Repentant Ceremony Sep. 14th, 2019

On Oct.12th, 2019 (Sep. 14th, LC), devout Buddhist in HCMC went to Hoang Phap to join the monthly ceremony.

Before taking the rite, people all listen to a Dharm Talk shared by Ven. Thich Tam Hanh, a Hoang Phap monk, on the title of Pressure causes suicide, Children die, How about the parent?

Nowadays, society asks for material values instead of spirit so it causes people fighting to find a stable position in life. This causes the pressure rising from career, family and other relationships around. Some people choose suicide as an escape way. The problem is most of the suicide cases today belong to young people. There are many reasons that conduce to suicide such as violent family, study pressure which left an effect on their mind, after many days its side-effect can be major depressive disorder and lead to suicide action.

We should care to understand people around us if having suicide symptoms we can help at the right time. Life is not easy for all people to have peace in mind. This means we should take the Buddhist practice in our daily life that can help timely when unexpected things come. Taking practice also has other side-effects in lifting up one’s mind about the realization the nature of life. Impermanence is its nature, so everything changes all the time to the good side or bad side according to our deeds in the current and the past lives. Understand these matters we will take it easy, not try to fight each other and have ahappy life

Finished the talk, it’s time for taking the ceremony.

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