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| As a child, the fairy tales she tells of the Buddha and his
mother had left in my heart the image of a bearded man with white hair full of
compassion euphoria, always appear at the right time, right place, want to use
the miracle rescue beings suffering through every
scene:
Whose look calm, tranquil,
warm Word of the Buddha, seep into our minds open immense Buddha heart, Buddha Eye understanding, harmony love
Growing up, becoming a Buddhist, I understand that the
Buddha did not use a miracle to save us, that Buddha is only transmitted to us
their own methods to cultivate the mind, positive, and perfect personality more
for us a living art and works to bring true happiness to yourself and others, in
the spirit of "freedom of others, feeling self-forgiveness."
Through all of them do not mind,
my heart has eyes that do not see properly, Buddha leads us to the bird cherry, discover paradise for yourself Auto Center
In this short article I would try to explain the Four Noble
Truths doctrine from the perspective of science, his wish to share with those
interested in the modernization of Buddhism, and Buddhism combined with science
and technology in the dissemination and application to life.
As we know, is the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha's first
sermon after enlightenment for the five brothers Kondanna A home, place in Deer
Park, north of Benares.
Review of the Buddha preached the Four Noble Truths of
Business Transfer moral law - the translation of the Venerable Thich Minh Chau,
we deeply felt that the Four Noble Truths are one of the most brilliant insight
of the Buddha.
He has found the truth of the darkest realms of life as
disease, aging, death and sorrow Standing in the heart of every person, he
called the suffering (Noble Truth).
Monday truth he found the cause of suffering, he called
Format file (base file).
The truth is out Tuesday he practiced method to stop the
causes of suffering, he called a kill file Format
(ascetics).
Wednesday and the truth is the way he looked out for
everyone to go to happy, eternal happiness, he called the collective suffering
destroy the (sole director).
Zen Master Minh Dang Quang in the book "Truth" is a picture
commentaries on the key role of the Four Noble Truths doctrine as
follows:
"French is the primary sense is due to the four noble
truths. France
is the sense, that's legal in the four noble truths, the four noble truths born.
The French
Enlightenment, the drums, the four noble truths is empty awls, the ground is the
empty eternity, because there empty, empty Buddha only the awl, awls touch
surface, new born drums, he is a legal Enlightenment. What is being
heard.
By being meek, so the new Buddha said, 'This is suffering,
the issue of title format. This cause of the suffering, is set, the issue of title
set. This
allows the end of suffering, is killed, the issue of title away. Removal of reincarnation
Religion is suffering, the issue of title director. Religion is the path after the
killing cycle of suffering. Removal is the eradication of 12 episodes of karmic
reincarnation. Volume is the birth and death, to hold to suffer is by
collective reincarnation, because the kill. "
This method kills the mystery of suffering in teaching the
Four Noble Truths of Buddha Sakyamuni was awarded the pass through the hearts
and minds many people, beyond how the volatile ups and downs of history, now
back to good luck hands and into our minds generations.
Rely on religious life and light of the Four Noble Truths,
we sincerely thank him:
"Center members, reviews the code," suffering do,
Sai makes us go through anchors, French inventor Thank Buddha mystery, Easter remind how mind control "
As scientific research has studied Buddhism coast, I
noticed in the teachings of Buddhism also contains a wonderful way, the
methodology has much in common with scientific methodology.
We know that science is an important driving force in the
cognitive process and evolution of human civilization. Many scientists have made
important discoveries, as well as take great sacrifice to defend the truth as
the Copernican or dental Nicholas Galileo Galilei.
I want to mention in some modern scientists such as Thomas
Edison, the inventor of the great technology with 1093 patents in the United
States, Albert Einsntein - great physicist laid the foundation for physics of
the nuclear energy and space science and technology, or Von Neumann - brilliant
mathematician, but own the invention of electronic computers he has given us a
variety of scientific equipment The core technology of the information era
civilization.
Human beings have created tools and labor to create the
same method of thinking in scientific research equipment. The method or the scientific
reasoning is a process, often presented as the step after another in a logical
order.
There is a notable comment: most of the arguments revolving
nature, known as "logical cycle." That is, just after a certain number of steps, the step was
repeated. Here
I am known as the methodology has four steps in the cycle is "Four stage
methodology."
The four sections in the actual methodology involves four
steps iterative cycle, but after each cycle was adjusted to better, more
complete, and finally go to the desired result. To clarify the concepts from the
methodology in practice, we imagine the four sections of this methodology as
images of the stairs on a spiral staircase in the house, where every fourth step
is then on her vertical step (step 5 is located right on step
1).
Here make readers may ask: Four Noble Truths have to be a
four stage methodology is not? If you understand the Four Noble Truths as a practice, as
well as the scientific method is used to apply to real life, the Four Noble
Truths to be regarded as a four stage methodology.
Buddha pointed out the fact that in this life, we see how
much life afflictions, sorrows, circumstances, physical and spiritual.
Buddha gave us
the Four Noble Truths as a practice, a method to help people cultivate their own
liberation from all suffering and afflictions, go to the peaceful happiness,
true.
There is a Zen master said: "Four Noble Truths is not a
theory, the four noble truths is a work practice. Four Noble Truths is not only the
principles of the practice, the four noble truths is itself of the practice
"helps us free from U Minh - the source of all suffering affliction, go to the
goal of true enlightenment Pure Land and construction in every human heart and
the whole world.
We have an interesting observation is, the methodology of a
self-opinion in the scientific facts which are very common and often more
general method (general method) in solving problems (problem solving), knowledge
acquisition (obtaining knowledge), and trade secret invention (obtaining
know-how).
This is the most important methodologies in
practice:
A. SCIENTIFIC METHOD (Scientific method) used in research and
scientific discovery in general, is here called the review quarter
"Science".
We now consider in detail the four steps in the review
"Science" are:
Two. Mathematical Methods (Mathematical method) for exclusive
use in research and creative mathematics, which we call here the review quarter
"Mathematics".
The four steps in the review
"Mathematics".
3. TESTING METHODS AND EXPANSION SAI (Generalized trial and
error method) commonly used in research and developed the trade secret
(know-how), but here we review the quartet called "Trial and
error".
The four steps in the review "Trial and error"
is:
All three of the four methods mentioned above are the
general comments feature is a repeating four-step cycle comes up. If deeper analysis general,
we will find the four sections of this review to the meaning or logic
essentially similar, and only divided into 3 different methods of application
forms to suit specific 3 different objects only.
Looking back at life, we can easily recognize a simple
truth: When we do not do something it is generally okay, but if a something just
do it carefully xme still find things wrong omissions (no larger smaller).
Thus, the
"false and lacking" the things that hardly anyone can be avoided, they are not
worth our fear. What is more frightening when we do not recognize the
mistake to the repair center. This is nature's method of "trial and
error".
This same method as the nature of "The Four Noble Truths"
which Buddha became enlightened and pointed out to us: all the suffering of life
is not destiny, that we spend commitments accepted. In contrast, in the practice by
the method of "Four Noble Truths" can liberate all miseries of life.
To highlight
how the Four Noble Truths of the practice, let us compare the similarities Four
of the review period "Four Noble Truths" to review the four "Trial and error" in
the following table:
We try to analyze and compare more closely on the
table:
Step 1: The Noble Truth is truth, but not "essential truth,
do not fix it," but that's just a fact occurring in our mind impacts due to
circumstances, causing suffering to us also like a human mistake in which we can
fully repair.
Step 2: The truth has its cause (Format File base), which,
when understood as to understand "the cause of the mistake."
Step 3: Once you know the cause then we will get rid of it
(ascetics File Format) as the cause of mistake repair.
Step 4: The final step in this process as we continue to
live and work, properly operate in accordance with the cause of the mistake was
realized and has been partially repaired part (Director Format File ascetics).
Come back to
cycle back from the beginning but at the more complete the process of
purification:
Step 5 - Just like what happens in practice, is a mistake,
but not easy to fully realize it, and also can not fix all the mistakes
immediately understood the cause, so in the process repair we still have the
other mistake ... so this is step 5, undo a completed higher level
only.
Analysis here, I recall moments paragraphs describe the
Buddha attained enlightenment in "little old white line" (author Thich Nhat
Hanh): dawn one morning, after 49 days of
night meditating under the Bo tree ancient problem, Siddhatta (name of Buddha at
the time) suddenly opened her eyes and flashes the "morning star appears as a
new star, shining and sparkling smile joy enlightenment. He froze at the star then blurted
Mai said, "Strangely enough, all beings are available seed of enlightened wisdom
of heart. But
in the memories of thousands of lives just wanted to let myself dive in the
ocean of samsara ngup miserable suffering. " Siddhatta know that the major had
been found, and his great ambition was to achieve a peaceful soul relaxed ...
"
Even in this place that I realized one thing, the Buddha is
also a scientist, a great spiritual science. In the experimental work 49 days
and nights of meditation (on yourself), Buddha was the first to recognize a
truth, as a great invention in human history series in the field of humanities:
"All Everybody is available seed of enlightenment in our mind. " Buddha called the seed of
enlightened wisdom is the understanding, even today we often also called "Buddha
nature". And
the communication methods that the Buddha taught us to practice toward
self-enlightenment and liberation as "legislative". This is the same as in science, we
call the periodic table of elements is a periodic Meldeleev the eminent chemist
named Dmitri Mendeleev Ivannovich invented it or something like Einstein's
theory of relativity by a physicist named the great Albert Einstein wrote it
...
Realize Enlightenment in the minds and at the same time in
all beings, he does not stop at the identification of human suffering (Noble
Truth), he pushed beyond the intellectual light of mine to find the cause of
suffering . Well, this is an inevitable logic when we consider Noble
Truth is a wrong perception. Because the pain is due to his mistake deeply observe the
fish at the wrong has been done for meditation and insight mistake, which he
calls the base file (file base width).
Find the cause of back pain and then he discovered a method
of professional practice to end the causes of suffering. If the base width is set out so
wrong, so, in a comparison such as we see him step on a step to correct the
mistake, which he called Noble (Format file ascetics).
Complete kill pain, he also found and pointed the way for
people to travel to the realm of happiness, eternal happiness, he called Dao
base (the base width destroy files). This was the cuoci same test after
fixing mistakes.
The problem when we apply the four stage methodology is
repeatable cycle comes up. Ie after test after fixing mistakes do not always achieve
what it right. Similarly, here in the course of practice, that I can not
achieve peace completely relaxed, which means it is still much less suffering.
In other
words we are still a mistake. But this mistake (in step 5) is different than the previous
error (from step 1) in the wrong place and wrong less than easy to fix, and we
rest assured that he is moving closer to the goal than by each training
cycle.
The Four Noble Truths comparison with scientific
methodology as above also helped me realize one important truth: Science and
Religion true two basic cognitive path of men, mingled harmoniously with each
other , complement each other in order to escape all human sorrow and suffering
of samsara to reach the ultimate goal is enlightenment you the truth, and live
at peace, happiness right in this life.
Prescriptions of Buddhism in the market economy,
capitalism
Under: Journal of Buddhist Studies
PGS. TS. Ha Vinh Tan, Institute of Physics, Academy of Science and
Technology of Vietnam.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).MHDT.10/5/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).
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