Third day of Summer Retreat 2023

The morning of July 11th, 2023 is the third day of the retreat. All students listened to a dharma talk named Supposedly, I'm unfortunately, preached by Bhikkhu Giac Minh Luat is currently studying at Nhu Lai Thien Tu monastery, San Diego, California, USA, PhD student at University of Thailand and the United States.

Love is always a magical medicine in spiritual life, giving us more motivation to strive, making life more beautiful if we know how to love properly. A Zen Master once said: Before you love someone, learn to love yourself first. In human life, few people can be completely happy; so, emotional turmoil is inevitable. With a young soul, you are not strong enough to master yourself; sometimes, the young lose faith in life because of the break in love, then rush to play games, enter the path of debauchery. They become apathetic and reject good relationships around them such as friends, relatives and opportunities ahead. When starting a relationship, he reminds, it should be based on Buddhist understanding and wisdom. Youth is the most beautiful time in a person's life, we should cherish, cultivate ethical values and strive for the future is important and necessary. That is learning, loving yourself, focusing on family and society instead of giving all your heart to a narrow love.

We need to have courage, firmly walk on our feet; we should learn the spirit of harmony with some situations outside to have peace of mind. A brave person is one who will know to make funny himself, not make himself a pitiful person in the eyes of others. When you begin to see the beauty of life, that's when you find joy in yourself. In love or a broken relationship, let's consider it as unfortunate, just keep going strong, everything will be all right, and believe a good future is waiting ahead.

In the afternoon, practitioners played hard with many movement games, showing the strength of teamwork and exchange between ten families.

In the evening, a quiz program on Buddhism aims to create conditions for participants to learn about the Buddha's life and His wonderful teachings.

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