One-Day Retreat at Phuoc Hue Pagoda, Tacoma City, WA, US

Based on the invitation of Sen. Ven. Thich Phuoc Toan, Abbot of Phuoc Hue Pagoda Temple, Tacoma City, WA, USA, Sen. Ven. Thich Chan Tinh, Abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda in Vietnam, has come to conduct One-Day Retreat for the ashram there.

At 9:30 am, before the Dharma talk, monks from Hoang Phap Pagoda guides participants Buddhism etiquette (BE) that is integral for everyone to learn and practice; regardless (s)he is renunciant or lay Buddhist.

Then it comes the Dharma talk from Sen. Ven. Thich Chan Tinh, in which he shares audience how to practice mindfulness so that practitioner can be awakened in every activity, breath, thought in every moment. This is the enlightenment, the wonder of practicing, the firm base for threefold training (Morality - Concentration – Wisdom). With right view, right thought, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right meditative absorption in every speech, activity and thought, practitioner can get ease and bliss during the Path to liberation.

At the end of the lecture, participants have lunch and then continue to practice Buddha’s name recitation. Finally, there are sections of sit-meditation and precept statement before Sen. Ven. Thich Chan Tinh sends his regards and compliment to the ashram on its devout spirit.

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