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The Great Sutra Treasury - Mahayana 04
The word tu means to make it more beautiful, better, to improve – translated into English as practice. In the Vietnamese monastic tradition, it is usually divided into
- tu phước (sowing the seeds of merits, wholesome deeds – punya)
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tu huệ (cultivating wisdom to liberate from suffering)
and the highest is practicing both merits and wisdom together. Every daily action – practicing sitting meditation, practicing walking meditation, practicing washing the pot, practicing wiping the bowl… – is practice in which means and ends are one, manifesting the capacity to be happy. “We are practicing happiness.”
The Vimalakirti Sutra (Vimalakirti Nirdesa), which appeared at the end of the second century, has three main versions:
- The Dharma Mirror Sutra (T.322)
- The Sutra of Questions of Upali the Lay Friend on the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (T.323)
- The Assembly of the Layman Upali (T.252)
From the life of a lay friend to the Buddha-field, “The Pure Land of the Bodhisattva is all living beings.” The role of Vimalakirti, Manjushri, the Dharma Prince, and the assembly at Vaiśālī express the ideal of the lay bodhisattva, Engaged Buddhism.