COMPASSION IN BUDDHISM-PART 1.

  

A. Buddhist compassion to take the

            "Compassion is the basis", this is fulfillment exact words, is the center of Mahayana Buddhism marrow, express the true content of Buddhism. So the followers of Mahayana Buddhism should think seriously, capture the most practical! From the religious aspect of the Bodhisattva, as in the Sutra often say: "Great ball is headed," "Great compassion is fundamental." From the perspective practice complete fulfillment in Business Buddhahood is often said, "Blessed Buddhas, taken to be of great compassion", also in Reviews said: "Buddha is the heart of great compassion." Business Reviews are agree, the core of practice and the results of the Mahayana, not anything else, that's compassion. Detached from, there is no Bodhisattva, no Buddha.

            Also it can be stated: if there is no compassion, no Buddhism, because Buddhism promoted on the basis of compassion. The guiding principles of Mahayana as such, if transportation costs of thinking about "self interest" will not agree with this opinion. But three organ Business Law Reviews sravakas with which he admits, Shakyamuni Buddha, the reality is.

            From the past behavior of the Blessed life: at the most primal, engine development led to the martyrdom of his mind because the ceremony was observed in agriculture. Blessed was born and raised in the basilica where, it is difficult given the opportunity to observe the cultivation of arable farmer. When he saw the farmer struggling dazzling sunlight, hungry and still not tired to rest; buffalo are seen plowing servitude, beatings, being hurt yoke on his neck bleeding; see soil when dug up, there are many small insects, birds were bitten surgery; the cow's blood flowing to the ground, not long after the birth to maggots, become food for birds. Self-destructive beings from each other, the hardships of the farmer, the picture portrays the cruelty of the world. Seeing the scene, interior of the Buddha deep sorrow, from which he was thinking to the problem and to seek the liberation of the world. But now comes from thinking as individuals!

            Then the Buddha to travel, see old diseases and death. From the experiences of individuals that understand the way the common human suffering experienced, himself also inevitable. From others to understand ourselves, from ourselves to others that inference. Suffering in the process of scheduling the lives of living beings, if only because I think, that sincere affection cup (size) of the bar text. If it is not just for ourselves, but also for all sentient beings, ie the sharp compassion of the Bodhisattva times. Blessed because capital is not thinking individuals, so the Bodhi Root, thorough treatment of the true existence, and went across the river basin of the Ganges, to move around all the way to moral law, drum method, the French speakers, providing sound legal wonderful calling beings are suffering should awaken enlightenment.

            If viewed from signing stories, the life of Buddha, not out of great compassion, expressed compassion of the Buddha. If more profound that failure to find stories in the past practice of the Buddha, as according to legend in Jatakatthakatha Dam, the Bodhisattva selfless sacrifice for others! Extremely compassionate beings mercy! Scholars Thanh also said: The Bodhisattva took heart from that tu Ba-la-secret radar, when the fullness of the achievement of Buddhahood. Thus the practice and the results of the Mahayana (Bodhisattva and Buddha) is the heart of compassion thoroughly from first to last. If separated from compassion, how value is called the Mahayana!

            In the Mahayana sutras: the Bodhisattva with Sravakas are called sons of the Buddha, but the Bodhisattva of bourgeois like a great lady by birth, but like the bar of the document in. This is to say, the Bodhisattva of the Buddha is the target, will live up to the noble blood of His pure and right. What about the star sravakas? Although they y in Buddhist teachings and to practice teaching, but inevitably scratch your ignoble blood. Ignoble blood, the Blessed only for people with heart toxic good behavior recluse or ascetic in contemporary India. Office of the Buddha bar, have a profound intellect, but can not delegate to the fullness of Buddhism, because there contains a part goes against the spirit of Buddha, ie no great compassion , so the "Avatamsaka Sutra" II gives examples of the excess from the back of the Buddha. So, if favor of legal documents that said Thanh, Thanh specializes in taking care of cultural behavior to Buddhism, the Buddha can not be proved from the bi basis. Song based on the Mahayana spirit embodies the Buddha, the compassion-based, is the most appropriate presentation and display promoting the essence of Buddhism, is the marrow of the Buddha mind.

 Two. The origin of compassion

            Compassion is the basis of Buddhism, also can be said is similar to the kindness of the Chinese culture, and charity in the Christian culture. But Buddhism can go straight into the deep inner meaning of compassion, love is not affected expectations with creativity, or trapped in the narrow view of some people, to manifest a complete The most profound and most thorough. Based on that says Buddhism, compassion is manifested by the appropriate contract with the reality and truth, from consciousness of the community agrees. This will be presented from two perspectives:

            From the correlation of dependent origination : all existence on earth (matter, mind and life), it can not exist independently, but are mutually dependent origination solution y mutual achievement themselves. In mutual cooperation refuge by the harmony of karmic reality that exists, manifests independent body, this is like so woven into nets. The fact that the existence of mutual relationships.

            The existence of the relationship, but the new view is that body which operates independently, but in fact it is subject to the decisions of the other relationship, apart from the relationship, then it does not likely to exist. All existence on earth, which is so; and human beings exist like that. Therefore, from the facts that formed the interdependence of human life, ie this is the selfless humanity, human support services, the gratitude human security, and also the human compassion to get the basis. Based on current life is inseparable from human society exists. In addition to the relationship between the community and family; from clothes, dress, housing and medicine etc.. both by farmers and workers producing, processing, manufacture, trade transport services provided; knowledge learning skills, academic success and career, both rely on the support relative to of teachers and friends. Maintain social order, the development of public security, frontier defense and protection, all based on the political and military government. If no such causal harmony, we can not be peacefully survival and happiness.

            If a more open view, a nation, a race, to the current time, as demonstrated between closely related to economic thought. Until other beings, for the survival of our happiness, also have a relationship directly or indirectly. Between man and man, between being with beings have an intimate relationship like that would naturally lead to more or less agrees. Y in the same situation awareness, which feels a relationship back together, have a similar community; hence the cordial ties, compassion arise to bring attention to an touch and pain removed. The reality of the society that we understand.

            If the flow from birth and death matters in which said three generations, all living beings, from beginningless time until now, have close ties to himself, to live together, are the parents, siblings, or married children and grandchildren. All beings have the gift of his faith - "parental gift," "being kind", "countries (United) grace" and "Tam told grace." Therefore, from the center of the virtues of the Bodhisattva sees all beings "such as parents, siblings, harmony happy." In the Buddha's mind for the "beings are equal as nearly-La-la" (the Buddha's renunciation as not). Kind of sense of community is not only limited to a narrow family, country, race or humanity is not just colleagues together in a stratum, a region, a school, along an ideal, the same religion, or with an enemy. But from the interplay of relationships individuals and other subjects to reach a sense of community of all beings, human interest that arise grace of newspapers bring benefit to all sentient beings (from), research all being international (bi). Compassion (human, love) is the origin of morality, is the supreme yardstick of morality. Compassion is the light of legal principles of interdependence in the human mind - agree intimate relationship.

            From the equality of dependent origination : law of dependent origination is the relationship the same message the same message, immeasurable difference. These are different phenomena can not exist in a form independent entities. Therefore, from the law of dependent origination which penetrate to the end, all that is communicated without legal nature, which manifests itself as the most equal legal nature. This is a legal nature equality, not of divine, not of this or are attached to each of the legal nature of dependent origination.

            The legal nature such as this one to understand the starting solution is conditioned, not only intimate relationships similar idea and move forward step two does not equal no other. Mahayana Buddhism teaches, being equal to the Buddha, all beings can become Buddhas, it is concluded from the consistency in the legal equality that nature. At least in the mind like scenes like equality, of course, to promote the "homogeneous compassion." When there are suffering beings and coercion, but charmed outlook can not become a Buddha, suffering is like that picture of himself, his merit in itself not consummation. In legal Mahayana, compassion care benefits help sentient beings, until life is relentless future from this point.

            All beings, especially human beings, not just rely on the mutual interdependence coexist to lead development of human consciousness from the community, but also a way in the unconscious, intuitive to empathy for being, for the fun of human suffering. No matter for yourself or for others tend to equality, friendly and have the same roots in our visceral desire. This is not the god calls us, but because we understand the legal nature of dependent origination. We can but can not afford it but never be separated from it. Because their mistakes, the types of constraints, the limited type, but through a sense of personal delusions reappear intuition, y in the past that show out. This is the root cause of Paganism (type incorrect), moral sense, the root of the spirit of compassion. Compassion nothing is beyond human beings, not outside man, the human mind only in accordance with the truth and the truth of natural phenomena that appear laid out.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).17/3/2012.