Go Beyond with singing

This is a spiritual message given by Tina Turner with beautiful music by Dechen Shak-Dagsay and Regula Curti. The message is wonderful and deserves to be heard by everyone. "Nothing lasts forever, No one lives forever. A Flower fades and dies when the pass of the spring comes. Embrace the fact of life is the greatest love.

Heart Opening

“Your shoulders, arms, neck and ribs can either be a restrictive cage for your heart or an undulating, comforting protector.” The summer before my marriage broke up, I cried a lot in yoga class. It didn’t happen until we lay down for final relaxation. Then tears would pour out of the sides of my eyes. It was almost as though I wasn’t crying, but leaking, and it happened every day for the whole summer.

The Jewel You Carry with You

Even beyond diamonds and rubies, the most valuable gem is the compassionate, loving nature of your own being. Sakyong Mipham on uncovering this treasure. One of my favorite texts is an ancient instruction given by a high lama to the prince of Dege, a kingdom in eastern Tibet. The lama told the prince, who was about to become ruler of the huge kingdom, “In order to become successful in this world, you need three qualities: wisdom, compassion, and courage.

'Born into Brothels', Understanding and Sympathy

Born into brothels is a movie about seven children who have ages ranged from 9 to 15 years and live in brothels at the red light district in Calcutta, India. Zana Briski, a western woman who first went to India in 1995, and three years later she began living with prostitutes in order to photograph them because as she thought that she could not do it as a visitor, she had have to stay with them, live with them and understand their lives.

Anger: What is it? and Why

Anger is one of the most misunderstood and overused of human emotions. First, anger is a reaction to an inner emotion and not a planned action. Second, anger is easier to show: everyone gets angry. Third, the feelings underlying the anger reaction make us feel vulnerable and weak; anger makes us feel, at least momentarily, strong and in control.

Can Men and Women Be Just Friends?

It's been decades since the witty romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally" explored the still debatable question: "Can women and men be friends?" Some people say "No way!" Heterosexual men and women can't be true friends. Blame the hormones! Attribute it to spousal jealousy.

To build a compassionate house for a poor family in Long An

Posted by Minh Nguyen on 9:58 PM

Mrs. Tu standing at the door of her house
We went to Muong Chai hamlet, Phuoc Lai commune, Can Gio district, Long An province, Vietnam in a raining afternoon. There was a local person who had volunteered to guide us to a poor family at Muong Chai hamlet. We followed her to a small road leads to Truong Van Loa’s thatched house. To reach his house we had to wade through a muddy piece of ground because there is no track leading to the house. It is difficult to go on rainy days because the ground becomes swampy, slippery.

At present, Mr. Truong Van Loa is 37 years old; his wife is Truong Thi Be Tu, 37 years old too. Their house is located nearby a river that its bank is falling down and their house is at the risk of collapse in near future. Because of this, one of their relatives gave them a small ground which is quite far from the river bank, at that they can build their house. However, with their current conditions, they don’t know when they can build a simple house, it is beyond their poor competence.

They have two sons. As they don’t have enough money to pay for school fees, their elder son had to stop his study in order to help his parents to earn money for their living. The younger son is studying at grade seventh. The house they are living in is just a miserable thatched house, only enough capacity to protect them from rain and sunshine. There is nothing valuable in their house, it is almost empty, except two weak beds.

Currently, their work is to cut nipa palms and weave them together. With this job they earn about 50,000VND (50 thousand dongs = 2,5US dollars) per day. Unfortunately, Mr. Loa usually gets sick, so that they must pay for his medicine as well as health care. Therefore, their family had to live in a miserable condition for long. From the date they lived separately from their parents’ family up to now, more than 16 years, they still can’t build their own acceptable house. Knowing this situation, we, Huong Tu Bi Group, are planning to build a compassionate house for them. In our estimation, the house costs about 25.000.000VND (25 million dongs). We invite donations from you all. Hopefully, donators will zealously join with us in this meaningful activity in order to make our compassionate-house building plan becomes true soon.
Thank you for your kindness.
And this is a video clip we recorded:





Huong Tu Bi Group

To join with us in this charitable activity, please contact us via this email id: huongtubigroup@gmail.com