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Spring has come. The countryside is as beautiful as a dream, the green buds are refreshing to the eyes, the flower buds on the branches signal a season of flowers with brilliant colors and fragrance. The cool air is so pleasant and refreshing.

The wanderer said to himself and sometimes told his daughter: "If only I could stay in this atmosphere and scenery forever, how wonderful it would be!" He had not forgotten his words, but unexpectedly last night the weather turned cold, an unusual cold spell at the end of the season, and in the morning the whole garden was desolate. All the green buds and flower buds on the branches were withered like vegetables boiled in boiling water. His heart was filled with pity for the flowers and leaves, but what could he do? It was impermanent! And not only the flowers and leaves, even the pond of guppies that had just been brought out into the yard had all died, hundreds of little creatures died miserably from the cold. The wanderer's heart repented: "Because of me, you all died unjustly like this! This has added to the bond of gratitude and resentment, even though it was unintentional, not intentional. These deaths were caused by me, tomorrow there will be retribution, maybe by chance, not intentionally."

Autumn passed, winter went, spring came, summer came... The four seasons rotated endlessly, trees grew, blossomed, bore fruit, then withered. People were born, grew up, and soon they would grow old, get sick, and die. Death is not scary because it is inevitable and natural, but how one dies is what is worth talking about. Master Toai Khanh said: "A peaceful death, a clean death, a light death is a blessed person." A peaceful death is not anger, fear, terror, or struggling; a clean death is not drooling, not defecating; a light death is slow, gentle, and easy, like falling asleep. A person who dies peacefully, dies cleanly, and dies lightly will definitely have a good rebirth, a good path. If you want to die peacefully, die cleanly, and die lightly, you must be prepared and work hard.

No one is happy about death, but death is inevitable. Everyone has to die, but to die peacefully, die cleanly, and die lightly is also good and beautiful! The deceased will be reborn in a good path, the deceased's relatives will also feel relieved, and their body and mind will not be too tired because of you.

When you die, all your family, career, and wealth will be left behind, as will the love of parents, wife, children, siblings, friends... will also be left behind. The only thing you bring with you is the good and bad karma you have done in a lifetime. Everyone knows and says so, but they don't follow it, they do the opposite, that's why they die! Humans are so strange, they always want to add more and make things complicated, they like to make simple things complicated and cumbersome. Since ancient times, people have tattooed, filed teeth, stretched ears, pierced, skewered... making their simple and normal bodies become monstrous! A human body with all six senses is already a blessing, but it must be pierced, skewered, attached, worn... all kinds of things on the ears, nose, tongue, navel, hands, feet... to be acceptable. That is the physical aspect, and the same goes for the mind! Things that are inherently nothing, but people like to speculate, add, and force them into complicated stories; things that are inherently not like that, but speculate to create many stories, sometimes just a random and unintentional sentence but the inference becomes so complicated that it is unimaginable.

All aspects of life are like that, Buddhism cannot be different. Buddhism is added, added, forced... many things that are not Buddhism. When Buddhism is transmitted to a locality, it adds elements of the beliefs of that locality; through each era, it adds traces of the era. In addition to the appropriateness of the situation and reason, there are some ridiculous forced things that have made Buddhism complicated and cumbersome, which are not useful for enlightenment and liberation, and even create more constraints.

Buddhism is inherently clear and transparent, the core is: the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the thirty-seven aids to enlightenment, the six paramitas... in terms of methods, there is meditation, reciting Buddha's name, but now in the temple there are all kinds of nonsense, making people more confused, more bound, unable to let go or be liberated. Things that are added and forced in a forced way are: asking for lots, fortune telling, divination, divination, resolving bad luck, worshiping the stars, exorcising evil spirits, opening spells, feng shui, choosing the date and time, praying for peace, calling on gods to enter statues, opening eyes and opening eyes... (Buddha is an enlightened being, a teacher of gods and humans, but which teacher has the ability to call on gods to enter Buddha statues? And then demanding to open eyes and open eyes for Buddha, what a shame!). These things can be strongly affirmed to be completely non-Buddhist, not Buddha's dharma! All of those things are like the items: earrings, rings, bracelets, needles, beads, chains... attached to the six senses of the human body!

In the past, Buddha gave up everything, abandoned the golden palace, the jade silk clothes, the beautiful wife and children... only had three robes and one bowl, and they had to be the robes of the emperor. Nowadays, people prefer the splendid and brilliant kasayas like the royal robes of kings. In the past, Buddha begged for food, ate whatever was available, ate one meal a day, now he is a vegetarian but the dishes are high and full, elaborately prepared, with clichéd names, attached to the scent and color, praising deliciousness and criticizing ugliness... People outside the world add things, but people in the religion also create many things to get stuck in sects, traditions, and images... each temple has its own way of competing to get this title, that record, that thing is unique, that dish is invincible... The most terrible thing is to attach the tail of socialism to Buddhism! All these things have nothing to do with Buddhism, and are even less useful for enlightenment and liberation. To put it bluntly, that very thing only makes one more confused and bound.

Those who study Buddhism must listen to the Dharma, listening to the Dharma is reading wisdom, once reading comes the next step is thinking wisdom and cultivating wisdom. Listening to the Dharma must know how to select, must know right from wrong, know right from wrong, that is choosing the Dharma in the seven parts of enlightenment. Nowadays in life and on the NET, there are many people who preach the Dharma, however, there are also many people who lack right views, preach the Dharma but do not speak according to the Dharma, even evil Dharma. Many people preach the Dharma but insert politics into it to orient thoughts and lead public opinion according to the intentions of political forces. Some people preach the Dharma for the sake of fame, for fame and profit, and there are also people who preach the Dharma honestly but add things with the intention of making the Dharma more lively, but unfortunately, those additions are not true, not consistent with history, those mistakes unintentionally make the Dharma become funny and have the opposite effect. There is a young monk, very famous on the NET, he preaches on the topic of restraining the six senses, he compares the six senses to six doors, which need to be closed (guarded) leaving only one door open for easy observation. The monk gives the example of the Buddha taking a cardboard box with six holes, locking a cricket in it. The cricket easily goes out of six holes, now cover five holes, leaving only one hole to easily observe the cricket going in and out. The monk's intention was to tell the practitioner to restrain his senses, but the example was completely wrong: In the time of the Buddha, there was no paper, let alone a paper box. The monk made up the story of the paper box and the cricket to entice, but it was clumsy and not historically true. The listener only needs to have a little intelligence to realize the absurdity right away. There is another example, there was a preacher telling the story of the Buddha and Mr. Anan going on alms round, suddenly the Buddha pointed to a bush and shouted "Poisonous snake, poisonous snake", causing three farmers to hear, they opened the bush and saw a big bag of gold. The three people became greedy and schemed to take it for themselves, in the end all three died because of the bag of gold. The sermon was intended to warn about the three poisons, but it was clumsy in the way it was told: the Buddha never spoke carelessly, he only said what needed to be said, said at the right time, at the right moment. Buddha is not as arbitrary as we are, he cannot point to the bush and call out to a poisonous snake, and then three farmers die because of such a careless word!

Listening to the Dharma and listening to the Dharma is necessary in practicing and studying, but the listener also needs to choose the Dharma, to know right from wrong, good from evil.

Spring is coming, which also means we are getting old, the joy of youth is appearing, which also means the sadness of old age that follows... time is like flowing water and drifting clouds, human life is like drifting flowers and fallen leaves, life is like a mayfly, life is between two breaths, life is inherently more suffering than joy, and so adding more ties makes it more suffering, the more attached, the more you take on, the harder it is to die peacefully, die cleanly, die lightly!

People come and go like cotton blowing in the wind, flying and flying but they all fall off, only clouds seem to not exist, but they keep flying, flying forever. People are born, they will grow old, will get sick, and will die. People come and sooner or later have to leave, leave everything, whether you want to or not you have to leave. What you bring with you is only good and bad karma from one life and from the past. What you bring with you, whether you want it or not, you still have to bring with you.

Thanh Nguyen

At Lang city, spring 24

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