Buddhism in Vietnam (Vietnamese Đạo Phật, 道佛 or Phật Giáo, 佛教), as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism, according to 2019 figures [1].
Buddhism is the second religion in Vietnam (though arguably the first since the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom cites Vietnam's "White Book" that the Buddhist population increased from nearly 10 million in 2008 to approximately 14 million in 2021, which accounts for 13.3% of the overall population of Vietnam).
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According to the Vietnamese government's 2019 National Population and Housing Census, approximately 4.6 million individuals officially identified as Buddhists, representing 4.8% of the total population at that time.
Roman Catholics represented 6.1% of the total population in the same 2019 census.
The vast majority (83.6%) in this officially atheistic communist country stated that they have no [organized] religion or practice [the traditional] folk religion. More
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Female teacher arrested for sex with underage male student in school 40+ times [bodycam]
Villain, cheater, Christian hypocrite, athlete, mean girl, stuck up, child molester (Instagram)
I groomed him when he was 14, and then he cheated on me with a teenybopper HS girl.
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I'm not a cheater. I was in love with the child.
(Criminal Minds Uncovered) July 5, 2025: All individuals mentioned in this video are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Chicago, ILLINOIS. On March 16, 2025, Downers Grove police pulled over a vehicle. This wasn’t a routine stop. They were targeting the driver, 30-year-old Christina Formella, a special education teacher and soccer coach at Downers Grove South High School.
The felony allegations (when she was 28 and the boy was 15) surfaced when the boy's mother discovered disturbing text (sexting) messages on her son’s new iPhone.
When Christina Formella, a Downers Grove teacher and coach, was charged with sexual assault of a student, her story "splintered" across the internet. The flood of TikTok and tabloid coverage of Formella’s felony case has fractured into a thousand different story lines and angles, breaking the image of one woman into discrete villainous archetypes: the predatory teacher, the ungrateful cheater wife, the high school mean girl, the evil athlete, a perversion of Christian schooling. With each new rendering, viewers, readers, and TikTok users can be shocked and outraged and titillated again. Formella’s case: Instagram
*No, it's probably not, and anyway his name is a pseudonym to protect the baby victim of his teacher's villainous predation. Strangely, it seems to be legal for a minor to have sex with a teacher given that they are innocent victims and nothing more.
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Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control
(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.
In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.
Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.
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It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?
There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.
Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."
So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.
(Kristi Burke) I was born and raised in the Southern Baptist Church and spent my childhood and teen years devoting myself to what I believed to be the good mission of Jesus Christ.
After years of devotion and Bible study, I realized that I no longer had any good reason to believe. I lost nearly everything I once knew and loved to carve out my most authentic path... But it was worth it.
Freewill? I control your life, not you!
I hope that by sharing my story I can bring some comfort, clarity, or validation to others out there who are struggling with their beliefs, too.
Please keep in mind that everything I say here is my subjective experience and opinion. It is intended to deconstruct fundamentalist, Evangelical, conservative Christian ideologies from an ex-Christian perspective. I know what I'm talking about, and there are Christians who will understand.
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WARNING: God guilt and Christian repentance talk with Preacher Joe Kirby using pornstar stories!
God: Do as I say not as I do! How many times do I need to remind you of that? (Family Guy)
This is why you never mess with a porn star... (Off The Kirb Ministries) Joe Kirby from Off the Kirb Ministries appeals to subscribers for money by buying his miracle book. Take this message seriously because his prayer for the last three years is that God help Christians around the world to stop, umm, start being holy and pure in a good way. #offthekirb #Jesus #Christianity #porno #spillingseed #onanism #takethystaffbutdon'twhackit
Faith healing cringe fails: Parts 1 and 2
(Holy Koolaid) Are healing miracles real? Does faith healing work? Watch as these famous TV faith healers are exposed in this brutal compilation of faith healing fails and learn the tricks faith healers use to con millions out of billions.
Watch as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, W.V. Grant, Robert Tilton, and Peter Popoff are exposed as frauds deliberately tricking the faithful while requesting donations and seeds of faith in the form of dollar bills.
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07:30 W. V. Grant
10:47 Peter Popoff
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16:14 How harmful it all is
17:04 What's next?
17:23 Ways to help and outro
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Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experienceby successful American Theravada Buddhist meditator and teacher Sharon Salzberg has earned a 4.6 out of 5 stars after 350 ratings.
In this beautifully written work, one of America's most beloved meditation teachers -- cofounder of Insight Mediation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, offers discerning wisdom on understanding faith as a healing quality.
"Faith" is the poor English translation of a term the Buddha used, saddha, which means "confidence," "conviction," "what can be confirmed." He said this Dharma, this Teaching, invites all to come and see for themselves. It can be put to the test.
Through the Teachings of the Buddha and insight (vipassana) gained from her lifelong spiritual quest, Salzberg provides us with a road map for cultivating a feeling of peace, trust, confidence to step forward and put into practice Teachings that promise immediate results and that can be practiced by anyone of any tradition.
Salzberg in India with Dipa and Dipa Ma.
If the ultimate goal of Buddhism is awakening (bodhi, "enlightenment" in this very life), the necessity of investigating to see for oneself is of paramount importance.
But we will not investigate without some measure of "faith" to listen then put into practice what we are not yet able to see as leading to knowledge and vision.
We must commit to persistent practice that reveals itself as wholesome, worthy, and giving rise to the highest good.
Therefore, the real meaning of "faith" becomes something that can be tested and confirmed in the here not the hereafter.
Moreover, we need not reject any other faith, any other religious tradition or teacher, to pursue awakening.
In that sense, Buddhism is not a religion (a set of things to believe) swapped for another religion. It is the Awakened One's map pointing out how we ourselves may bring ourselves to awakening just as he did.
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