Verses Buddhist Beginners’ Offering to Their Master Update: 05/04/2011 \r\n\r\nThis morning flowers and leaves are seen at every street\r\ncorner,\r\n\r\nWhile yellow sunlight is spreading on natural sights and the\r\nwind is blowing, both are performing gently;\r\n\r\nLikewise, lilies smell sweet and roses show their arrogance\r\n\r\nAll aiming at offering to my master was on the occasion of\r\nschoolmaster’s traditional day.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBut there are teachers who lead their lives silently and\r\nexpose themselves to winds and rains to perform their duty\r\n\r\nAs a boatman carrying his countless numbers of students to\r\nand from river banks\r\n\r\nThose teachers who just think of their dedicated religion\r\nand live for the benefits of human life\r\n\r\nEven though they themselves live through difficult times\r\nwithout any hope for a form of repayment.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMy master always leads a frugal life with two daily meals\r\nwith nothing but rice and pickled cucumbers and aubergines,\r\n\r\nAnd a worn brown cassock\r\n\r\nTogether with a string of beads for Buddhist praying\r\nAmitabha Buddha\r\n\r\nWith a view to lessen living beings’ miseries\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThat is my master, Senior Venerable Thich Chan Tinh, do you\r\nknow Him?\r\n\r\nHis merciful heart is like an immense ocean,\r\n\r\nHe, a grace master, an educator, a father,\r\n\r\nWho preaches and teaches us the Dharma, affection as well as\r\nreal-life experience? \r\n\r\nHe has taught us that not a single human being can avoid\r\nfrom vicissitudes - joys and miseries,\r\n\r\nPraises and blames, love, hatred are just illusories.\r\n\r\nTherefore, don’t blame anything or anyone;\r\n\r\nInstead, accept the truth and try your best to improve\r\nyourselves and to make a vow to acquire your perfect or Bodhi heart.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI would like to express many thanks to you for having taught\r\nme wonderful things\r\n\r\nAnd led me to sunlight from the dark.\r\n\r\nYou have saved me, an orphan,\r\n\r\nAnd led me to peace and contentment.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAs this worldly life is full of pieces of slander and\r\nhatred,\r\n\r\nHuman beings hurriedly look for wealth and fame.\r\n\r\nMany times I have collapsed from overwork right in the\r\nmiddle of the human market.\r\n\r\nIt is in suffering misery that I have really understood the\r\nburden you have sent me.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDear Sir, I understand that giving means receiving and\r\nletting go means rescuing for enlightenment\r\n\r\nHappiness or misery is being neither inside nor outside\r\nsituations; instead, it depends on our karma\r\n\r\nMoney and fame are just the same as building castles in the\r\nair.\r\n\r\nIt would be better to firmly pray Sakyamuni / Amitabha\r\nBuddha for salvation\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI still remember the good seed you have germinated in me.\r\n\r\nLikewise, Sutras, discourse, Vinaya (monastic rules) you\r\nhave taught me: those are like rain poured into me.\r\n\r\nDue to my stupidness those seeds have just begun germinated.\r\n\r\nWith my own heart, I’d like to respectfully present you my\r\npresent immature seedlings \r\n\r\nRepresented in some of these awkward and innocent lines of\r\nmine\r\n\r\nTo the noble one who will always propagate of the true\r\nDharma aiming at helping the mass known as living beings.\r\n\r\nAs the waves of Vung Tau waters will crash into its shore\r\nforever,\r\n\r\n I myself will engrave your sublime words into my heart\r\nfor life and wish that you, the founder, be always wealthy.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n(I respectfully offer these lines of poem to my master Chan\r\nTinh. The composer: Chon Hien Bao, in Vung Tau).\r\n\r\nTranslated into English by Mr. Hoang Huan, layman.\r\n\r\n Facebook Google Tweet News Category Related News Childhood - past and now 09/10/2021 I’m afraid… 28/09/2021 Parents’ deep love 28/08/2021 I Apologize my Parents 26/08/2021 Đi chùa quên tâm 19/04/2018 View All The news was posted: View posted in this day Posted to this date
