Simply put, luring form is beauty itself as the most obvious example. One of the four walls (Alcohol, Beauty, Gambling and Opium Addiction), also one of the six desires (six objects of the human senses: beauty, sound, fragrance, taste, body comfort, and riches).
How many people have become tainted because of their infatuation with beauty?
It has caused upheavals, overturned morals and ethics, and many people have been drowned by it in the deep pit of sin.
The ancients once said: “Beauty is not like a peach, but it is like a trap” (Beauty is not like a storm, but it is easy to drown people).
In Tỉnh Thế Ngộ Chơn, it is also taught:
“Beauty is inherited from previous generations, but it also causes people to waste their energy and suffer in their souls.”
(Although female beauty is used to continue the previous generation, it also causes people to lose their energy, and their souls to be corrupted).
In Vietnamese, “sắc lịch” is a term derived from Buddhist teachings, referring to the human infatuation and entanglement with external attractive phenomena, forms, and material objects (referred to as “sắc trần”).
Specifically, this term is often understood and applied through the following aspects:
- In the context of morality and practice: It refers to indulging oneself, being immersed in material desires such as beauty, money, and wealth, leading to intellectual loss and moral degradation.
- Compositional meaning: The word “sắc” (色) refers to form, matter that can be seen with the eye; the word “lịch” means to experience, come into contact with, or be contaminated by.
- Context of use: This phrase often appears in sermons and teachings that advise people to stay away from temptation and keep their minds pure in the face of the frivolous material beauty of life.
- Dictionary – form – Phatgiao.org The meaning of the word form according to the Buddhist Dictionary is as follows: form means: (色) Sanskrit, Pali: Rupa. In a broad sense, “Sắc” is a general term …phatgiao.org.vn
- Form and emptiness – Nomfoundation.org Form and emptiness are two states of objects in the material world: form is the existence of a visible appearance; emptiness is the absence of an appearance, the absence of… Nomfoundation.org
- Sac phong – Vietnamese Wikipedia Sac phong. Language; Follow · Edit. Sach phong (Chinese characters: 册封),
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