Students’ Retreat

On August 2nd, 2015 (Lunar June 18th Goat Year), over one thousand of Buddhists from universities and colleges in HCM City came to Hoang Phap monastery for attending the retreat on ‘Students toward Buddhism.

In life all want to succeed, but not everyone can achieve that. When being young, we had dreams, ambition of a genius, but due to the time, condition, family and society, we have gradually lost our good thought.

Those who succeed in the world often have common features: passion, concentration, creative thinking, objective, clear ideals and they dare pursue their dreams. We are also the same. We must have the patience to overcome the difficulties on the road to success. No effort is superfluous. The ways to success is always full of troubles but rising effort of each person has the noble values such as the picture of lotus spreading perfume in muddy, stagnant water.

In the afternoon, they had meditation with the monks and listened to  Venerable Thich Tam Nguyen’s guidance the meditation method on the theme: " I have lost myself".

Every one of us has a heart, a lung, a pair of eyes, but we often forget those best friends. When geting diseases, accident, we blame the body organs for "seizures". Meditation to sit back to ourselves, listen to ourselves and to transfer internal body and mind. Therefore, we can be happy and peaceful in reality.

After the meditation, in the sense of the subject, we all sing the song "I Love Life, Life Will Love Me".

Before leaving, each of us received a gift from the organizers.

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