The 88th Dharma Talk “The Way To Remove Bad Omens”

On May 10th, 2018 (March 25th, Lunar Calendar), Venerable Thich Dong Thanh, member of the Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha’s Organization, the Second Chef Committee of the Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha’s Organization in Binh Dinh province, the Principal of the Binh Dinh’s Middle-to-High Buddhist School, and the abbot of Thien An temple in Binh Dinh. He was present in the lecture hall for a Dharma Sharing titled “The way to remove bad omens”.

In life, who claims to be the happiest and lucky one! Life is sometimes full of sweet but we also taste the bitter feeling instead. What makes us suffering called hindrances. However, as a Buddhist we should learn how to face and overcome with a calm mind and leave everything behind, at there we have a current happiness.

Some people take other’s suffering as a good chance to make their own benefit. In the worst situation, people normally think about a supernatural power or a god to rely on. This causes the coming out of fortune-teller and various form of superstition. A number of families have to pay an expensive cost, even breaking their family.

The Buddha said there is no one has the power of making people become good or bad, every day is a good day or bad day depends on our karma, our behavior. If we keep our mind, speech, and deed in pure and no harm to others, it’s a good day for us; in the opposite, it’s bad day. Besides that people also suffer a lot of bad things from natural as flood, drought, fire, famine, epidemic, etc….

Whatever it’s small or big disaster, it caused by our greed, hatred, and ignorance. To see these things we have to contemplate the causes and effects in the three lives. Fortunate or unfortunate doesn’t come by accident but affected by causes and effects.

Then, how to solve these unfortunate matters?

  ·Keep the optimistic attitude even in the worst situation

·Take refuge in the Buddha and His teaching, cultivate your mind and have strong faith in the Law of Karma. When we nourish and develop our good karma, the pure energy will gather all the good merit from the past and make a marvelous changing.

·Be self-island for ourselves by applying self-reflection method and be mindful, we will be easeful and peaceful in mind for any cases or situations.

Realize the value of time and use it wisely, find happiness in every moment, we will get the benefit of self and others. Cultivate on compassion and loving-kindness, even for our enemies or the disliked one. Keep calm for not arising angry we can convert them gradually.

Spending more than one-hour-sharing, Venerable had lighted up the light of wisdom for all the attendees, give them a clear sight to all the superstition form. By that people can directly go to the final destination.