Khai Thị -Hoà Thượng Tuyên Hoá

Khai Thi - Venerable Master

Venerable Master Hsuan Hua them Bach, whose real name is An From self is Pure London. His hometown Song Thanh district, northeast of the province Songjiang, China, Manchuria ie.

His father named Phu Hai, specialized farmers. Their mother Ho, born by all eight children, five boys three daughters; and He is the youngest.

Lady Lake vegan life, Buddha, never interrupted. One night his wife dreamed that Buddha amitābha embodiment radically exaggerated projection luminous world, Heaven and Earth tremors. You wake up, smell the perfume lady magic around the room, then lowered his birth.

He recently launched venture bar crying for three consecutive days and nights of endless. It was so painful for the suffering of this world that We-Ba.

He resides in a tiny rural, sparsely homes. So, till the age of eleven he had not seen the dead. One day, he and his crew are in place fieldwork village promenade. Suddenly he saw a baby, mouth shut, eyes closed, lying among bundles of straw on the sidelines. He called that the boy did not respond, then there is no breath touched. He took as incredibly confusing flood you should ask. Someone knows immediately said: "The baby was already dead!" But he was surprised, did not understand what death. At home, he asked his mother, she says: "All that is human, everyone has to die. There are dead old, who died of the disease, there are also those who died from accidents. Whether rich or poor, regardless Comments are officers, agricultural, industrial, commercial, or mandarins, everyone has to die eventually. "

He asked: "If it's like that, no way to escape death?" Now in the past each other with guests from the island, help answer that: "The only way to martyrdom, intelligent enlightened self interest, is radically new character in another paragraph, the birth and death, transcendence of samsara, the Enlightenment, infertility. "

But that time he was a teenager, but for guests say the word, his profound disenchantment, so he made a firm decision to advocate export from the Path.

When he took the monastic table conversation with her mother, she says: "Renunciation is a good thing, but it is not something easy to do. It should have good roots, has great volunteer force, should play great this mind be able achievement Supreme truth. Now I have the heart of this I agree very well it is consistent with that ancient dream. I am now old and date was nearing, the siblings children have independent . you should stay to take care of parents; when I lost it, I export from, then nor later. "

He obey their parents, and then often followed her every day Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha finished, he bowed his parents.

Day after day, winter to spring cleaning, take care of his reverence for the Buddha but as this body. Soon rumors filial reputation the four winds, while everyone called him Tu Hieu Bach (Bach sons they even taste).

His 19 years of his mother's death; He then retired from relatives bow to the temple Venerable Master Thuong Tri making and refuge, officially ordained and ordained. Then he returned to his mother's grave where hospitality players in three years. During that time, he lived in a small thatched hut, every day is meditation, chanting sutras and recite Mahayana Buddhist A-Di-Da. Many times he sat Concentration Meditation then enter, consecutively for weeks not leaving it ready.

One night, the nearby villagers panic saw his thatched hut fiery red flames. Pink kindled fire straight up in the air, the thatched hut and clear as the day. Many ran to the tomb, they are: "The Tu Hieu burn it!" Both several hundred people in the village summer handbag shells, buckets to bring to fighting. But, as to where they see only quiet thatched hut, fire is not burning, and he is still calm, still dressed in Meditation!

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