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 20220505善法鋪路度人間Passing On the Bodhisattva Way Generation After Generation

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發表主題: 20220505善法鋪路度人間Passing On the Bodhisattva Way Generation After Generation   20220505善法鋪路度人間Passing On the Bodhisattva Way Generation After Generation Empty周日 6月 05, 2022 12:27 am

20220505善法鋪路度人間Passing On the Bodhisattva Way Generation After Generation

All living beings hsare the same Buddha nature. It's been four years since the buffalo first attended a Tzu Chi bowing pilgrimage. Four years ago, with bananas on its back it followed its owner in our pilgrimage. Its owner prostrated once every three steps. He'd once received aid from Tzu Chi.

In 2013, Ormoc City was devastated by a natural disaster. Hearing (the Abode) in Taiwan call on all to bring aid to the severely affected areas in the Philippines, Tzu Chi members in dozens of countries and regions launched relief efforts. Despite being in different countries and regions, they all gave with love and called on people to make donations.

Tzu Chi helped with the reconstruction in Ormoc and Tacloban and built housing communities for those affected. So, to show gratitude to TZu Chi, they attend our bowing pilgrimage around this time every year. The buffalo also attends the pilgrimage along with a long procession of people. Those affected do not forget when and how they'd received aid from Tzu Chi. Neither do they forget our Tzu Chi volunteers.

Back then, a lot of volunteers helped them rebuild their homes. The owner of the buffalo hasn't forgotten Tzu Chi, either. His buffalo had given birth to a calf. Now, the calf has grown up and also attends our pilgrimage. See how the practice has been followed generation after generation and how all living beings share the same Buddha nature. Those who know to give back are blessed.

With the dedication of many Tzu Chi volunteers, those who were seriously affected have got back on their feet. As they remember how people gave what they could to help them back then, they also give what they can to help others now. Many years have passed. With time unceasingly passing by, we've been carrying out relief continuously.

Exactly how many years have passed? Over the past many years, Tzu Chi has carried out many relief missions and aid projects in the Philippines. The Philippines is affected by natural disaster every year. To our relief, wherever Tzu Chi reached out to help, a few people there would be inspired to join our rank. They then took part in our volunteer training and learned from our senior volunteers.

I often say that Tzu Chi volunteers have left many footprints of love. When we leave footprints of love, people will follow us to give with love. Our senior certified Tzu Chi commissioners bring aid and love to affected areas and guide and inspire those affected to join our rank. While supporting them to receive our volunteer training and become certified Tzu Chi volunteers, our senior volunteers keep doing relief work.

If the newly certified can also inspire others to join our rank while following our senior volunteers, then there will be a lot of people serving as living bodhisattvas.

"Some collegiate volunteers who just joined Tzu Chi also attend our class and we share Master Cheng Yen's teachings with them."

"I've learned to help others without regrets. As we support one another, we serve without ever complaining. We can also benefit ourselves by doing so."

"The weather forecast said that this typhoon carries strong winds and heavy rains. Many villagers couldn't take clothes with them when they evacuated. So, we've prepared clothes for them."

"We are cooking porridge. People in Tzu Chi's housing community have just arrived by truck. They have more or less got wet in the rain. They'll feel warmer after eating some hot porridge."

"I'm grateful that Tzu Chi volunteers have been giving us a helping hand in our time of need. Besides hot food, they've also given out clothes to us."

We see our collegiate volunteers there. Apart from sharing wholesome teachings with them, we also help them to receive and education. Tzu Chi's spirit and work have been passed on generation after generation. Our young volunteers, whatever their age, are expected to become certified in the future. Tzu Chi's work must be passed on.

Everything can be achieved through time. When people receive our aid with gratitude, they will follow our ways. this is how more and more people can be inspired to become living bodhisattvas who give back to society. When Bodhisattva seeds grow into a Bodhisattva forest, a pure land can be created in the world and people will be inspired to serve as living bodhisattvas in the countless ages to come.

Young volunteers follow senior volunteers. We also follow those before us. The Buddha's greatest purpose of coming to this world was to teach the way of Bodhisattvas. We've been passing on the Buddha's spirit and values by sharing the way of Bodhisattvas while walking the Tzu Chi Path.

Carrying the Buddha's teachings, we've been walking the Bodhisattva Path together. While we follow the Buddha continuously, we've been guiding and inspiring people around the world to walk the Bodhiattva Path. This is how we pave the Bodhisattva Path in the world. We must keep laying out the Bodhisattva Path and paving a  broad Bodhisattva Path in more places. This is how we spread the way of Bodhisattvas around the world.

Climate conditions have become very erratic and natural disasters are even more destructive now. We are truly blessed as we've been safe and well over the past few decades. As we are very blessed, we also need to sow blessings for others. Living in a world like this, when we see those in suffering, we must remind ourselves to count our blessings and inspire others to join us to sow blessings for the world. This is how we pave the Bodhisattva Path for our future.

I hope that in this life and in our future lives, we can form good affinities with more people so as to sow more blessings for the world. Let us pave the Bodhisattva Path in this life so in our future lives, we can deliver all living beings and sow blessings for the world. We must all have faith in this.
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