Dear Brothers and Sisters,

In case you haven’t heard, our world is in serious trouble, the kind of trouble we have never had in our human history.

IT is moving extremely fast. What we are facing now is artificial intelligent (AI). And this is only one thing in a long series of stuff to come.

I am very sensitive about this, because at the beginning of IT revolution in the 1980’s I was an attorney for MCI Telecommunications, the most advanced telecommunications company in the world at that time. Continue reading A lightning world →

Brothers and Sisters,

A man who is writing a book on Taoism asks me to read his draft version and share my comments. I read and realize that this man has zero knowledge on Taoism. My God, a person has absolutely no knowledge about a subject is trying to publish a book about the subject. I point out his huge errors, but I don’t know how to tell him stop writing.

This case is not about someone who has low level of knowledge. He has zero knowledge, and he simply put his own weird ideas down, and plans to sell his book. Continue reading Teaching →

Chào các bạn,

Luận Ngữ là cuốn sách nằm trong Tứ Thư Ngũ Kinh – toàn bộ chương trình học cho tất cả nho sĩ Trung Quốc và Việt Nam ngày xưa.

Luận Ngữ là cuốn sách tổng hợp các câu nói ngắn của Khổng Tử (và một ít của các học trò) do các học trò Khổng Tử góp nhặt mà thành.

Luận Ngữ, chương 1: Học nhi – Việc học, câu 6 viết: Continue reading Việc học →

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

When I opened ĐCN in Feb. 2009, 15 years ago, I had a general idea what positive thinking was, but I was not sure how far I had to go to be honest to myself and to the world, because many people talked about positive thinking and most of them were negative. I knew I would have to show people what true positive thinking was, but I wan’t sure how far I had to go. What I am writing today, I didn’t really think about at that time, although I had had enough knowledge then – I was thinking maybe I wouldn’t have to go that far. Since then, the experience has shown me that I would have to go all the way to God, Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and the saints to really help folks reach true positive thinking. Anything short of that is not positive enough. Writing about positive thinking for 15 years has helped me undertand the depth of positive thinking and the necessity of going to the roots and the foundation of positive thinking in order to complete my job of bringing positive thinking to some brothers and sisters. Continue reading What have I been doing →

Chào các bạn,

Jesus nói: “Ta là cây nho, các con là cành nho, nếu các con ở lại trong ta và ta ở trong các con, các con sẽ sinh nhiều hoa trái, rời khỏi ta các con không làm gì được.” (John 15:5).

Nếu ta ở trong Jesus và Jesus ở trong ta, ta sẽ sinh hoa trái của tự tin – tự tin thật, không phải tự tin kiểu tiến sĩ ở nước ngoài tỏ vẻ với người trong nước. Continue reading Cây nho và cành nho →

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

What do we want in life?

Whatever the answer is – money, power, position, reputation, love – the ultimate answer everyone has is: happiness. Whatever we want serves only one purpose for us – making us happy.

We all live to find happiness. Continue reading What do we want in life? →

Chào các bạn,

140 tuổi không phải là con số trong truyện thần thoại. Nếu ta sống khỏe mạnh cả thể chất lẫn tinh thần như thiền sư, việc sống đến 140 tuổi là điều có thể.

Ngày nay, vì đa số người trẻ không chăm sóc bản thân tốt, kể cả bác sĩ, nên mới 30 tuổi mà đã nhiều bệnh trong người như đau dạ dày, đau xương khớp, thừa cân, suy nhược cơ thể… Đó là những bệnh thể chất dễ nhìn thấy và dễ chữa trị. Còn những bệnh tinh thần thì khó thấy hơn và khó điều trị hơn. Thuốc “tư duy tích cực” thì luôn có đó, nhưng bệnh nhân không chịu uống hoặc uống một bữa nghỉ một bữa thì cũng như không. Vì thế, đã bệnh lại còn bệnh thêm, chẳng mấy ai dám nghĩ đến việc sống đến 100 tuổi. Continue reading Nếu sống đến 140 tuổi →

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.

• Jesus says two sentences called Two Greatest Commanments to convey all his teachings: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39).

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.

• The Buddhists say there are 84 thousand methods (pháp môn) to achieve Enlightenment. You just need one, say, non-attachment aka non-grasping aka non-sticking. If you don’t attach to anything, you shall be Enlightened. Ưng vô sở trụ nhi sanh kỳ tâm – non-attaching to anywhere, the Enlightened heart shall be born.

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.

• Or you can practice honesty about everything to everyone at everytime, here and now. You shall gain Enlightenment and purify your heart.

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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