Tuesday, 06/16/2026
One Day Retreat for Student
Update: 19/09/2022
On the evening of Sep. 17th, 2022, all participants had a meeting with group activities and arts.
In the morning, Monks instructed all participants to do exercise outside the yard of the pagoda and meditation sitting. After having breakfast, they swept leaves together around the pagoda yard.
After the chanting session, students listened to a Dharma talk named “Trend” by Bhiksu Giac Minh Luat, currently studying in San Diego, California, USA, PhD student at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand Lan and the West University, USA.
The trend, also known as the fashion of the ages, is a familiar term in the current youth movement on the online community. Faced with different situations, there will be many conflicting ideas, causing young people to make unclear and accurate judgments and have many inappropriate behaviors. By his dharma talk, the lecturer explained, as well as analyzed for listeners to understand the outstanding phenomena by many different aspects; In particular, he emphasized on the psychological and emotional life of men and women, marriage and family. From here, all students should look back, reflect, and re-evaluate himself in the new trend of the ages properly, avoid getting stuck in right or wrong, sin; as well as establish a pure mind, healthy life, sowing good and peaceful seeds.
In the afternoon, all students gathered to the Dharma wheel Building to listen to a Dharma talk from Nun Thich Nu Huong Nhu, Lecturer at the Vietnam Buddhist University in HCMC, Abbot of Thien Quang Pagoda, Di An, Binh Duong with the topic named Choose Yes or No.
Young people are a knowledgeable human resource with enthusiasm, intelligence, self-control, independence and creativity; together joining hands creating a good, civilized life, escaping poverty, protecting the environment. However, with the rapid increase in technology and engineering, it is required that people also develop more in terms of dignity, personality, and morality. Thus, if there is a lack of wisdom and love, we easily hurt each other. Therefore, young people need to build a right view, erase false ego prejudices to have a great life. At the same time, the nun explained about the psychological pressures that the young are facing, which easily make people fall into despair and have no way out. The necessity is that students need to establish an inner strength of soul, equip own-self with wisdom, meditate every day, live in the present to sublimate practitioners’ own life.
Before leaving, the students were given a gift by the monk, a book named Wholehearted for dharma.
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