Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Why do we take refuge in the Buddha?                                     Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda   .                                         
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Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha not fear him, which is to get motivated and knowledgeable source of legitimacy for their own self-purification.
Buddhists do not take refuge in the Buddha with his belief that the upper sole or child of god. Buddha never claimed to be divine. He is the Enlightened One, Tier Compassion, Wisdom, and the most Holy unmatched in the world. So, they take refuge in the Buddha as a teacher, a Guru taught true path to liberation. They venerate the Buddha is to show gratitude and respect them, and do not require physical grace from Him. Buddhists do not pray Buddha thought he was a god damn rights or their payoffs. They recite the shelf or in the sense of not begging but as a means of remembrance of the great virtues and noble qualities of his desire to reach more inspiration and guidance to grow their own beliefs on the way practice his teachings. Some critics criticized refuge in the Buddha. They do not understand the true meaning of lean concepts and venerating the Guru. They only know about prayer is that people are doing in the name of religion. When Buddhists seek refuge, which means they accept the Buddha, the Sangha is French and means that they can spit out all the roots of fear and psychic disturbances. Many people, with a special trust to seek shelter where some things around which they believed to be evil spirits in it.
Buddha advised people not to fear being superficial against the mountains, caves, trees and shrines. There is no such refuge that is completely safe, no such refuge is supreme whole. Can not thanks to the shelter so that freed all misfortune. Who knows refuge (refuge) where Lord Buddha, Dharma and Sangha will have true understanding of the Four Noble Truths - Suffering, Cause of Suffering, Cessation of Suffering, and the Path leading to the end of suffering. That really is the safe refuge. Find new shelter like liberation from suffering. (Dhammapada - Verse 188-192).
Dhajagga In business, there are those who write refuge in Sakra, king of the gods or any god do not get rid of the fear and difficulty hearing world. The main reason is that the devas (gods, god) is not out of greed, ignorance and fear, but the Buddha, French and Sangha (the community that has reached perfection) that freed the . Only those who have been freed from the unsatisfactory can see the way everlasting happiness. Francis Story, a renowned Buddhist scholar, has stated his views in seeking refuge in the Buddha as follows:
"I take refuge in the Buddha. would I find the presence of the great teacher that due His compassion guided me through the flood of samsara, by his expression calm child lifted out of the mud firmly grasping the world of thought, where I also saw the security make sure of An Lac Nirvana is what he achieved. During painful affliction, I turn to him, and in the happiness found his quiet eyes. before I put him not only flowers Image and taste, but also the burning fire in my mind has to be suppressed oscillations and settling smoothly. ago I put down the full burden of pride and ego, the burden of worries and aspirations, the block weary of repeated birth and death does not stop. "
Sri Rama Chandra Bharati, an Indian poet, also explains a significant finding refuge in the Buddha as follows:
"I take refuge in Him is not for the benefit
not His fear, or for fame
not hail from the sun as shipping
would not gain wide knowledge of birth
, but due to the power of love is not separated
from Him At matchless eye covers
for child safety Samsara crossed the sea
goat, White Buddha, CCN application for his followers. "
There are those who say that the Buddha was just a man, find refuge in Him it does not mean anything. Those that did not understand that the Buddha himself had made ​​it clear he is only a man, but not normal human beings like us. He was an extraordinary man, a holy man no one can compare with him in supreme Enlightenment, and boundless compassion for all beings. He was a man who got rid of all those weak and pollution, and the feelings of ordinary people. About him, people say: "No one atheistic as the Buddha, which is none holy as the same Buddha". Buddha is the embodiment of all virtues, divine nature, wisdom and supreme enlightenment.
Another question often raised it: "If the Buddha is not a God, if he is not live in this world, how he may bless us? "According to the Buddha, if someone on his advice, live a virtuous life, the person receiving the blessing sure. Buddhist blessings of joy that is experienced when we develop self-confidence and satisfaction. Buddha once said: "If anyone wishes to see me, he just looked at my teaching practice that" (Samyutta Nikaya). Those who understand His Teachings, will see the true nature of the Buddha reflected in himself. Buddha image in the mind that they maintain the image is not visible on the altar only the symbolic only. Those who live according to the Dharma (righteous way of life) will be the main teaching sheltered "(Theragatha) who know the true nature of life and the truth of life Dharma will not do anything both fear and life is definitely guaranteed and harmony.
Among other religions, who worship their God, demanding gifts God gave them. Buddhists do not worship Buddha to ask worldly favors, but they respect the Buddha as his supreme achievement. When Buddhists respect the Buddha, indirectly, they have to raise their spiritual someday, they also need enlightenment He almost serve humanity but to their desire to become a Buddha. Buddhists respect the Buddha as their Master. however, this respect does not imply that the attachment to or dependence on the Guru. kind of respect is the Catechism of him as follows:
"Monks, where he held the mantle Tathagata, the Tathagata edge goes step by step, but also greed, wrecked infection in sensory pleasures agency, malicious thoughts, scheming fraud, confused memories, carelessness and lack meditation mind wandering, uncontrolled units, but that he almost still far Tathagata, and Tathagata well away from the teacher. "
"Monks, if there are any but Tathagata hundreds of miles away, but not greedy, not passionate in sense pleasures, the thought behind the net, the main clarity, determination and strong , with the quartet, or meditation, one-pointed attention to the collection, collected over the six senses, which are close to the results Tathagata Tathagata and that he is close. (Samyutta Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya).END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.11/9/2013.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).

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