One-day Buddha cultivation course

On 4th/Dec/2016 (it is 6th/Nov in Lunar Calendar), thousands of Buddhists from many provinces and cities were gathering at Hoang Phap Pagoda in order to participate in the 10th Buddha Cultivation course 2016.

In a bright morning, after breakfast, Buddhists gather at auditoriums learning about the regulations. After that, the mass enjoy the main program-watching DVD movie "the stateliness of the Buddhist" and a piece of news reporting Hoang Phap's event in November 2016- to review some laws to home-Buddhist. The morning is ended up by Buddha cultivation.

Later in the afternoon, everyone comes to see Senior Ven. Thich Chan Tinh, who is known as the Abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda and also the course's main holder, and listen to his Buddha talk. In more than one hour, Senior Ven. has talked about his experience on the preaching trip in America.

There are many memories and feeling when someone first comes to a new place or gets acquaintance with a new person, some pieces ofmemory can be forgotten in a second but some can be memorized in our mind and follow us till the end oflife.

The Abbot shares his memory on Vietnamese-American Buddhists, the scenery,... He wants the listener understand that everything around us is precious and worth for us to memorize them. By this careful attention on things and events in daily life, it will help people get more improvements in cultivation.

Senior Ven.Thich Chan Tinh adds, the way that Buddhists in America assist him and his companions through the trip is so meaningful, Buddhists in America has shown their mercy and pardon. He reminds people that being a Buddhist, heart should be widely open to share happiness with everyone. Like the Abbot says: "Open up your heart and let the happiness goes into". According to him, sharing happiness will not make the happiness getting small but bigger, life will become so beautiful when all suffers are replaced by happiness.

Besides the memories to honor Masters and Buddhists, there is still the hearts of successive generations which offer to the respectful Masters who live all their life because of wisdom career, propagation of Buddha's dharma and the beings'benefits.

In the end, Abbot Thich Chan Tinh informs about the plan for the 84th Buddha cultivation course and the celebration of Amitabha Buddha’s Birthday (on 17th/Nov/2016 in Lunar Calendar). Also, DVD recording "65 days preaching trip in America" will be released at that time.