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Translation
Maybe it is not priceless, but anyway. I started translating some DRBA-material from English into Dutch. This way I am getting to learn very kind and wise people. Also I’m learning a lot both on the topics I’m translating and on the translation work itself. I hope one day the Dharma will flourish in Europe too. respectfully,
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A little help
I was sitting at Starbucks and a man asked for a donation to homeless children. At first I did not feel to move, and just shook my head in reply. But after thinking about it, I got up and gave him a dollar.
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to cheer up a friend
I am hoping to acquire a copy of Paramita for a friend of mine. She has been very sad lately, since her pet ducks were all shot by hunters. But I think she will enjoy this music.My recent act of kindness has been helping the local sangha to prepare and serve vegan meals for the general public, to promote mindful and compassionate eating.Thank you.
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A Dharma School Teacher
I am a dharma school teacher in Seremban Temple. it is hard to teach little boys and girls to do good in this era. i find it hard to drill what is good and what is bad into their brains. But it is good to teach the dharma, it makes me feel happy.
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Helped Homeless Woman with her Computer Woes
This morning I helped a homeless woman who was having trouble with her laptop. She was having trouble connecting to wireless hotspots. We first walked to the library, but I had so much trouble that I thought it was the library’s network which had given me trouble in the past too. So I asked her if she could go with me to the library at the college, but she said she didn’t have bus fare. SO I gave her $2 for bus fare and we went. I tried to connect at the college but still had trouble until I found something she had changed in her internet settings that had…
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gift
I offered introduction to the Dharma to interested friends, who are both now setting the wheel in motion 🙂
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RECITE NAMO AMITOUFO FOR THE DECEASED
I use to go to Tze Yun Tung Temple (Prajna Guan Yin Sagely Monastery) become volunter helper. Recently, I also help to recite NAMO AMITOUFO when there is any dharma friend’s or relative passaway, which lead by our Dharma Master. I feel that this is very good. In Chinese Community, some of the people may feel that going to a deceased house or funeral place is not good & bring bad luck, I think this is superstitious. I feel that when help to recite NAMO AMITOUFO for the deceased, besides “assist” the deceased to go PURELAND by inviting AMITOUFO to come, we can also plant good seeds at PURELAND. So,…
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Giving Everything You Have
I’m writing this because I’d like to give a copy of the Paramita CD to a young friend of mine named David. He’s 17 and lives with his parents — and with me when I’m in California. His parents have invited me to stay at their house as long as I would like to: no rent, no utility bills, offering me anything I would like from the kitchen, sometimes fixing food for me. There are acts of kindness in this household every day. Mary (my friend and David’s step-mom) just called me because I wasn’t feeling so well this morning. She was wondering if she could pick up anything for…
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Home Coming
To my girlfiend best thing I could do today was my coming home from half year trip from Asia. I was travelling in different buddhist temples studying myself. So today I have more Juha to give her in the future and I think now she is more happy than ever I can remember.
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Customer Service
Attending to the little things makes a lot of difference. I called the customer service number of my new health insurance plan with a specific question about coverage that was unclear in the booklet I had received. The customer service representative who answered my call was very abrupt, hardly seemed to listen to my question, and her tone of voice was harsh. I persisted in trying to clarify my question for her so that I could get an answer but I was unfailingly polite, met every one of her abrupt responses with a kind reply, not giving up on trying to get the information I wanted, but always gently and…