Sáu Đường
Trong khi các trò còn ở trong biển mê, sông khổ, thường bị những chướng-nghiệp nhiều đời mà làmcho linh-hồn chìm đắm trong ba cõi sáu đường, xuống xuống lên lên, luân-hồi chuyển kiếp, ấy cũngtại sự mê-lầm của lục-căn mà say-đắm lục-trần; ý-thức lầm-lạc ấy khiến các trò nhận lấy cái thân ô trược...
sấu nọ hóa long
Sấu trở thành rồng. Ý chỉ cho công việc đến lúc thành công (việc tu hành cũng thế). Đức Thầy có câu:“Thần Tiên hiệp mặt thì cù hóa long”(Xuân Hạ Tác Cuồng Thơ).
Sáu-Tỉnh
Đức Thầy nhận thấy khắp sáu tỉnh miền Nam có lắm kẻ tu hành không đúng cách, lòng tham lam vịngã chưa diệt trừ, chỉ lo tạo những điều mị dối, để lợi dụng lòng tin tưởng của bá tánh. Nếu hànhđạo như thế thì càng tu càng chìm trong luân hồi lục đạo, mong...
Stanza
However, no matter how simple it is, a set of the Sấm Kinh only has about 500 pages yet summarizes the entire "forest of sutras" of all Buddhas and saints, so the content must inevitably be concise and condensed. Moreover, in terms of form, even simple words cannot avoid the need to use classical allusions,...
Self-attachment
In Buddhism, 'ego clinging' (Skt. ātma-grāha) is the attachment to the idea of a permanent, unchanging self. It's not just your normal self-confidence or regular sense of identity. It's a deep, stubborn, unconscious illusion born of ignorance, where we mistakenly see the five aggregates (form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness) as the 'true self.' The...
self-interest
In English, “fame and fortune” or “reputation and wealth” is a Sino-Vietnamese phrase consisting of two components: “name” (名) means fame, reputation, popularity; and “loi” (利) means benefit, profit, material. Fame and fortune therefore refer to the material values that people pursue in society, including reputation and personal benefits. The phrase "fame and fortune" has many...
fame-profit
Interests in the proper sense means fame and profit. It is synonymous with 'fame and profit.' Because fame and fortune aim to satisfy people's vanity and desires rather than the community in general, as greed is part of one's desire to achieve their personal goal as social position, power and resultant material reward, or profit,...
selling San Dong drugs
Around the full moon day of the seventh month of the Year of the Cat (1939), three strangers stopped by his house, one came to pound rice, and two sold Shan Dong medicine. The medicine seller asked Ms. Tu Co to buy a tonic to treat leprosy and told her to mix it with hot...
sentient beings
They are plural; "hữu" means "to exist"; "tình" means "consciousness" or "having a connection." The general meaning refers to all sentient beings with life. In the universe, there are two realms: the non-sentient and the sentient. a/- The non-sentient realm includes species that do not move or have understanding, such as: minerals, earth, water, plants…...
Seven Mounts
The meaning of the word Thất Sơn is the seven mountains in the Châu Đốc region, near the Khmer-Vietnamese border. These seven mountains are:1.- Anh Vũ Mountain (Két Mountain): Height 125m, located in Thới Sơn commune, Tịnh Biên district (Châu Đốc). The mountain is named Két Mountain because the tip of the rock resembles the...