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Cỏ làm hại ruộng vườn, si làm hại người đời. Bố thí người ly si, do vậy được quả lớn.Kinh Pháp Cú (Kệ số 358)
Nếu chúng ta luôn giúp đỡ lẫn nhau, sẽ không ai còn cần đến vận may. (If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.)Sophocles
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PREFACE
On this special trip to Vietnam to escort my Father and my family to our ancestral roots, this bilingual poetry book serves as a memory. This book is dedicated to my late Mother, Mrs. Ai Thi Tran of Vinh Hoi, Binh Đinh, my late adopted brother Thao X. Bach and my Father, Mr. Long Xuan Bach who had been and always nourished us with their never-ending unconditional joy, admiration, and love.
This book is also a symbol of joy, dedication, appreciation, gratitude and love to my wife Trang Thanh Nguyen of An Dương, Huế, our sons Khang X. Bach, and Kiet Thanh Bach for the source of life, of love, of hope, and of inspiration in this life. Thank you.
A special thanks to Mr. Tien Minh Nguyen and my nieces, Trang Tran, Ha Nguyen and Quyen Nguyen for making this publication possible.
With Gratitude and Loving-kindness for all.
Phe X. Bach
Sacramento, CA, April 2017
FOREWORD
Words of Compassion
A friend of mine now becomes a Buddhist expert on crisis response.
Many scholars in the 2015 UN Day of Vesak Organizing Committee have known Mr. Phe X. Bach as a Buddhist activist, read his PhD dissertation about Mindful Leadership, and invited him to be a panelist in a discussion titled Buddhist Response to Educational Crisis.
I am delighted to hear that news piece from Bangkok. I have befriended Mr. Phe X. Bach for years, and believed that he would someday become well-known in the world of engaged Buddhism.
I read and I see that. His poems whisper words of compassion and care to this suffering world, and make things brighter and happier.
Readers can see his love via the poem titled “After Tết, Breathe and Smile with Mother”:
Sunshine fills with anxious
Red roses’ petals, stigma, pollens—falling.
Mother’s once beautiful black hair now turns
completely white.
Orange and banana are ripening (goldening) its isolation.
See that... The poet speaks to his mother with so many colors. And so gently when he tries to ask his mother to practice Zen with breathing and smiling.
In another poem, Phe X. Bach sends a message:
Where are you/we heading?
May I send a few words?
Smile at life, which is ever-changing,
And not too much pity of life and death itself.
See that... The poet askes us to smile at life, to recognize the ever-changing reality, and to cross the river of life and death.
Or when Phe X. Bach writes to the Zen Master Tuệ Sỹ:
Forever, you are: The snowy crane soundlessly flapping its wings
Across rivers uncontaminated by either human nobility or dregs of humanity.
I read his poems and feel that his words inspire me. Actually, Phe X. Bach is not a normal poet; he tries to act as an activist who puts in words the three Dharma Seals.
You are invited to read and hear among his words the ancient verse “gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā...”
Nguyen Giac Phan Tan Hai
On this special trip to Vietnam to escort my Father and my family to our ancestral roots, this bilingual poetry book serves as a memory. This book is dedicated to my late Mother, Mrs. Ai Thi Tran of Vinh Hoi, Binh Đinh, my late adopted brother Thao X. Bach and my Father, Mr. Long Xuan Bach who had been and always nourished us with their never-ending unconditional joy, admiration, and love.
This book is also a symbol of joy, dedication, appreciation, gratitude and love to my wife Trang Thanh Nguyen of An Dương, Huế, our sons Khang X. Bach, and Kiet Thanh Bach for the source of life, of love, of hope, and of inspiration in this life. Thank you.
A special thanks to Mr. Tien Minh Nguyen and my nieces, Trang Tran, Ha Nguyen and Quyen Nguyen for making this publication possible.
With Gratitude and Loving-kindness for all.
Phe X. Bach
Sacramento, CA, April 2017
FOREWORD
Words of Compassion
A friend of mine now becomes a Buddhist expert on crisis response.
Many scholars in the 2015 UN Day of Vesak Organizing Committee have known Mr. Phe X. Bach as a Buddhist activist, read his PhD dissertation about Mindful Leadership, and invited him to be a panelist in a discussion titled Buddhist Response to Educational Crisis.
I am delighted to hear that news piece from Bangkok. I have befriended Mr. Phe X. Bach for years, and believed that he would someday become well-known in the world of engaged Buddhism.
I read and I see that. His poems whisper words of compassion and care to this suffering world, and make things brighter and happier.
Readers can see his love via the poem titled “After Tết, Breathe and Smile with Mother”:
Sunshine fills with anxious
Red roses’ petals, stigma, pollens—falling.
Mother’s once beautiful black hair now turns
completely white.
Orange and banana are ripening (goldening) its isolation.
See that... The poet speaks to his mother with so many colors. And so gently when he tries to ask his mother to practice Zen with breathing and smiling.
In another poem, Phe X. Bach sends a message:
Where are you/we heading?
May I send a few words?
Smile at life, which is ever-changing,
And not too much pity of life and death itself.
See that... The poet askes us to smile at life, to recognize the ever-changing reality, and to cross the river of life and death.
Or when Phe X. Bach writes to the Zen Master Tuệ Sỹ:
Forever, you are: The snowy crane soundlessly flapping its wings
Across rivers uncontaminated by either human nobility or dregs of humanity.
I read his poems and feel that his words inspire me. Actually, Phe X. Bach is not a normal poet; he tries to act as an activist who puts in words the three Dharma Seals.
You are invited to read and hear among his words the ancient verse “gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā...”
Nguyen Giac Phan Tan Hai
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