Repentant Ceremony

On Nov. 25th, 2019 (Oct. 29th, LC), devout Buddhists in HCMC come to Hoang Phap for the monthly repentant ceremony.

Before the rite, Ven. Thich Tam Duyet had a talk on the title of “How to reduce our defilements”.

In life, we contact many people this makes our minds resentful and uneasy if we have no way to keep balance our emotion it conduces danger and worrying. Our mind is master and plays an important role in being good or bad behavior which fruits suffering or happiness. An evil thought will be followed by an evil deed and evil speech. Therefore, we should practice controlling our minds from thinking to prevent unwholesome thoughts that bring suffering for us and having happiness in the present.

He pointed out three factors cause our impure mind: greed, hatred, and ignorance. Doing practice to drive our mind from these poisons to non-greed, non-hatred, and non-ignorance to be free from the controlling of what our body, speech, and mind want to do. Taking proper practice from the Buddha’s teaching we totally can change ourselves to be better and spread our active energy to people around us.

After the talk, the repentant ceremony was taken place as usual.

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