Đời thật đẹp – Life is beautiful

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Dưới đây là bài hát trong phim Mèo châu Phi – African Cats. Đây là phim về hai gia đình, một báo và một sư tử ở châu Phi.

Mình thích họ nhà mèo. Họ nhà mèo, từ mèo đến hổ, báo, sư tử…, khi nhỏ thì thật đáng yêu, khi lớn thì thật quyến rũ. 🙂

Chúc các bạn một ngày vui. Continue reading Đời thật đẹp – Life is beautiful

Parents need to educate their children

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

It seems today, busy parents tend to leave the children’s education totally in the hand of schools. That is the parents’ grave mistake and their children’s grave misfortune.

Schools don’t have enough time for our children, because their time is spent mostly on academic subjects. They don’t have enough time to focus on educating your kids to be good persons. Continue reading Parents need to educate their children

Sống mà không lo

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Tuổi 15 lo công ăn việc làm và tình duyên cho chính mình. Tuổi 51 lo công ăn việc làm và tình duyên cho con cháu. Lo được xem là điều bình thường. Sống là phải lo – lo cho chính mình, lo cho gia đình và lo cho người khác.

Sống với lo như vậy, nặng thì đến miền cực lạc, nhẹ thì bị bệnh nọ bệnh kia. Bệnh có thể đến từ bên trong, từ đau dạ dày đến các thể loại bệnh khác. Bệnh có thể đến từ bên ngoài, như cái đầu lo nghĩ nhiều quá, không chú ý lái xe, dẫn đến bị tai nạn. Continue reading Sống mà không lo

Panama berry trees

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When the Romantic Road was the trash road, at a middle part of the road, on the right side, there were many Panama berry trees (cây trứng cá). No one planted them, they grew on their own.

The trees were about 5m tall. Their branches spread long and drooped down to the ground. Their foliage dangled softly. The flowers with 5 petals were small and white. They bloomed every day. Every time I saw them, they made me happy. It seemed they were saying to me: “How are you?… We miss you…” Continue reading Panama berry trees

Việt Nam needs to complete legal system for sustainable development of key industries

VNN – March 13, 2024 – 08:11

The current legal system does not have specific regulations on identifying key industries as well as specific policies to promote the development of these industries.

A supporting enterprise in Bắc Ninh Province. Việt Nam needs legal system to develop key industrial sectors, including the support industry. —VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam needs a legal corridor to clearly define development for key industries in the process of industrialisation, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

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Thế giới ta

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Đây là bài hát mình thích – bài hát trong bộ phim Monkey Kingdom – Vương quốc khỉ.

Monkey Kingdom là phim tài liệu về thiên nhiên của Mỹ năm 2015 được Mark Linfield và Alastair Fothergill đạo diễn và sản xuất; và được Tina Fey thuyết minh. Phim kể về một gia đình khỉ sống trong những tàn tích cổ đại được thành lập trong khu rừng Polonnaruwa ở Sri Lanka. Continue reading Thế giới ta

What is Zen

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Probably the most misunderstood Buddhist concept is Zen. What is Zen? Is that sitting and breathing in and out? Or sitting and doing Vipassana (thiền minh sát tuệ)? Or practicing four kinds of mindfulness (thiền tứ niệm xứ) – meditation and full realization on the impurity of the body (quán thân bất tịnh), meditation and full realization on the evils of sensations (quán thọ thị khổ), meditation and full realization on the impermanence of the mind and thoughts (quán tâm vô thường), meditation and full realization of non-self of all elements (quán pháp vô ngã)? Or is that Walking Zen? Eating Zen? Continue reading What is Zen

Cầu nguyện và quán tĩnh lặng

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Cuộc sống có nhiều bất ngờ, nếu không chuẩn bị tinh thần, ta dễ mất tĩnh lặng.

Bất ngờ lớn như thất tình thất nghiệp lâu lâu mới có. Bất ngờ nhỏ không tên thì hầu như ngày nào cũng gặp. Người thân vốn dĩ hiền như bụt, hôm nay tự dưng bực mình to tiếng với ta. Người bán hàng thấy ta tính toán chậm nên ăn gian tiền của ta. Tài xế hẹn ta đứng ở chỗ này và ta đứng ở chỗ khác… Continue reading Cầu nguyện và quán tĩnh lặng

Feral kitten

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Near the market that I go to every day, there is a coffee shop. Several months ago, there was a feral kitten often lying outside the shop.

Kitten was yellow, not fat, not thin. It liked to lie under the foot of a plant pot, next to a tiny brick house used for decoration. The first time I saw the kitten lie next to that tiny house, I thought it was the kitten’s house, so I wondered why did the kitten not stay indoors. Then I discovered that the door of that house was too small for the kitten. Poor kitten. Continue reading Feral kitten

Project launched to foster environment security in Vietnam, Laos’ river basins

VNE –   March 13, 2024 | 02:27 pm GMT+7

Project launched to foster environment security in Vietnam, Laos' river basins

The Ma River in central Vietnam runs dry amid heat waves in June, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Le HoangA project aiming to foster water and environment security in the Ma and Neun – Ca river basins and related coastal areas in Vietnam and Laos was launched in Hanoi on Tuesday.

Speaking at the event, Ngo Manh Ha, deputy director of the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Department of Water Resources Management, said the project aligns with the Vietnamese Government’s orientations and vision for sustainable water resources development.

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Chuyện nhỏ

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Đây là bài hát ưa thích của mình. Hơn 20 năm rồi nghe lại vẫn thấy vui. Bài hát được nhạc sĩ Tuấn Khanh sáng tác và nhóm MTV thể hiện.

Nhạc sĩ Tuấn Khanh (tên thật Nguyễn Tuấn Khanh; sinh ngày 1-10-1968). Tên tuổi của anh gắn liền với nhóm nhạc MTV và Trio666.

MTV là nhóm nhạc nam nổi tiếng thập niên 2000. Họ hoạt động từ năm 1999 đến 2007, rồi từ năm 2011 đến nay, 2024. Continue reading Chuyện nhỏ

Better our heart for the suffering world

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This Sunday March 11, 2024 is the beginning of the Muslim holy month called Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting and prayer. A commemoration of Prophet Muhammad’s first revelation, the annual observance of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam (Muslim creed, prayer, charity to the poor, fasting in the month of Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca) and lasts twenty-nine (or thirty days), from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next.

rafah tent cities

Rafah tent cities

The Palestinians are Muslim and now is their holy month of fasting and praying. And Israel has been threatening that during the Ramadan they will invade City of Rafah in South Gaza, where 1.5 million people are jammed up in tent cities, with no where to go. The city’s prewar population was 280 thousand; more than 1.2 million refugees had run around to many places in Gaza before ended up in Rafah in extremely overcrowded tent cities, with worst living conditions anyone wants to imagine. And Israel wants to attack that super-overpopulated city in the holy month of their fasting and praying.

rafah 2

Can the human spirit ever be more cruel than that?

I don’t want to talk politics in my trà đàm. But the savage spirit of the humans depresses me. You can’t stay cool like a cucumber with everything vile and mean going on in the world, bros & sises. I don’t know if the Buddha ever cried, but Jesus cried very often, and for some reasons I feel I am more like Jesus than Buddha. And I don’t believe that living with Zen means you never cry. I think I am relatively calm and serene in many situations, but I still want to keep my heart sensitive to the pains of the world, probably just to know that “I am still alive and I need to do something about those pains.” (Please read Zen story No Loving-Kindness  about a Zen monk practicing Zen for 20 years with no loving-kindness).

Anyway, brothers and sisters, the world are in trouble because the humans have so much garbage in their hearts. And “the humans” means everyone of us, no one counted out. Forget about preaching to the Israelis or the Palestinians, or the Russians, or the Ukrainians. If we want our world to be beautiful and just, then clean our own heart first, get rid of all the garbage – all the greed, hatred and ignorance (tham sân si) in the heart, and fill our heart with honesty, love, gentleness, and serenity.

We shall better our heart and our heart shall produce sacred positive energy to lift up the world.

With compassion,

Hoành

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Ăn trong mùa bão

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Mùa bão ở đây là mùa bão trong lòng. Có vấn đề với người trong nhà, người ở chỗ làm, người buôn bán ngoài đường…, thường tạo bão trong lòng. Khi có bão, ta thường ăn uống không yên.

Khi có bão, đa số ăn uống mà đầu óc vẫn suy nghĩ về công việc hay về vấn đề với người, nên ăn vội ăn vàng, ăn cho xong bữa, ăn và chẳng rõ mình ăn những gì. Continue reading Ăn trong mùa bão

The last duck

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A year and a half ago, at the end of the Romantic Road, there were a duck family – five white ones. Their boss was the owner of a restaurant on the Romantic Road.

The first time I saw them, they were one mother duck and four baby ducks. At that time, baby ducks were small, about the size of an adult’s fist. Several months later, four baby ducks became four big ducks. Mother duck took the lead and the four children followed. They looked for food together, then rested together under tree shadow. Every time I saw them, I was happy. Continue reading The last duck

Việt Nam: top 10 developing economies in exporting creative products

March 13, 2024 – 07:51

A young and technology-savvy population, favourable policies and rich cultural heritage coupled with the rapid digitalisation and economic integration will fuel the boom of the creative economy in Việt Nam.

Handicraft products of MFC Mỹ Quới Cooperative in Sóc Trăng Province. Việt Nam has significant opportunities to promote the development of the creative economy. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Hưng

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is in the top 10 developing economies in exporting creative products with a value of US$14.153 billion, heard a conference on Tuesday.

The conference, co-organised by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), discusses opportunities and recommendations for Việt Nam to promote the development of its creative economy.

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