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I asked a question at Q&A session in Holiday Retreat in 2019  to Sister Luong Nghiem and Brother Phap Niem. The question was ...my parents are getting old and feeling so lonely and they are always asking me my older brother who became a monastic, his name is Brother Sunlight, Nhat Quang, when does he come back?

At that time I suffered a lot between my older brother  and my parents.

 

But in Q &A session I received a warm answer how to support my parents from Sister Luong Nghiem and Brother Phap Niem. And after that Q & A, many monastics and lay friends came to talk to me and shed tears together and hugged me.

 

To my surprise, one Vietnamese friend wrote a letter to my parents to encourage them ! I was really touched and so healed at that time.

After coming back to Japan, I shared everything with my parents. And I saw a miracle of mindfulness. My experience in Thai PV transformed my parents a lot ! Now they are living with hope and happiness everyday.

I’d like to say thank you, to respected teachers and sangha.

And also thank you for giving me this opportunity to have a talk about the second mindful training today. My English is not at good enough so please be patient a few more minutes.

I am working for my father’s company which is located at foot of Mount Fuji in Japan. We are making textiles using Mt.Fuji spring water for dying yarn. I am working there as a textile designer. 

 

In my daily life,I suffered from human relationship and the situation of my  work. On the other hand, the responsibility in my company became bigger and bigger. Our businesses situation was also so difficult because of COVID-19. Moreover my parents were hospitalized three times alternately last year. In this suffering I started to learn Thay’s teaching more diligently once again.

And I was really inspired by Thay’s teaching  about "Five Powers" .

 

Thay said the first, important thing for our practice is Power of Faith.

We should have faith in our practice and we should decide to be happy. I was very touched this teaching and I found I need the Power of Faith more and more. On that day, I made up my mind to be happy by all means.

The second is Power of Effort .the third is Power of Mindfulness .The fourth is Power of Concentration .And the fifth is Power of Insite .

 On that day I made up my mind, in my company I was on duty for weaving from early next morning.Usually I am sleepy and dragged a tired heavy body and entered the factory, but it was totally different in that morning. Because of my Power of Faith and my Power of Determination.

 

 I determined from my heart to live in each moment happily that day ! 

So I already determined to say hello to every moment . Even my body was tired and so sleepy but at the same time... I could feel very fresh morning air from the first step in the morning. How fresh it was ! I felt so happy.

When I go out of my house, I could hear the green grass saying what a wonderful day it is !

The green grass also absorbed fresh air including the morning moisture and they also have just woken up from their sleep. 

I said to them "good morning everyone!" .

After entering the factory. I turned on the weaving machine. Suddenly the sound of GASSYAN GASSYAN ...their usual sound and rhythm started. 

It was really beautiful moment. But I had never noticed it !

It was for the first time to see my routine work in the early morning work was shining. 

And then. I remembered Thay’s words."Awareness is like the sun. When it shines the things, they are transformed” 

and ; I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude and not on external conditions and that I can live happily in the present moment simply by remembering that I already have more than enough condition to be happy.

 

I think 《the time has come》.

Now I really want to transform myself to be happy by practice of mindfulness.

In two weeks, I will become a president of my company. 

I decided to take over my father’s company.

Now I have a strong faith in practice and determination to be happy.

By learning Thay’s teaching more deeply, I will make myself happy at first.

And then I will make my family, employees, people around me happy. 

I vow to continue mindfulness training  more deeply.