Repentance Ceremony on Lunar October 29th, Monkey Year

A large number of Buddhists from Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring province came to Hoang Phap Pagoda to attend the periodical Repentance Ceremony in the evening of November 28th 2016 (October 29th, Lunar Monkey year).

In this Repentance Ceremony, Venerable Thich Tam Dac, Abbot of Vinh Phap Pagoda, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province shared a Dharma talk–named “How to be happy?”to whole Buddhists before the repentance ceremony.

In this life, everyone would like to live in happiness, safety and peace; certainly there is no one loving war, killing, death, and pain, etc. However, the most importance is how can we get them? This is the issue that people did, do, and will look for. Buddhism appeared in this world to offer answers to humanity, orientation for all the inextricableness, all Buddha’s catechism systems which are the answers until now.

In this Drama talk, the Venerable shared the important methods to help each Acarin to feel peace and contentment, happiness existing in each moment. That is practicing Asta-marga, getting rid of five commandments of the Buddhist practicing at home, learning and practicing as the Monk’s life, always maintaining happiness, amiable attitude and bringing this happiness to everyone etc.

Actually, everything Venerable shared was the shortest way to bring us to true happiness as Buddha’s teaching. Moreover, this is the way to bring Acarin close to the supreme rescue.

Asta-marga, eight true ways help people escape from bewitchment. In this chapter, when you practice strictly, we will have a correct opinion, thought, speech, creating mild and true karma, true job, true attempt, true notice, true thought, focus on true legitimate idea, truth, good for people and ourselves.

Five commandments, these are the human background. Having this practice, we will be perfect or escaping ourselves and help others. Obviously, you can achieve further, higher on the practice.

Monk’s life is the Panna and Jagarati lifestyle. If you can do that, we are going to have happiness right here, right now. On that time, delusion will be destroyed, happiness will be completed.

After the Drama talk Venerable counseled to all the Buddhists that they should try their best, diligent practice, amiable love to everyone; hence, the true happiness will come to themselves as coming to other people.

After the preaching, the whole assembly entered the repentant moment as usual.

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