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.

Therefore, with our senses, we feel the “what-is.” It is the “As-Is Truth,” “Yathābhūta,” which is akin to the Truth, but it is not truly stable and permanent. It is also the “As-Is Delusion,” akin to a dream... The “As-Is Truth,” is the phenomena perceived by human senses and the latter, the “As-Is Delusion,” the Nature recognized by the Prajña Wisdom.

In Spring 1929, we cheered our Master’s coming into life. In Spring 1982, we celebrated the glory of our Master’s Recognition of the Path. In Winter 2019, he left us... But with those, this morning, under warm sunlight, while relishing the spring flowers, how come it seems someone’s eyes are full in tear.

Làm việc tốt và chỉ nhắm đến bào mòn cái Ta và đoạn trừ cái Tham. Và sau cùng, tu Phước mà thiếu tu Huệ, thiếu thực tập thiền định theo thánh giáo Như Lai, thì mãi mãi chìm đắm trong sanh tử.

Thiền trong Xuân hay Xuân trong Thiền. Tết đến, Xuân về... Rồi lại đi! Còn lại trong ta những ảnh hình... Năm nào cũng chỉ sống như thế, Biết đến bao giờ thoát được ra?