The 22nd Program of General Dharma

In the 83rd Seven-Day Retreat, Hoang Phap pagoda organized the 22nd program of General Dharma on August 20th, 2016 (Lunar July 18th, Monkey Year)

After registering the Seven-Day Retreat, over one thousand of Buddhists gathered in the lecture hall to listen the dharma talk from Junior Master. In response to the Board of Organization, Junior Venerable Thich Minh Thanh, Lecturer of High and Intermediate Buddhist colleges, abbot of Am Phap An came and shared a Dharma talk on the topic “Awaking Lifestyle” to the mass.

 â€œAwaking Lifestyle” is very important. Awaking helps us recognize the feature of starting conditions of all things. Living beings in this life depends on each other alternating. From our body to all universes, it is a combination from many different components. When they have enough condition, they will appear; on the contrary, they destroy  and disappear themselves. After recognizing the source of suffering, we will know how to transfer them. Awaking helps us recognize the source of peacefulness and misery. Since then, we will have a right view which we can distinguish between right- wrong, right – left, truth – false, etc, which we have attitude to solve relevantly.

 

Awaking is always existence, right view to see clearly all daily life, such as in picking vegetables, chopping wood, arranging flowers, driving, listening telephone, etc, we will have peacefulness and happiness as well as can stand all obstacles, difficulties, and overcome sufferings, pains, then construct a pure land of world at this life.

Following are some recorded photographs: