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Le Thuy Tien - Suong Ma Khong Nang
The daily practice ceremony, lasting 15 minutes, includes:
- The Refuge Chant and recitation of the Buddha’s name.
- The Three Invocations to Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra.
- The Three Refuges (Buddha–Dharma–Sangha).
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The Dedication of Merit.
This practice creates an atmosphere of purity, peace, and family connection, sowing wholesome seeds in the hearts of each member; if maintained for 15 minutes each day, happiness, peace, and love will grow, and the family will become more harmonious.
The “Journey” discourse in the Agama Sutra recounts the Buddha’s last journey, which lasted nearly a year:
– The Buddha visited the Sangha, taught, comforted everyone, and used mindfulness to heal illness, overcoming two great pains himself, yet continuing to dwell in peace.
– The Buddha’s “elephant king’s eye” (deep looking) when gazing at the city of Vaisali or at a daffodil is a lesson in mindfulness: if we look at a flower with mindfulness, we will understand and see all flowers.
Illustrated through The Little Prince and springtime:
Just as the prince had only one rose to care for, each of us needs to focus and deeply contemplate each thing, each moment. Gentle spring rain waters the seeds of happiness in the soil of our mind, helping the seeds of love and understanding to sprout and grow.
The Seventh Mindfulness Training teaches:
To accept the “roots” of suffering instead of “surgically” cutting them off, to nourish joy, peace, and inner strength so that we can embrace and shoulder our own suffering and that of our loved ones without becoming a burden.
