INTRODUCTION ABOUT BUDDHIST PRECEPTS.

 

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When the Buddha was in the world, with a times, venerable Xa-profit-waving said to the Buddha: O Buddha! After when Tathagata passing, how the Dhamma of the Tathagata is the long-term survival? Buddha: Buddha said that world, tell the disciples so that way to practice, making the Dhamma is eternal head after when Tathagata passing. Then Xa-profit-waving to him that: Bach The Sun! Why do not you show him the world, saying only that legal? He tells us: this venerable! I know what to do. Now is not the time so we have on earth. When the Sangha for fame, because smuggled property occurs, Tathagata the world.

Thus, during the first 12 years after the Buddha attained enlightenment, he did not lecture the world. By the 13th year, the tangible pirated appeared and happened wrong in the monks, and then based on gender violate the Buddha did. As the patch jacket, never patched into the seats not torn. Buddha never specified before this or ban that when His disciples did not really do anything wrong with Qingdao. So to show that the Buddha world is not so constrained his disciples, but because the path of liberation and prevent naughty Sangha.

Buddhist precepts, including home and family. In part have Five, Bat boy gender, Ten good (ten). The novice and novice nuns 10's, Food delete ma ni additional 6 school world, bhikkhus 250 gender, monks and nuns 348. Bodhisattva is a 10 weight 48 gender contempt for both ordained and lay.

With the aim of preventing acts of evil, the Buddhist precept has been set up in the spirit "depends on depending produce", should not be dogmatic constraints. So the meaning of the rule is clear:

+ About , Pali is Sila , transcribed Fennel , means to prevent the Buddha from the disciples of the Buddha used to prevent the sins of 3 now. Therefore, Sex is defined as:

- Superior non-evil only: Prevent wrong thing, stop the evil.

- Special release: Keep the world, get rid of it.

- Land of origin liberation: Where do the rules are followed, where her life was serene.

- Depending upon release: Direction of the path of liberation.

- Salary: Make your life cool and comfortable.

- The management of: Having the capability to control the bad, evil.

+ Law , Sanskrit is Vinaya , transcription is Pi-complaints-da , talk to as Pi-ni , translation means to subdue (tame, convince), eliminate (eradicate evil). Law is the rule prescribed by the Buddha for monks of application living in collective Sangha.

In short, men are the commandments, the law is the law enforcement world. Law implies gender is only a part of the law. Different call like that but capital nature and should have the name pair precepts .

Precepts include a variety of:

1. About sravakas:

This is the world's exports, whose functions can help preserve the purity of monks and develop harmony sangha, including the following characteristics:

+ About:

- Just over : Do not do the evil that is to practice. This is only for the kind of world of monks, nuns

- Work : The Implementation of the Buddha prescribed that is practice. This is just for the event, the legal Jieyang ma.

+ The features:

- Emptiness world : The nature of the work. This means that if the offense is guilty.

- Price World : The prohibition in order not to commit the offense.

+ Regard: About divided into four categories:

- About: The Buddha regulatory

- About: The world. About this arises when ordained when all three factors: prepositions, gender purity and the solemn Forum.

- About : The behavior of the 3-business out in accordance with the teachings.

About Minister: The Minister of the state of the world.

Typically, the Lawyers divided world of monks, monks and nuns into five natural 7 capacitors.

- In natural include: 1.Thien Three-la-di, 2.Thien Sangha-she-competition-sa, 3.Thien three-sets-to, Cartesian 4.Thien clinic-ni, Punching 5.Thien sand dollars.

- Seven include: 1.Tụ three-la-di, 2.Tụ Sangha-she-test-sa, 3.Tu Thau-times-price, 4.Tu Three-put-to, 5.Tu to -amnesty-ni, AUC 6.Tu-, AUC 7.Tu-theory.

There is also distributed through the names:

- Opening: open.

- Price: stopped.

- Tri: compliance.

- Range: violation.

- Name: the name of the world.

- Race: type of sex.

- Nature: the nature of the world.

- General: general state of the world.

2. About Bodhisattva.

About this so-called world, which includes an application and at the same practice in order to accomplish the Bodhi mind, also have the following characteristics:

+ The features: It is divided into three kinds of called magnetic Tam world; including:

- Photography legislation Comfort World: About departed evil (May end to the evil).

- Evil World Photography: About doing good (Let the good).

- Many useful world: About benefit others (May to benefit all sentient beings).

+ To despise important: 10 men and 48 dominated contempt.

+ Application: Divided into two types:

- strike world : Do meditation, natural purity of body and mind, full morality, meaning meditation arises effective, no need to keep gender and still lives in accordance with the law.

- Director of Industry: Do the vows outflows arising wisdom, not ordained but still live in accordance with the law.

Beyond the limited world of the Buddha also include gender and gender;

- Special instructions: As the world's exports of 10 vows of a novice, 250 World monks ... and gender of the restaurant is 5.

- Gender: A Bodhisattva who also life.

3. Lay.

According to the principles of Buddhism to become a Buddhist, asking people to mind has received three legal refuge (Refuge in the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) and the Five.

- In the World: This is the first step of the study Buddhism but also left home and are required to be executed. Because men are the basis of human morality, is the basic virtues of morality, as a bridge to the happiness of Nibbana. It is also a factor to build the foundation for personal happiness, family and society. Five are:

1. Do not kill.

2. Do not steal.

3. Do not commit adultery

4. Do not lie.

5. Do not drink alcohol.

In this world are recorded in the text priority-she-rule 128 of the Majjhima Nikaya the Buddha and was summed up the benefits of life over the world through the following verse:

"He who live in location,

Seeing hell of fear,

Because life over France,

Eliminate all evil.

Do not kill living beings,

Know or leave,

Truth does not lie,

Do not steal from others,

Sufficiency for women,

No love lost wife,

Get rid of the alcohol,

Original crazy heart disorders.

Often should recite primary sense,

Think of the good law,

Increase concept, precept, shop

So very happy ... "

- Ten World: On the fundamentals of the world, is the same themselves where acts (body), language (speech), psychological (mind) that the Buddha established the practice Cross charity (10 men) to improve high spiritual, moral sense to laypeople. Cross charity is:

+ Body 3: Do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery.

+ Password 4: Do not lie, do not say tongue-dimensional, not to say cruel, not to say frivolous.

+ About: Do not greed, no anger, no ignorance.

- Bat boy with men : To create conditions for collective lay monk ordained in the 24-hour a day and a night, the Buddha taught over eight precepts. In particular, five world's first at home, with the exception of the 3rd world is changed to not lust; 3 world after equivalent to the vows of a novice (of goods) is not located beautiful large high bed no makeup, apply perfume and dance or watch dancing, not eating non-time.

In general, the Buddha the external world not to bring peace in the present life and the future for those who have applied to practice. No distinction is made or in part, if serious skill precepts, will be the following benefits:

1. Moral person will inherit the fortune of due diligence protection.

2. Moral person is well-known remote station.

3. Moral person does not fear timid when crowded congregation.

4. Moral persons death is heart disorder.

5. The common morality after the network was born of good fun, natural world. [1]

In the Advertising Code (only for all of the Law in the Vinaya) which made reference to the 10 benefits of sex is:

1. Than convince the Sangha.

2. As to thoroughly convince the Sangha.

3. Because they want for Sangha peace.

4. So to convince those who do not know shame.

5. So for those who know shame peaceful residence.

6. So for those who do not believe make them believe.

7. So for those who have increased confidence.

8. Because they want an end to all illegal measures or even in the present.

9. So let the unborn illegal or may not arise.

10. Dharma because they want to be long-term survival. [1]

Thus, the rule is the foundation for the practitioner complete personality, clean body and mind, to neutralize negativity, building Sangha, to end all defilements. Those who earnestly observe the precepts, is to keep the peace and happiness for ourselves and others right now and in the future. Conversely, those who do not strictly obey the rules yourself damaging source of happiness was.

On the issue precepts, in of Anguttara II, Chapter 7, the Buddha also taught: " violations, does not, know It lightweight, know It weighs, with the rules, with the bilingual conquer the world four, full majesty district run, scared of the smallest error, acceptance and learning of legal documents is not difficult, not hard, does not cost much for the four Zen Terrace , current resident communications, except the defilements themselves with wins in the current location, realization, attainment outflows mind liberation. Seven measures of achievement known as the lead law. "

In short, to protect the peace of the grave of the Sangha, to preserve the essence of the monks as well as to establish a life of security for humanity, the Buddha statement presentation precepts. Discipline has to be finalize conditions, career in the way of birth and death. Not only in the future but in the present life, if we keep strictly legal sex life will eat healthy, body and mind are at peace.

However, to understand the true meaning of the precepts is not only to prevent all evil but also in the ability to do good. That is in addition to "evil", the positive side of the law must be "good".

So, as Buddhists we must reflect its role. For processed goods must be "Master of Buddhist Circuit, lower beings", preserving inheritance law to propagate the Dharma. For laypeople, along with upholding the Three Jewels, Buddhist must also demonstrate a model of lifestyle found in Buddha's disciples, contribute to building a happy family, a civilized society. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/2/2013.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).