Repentant Ceremony

In the evening of Oct. 22nd, 2018, devout Buddhists from in and out HCMC came to Hoang Phap for the monthly repentant ceremony.

This time, a Dharma Talk before the ceremony was shared by Ven. Thich Quang Thien, a lecturer of the Middle Buddhist School, leader of the Sangha Education of District 12, and the Abbot of Tinh Quang temple.

For the talk, he mentioned about praise-blame, two among the eight categories of worldly dharma. We are human, and no one in the world can avoid from the praise and blame of others because it’s very natural as habitual life. Being a Buddhist, a sincere practitioner we don’t care much about praise or blame, it will turn our mind around or we put our happiness on others’ words. To practice these things, he showed the four ways of contemplation: contemplate on causes and conditions, on compassion, on impermanence, and on the empty of the entity.

Finished the talk, the ceremony was taken as usual.

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