{"id":7480,"date":"2021-11-15T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:51:19","slug":"the-dharma-words-of-the-most-venerable-thero-thich-chon-thanh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/the-dharma-words-of-the-most-venerable-thero-thich-chon-thanh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dharma Words of the Most Venerable Thero Th\u00edch Ch\u01a1n Th\u00e0nh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ven. HT. Th\u00edch Ch\u01a1n Th\u00e0nh<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From right to left, Senior Venerable Th\u00edch Th\u00e1nh Minh, Most Venerable Th\u00edch Th\u00f4ng H\u1ea3i, Most Venerable Elder Th\u00edch Ch\u01a1n Th\u00e0nh<\/span>, and Venerable Th\u00edch Tr\u1eebng S\u1ef9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE DHARMA WORDS OF THE MOST VENERABLE THERO <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TH\u00cdCH CH\u01a0N TH\u00c0NH<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Dear the Most Venerable Elders, Senior Venerable, Venerable Monks and Nuns, along with distinguished Guests, Dharma Sisters and Brothers,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One day, a journalist \u0110o\u00e0n Tr\u1ecdng of Little Saigon Station asked me: \u201cI have known the Most Venerable and the Most Venerable Th\u00edch Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh for a long time in the Community activities, but recently, what the two Venerable Monks also share together, solve together, it is really the mind with the mind, why so, respectfully Venerable Master\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

I smile and calmly respond, anciently and presently, the Buddha has often taught his disciples about the law of cause and effect. The past is the bud, the fertilizer, and water. Today is the young bud, the beautiful flowers and sweet fruits. The Buddha\u2019s teachings are so simple. With many different conditions, when seeing the effect, people know the cause, when seeing the cause, then they understand the effect.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, in previous life, the Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh and I were born in the same hamlet and village, two of us met everyday, went out together, and knew each other better than siblings. The two of us from when young until twenty joined each other to leave secular life for monastic life to become Buddhist Monks and live in the same Temple. Because of this, our Dharma brothers share all the Buddhist affairs in the temple. Therefore, I know a lot about this Master.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the present life, we were born from two different spaces and time, I was born in Ph\u00fa Y\u00ean Province, the Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh was born in Phan Thi\u1ebft City of B\u00ecnh Thu\u1eadn Province, but growing up, both of us lived and cultivated in the two various Temples in Tr\u00e0 C\u00fa mountain, away 18 kilometers from Phan Thi\u1ebft City. This was the Holy Land of Vietnamese Buddhism many hundreds of years ago, founded by Patriarch H\u1eefu \u0110\u1ee9c from Ph\u00fa Y\u00ean Province coming there to cultivate. He sat in meditation in a small cave of half a bedroom today, and he attained enlightenment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Patriarch H\u1eefu \u0110\u1ee9c, the founder of T\u00e0 C\u00fa Mountain Temple <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Everyday life, he only used vegetables and fruits picked by gibbons and monkeys to bring them to make offerings to him. On the mouth of the cave, there were two White Tigers coming from the deep forest to take turns to protect him. Where the White Tigers lived, there no animal would dare to snoop and disturb him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the good causes of many previous lives that remained in the subconscious until now, even though at the present life, we were born in two different places, we met each other on an unfamiliar space in the United States, especially in Orange County. Therefore, the Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh and I met and loved each other like two friends of the past. At that time, he built the Bao Quang Temple in Santa Ana City, and I built the Lien Hoa Temple in Garden Grove. Sometimes when I visited the Bao Quang Temple, I still found my friend D\u01b0\u01a1ng Thanh T\u00f9ng, that is, the Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh enthusiastically working as in the old days so that we could easily go back and forth to exchange confidences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, our love, our understanding, our thoughts, and stance were all the same and often shared each other\u2019s sweetness. Therefore, when I sat in meditation, I recognized the Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh was my sincere friend in many past lives. His gestures and ways of speaking in this life are not different from the previous life. His love is full of immense as before. He always opens his love to help homeless people, but his mind is not tired and does not complain at all. With his mind that is not tired and does not complain at all. Despite meeting rainy and sunny days, or sometimes he got sick, but he still tried to do charity meals for the homeless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Venerable Monastics, Dharma Sisters, and Brothers, there is no longer any more time, we will see off the Most Venerable Master Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh to the native land, Western and Pure Land, where there are no birth, old age, sickness, death, and suffering, and there is a life of eternity, about many light years from this earth. Although it is very far away, he will rely on the Dharma Body of the\u00a0Amitabha\u00a0<\/em>Buddha for only a moment, just a moment, because the Buddha\u2019s Dharma Body is the essence of the Universe. Now, in this dignified moments, please wholeheartedly recite the names of\u00a0Amitabha\u00a0<\/em>Buddha in order to see off to the Late Most Venerable Qu\u1ea3ng Thanh into the Pure Land peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n

Namo the Amitabha Buddha<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Translated by Ven Th\u00edch Tr\u1eebng S\u1ef9<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u0110\u1ea1o T\u1eeb c\u1ee7a Tr\u01b0\u1edfng L\u00e3o H\u00f2a H\u00f2a Th\u01b0\u1ee3ng Th\u00edch Ch\u01a1n Th\u00e0nh<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n