2009-02-01

980125人間菩提英文版人間菩提-Celebrating the Chinese New Year

人間菩提--辭舊歲‧迎新春
Celebrating the Chinese New Year


We wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year and prosperity year after year.
We wish the viewers of Da Ai TV a happy Chinese New Year.
Best wishes to everyone.
Grand-master, we love you.
Tzu Chi USA, San Francisco chapter Reno, Nevada. Fresno, California. Modesto, California. Northern California.
Tzu Chi young bodhisattvas.
We sincerely wish Master good health. May the Dharma wheel turn always
We will always follow Master.
May all gain blessings and wisdom and be filled with joy from the Dharma.
Happy Chinese New Year.

I am grateful to all Tzu Chi volunteers
Despite being in different places around the world, they all share the same heart and wish each other their best for the coming new year.
Seeing that, we can feel that the world is truly like one big family.
Here at the Jing Si Abode in Taiwan, I’d like to wish all Tzu Chi volunteers worldwide as well as everyone around the world a happy Chinese New Year. May everyone have a new year filled with auspiciousness.
Indeed, I wish everyone auspiciousness.
(May each and every coming year) be filled with auspiciousness.
May every day be one where all is safe and well, with favorable weather, (and with no disasters in the world)
This is what I sincerely pray every day---
May there be favorable weather around the world disasters be eliminated, the world be peaceful and society be filled with peace and harmony.
(To achieve all that,) everyone’s mind must be purified.
This is what I have been wishing for at every moment of every day.
We often speak of good climate and land conditions.
But, what’s most important is harmony among people.
When there is harmony between people and people can love and respect Nature, the weather will naturally be favorable.
With that, the people will be safe and well.
That is what we should wish for everyone at all times.
Every one of us must be grateful for every day. every month. and every year in the past.
For everything that we’ve encountered, we must be grateful for it.
Of course, for the sake of passing on the goodness in humanity, we must further work to spread the seeds of love around the world.
Happy Chinese New Year.
Best wishes to everyone.
Happy Chinese New Year.
Thank you, Grand-master for rebuilding our school.
We love you.
“Grand-master,”
“we’ve received the tuition assistance form Tzu Chi”
“Thank you, Grand-master”
“Thank you, Grand-master for the tuition assistance”
“We have the confidence, willpower, and courage to spread the Great Love of Tzu Chi”
“We wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year”
May everyone be safe and well.
What we see in the footage makes me think of how we’ve been working hard to sow the seeds of Great Love one by one in different countries around the world.
During the past 40 years or so, we see that some (senior) volunteers, who joined Tzu Chi when they were young are still healthy now in both body and mind.
Through doing Tzu Chi’s work, they’ve accumulated a lot of merits.
They make good use of every second of their day, and live a very meaningful life.
(in helping and serving people)In life, they learned to help themselves and make their own life better.
At the same time, they also guide other people to see the true value of life.
Thanks to their efforts, Tzu Chi is able to care for so many people around the world today.
Everyone worked very hard to pass on Tzu Chi’s mission and values.
This is why Tzu Chi volunteers around the world all carry themselves in the same way.
This is the result of 43 years of work.
Through the course of time, we’re able to accumulate our work and extend it worldwide.
This is why I express gratitude to all our volunteers everyday.
At every second, (my heart is filled with gratitude)
(and I can never say enough thanks)
Time truly files.
At this time, we must truly welcome the new year with a heart of piety.
As spring comes and revitalizes the earth, (in our inner world, may t also be spring) where we experience a spiritual renewal and have new prospects for the future.
I hope everyone will have (a “new” mind and a spiritual renewal)
By “new”, I mean that if we have accumulated any spiritual garbage.
(such as afflictions, unwholesome thoughts, etc.) we need to clean them out, in the same way that we would clear out the garbage in our house. (and give it a thorough cleaning)
(To do that, we need to) use the water of Dharma to clean our minds.
We need to thoroughly clean out the afflictions and spiritual defilements within and from now on, we must begin anew and live in accordance with the Dharma.
Our Jing Si principles are about diligently living out the teachings of the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings every day.
This Dharma is in our everyday life. (In this new year, let us) resolutely follow the way of Innumerable Meanings.
The Dharma is to be found within. If our mind is always with the Dharma, at every moment, our mind will be clean and renewed.
The Chinese classics teach that every day we should renew ourselves.
Every day, our mind should be very clean and pure so it can reside in a state of purity and tranquility where our mind is very pure with selfless vows that are infinitely vast which we uphold unwaveringly for countless eons of time.
(We must also come together as one)
(with pure hearts) and be like a forest of bodhi trees growing from the same foot.
United, we must cultivate a field of blessings and let our roots of wisdom grow deeply by walking the Bodhisattva Path.
I hope that our hearts and minds are all like this.
If we can do that how peaceful and spiritually free we would be
Blessed would we be because of the joy we attain from giving and with wisdom, we can shift our perspective and attain peace and contentment.
This is Dharma---isn’t this Dharma something that we can all attain wherever we are in the world?
If we can live that way, ours will be the most peaceful and blessed life.

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