Extracurricular Course for Seeding Dutiful Practice in Tay Ninh Province

On Dec. 25th, 2026 (lunar Nov. 27th, Monkey year), Hoang Phap Pagoda organized Extracurricular Course for Seeding Dutiful Practice at Hoang Phap pagoda’s branch in Tay Ninh Province, the abbot of which is Junior Venerable Thich Tam Tuong

In the morning, after gathering at the cultivating area, Senior Venerable Thich chan Tinh, Abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda, Chief of Organizers led them to meditation walking around the branch pagoda’s area. The steps are peaceful and free in the shining of early morning, the joyfulness on their faces, particularly to the children; because this is the first time they were instructed meditation walking in the nature, far from busy life of crowded streets, the stressful learning time. These meditative walking steps help bring them delight and excitement, which helps them recognize that the cultivating is not the strict and humdrum activity but it begins a meaningful day.

After that, they took a rest and gathered in the front of lecture hall for activities and fun. Next, all of them hold their hands as lotus shape to solemnly welcome Senior Venerable Thich Chan Tinh, Abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda, who had a speech to them, the owners of the country in the future.

In his speech, he taught them the poem of “The Gratitude”, which is composed by the Senior Venerable expressing the spirit of gratitude and repayment of Buddhists toward four grace gratitudes, taught by the Buddha. By this way, he emphasized that there are many large gratitudes in our life, such as the one of parents’s giving birth, farmers’ sowing and ploughing, workers’s production, teachers’ deeds, particulary to the Sangha who have preached Buddha’s dharma, helping us how to practice cultivation. Since then, he put thoughtful ideas into their mind, so that they could recognized what they have to do to repay those gratitudes. They also had their opinions on each topic, which was raised. Finally, he taught two poems which explained the usefulness of smile and using gentle voice in our life.

In the afternoon of same day, the children and their parents took souvenir photographs with him. Besides that, they were instructed the rite of releasing animals by the monks in the organization Board at the pagoda’s area.

In this program, there were performance of kid singers, such as of Nguyet Thu with the song named “Confident Dream”, Minh Khang with the “Meeting Mum in the Dream” song, and Thuy Binh with the “Praying for Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara” song.

The extracurricular activity ended in the mass’s joyfulness. Before returning home, the organizers gave each of them a dharma gift.

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