One-day peaceful Day at Tu Phap Co Tu Pagoda

On April 3rd, 2022 (March 29th, LC) good men and believing women returned to Tu Phap Co Tu Pagoda in Nghe An to attend One-day peaceful Retreat at the pagoda.

At the beginning, the monks organized for the mass to attend the rite to release creatures. Next, all listeners gathered in the lecture hall to chant sutra, recite the Buddha's name and listen to a dharma talk preached by Junior Ven Thich Tam Sy, the monks of Hoang Phap Pagoda by the topic: What is practice?

In his teachings, the Venerable shared: What is cultivation? It is to improve our behavior. If the previous days we killed creatures, stole, committed adultery, lied, drank alcohol., etc, at present,  we don't do it again, it means our amendment. When we make amends, we will become good, but when we attach to good deeds, we are still attaching to one side. Letting go of this attachment to good, we will enter the middle path; In the Buddha's teaching of no-self taught: "All aggregates are impermanent, with insight seeing as like that, all sufferings are abandoned, the pure path will be opened.

The Venerable gave the definition: cultivation is the development of wisdom (Right View), ten virtuous conducts (Ten Virtues) and 10 paramita (Giving, keeping precepts, serving, reverence, meditation, listening to Dharma, preaching Dharma, delight with the good is done by others, dedicating, mindfulness and right view). After that, Venerable  explained about precepts as a virtue that lay people need to perfect. The most important thing is that a Buddhist observes five precepts: Not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, and drink alcohol. Keeping five precepts is the will of trying to give up breaking precepts or pushing the situation that we have to commit but we don't break. Five benefits of keeping precepts are: wealth growth, no fear, being loved by others, dying without unconsciousness, death being born in a peaceful realm, heaven, and this world.

After the time of chanting and reciting the Buddha's name in the afternoon, the mass practiced sitting meditation and entered the Q & A session. This time, Buddhists asked the monk questions.

Before leaving, Buddhists received a gift of  Dharma.

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