31st Practical Dharma Program

On August 19th, 2019 (July 19th, LC), Ven. Thich Minh Thanh, the abbot of Phap An Temple, located in Bao Loc, Lam Dong and the lecturer of the Ho Chi Minh Intermedia Buddhist School presented at Hoang Phap to continue the 31st Practical Dharma Program before taking the Seven-Day Retreat, on the title of “What should we practice?”

Common Buddhists always try to get peace and happiness via sutra-chanting, reciting the Buddha’s name, mantra-reciting, sitting, … But this is the first step of the practice process. Every practitioner should have a clear sight to understand what we are doing. Then he shared a very popular method which mentioned in the Nikaya: be mindful wherever you are and whatever you do. Why mindfulness is so important for us to practice? It helps to recognize our greed, hatred, and ignorance. A greedy mind can be dealt with impurity contemplating, a hatred mind can use compassion to deal with. When you can see clearly the flowing of birth and death, you automatically find the way to practice for peace and happiness and finally enter the saint-stream.

Finally, he asks people to put more effort into practice, try to be a good person, not always performing as a hot-headed person since “we are a Buddhist”.

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