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the drop is more elastic and hard to break when it can resist the extensive stretching. The Master refers to the flexibility of His teachings to the people who are not at the same level of knowledge and consciousness of goodness for understanding the Buddha Dharma. Some people are shrewd and the others daft, When...

SƠN LÃNH: Cũng viết là sơn lĩnh. Có nghĩa: chót núi hay đỉnh núi. Ý chỉ cảnh rừng núi miền Thất Sơn. Bởi nhìn lên các đỉnh núi miền Thất Sơn, vẫn còn mờ mịt những cây lẫn đá, chưa thấy gì gọi là quí báu, nên dân chúng chẳng chịu nghe lời giáo khuyên....

NAM TRÀO: Also read as Nam triều, meaning the court of the Nam dynasty. “Gái Nam Trào” refers to a girl who currently maintains her chastity, which makes her worthy of being a subject of Vietnam in the future.TIẾT TRINH: Also read as trinh tiết, meaning the purity of women, who cannot love any man...

The mountain peak is located in southern Vietnam. This refers to the Thất Sơn region (Châu Đốc).

People living in the South called "Nam-Phương", meaning the South direction, this refers to Vietnam. It also refers to the Southern Continent of Jambudvipa, one of the four great continents in the Sahā world. The Master once said: "The central realm revolves towards the South,Opening the Investiture to choose loyal and virtuous people." (The Wonderful...

A 'Kệ' is a literary form in the Scriptures, usually with one chapter of the Scripture accompanied by a stanza to praise or elaborate, explaining the meaning in more detail. A stanza has no limit on the number of lines, it can be long or short (see also PHTĐ by Doan Trung Con); for example:...

Only for the Seven Mountain (Bay Nui) region, which is located near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, the Cambodian people still live around here in large numbers, so it is called Mount Chin (Chin: Chinese pronunciation, Tần in Vietnamese). According to the Buu Son Ky Huong teachings, the noun Qin country refers to the Cambodian country, as...

Only for the Seven Mountain (Bay Nui) region, which is located near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, the Cambodian people still live around here in large numbers, so it is called Mount Chin (Chin: Chinese pronunciation, Tần in Vietnamese). According to the Buu Son Ky Huong teachings, the noun Qin country refers to the Cambodian country, as...

The failure to uphold the spirit following an improper worship rituals made people forget their duty to resist foreign invaders, allowing the French to invade our country. The patriotic figures during the Nguyễn Era (1862) called the Western European invaders 'White Hordes' (white-skinned people) in these two lines of poetry: 'On the full moon day...