Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Most people of the world make a huge mistake – they go with the masses. Whatever numerous people do, they would consider as correct, right, standard. In the Vietnamese culture, we have the quintessential phrase “Không giống ai” (not like anyone). If you are không giống ai, you are wrong or, at least, weird. If you do something không giống ai, you are nutty in the head. Continue reading Don’t go with the masses
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
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
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?
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 ?
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
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Many people do want to learn how to live a positive spiritual like. The problem is that they read about so many things, which overwhelm them. Just confusion and fear.
But the learning is much simpler.
These two Greatest Commandments go together: you need to love God, before you can love all people, because many people are unloveable – without God you shall not have enough strength to love all people.
Just focus on one method and don’t worry about other thousands of methods, you shall not be confused and overwhelmed and shall reach Enlightenment.
These are spiritural rules to help you gain Enlightenment and suscess in whatever you do, be that selling bánh mì or teaching or doctoring.
The way of positive spirituality is extremely simple. You want to be successful in your soul and in your work, you shall succeed, however you define success.
With compassion,
Hoành
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Dear brothers and sisters,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.” (Job 1:21).
God gives us reputation and God takes away,
God gives us wealth and God takes away,
God gives us family and God takes away,
God gives us health and God takes away… Continue reading Naked I came and naked I will depart
Dear brothers and sisters,
Jesus said:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Continue reading A pure heart
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
It is very interesting that the idea of “born again, rebirth, reincarnation” and the like is present in many cultures of the world – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and many religions around the world in small indigenous tribes and nations since the ancient time till now. The idea is some what different with each culture, but they all talk about refreshing our life and our soul with a new beginning. Continue reading Born again
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
When I was much younger, I understood the standard life is grabbing, gasping, fighting, lying, badmouthing, backstabbing… anything you do to win. Why? Because I saw everyone around me do that, almost no exception, and I understood that was the standard life, because I didn’t see any other lifestyles around. Continue reading What is the standard life?
Chào các bạn,
Đây là quyển Ecclesiastes trong Cựu Ước (Thánh kinh Công giáo dịch là Giảng Viên, Thánh kinh Tin lành dịch là Truyền Đạo).
Có một thời cho mọi sự
Và một mùa cho mỗi điều dưới bầu trời: Continue reading Mỗi chuyện có một thời dưới bầu trời
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
If you check all the schools of spirituality of the world, you will realize that they all talk, in one way or another, about the great power inside everyone. Buddhism talks about Buddhahood in each of us. The Abrahamic tradition – Judaism, Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant), and Islam – teaches we all are children of God with Spirit of God in us. Advaita Vedanta Hinduism says Atman (a human) is a part of Brahman (God).
Even the non-spiritual schools of today talk about “the force” or “the energy” of the universe that we can activate to work in our favor to achieve what we want. I think these schools simply use the old concepts of the spiritual schools without mentioning the word “God”. Continue reading Believe in your great potential
Chào các bạn,
Trong đời chúng ta sẽ gặp những cơn đau – vợ chồng có vấn đề, mất một tài sản lớn, mất một chức vụ lớn… Những cơn đau làm ta tê liệt, mất hết năng lượng, nằm ì một chỗ, chẳng nghĩ ngợi được gì, mà càng nghĩ ngợi lại càng rối rắm, chẳng thấy lối ra. Những lúc như vậy ta làm gì?
Theo kinh nghiệm của mình thì: Continue reading Làm gì khi đau?
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Let’s talk about heaven and hell in our heart.
If you look at children, you see heaven – children are always happy, innocent and playing.
We adults experience fears, worries, sorrow and anger, and we often find ourselves fighting, grabbing (chụp giật), and grasping (chấp), which leads to us being stressed all the time. That is hell. Continue reading Children and Heaven
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