Entering into the 106th Seven-Day Retreat

Hoang Phap pagoda officially started to register the 106th Seven-Day Retreat with over 700 Buddhists returning to the temple to attend the retreat on the afternoon of Sep. 12th, 2025. After completing the registration, Buddhists were guided by the Organizer 's monks to arrange areas of living, sleeping, dining...

At 9:00 am, Senior Thich Minh Thanh, Abbot of Linh Quy Phap An Temple in Bao Loc, Lam Dong province, presented a dharma talk named The methods to become a good lay person in the 42nd Practical Dharma Program.

 

Practitioners often wonder why we are not at peace, or contentment? The underlying cause is because we have not yet seen the impermanent, suffering, and non-ego of five aggregates, so we are still attached and are greedy, angry, and ignorant. A good lay person must know to recognize the body and mind, regularly contemplate five aggregates to clearly see impermanence, suffering, and non-self and let go of attachment. He practices to have a gentle mind, nurturing five unassuming virtues: modesty, humility, courteousness, respect, humbleness; at the same time practicing two "skills", such as skillfully examining one self’s faults and skillfully protecting one self’s senses. At the same time, the lay person practices four immeasurable love, compassion, joy, and equanimity to expand loving-kindness, nurture wisdom, and peace right in his or her home life.

 

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