Dear brothers and sisters,

If your think you know how to learn, let’s consider these facts.

Almost everyone in the world knows very well the Buddha’s teaching, or Jesus’ teaching, or Quran’s teaching. There are books and Internet for eveyone to read the original teachings as well as the explanations of all kinds of current teachers expounding on the masters’ teachings. Nothing is new or unknown to anyone in the world. And everyone respects and learns seriously what the masters teach. Except for a very small minority, no one says these teachings are stupid – they all follow the masters, at least that is what they believe. Continue reading Do we know how to learn? →

Dear brothers and sisters,

What is most important to you?

Your career? Your reputation? Your love life? Your family? Your wealth? Your success? Your…?

I know what is most important for you.

That is your heart – your heart is your thinking center. If your heart is not working right, you are insane and should be in an asylum, useless. Continue reading Ignorance →

Dear Brothers and Sisters

In sacred writings, there is one word standing out prominently due to its oft repeated use – that is “heart”. Translated into Vietnamese, heart is tâm, trái tim, lòng.

Tâm is Sino-Vietnamese (Hán Việt) for trái tim. However, the more traditional Vietnamese language has another very familiar word – that is “lòng”, as in lòng từ bi, lòng bác ái, lòng mẹ, lòng cha, lòng yêu nước, lòng yêu đồng bào…

All these words indicate one thing: “Our entire system of feeling and thinking, with a strong focus on emotion.” Continue reading Heart – Tâm – Lòng →

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

A community-minded person cares about his community.

This is an idea that has probably existed in our head while we were still apes – Homo habilis, 2 million years ago, long predating Adam and Eve who were full human, Homo sapiens, 300 thousand years ago.

The community-minded idea is in our DNA a long time before we became full human, probaby while we still were some crawling fish crawling upshore in schools. Continue reading Community-minded →