Thực hành Tư duy tích cực

Chào các bạn,

Bạn biết ĐCN đã 1 năm, 3 năm, 5 năm, 7 năm, 9 năm, hay lâu hơn nữa, bạn đã thực hành điều gì trong ĐCN liên tục mỗi ngày trong suốt thời gian đó?

Bạn có cầu nguyện những lời này cho ta và cho đất nước mỗi ngày không?

Bạn có cầu nguyện lời này mỗi sáng không? Continue reading Thực hành Tư duy tích cực

Taking a bus in Saigon

Dear brothers and sisters,

The first time I took a bus in Saigon was 13 years ago.

At that time, I went from Danang to Saigon to study something for a short time. Saigon was hotter than Danang. I stood waiting for a bus and thought that it would be even hotter inside the bus. Because I took bus between Hue and Danang many times when I was a student, I thought Saigon bus was the same, it would be hot. But no, Saigon bus was different, it had air conditioning. Wow, from a hot sidewalk to a cool bus, I really enjoyed it. Bus was cheap, cool and nice. If I were in Saigon then, I would have taken bus often.

Now I’m in Saigon, besides walking, I take bus. I’m happy with riding buses. Riding bus makes me feel like I’m a student.

Share with you.

Have a nice day.

Phạm Thu Hương

Nếu – If

Chào các bạn,

Chị Lê Uyên nhờ Thu Hương tìm bài dịch cho bài thơ “If” của Rudyard Kipling, nhà văn và nhà thơ Anh quốc.

Mình phụ TH tìm, chẳng tìm ra. Và mình thích bài “If” này nên dịch luôn cho tiện. Làm quà cho chị Lê Uyên, ba chị, và các bạn.

Mến,

Hoành Continue reading Nếu – If

Bụi trong gió

Chào các bạn,

…Bụi trong gió
Tất cả là bụi trong gió…

…Đừng bám
Chẳng có gì tồn tại mãi mãi trừ trái đất và bầu trời…

…Bụi trong gió
Mình đều là bụi trong gió
Bụi trong gió
Mọi chuyện đều là bụi trong gió… Continue reading Bụi trong gió

When you’re sick

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

When you’re sick, you’re tired. The body doesn’t want to move. It wants to stay in bed and sleep. Because it’s out of energy? Obviously. But the truth is that, your body is not out of energy – it is using all its energy to fight against your illness and help you recover. In short, your body is using every bit of your energy to help you recover. It wants you to sleep, not wasting energy on anything else, so that it can work on your recovery.

So, my friends, when you’re sick, you need to rest, so that your body has enough energy to heal you.

Same thing with spiritual illness. When you sick, rest. Continue reading When you’re sick

Học tiếng Anh để làm gì?

Chào các bạn,

Mục đích học tiếng Anh của bạn là gì?

Để đi du học, để có bằng nước ngoài, để có chức vụ cao, tiền nhiều và nhiều người ngưỡng mộ?
Để đi ra nước ngoài, đi đây đi đó, gặp gỡ người này người kia, để sống cuộc đời ngày nào cũng mới mẻ và vui vẻ?
Để có chồng nước ngoài tâm lý hơn chồng Việt?
Để con cái có quốc tịch nước ngoài hoặc sống ở nước ngoài?
Để sống ở nước ngoài – điều kiện làm việc nhiều ưu đãi, nơi ở như trong phim, không khí học hành chất lượng, và đâu đâu cũng một màu xanh cây cỏ trong lành?… Continue reading Học tiếng Anh để làm gì?

Saigon in Covid pandemic days

Dear brothers and sisters,

I had the opportunity to walk in Saigon in the Covid pandemic days (not when Saigon was on lockdown).

I walked from District 1 to District 3, District 5, District 10, Phu Nhuan District, Tan Binh District and Binh Thanh District. Some days I walked from 7am to 7pm. The streets were deserted with few vehicles and few people. The sidewalks were wide with no motorbikes parked across them. The air was cool and free of dust and noise. The space was so quiet that I could drink coffee in a sidewalk shop on a once-busy street and still heard birds singing.

A very different Saigon – beautiful and poetic.

Share with you.

Have a nice day.

Phạm Thu Hương

Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit amid global tensions

MJ Lee
Donald Judd

 

By MJ Lee and Donald Judd, CNN

 7 minute read 

Updated 10:27 PM EDT, Tue April 2, 2024

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023.

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesWashingtonCNN — 

President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two superpowers.

Continue reading Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit amid global tensions

Imagine – Tưởng tượng

Chào mọi người,

Mình tình cờ biết đến bài hát này khi mình đọc bài trà đàm “Cái đúng cái sai của các tôn giáo”. Khi đọc phần bình luận, chị Hằng giới thiệu bài hát cùng bình luận của mình.

Và khi mình nghe bài hát, nó liền chạm đến trái tim mình. Imagine là bài hát giản dị, nhưng lời bài hát rất ý nghĩa và sâu sắc, giai điệu nhẹ nhàng, chậm rãi và sâu lắng. Mình cũng rất vui vì biết đây cũng là một bài hát yêu thích của anh Hoành. Continue reading Imagine – Tưởng tượng

What are you improving ?

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I know that everyone of us is working to improve ourself. The question is “improving what?”

Most of us try to improve doctoring skills, lawyering skills, engineering skills, selling skills, teaching skills… but the most important skill, the mother of al other skills, few people pay serious attention to. That is the skill to keep a pure heart. Continue reading What are you improving ?

Take care of God

Dear brothers and sisters,

We often think that God takes care of us. Yes, God does. However, do we think we need to take care of God too?

Jesus said:

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Continue reading Take care of God

The boy who drank puddle water

Dear brothers and sisters,

One afternoon, I went to a children’s yard. I saw two children sitting next to puddles of water. These puddles were water from people’s watering plants. Each child sat next to a different puddle of water.

The older sister, about 4, was using a leaf as a boat to row on her puddle water, and the younger brother, about 2, was looking down at his puddle. I thought the boy was looking at his face in the water. Then slowly, the boy bent down, his face closer to the water. I still thought the boy bent deeper to see himself better. Then suddenly, the boy used his tongue to lap the puddle water. I was startled, “Oh my god, where are his parents?” Continue reading The boy who drank puddle water

China’s role in the Middle East: Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas?

CNA Insider – 28-3-2024

Over the last twenty years, China’s influence in the Middle East has grown substantially. China has major economic partnerships with Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and also Israel.

How is the war in Gaza impacting these investments? Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas? And how do the current events in the Middle East impact great power competition between the United States and China? Continue reading China’s role in the Middle East: Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas?

Ave Maria – Schubert – Luciano Pavarotti

Chào các bạn,

Dưới đây là bài hát Ave Maria của Schubert do tenor Luciano Paravotti trình diễn với lời Latin. Ave Maria là lời kinh cầu nguyện với Đức Mẹ Maria. Tiếng Việt gọi là Kinh Kính Mừng, đọc cực kỳ thường xuyên trong các nhà thờ công giáo, thường nhất là khi lần hạt mân côi.

Dưới đây có lời kinh Ave Maria với tiếng Latin, tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt.

Mời các bạn thưởng thức.

Mến,

Hoành

Continue reading Ave Maria – Schubert – Luciano Pavarotti

Ups and downs

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Life is ups and downs constantly.

When you’re on the way up, you jump around happily. When you’re down, you lie on bed feeling close to death.

That is normal, but no one feels normal, especially when they go down. In addition, everyone will agree with me that your tough days are much more numerous than your easy days. Say, marriage, the peak of marriage life is the wedding celebration and the honeymoon. From the peak, you can’t go any higher and can only go down. Two persons living together may have all kinds of problems very quickly and these problems come in long series – one gives birth to the next, each problem is a mother of a long chain of childrens, and each child soon becomes a mother too. Problems can spread with a geometric progression aka exponential growth. Continue reading Ups and downs

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