Special Greeting on the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Toronto and Ottawa Meditation Centers

On behalf of the director, Mr. Huynh Gia Tai and all members of Hong Bang Meditation Center, I am very happy to be here in Toronto, to join everyone on the 10th anniversary celebration of Toronto and Ottawa Meditation Centers of Divine Dharma Meditation Discipline.

All members of Hong Bang Center are sending their best wishes and congratulations to the Toronto and Ottawa Meditation Centers on your accomplishments and merits. Your members have overcome so many difficulties and challenges to maintain and develop strong meditation centers as of today.

We also wish to express our appreciation and congratulations to the director of the Toronto Center, Chiem Ai Dung and the director of the Ottawa Center, Truong Kim Lan. You have successfully helped build and expand your local meditation centers.

Although the period of 10 years is not that long, your centers have brought a lot of benefit to humanity. With the blessings of the Grand Master Dasira Narada and the Second Grand Master Narada Mahathera, following the dedicated guidance and teachings of our beloved Masters, Thay Thuan and Co Hai, the Founders of our Divine Dharma Meditation Discipline, all of us are dedicating ourselves to spiritual cultivation and altruistic service.

I have come a long way from the other side of the globe, to join all of you on this very special event. I am bringing a long with me the hope and wishes of all members of Hong Bang center, and so many other DDM members in Vietnam. We all want so much to be here with Thay and Co, to meet other members from other centers around the world, and to witness the growth of our Divine Dharma Meditation Discipline. We are now blessed with the establishment of 70 Meditation centers around the world.

Even thought Hong Bang Meditation Center is the first center established in Vietmam, our center is relatively young with about 100 active members. Everyday, there are about 50 members who come to the center to transfer healing energy to help treat illnesses for more than 60 visitors. With dedication, members practice the teachings of Divine Dharma Meditation, following the guidances of Thay and Co and the guidelines of the Central Headquarters. At the same time we also try to learn from other senior meditation centers.

Once again, we would like to congratulate the merit and achievements of members from both Toronto and Ottawa Centers. Special regards to the charming, beautiful, talented, young directors of the two centers, Mrs. Truong Kim Lan and Mrs. Chiem Ai Dung.

In particular, I am greatly appreciated and impressed by the kindness, cooperation and unity of all members in Eastern Canada Meditation Centers, including Ottawa, Toronto, London, Mississauga, Brampton, Dixie, and Montreal. Everyone have work together to organize such a perfect event. All of you have made this possible, a beautiful anniversary celebration for both Toronto and Ottawa Meditation Center, as well as a memorable festival for all members of Eastern Canada and around the world.

Hope to see you again at the coming 15th, 20th anniversary celebrations of both Toronto and Ottawa Centers.

Vo Thi Ngoc Nga

Hong Bang Center