My family and I recently donated clothes, supplies, and toys to a donation center. Instead of throwing away items that are still usable, we wanted to donate those items so that they can be reused by someone else instead, while reducing waste that ends up in landfills.
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On highway CA-9 to Redwood Vihara I saw a Blue Jay right on the median. Its head was straight on the ground, neck was twisted, and it tried to fly but couldn’t. I immediately stopped, got out of my car, picked up the bird, brought it back to my vehicle, …
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我对鹿说了“你是畜生，要发菩提心”。 我给邻居送去几册万佛城的儿童书故事书。”
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I noticed the birds had so little to eat and no fresh, clean water to drink. Looking into my circumstance living a house-less lifestyle with little money to survive. I thought, ‘I have built a relationship with these birds. They are counting on me.’ I decided to get on my …
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I try to be accepting of anyone how wants to spend time with me no mater who there are or what there did. Just being compassionate and truthful to them.
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Today I have learned to chant (and to play the music of) the Medicine Buddha Mantra from Master Heng Sure’s Avatamsaka Sutra lectures. Then i heard Rev Heng Sure’s rendition of She Carries Me, a song by Jennifer Berezan, and i was very moved by the connection with Bodhisattva Gwan …
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I listened to a friend who trusts me to confide in.
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Our house has quite the number of mosquitoes that come out in the evening. My friends and I kept getting bit, so we brainstormed how to remove them from the house in a way that would not harm them. After we saw mosquitoes fly out of our pot of steamed …
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The good deeds Heng Sure did, I appreciate. My son is 9 and a half year old, he likes to listen Heng Sure’s talk, he listened to “three steps, one bow” many times, recently he listens to Heng Sure’s reading Sixth Patriarch again and again, Whatever Heng Sure’s talk he …
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I fell off my bike. I cut my arms and hands and hip. I was a mess of blood and gravel. One kind person poured water on my wounds, another helped me to get home. I was humbled and inspired by their heartfelt generosity of spirit. At the local hospital …