Dharma talk Practice transforming sufferings in the 102nd Seven-day Retreat

On May 03rd, 2024, at the Wheel Dharma Building's Main-Hall in the 102nd Seven-Day Retreat, Nun Thich Nu Nhu Lan, Head of Director Board of Cao Lanh district’s Vietnam Buddhist Sangha - Abbot of Hung Thien Pagoda in Dong Thap province, had a dharma talk named Practice transforming sufferings to the listeners.

The Buddha taught the tears of living beings are more numerous than the water in Four oceans, but have we ever truly cried for the pain of our own birth-death in reincarnations? We are people who have enough favorable conditions to be close to Three Jewels, close to wise masters, meet good friends, and learn the Buddha Dharma.... Thanks to the light of Buddha's teachings, we can recognize the truth of life.

Suffering-pain origin is not beyond greed, anger, and ignorance but delusion is the fundamental root. Due to ignorance, lack of awareness and understanding, attachments are born... from which greed and anger arise. Therefore, each person should be close to the Three Jewels, and listen to the Dharma to have correct understanding. Thanks to enlightened wisdom, we realize the true value of life. By the cause-effect doctrine, the Buddha helps people escape superstition, take control of their life, and not entrust their fate to any deity or God.

We get five benefits when listening to the Dharma:

1. Listening to valuable things we have not had a chance to know before.

2. The more we listen, the clearer things become.

3. Having the right view, and right thoughts...

4. Eliminating doubts.

5. Puting what we hear and understand into practice, building a happy and peaceful life.

The nun taught methods to transform suffering in life: contemplating cause and effect, impermanence, depending on conditions, and reciting Buddha's names.

Practitioners need to diligently practice: maintain good conduct, eliminate impurities in the mind, study Buddhism to correct oneself, not to look at other people's mistakes; extend love to all living beings. When we clearly understand impermanence, non-self, and freedom from all dharma, we will relieve suffering, transform our living, transform greed, anger, ignorance, and afflictions into love, compassion, joy, and forgiveness.., then, the practitioner will have peace in life.

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