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...
Shang
King Zhou was infatuated with the beauty of Daji (originally a fox spirit, that is, a marten transformed into a human). Daji deceived King Zhou, saying that once the Baloc Tower was completed, the celestial beings would descend to the mortal world. The king genuinely believed her. Daji informed her fox kin. Those who could...
Shen Xiu
Contrary to the method of cultivation that the Master advocated, namely following the non-action (wu wei) practice of the Buddha Shakyamuni in the past, which was later propagated by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, there was a famous monk during the Tang dynasty, Shenxiu, who advocated using sounds and forms of bells and gongs to encourage...
silkworms
A type of silkworm that is raised and fed on mulberry leaves. When they grow, the silkworms spin silk to form cocoons, which the owners then process to extract the silk, which is then woven into fabrics. For example: The silkworm farming industry.
Sir Phoi
He is Mr. Lê Văn Phối, living in Long Quới II hamlet, Long Điền commune, Chợ Mới district (An Giang), about 1 kilometer upstream of Xẻo Môn canal. He served as the Hương master in the village Hội Tề Board during the French colonial period, so he is commonly referred to as Chủ Phối (He...