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When I was at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in June, I remember helping an elderly nun transport some gardening stuff in my car…she was so sweet about it, asking why I was at the City and what I was doing there (I often asked myself those same questions:). She had placed some plastic bags in my trunk, so her ‘gardening dirt’ wouldn’t get all over my car. She was also seemingly surprised that a stranger would help her out like that, yet wanting me to see her garden and informing me how much work it was to keep it up. And I thought, gosh, her life is so…

living in nyc i myself start living in my own world as many of my fellow neighbors do… Off to work, to lunch, to dinner, to somewhere and normally not stopping in between. Not being available to others as I’m either listening to music or eyes only looking at my path. Most of the time as I’m on my run I’m not bing present for others or really myself…As there are angels in the world one has to have his or her eyes open to see. My act of kindness was smiling at a person who I didn’t know was lost and felt able to approach me… I was able…

After steps on the path of transformation,and feelings of anger and frustration.Pointing out my finger to the world,due to not being able to cope with the hurt.I have decided to change my ways, I let go and I give praize, to all that comes to my road, with very little material things I float.Between darkness and bright, I try to be always close to the light, I hope that this time I do it right. For a tiger doesnt really fight. No need to fear, I live inside…..

Last week I attended the Guan Yin Bodhisattva Recitation Session at CTTB for the first time. It was wonderful for me to devote an entire week to loving compassion and hold her name for as long of every day as I could (and my level of practice allowed). During the meditations, I would sometimes be able to hold her name sincerely the whole time, and to begin to turn my hearing around so that I wasn’t reaching out with it as much. When this didn’t work though, sometimes I would give in to my false thinking and walk along with my thoughts, indulging in them. One time, I began thinking…

Although I couldn’t recall what year it was, however, I know that it was on a Saturday, and my dad and I were driving back home from my Chinese school. As we were finishing up the last stretch, suddenly two sparrows flew right into our direction! My dad slammed the brake and thought the two birds flew away. On the other hand, I had this feeling that he ran over a bird because I didn’t see the second bird escape. As my dad finished parking the car, I stepped out and quickly ran to the place where we encountered the two birds. I scanned across the road and soon noticed…

i am a buddhist, i believe budda, i have adepressive disease,last year, my disease was breakout at the highest point, i pray to the budda, after 3 months, my disease disappeared, my life attitude changed, i appreciated the budda’s power. it gives me the peaceful feeling.

I found a wallet with money and cards(ID & credit) in the restroom at Barnes & Noble. I took it to the information desk and they contacted the owner.

The phone rang – it was my sister. “Can you come over? we found kittens …” I rushed to her home, all the way thinking about the humid 95+ degree heat we had been enduring, sending positive thoughts that the kittens would be okay. Well, other than being very hungry and missing their mom they were healthy babies about two weeks old. They had been trapped outside behind an icemaker and were howling through the ventilation grate for their mom (everyone looked for several days, but the wooded area near the river is full of dangers for small animals – eagles, osprey, hawks, fox. I saw several cats at the…

…changed my life.It was a couple of days before Christmas and I was shopping at the Vancouver Costco. I couldn’t help but notice how “un-Christmas” the atmosphere was…parents yelling at their kids to hurry up and don’t touch this or that…or worse, some kids were just being ignored and crying for attention. Civilized adults being rude to each other…and I remember thinking how pitiful it all was. I was in the store looking for a Wii – somebody told me they might be available there. I asked a clerk who very nicely told me I was out of luck – see I only had a vague idea of what a…

Yesterday, June 30, 2008, a friend of mine brought back boxes full all kind of vegetable picked from her family Fresno farm to me. I thought, there is no way I could finish them in one week. If I offer some to my neighbor, they may get defend, for they are still able to buy them on their own. Without a doubt, I only save a few enough for myself and bringht the rests of them to a temple near my work. I feel relieve after I do so because I don’t want the vegetable get rodent. By offering them to the temple, I think all other nunes (I saw…