我在尝试改掉吃辛辣刺激的食物的生活习惯，因为我觉得我现在吃东西都不是因为饿，是给味觉找点刺激，特别贪吃，戒掉吃辛辣的食物的习惯会省下很多没有必要的花费，可以用来做一些功德，想想世界上有那么多鱼啊可以买来放生的，少吃一点辛辣的食物省下来的钱可以使一条生命不用被杀掉，减少不必要的花费，我也不用那么辛苦的打工了，一举三得！

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.

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, and recited Na Mo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa. When we arrived to the monastery, it seemed okay so I took it to the Buddha Hall and we bowed together. After I left it in a box to rest and put on Amituofo recitation. A few hours later, I opened the box and it flew away. I named it Blue…

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。”

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 bicycle and ride down the hill into town to buy bird seeds. I bought 40 lbs of wild bird seeds. I loaded my bicycle and head back up the hill. Normally, the ride up without a load is arduously difficult with its steep climb but not today with a 40 lbs load on back. I didn’t feel any weight riding…

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.

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 Yin. Then I shared the song with a friend and his partner who i believe might benefit a lot from it. May all beings be well.

I listened to a friend who trusts me to confide in.

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 corn we left on the table, we realized that mosquitoes liked the taste of steamed corn, which we ate for lunch every day. Afterwards, we put our finished corn cobs into a deep bowl for the mosquitoes and placed this bowl on a chair by the door. Several times in the evening, I would quickly cap the bowl with a…

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 likes to listen.