Bat Chinh Dao
Dear guests, Buddhism was born in the world with a history of about 25 centuries and introduced and developed in Vietnam for nearly 20 centuries. That's why we talk about Buddhism today. This is not a new and unfamiliar concept to every customer. However, to understand Buddhism and apply Buddhism to daily life, not everyone can do it. Requires every Buddhist, every sentient being. We must train according to the teachings of the Buddha and practice self-correction more and more perfect.
The Noble Truth of the path to the cessation of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path. There are eight factors that help sentient beings lead a happy, peaceful and liberated life, to an enlightened state. These eight factors include: right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
- Right view is a clear and reasonable perception that is free from the dust of wrong variables and confusion.
- Thought itself is right intention, right thinking. Right speech is true speech without deceit.
- It is karma that is sincere and lucid action.
- It is life itself that is a true way of life that does not harm oneself or harm others.
- It is diligence that is diligent in doing righteous things for the benefit of oneself and others. Righteous thoughts are thinking and remembering the right things.
- Right concentration is to focus thoughts on the issue of correct appearance, right truth, benefit for oneself and for others.
Thus the eight branches of the eightfold path are closely related to each other. On the way to peace and happiness, we need to practice the eightfold path, mainly to forge our Body, Speech, and Mind.
With the desire to bring Buddhism closer to sentient beings so that all sentient beings can be enlightened. Every year, the pagoda organizes summer retreats for students, this is the time when you are a Buddhist monk. Sentient beings can practice and practice according to the teachings of the Buddha. Thanks to that, you can perceive right, think right, then act right, do right thing.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Eightfold Path at Bai Dinh Pagoda is built along the Shinto axis from bottom to top with the meaning that when we come to the temple, we have one mind towards the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
At the top is Bao Thien tower where the pagoda is located in the center of the pagoda, where the Buddha is the embodiment of the Buddha that you have just visited. Next is the international convention center, which is the place to organize major events of Buddhism and also to teach life-long teachings.
The third row representing the monks is the tower of the monk Thich Thanh Tu vowing to be the abbot of Bai Dinh pagoda. However, especially on the Noble Eightfold Path, there is the Tu An tower, which is a place to worship Buddhist lay devotees Dieu Lien. Where you are stopping, she is a shining example representing sentient beings, knowledge and practice according to the eight righteous paths. During her lifetime, she was always devoted to how to build and expand as many temples as possible to build Buddha statues, the bell tower was first a place to worship Buddha, then a place to study and propagate the Buddhadharma to save all sentient beings. She and her family and the temple restored and expanded Bai Dinh pagoda. Dredging the valleys, renovating the dynamic suspension system in Trang An. Restoring the punitive historical sites that seemed to have fallen asleep after more than 10 centuries to become the world's cultural and natural heritage as today. She has great merit in building 9 pagodas off the Truong Sa island of Vietnam, which affirms the country's sovereignty. For her homeland, for all sentient beings, she has contributed to building a peaceful and peaceful place among human beings. Build a happy and prosperous society. Therefore, Tu An Tower is the place where the temple and the Buddhists express their gratitude to her. 'Dao' is the way, Buddha is the enlightened one. Thus, Buddhism is the way to reach enlightenment, it is the way of people, it is the religion of love, because the people that Buddhism brings are joy and happiness, so every Buddhist needs to have a purpose. determined to train himself according to the Noble Eightfold Path.
The flow of time can erode many things, even change everything, but it will never be able to change the Buddha nature in each of us.