One-day Practice

On September 16th, 2018 (August 7th, Lunar Calendar), thousands of devout Buddhist inside and outside HCMC go to Hoang Phap to join the One-day Practice.

After breakfast, people all gathered at the lecture hall for taking the practice including reciting the Buddha-name, walking meditation, and listening to Dharma shared by Ven. Thich Chan Tinh.

People all want to be happy but life is also full of dolefulness. Therefore we feel both happiness and suffering. And Buddhist coming to teach people how to remove suffering and uphold happiness.

The two normal states we all have in life is like and dislike, love and hate. No matter like or love, dislike or hate, we all feel suffering when we can’t get what we want, have to see what we don’t want… And this is why the Buddha guides all the sentient beings to a great loving-kindness, where the selfish love has no place to be. Forming and developing a great loving-kindness we have no gape or discrimination against any races or realms because they also get trapped in the circle of birth and death, still in the samsara. This’s how we improve our loving kindness. When love is born and developed, no suffering is there.

Over a one-hour sharing, Ven. Abbot addressed to all a message: “Open your heart, happiness will get in”. This is how we narrow dukkha and expand sukkha.

In the afternoon, people take the Buddha’s name recitation and listen to the Five Precepts reciting, and do sitting meditation before finished.

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