Dharma Talks / Awareness of Suffering | English Translation (audio)

Sr Hoi Nghiem talks about going home to take care of ourselves. When the Vietnamese people prepare for the Lunar New Year, they clean up their home to make it spacious and beautify it by planting flowers in the garden. The same is true for our inner home –...

Sr Hoi Nghiem starts off the talk by making three drawings representing the things that she loves. She talks about each picture and its importance to her and her practice, covering topics such as being still, taking root in the Sangha, being ourselves, being solid and being vast and...

This is the English translation of the first Dharma talk in the Rains Retreat 2018, given in Vietnamese. You can watch it with the original video here: http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=hRU5Mhlg-iQ&video_start=85&audio=lYnZ8UplFXA&audio_start=101 Tieng Viet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRU5Mhlg-iQ Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/lryJ/

“Mindfulness of breathing is the great vehicle used by buddhas to save beings who are drifting.” – Master Khương Tăng Hội Meditation Master Khương Tăng Hội, the first patriarch of Zen in Vietnam, was a great source of inspiration for our teacher Thầy to practice and develop Engaged Buddhism....