Two festival seasons cannot be held due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, it is predicted that this year spiritual destinations may be overloaded due to the increase in the number of people traveling to spring. Faced with the above situation, from the end of 2022, the Prime Minister issued a telegram 1174 on ensuring traffic order and safety during the Tet and Spring Festival 2023. Even before Tet, the Prime Minister also issued Public Administration No. 05 directs to increase prevention work during the Lunar New Year and this year’s festival season. The festival organizers have also implemented many measures to ensure epidemic prevention, security and order. However, somewhere there is still an unbeautiful, uncivilized behavior in the worship facilities themselves.
The spreading of change, placing the money on the altar, stuffing money into the statues… has long been harshly condemned by the culturalists themselves. Developing merit is a cultural feature with beautiful meaning, called a little sincerity to contribute to the construction and repair of temples and pagodas. But this meaning has been distorted when many people consider going to Mass, scattering change as a contract with the gods for what they want, losing the inherent beauty of generating merit.
Du Xuan is with many people to pray for good luck at the beginning of the year, for others it is an opportunity to find peace, towards purity, so each person has a place to go, a unique way to express their hearts. reverent. Whether going to a crowded place or a quiet place, people also need to remember the rules of civilized behavior at festivals, to keep themselves and everyone else.
There is an old saying “Buddha is in the heart”. If our mind is the Buddha mind, then it is not necessary to go to the temple to pray to get good things. At the beginning of the Spring of the New Year, the need to go sightseeing is also a legitimate thing, but how to go with the attitude is worth mentioning. No Buddha, no saint teaches people to go to many pagodas, temples, palaces, shrines… in order to have many blessings, going to Mass at the beginning of the year is to make people’s hearts peaceful and good. That is a positive value to aim for.