Dharma Talk “Hopes to do good things” – The 95th Seven-Day Retreat.

What are good things?

In the Majjhima Nikaya of the 09th Sutra of right view, the Buddha taught: The basis of goodness is no greed, no hatred, no delusion.

In the Commentary of the Abhidhamma Sutra: "The good things that purify, eliminate the defilements of mind and make the mind good, honest".

The path towards the deliverance is not always peaceful, but it is a journey of ups and downs for practitioners to fully understand the nature of life. Cultivators should hope good deeds, practice good things, living in goodness are essential to steadily step on the path of practice, to easily overcome difficulties and train valuable qualities.

Through this, he explained more clearly about the ten causes of goodness: "Giving, morality, cultivating, respect, serving, listening to the dharma, sermon, rejoicing, dedicating and living with the right view" in cultivation of virtue to get real benefits. In order to obtain progress in good deeds, each good deed must be based on the basis of precepts; practice with the mind of detachment, sincerity, no desires and attachment to people and things, also accompanied by the element of wisdom.

Every day, the mass should have thoughts about death, it will be easy to let go of things that are difficult to abandon. If the person who learns the religion, practices, and has an earnestness in the dharma should show the spirit of gratitude and repayment to the ancestor, all good things are easy to achieve.

Before the end of Dharma talk,  the Junior Ven. had a verse to give to the Buddhists: "The Retreat has come, come to listen, listen for fun, joy to absorb, absorb to cultivate, cultivate to understand, understand to let go, let go to peace, peace to live, live to oldness, oldness will die, die to return, to the Pureland”.    

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