Dear Brothers and Sisters,
There is the secular culture and there is the spiritual culture.
Secular culture focuses on the mind and logics. Spiritual culture focuses on the heart. Continue reading Heart and mind
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
There is the secular culture and there is the spiritual culture.
Secular culture focuses on the mind and logics. Spiritual culture focuses on the heart. Continue reading Heart and mind
| Chương 65
Cổ chi thiện vi Đạo giả, Dân chi nan trị, Tri thử lưỡng giả diệc khẻ thức. |
Chương 65
Đời xưa, kẻ khéo thi hành Đạo, Dân mà khó trị, Biết hai điều đó, là biết làm mô thức. |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Do you love your mom? I love my mom dearly. Almost everyone loves his/her mom. What’s the news? Well, sometimes I meet somebody who says s/he hates her/his mom. Of course, I would understand they have their own reasons, about which I usually don’t ask, just to respect their privacy. Continue reading Do you love your mom?
| Chương 64
Kì an dị trì, Hạp bão chi mộc, Vi giả bại chi, Dân chi tùng sự, Thị dĩ thánh nhân, |
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Vật yên tịnh, dễ cầm, Cây to một ôm, Làm thì hư, Người dân mà làm, Vậy nên thánh nhân. |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Love is a feeling and love demands action to satisfy that feeling.
Everyone who has fallen in love once knows exactly what I am talking about. Continue reading Do you love your country in feeling and action?
| Chương 63
Vi vô vi, Thị dĩ thánh nhân, Phù khinh nặc, |
Chương 63
Làm mà không làm, Bởi vậy thánh nhân, Kẻ hứa dễ, |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We are normally in bondage, which the Buddha calls suffering. There are all kinds of suffering that keep us in bondage.
In the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dhamma Sutta, Kinh Chuyển Pháp Luân), The Buddha said:
| Chương 62
Đạo giả Cố, Cố, |
Chương 62
Đạo là Bởi vậy, Vì vậy, |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am talking about personnel matters. There are many things the Vietnamese, as each individual and as a collective society, need. But I am trying to narrow down to three most fundamental things needed for good and quick development, personally and collectively.
1. Unity
Unity means all, or almost all, people unite into a single body, with one heart and one mind.
Right now, I have the feeling that the country is not very united. Continue reading Three things the Vietnamese need most to develop Vietnam quickly
| Chương 61
Đại quốc giả hạ lưu, Cố, Cố, |
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Nước lớn mà làm chỗ thấp, Nên, Nên, |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Once in awhile, we are bound to have some kind or personal crisis. If the crisis is big and heavy – potential divorce, bankruptcy, criminal investigation, love breakup – it’s hard to stay calm and well. You cannot really sit and do meditation or listen to the music to forget the pain. When the pain is light, you can do something to reduce or forget it. When the pain is very strong, it conquers your mind completely and does not allow you to do anything, let alone overcoming it. Continue reading Taking refuse
| Chương 60
Trị đại quốc nhược phanh tiểu tiên. |
Chương 60
Trị nước lớn, khác nào nấu cá nhỏ. |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
What is the essence of spirituality, without it there is no spirituality?
People can call a thousand things spirituality – Zen, mediation, praying, reciting sutras, worshiping, fasting, exorcism, shamanship, fengshui, witchcraft, voo doo… and what have you. Some of these activities, especially in the well-established large spiritual traditions such as Buddhism and Christianity, may help a little, but they are not spiritual if exercised without the essence of spirituality. Continue reading The essence of spirituality
| Chương 59
Trị nhân sự thiên mạc nhược sắc. Hữu quốc chi mẫu, |
Chương 59
Trị người, giúp trời; không chi bằng tiết kiệm. Giữ được Mẹ của nước, |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We have been brainwashed by the world to believe that we are nobody, of no value, and having nothing to contribute to the world. So, lots of us live like a nobody without any responsibility to the world.
That is dead wrong, my friends. Continue reading Be a good example