One Day Retreat for Students

On the evening of March 16th, 2024 before the practice day, thousands of the young eagerly returned to the pagoda waiting for One-Day Retreat for Students to be held tomorrow morning.

After registering and receiving personal cards on Saturday evening, young participants gathered in front of the main hall to attend the campfire, were present together, commemorating the day Prince Siddhartha left to seek an enlightenment path.

Next, Junior Thich Tam Truong, Abbot of the pagoda lectured on the biography of Shakyamuni Buddha, the great man who looked for the path to help sentient beings liberate all suffering and lead to true happiness. Thanks to that, young learners better understand and maintain faith in the Buddha we are turning for refuge.

Then, monks will answer student questions about study and life. At the end of the sharing, all of them had a very lively exchange program with the cheerleader - MC Phuoc Tai.

The activity night ended with the joy of the young people.

Over 2,700 students from Colleges and Universities inside and outside Ho Chi Minh City returned to Hoang Phap Pagoda to attend One Day Retreat for Students on March 17th, 2024.

 At 5 a.m, a meditation sitting session started with cool weather in the morning instructed by Junior Thich Tam Duoc and monks at the pagoda.

 At 7:30 a.m., all attendees started a day of practice with chanting the Eight-thing Sutra, Loving Kindness Sutra and meditating.

 At 09:00, all students listened to a Dharma talk "Destiny is in our hands", preached by Junior Thich Phap Nhat, meditation instructor for the Vietnamese community in European countries, America, Vietnam and some other countries.

Everyone in life wants to have a peaceful, happy and successful life. However, we need a method to achieve those desires.

- Confidence in ourselves is the way to help us gain positive energy.

- Studying Buddhism to understand cause and effect, we will confidently control our living and shape our future. Through this, he deeply analyzes cause and effect based on scientific knowledge to help all listeners have the right view, easy to apply in life.

-Successful people do not complain about life, do not blame, boldly overcome psychological limits, allow themselves to experience and believe in creating positive strength.

Furthermore, the monk also instructed methods to achieve success according to the Buddha's teachings.

The 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 program inspired young people to interact and chat directly with Bilingual MC, Speaker, Inspirer Thanh Thanh Huyen in the afternoon.

Thanh Thanh Huyen shared about her destiny to pursue the artistic path, as well as her motivation and methods to overcome difficulties and obstacles in life, boldly pursue her passion, and reach success; her relationship for Buddhism, the benefits from Buddha's teachings when she applies them to life.

The speaker interacted and answered questions from young people about life issues after the sharing session.

Closing the practice day with the joy of all students, the Organizers gave each of them: A retreat schedule for 2024; Books Lessons for Buddhists, A gift of new year compiled by Most Thich Chan Tinh before all attendees leaving the temple.

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