Glossary Archive

"The fellowship belongs to oneself, the Way is the religion.The religion one is following. This is the voice of a master calling his disciples. The Master wrote: "In this path, from here on, you must take good care." Or: "Oh my fellow adherents, strive to correct yourselves" (Vol IV).

An incarnation of the Master. When walking around Luc Chau, the Master often pretended to be rowing a boat. At that time (1939), people in the Hau Giang region and throughout the six provinces (Luc Chau), especially Ong Chuong canal, people often saw an Old man rowing a small boat and announcing: "My boat takes...

An incarnation of the Master. When walking around Luc Chau, the Master often pretended to be rowing a boat. At that time (1939), people in the Hau Giang region and throughout the six provinces (Luc Chau), especially Ong Chuong canal, people often saw an Old man rowing a small boat and announcing: "My boat takes...

Bellicose, belligerent, strongly inclined to win

Filial piety is filial piety to one's parents. Among the Four Graces, filial piety is the highest, but to fulfill filial piety, people must know how to repay their parents, who are grateful for giving us life and nurturing us, while we were still children and needed the care and protection of our parents. But...

Fire Oxen (born 1937, 1997) are powerful, determined, and industrious leaders, combining the Ox's inherent diligence with fire's passionate energy. They are reliable, honest, and deeply dedicated to family, but can be stubborn, hot-tempered, and blunt when challenged. They thrive in careers requiring endurance and leadership.

Also called the Skandha. It means five elements that combine to conceal the true nature of a person. According to Buddhist scriptures, the five aggregates are: form, feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness. However, the Master now explains them as: greed, anger, delusion, cause, and self. These two explanations, although different in terminology, have the same...

The Five Elements Philosophy (Gogyō Shisō in Japanese, Ngũ Hành in Vietnamese) or the Five Elements Theory (Gogyō Setsu) is a philosophy of natural philosophy that originated in ancient China. The theory is that all things are made up of five elements: fire, water, wood, metal, and earth (the command of the seven lunar days). Additionally, the idea that the five elements 'influence each other, and through their birth, death,...

This is related to the Five-Aggregates or Skandha.

Seven mountains, seven peaks… Only the most representative place names, in fact, within the mountain complex of Thất Sơn, located in four districts such as Tri Tôn, Tịnh Biên, Thoại Sơn, and Châu Đốc of An Giang, there are nearly 40 large and small mountains. It is a unique mountain complex in the Southern Plains,...