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Sharing the Dharma music with children, and friends in China
I am going to share the new album with two children and their young Dharma friends so that a good seed gets planted in them. They will also enjoy singing along with their families. I am also sharing this project with some Dharma friends in China. So grateful for Dharma music!
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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!
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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 😀
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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 🙂
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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.
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Announcing the Release of “Dharma Radio” and Good Karma Music Project
After over three years in the making, the Dharma Radio music album of thirteen songs by Reverend Heng Sure and Friends will be released on November 19, 2020. What did enlightened people in China and India write about? When they sang, what stories did their songs tell? How would their songs and stories sound in English, played on a banjo or a guitar? The 13 songs on this album called “Dharma Radio” lets us hear the enlightened mind, to the music of an old-time string band. These are translations into contemporary English from Chinese, Sanskrit, and Pali, including the story of a Tang Dynasty poetry slam, a Guan Yin chant from…
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Reduced streaming programs
Due to limited resource, we are reducing the internet radio streaming programs to recurring daily programs and Saturday live lecture only.
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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.
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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!
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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…