The 2nd Nikāya Retreat

Junior Ven. Thich Minh Thanh, Abbot Linh Quy Phap An instructed the Nikāya retreat at Hoang Phap Pagoda for more than 200 practitioners to attend on Oct. 25th, 2020 (lunar Sep. 9th, the mouse year).

Practitioners performed the rituals: Paying homage to the Three Jewels, announcing the rules before preaching dharma. Next, the mass watched a video of Vietnam central suffering from floods and landslides. Junior Ven. emphasized on the pain of mankind. Then, the participants contemplate human life: it is a long chain of affliction, anxiety, fear, as well as fragile fate, short and temporary body. However, this impermanent body is filled with lust, anger, delusion, selfishness causing suffering itself and others.

Observing life with the eyes of wisdom according to the Buddha's teachings means the method of recognizing the states of inner greed, anger, and ignorance in order to transform, dominate, and control the interior mind to the noble path towards liberation, enlightenment.

Under the guidance of the monks and nuns, all attendees are divided into small groups, practicing the three dharma and identifying five aggregates.

After the period of metta meditation in the afternoon, there are questions about the ability to practice three dharma and how to identify five aggregates.

At the end of the day, the mass together paid homage to the virtue of Sariputra Saint and dedicated merit.

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