... No matter what entry we enter to transform our mind, we must test ourselves whether we thoroughly and simultaneously conduct ourselves in the Trio of Precepts - Concentration – Wisdom. It is then the true self-liberation.

Today, I would like to introduce a simple practice for mind training without the requests of “Concentration or Wisdom.” It is the “Reflection on the Buddha, Reflection on the Dharma, Reflection on the Sangha.”

The most terrible wildfire in the history of Los Angeles has started for a couple of days from Pacific Palisade. It is a gorgeous city sitting on the mountainous area along the Pacific Ocean Coast, west of Los Angeles and between the two luxurious cities of Malibu and Santa Monica.

Trận cháy rừng khủng khiếp nhất lịch sử quận Los Angeles mấy hôm nay bắt đầu từ Pacific Palisade. Pacific Palisade là thành phố tuyệt đẹp nằm trên đồi núi dọc theo quốc lộ ven biển Pacific Coast Highway, phía tây Los Angeles, giữa hai thành phố sang trọng Malibu và Santa Monica.

So long as they could move to the stage of observing the bareness of their mind, theirs turn into empty. Nothing left to talk. In other words, “the continuous current of mind keeps running and running” via many lifespans ends without any trace.

As usual, the Americans celebrated the New Year of 2025 with the 136th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on the first day of the year, at 8am PST, Wed, Jan 01, 2025.

Như bao năm, người Mỹ chào đón năm mới 2025 bằng Lễ Hội Hoa Hồng lần thứ 136 ở thành phố Pasadena, California ngày đầu năm, thứ tư, mồng một tháng giêng 2025, đúng 8 giờ sáng, giờ miền tây.

No matter what ups and downs in life, that line of wisdom continues flexibly adapting itself to human life, quietly expanding and offering a source of inner peace and happiness to those who get it. Those metaphors are similar to the image of the crystal spring whose water is always cool and clear and the beginning of spiritual well-beings for humans though stones and gravels are scattering in the current. Hope the next articles in the series be the placid water that I’d warmly dedicate to the Zen practitioners who gather enough conditions.

PHẢI CHĂNG LÀ ĐỊNH MỆNH? PHẢI CHĂNG SỐ MẠNG ĐÃ AN BÀI? ĐỊNH MỆNH, CÓ HAY KHÔNG? ĐỊNH LUẬT NHÂN QUẢ - NHÂN QUẢ, CÓ THAY ĐỔI ĐƯỢC KHÔNG?

It is normal, natural, and reasonable that mundane phenomena emerge, change then terminate. If we could grasp that comprehension, when something appears or disappears, we are neither cheerful nor sorrowful. Then, our mind is serene and peaceful. And we realize that everywhere is our original adobe, every phenomenon, fact, event, situation or being, carries the truths of transience, the principles of cause-responded conditions, non-selfness, and the trait of bareness… The Dharma sounds from our Lord have been roaring and echoing in the infinite universe. As a result, the planet where we are now is the Buddha’s very realm, my dearest friends.