I. DIRECTOR: NGUOI PHAT TU CHAN CHINH. When people go to the temple to worship Buddha, chant sutras, listen to monks and nuns preach the Dharma, or introduce themselves "I am a Buddhist", we know that these people are all Buddhists, that is, children of Buddha, in other words. that they have voluntarily followed the path of the Buddha, worthy of our respect, because those people share the same ideals with us in terms of religion, but above all, must be a true Buddhist. II. Qualities and Duties of True Buddhists: Buddhism is not only a path of compassion but also equality and freedom for all living beings, so a True Buddhist, necessarily Buddhism does not claim requires him to practice many difficult things, but the requirements are only to make him personally sublimate, in other words, be better in the present, especially in the future. 1) QUALITIES REQUIRED: A) Faith: A true Buddhist must first believe that the Buddha is a Great Enlightened One, that what he taught recorded in the scriptures is the truth, but We should remember the first freedom that the Buddha taught us: "If you understand me then believe me, if you believe in me but don't understand me, that's defamation of me!" We believe that Buddhism is the way to end all suffering, make us peaceful in the present and free from samsara in the future. B) Keeping the precepts: Before the Buddha entered Nirvana, he taught the monks to take the precepts as teachers, so a true Buddhist must strictly keep the Five Precepts, always remembering the Precepts as the Teacher and the Precepts. At the top of the Three Schools, if you keep the Precepts, you will be born with Concentration, and if you have a concentration, you will be born with Wisdom. C) Cultivation: A Buddhist if not willing to Learn, Ask, Understand, If you act, you will fall into wrong views and do wrong things like other ordinary people. First, Buddhists have to learn, by listening to sermons at the temple or tapes (tape) preached by monks and nuns. Read Buddhist scriptures, books, and newspapers to understand the teachings the Buddha taught. Should be close to true cultivators, people of good knowledge to instill study conduct, close friends who have practiced for many years, have morality to study and discuss so that their wisdom can be further opened. Next is to practice, every day, depending on how you choose the method that is suitable for you, or sit in meditation, recite Buddha's name, chant or recite mantras. At first, there are many difficulties, but we have to try to overcome it, the most important thing is diligence, every day we have to be diligent, the time is always on time. To avoid the guests, the best practice time is from 5 to 6 am, No one will disturb you, and back to Taoism, it is believed that that moment is the intersection between yin and yang will have harmonious luck, which is very good for elaborate time. The second is practice cultivating compassion, should make offerings, should give alms; The first is to create merit for us, the second is to learn to let go, so that when we die mercilessly, busy with something, peacefully go away, just remembering the Buddha, so that near death karma. Good and bad karma near death, the most important) will bring us to the place of Ultimate Bliss. 2) BUDDHA'S OBLIGATIONS: The Buddha taught, Buddhists have four important graces, we have a duty to repay them: favors from parents, favors from teachers, favors from the nation, society and society. grace Tam Bao. A) Parents' grace: Parents have graces for their children, only those who become a parent will realize this profound grace: a) The gift of procreation: Being a mother has to be pregnant for nine months, eating and drinking must be abstained, must be careful when walking, standing, sleeping, resting carefully during pregnancy. When giving birth, you know how much danger is, sometimes losing your life. The father has to take care of the frequency of hard work, to take care of his mother. b) Nurturing: From birth to adulthood, parents have to change frequency and work hard to raise their children, take care of their children's food, care for them to dress warmly, and take care of their children's sleep. . I hope you eat well and grow up quickly; buy something, make another always want to make their children happy. c) Giving medicine: When a child is sick, parents have to take care of and treat their child, so worried that they forget to eat or sleep, in order to protect the health and life of their children. d) Teaching grace: Parents must teach their children to smile, walk, eat, study, be polite and behave in real life. Those things are to train their children to step by step firmly when they are young, and step into life when they grow up, earn a living for themselves, and do useful things for society. B) Dear Teacher: In life, people often use the adage: "If you don't have a teacher, you can make it." The teacher teaches, and friends instruct. This gift includes: a) Expanding knowledge: The teacher teaches us to read, write, behave in a gentle manner, and be a human being, knowing what we need to know, in order to make ourselves a good person. useful for society. b) Intellectual enlightenment: Not only do teachers teach us understanding, but teachers and friends also teach us to observe and reason to make our understanding achieve clarity, accuracy and correctness. c) Encouragement: Thanks to the constant encouragement of teachers and friends, so that we are comforted when we are sad or happy, we boldly go forward, do good, odd things for themselves and for society. C) National social grace: We live in a country, in the midst of human society, our lives are peaceful, full and happy; The country and society bring these things to us, we have enjoyed the following graces: a) Peace: Every country's government takes care of security to protect the regime, but if it is for the benefit the people, we must take care of the people and make sure they do business, so that the people can be full and happy. b) Keeping the border intact, preserving independence: Thanks to the nation preserving and protecting the territorial integrity of the airspace, land and sea, and preserving the independence. Otherwise, the territory is invaded by a foreign country, the country is colonized or dependent on a foreign country. When a country loses its independence, its people are subject to high taxes, heavy taxes, and hard work to provide foreign assets. The country lost its independence, people are no longer warm and happy. c) Happiness and well-being: One of us cannot make enough of the necessities for ourselves, for example a person cannot work as a farmer to have enough food, cannot work as a weaver to have enough food. enough clothes and blankets to wear when warm and cold, unable to make enough medicine to treat illness when sick, unable to have enough knowledge to protect life with nature, unable to make enough other comforts by themselves let me use. Society has assigned each person a job, doing a job to produce all the necessities and means for people to use. D) The Three Jewels: For the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, Buddhists have the following great graces: a) The Buddha's favor: Because of the sufferings of sentient beings, Prince Siddhartha sought the way to liberate all beings. bound to that suffering, as Buddhists we must remember his virtue: - Leaving the throne, family: Who has done like Buddha? He gave up his crown prince throne, left the golden palace, the jade palace, left his parents, wife and children to find a way to free all suffering for sentient beings. - Six years of asceticism in the jungle: Prince Siddhartha spent about ten years as a monk, of which six years together with the group of Mr. Kieu Tran Nhu practiced asceticism, hunger, and cold in the lonely old forest. - Preaching the Dharma, teaching sentient beings: After seven meditation sessions, he attained Buddhahood, then taught the truth to sentient beings to practice to liberate samsara. If He hadn't taught us, we wouldn't have known the truth as we are today. b) The Dharma Jewel: Thanks to the scriptures, we now know the teachings of Buddhism, so the Dharma Jewel has the following graces: - The way to liberation: Thanks to the scriptures, we understand that life is fake temporary, suffering much, must practice to reach Nirvana to free all bonds of suffering. - Only teaching methods of cultivation: Not only did the Buddha show us the sufferings of life, in samsara, the scriptures also record the methods of learning to be liberated. say there are "Eighty-four thousand Dharma-doors". - Create peace for us, peace for the world: Buddha taught to avoid evil and do good, everyone must be compassionate and compassionate to live together in society, especially every day, every hour until the end of every moment. bend your arms and stretch them out, there are 60 moments) keep our mind at peace individually, everyone like that, no worries the world is not at peace. c) An Tang Bao: The Sangha are those who have left their families to cultivate their own liberation and help all living beings, so there are graces: - Upholding the Dharma: The monks keep the precepts, from marbles, These things make the Buddha's teachings exist in the world, so that we can know Buddhism and know the methods of cultivation and liberation. - Substituting Buddha to save sentient beings: Sangha are those who act as messengers of the Tathagata, that is, to change Buddhism for sentient beings to study. - Transmitting the Precepts: We want to develop the mind to seek the way, we must take refuge in the Three Jewels, it was the Sangha who transmitted the Precepts on behalf of the Buddha and taught us the method of cultivation. In the past, Mr. Hue Neng was handed over by the Fifth Patriarch Hoang Nhan to Y Bat, but he had not yet had time to carry out the ceremony of transmitting the precepts; Fifteen years later, when he went to Phap Tanh pagoda, An Tong gathered the four groups to do almsgiving ceremony and invited famous monks to attend the Precepts for the Sixth Patriarch to receive the precepts! So the Sangha is so important, already being the Patriarch, but we still have to take refuge in the Three Jewels, let alone we are just ordinary people. 3) MEANS OF PAYING THE FOUR BENEFITS: For the above four graces, Buddhists must repay that deep grace as follows: A) Ways of Gratitude to Parents: - Being filial: Always having to please your parents - However, what is not good should be avoided. . - Honoring parents: When I was young, I tried to get high grades in my studies, to gain professional knowledge, I would make useful contributions to Buddhism, cultural development, and social service. also make parents proud as people of high authority. High positions of authority are sometimes just illusory, temporary names of life, don't be greedy for fame and gain. - Encourage parents: If our parents still have money, and have not yet been imbued with Buddhism, we must find a way for our parents to go to the temple, recite the Buddha's name, and do good to avoid evil. - Parents have passed away: We must regularly dedicate merit, pray for them to soon be born in a peaceful land, to do what His Excellency Dai Hieu Muc Kien Lien did. B) How to repay your teacher's favor: - Diligently study hard: We always study hard, the progress in study makes your teacher happy. - Be respectful and polite: We are always reverent towards the teacher, because he is no different from our parents. There is a proverb: "On the first day of the father's day, on the second day of the mother's day, on the third day of the teacher's day" (that is, on New Year's Day, the first day goes to Mass in the Noi family, the second goes to the Grand family, and the third day goes to the Teacher's) In the old days, respecting the Master had the phrase "Nhat tu vi teacher, semi self vi teacher" (Study with someone a word is also a teacher, even a half word is also a teacher). - Practice the teacher's words, friends: The teacher here is a respectable person, you here are a good friend, teaching us good and right things, so when we do something, we must do good things like the teacher you taught. - Encourage your teacher: In general, we Buddhists must encourage those around us, so that they can do good and avoid evil, especially how our life, words, and deeds must be able to touch them. for them to follow, that is, we have contributed to the improvement of society, making it better. C) How to show gratitude to the nation and society: - To fulfill the civic duty: First of all, to keep the government's laws, to contribute to preserving the territorial integrity and independence of the nation and nation. contribute to protecting the legitimate interests of the people. Promoting industry, business and trade to make the country more and more prosperous. - Promoting culture: Buddhists are also citizens, have a duty to promote our national culture, a nation with over 4,000 years of history, we are proud of our ancestors' cultural heritage. we leave behind, need to preserve and promote more. - Protection of national traditions: Our national traditions such as the spirit of fighting against foreign invaders of the Dien Hong Conference, the tradition of independence, although we are like Bach Viet, are not assimilated and dependent on China. , our people always know how to love and care for each other. Articles such as "Nam Quoc Son Ha Nam De settled" by Ly Thuong Kiet, "Binh Ngo Dai Cao" by Nguyen Trai are Manifestos, upholding our national traditions. D) How to repay the Triple Gem: Of the four graces, the Three Jewels must be the most profound and meaningful. We must repay this favor as follows: - The Buddha's favor: Follow the Buddha's teachings, remember the Buddhas, offer incense. flowers, worshiping, making offerings to build pagodas and towers to worship Buddha, making many people believe and follow Buddhism. - An Phap Bao: The scriptures record the Buddha's teachings, regularly read the scriptures to expand wisdom, contribute money to print scriptures, disseminate the Buddha's teachings to everyone, so that more people know, believe and follow the Buddha's teachings. - An Sang Bao: Monks and nuns are the ones who convert Buddhism on our behalf, we have a duty to respect the monks, like the example of the story "The Lion respects the Dharma", we have to make offerings to the monks about four things. (Four offerings): Clothing, food, bed (place to sleep), medicine. Nowadays, people offer money and other things but it is best to give necessities, trying to avoid what might corrupt monks and nuns. 4) DUTIES IN FAMILY: Duties in the family have to parents mentioned in the above four graces, in addition to spouse (husband or wife) and children. A) For a Life Partner: Someone who is by our side, sharing with us our joys and sorrows, luxury, We have to take care of our spouse from material to spiritual, especially to study together, husband and wife to study together, it will be very easy to be diligent. B) For Children: Parents always have the duty to take care of their children's upbringing, not only worry that they will eat well and dress warmly, but every parent wants to feed their children well, dress well, and take care of their children's education. Successful practice to have a career in life or have a reputation with society, all of which are common things in the world. We have a more sacred duty to lead our children to the Taoist path, which is not only useful for the present but also useful for the future. As parents, we should take care of and encourage our children as follows: - When they are young: Children from 3 to 12 years old, every time we go to the temple, we should take them with us, to the temple to teach them. kneeling, bowing, know how to offer flowers, pay respect to the Buddha. Someone wittily said: Today I go to the temple because when I was a child, I followed my parents to the temple to eat checkin or sticky rice. If there is a Buddhist family, they should be allowed to live with this group. - When you are an adult: From 13 years old onwards until the age of twenties, is the age of inquiring and learning. We should encourage our children to go to the temple, find Buddhist books for them to read, so that they can be imbued with Buddhist teachings. III. CONCLUSION: The Buddha taught the Sangha, the nuns who are responsible for maintaining the Dharma; and lay people are those who are responsible for upholding the right dharma, so each of us Buddhists must fulfill our responsibilities. our true Buddhists towards the Dharma. Don't forget we have a duty to: END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.8/1/2022.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.