Tuesday, 04/21/2026
One-Day Practice
Update: 19/11/2023
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After having breakfast, all Buddhists came to the lecture halls of Dharma Wheel Building to begin reciting the Buddha's name, walking meditation and chanting precepts.
After the rite, Most Thich Nhat Hy, Head of Central (DPB) Dharma Propagation Board, Deputy of Director Board and Head of DPB of HCMC's VBS, Abbot of Phat Quang Pagoda, Vinh Long province came to the lecture hall, sharing a dharma talk named "Remember Buddha, nurturing our own good roots” to all attendees.
Buddhists who practice in the Pure Land sect, we need to remember and think about His practice duration when reciting Buddha. When coming to the temple to listen to Dharma in learning and practice, we are sowing seeds to become a cultivator, practicing to let go of worries in family life, learning Buddha teachings to build for ourselves a path of peace and joy towards enlightenment and deliverance. This is not outside the Noble Eightfold Path.
From the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutra (Not-Self Characteristic Discourse), the Monk taught, a wise practitioner is detached and bored with the body, emotions, perceptions, thoughts and consciousness. Due to boredom, the practitioner gradually reduces desire and anger. When all desire and anger are gone, the practitioner is liberated and arised wisdom. All dharma is conditioned, arises due to conditions, also ruins due to conditions.
The Buddha opened the path and taught the method so that followers can receive wonderful teachings and walk on the path of goodness, peace, and happiness today. Therefore, practitioners need to know how to be grateful and repay Buddha's grace, which means we nurture good roots, Buddha nature, and open wisdom and enlightenment. Each person should practice living a life of knowing enough and desiring less. When the mind is free from greed, it means we are in close communion with Buddha's mind; also, we should practice giving alms and be happy with everyone. Those who recite Buddha's name must remember and think about the Buddha's practice to follow and build for ourselves Buddha's virtues.
After reciting the Buddha name in the afternoon, Buddhists practiced sitting meditation quietly.
Before leaving the temple, Buddhists received a Dharma book gift, named "Good examples in East and West" volume 5 compiled by Most Thich Chan Tinh.
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