Act of Kindness Stories zh

  • Who needs SLEEP anyway?

    Received a call from a friend that had been coming to mind lately. She was in town with her husband and 2 children, after recently moving away. During the visit there was a HUGE “BLOW-UP” between her and her mother –as often happens with Moms and she felt uneasy keeping her children in such a negatively charged atmosphere. Although I work nights, they were asked to spend a few days with me and my girlfriend. I returned from work to find the four of them asleep so I caught about 2 hours myself then made sure they had a chance to get a good breakfast, a shower, and a chance…

  • Welfare

    First of all, I feel very grateful that I could attend the 5th Global Conference on Buddhism as one of the volunteers. I have learnt a lot from the conference. Thanks to all the Bhante and Reverend. Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! I am first exposed to Buddhism through a book entitled “10 Great Disciples of Buddha”. This book brings a lot inspiration to me. However, I learned more after I joined the Buddhist society of my university. I feel no regret for that decision. In the society, I was responsible to arrange welfare activities for two semesters. Thus, we have visited the old folks’ houses, orphanages and other welfare organizations. We…

  • WONDERS OF FAITH

    Rev Heng Sure was recently here in KL for a conference. My wife received word that the reverend would be paying a visit to the way place at Old Klang Road and persuaded me to take her there. Reluctantly I agreed and took her there. I am glad I did!. Master Heng Sure’s dharma talk was most inspiring. He gave us a prebriefing of his following day’s presentation at the conference, “Preparing for Death”. His story about the widow of Wintech Technology’s widow was thought-provoking. It greatly illustrates that with faith, one can remain steadfast and resolute to overcome all pains & obstacles. The lure of ‘The Pure Land’ was…

  • Travel and Donation

    Yesterday, my family and I just came back from Cambodia. We heard that it is a very poor country and so I decided to bring along some food to give to the poor children there. When we were giving out the chocolate we brought, the children were fighting and snatching from the other smaller kids. We were a bit disturb at their conduct.It shows that they are hungry for the food. I know the food cannot help them much but I am instilling the kindness of giving to my children and not to waste food.

  • Touch by the love by my Parents and remorse for not having done enough

    The loss of both my parents shook me into realising how inadequate attention and enough appreciation were extended to them despite their gift of life to me. A gift that is so unconditional that it touches my heart deeply despite moments of discontent felt during my adolescence age which at that time was considered unjustly meted to me. The guilt felt became so strong that I began radiating daily metta and merits to them. In addition I have also sponsored printing of dharma books dedicated in memory of them. Wishing that they rejoice in the merits of dharma-dana and may they take existence in a happier and more blissful state…

  • washing the DISHES!!!!

    when I came to the farm , my friends were really tired and they ate food. they asked me if I could wash the dishes for them. I said yes so i did it. another story is when my mom asked me if I could come with her to do the Landry and i said yes. I could have said no but I wanted to do it anyway.

  • Turtles

    On my birthday,I went to a Chinese super market and bought about 60 something Red eared turtles and freed it into a river.

  • Too much anger

    All my life I have had a temper. There were even times when I was angry, I would realize that I had no reason to be angry, but I chose to stay angry anyway. I thought it made me feel “better” (or actually, powerful). People around you want to placate you when you are obviously angry. They stay out of your way and are very likely to do what you want.It didn’t feel right, though. It felt like I was doing something wrong. But I felt like I couldn’t do much about it. Everyone gets angry, right?When I discovered Buddhism, I found that I certainly could do something about it.…

  • Translation for the Vajra Bodhi Sea.

    I recently translated a few articles from Enlgish to Chinese for the above mentioned journal. The past issues of this journal (back to the 1970’s) are going to be available online. The translation is going to make the journal more accessible to Chinese-only readers. I have to fully understand the text in order to translate them, so I learned a lot in this process, too. This is not priceless, but qualifies for action of kindness.