Opening the 107th Seven-Day Practice

From Dec. 30th, 2025 to Jan. 06th, 2026 Hoang Phap pagoda officially began the 107th Seven - day Practice. With more than 800 Buddhist men and women participangting in the year-end course The Abbot offered words of encouragement and blessings to the attendees and shared the rules for the seven-day retreat.

At the lecture halls in the morning, the Organizers guided practitioners in places to listen to dharma, eating, and sleep, as well as the necessary rules of Buddhists when attending the retreat, such as clasping hands, greeting, bowing; rituals to offer a meal in the lunch.

 

  Head of the Organizers, Junior Abbot Thich Tam Truong had a dharma talk named “Karma mouth” and addressed the principles of the mass in the afternoon.

 

The Abbot offered his best wishes to the Buddhists for the upcoming week of practice, hoping they will attain peace of mind and body.

 

When living without mindfulness, people are easily swayed by thoughts, causing their body, speech, and mind to become disturbed among the interactions in life. In particular,  mouth's karma is  intentional speech that becomes good or bad karma. Communicating with each other by truthful, loving, beneficial, and timely words will bring blessings to the body and mind, skillfully resolving resentment and creating conditions for good deeds to flourish on their path of spiritual practice.

 

Furthermore, false speech, divisive speech, harsh speech, and fabricate speech are causes of mutual injustice. Living in a world of complexities, controlling and mastering one's speech is not easy for anyone. Because unwholesome words are like arrows that once shot, cannot be retracted, caution and mindfulness in every word are crucial. Therefore, kindness, mutual respect, truthfulness, beneficialness, and appropriateness in speech are the building blocks for a harmonious and understanding life. As the Buddha taught in verse 253 in the Dhammapada:

 

Who's always seeing other's faults,

 taking offence, censorious,

pollutions spread for such a one who's far from their exhaustion"

 

The Buddha taught us to observe our body and mind, fulfill our duties, avoid being bound by external circumstances so that our body, speech and mind are pure and clear. The monk also mentioned the miraculous benefits of walking meditation. By practicing conscious mindful walking is a way for us to return to what we have, from our feet to our breath being fully present. Thanks to this, we appreciate our life, reduce afflictions to realize the inherently pure nature within which is revealed by living mindfully of body, speech, and mind.

 

Last, he popularized rules with the purpose to help the mass understand, and diligently practice to get benefits of peace and happiness right now, being steps forward for achievement on the path of finding enlightenment.

 

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