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Seeing these images indeed makes me feel how wonderful it is to have wholesome friends in life to have wholesome friends in life.
We see our Tzu Chi volunteers in
How endearing they are.
Be it our senior commissioners, volunteers who have not yet become certified Tzu Chi members or the locals wearing our volunteer vests.
What exactly are all these volunteers doing?
They were promoting environmental protection.
(at the annual Granny Smith Festival in
See what a large group of volunteers participated and how orderly they were as the old and young all joined in together.
They truly are very endearing.
Indeed, we see Tzu Chi volunteers worldwide continually working to care for the Earth by promoting environmental protection.
What's most important is how they guide people spiritually onto the right track to truly walk the path of moral values and ethics.
We also see
Seeing what has been done in
The rice plants are flowering because they have been well fertilized.
That's why there are these rice ears with flowers.
When we farmers see these flowers, we'd know this rice paddy will reap a more abundant harvest than others.
All the farmers are very happy to see the flowers.
Every stalk of rice comes from one seed of rice.
Haven't I shared with everyone the saying.
"Each grain of rice sees countless suns and moons"
That's right.
When the people of
Afterwards, we also distributed fertilizers to them in four stages timing it to when they need to fertilize so that upon receiving it.
They could promptly apply it.
We have been there giving them support and aid for nearly six months now.
On Nov.2, it will be six months.
(as the cyclone hit on May 2)
(So, this time, our volunteers are going there to)
(share in their joy of harvest)
We are also planning to build permanent housing and a school for them, so
Two groundbreaking ceremonies will also be held.
We hope the farmers can have a plentiful harvest the disaster victims can have a place to settle and the children can have (sturdy schools to study in)
We also see our bodhisattvas in
I am truly very grateful to group after group of volunteer bodhisattvas who had gone to the quake-affected areas (from
Plans to build permanent housing and schools are also underway there.
However, what we have to do immediately is to provide the survivors with enough supplies for their first winter after the quake in May.
How are they to survive the winter?
There are still so many people who are living in temporary housing or makeshift places set up on the rubble as their houses have yet to be rebuilt.
There are many of them.
For the elderly, sick, or disabled.
How are they to survive?
That is why I am very worried.
For our upcoming winter aid distributions, we must quickly take action.
But we must do it step by step by first going to survey what people truly need.
As there are too many people being affected we have first chosen 15 townships.
(that are most in need of help)
So, in the last few days, Tzu Chi volunteers have been traveling around to these places scattered across a wide area.
I am also very grateful that besides Taiwanese businessmen in
I am very grateful to them. Seeing them, we feel hope because we see that.
Bodhi seeds have already begun to sprout.
We also see many young people on the survey team who are members of a study group that they organized in
So, they are working very hard to understand the ideals and spirit of Great Love.
They also go with Tzu Chi volunteers to visit the quake survivors to survey their needs.
(which enables these volunteers to) learn about suffering firsthand.
Look at the young woman we see in the footage, Zou Li.
She's a freelance graphic designer.
The day before our volunteers were due to arrive in
She then was faced with the difficult decision of whether to stay with her father in the hospital or to join our volunteers since assessing the local's needs is very important for the oncoming distribution.
The help of the local volunteers is especially needed because the more local volunteers that participate the more manpower we'd have.
So, Ms. Zou felt that though her father was in critical condition and was still in the ICU.
She'd entrust him in the care of hospital staff while she dedicated herself to the preparatory work for the winter aid distribution.
My father is ill.
So, after I came here this time, I felt even more deeply for these people as I felt they were like my own parents.
Though my father's unconscious in the hospital, I want to contribute my efforts.
It's a way of taking action to sow blessings for him.
So that he can get better soon.
There were also a few local businesspeople and young people who joined our work as well as drivers from a car-rental company.
They often drove our volunteers around the disaster area, and moved by what they saw, they started to care for others of their own accord.
Take Mr. Peng for example.
One time when he drove our volunteers to the disaster area, he came across a little volunteer whose parents were not around.
So, he took her as his god-daughter.
See how close they are just like father and daughter.
(He truly treats her)
(as if she were his own daughter)
Indeed, with such genuine love being inspired.
(he is able to care for others)
(the way our volunteers do)
There was also another driver, Mr. Wu, who served as a documentary volunteer for our volunteers.
All these local volunteers are indeed our seeds there.
There are several of them.
Seeing that, I'm truly very moved.
(So, we're now making preparations for)
(the upcoming winter aid distributions)
To the quake survivors, the path to recovery seems endless.
But yesterday, our volunteers told me that although the survivors are still living in great hardship.
They have no complaints at all.
Having been devastated by such a major disaster, they have no complaints at all.
They are truly admirable.
Having gone through such great suffering, despite feeling helpless.
They don't ask for anything.
See how they have no complaints & ask for nothing.
It makes me feel for them even more deeply.
Also, seeing how our Tzu Chi volunteers are working closely together with the local volunteers.
We know that the love of the local people has been inspired from the bottom of their heart.
The seeds of love are now sprouting.
Such is hope.
So, the seed of love and hope is already sprouting in the local area.
That is how one seed of love multiplies to give rise to innumerable seeds.
I often speak of how bodhisattvas walking on the same path to one another.
(When we put this Buddhist teaching into practice)
Isn't everyone around the world like our family?
And so, our volunteers also bring the locals with them to care for the elderly.
Our volunteers embrace them and care for them warmly and so, the locals learn to do the same.
They too have opened up their hearts and opened their arms to embrace this group of elderly people and care for others, be they the elderly who live all by themselves.
The physically impaired, children or those who are still grieving the loss of their loved ones.
These locals have come to embrace everyone just like their own family.
(as Tzu Chi volunteers have done)
(Tzu Chi volunteers are truly)
good, wholesome friends to all.
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Regards, Jenny
思慧合十
Today's Jing Si Aphorisms: The ocean can be filled, yet the tiny mouth of a human being can never be filled.
今日靜思語: 世間的海可以填平, 但是小小的一個嘴巴, 卻永遠填不滿
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