Act of Kindness Stories

Act of Kindness Stories

  • Everyday Good Deeds

    As a new father, I vow to continue to uphold certain practices. Its not easy with a one year old! So I wake up early, before my family, and chant the Shurangama Mantra , the Great Compassion Mantra and others, along with reciting vows everyday, offering up this meritorious conduct to the entire Dharma Realm!

  • Done and forgotten

    I helped my friend clean his bicycle last week, as it was difficult to clean the bicycle chain. Because I knew how to clean it so i helped him out 😀

  • Sharing

    I am much inspired by the positive energy of the music so I have shared this project with my families and friends. I hope it will bring joy and peace to them who then can share with more people 🙂

  • Three Steps, One Bow to support Vegan diet

    I have been doing the Three Steps One Bow with Berkeley Buddhist Monastery online program daily for a few months now. I would like to delicate this merits to encourage people to be Vegan. It is really not compassionate kill and eat other beings flesh to nourish ourselves.

  • Listening is good.

    In this time of COVID-19, I believe listening is the most important thing that you can do.On scrolling through an acquaintance Insta Story, could guess that she was upset and frustrated. I called her and talked about things, current scenario, the challenges, her reactions, etc etc.And she felt relieved and was bit calmer.I was glad that my listening could help someone be calm and bring joy.

  • My small little act of kindness

    Since now is the Covid-19 season, a lot of people have lost their job. I donated some money to old folks home, for their daily needs like food and water. I donated money to some organisations that give food and water to homeless people, and i also donated money for them to buy some masks and PPE suits. Thank you!

  • Longer Tables

    I am working with a small Church in the rural Philippines. We like to call our projects to build longer tables not higher walls. The latest project I funded was a roadside coin-operated car wash. It has an adjacent small store and living quarters. The business will be given (except the coins) to a poor family of four. The mother and father will run the store and sell roadside coffee and snacks and the two boys 10 and 14 will hustle to operate the handheld washing wands for those interested in a break. The coins will be used to maintain equipment and build some additional business. An early project bought…

  • recite sutra to tune

    I recited the Universal Door Chapter for 5 days in a row. I like its tune as recited at Deng Bi An which I found online.

  • Giving back to society

    My husband and I have been involved in Sunday School Dharma class for more 8 years. As years passed, we can see that the children in our Sunday School has grown up to become an individual with good values such as becoming a responsible person and fillial to their parents. We felt so honor to be involved to help on every Sunday to make a changes for a better world with a healthy new generation.

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    An act of kindness (aka connection, appreciation, sharing, …) comes from times of openness and weakened boundaries At such times all interactions are acts of kindness, appreciation, love. These times can only occur when there is no sense of rushing or urgency. Unusual in our society. I have recently put together a collection of mp3 vocal songs, and have shared this with 2 people. One told me that she would never take that collection from her car CD player. The other (a couple), who were reluctant to listen to or accept it, called to thank me for it – telling me they were surprised how profound an effect it had…