquire patience?
How humble? When there is no "I" is our humility, our patience, patience ... we
Sen bloom is due to the cooperation between the seeds, stems, roots and nature of it. So to achieve the pure nature for themselves, the collective identity must be patient to the highest level through the cooperation of patience and patience.
Dung comprehensive peace, perfect, perfect, all corresponding part:
In addition to unpolluted in the mud layer of the pond, lake or river and the ability to change circumstances, make the water cloudy place I live, the water deposited in the fish, shrimp, crab ... with the breed. In food and medicine, Sen is known as non-plant species unique, because, Maize and lotus roots are used as food. Tim sen used as sedatives, drugs to lower blood pressure and heart benefits. Lotus seeds used in the processing of the cake, the dessert tea or soup. Nursery drink is fragrant lotus, the petals are sometimes used to adorn dishes, the leaves used for wrapping food. Perfume used to scent tea sen ...
Standing on the analysis of raw materials as supplements, the lotus tubers have more fiber, contains vitamin C, the element potassium, thiamin, riboflavin, B6, phosphorus, copper, manganese, and trace amounts of fats.
The development of the shower, if you look carefully, you will see it all related to the history of the Buddha and His direction. Legend:
In the dream of Queen Maya saw a white elephant gift for her a lotus flower. Then after the Buddha was born, his step seven steps and each step has the lotus feet of his support. Each step away of the Buddha, is the current conversion to pray: kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, equanimity, with wisdom, to bring love and happiness to all beings.
This is the image path expression go to full awareness, through seven practice the following process: the four foundations of mindfulness, the four primary needs, such as attention sufficiency Four, five faculties, five powers, seven Factors of Enlightenment, Noble directed.
In Vietnam fishing knife :
"In what dress with beautiful lotus
leaf green cotton white gold insert binary
II cotton white gold green
mud Almost without foul fishy smell of mud. "
nice addition to praising the noble and pure scent of Sen in Literature . If you think this a fishing knife to make a wall, you will see the meaning of good and rational ones expressed by the general nature of the life of the Buddha by Sen as follows:
In the image of a dress Sen cradle for germination, growth. Dam is a dirty mud where the unborn. Dam is therefore symbolizes the meaning of a human society, but in substance it makes the human body and the mind prone to pollution on bad virtue.
Buddha is a person born in heterogeneous world full of people, as well as people.
lotus lives in the dirty mud, but no foul fishy smell of mud, but also the most beautiful flowers in the dress.
Buddha is a person living in the world of mixed, but he is a person who fled from greed, hatred, not stained by life. He gave up the palace, at midnight to find the truth and then became a full level of self awareness by practicing self-reflect on their own, then share this experience with all collected people to make life be pure happiness.
The lotus is special when I was in the form of buds is not something dirty can be.
This is also the symbol for the time when the Buddha as who are looking for guidance, practice different ways to practice, although difficult, but nothing could shake the thought of him.
Lotus Garden to the appropriate height, the flowers bloom and often bloom from late until dawn. The significance of this blooming period also coincides with the Buddha's enlightenment was, he realized at midnight until the stars Mai has, then he of all the rest.
lotus blossom when they see have one thing in common: "human" and "fruit", the old lotus, the petals fall off leaving the lotus fruit buds containing many seeds. Period old buds, seeds fall into the water to create new life sprouts. This is also the symbol for the causal laws of reincarnation.
lotus blossom symbolizes the past, because, flowers blooming from the buds, the buds of the lotus is the result spent many constraints, to reach up under the sun but the flower buds open.
lotus symbolizes the present, because, during flowering, the cold swampy, fetid, the Lotus flower is extracted durable, the quintessence from the mud to reach her, spreading wings to welcome the dawn, and the little light breeze aroma, simple, elegant and pure, like a spread of a life full of love and Trade, to do away with the tensions between the thorny walks of life.
lotus seeds symbolize the future, because, after fertilization, the egg will turn into seeds and nuts contain: stems, roots, seeds ... and these materials are included Sen had gathered in the past and present to facilitate tomorrow's continuation in the preservation of their own race.
lotus symbolizes a covenant wisdom.
The bar food or cool your heart People:END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ). OM MANI PADME HUM.( 3 TIMES ).14/12/2011.

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