Miao De Chan Temple

Just want to share with you guys... This is Miao De Chan Temple in Tagaytay City, Philippines. This is the place where we stay everytime we (Cherry and I) volunteer as teachers every Sunday at the Community Outreach Center ...
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Fulfilling filial piety might not make us rich, but it sure builds up harmony in the family.

Fulfilling filial piety might not make us rich, but it sure builds up harmony in the family.This harmony brings us peace.

When a child is very dutiful to his parents, he will not be selfish because he concerns about his parents’ need. He will not be lazy because he will help his parents by doing all the house works that he can handle. From doing these house chores, he learns that one needs to put in great effort in order to have things done. Thus he will appreciate his parents’ hard working in raising him. He will not waste food and things because he realize everything come from his parents’ hard-earn money. Because of this filial piety, he will watch his attitude, speech, and behavior, so he will not hurt his parents in anyway. With this alertness, his virtue will be built-up day by day. People who are virtuous can turn disaster into safety. Their kind virtue will touch the sky and earth.

1). In Yuan Dynasty, there once a powerful earthquake that cause damage in ten thousand eight hundred areas. All the houses fall apart except Zhong Lee’s house. Zhong Lee is a very dutiful person. Because of his virtue, when the earthquake come to his house, the epicenter line split into two and move around his house. Right after his house, the two line join back together and continue down the road. Truly incredible!

2). Last May in Sichuan, China, there is one school has not been destroyed within the disaster area. All the kids who attend that school survive in this shocking earthquake. From his humble reply to the news reporter, we learned that this person, who is in charge of the school, has a very considerate heart of loving-kindness. Later, both the school and the personnel gain high reputation from people around the world.
As we can see from these two true stories, when a person practice great virtue, not only he can save himself, he saves people around him as well. Building up one’s virtue is the most effective way to turn bad karma into good ones. This all start from doing our duties sincerely toward our parents and family members. From there, we get rid of the bad habit of being self-center (or selfish), restore our natural loving-kindness, and live happily with dignity.

Being dutiful to our parents is our responsibility as a child

Every human being are born to love and care for each other. This innate quality (loving kindness) will naturally urge one to fulfill his role of duty. It is not hard to realize this from the shocking news of the great earthquake happened last May in Sichuan, China. When we watch the tragedies of their experiences in the news, tears just keep falling. Many people take action right away to help them out. People around the world donate money to assist them. Many volunteers even risk their lives by entering this disaster area to offer helping hands in any way. Why? Because we are born to love each other and care about each other even thought we don’t know each other. This comes from our innate love so great that we will do our best until the last moment of our lives. One mother, before she pass away from this disaster, grab the last breath and leave a message to her children in her cellular phone. “No matter what happen, mommy always love you!”

There’s another Mom, fulfilling her duty even after her last breath by wrapping her baby with her body. By the time rescue team dig out the rocks, they discover this mother has already smashed to death for long time but the baby still survive due to mommy’s body protection and the milk from mommy’s breast.

As Teacher Tsai always remind us, “There are two things that cannot wait --- being dutiful to one’s parents and doing good deeds (or to practice virtue).” Why? Because majority of us can’t predict the future. It is possible that someone we love or even ourselves will die suddenly just like that without any notice. If you had been watching the photos of these disaster victims, you will notice that most of them are not ready for this. There must be a lot of regrets in them. Now look back at ourselves. If I am to leave this world right at this moment, am I ready? Would I leave in peace with no regret? Have I do my best to love all while there’s still chance to do so? We should start thinking about it. Then, we will truly be sincere and take this seriously.

Helping people achieve good deeds

“IF I HAVE THE ABILITY, MUST NOT BE SELFISH.
AS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S ABILITY, MUST NOT DENIGRATE IT”
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If we see someone do a good deed or has good intentions, we should help him accomplish it,
or strongly support him so that he can be accomplished and benefit society.

Teacher, some people are ignorant and stubborn, how should we treat them?
Yes, you should know that people's original nature is kind. Similar in nature but far different in learned behavior & habit. Since the original nature is kind, habitual behavior can be changed

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He is an old man with a disability, trying to make a living out here is hard enough.
Even if you want to correct him, you should not break up his stall.
Yes. If you really want to treat him sincerely then you should help the old man find another livelihood and break away from the difficult situation

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People usually dislike those who are different from them, whether in character or in the ways of doing things. In this world there are many kind-hearted people. Yet due to external influences,
kind people often encounter obstacles when trying to do good.
We must strive to help and make successful those who have the intention to do good yet are slandered by others, those who encounter difficulties.
Enabling all good deeds to succeed easily, and decreasing bad deeds, this is promoting virtue.

English Translation of the Song [有你的地方是天堂]

The following is the translation of the song [有你的地方是天堂]


Mother you are like the moon
Emitting a soft bright light
We, like sheep have gone astray
Nestle by your side

Mother, with your palm
You gently pat on our backs
You sing softly for us to hear
For us to have a happy life

Your love is like the moonlight shinning softly everlastingly
In your bosom is the happiest time in our life
Like the gentle moonlight, your love gives us warmth and hope

To be with you is our paradise
To be with you is our paradise

[The Place with you is Paradise] 有你的地方是天堂

Thank you Chan Lan for your another lovely music. After listening to it, I wanted to listen to it again and again. The music is about the caring and loving of mother. Also thank you to Henry for finding the wonderful lyric and the meaning of song in which I could follow and sing along.

Here is the link to the music, 王羚柔-有你的地方是天堂.

Here is the music lyric.
mŭ qīn yōu nĭ xiàng yuè liàng
母 亲 呦 你 像 月 亮
săn fă chū wēn róu de guāng
散 发 出 温 柔 的 光
wŏ men xiàng mí tú de yáng
我 们 像 迷 途 的 羊
yī wēi zài nĭ de shēn páng
依 偎 在 你 的 身 旁

mŭ qīn yōu nĭ de shŏu zhăng
母 亲 呦 你 的 手 掌
pāi pāi zhăo wŏ men bèi shàng
拍 拍 着 我 们 背 上
wéi wŏ men qīng qīng de chàng
为 我 们 轻 轻 的 唱
ràng wŏ men xìng fú chéng cháng
让 我 们 幸 福 成 长

nĭ de ài xiàng yuè guāng nà mo wēn róu yòu cí xiáng
你 的 爱 像 月 光 那 么 温 柔 又 慈 祥
zài nĭ de huái bào zhōng shì zuì xìng fú de shí guāng
在 你 的 怀 抱 中 是 最 幸 福 的 时 光
nĭ de ài xiàng yuè guāng gĕi wŏ wēn nuăn hé xī wàng
你 的 爱 像 月 光 给 我 温 暖 和 希 望

yŏu nĭ de dì fāng shì tiān táng
有 你 的 地 方 是 天 堂
yŏu nĭ de dì fāng shì tiān táng
有 你 的 地 方 是 天 堂

Good guy bad guy

Teacher : Song

In one of the class lesson, teacher Song mentioned about good guy vs bad guy. She gave an example, on a mid hot day in an outdoor shopping parking lot; everybody was on their toes frantically looking for parking for the last minute holiday shopping spree. Suddenly a car pulled into the parking space that I was waiting for the last 10 minutes. While tapping my finger on the driving wheel, what would I do, pull out and reason with the driver or drive away to find another car spot? Well, I raised my hand and answered that I would be a good dizigui student and drive away happily. I might be doing that at LuJiang parking lot, giving spot to all those wonderful teachers and students.  However thinking back, I don't think I would be a good dizigui student at that point of time. Why, because I have been waiting for 10 minutes under the hot sun and my mom has been calling me non-stop on the phone to get the grocery done asap. My patience would have been up to the neck. That incident could as well ruin my whole happy day. So come back to the issue good vs bad guy, am I a good guy not arguing or am I a bad guy leaving the spot and ruin the mood for the whole day?

 

Taking Care of Parent

Teacher: Song

Teacher Song mentioned that we need to take care of our parent's body, mind, and spiritual.
From my interpretation our parent's body is their physical feature, appearance, health, and also death preparation. As long as they two hands, two legs, looks healthy, and when they die bury them or burn them, and that would make us good/dutiful child. Right?
The taking care of mind part is hard. I think the mind is their perception, logic, consciousness, thought, and their memories. They always have the perception of "if its not break, why fix it", and "this is just me" mentality. Furthermore, unless there is some major incident that affects things that they most cared about, they will never change. Therefore, I think I will be very careful on this part. Teachers from LuJiang did mention to be compassionate and teach our parent the ways of saint and sages. However, I would interpret it as if I am not practicing the ways of saint and sages, I will not teach it to my parent. What would you do in this situation?
The spiritual realm is really beyond me. Maybe you guys can give some suggestions.

Interesting website about Di Zi Gui and Pureland

Please visit the website below. The website contains interesting pics, quotes, articles, slide shows about Di Zi Gui and Pureland. Master Chin Kung is featured also in this website. Amituofo!

http://web.me.com/pauline.shen

Proper Attitude in Learning Di Zi Gui

An excerpt from the speech of an entrepreneur, Mr. Hu, Xiao Lin. He reported what he has learned from Di Zi Gui. (Feb. 22 , 2009)

(Please note: In the {} is what Teacher Pat's sister has learned from the speech of Mr. Hu, Xiao Lin. The rest is the priority concept/attitude in order to learn Di Zi Gui, translated from the speech.)

1. First of all, I have a great proper attitude, that is I am very willing to correct my mistakes.

{I learn that in order to be willing to correct one’s mistake, one needs to:
a. Rethink your lifestyle. And accept the new way of ‘living with no mistakes‘
b. Totally place yourself into the new experience and actually feel how it would feel like complying with all new rules. In another words: Not to resist the new rules.
c. Prepare to die. "Today has gone, as a minus of life. Like a fish in faded away water, getting closer and closer to death. how can it be enjoy? People, be assiduous in one’s refinement and progression; be alert to impermanence; be discreet and not to indulge with leisure and mood for enjoyment.”
d. Resolutely compromise with oneself to repent and reform, by not doing the same mistake again, and to comply and cope with the challenges. Remember, if you brake the promise to yourself, all your hard work would be wasted. }

2. Correcting mistakes is the most happiest thing of life. I do understand “We make mistake, but we can correct it. There is no greater goodness than correcting mistake.”

Realization about how a human brain works with his senses

This is Teacher Pat's realization on how does a human brain works with his body...

A brain will deliver message to his body about what to think, what to say, and what to do. A body can sense his surroundings through his 5 senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and his sixth sense (feeling) to his brain. With pure mind, a brain has no problem respond correctly to his body the right way that will benefit all. Unfortunately most people’s minds are filled with so many thoughts that most of the time these thoughts (whichever that has the most impression or high in frequency) will dominate. That’s how we keep doing the wrong thing even thought we knew it is wrong to do.

For example, when my senses send “Chocolate” to my brain, thoughts such as “It is delicious” and “My favorite snack” will gang up and took over. As the result, I will eat one after one. The only time I don’t eat is when I am recovering from coughing because I eat too much chocolates. The thoughts “Too much chocolate cause coughing”, “Getting sick is no fun” “Coughing make my throat very pain” are still very vivid that they will dominate. However, few days or weeks later, these thoughts will fake away and “I love chocolate” will re-appear again and dominate because it has been in my unconscious mind ever since I am a kid (already been pile-up).

If you want to be your own master, stop letting these bad habits and thoughts dominate you because they will drag you down.

How?

Simply put righteous thoughts into your brain everyday so they will be high in frequency and deep in impression.
In Buddhism, there is a better way --- keep chanting Amituofo. When we are single-minded focusing in Amituofo, our brain restore its pureness and be able to function correctly without any distraction. All wandering thoughts may still pop-up but so weak that they can not carry on and take over.

Sincerity in Every Guideline in Di Zi Gui

The article below is from Teacher Pat. This is how her teacher defined "sincerity."
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Every guideline that we learn from this book has an attitude of sincere respect due to the heart of loving kindness

Sincere = as pure and simple as it is without any other thought/attempt
= unconditionally; do not have any request attach to it
= no expectation; do not expect others to reach certain standard

For example, if my left hand feel itch, my right hand will scratch it unconditionally without thinking it owe him a favor. My right hand will not think that the left hand should make up for him and not to get itch again.

When we are sincere, we will respect every one, every matter and every thing:
toward everyone:
We will treat others the way we would like to be treated -- polite and humble.
toward every matter:
We will be serious and responsible.
If we are lazy, this shows that our heart is no longer respectful.
toward every thing:
We will cherish it and keep it clean and neat as it should be.
We will not ruin or waste it.
Every thing includes our body and every organ.

When we realize that everyone is like my family member, we will truly love them the way we love ourselves. Sincere respect derives from this loving heart.

“Every living being is once my parent in my past life times and they are the ones who will become Buddha in the future”

With this intimate concept in mind, we will truly be sincere and respect everyone without any discrimination.

A Happy Life Lecture - How to Be a Genuine Good Person By Professor Lixu Cai (Translated by Christopher Daniel)

Good afternoon classmates! Today I am very happy to have this opportunity to discuss "How to Live a Happy Life",in this "Happy Life Lecture". First allow me to introduce myself, my name is Lixu Cai, the Li means"manners" and the Xu means "the rising sun". When I was young I had a habit, later I realized that this habit was good. When an elder came to my house, once I heard his or her voice, no matter where I was I put down whatever I was doing, went to the elder and greeted him or her. I said, "Hello sir", "hello ma’am". Classmates, after I bowed and lifted my head, the elders’ had extremely happy expressions. They petted me and said, "You are a good boy." I was very pleased, too. I was very happy because they approved of me, then I left. So when a child is doing moral acts he is practicing the teachings of the sages who teach us to be polite people. When he bowed, his heart is filled with happiness, because people originally have good and virtuous hearts. So since I was young I kept this habit, later because of this habit I gained enormous benefits.

Once while I was getting into an elevator, there was a woman who was about the same
age as my mother. I went in the elevator first, and then she entered. I asked her, "Excuse me ma’am, which floor are you going to?" Friends, when you take the elevator if you ask in this manner, raise your hand. Ok, thank you. If you entered an elevator and there was a person who smiled and said, "Excuse me, which floor are you going to?" friend, how would you feel? Very comfortable, for that day you will probably be in a good mood. So, manners are the most graceful distance between people. These kinds of manners must be taught. So I always ask my students and students’ parents, “Is learning manner more important or is getting a 98% to 100% on a test more important?"

Question1
(by speaker): "Is learning manner more important (a life’s correct attitude and concept), or is raising a 98% to 100% more important? Which one is more important?"

Audience
answer: "Learning manner is more important."

They all think that manners are important.

Question: "May I ask the parents if they are doing the former job or the latter job?"

Answer: "Latter job."

Why? Obviously, they all say that proper behaving in dealing with people and matters is important, but in actuality when seeing their children, they only force them to do homework.

Question: "As this shows, where does the problem come from?"

Answer: "The hope for children to be successful (to be somebody)."

Once grades improve, is the child successful? After grades improve, is life happy and harmonious? Many issues require us to think deeply. They require us to use wisdom to judge, and the judgment will then be correct.

I believe that many parents push their children towards grade improvement. By the time these children graduate from college, it is possible they do not even know how to greet people. Even without mentioning graduation, many college students study for a few months then drop out from school. Why do they get suspend from school? Their social skills are lacking, also their ability to provide for themselves is lacking. Social skills and an ability to provide for oneself both influence their lives. A grade of ninety-eight points and a grade of a one hundred points differ by two percent; will this difference influence their lives? It won’t! I was a student that grew up under the preoccupation with entering a higher school, after over ten years of schooling life,
when I think back, I didn’t really learn anything; so we have this deep appreciation and I do not want my students to waste ten years on studies that do not have any relevance to their lives. We have this understanding and can deeply think about it, how to let a student, or a child, really learn the right attitude of life and proper point of view, then have him/her plant a strong foundation of life.

So without learning manners, the obstructions in his or her life will increase, because bad manners may cause offence to some people. People will probably refuse to help him/her, so much that people will even obstruct him/her. However, when we show manners people will
probably offer more help, put forth the energy to assist us. So we, as adults, should think about what kind of learning can truly help children in their entire life. Therefore, having this attitude of
greeting elders from my childhood was because of my parents’ teachings, thus I form this habit ever since I was young.

After I waved at this woman she was very happy, following this I introduced
myself. I said, "Hello! I am Li Xu Cai." She said, "Hello! I am your mother-in-law." She thought I said I was her son-in-law2, so I started talking with her. After talking, I realized that her daughter went to the same high school as me. So from this I appreciated the saying, "with fate people a thousand miles apart can meet." So students, I flew from Haikou to Shenzhen, then from Shenzhen to HongKong, so when it is added up, it surpasses a thousand miles, so this really was "with fate people a thousand miles apart can meet." The course of this situation, which I just brought up, starts from greeting people in an elevator. Confucius said, "Without learning courtesy, there is no foundation." With courtesy one can have a place in society. We are all happy when others greet us and vice versa. For example, if we are willing to take initiative to greet others, others will be happy too. Friends, you are all from different areas, today after class when each of you returns to your neighbourhood, in dozens of neighbourhoods greetings will simultaneously ring out. You will all say, "Excuse me, which floor are you going to?" When people in dozens of neighbourhoods start doing this, we believe that Hong Kong’s interpersonal relations will definitely have a big change. In fact we hope that society will be better, we hope that people will respect each other and care for each other. Where should this start? We absolutely should not demand others to do it first. Mutual respect and mutual caring are the result, cause of this has to come from ourselves taking the initiative to respect others and taking the initiative to care for others to begin with. We believe that the entire mood of caring and respecting others will quickly take form and will change better and better quickly.

I recently mentioned that with destiny people can meet, but destiny does not come easily (It requires condition where all the essences are being provided at the right time). We must realize that each destiny depends on its particular condition which is hard to come by, thus we will treasure each condition. "Treasuring each Condition", besides helping oneself, also help one’s family members and many other people. So with good condition we must go a step further to "Create Destiny"

Today we have this destiny together to discuss "How to Be a Genuine Good Person" mainly due to our Chinese forefathers’ wisdom which have been passed down for more than four thousand years. Chinese people then have this precious chance to receive their teachings. All because of the inheritance of wisdom teaching from the forefathers, there forms the condition for us to be
able to connect this destiny.

Our lecture topic is "A Happy Life". Students, how is life happy? How should life be before it is happy? A happy life definitely has happy thoughts and ideas. You need to have the right thoughts and ideas then you will form the right behaviours. You need to have the right behaviours then you will have the right habits. You need to have the right habits then you will have the right personality. You need to have the right personality then you will have good destiny/fate. When you have good destiny/fate life definitely will be happy. So what is the origin? Whether a person’s life is happy or unhappy, the origin is in his thoughts and ideas. So by making your thoughts and ideas right, your life will be planted in a strong foundation.

Students, whose thoughts and ideas do you let manage your life? Especially for planting the right life foundation for your children, whose thoughts and ideas are you based on? This is a very
important question. If a person wants a happy life, his or her thoughts and ideas should be right. Only when the thoughts and ideas are right can one be a law-abiding good person. When you are a good person life will definitely be satisfactory. So modern people like to read books; many like to study psychology. I often ask them, "Suppose you read a psychology book, a person wrote it when he was forty, then when he was sixty he wrote another book,

Question: "Please tell me which book you would read first".

Answer: "Sixty years old."

Question: "Why would you read the sixty year old one?"

Answer: "Possibly the mind is more mature."

Friends, this student just said it — possibly the mind is more mature, has more knowledge. "Possibly", is it for sure? Our destiny and our next generation’s destiny, can they be build upon"possibly"? They can not. We must start from the beginning and think about it again.

Question: "Is a twenty-year-old more pure than a forty-year-old? Is being pure good or is being
complicated good?"

Answer: "Being pure is good".

Correct. We say this world is a big corrupting environment, so a sixty-year-old person does not necessarily have more wisdom than a forty-year-old.

So now, many people study psychology and apply psychological theories to teaching their children. When some people first came in contact with the theories of the USSR, they applied them to teaching their children. Later someone told them, "Italy is not bad". They then applied Italian theories to teaching their children. One day someone said that Europe is not bad, so they applied European teaching theories to teaching their children. Can someone tell me what the children turned into? Many people said that they became test subjects. What do many psychologists use to experiment on? Animals, so we say that today’s children are like lab mice, supplied to people for experiments. It is very possible that after the experiments there was a mistake and it needs to be restarted, is it possible? It’s not possible. So people must make decisions with reason. In the end, what kind of thoughts and ideas make a child’s life happy and harmonious, and make the child becomes a law-abiding good person? This is what we must ponder.

Once, I met a few very successful friends. After listening to my lecture, one of them stood on the side for a long time and did not leave. He waited until after I finished talking to these friends then walk over. He said to me, "Today, if I don’t tell you this I will have a hard time". He said, "After listening to your ‘Di Zi Gui3, I realized that in my more than ten years of social experiences in society, these are only one or two of the ‘Di Zi Gui’ precepts". Students, he is already forty years old, after many years of experience he only found out one or two virtuous teachings of sages. So many people lived to be forty or fifty and suddenly realized that if they were allowed to live life again they definitely would have made fewer mistakes. We have
this regret. Did our forefathers have this regret? They did. So our forefathers take pity on us, do wefeel it?

An elder once asked me a question. This question shocked me, I had never even thought about it. This elder asked, "Out of the four ancient civilizations, which country is still remaining? China." Why is it that in the history of the world, after thousands of years, there is only one ancient civilization remaining? What is the reason for this? This is worth thinking about. Is it that the forefathers of these four ancient civilizations said to the gods, “Come, we’ll draw straws and whoever is drawn will not perish, whichever race is drawn will not perish?" Was it this way? No. Is it that the lucky straw was chosen by our Chinese forefathers, so our culture
was not broken? It was absolutely not like this.

How did China ’s ancient civilization last thousands of years? I believe whether Egypt or Southwest Asia, at that time, their forefathers invented writing, wanted to pass down their experiences through writing also. Why? If all they thought about every day is their daily matters, would they carve pictures and words onto stones? It’s not possible. So their forefathers had this heart, they hoped to pass life’s important knowledge and experience to the next
generation. However they were not successful, it was only China’s forefathers that
were successful. So this was the rare condition the whole world hoped for. We need to look for the cause of this, then you will realize (their profound wisdom), and cherish this Chinese condition, "Treasure the Condition". How could Chinese culture survive
thousands of years? It is because China ’s forefathers knew that language and literature must be separated, and then the culture can last for thousands of years without being broken. Why? Because if literature and language were not separated, if language were to change, after two hundred years would people understand it? They would not understand it. Once they would not understand it, literature would also be unintelligible. I have a friend who left his hometown for twenty years. After twenty years hereturned and talked with many relatives. Sometimes he needs an explanation to understand some phrases. So if after twenty years language had a small change, then after two hundred years there would be a big change. After two thousand years you would not even understand what the articles said. Our
forefathers realized this, so they spoke with modern words but wrote the same way people a thousand years ago did, this is Classical Chinese. The forefathers designed Classical Chinese as a unified literature, so they used it to pass along a thousand years of knowledge without it
breaking. So we hope that we don’t need to spend several years finding out what we are doing wrong, this would be a waste of time. We also don’t want to make our children spend several years finding out what is right and wrong. This kind of regret absolutely should not
happen again. I myself was twenty-five or twenty-six before encountering the sage’s teachings and our forefathers’ teachings. So I feel a little regretful.

After I learned it, I valued this condition. It happens that I went one step forward and became an educator, I taught elementary. I had a sworn brother who had two daughters. One was in second grade, one was in fourth grade. I took two copies of "Di Zi Gui" and drove for three hours to see my sworn brother. I sat down at the restaurant; I hadn’t eaten yet and could not bear it. I began to explain it to him, I told him that each sentence relates to children and its influence is far reaching, one by one I said it like that. As a result, halfway through, I suddenly felt sad and my tears just burst out. The entire room was quiet for three minutes. Later when my emotions stabilized he said to me, "I have heard college professor’s lecture, but none of them
talk the way you do." I explained to him saying, "Halfway though I suddenly felt that if when I was younger I had a teacher explain these concepts to me clearly I would have taken less
wasteful routes and less wrong routes. Taking wrong routes is not too hurtful, but while taking these wrong routes I have no idea how many people’s feelings I have hurt or how many hardships I have caused on people, hence I suddenly felt sad and regretful." With such a deep
experiences I have had, I don’t want my students, or even the next generation of Chinese, to have the same regrets. So whenever I have this opportunity, I absolutely must give the "Di Zi
Gui" to people. I usually keep the sages’ books in my car, so whenever the condition is mature I can give it to people.

We have a friend, his child is eighteen and the other is twenty. Last year when we met we introduced the sages’ teachings, including the "Di Zi Gui". He signed with emotion and said, "My son is already grown, it is too late." Friends, can it be too late? It’s better late than never. It’s not too late. I told him that that’s where one’s absolute sincerity lies. You must use your whole heart and patiently turn back your children’s thoughts and ideas. Of course this is a big job. Because he has this deep regret he kept the "Di Zi Gui" in his bag also. One day he went to get his hair cut. While getting his hair cut, so as not to waste time, he introduced the "Di Zi Gui" teachings
to the barber. She was pregnant and had not given birth. Once he introduced it to her, he gave her a copy of the "Di Zi Gui" text on CD. So after the barber went home, she often listened to the "Di Zi Gui". Later she gave birth to a boy. Our friend later went back for a haircut. She told him, "When my son starts acting fussy, I play him the ‘Di Zi Gui’ on cd, and then he immediately stops crying."

Because he has a deep regret, he does not want others to repeat his mistakes. As this friend with this kind of purpose, we believe he will accumulate a lot of good fortune, which will be passed down to the next generation. We also believe that his children will slowly see their father as a model and change their own behaviours. Since we know that our forefathers have such a profound wisdom and have passed down thousands of years of culture. We must deeply figure it out. After all, exactly what teachings have China ’s sages given us? I always ask my friends this
question, "Are you Chinese?" Why isn’t there a reply? You people have still been
considering it for a long time. Do you need to think about this question for such a long time?

Speaker (ask the audience): "Are you Chinese?"

Audience answer: "Yes."

You don’t sound too loud. Why ask this question? Usually when I ask, in the beginning it is
soft. Later I ask a second time then they usually loudly say, "Yes". Even it is loud, does it definitely mean yes? We must examine our nature and our essence; it’s not a loud shout that gets us milk to drink. I usually ask this question, "If a person was born and raised in America and his or her parents were Chinese, do we dare say that his or her blood is pure Chinese
blood?"

Speaker: "But whose thoughts does he have?"

Audience: "A westerner’s thoughts."

Is blood important or are thoughts and ideas important? Will his blood influence his life? His thoughts and ideas will affect his lifelong intentions, and they will also affect his attitude with
people. Therefore thoughts and ideas are more important. Although we bleed Chinese blood, are our thoughts Chinese concepts? This question relies upon our careful consideration. Our Chinese sages’ teachings, frankly speaking, have already gone for two to three generations. Now we loudly shout, "Yes", but we must really realize our present thoughts and ideas, are they really Eastern or Western. In the world’s "civilized" countries, this "civilized" needs quotation marks because it is merely materialistic civilization not spiritual civilization, people’s thoughts and ideas in these countries are tend to be western thinking. Let’s think about it for a minute, are our thoughts and ideas similar to western thinking as well?

In western thinking the individual is the center. When this self-centered is promoted, interpersonal association becomes "competition". When competition reaches a certain level it
will extend to borders, then attacking will begin, a "war". When war is promoted, it will become
"Doomsday". While walking down the street I often see signs posted on electric poles that say, "Doomsday is here." Friends, did Doomsday arrive yet? Many people believe that Doomsday is an atomic bomb exploding or a nuclear bomb exploding then the earth is destroyed. It is not like that. What is Doomsday? When people’s thoughts are not like a human’s, living will is unbearable. When virtues and moral theories are gone, a human life is like an animal’s life.

One day I went to Shantou to give a lecture, there they were having a month-long classical reading festival to teach children how to conduct oneself and handle matters; the teachings came from the "Di Zi Gui". After a month the teacher organized a small activity. He asked each student to share what he or she learned during that month. A seven-year-old student took the stage and said, "After I learned ‘Di Zi Gui’ I had just aware that to be a human being one must be filial (be dutiful to his parents)." This statement has flavour, only after he learned this then
he knew that a person must be filial. As now when elders meet these children and teenagers they will most likely be very upset. "Don’t you know that you should be filial?" Do theyknow? If people don’t learn they won’t know, "If people don’t learn they won’t know morality and justice." Can you blame these children? It’s because the adults don’t even understand where the
foundation of conducting oneself lies, so they could not pass it on. The responsibility is on us adults, we cannot be partial to this kind of behavior in children nor can we constantly put the
responsibility on them. That is not fair at all.

This child continues, "Before learning ‘Di Zi Gui’ I daily thought about how to frame and hurt my
parents." He was seven. When he said this, his mother was dumbfounded and shocked. I believe that in her entire life, her child was already seven; she never thought that her child
would say this. While she listened her tears could not stop, they continuously flowed. Why? The child said, "Every day she makes me learns this and do that while my parents work themselves to death." If you work yourself to death, can a child feel your love? They cannot feel it, thus the parents have no relation to the child. You still force him or her to learn a bunch of things. What is the purpose of forcing a child to learn a bunch of things? To put it nicely, it is the hope that one’s son will be somebody and the hope that one’s daughter will be somebody. To put it harshly, it is the fear that the children haven’t learned enough; they loose face.

So after our teacher gave this example, another teacher quickly took the stage and shared a story with us. He said that today he asked a student, a seven-year-old, "Do you like your dad more or your mom more?" Was it proper to ask this question? No it was not. By asking this kind of question it’s clear that he is trying to make the child learn to discriminate and to have likes and dislikes. This damages the children. A child’s breadth of mind should
have been wide, but it’s been given erroneous guidance by adult’s erroneous thinking. We should teach them to be more filial and concerned for parents, but instead we ask them which one they like more. As a result, this child didn’t even think, he said, "I don’t love either one, I hate both." The teacher who asked and was immediately shocked, why was he shocked? Because
when his parents talked about their child with the teacher, they were immensely proud. They said their child plays the piano well and represents the school at competitions; he is always among the best, so they are very proud of him. However not long after, have they ever thought about what their child was thinking or what their child was feeling?

Adults don’t take the time to truly understand children’s feelings, adults only use what they think is a good method to force beliefs onto children. When children are under such pressure, are their lives happy? Their life is already sick. Their thoughts are already sick even if they graduate from a reputable college, is their life happy? This is worth thinking about; after all, what is the next generation of children thinking about?

There was once an intermediate student who personally cooked for his parents. After his father finished eating he died, he fell down, twitched and died. Not soon after the same happened to his mother, after eating she died. Then after the funeral he quickly and impatiently threw the food down the gutter4. When his aunt saw this she was shocked, it’s like this child has no respect for his parents. Suddenly he walked over to his aunt and said, "Aunty, did my mom and dad buy insurance?" Once he said this his aunt suddenly got goose bumps. It wasn’t normal so she quickly called the police. The result of the investigation was that they found that this thirteen-year-old from Sichuan poisoned his parents. After the investigation, students, do you know why he killed his parents? The insurance company only gave him 10,000 RMB. The motive will scare us; the motive was to get money to buy a cell phone. After we hear this kind of story we feel that the real Doomsday arrived. A child actually, just to buy a cell phone,killed his beloved parents. His heart has no sense of gratitude, no morals, it only has wants.

Let’s go back and think about it for a minute, where does a child get such a strong want for material goods? It comes from teaching children to want, ever since his childhood. Question: Who teaches this?

Answer: Parents.

So now if parents don’t calmly think about it, when most parents reach middle age they will think that life is difficult. They have lost half their life working hard, but the children that they taught will cause them to loose sleep everyday. So when people don’t understand reason, life really will cause them to moan and extremely helpless outcomes will arise. Lets look back on this for a minute, how do we interact with children nowadays? It’s all with material goods. “If you get a good grade on your next test, you get ice cream”, this is while in elementary. In middle school, “If you get a good grade on your test, parents will buy you a bicycle”. What is the motivation for children to work hard? It’s not so they can improve their lives then take care of their parents. On the contrary, it is so they can achieve their goal (material desires). In high school they get good grades on tests, why? Because they can get a digital camera, so life’s motivation is material goods. There was a middle school student who just got accepted into high
school. After the test he said to his mother, "Mom, you should buy me several articles of thousand dollar name-brand clothes." His mom said, "Why?" The child said, "I got accepted into high school, I saved father tens of thousands of dollars. If I didn’t get accepted into high school dad would have to waste time, spend a lot of money and buy me a fake diploma." So do you see what is inside a child’s head? It’s all wants; it’s all using money to measure value. So when the next generation always chases their wants, this will cause many evil actions.

So we say, a nuclear bomb exploding is not Doomsday, when all people’s thoughts and ideas are not human thoughts and ideas; that will truly be Doomsday. So I often say to the teachers that they must teach their students well. Why? If we don’t teach our students well, in the future whose hands will the country and society will be in? It is all going to be in their hands. If their tempers are big, if they don’t even think about others and are all selfish, when they become the country’s pillar our later years will be very miserable. If they have never heard Confucius’ teachings that, "When taking care of parents, do not forget about the elders who do not have someone to take care of them." Everyone should care for their own parents, their elders and at the same time should care for other people’s parents and elders. If one doesn’t have these
thoughts and ideas, every day he only thinks about himself. When we are old, they will say that old people are just old and let nature! Run its course. Then we will be very miserable.

So we, as being adults, teachers, even as being bosses, must try our best to teach our next generation, youngsters and subordinates. Society is a community and cannot be separated. Now that we have this awareness, we must grasp the heart of education. It must not start with "the
self". To put it more clearly, "the self" is when selfish attitude emerges. Rather than us fearing the future society will be chaotic, we should start doing things our self, start doing things with
the family. Do not walk down this wrong road anymore; that is the road to doom.

In the education world we often hear a voice. What voice? The voice that says the education system must change. ‘We must be persistent in walking down this road; we cannot look back, because we must continue “changing”.’ I say, if this road we are walking down leads to a cliff, should we continue walking? If we continue walking, what will happen? We will fall off. Our educational system has been changing, we should like to ask, are the children being taught more and more excellent? Or have they been more and more of a disappointment? So when we do things we must use their wisdom to deeply consider it, not act on impulse. No one can say that he or she is the Chair of the Board of Education and already announce to change and cannot go back on that, otherwise he or she will loose face. That would be putting the entire world and society’s thoughts on education on one person’s impulse. That would be a mess. The reason for change must be proper, and it should change toward right direction.

Chinahas grasped the essence of education. What does"teach" mean? Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty compiled the first Chinese dictionary. He clearly laid out the meaning of each character; in addition, explain outright with only one sentence. So when I read ancient texts I truly admire the sages. "For educators, what is done on top has results down below." So the essence of education is setting a good example with one’s own conduct. "Teach" means "teach children so they will behave". Children should be taught to do benevolent good works. So in "teach" the key word is "righteousness". Only when "righteousness" has standards then will children know the proper restraints of a good person. I often say that the goal of ancient scholars was to become a sage; the goal of modern scholars is to make money. Sages and
making money are very different. Making money is selfish, so children taught under these people have no way to become a good person. The direction of this teaching method lean toward deviation and it is wrong. When the method is wrong one should quickly realize it and withdraw from it. This should be done without a second’s delay.

China’s education system has not been changed in thousands years. Even during the Yuan and Qing dynasties, it was not changed5. Why is it that when the Yuan and Qing dynasties governed China they did not change the education system? Because theygained a deep appreciation of China’s wide-ranging and profound culture, it influences a person, a society and a country deeply. So they didn’t change it, they knew it wasgood. Let’s take a look at the flourishing times of the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, these well-known emperors, all favour Chinese culture the most; they all thoroughly studied the teachings of the sages, and realized that this kind of teaching would keep families happy and society peaceful and glorious, that’s why they did not change it.

Nevertheless, our education system nowadays kept changing, and frankly, do the people making the changes know where they are changing to? Possibly a new theory will emerge, they will examine it for a minute and use it for reference. All these theories originate from Western thinking, which has led the world for the past one or two hundred years. It’s not that we don’t want to let others stand in front and lead, we just need to cool down and see clearly — which road are they actually leading us to?

Friends, lets take a moment to look at the state of the entire society and world, is it this road? It indeed is. Look, today’s children are very competitive; a competitive mind is extremely narrow. When people’s hearts are small, each day will be very difficult due to the endless worries with gains and losses. With competition people will treat others viciously, which will become a war. Thisis why whenever we watch the news there is always news about war. If war could really solve problems then we could accept it. The question is — does war really solve problems? It can even make the problem more serious. Let’s look at the war that America is in, is there a happy ending? There is no happy ending. In the wars that America was in, not one had a happy ending. Of course we cannot blame the American people, after all they do not have the forefathers that the Chinese have, they do not have the thousand-year-old teachings of the sages nor have they studied the "Di Zi Gui". In the "Di Zi Gui" there is a saying; if people understand it and learn it they will not use war as method to solve problems. Whichsaying? "Use force to make people submissive, their hearts will have anger. Use reason to convince people, they will have nothing to object to."

If you use power and force to control people, how will they react? "Angry". Once they have the chance they will arise and retaliate against you. However if you "use reason to convince people", you are treating others with the genuine principles ofbehavior. You will have consideration for others, care for others and they will admire you, then they will take the next step and get along
with you. The sentence is this important, and China’s sages taught it in their first book on educating children. Now America is involved in so many wars, the entire world has been drawn into the shadow of war. In addition, what kind of influence does this have on their next generation? Is it good? It is a bad influence. Returning to the phrase, "For educators, what is done on top has results down below", if what is done above is good, they will learn well; if what is done on top is bad, they will learn badly. Now the state of education of America ’s youth is very
serious. In 2002 the education budget was raised from $50,000,000 to $750,000,000 in a flash it was increase threefold. Did it produce results? Parents, today people have the wrong ideas. What ideas? They think that spending money can solve a problem. In Chinese teachings, money is the last thing to consider, however, people nowadays move this final consideration to the beginning, so people today are thinking backwards. People in some country use money to solve problems. In a minute we will have psychoanalysis of the youth in these countries for you. We will see if in the end, after spending money, will there or won’t there be a good result. Ok, we will end class at that, thank you.

1 This question was posed to the audience, who later responded.

2 His name, Lixu Cai, sounds like the word for son-in-law, hence the misunderstanding.

3 An ancient text taught by the sages that outlined the standards for being a good student and child.

4 At funerals food is customarily placed on a table as an offering. After the funeral
the guests eat the food.

5 During these dynasties foreigners (Mongolian and Manchu respectively) ruled China

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Tranquillity

Here are the "white birds". I think they came after the storm.

Songs from our Music Class

Teacher: Hwang and Ong

The following music is painstakingly searched by our wonderful classmate, miss Hong. Thank you miss Hong!

推動搖籃的手[tuī dòng yáo lán de shŏu]
http://www.adrive.com/public/0d6c629d91810c2e44bf25d4ba1bbe71966bb36125fbd3beb93f5f4f7b5a34bb.html

发好愿 説好話[fă hăo yuàn shuo hăo huà]
http://www.adrive.com/public/cbe8d484a634313f9f83f4bf1f08664bc04969bb46d60f8608509a7928d0cf84.html

愛的真諦[ài de zhēn dì]
http://www.adrive.com/public/7434706300f6602a84bfe3c2a1ed3f52769a2b6db044097245ac0776696765a8.html

生命之河[shēng mìng zhī hé]
http://www.adrive.com/public/0543ff9599e6d7a98e831430e7c9f49e0583a2544b19f8f402bbb75bf86d8c53.html

Chinese Character Wonderment - biang

Teacher: Song

In one character, it contains 57 strokes, so complicated that even today's computer is not able to type it out. It is used to describe noodle, bian bian mian, one of the popular food in Shaanxi province.

Further info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biang

DiZiGui Student Guideline

Distributed By: Bautista, Gladys Anne

Many thanks to Gladys!
Url Link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcFXkKVowlf3ZGRmYnZqNjhfODhmOHo0c3FnNA&hl=en

Reflection from the Lake

Photo taken by: Mr. Choy

"~ Storm comes and disappears ~ and most important all of us have many good moment in time", Quote Mr. Choy

Malaysia Classic Story : Cruelty Brings Misfortune

Researched by: Henry Eo
 
While Tun Jana Khatib who possessed magic skill passed through a palace, he tested his magic skill on a betel-nut tree which eventually broke into two. Paduka Seri Maharaja, the king, was told of this story by a lady who witnessed this incident. He became angry for thinking Tun Jana Khatib was trying to show off his skill and as a result, he ordered his people to kill Tun Jana Khatib. While Tun Jana Khatib was being killed, his blood dropped to the ground but his body disappeared suddenly. Later, it was told that his body was found in Langkawi.

 

Very soon after the death of Tun Jana Khatib, Singapore was invaded by todak (swordfish). This is an abnormal phenomenon and many fishermen were killed by these todak. Paduka Seri Maharaja asked people to build stockade to avoid the attack of todak. At this time, a little boy came out and suggested that they used the banana tree trunk and Paduka Seri Maharaja immediately followed his suggestion. All the todak, while trying to attack the people again, stuck by the sticky stem of the banana tree trunks and were killed easily. Therefore, Singapore returned to its original peace. Unfortunately, Paduka Seri Maharaja believed the bad words told by the ministers that the clever boy might oppose the king sometime in the future and he killed this boy in the end.

 

Raja Iskandar Syah, the son of Paduka Seri Maharaja became the successor and took the duty to rule Singapore after his father died. Raja Iskandar Syah had a few Ministers of Finance (Treasurers) and one of them was the son of Sang Rajuna Tapa. Other treasurers became jealous of the son of Sang Rajuna Tapa as Raja Iskandar Syah liked him very much. They tried to slander him and their words were believed by Raja Iskandar Syah who sentenced the death of the son of Sang Rajuna Tapa by using hukuman sula (sharp-pointed death sentence by which a person is impaled to death).

 

Sang Rajuna Tapa was angry with the action taken by Raja Iskandar Syah. He wrote a letter to Betara Mejapahit and asked him to attack Singapore. During the attack, Sang Rajuna Tapa rebelled against Raja Iskandar Syah and the armies of Mejapahit finally took over Singapore. Raja Iskandar Syah was forced to run for his life from Singapore to Seletar and then to Muar. In the end, Allah destined both Sang Rajuna Tapa and his wife to become stones.

CD 1 Music Lyric PinYin Translation

Translator: Henry Eo Wei Xiong

想師豆

Xiăng Shī Dòu

 

  上     人 賜我    紅    豆    兩  粒

shàng rén cì wò hóng dòu liăng lì

 感 恩  之   情   油   然 而 起

găn ēn zhī qíng yóu rán ěr qĭ

  紅    豆  雖   小   含  意  卻 大

hóng dòu suī xiăo hán yì què dà

菩 薩 道     上    給  我 鼓勵

pú sà dào shàng gěi wó gŭ lì

 

 小    小     紅    豆     光    彩 無  比

xiáo xiăo hóng dòu guāng căi wú bĭ

   象      征   热   誠      象      征     堅  毅

xiàng zhēng rè chéng xiàng zhēng jiān yì

激發我  心    向   佛  行    善

jī fā wŏ xīn xiàng fó xíng shàn

救  助  貧   病    出   錢   出 力

jiù zhù pín bìng chū qián chū lì

 

  上     人  為  救    眾      生

shàng rén wèi jiù zhòng shēng

   整   日奔   走   不息

zhěng rì bēn zŏu bù xī

 難  得 見   師 一  面

nán dě jiàn shī yí miàn

無 法 侍   奉    朝   夕

wú fá shì fèng zhāo xī

 幸    有    紅    豆    兩  粒

xìng yŏu hóng dòu liăng lì

和 我  时    常    心  語

hé wŏ shí chăng xīn yǔ

務  把   想    師  之   情

wù bă xiăng shī zhī qíng

  點  滴 溶   進 慈濟

diăn dī róng jìn cí jì

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

心願

Xīn Yuàn

 

 美  哉 慈濟人    宇  宙    為     胸   襟

mĕi zāi cí jì rén   yǔ zhòu wéi xiōng jìn

海  内  存   知 己  天   涯 若 比 鄰

hăi nèi cún zhī jí   tiān yá ruò bĭ lín

 善    哉慈濟人     嚴   冬     化    陽    春

shàn zāi cí jì rén   yán dōng huà yáng chūn

 行     貫   菩 薩 道    喜 捨  無  遠    近

xíng guàn pú sà dào   xí shĕ wú yuăn jìn

我   們   今 天     相     約  在  這  一刻

wŏ mén jīn tiān xiāng yuē zài zhè yí kè

聚会   在 愛的地 球   村

jù huì zài ài dè dì qiú chūn

一起 為    全   人  類

yì qĭ wèi quán rén lèi

默   默 的 在  祈求

mò mò dè zài qí qiú

 走    上     平   安 路

zŏu shàng píng ān lù

 

我   們   今  天   相      約  在  這  一刻

wŏ mén jīn tiān xiāng yuē zài zhè yí kè

聚会  在 愛 的地 球   村

jù huì zài ài dè dì qiú chūn

一起 為   全    世 界

yì qĭ wèi quán shì jiè

默  默   的在  祈求

mò mò dè zài qí qiú

 迎     向     幸   福  門

yíng xiàng xìng fú mén

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

愛灑人間

Ài Shă Rén Jiān

 

繁    星   依然    閃    亮

fán xīng yī rán shăn liàng

  明    月  依旧  無  言

míng yuè yī jiù wú yán

  温   柔  的   光    來 自心   願

wēn róu dè guāng lái zì xīn yuàn

慈 悲  是 大愛 的 家

cí bēi shì dà ài dè jiā

 

他  們  默  默   怜  視  着   人  間

tā mén mò mò lián shì zhè rén jiān

他  們  不 忍  地 球   受   毁   傷

tā mén bù rěn dì qiú shòu huĭ shāng

他  們  心   疼    蒼      生     多  苦 難

tā mén xīn téng cāng shēng duō kŭ nàn

他  們    永     遠   陪   伴   膚  慰 人   間

tā mén yóng yuăn péi bàn   fū wèi rén jiān

 

感恩

Găn Ēn

 

和  風    慢    慢   的 走   過    園   林

hé fēng màn màn dè zŏu guò yuán lín

 為   花   木  带 來  無   限   温   馨

Wèi huā mù dài lái wú xiàn wēn xīn

  靜 思 精   舍   響    起 一 片

jìng sī jīng shě xiáng qĭ yí piàn

   響   起一 片   感  恩

xiáng qĭ yí piàn găn ēn

細 雨  輕    輕   的  走  過   草   原

xì yŭ qīng qīng dè zŏu guò cǎo yuán

 為   大地灑 下  無   限  滋 潤

wèi dà dì să xià wú xiàn zī rùn

 靜  思 精   舍    響   起 一 陣

jìng sī jīng shě xiáng qĭ yí zhèn

  響    起一 陣    感  恩

xiáng qĭ yí zhèn găn ēn

 

慈濟是 一个  感  恩 的 世 界

cí jì shì yí gè găn ēn dè shì jiè

 人  人   感  恩  事 事  感  恩

rén rén găn ēn shì shì găn ēn

 感  恩 她 美   化 了慈濟 世 界

găn ēn tā měi huà lè cí jì shì jiè

 處   處   感  恩 時  時  感  恩

chù chù găn ēn shí shí găn ēn

 祝  福 感  恩 的  靜  思 精  舍

zhù fú găn ēn dè jìng sī jīng shě

 為   人   間   遍   植  感  恩 的 根

wèi rén jiān biàn zhí găn ēn dè gēn

喜 見   社  会    響    起一 片

xĭ jiàn shè huì xiáng qĭ yí piàn

   響   起 一 片    感 恩

xiáng qĭ yí piàn găn ēn

 感  恩

găn ēn

 

 

 

 

祈禱

Qí Dǎo

 

我   的 心     在  靜 思   中     感  恩

wŏ dè xīn    zài jìng sī zhōng găn ēn

我   的 心  念         充     滿    虔     誠

wŏ dè xīn niàn    chōng măn qián chéng

大  家一 起來 祈 禱

dà jiā yì qĭ lái qí dǎo

  從   不  同    角   落  地 點

cóng bù tóng jiăo luò dì diăn

祈 求   平   安    吉  祥     滿   人   間

qí qiú píng ān     jí xiáng măn rén jiān

 

我   的 心     在   靜 思  中     感  恩

wŏ dè xīn    zài jìng sī zhōng găn ēn

我   的 心  念         上    達  諸 佛 聽

wŏ dè xīn niàn    shàng dá zhū fó tīng

大  家 心  口  一  念

dà jiā xīn kóu yí niàn

 化   解惡 念  結  善     緣

huà jiě è niàn jié shàn yuăn

祈 求   天  下  無 災     歲  歲  年    年

qí qiú tiān xià wú zāi    suì suì nián nián

 

  用   心  祈 禱    我   願    人  人

yòng xīn qí dǎo   wǒ yuàn rén rén

   傳      承    智  慧   燈

chuán chéng zhì huì dēng

 清    淨   温    暖    又     光      明

qīng jìng wēn nuǎn yòu guāng míng

默  燃  無    窮     清    淨 爱

mò rán wú qióng qīng jìng ài

提 燈    照     亮    人  間  路

tí dēng zhào liàng rén jiān lù

 

 用    心  祈 禱      但   願    人  人

yòng xīn qí dǎo    dàn yuàn rén rén

 牽     手   心  連   心     開 啓   光      明    大愛

qiān shŏu xīn lián xīn    kāi qĭ guāng míng dà ài

   長     養    智  慧 福 德

cháng yǎng zhì huì fú dé

 娑  婆 世 界  現      光     明

suō pó shì jiè xiàn guāng míng

我   的 心     在   靜 思  中     感  恩

wŏ dè xīn    zài jìng sī zhōng găn ēn

我   的 心  念         上    达  諸 佛 心

wŏ dè xīn niàn    shàng dá zhū fó xīn

大  家 心  口  一  念

dà jiā xīn kóu yí niàn

 化   解惡 念  結  善     緣

huà jiě è niàn jié shàn yuăn

祈 求   天  下  無  災     歲  歲  年    年

qí qiŭ tiān xià wú zāi    suì suì nián nián

 

 

一家人

Yì Jiā Rén

 

我  的  快  樂   来 自你的  笑     聲

wŏ dè kuai lè    lái zì nĭ dè xiào shēng

而你如 果   流 涙   我  會  比你  更   心   疼

ér nĭ rú guŏ liú lèi   wŏ huì bí nĭ gèng xīn téng

我  的   夢      想       需 要  你 陪  我  完     成

wŏ dè mèng xiăng    xū yào nĭ péi wŏ wán chéng

而你 給 我  的愛      讓   我    勇  氣 倍   增

ér nĭ géi wŏ dè ài     ràng wŏ yŏng qì bèi zēng

 

因   為  我   們   是 一 家 人  

yīn wèi wŏ mén shì yì jiā rén

  相    依  相    信     彼此 都   感 恩

xiāng yī xiāng xìn    bí cĭ dōu găn ēn

因   為  我   们   是 一 家 人

yīn wèi wŏ mén shì yì jiā rén

分   擔  分    享        彼此的 人    生

fēn dān fēn xiăng     bí cĭ dè rén shēng

 

 

 

是你

Shì Nĭ

 

是 你    讓   我    生      命

shì nĭ   ràng wŏ shēng mìng

   像    天    空      廣    闊   無  垠

xiàng tiān kōng guăng kuò wú yín

是 你    讓    我  心 底

shì nĭ    ràng wŏ xīn dĭ

  像    海   洋     洶      湧     神   秘

xiàng hăi yáng xiōng yōng shén mì

  用  愛   擁    抱      用   愛呼 吸

yòng ài yōng bào    yòng ài hū xī

我   好    想   接 近 你

wŏ háo xiăng jiē jìn nĭ

  用  愛   說   話       用   愛 傾    聽

yòng ài shuō huà    yòng ài qīng tīng

我  一  定  保   護 你

wŏ yí dìng băo hù nĭ

 

是 你     讓   我  殊   醒

shì nĭ    ràng wŏ shū xĭng

  像    大 地  生      生    不 息

xiàng dà dì shēng shēng bù xī

是 你     讓   我  回  憶

shì nĭ    ràng wŏ huí yì

   像  四季不   斷   延  續

xiàng sì jì bú duàn yán xù

 

  用  愛   擁    抱       用  愛呼 吸

yòng ài yōng bào    yòng ài hū xī

我   好    想   接 近 你

wŏ háo xiăng jiē jìn nĭ

  用  愛  說    話       用   愛  傾   聽

yòng ài shuō huà    yòng ài qīng tīng

我  一 定    保  護 你

wŏ yí dìng băo hù nĭ

 

 

大愛無國界

Dà ai wú guó jie

 

愛心  鋪 出   道  路 來     寸  寸  心  血   寸   寸 愛

ài xīn pū chū dào lù lái    cùn cùn xīn xiě cùn cùn ài

人     傷   我   痛   人  苦  我  悲      讓     生     命      充      滿   大愛

rén shāng wǒ tòng rén kŭ wǒ bēi    ràng shēng mìng chōng mǎn dà ài

 感 恩  開 啓 心     中   愛   互   相      幫     忙    來   關    懷

gan ēn kāi qǐ xīn zhōng ài    hù xiāng bāng máng lái guān huái

人  慈 我 悲  人 喜 我  捨      散 播  有   品  質 的 愛

rén cí wǒ bēi rén xĭ wó shě    sàn bō yǒu pĭn zhì dè ài

 

大愛 無  國  界      遍  撒愛 之   網

dà ài wú guó jiè    biàn sǎ ài zhī wǎng

愛 為  人  類 寫 歷史

ài wèi rén lèi xiě lì shĭ

大愛 無  國  界      遍  撒愛 之   網

dà ài wú guó jiè    biàn sǎ ài zhī wǎng

愛 為 歷 史 作   見    證

ài wèi lì shĭ zuò jiàn zhèng

   總     有 一  天     總     有 一 天     總     有  一 天  他  們   會  改  變

zhóng yǒu yì tiān zhóng yǒu yì tiān zhóng yǒu yì tiān tā mén huì gǎi biàn

我   們   會    共    同     擁    有  大愛 的  明    天

wǒ mén huì gòng tóng yōng yǒu dà ài dè míng tiān

 

 

普天三無

Pǔ Tiān Sān Wú

 

普 天   下  沒    有  我 不 愛 的人

pŭ tiān xià méi yǒu wǒ bú ài dè rén

普 天   下  沒    有  我 不  信  任  的 人

pŭ tiān xià méi yǒu wǒ bú xìn rèn dè rén

普 天   之  下  沒   有   我 不   原     谅   的 人

pŭ tiān zhī xià méi yǒu wǒ bú yuán liàng dè rén

心     中    煩  惱   埋    怨    憂    愁    放   下  了

xīn zhōng fán nǎo mái yuàn yōu chóu fàng xià lè

 

普 天   下  沒    有  我 不 愛 的人

pŭ tiān xià méi yǒu wǒ bú ài dè rén

普 天   下  沒    有  我 不  信  任  的 人

pŭ tiān xià méi yǒu wǒ bú xìn rèn dè rén

普 天   之  下  沒   有   我 不   原     谅   的 人

pŭ tiān zhī xià méi yǒu wǒ bú yuán liàng dè rén

  長      情   大愛 遍    滿   虚   空     永   無  止  境

cháng qíng dà ài biàn mǎn xū kōng yǒng wú zhǐ jìng

 

 

 

生生世世都在菩提中

Shēng Shēng Shì Shì Dōu Zài Pú Tí Zhōng

 

人    生       茫      茫

rén shēng máng máng

浮  沉   無 際大 海    中

fú chén wú jì dà hǎi zhōng

任   由   風    浪    漂   浮

rèn yóu fēng làng piāo fú

隨  境     轉      向    何 去 何  從

suí jìng zhuǎn xiàng hé qù hé cóng

立 願   覺  悟

lì yuàn jué wù

 尋  思宇  宙     真  理 海

xún sī yǔ zhòu zhēn lí hǎi

  從  此 解 脱  業力

cóng cǐ jiě tuō yè lì

  顯 跡人   間

xiǎn jī rén jiān

去 來 自在

qù lái zì zài

 

立地 藏     王   菩 薩 的  願

lì dì zàng wáng pú sà dè yuàn

 但   願      眾      生     得離苦

dàn yuàn zhòng shēng dé lí kǔ

發  觀   世  音 菩 薩 的 心

fā guān shì yīn pú sà dè xīn

但    願   愛 心    廣    大  無  邊

dàn yuàn ài xīn guǎng dà wú biān

發心  立 願

fā xīn lì yuàn

  生       生    世  世  都  在  菩提   中

shēng shēng shì shì dōu zài pú tí zhōng

立 願   發 心

lì yuàn fā xīn

 但   願      生      生    世  世  都   在 菩提   中

dàn yuàn shēng shēng shì shì dōu zài pú tí zhōng

立 願   發 心

lì yuàn fā xīn

 但   願      生       生    世  世 都   在 菩提   中

dàn yuàn shēng shēng shì shì dōu zài pú tí zhōng

 

 

誠心祈三願

Chéng Xīn Qǐ Sān Yuàn

 

我    們 一起 祈 禱      用    至    誠     心  情

wǒ mén yì qǐ qí dǎo    yòng zhì chéng xīn qíng

我    們 一起 發  願        用   開  闊     胸   襟

wǒ mén yì qǐ fā yuàn    yòng kāi kuò xiōng jìn

把 我   們  祈  願    直 達 天    聽

ba wǒ mén qí yuàn zhí dá tiān tīng

  將   我   們   悲   懷     上   契佛 心

jiāng wǒ mén bēi huái shàng qì fó xīn

我   們   的祈 禱    千   萬    聲

wǒ mén dè qí dǎo qiān wàn shēng

 

我    們 一起 祈 禱      用     謙   卑  心   情

wǒ mén yì qǐ qí dǎo    yòng qiān bēi xīn qíng

我    們 一起 發  願        用  慈 悲    胸    襟

wǒ mén yì qǐ fā yuàn    yòng cí bēi xiōng jìn

我   們     聲      聲     祈 願    為     眾     生

wǒ mén shēng shēng qí yuàn wèi zhòng shēng

一  願    遠   離 兵  厄去  嗔    恨

yī yuàn yuǎn lí bīng è qù chēn hèn

 天  下  無  災  無  難  無  嚎    聲

tiān xià wú zāi wú nàn wú háo shēng

 

佛 陀啊   我   們   祈 禱   千    萬     聲

fó tuó ā    wǒ mén qí dǎo qiān wàn shēng

我   們   心   願     千    萬    層         聲      聲     層     層  慈濟 情

wǒ mén xīn yuàn qiān wàn céng    shēng shēng céng céng cí jì qíng

佛 陀啊   我   們  祈 禱    千    萬     聲

fó tuó ā    wǒ mén qí dǎo qiān wàn shēng

我   們   心   願     千    萬    層        層    層     聲      聲       上    人  心

wǒ mén xīn yuàn qiān wàn céng    céng céng shēng shēng shàng rén xīn

 

我   們  一 起祈 禱       用    善   解  心  情

wǒ mén yì qǐ qí dǎo    yòng shàn jiě xīn qíng

我   們  一 起發  願        用   包    容     胸    襟

wǒ mén yì qǐ fā yuàn    yòng bāo róng xiōng jìn

我   們     聲       聲   祈  願    為     蒼      生

wǒ mén shēng shēng qí yuàn wèi chāng shēng

二  願   社   會   祥    和息 紛    爭

èr yuàn shè huì xiáng hé xí fēn zhēng

喜樂攜    手   邁    向    福 慧 路

xǐ lè xié shǒu mài xiàng fú hui lù

 

我   們 一 起 祈 禱       用   知  足 心   情

wǒ mén yì qǐ qí dǎo    yòng zhī zú xīn qíng

我   們 一 起發  願        用     感 恩   胸    襟

wǒ mén yì qǐ fā yuàn    yòng gǎn ēn xiōng jìn

我   們     聲       聲   祈  願    為     蒼      生

wǒ mén shēng shēng qǐ yuàn wèi chāng shēng

三    願   人   心   淨  化  似  清    晨

sān yuàn rén xīn jìng huà sì qīng chén

 恰 如 黑 暗 路   上     點    明     燈

qià rú hēi àn lù shàng diǎn míng dēng

 

佛 陀啊   我   們   祈 禱   千    萬     聲

fó tuó ā    wǒ mén qí dǎo qiān wàn shēng

我   們   心   願     千    萬    層         聲      聲     層     層  慈濟 情

wǒ mén xīn yuàn qiān wàn céng    shēng shēng céng céng cí jì qíng

佛 陀啊   我   們  祈 禱    千    萬     聲

fó tuó ā    wǒ mén qí dǎo qiān wàn shēng

我   們   心   願     千    萬    層        層    層     聲      聲       上    人  心

wǒ mén xīn yuàn qiān wàn céng    céng céng shēng shēng shàng rén xīn