17 LỜI ĐÁNG SUY NGẪM
CỦA CỐ HT. THÍCH CHƠN THIỆN
Tâm Anh trích dẫn và chuyển ngữ
17 THINGS WORTH PONDERING
Tâm Anh
1 The secret of happiness is not in the hands of a powerful being, nor in the outside world but in ourselves, in our own vision.
2.People in the past have suffered because they imprisoned themselves in the self-centered view, accepting that all existence has a self. Because seeing the existence of a self, greed, anger, wrong views, fear, arrogance, gossip…create a crazy flow of birth - death and people find themselves immersed in it.
3.Life experience states that the opposite sex does not bind the viewer, but the gaze of the viewer binds them, leading to the situation of “being in prision in someone’s eyes.
4.In general terms, an educational direction that pays much attention to the spirit of creative education is a good humane educational direction. Emphasizing the spirit of creativity means emphasizing the spirit of autonomy, self - responsibility, autonomy, self - confidence, self - guidance, Independent spirit - the spirit of educating people to return to themselves.
5.If morality is understood as synonymous with happiness, then Buddhist morality is a way of life that brings peace and happiness to each person of living being. That lifestyle was taught by the Buddha, built on the basis of filial piety and selfless compassion (almsgiving and precepts), in short, true human love, not lost in any thought.
6.Ethical paths to living are the paths to happiness for yourself and others in every step or morality itself is happiness.
7.Talking about education is talking about its basic belief, the belief that humans have almost endless abilities to absorb a lot of knowledge and can correct all psychological, physical, physiological and thinking deviations of oneself.
8.Living means living in the present or in other words, only the present is living. Living right in the present is a practical spirit. Lamenting regrets about the past or dreaming about the future not only puts us in a place 9f unreality but also lets us get entangled in psychological disorders, suffering and losing the present which is a new, vibrant present, creative, full of meaning and the present can become eternal If we subdue the mind that clings to ego and illusions.
9.Because of different views on people, the world, values and happiness, there are differences in moral origins and moral standards.
10.Even when people are in happiness, the fear of impermanence is enough to cause pain in the human mind.
11.The practice of meditation is the practice of going straight to the source of peace and happiness right in the present and living here with each happy breath.
12.At the end of the road to eternal happiness the vision and happiness are a path and a destination.
13.The very special difference between Buddhism and other philosophical religions is the special point of the Buddhist moral life of self - consciousness and the absence of all orders, all beliefs, all dogmas, all pressure.
14.For anyone who maintains a pure and awakened consciousness, that person certainly has a fully fulfilled precepts.
15.Keeping the precepts means preserving that source of peace and happiness. Breaking the precepts is a damaging source of peace and happiness.
16.The precepts are not only for monastics or just for lay Buddhists, nor are they just for elderly but are common to all people of all ages, for those who want to live a meaningful life, peace and happiness for themselves and others in the present and in the future.
17.If happiness is the object that humanity is forever searching for, then it must be true that the Precepts are what humanity needs to hold on the way to that happiness. It is time for people to eliminate all misunderstandings about the Precepts of Buddhist teachings to get closer to the Precepts and hold the Precepts as lovingly as holding their own happiness.