Buddhists are famous businessmen in Vietnam
Buddhists are famous businessmen in Vietnam
The Buddha taught that if a person has the capacity to get rich through his own effort and intellect, it is good to use that material wealth to benefit him. But the rich by deception to benefit me is not possible
Here are Buddhists who are famous entrepreneurs in Vietnam.
Mr. Le Phuoc Vu, Chairman of Hoa Sen Group
Mr. Le Phuoc Vu is a successful businessman, a person of Buddhist faith, based on the spirit of Buddhism to do business. From empty hands, in 2001 Mr. Vu established Hoa Sen Joint Stock Company. Hoa Sen is also a symbol of Buddhism. This businessman has many charitable activities, especially in May 2013 he spent more than VND36 billion to invite Nick Vujicic to inspire presentations in Vietnam.
According to Mr. Vu in the Buddhist Culture magazine, his family has a Buddhist tradition, his grandmother is a monk since 1972 under a sectarian tradition. Next, his father followed Buddhism.
As a child, this businessman lived according to family beliefs. At that time, Buddhism for Mr. Vu was more religious than the manifestation of spirituality and an understanding, thoroughly grasping the spirit of spirituality.
At the age of 30, Mr. Vu returned to Buddhism after many events in life. From here, Mr. Vu started looking for answers to self-questioning questions like What is the root of that world? What is the interaction between people and spirituality? And what does it interact with? After all, what is the nature of that spiritual world?
"Hoa Sen Group always has its own ways unlike other businesses for sustainable development, but above all must take ethics as a foundation. Our criteria are honest-community-community Personally, I am happy that I have good living values, I have done a lot of things to help people. Hoa Sen Group shared.
In 2018 Mr. Vu decided to go to the mountain to live in peace. According to sharing, he only came to Hoa Sen twice a month for 2 hours. At the same time, Mr. Vu also described the mountain where he lived as a fairy scene, having a beautiful stream for bathing.
Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung, President of Thai Ha Books
Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung is a Buddhist who has the Dharma name Thien Duc. He is the founder and President of Thai Ha Books. Mr. Hung had many years of doctoral studies in the Soviet Union, then worked at FPT, when he left his position as Deputy General Director of this group. With Mr. Hung, he thinks that money is not so important. Thai Ha Books is known as a publisher with its own section specializing in Buddhist books. He studied Buddhism since he was a student and started practicing at the age of 30.
"I myself, in the old days, I had a lot of illnesses, even a few times I missed. In 2000 in Sydney (Australia), the doctor examined me with diabetes, blood fat, liver enzymes and indicated. But in fact, thanks to meditation, for years, there has been no medicine for me, I am fine, in addition, meditation gives a lot of ideas: In the past, just meditate as I bring my notebook and pen Meditation, new and strange ideas just come out and record and deploy, at that time I understood why Bill Gates, Steve Jobs ... came to India to study meditation, why the Google Group has a meditation movement. For the whole group, "Mr. Hung shared about the opportunity to come to his meditation.
President Thai Ha Books shared every morning that he also meditated and chanted Buddha's name. It is also his way of relaxing and entertaining when stressful or difficult at work. "And the breath is that I still read books, still meditate, remain a Buddhist," he affirmed.
Ms. Pham Minh Huong - Chairman of Vndirect Securities JSC