Act of Kindness Stories

Act of Kindness Stories

  • Peaceful passing away

    About 2 years ago, a friend came to me saying that her grandfather was admitted to the Hospital in coma. The doctor could not detect what was wrong with him. He, the patient, did not respond to any of the medicine the doctor applied or fed him. As he was still breathing, so they had to keep him alive by providing the respiratory aids + liquid foods. That went on for more than a week, and as the medical cost was running more and more, her father was thinking of pulling off the plug, but the doctor did not allow him to do so as the patient was still “alive”.…

  • Dharma Talk in Tzu Yun Tung, Kuala Lumpur

    The Dharma talk came as a surprise. mum just came home from the temple last Sunday and said, Ven.Heng Sure would be having a dharma talk at Tzu Yun Tung next Sat night. I was very happy (an understatement) to hear that, the last time I saw him was nine years ago. Since it’s Saturday night, my usual evenings for dating purpose, I tried to get my bf to go too. He didn’t want to. I nagged, begged, and even told him, you might want to make the mistake of going,( then found that it’s not right for you), than to make the mistake of not going at all. Well,…

  • 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…

  • Exam

    Many years ago as a student I was in the middle of a graduation exam. We were in a group of four candidates each, and we had our exam appointment with the professor, who most of the time happened to be the head of the faculty or the dean himself. Getting grilled by the “prof” was certainly not very amusing, so we were all pretty stress out. One of my comrade was so nervous since it was her second try to pass the examination, so she was walking up and down the hall and couldn’t sit still for a minute, she even told me she had to take some pills…

  • Junk Mail

    Where I live, you must get your mail from a group of mailboxes not far from the house. Whenever I go to get mail for my mom, I see junk mail and advertisements strewn all over the floor. Even though there are trashcans, people are careless and just throw them on the ground. Recently, I began to pick up the fallen junk mail to through in the trash. It feels good to be cleaning up the neighborhood and helping out the Earth.

  • Litter

    These days I see so much trash on the ground. I want to help and clean up the trash. That’s why I’m trying to pick up at least 1 or more piece(s)of garbage each day.

  • Attachment Break

    My aunt decided to leave the home life. At first, I didn’t want her to, I did all that I could to stop her, to erase that idea from her mind. After a week of that, I started thinking from her point of view, and I saw that she was determined to leave the home life. Reluctantly, I let her go, even though it made me sad. I let broke the attachment that I had towards her, the want to have her near me at all times, for I knew that it was best for her, even though I am still sad and upset.

  • Pacience paramita is awesome

    Have been watching over the patience paramita for many years now after I learned about it at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery with Rev. Master Heng Sure and nowadays when I meet people I am much more generous with them and there is not much prejudice, opinion or ideas about them. Try to act like a mirror and just reflect what they really are and relationships are awesome. Also try to avoid gossiping about people in general as a daily practice. Not sure if that is an act of kindness and if I deserve to download the Paramita CD but it was what came to mind as part of my current…

  • Picking Up Trash

    It all started when I heard a teacher in my school named Mr. Allen talking about trash on the playground. So I began picking up trash on the playground and after all of the trash on the playground was gone, I had a handful of trash! Then he gave me a speacial piece of paper called a Monarch Chafacter Counts slip and thats how I ended up typing this story.