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My friends husband had a stroke earlier this year. I took her some vegetables from the garden. I don’t have much money, or much time with life being so demanding, but just taking a few moments to give something I had plenty of, was enough thoughtfulness to let her know I care.

My family donates some money to buddhist temples for making and maintaining temple.And I always try to help people who are in need of help like beggars on the street or poor people.

Thank you for this opportunity to reflect on giving and kindness. For a few minutes, I had the awful feeling come over me that my self-image (of a selfless boddhisattva, of course) is completely wrong, and that maybe I’ve been fooling myself completely– no acts of kindness came to mind at all. There’s certainly a lot of truth to that, but after more introspection, I can remember that, yes, OK, there were one or two “grand” selfless things I’ve done…But perhaps my more effective actions have been very small, tiny ones that I like to repeat as often as possible: thanking other people for THEIR acts of kindness and generosity,…

I am a member of the Pure Karma Society in Gold Mountain Monastery, San Francisco. I went to two end-of-life caring cases – chant Amitabha Buddha’s name, Heart Sutra, etc. in a funeral and in a cremation ceremony in the past.On July 10, 2009, it was my first time to go to a hospital to help someone who was dying at the moment.The patient was a Buddhist and he wished to have someone/a group who can recite Buddhism Sutra and Buddha’s name around him when he was dying.However, none of his relatives is Buddhist so his family had no resource at all.Here the story begins:His request came from an email…

A few days ago, I was at the airport to go to San Francisco from Seattle. There was a man in front of me who looked really agitated and angry. When I saw him, my mind said oh no he doesn’t look nice he looks angry. Then my body softened and I remembered that when I feel angry or agitated its usually that my mind is telling me something mean or aggressive and it really hurts because I can’t relax. So I turned to him and said boy these lines are a pain and smiled. He immediately smiled too and his shoulders relaxed.I thought oh that’s just what I need…

I heard about this cool initiative while listening to the talk by Venerable Reverend Heng Sure “Being Buddhist in America” that I downloaded from iTunes. And I decided to go for it, not in the least part because I would like to listen to the CD!Right, so, as I was listening to the talk, I started thinking about what I good deed I can do. the thing is, I already volunteer for Amnesty International and for a local sustainability organisation. So, whatever I would have done for them could not really count, ‘cos I would have done it anyway. I caught the train home and when I was preparing to…

Many people visit the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and I always feel it is quite meaningful helping the visitors that come through. People come with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, but always seem to take away something beneficial or useful from their stay or visit here.

I’ve given rides to strangers, picked up clothes and toys from the playground, to hang up to be more easily found and not watered by the sprinklers, but I guess my favorite thing now is to but diapers for my “Sunday Friends”, that helps families in need in San Jose, and encourage others to give as well. My wish is that charitable donations replace trinkets as gifts to others. And you can give for free on THe Hunger Site.

Dear Sirs in Paramita!I`m Mohammad Najafi.the translator of Buddhist and meditation books in Iran.I decided to take task for translate some books about introduction of Buddhism and meditation also about interpretation of dreams in Buddhism.as you know there is not any Buddhist center in Iran and all Iranian people don`t know anything about Buddhism.Then if it`s possible for you please send me the books.Also I need some Buddha`s picture to install in my Meditation room.I tried to get that books from on line shops but there is not any international banks in Iran for getting credit cards and I could not to buy any book .I have many information about…