Hai Nguyen

08/16/2025

Looking forward to spend a day of well-being with you on "Liberation from Suffering is Here and Now" Saturday 23 August from 9 AM to 4 PM at Fairfax Government Center 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22193 - Conference Room 2&3

Light lunch and water bottles will be provided. Online Registration is required at https://forms.gle/ypLKtkeepRrfpaCe6

08/03/2025

Vietnamese Teaching Talk on the Essence of the Spiritual Path (Tinh Hoa của Sự Tu Học)

Ngày nay, chúng ta có hàng ngàn kinh điển truyền thừa từ truyền thống Nam tông và Bắc tông cũng như rất nhiều những phướng pháp thực tập và tông phái như Thiền, Tịnh, Mật … Ngay đến Thiền Tông thì cũng có rất nhiều những tông phái, phương cách khác nhau. Là một người cư sĩ, nếu không có nhiều thời giờ nghiên cứu, trải nghiệm rõ ràng thì rất là khó để chúng ta biết được sự tu học nào là thích hợp và lợi ích nhất cho chính mình. Trên con đường tu học, chúng ta không nên hoàn toàn dựa vào phương pháp, hình thức tu học vì đó chỉ là phương tiện chứ không phải là cứu cánh, mà phuong tiện thì cần luôn thay đổi cho thích hợp, lợi ích tùy theo hoàn cảnh, nhu cầu sống. Xin chia sẻ những câu chuyện thực tiển để trình bày, nêu lên một số những đề tài quan trọng như sự khác biệt giữa hiểu và biết, căn bản cần thiết để có sự giác ngộ ngay trong đời sống, và nhận biết chính xác về Niết Bàn … Xin chia sẻ với quý thân hữu là “Người đời thì thường chuyển hoàn cảnh để được an tâm. Người tu thì thấy tâm để tâm an trong mọi hoàn cảnh.”

Kính mời quý thân hữu lắng nghe bài Pháp Thoại Việt ngữ tại trang Spotify hay tải về (download) để nghe sau tại https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/sinh-thuc/episodes/Tinh-Hoa-ca-S-Tu-Hc-e36b5vh

07/21/2025

A Day of Spiritual Learning on "Liberation from Suffering is Here and Now" on 23 August at the Fairfax Government Center in Virginia

We are inviting you to join us at a day of mindfulness to learn about Awareness Meditation to be wholehearted present with life moments, to experience fully and accurately, to really live life, and to bring about well-being. The Day will be conducted in a warm, friendly and supportive environment nourishing the mind and body. The insightful teaching will be shared with realistic stories and practical examples applicable to the life of a layperson with career and family obligations and responsibilities. The Spiritual journey is not about finding ways to escape from everyday challenging world but to recognize the nature of well-being and fully engage with the world right where one is with the wisdom understanding and accurate experience to not get caught in life difficulties and attached with unrealistic expectations.

The Day is offered free of charge. Voluntary donation is suggested to cover the cost the day and help supporting Sinh Thuc Meditation Center. Light lunch and water bottles will be provided. Registration is required online at https://forms.gle/ypLKtkeepRrfpaCe6 For additional information, please visit https://www.sinhthuc.org/e_index.htm

07/10/2025

Discover the Existed Awaken Mind

You are invited to listen to the teaching talk on " Discover the Existed Awaken Mind" on Spotify at https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sinh-thuc/episodes/Discover-the-Existed-Awaken-Mind-e357p4s

The Teaching talk is from a Day of Mindfulness in January of 2025 in the Fairfax, Virginia area. During this snowy day, I shared a beautiful story from the 9th Century on the teaching that the awaken mind is already present in everyone. There is no need to search for it or practice to create it but simply aware and be in touch with the awaken mind. In life, there are so much distraction that we often do not really experience life moments accurately and typically mistaken the perception as real life. Let us look at a practical path of being not doing to recognize and be in touch with the existed Awaken Mind. We often believe that by working hard, studying diligently that we would be successful, however, on the spiritual path, “One does not need to do or remember anything but understand everything to realize the well-being in life.”

06/23/2025

July 25-27, a Weekend of Well-being on "Being Free from Attachment and Imprisonment of the Mind" in Wardensville, WV (an hour and 45 minutes from Northern Virginia).

This event is a great opportunity to take a break from the busy routine, to reflect on what are really important in life, to learn and practically integrate the thousand years old Wisdom teaching on cultivating well-being in everyday busy life. The event will be structured with a balance of talk on the teaching for Well-being., practical meditation, storytelling, wellness exercises, group discussion, and Q & A providing an optimal learning and nurturing environment.

Online registration is required at https://forms.gle/dzyw6UZuDUwD8iqd6 Dormitory lodging and Nutritional vegetarian buffet style meals are provided. Email to information@sinhthuc.org for additional information.

06/16/2025

A Beautiful Day of Spiritual learning and celebrating Sinh Thuc Meditation Center 20th Anniversary on 6th June. More great photos are at https://photos.app.goo.gl/zLv3FytyUkCaAUPTA

05/23/2025

Let's live fully so when it is time to leave, no linger, no regret

Visited a Buddhist temple at the foot of the majestic mountains on a rainy day and invited the big Bell to awaken all being to be fully present with this beautiful and precious life moments. As I pay respect and invited the bell, I remembered a wonderful poem from my Zen teacher in the Redwood Forest & Mountain of Northern California - “Ta là người lữ khách, Qua đây tạm dừng chân, Đâu cũng là quán trọ, Đi rồi không vấn vương”. Simple English translation “We are travelers. This is only a temporary stay. Any places are momentary homes. Live fully so when it is time to leave, no linger, no regret.”

05/02/2025

Get Ready to be Amazed in the Here & Now

You are invited to view a short video clip (less than 5 minutes) on a Teaching talk "Get Ready to be Amazed in the Here & Now" on YouTube at https://youtu.be/e4kdbKJwmzU The video clip was recorded during the last session at a weekend retreat on a profound poem from the 10th Century. The practical advises on how to experience the Truth is life changing if done with the spirit of openness and curiosity. Let me know your thoughts!

This video clip was recorded during the last session of a weekend retreat when Hải Nguyễn a.k.a. Quảng Minh Đức (Mindfulness Teacher) shared with the group a...

04/13/2025

June 7th 20th Anniversary Celebration and Day of Mindfulness

You are invited to come and celebrate with us at Sinh Thuc Meditation Center 20th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday June 7 from 10AM to 4PM. It is a great opportunity to take a break from the daily hectic schedule to truly relax in the beautiful nature setting, nurture well-being, listen to the teaching, live mindfully, meet like minded friends, enjoy vegetarian lunch and the festivities in a warm, friendly, supportive environment. At this Special event, we will share with you the wisdom teaching on practical ways to live well right in our busy, chaotic life. The Spiritual path is not about working hard to change our life circumstances to have peace and joy. It is about seeing, experiencing clearly to recognize our perception, attachment and illusion of the mind.

Saturday 7 June 2025
09:30 AM Guests Arriving
10:00 Welcome & Introduction, Guided Meditation, Teaching Talk
12:00 Vegetarian Lunch & Break
01:30 PM 20th Anniversary Celebration and Festivities
04:00 End

Please register early online at https://forms.gle/o6nZayeiPD1yKX8VA so we can adequately prepare lunch for everyone. Looking forward to meet you at this special event.

04/06/2025

The Truth is Being Covered Up

You are invited to listen to the teaching talk on "The Truth is Being Covered Up" on Spotify at https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sinh-thuc/episodes/Uncovering-the-Truth-e3156b6

This Teaching talk is from a 4-day weekend retreat in 2022 at Sinh Thuc Meditation Center in West Virginia. Practical and realistic questions were asked on How could one be truly open with life as it is unfolded and able to really live, function in everyday life without having agendas, purposes? As we follow the Wisdom teaching, How should we deal with life challenging circumstances? Why is it that when we were young, it was so easy to be happy, as we grow older happiness come with a cost and a lot of work? In addition, Wisdom teachings were beautiful shared on living like the nature of water with flexibility, adapting to life circumstances while retaining our true quality and Ways to look inward to see our attachments, mental binding that unknowingly have been following us continue creating one bad situation to another.

02/07/2025

Weekend mindfulness meditation retreat on 7-9 March with the theme “Awaken with Difficulty like Lotus flower flourishing in the Mud”

We often come to the spiritual practice to look for ways to transform suffering and find happiness in our life. However, if we continue to believe that suffering existed because of difficult circumstances or cause by others, then suffering will be here to stay. If we still think that happiness is only possible when we work hard to achieve, get what we want and love, then happiness will continue to be beyond reach. The Spiritual path is the path of awakening to the nature of life, the path of experiencing clearly and understanding clearly as things are to free us from the illusion of the mind. Only when we stop experiencing life through perception and wanting that suffering would effortlessly end and true happiness would naturally bloom in our daily life like Lotus flowers flourishing in the mud.

The Retreat is a great opportunity to take a break from the busy routine, to reflect on what are really important in life, to learn and practically integrate the thousand years old Wisdom teaching on cultivating well-being in everyday busy life. The event will be structured with a balance of talk on the Wisdom teaching, meditation sessions, storytelling, wellness exercises, group discussion, and Q & A in a friendly, nurturing and supportive environment in the beautiful Spring mountain & forest settings.

Online registration is at https://forms.gle/WjvKBHzovg5dxN5x7

01/25/2025

Chúc Tết Ất Tỵ ~ Happy Lunar New Year

Tết Ất Tỵ đến, kính chúc quý thân hữu và gia đình một năm với nhiều sức khỏe và hạnh phúc. Cầu nguyện cho thế giới bớt đi những khổ đau và mọi người sớm thấy rỏ chính mình để niềm vui và bình an có mặt trong mỗi giây, mỗi phút của đời sống.

In welcoming the Lunar New Year, we wish you and your family a wonderful year with much health and happiness. We wish that suffering would decrease in the world and everyone would soon clearly see oneself to realize peace and joy in every second, every minute in life.