One Day Retreat for Students

Over 900 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 Jan. 12th, 2025.

Starting the day full of energy is a meditation session in front of the main hall under the monks’ guidance at 5 a.m.

 

Young people gathered in the lecture hall to watch the clip Summary of Buddhist activities in 2024 after breakfast.

 

After the chanting, all students listened to a dharma talk named “Because we need each other in life” preached by Junior Thich Tam Duc, Deputy of Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Propagation Board in HCMC.

 

He taught that nothing can exist independently, everything is thanks to many causes and conditions combined to create relationships between people; likewise, every meeting is formed by a promise to reunite, like a thread that binds all species together to set up thousands of good and bad relationships. The Buddha's appearance in life is not beyond that cause, condition and effect, He appears by His vow of self-awareness and enlightenment of others. As a Buddhist, knowing the Buddha Dharma is thanks to the good karma of previous lives, having such a good karma, each person should cherish and develop it. Although each person contains many seeds of suffering, anger, hatred... but aiming for a happy life, we should turn back to identify and touch the seeds of peace in our heart. Each of those seeds is a cause, then identifying and nurturing will create the condition for happiness and peace to arise. When being filled with love and peace inside, we certainly have the ability to help those around us to be as peaceful as we are.

 

Students have a solemn bowing rite to pay respect to their parents, country and Three Jewels after waking up in the afternoon.

 

All participants attended a vegetarian buffet party at the end of the year at 3:00 p.m.

 

The practice day closed in joy for all attendees.

 

 

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