一家人 (Family)

http://mymedia.yam.com/m/1623684 <--- click here to listen to the song

作詞：陳建名　作曲：王建勛
我的快樂　來自你的笑聲
而你如果流淚我會比你更心疼
我的夢想　需要你陪我完成
而你給我的愛 讓我勇氣倍增
因為我們是一家人相依相信　彼此都感恩
因為我們是一家人分擔分享　彼此的人生
因為我們是一家人相依相信　彼此都感恩
因為我們是一家人分擔分享　彼此的人生

轉載來自 ※Mojim.com　魔鏡歌詞網

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Article Sharing: Forgiveness is a Prerequisite for Genuine Happiness

Resentment is more difficult to forget than gratitude, and Buddhism is about turning resentment into gratitude - forgive the unforgivable and love the unlovable.

There was once a master named Pan Gui, who preached Buddhism and quoted Wonderful Lotus Sutra: "With rainfall, the ground is moisturized." However it depends very much on whether the roots of the trees and grass on earth are ready to accept it.Apart from his disciples, the Zen-Seven retreat was also attended by outsiders, who learnt diligently in the hope of obtaining enlightenment from the retreat.

In the Zen-Seven retreat, one of Master Pan Gui's disciples was caught stealing. All the other disciples refused to forgive the thief as they feared that the outsiders would get the wrong impression about them. It was suggested that the thief be expelled immediately, but Master took no immediate action after acknowledging the incident, and the guilty disciple was left unpunished.

At another event, the same disciple was caught stealing again. His fellow disciples were furious and protested, together with support from the outsiders, hoping that Master would expel the culprit. But again no action was taken by the Master after he received the letter of protest. After some time, the same disciple continued on his stealing rampage. This was intolerable to the other disciples, and as a final remonstration, they told the Master that if this disciple was not expelled, they would have to leave.

Those unforgiven are sad

Master Pan Gui said quietly and calmly to his disciples: "After listening to my preaching on acceptance of the good and purging of the bad, I believed that no matter where you are you can practise Buddhism at ease. As for the person who committed the offence more than once, this is because he made such mistakes unknowingly out of bad habits. If I do not accept him, who will? Since you cannot forgive his wrong-doing, you can leave and practise Buddhism anywhere, but I want to teach him to be good." The disciple with the stealing habit then began to wipe his tears and clear his larcenous thought, after which he genuinely concentrated on pure self-cultivation and passed on the teaching of Master Pan Gui.

Most people only know how to protect themselves, without knowing how to love others. I always said that we should forgive the unforgivable and love the unlovable. Those who are unloved are really pitiable, and those unforgiven are very sad. If we let our mind lose from its intrinsic character and are unable to forgive and love with mercy, then this is also a debauchery act!

Resentment is hard to forget

There are many things in life we never forget, because of our obsession to love or not. A heart with preference will lead us to pursue continuously. This is the obsession of desire. On the same note for hatred, it is difficult to forget about the things, people and matters we hate.
Resentment is harder to forget than gratitude. In interaction with people, there will be conflicts of character. We can work with people we can see eye-to-eye with; but there are also those who we cannot agree with. For the latter, even their good words become abusive and we are anxious to leave them quickly. This is obsessional psychology.

To forgive others is to bring goodwill to oneself

There was a child who wrote an article entitled, "A good saying from my teacher". He told of how his perception about forgiveness changed after his teacher taught him and asked that he copy down a good saying. One day, upon his return from school, he found that his room was messed up by his four-year-old sister. He went into a rage, tightening his fists, and thought of punishing her. But he suddenly thought of the saying: "To forgive others is to be good to oneself", and slowly loosened his fists. He was pleased to learn about forgiveness. His sister gradually loves him more, which goes to prove that: "To forgive others is to be good to oneself."
When he saw all things scattered, his consciousness told him: "How can this be? How can you damage my hard work and scatter them everywhere?" It is the knowledge that spontaneously differentiates, thus creating anger as a result. At this juncture, his consciousness prompted him: "You must be angry; you must teach her a lesson!" Fortunately, wisdom intervened and awakened him to suppress his impulsive action.

To forgive is a virtue, to forgive oneself is decadence. However, we often find a lot of excuses to forgive ourselves, but on others we apply strict rules.

"Only with wisdom can human beings live in harmony and find genuine happiness. This is the reason we learn Buddhism. Through Buddhism, we learn how to resolve and translate resentment and hatred into gratitude and appreciation."

http://www.tzuchimalacca.com/tc_world/tcworld90/e1-1.htm

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幸福的生活

For daily dosage of humor.. :D

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"A person who is truly kind-hearted, will grow his wisdom through compassion."

The Impermanence Of Life

I received a call from one of our volunteer on Wednesday afternoon. He mentioned that Miss T, one of the dialysis patient had not gone for dialysis for few days. She suppose to undergone dialysis three times a week. And yet, she had not turned up for a few times already.

On Wednesday evening, we went to her house to check out what had happened to her. However, upon arrival at her house, her father informed us that she had been rushed to the hospital in early morning and her condition was not very good.

After that, we drove all the way from her house to the hospital.

Well, as what her father had mentioned, her condition is very critical and she is an unconscious state. The blood vessel in her brain had damaged and the doctor cannot do anything on her. She also cannot breath on herself and had to depend on a machine to help her. The doctor mentioned that her condition is not very optimistic.

The next day (Thursday), our volunteer went to see her at the hospital and her condition still remained the same.

Yesterday morning, our volunteer to see her again. However, they were informed that she had passed away in early morning time. She is only 36 years old.

"Life is impermanent. You cannot predict what would happen to you tomorrow. Thus, treasure what you have today."

Chocolate

Open up the bar of chocolate given by a distance relative from Australia.. Wow, dark chocolate with 70% cocoa, made in France..Put one piece in mouth...nice.....

Althought I like chocolate very much, I do not like chocolate that is very sweet. I prefer chocolate that have bitter taste. Most of the chocolate that sell at the supermarket in Miri are very sweet (too much sugar, and too little cocoa). One of the reason I seldom buy chocolate in Miri. I seldom see dark chocolate being sold in the supermarket here.

Btw, I seldom buy chocolate for myself also because always there is people give me chocolate as a gift...Heee.......

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Busy Weekend

This weekend is a busy weekend. Saturday after work, my friend (one of the volunteer) and I afer having lunch went to home visit to those that apply Tzu Chi Foundation scholarship. The scholarship is for students that come from poor family. Almost hundred over students have applied for the scholarship for the miri area. Though the money given is not much, it can still release some burden of those families that really needed.

Well, we got 4 applicants in our hand. The first house, managed to find it. Second house, though got the address, don't manage to find it. Call the house telephone, the children said that the mother not in. Before that, we had contacted the mother mentioning that we would like to visit their house for the purpose of application, the mother replied that we do not need to come their house...Something fishy about this application.

We manage to find the third house. The applicant and his other siblings live with the aunty (the sister of their father). At first, we thought she is their grandmother (because she is quite old, 70 yrs old). Then, we are told they are her brother's children. Her brother is already 60 years old, and yet the children are very young (the eldest is only in secondary school and the other in primary school). Her brother is working elsewhere and left the children for the sister to take care. The sister still sometime have to work to earn money to support those children. The money given by the brother is not enough to support those children. Sometime do wonder why those people married so late and yet want to have children. Well, if they can afford to support the children, that should be fine. However, they cannot even earn enough to support themselves, and yet they want to have many childs.

The last house, did not manage find it. Search the whole area, and did not find that particular house number. Wonder whether the student given the correct address to us. It took us almost two hours for those 4 applicants. End of Saturday search..... :)

On Sunday morning, three of us (two volunteers and myself) went to send the monthly distribution to those long-term care families. Took sometime to find the house of the newly added one. The family had six children and all depended on the father income of only RM700 only. The family live at the flat house. Finish sending the distribution at around 12pm and decided to find another scholarship applicant at Lutong area there....and again failed to find...:((.

Continue home visit on the afternoon. We were divided to few teams to go to different area. Myself and two volunteers were given two that lived in Lutong area. Managed to find the two applicants' house. However, there's no one at home for the first house. And took some time to find the second house also. Well, finish around 4pm. After that, we had a discussion on the scholarship application while waiting for other teams to come back. We have to compile the list before the school holiday. Finish at around 5pm....End of my Sunday.....

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自然的美

現在社會上，有些人因為愛美而去染頭髮，我不解地問他們：「為什麼要染髮呢？」我們不要以為染髮只是染頭髮而已，很多疾病都是從染髮中產生的。

染髮劑日久月深地滲入我們的毛細孔後，對身體的影響很大，如今連醫學界也提出警告了。我們要照顧好自己的身體，讓一切都很自然，因為自然就是美！

有些人說：「可是我的頭髮漸漸變白了！」白又何妨？自然的白髮也很美啊！根本不需要造作。更離譜的是，還有些人將烏溜溜的頭髮染得紅紅的，為什麼？

我們是中國人，黑頭髮是天生的，年齡也是掩不住的，自然白就白嘛！不需要染黑，也沒有必要染紅、染青、染七彩啊！若能以美麗、乾淨的髮型，配合我們的面相，如此自然就會很美。

http://www.tzuchi.net/MindMap.nsf/72f27e6bf375936c48256b1700053b64/141fe4b4f6d2cb9748256d5e00121f51?OpenDocument

幸福無止境

把虛妄看成真的，計較名利財物、追逐虛榮享受，人生很辛苦。

知足感恩，看淡缺憾，心量如慈母包容子女，人生很幸福。

心能開、念能轉，心寬念純慈悲眾生，就能日日歡喜，歡喜人生，幸福無止境！

source:http://www.tzuchi.net/MindMap.nsf/4584938cfe1a8ada48257373003b8e98/0d6ba49d794044e6482572b3001ffff3?OpenDocument

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