Peaceful retreat at Tieu Dao Pagoda - Quang Ninh

On July 13th, 2018, (lunar June 1st, the year of dog) Tieu Dao pagoda, in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province held a one-day retreat for the attending of 450 good men, believing women and Buddhists.

Accepting the invitation of the Venerable Thich Tam Tinh as abbot of Tieu Dao Pagoda, Venerable Thich Thanh Van - Deputy chief  board cum Secretary General of the Buddhist Association of Vietnam at Hoanh Bo district who came to share the Dharma Buddha talk titled "Four Types of comfort". Venerable said that there are four kinds of comfort as following the comfort of possession, enjoyment, no debt, and no guilt.

1. The comfort of possession means that possessing is gained because of diligence, accumulating, working hard and rightness dharma. Thinking about it, they feel joyful

2. The comfort of enjoyment means the one’s fortune  is gained by the obtain of right dharma. Thinking about it, they feel joyful.

3. The comfort without having in debt, a one has no debt anyone, even though it is less or more. Thinking about it, they feel joyful

4. The comfort no guilt means when a holy disciples achieve their thought, speech, body‘s actions without having any mistakes. Thinking about it, they feel joyful.

Attaining these four comfort, lay people enjoy their desires belonging to time or condition that they want. Meanwhile, the comfort of possession, using, having no debt is only one part sixteenth of the comfort having no guilt.

Ending of preaching, Ven reminded the masss having the actions of truth, goodness, benefit for ownself and people, those are true comfort. Three karma of body, speech, thought are entire good, or pureness of body and mind is the base of the most quiet and boilest mind’s peacefulness. This is the tranquility that a Buddha’s child is always toward.

Next, it is the time of chanting the sutra “Eight things enlightenment and Compassion". Then, Buddhists received precepts which was transferred by the abbot Ven.