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Sống đơn giản – An vui
Sống đơn giản nghĩa là xài vừa đủ
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Trung Thu là tết thiếu nhi
Mà sao người lớn cũng đi hơi nhiều.
Người lớn thật là đáng yêu,
Vì yêu người trẻ nên yêu trăng già.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, I like to talk about the topic "Do not wait..." This was the title of the article posted on Tuoi Tre newspaper (The Youth). The article was very interesting and its contents align to some of the moral values and principles in Buddhism, therefore, I like to reference this article throughout our discussion today.

There is a Vietnamese saying: “A frog sits at the bottom of the well”, which means he could only see the sky via the top of the well, hence, he always thinks that the sky is just as small. The frog likes water, and it comes and goes from one well to another. The only way he could get out of a well was for someone to take the water, when he could take the opportunity to clutch onto the bucket of water. Sometimes, though, he would think that he was trapped, so he jumped back to the well again.

In the preface of Lotus Sutra, it is said that when the aura of Buddha appeared, the assembly relied on the power and the aura of Buddha to see countless realms of other Buddhas in the universe, in which Buddha and Bodhisattva were preaching to sentient beings, drawing very beautiful pictures. The aura of the Shakyamuni Buddha shocked all the realms it reached. Buddhas of those realms sent their attendants to this Saha world to visit and pay homage to Shakyamuni Buddha. Among those greetings, there was a question, "It is said that beings of this Saha world are very stubborn. Is it difficult for you to teach them?"

One of the special characteristics of human beings which other living creatures can never have is thirst for knowledge. We talk about UNKNOWN so that we can speak of KNOWING.

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