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At the end of July, the Land of Maple Leaf, the Land of the Flag is still in the hot summer, at that time it is the hottest time of the year, however, it is not so hot that the fields and grass are burning. People in this land are blessed, when it is hot, they use air conditioners freely, everywhere they turn on the air conditioners at full capacity: houses, offices, markets, shopping centers, malls, entertainment places... Outside is blazing hot but inside these places are always cool.

Xíu said to Choc Ca, her voice full of excitement and admiration:

- People are really ignorant but in terms of worldly wisdom, they are also very smart. They have invented many advanced machines and means. They can fly to the moon, dive into the dragon palace. They have invented heaters and air conditioners, thanks to these machines they create hot and cold realms according to their preferences. People in this land do not have to endure the harsh heat and cold like their ancestors in the past. In the summer there is air conditioning, in the winter there is heating, sitting in a car running outside regardless of rain or shine or heat or cold, it's quite wonderful!

Giọt Cả nodded:

- Yes, it's truly wonderful, they are so smart, they have invented so many things to serve life but they also invented so many things to kill and destroy each other, harm animals and plants and the natural environment. Human intelligence is only a tiny line different from ignorance.

- Brother Hai is right! Ignorance is so scary, because of using intelligence incorrectly, it is natural to fall. In this life, one can achieve wealth and fame, but when will one ever repay the consequences caused to humans, all species and the environment?

- Very good, Xiu has a firm grasp of Buddha's teachings. I'm glad! That's why hell is eternal, there is no door to enter, and no day to leave. Animals are in darkness and have no way out.

- Hey, Brother Hai, when you talk about hell, I suddenly remember that Vu Lan festival is coming soon. At the end of July, the pagodas are already preparing for the festival. But Brother Hai, only the Northern pagodas, not the Southern pagodas, hold this ceremony.

- Well, the two Northern and Southern lineages have differences. Wherever the Buddha's teachings are transmitted, they are combined with local cultural elements. The patriarchs make adjustments to entice and use them as a means to save sentient beings.

- Brother Hai, humans, animals and all species all need our water drop relatives, but hell doesn't seem to have any water drop relatives, right?

- I don't know, that realm is so different and we don't have supernatural powers. However, when reading the Ksitigarbha Sutra, Vu Lan Sutra... we see water. For example, when water reaches the sinner's mouth, it turns into molten copper, molten iron. The sutra also describes the boiling sea of karma...

- Is that water real or metaphorical?

- I don't know because I haven't visited hell, but I think it's both, because the Buddhist sutras are perfect in reason and reason.

At that time, the youngest drop died:

- Oh my god, what a strange question Xiu is asking? Although Giot Ca is the oldest, he's not an Arhat, so he doesn't know about hell. He's never been to hell, so how would he know?

The brothers of the water drop family laughed heartily, laughing so hard that their whole bodies shook as if they were about to fall down and make rain. Giot Sot hesitated, his voice still tinged with a bit of pain:

- The days when we were infected with radiation and locked in a dark, sealed tank, that place was hell, where else could it be? Hell isn't just underground, hell is right here on earth. Areas contaminated with nuclear radiation are hell. War zones are hell. Those polluted and destroyed living environments that are uninhabitable are hell. Hell in the human heart. Hell is attracted by the three wrong and evil karmas of humans.

The atmosphere was gloomy, everyone was silent as if each drop of water was pursuing its own thoughts. The world looked at the Xiu brothers and could not distinguish which was the Big drop, which was the Pretty drop, the Xiu drop, the Dieu drop... Because the drops of water were all equally sparkling, each drop was equally plump and importantly, each drop brought the same life. Only Xiu and the Xiu brothers could see the differences between each other. Giot Ca was content, wise, and tolerant. Giot Xiu was smart and clever. Giot Xinh was charming. Giot Ut was cute and naive. Giot Thua was playful, sometimes causing excess. The careless Giọt Gậy also caused the opposite excess of the Thua drop. Giọt Diêu coquettishly said:

- Summer is so hot, I sweat profusely at the slightest thing. I don't like summer!

Xíu sneered:

- Yet every summer I go to the beach to soak in the water, sunbathe on the sand, and fly around to watch handsome boys and girls.

Giọt Diêu was caught by Gio so she shyly said:

- Well, everyone is like that, not just Diêu!

Giọt Xinh still didn't let it go:

- Then don't say you don't like summer!

Giọt Thừa jumped in to defend Diêu:

- Come on, Xiu, Gioọt Diêu just said that, it's not like that. Diêu likes summer, likes autumn, winter, spring, likes all four seasons, just look at her behavior and you'll know right away. Every summer she wears a bikini to the beach, in the fall she wears romantic vintage clothes. In the winter she wears a luxurious and noble coat. In the spring, it goes without saying, she wears a thousand colors of brocade.

Dieu is shy, her eyes are sparkling, her face is radiant. Xiu's brothers surrounded Dieu, at that moment the sunlight from somewhere shone through Dieu and the teardrop brothers. At that time, on the ground, many people looked up into the sky, they pointed with delight, many shouted:

- Oh, look, a seven-colored rainbow across the sky! Oh, so beautiful!

Xiu heard a clear, sweet child's voice:

- Rainbow, guys, rainbows appear to let good people go to heaven.

Xiu looked down and realized it was Ti, the son of Miss Hai, the grocer in town. The little boy was so white and cute, his face was as beautiful as a flower, his eyes were as round as marbles. Ti is a good student and is famous in town. Everyone who sees Ti says: "Having a child like Ti, even if we have to suffer, our hearts will be at ease." Ti's whole family is devout Buddhists. Mrs. Hai is busy with business so she rarely goes to the temple, she only goes on the 15th or 1st of the lunar month, while Ti and his father go to the temple every week. Ti also follows his father in being a vegetarian, knows how to chant Buddha's name and recite sutras! Hearing Ti say that, Teo asks:

- How do you know?

- I heard adults say so

Teo disagrees, he argues:

- Don't be superstitious, rainbows are just an optical phenomenon, sunlight shines through water vapor and so they are created. Physics teacher Thanh said so!

- Well, that's true, but I believe that rainbows can help good people, so why not?

Xíu and his brothers heard the two boys' reasoning and burst out laughing, rolling on the floor, momentarily forgetting themselves and falling straight down. Ti, Teo and the others who were watching the rainbow hurriedly found a place to hide and shouted:

- It's raining, it's raining, both sunny and rainy, what a beautiful rainbow!

Then a cold air current appeared in the middle of nowhere. Xiu and his brothers immediately stopped, revealing their true forms, and it was the cold air current and wind that carried Xiu and his brothers to the faraway land out there. Xiu, Xinh, Dieu, Ut, Ca, Thua... fell down in droves, no longer the scattered rain and clouds like when they were in the airspace over Ti's town. The rain gradually became heavier, the people were running around looking for a place to avoid the rain, the noisy noise was drowned out by the sound of the rain. Suddenly, Xiu was startled, it seemed that Xiu had fallen on the edge of a monk's discolored robe. The Xiu brothers had just touched the edge of the robe and realized it. Giot Ca warned:

- We just met a monk practicing asceticism

Xiu hesitated but did not dare to confirm:

- It seems that this is the monk who has been stirring up the people for the past few months?

Giot Tron affirmed:

- That's right, Xiu! The appearance of this monk has breathed new life into the old, worn-out state of the monks in this country, full of indulgence and indulgence.

Giot Ca advised:

- Don't say that, only a few monks are interested in fame and profit, not all. In recent years, many monks lacking right views, lacking thinking, lacking morals, lacking practice, speaking nonsense and doing wrong things have taken to the podium. Some monks who are politically active, involved in politics, and support politics have spoken evil words... causing public discontent. Face Bookers and YouTubers have taken advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters, cutting, pasting, forcing, creating fake clips... trying to defame Buddhism, causing gullible people to follow suit. They are creating bad karma in a completely ignorant way. Social networks and internet surfers are a whole bunch of hysterics, speaking nonsense, cursing, being aggressive, confused... Beginner Buddhists who lack understanding of the teachings and right views have their faith shaken and are dissatisfied with Buddhism. In this era of global networking, just one news or one image can make the whole world know. Zen masters also talk about the butterfly effect, a flap of a butterfly's wings on one side can cause waves on the other side of the globe. However, when blaming others, we must also examine ourselves. It was the evil teachers and monks who participated in politics, supported the government, formed cliques, monopolized Buddhism, and exploited Buddhism to serve the political purposes of the secular world. That was what made the people discontented, dissatisfied, and disgusted. Then, when that ascetic monk appeared, the people admired and respected him. This made the evil teachers and monks jealous and slandered him: "He is not a monk", "that brat"... That jealousy made the people hate the evil teachers and monks even more and admire that monk even more. There were also some people who, because of their love, exaggerated it too much and arbitrarily canonized that monk. It must be admitted that that monk truly put down both body and mind. He always smiled, was humble, and humble. He blessed even those who scolded, slandered, or beat him. Obviously, this mind is the mind of a Bodhisattva, not a new ordinary person. Ordinary people cannot do this.

When Giot Ca finished speaking, the rain stopped. Xiu, Xinh, Dieu, Ut, Thua, Sot... prostrated themselves to pay homage to the ascetic monk once more, then split into two, some flowing with the water and half flying into the sky.

Tieu Luc Than Phong

At Lang city, 0824

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