Practitioners learning Dharma at Hoang Phap's rain-retreat School

On the morning of June 30th, 2023 (May 13th, LC), member of Propagation Board of HCMC Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Senior Thich Minh Thanh, Abbot of Linh Qui Phap An temple visited and gave a dharma talk to Hoang Phap Pagoda’s monks.

During the Dharma session, he shared the essentials of a practitioner's practice on "Breaking feeling attachment of five aggregates."

The Venerable instructed how to identify emotions: joy; suffering; neither joy nor suffering, thereby giving methods of practice to help calm the mind, dominate and control greed, anger, and delusion; Purify the defilements in the mind to get peace. We need to realize we ourselves are very pitiful victims, who have been controlled by three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion making us frustrated and miserable. Each person should know how to look back to love ourselves more, then spread love to our beloved ones around and all sentient beings.

Moreover, we need to take care of our mind with loving-kindness, spreading it to ourselves first, then to others in the same situation, and at the same time, we need to practice letting go of feelings.

This is an extremely valuable awakening for practitioners to practice, and study for a three-month rain retreat in order to be worthy and complete as the Buddha's disciple.

The preaching took place perfectly, he and the mass paid homage to Three Jewels.

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