Sentences and paragraphs quoted from Thich Trung Sy’s Writings:
(Những câu và đoạn văn được trích dẫn từ các bài viết của Thích Trừng Sỹ)
"As person living consciously, we cultivate, learn, train the Buddha’s teaching steadily, we enjoy and taste the peaceful Dharma, from here, the fragrance of joyful flavour, that of free flavour and that of authentically happy flavour penetrate, pervade and cool our body and mind."
(Looking the Spring through the Contemplative Eye)
"We know when the spring comes; hundreds of flowers display the bloom, all things in the universe change and move, but there are the everlasting things unchanging, viz. the sincere heart, the dharma path, the devout heart, and brotherhood, etc."
(The Peaceful Spring)
"The spirit of education of Meditation-Concentration helps us and the others sympathize with one another, love one another and erase hatred together. It helps us return to our own pure and lucid mind, return to mindful breath, open fresh smile; make life peaceful by contemplative eyes."
(Education of Meditation-Concentration)
"Today, learning and recalling the qualities of loving-kindness, compassion and wisdom of Lord Sakyamuni Buddha – the embodiment of peace are to arouse and develop the seeds of love and understanding, joyful tranquility and happiness in peacefully conscious mind for many people."
(The Buddha – the Embodiment of Peace)
"Likewise, parents that live their lives of virtue, cultivation and practice apply the Buddha’s teachings in their daily life by not doing the evil, doing the good, purifying their peaceful bodies and minds in order to nurture loving kindness, give the Dharma and riches to the needy, live truly and confidently, create faith and prestige for many people."
(The Compassionate Spring)
“Each time we are happy, we are peaceful, our spring flower is beautiful and fresh, and we can bring peacefulness and happiness for everyone. Cultivation is in order that we can gather flowers and fruits of peacefulness and happiness for many persons.
“The spring comes all over our native land,
Healthfulness, prosperousness, overflowing love.”
(The Eternal Spring)
"We know Buddha first means awakened One and enlightened One. There is person leading a life of mindfulness and awareness in a place, in which there is an incarnate Buddha, that is, each of us, always dwelling in the light of loving-kindness, compassion and wisdom of World-Honoured One. This person can bing peace to living things and living beings."
"As person living consciously, we cultivate, learn and practice the Buddha’s teaching steadily, we enjoy and taste the peaceful Dharma, the fragrance of joyful flavor and happiness is imbued and freshly pervade our body and mind. From here, we can contribute to bringing authentic peace to all over the place."
(The Buddha – the Embodiment of Peace)
“As you know Compassionate Mother Quan Thế Âm (Quan Yin/Avalokiteshvara), who has the great love, has the ability to be happy to listen to sounds of beings’ suffering. Each time we are in distress, we think wholeheartedly about Compassionate Mother, who will be immediately present, help us get out of danger.In everyday life, our daddy can be a Compassionate Mother, our mom can be a Compassionate Mother, and our child can be a Compassionate Mother in the flesh who is present with us right in the present life.”
(Compassionate Mother Quan Thế Âm)
"Proper education which has the ability to prevent them from an impure body and mind not only teaches people some various means of earning livelihood, but also helps them to lead a stable moral and spiritual life."
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The Spiritual Values Through the pen of Venerable Thich Trung Sy
Respecful to the Most Venerable, the Senior, the Venerable Buddhist Monks, Nuns.
Dear to the honor of near-far lay Buddhists and readers.
It is a great graceful condition for us to know the website of Phap Nhan Tu Hoc (Dhamma Cakkhu). Phap Nhan, its Pali is Dhamma Cakkhu, Dhamma means (Dharma) the Buddha’s teachings, Cakkhu means eye. Dhamma Cakkhu is the eye of Dharma that helps practitioners to lead a peaceful and happy life for themselves and for others in daily life and helps them to practice morality in this life.
Thich Trung Sy is many readers’ favorite, because he has posted his diverse writings in abundant electronic web pages. We are fortunate to have learned the Dharma of the Buddha through these articles.
On occasion, I (Hanh Minh) have a grace condition to read these writings through the pen of the Venerable Thich Trung Sy, I (Hanh Minh) pleased to introduce to you all the articles that have been posted on the electronic home pages such as: Ancient Forest Temple (http://www.colampagoda.org/), Quang Duc (http://www.quangduc.com/), Buddhism Today (http://www.daophatngaynay.com/), (http://www.buddhismtoday.com/), Buddhists in Vietnam (http://www.phattuvietnam.net/ ), Pho Quang (http://www.phoquang.com/), Phu Sa (http://www.phusa.info/), Hoa Sen Library (http://www.thuvienhoasen.org/), Magazine of Enlightenment (http://www.giacngo.vn/), Phuc Lam Pagoda (http://www.chuaphuclam.com/), Beauty of Dharma (http://www.vedepphatphap.com/) and many web sites, blogs, forums have posted the Venerable Thich Trung Sy’s writings.
The quintessence is taken from the excellent works those he has spent so much effort to write about the Buddha’s teachings, for example, Education of Meditation Concentration, Topic Presentation on Zen Meditation and so on ... These Zen topics are very insightful and helpful for those who want to study and practice meditation. Or in the writing "The Buddha - the Embodiment of Peace," Thich Trung Sy writes history of Buddha to the readers in order to know more about The Good Master Sakyamuni.
Especially, the Buddha’s teachings taught for nearly 3000 years have been reflected in the honest, clever, and practical words in daily life through the pen of Thich Trung Sy for recent years. If you have some time to see more, please visit the websites such as:
http://www.vimeo.com/trungsyhoatraituhoc
http://www.youtube.com/user/hoatraituhoc
http://www.mediafire.com/TrungSy-hoatraituhoc
http://www.youtube.com/user/hoatraituhoc
http://www.mediafire.com/TrungSy-hoatraituhoc
These websites have been established with videos, slide shows, images, and the works of Venerable Thich Trung Sy. You will enjoy these articles through many various styles and forms. In topics of spring, he has composed five works very well, and spring flower in people’s heart likes to be watered every day more beautifully and fragrantly. Spring heart is so marvelous as he expresses optimism and joy through the works of The Eternal Spring, The Happy Spring, and The Peaceful Spring.
Especially through the work "Looking the Spring Through the Contemplative Eye", he has described the formation of a human life from birth to hundreds of years old in a very new masterpiece. His words and examples of some verses make readers into the idea of a gentle and peaceful stage in each spring ages.
Just last year, Thich Trung Sy posted “The Compassion Spring” to inspire for the loving kindness in the heart of each person. As in the article “The Buddha - the Embodiment of Peace”, a part written about the Buddha’s Birth that He stepped on seven lotus and self-confidently said "all living beings have their Buddha-nature" which means that all beings have Buddha nature, compassion; so he wrote this Compassion Spring for everyone in order to practice loving kindness, and compassion oneself more and more.
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A peculiarity in his writings and poetry is that four immeasurable mind (kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, equanimity) are mentioned. Thanks to wear of a Buddhist monk’s robe (Kasaya), all of his works, poems, speeches, articles etc ... are estimated to suggest that everyone never does evil, but always does good, and “to remind each of us to together light up the torch of love, together light up that of peace and together tighten brotherhood and sisterhood to bring joyful tranquility and happiness to oneself and the others right in this life.” (quoted in " The Buddha-the Embodiment of Peace. ")
When Buddha's teachings are spread all over the world, all beings still understand deeply in His Right Dharma. Thanks to this, Thich Trung Sy writes the great topic of "The Specific Characteristics of the Sea in the Buddha Dharma.” In this article, we not only understand and absorb the Buddha’s Dharma more but also we practice these simple and practical methods as Thich Trung Sy writes in the conclusion of this article: “Understanding, applying and practicing the specific characteristics of the Buddha Dharma in our daily lives diligently and mindfully, we can bring peacefulness and happiness to the many, and at the same time, we can also contribute to building a realm of Heaven and Pure Land right here in the world.”
Indeed, we all have the seeds of Bodhi in our minds, but sometimes we are obscured by suffering, or ignorance. Thus, in " Mac Giang-flowery Substance in His Poems ", Thich Trung Sy leads us to know and learn more about the pseudonym of the Poet Mac Giang. In addition, he further analyzes very beautifully about a poem, “The ethical flowers” of Mac Giang and Thich Trung Sy not only makes the poem more meaningful, but also more flexible for the readers.
This article has been profound and more attention by Thich Trung Sy. Thanks to his compassionate heart and natural mind, at the end of this article, he composes a poem, “Flowers of loving-kindness and compassion” with ten verses:
The ethical flowers penetrate into the mind,
Flowers of loving-kindness and compassion are fully filled with mountains and rivers.
Each of us is each of poet,
Offering the world sweet-delicious flowers and fruits.
Although tomorrow is far away from thousands of the route,
We are forever the Buddha’s spiritual children,
Bringing the light of loving-kindness and compassion to the Dharma Path,
Bringing love to spread over all directions.
Though arduousness and miserableness know how to look,
Our steadiness is that we can overcome all.
Flowers of loving-kindness and compassion are fully filled with mountains and rivers.
Each of us is each of poet,
Offering the world sweet-delicious flowers and fruits.
Although tomorrow is far away from thousands of the route,
We are forever the Buddha’s spiritual children,
Bringing the light of loving-kindness and compassion to the Dharma Path,
Bringing love to spread over all directions.
Though arduousness and miserableness know how to look,
Our steadiness is that we can overcome all.
During these days, I (Hanh Minh) have had an occasion to visit the website: (www.mediafire.com/TrungSy-hoatraituhoc), and there are a lot of PowerPoint slide shows with both English and Vietnamese more. In this site, there is an article, "What You Need to Know Before You Study Abroad at University of Delhi in India" (http://www.mediafire.com/?tsbi8p5j0dorz44). Through reading this article, I (Hanh Minh) understand much more things to learn, to select thesis and to know learning conditions for students, etc. ... It is the most remembrance here is that Venerable Thich Trung Sy not only has encouraged monks and nuns to study, but also he has advised the younger generation to learn later. If you want to improve your education, I invite you to read details of this article for more understanding. He writes with his own real experiences, so whoever wants to learn well with good results, then this is a very precious resource.
Those, who have good conditions to read Venerable Thich Trung Sy’s articles, will be graceful to Buddhism. As in recent days, on May 25, 2011, he was honored to invite to Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA. He came here to represent and attend the religious Seminar at this University organized by Professors.
In this seminar, he handed out a common problem for society, and for the world that still has wars and violence. His topic presented here is "How to Become Good People in Family", this issue is very popular, and with his own sincere advices, he gives a good message to the young generation a belief and their parents knowing how to protect their families more happily.
We respectfully express our gratitude to the Dhamma Cakkhu site and the Venerable Thich Trung Sy for all he has done. He has given us many good writings and poems on the teachings of the Buddha. Now we invite you to look through some articles, poetry, music and films of Dhamma Cakkhu site and may all of you always be peaceful, in your body and mind in every breath, and enter Dhamma Cakkhu home page peaceful, happy, relaxed, and free at Right Dharma more.
We wish that Ven. Thich Trung Sy is peaceful in his body and mind, and he continues to offer many more meaningful teachings with spiritual material; in order to our Buddhists have opportunity to meet the Buddha’s Dharma through his writings.
Namo Happy Bodhisattva Ma Ha Tat!
Best regards and thank you,
Hanh Minh
