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Universal Door Chapter Lecture 4 — with all their hearts invoke Guanyin’s name
[Music] Good morning everyone! [Music] This is Rev. Heng Sure, coming to you from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and it’s another beautiful Saturday morning here in Queensland Friday afternoon where many of you are, may be Friday evening if you’re in Europe. We’re about to look into the Lotus Sutra, the Dharma Flower Sutra Chapter on Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva called the Universal Gateway, Universal Doorway Chapter. How are you all doing this morning? We are going to have a Vietnamese translation. Look for your chat box; there’s a link to the Vietnamese translation. We have a translation into Mandarin due to the kindness and generosity of our volunteers. So…
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Universal Door Chapter Lecture 3 — Exploring the meaning of the title
Lectured by Rev. Heng Sure on April 9, 2021 (DM Heng Sure plays the banjo) Good morning, everybody; good afternoon; good evening, everyone; this is Reverend Heng Sure coming to you from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Today is Saturday April, 10th here in the Gold Coast; it should be Friday April 9th for those of you in Northern California and other places. Today we’re going to be looking into the Dharma Flower Sutra’s chapter on Guan Shiyin Bodhisattva, the awakened being who hears the sounds of the cries of the world; and I understand that Ron is going to be our dharma requester; here is our dharma request text, so…
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Universal Door Chapter Lecture 2 — Brief intro to Lotus Sutra
Lectured by Rev. Heng Sure on March 26, 2021 Rev. Heng Sure: Good morning everyone, this is Reverend Heng Sure. Welcome to our sutra lecture today! Happy Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s birthday to everybody, we passed that this week, and there we go. Okay good. We are going to begin our Lotus Sutra Guan Yin 菩薩 Púsà lecture series. So I wanted to begin with a Dharma Request. I’m going to ring the bell three times, everybody is welcome to join me to do a half bow. Here we go. [Three bells] Okay, three and a half bows. Paul, would you like to request Dharma? Paul Kang (Pinole, CA): yeah, Dharma…
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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 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.
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Universal Door Chapter Lecture 1 — the Many Faces of Compassion
Lectured by Rev. Heng Sure on April 2, 2021 (Reverend Heng Sure is playing the banjo) Good morning everybody! Good afternoon. Good evening. My name is Reverend Heng Sure. Today, we are going to launch a brand new lecture series focusing on Guan Yin Bodhisattva, the compassion being who regards the cries of the world and the Universal Door 普門品 of Guan Yin Bodhisattva, Chapter in the Lotus Sutra. So, if that’s what you come to hear, you’re at the right place. Let us begin by putting our palms together. I have a bell. I’m going to make three half bows. Say: Namo Miau Jue Hui Shang Fo Pusa (3x) …
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I listened to a friend who trusts me to confide in.
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from Mei
This week’s story comes from Mei in Taiwan, who sets the mosquitoes in her house free every evening. “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…
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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 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…
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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 likes to listen.
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from Phil
This week’s story comes from Phil H. in Canada who, after getting help from two strangers upon getting injured, passed on the kindness by listening to a weary mother and son at the hospital. “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 get home. I was humbled and inspired by their heartfelt generosity of spirit. At the local hospital I was patient, grateful, and of good humour due to these two saints. When I sat by a tired mum with an injured child, I passed on…