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Message of Brotherly Love
The retreat has four practical purposes that everyone will practice together through Sitting Meditation, Walking Meditation, Eating Meditation, Dharma sharing, and Tea Meditation:
- To clearly see the future path of oneself as a monastic, as well as the path of Vietnamese Buddhism and the Vietnamese people.
- To recognize the true face of one another as siblings in the Dharma, to accept, love, and rebuild the brotherhood that has been fractured.
- To receive and practice effective Dharma doors for transforming body and mind, to reestablish genuine communication with teacher, siblings, and community, and to create a solid foundation for the monastic life.
- To find practical ways together to address the negative influences affecting young monastics everywhere.
Among these, the second point is explored deeply through the story “The Smiling, Carefree Wanderer”: to maintain the right path, not to use unwholesome means, to go beyond all titles and labels in order to see the true person, to nurture sincerity and brotherhood. When we meet each other, just a loving gaze, a smile, and two hands joined like a lotus bud are enough to recognize each other as siblings; from there, patiently helping each other to transform, supporting each other in nourishing precepts and virtue, nurturing the Bodhi mind, and maintaining ethics in religion, politics, as well as in the great ordination family.