ABOUT THE POWER OF.

Sunday, 13 May 2012

 

Buddha did not accept the description of the imagination, but just give the description comes from the experience in practice. His intellectual enlightenment was looking through all phenomena in nature, but throughout all the world to us mysterious, difficult to understand.

The phrase "powerful" was the ancients used to describe the positive effect of life is great in the lead and the Five Tam of life. This can be considered as the most accurate term, because the positive effects of life's maintenance rules in practice is very large, forming an unparalleled power has the potential to transform all major bad seeds potential evil in all of us.

However, only the practice is the only method which might help us understand the rules of the power of sex, and every description, are expressed only from a theoretical guide only. What can we discuss here is actually just the external manifestation of the problem, but the real depth of moral values ​​is something that each person can only feel through the practice in real life only.

Three and Five rules gives us two aspects of great benefit not separated. Na words readily understood, the Three Refuges help us establish a trust, a strong emotional support, and learning to understand and maintain Five life helps us map out a specific direction can in life. In other words, Tam of the first benefit for the spirit, and the Five first effect to all acts done by the body. But right at this point we can immediately see the relationship can not be closely split between the two aspects just mentioned. Because the spirit can not exist separate from the body, and vice versa, all actions done by the body must also have mental factors. The explanation for this is an unwritten rules that we have time to mention: all the Three Refuges are at the same time give rise to life over the Five. We can say more specifically that the Three Refuges are essential prerequisites to maintain Five led to life, while the life is over Five essential conditions must be specified and to wish to maintain the refuge.

Why the Three Refuges that provide us with a solid emotional support? One of the inherent nature of man is always to understand all these phenomena, things happen around him. But in fact, from early childhood until now always have so many things that people do not understand why. The mystery is not the answer always silver in the natural world around us and right in the inner world of each of us. There are mysterious intrigue, questions (such as the formation and boundaries of the universe, or human origin ...), but most of the mysteries tend to make us afraid fear, insecurity (such as lightning, epidemics, storms, earthquakes ...). Today, we have the steady progress of science, and that helps to explain some problems, but that does not mean that control these things. For example, primitive man feared thunder, earthquake ... because completely understand the reason, people today even explained the cause, but still helpless when these events occurred and killed many people ... And so we continue to foster fear for what is beyond the understanding and control of our natural environment. The fear is one of the reasons that people have created some of the religious beliefs to emotional support.

But religion formed in this way is actually derived from ignorance, from the visualization, baseless imagination of the unknown ... And with that foundation, it can not really strong emotional support to people. With knowledge of the activities, people are always skeptical about the irrationality (which is the essence of the imagination), and this explains why people have found in religion but prop himself deep in my heart still felt an anxiety, insecurity.

Buddhism is a religion not formed that way. Buddha did not accept the description of the imagination, but just give the description comes from the experience in practice. His intellectual enlightenment was looking through all phenomena in nature, but throughout all the world to us mysterious, difficult to understand. However, he does not require us to believe in what mysterious, difficult to understand that, which led us to believe in what is very practical, can experience right in this life.

Confidence in the Three Jewels is a belief formed that way, with the object the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha that we can understand and identify with the show to hear common sense of myself. Therefore, the Three Refuges first refuge in the objects that we follow in admiration and prayer for a better life, more happiness.

However, intelligence and personality of the Buddha 'super Vietnamese help us push back any unfounded fears that previously may have been dominated in our hearts. For example, the chance comes to me in life seems not to follow a certain rule, and therefore often worry when consecutive encounter risks. From there, we go to find emotional support in things like fortune-telling, date and time, offering star term solution ... But all those things are just the methods that are formed from baseless fantasy. Intellectual enlightenment of the Buddha pointed out that all that happened to us today is the result of past actions of our own, and cause and effect relationship has been his observation lens originality to explain all behavior and karma of beings. When you believe and understand this, we no longer fears unfounded as before, but instead have a more positive attitude to improve all acts in its current because we know that that will determine what we reap tomorrow. Law of Cause and Effect is a pretty broad category and complex but very interesting, we hope to have the opportunity to return to this issue in a different book.

On the other hand, as mentioned, super Vietnamese personality of the Buddha help us to have faith in him is no longer any fear before any other object. Many of us may have been previously worshiped gods that we never really know, not derived from the respect or admiration, which is actually fear. We fear that if not worship him, we will suffer the punishment mystery that no one can protect us. But when we take refuge in the Triple Gem, Buddha specify a way that covers all realms such as heaven, gods, demons, animals ... do not escape outside the three worlds, are those beings are under the control of the cycle of karma, and therefore we have nothing to fear or relied on her subjects. The best way to bring peace to yourself is toward the good, and refuge in the Three Jewels is the first platform for a good life direction. In some business, the Buddha also describes the power of life and maintain Tam of the Five is surrounded by the angels to the holder. And it shows when we have faith in the Three Jewels, we no longer have to fear any other object. So that would determine that the Three Refuges are established faith and bring us a solid emotional support.

Many people have taken refuge Three Jewels, but worship the gods or illusory, such as worship of talent, his address, his apple ... or still believe in fortune telling, see good and bad days now, also stars award-term ... That's because these people do not really understand the meaning of the refuge, and therefore not actually trust the Triple Gem. If you understand and believe in his teachings, then good things, the benefit comes to us only as a result of the work merit, how could rely on the maintenance of a blessing of god or other gods, especially when the blessing over it again seems high as a result of the actions "bribe" offered by the glass offerings!

The faith and misperceptions as above can be easily removed thanks to life over the Five. In Business said: Human beings the world, the development of wisdom. Thus, over the Five life we ​​can help transform lives in a positive way, better, and thus that the mind will be more wisely, can properly understand the teachings taught by Buddha, and it helps us to dispel the misconceptions, wrong.

Five practices are the most basic first step, but also the long way that students of Buddhism can be relied on to take his life. The reason for this, is that in five world consists of many layers of meaning, practice numerous stages from low to high, allowing beginners can easily receive, but the practice still contemplate long-term still has room to continue to learn.

As such visibility, it has a powerful Five unequaled in transforming our lives. Can imagine the worst level, when we ourselves are full of inherent vices, but just give rise to serious over the Five Life, immediately all the bad habits that will blocked, and soon will gradually come to take away. The difficulty was that I decided to have a determination, a mighty willpower to maintain life is not serious transgression. Just like that, things will definitely be nice. There are five world imagined as a casting mold of workers, whether raw materials used in any shape, but once introduced into the mold can only produce a single shape follow that mold.

The nature of the 5's coverage has led to a practical result is: you can not perform any evil act without violating the five world. So, when we hold a full five precepts, all evil acts are temporary blocked.

The effects of five world can be roughly divided into two phases, as well as two stages of practice such as the following:

A. With the new ordination center, the practice of five world often marginal size molds, machines, and is the most basic sense of the world. The effects of the 5 world at this stage is to stop, stop all evil acts are not to reveal to the outside (but usually remains latent in the idea, thought). Prevent this process usually takes place in the order as follows: When the idea of ​​a bad action arose, the discipline to identify and compare the meaning of the five world prevent, recognize that it belongs prevent the meaning of the world, and therefore decided not to implement it.

During this period, the discipline often do not feel comfortable in morality, because he often mind weighed down by the idea as "the world" or "not the world", or " not do this "," do not be there "... Moreover, the distinction the scope of world significance usually prevent a deductive process machines primarily rely on the meaning has been transmitted, and what belongs not have personal experience how much.

The sex life of over five stage like a plowed field. Income from paddy harvest is the promise in the future, but now is the effort and hard work because of work. The strict discipline that requires the continuous efforts in the struggle between the habits themselves (usually transgression) and wills good direction. While complete results of the spiritual life is often very rarely can be felt immediately, whether it is actually happening.

Because of the nature mentioned above, who ordained this stage should be constantly reinforced by their faith to the temple, worshiping Three Jewels, or participate in the retreat at the temple school. Can also learn more about yourself by reciting Buddhist scriptures or read the books explaining the teaching. These efforts will support significant positive makes morality becomes easier and more effective.

This period may be extended in a different time for each person, depending on the practice's capacity as well as starting at the beginning of ordination. Generally, this period can be considered terminated when his ordination began to feel the freedom to discipline and significant improvement in all activities of daily life.

Two. The second stage is the stage where the ordination was completely familiar with the prevention of gender categories, and the precepts become a very clever self-reflection Nguyen. For example, if the first stage, the ordination confronted with a certain appetite for when to refuse alcohol to prevent the meaning of the 5th world, then in this second phase, the no alcohol to be a perfectly natural reaction, and no longer ordained arises thirst desire to drink was more toxic.

An important change in this period was ordained really feel the benefits of discipline, self see the positive changes, improvements in daily life, and is accompanied by a bliss happiness can be brought by the true life, good. In addition, the power of gender in this period also spreading out around her, making contact with people who are ordained can easily recognize and respect.

This was the period that the ordained have accumulated experience in the discipline itself, there are the feelings and comments of their own through circumstances rubbing with practical life. That's what can not be entirely taught from others. With the results obtained from five world practice in their own lives, who can be ordained begin contemplation of the meaning of each gender and expand the scope of the world prevented. This expansion is a result of course get through practice and experiment, because the meaning of this expansion already contained in the world which is not a later embellishment. Only thing is to understand the meaning, requires us to have a practice of the discipline in real life. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).MHDT.14/5/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).