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BLIAQ Newsletter Email: Ibaq@Chungtian.Org.Au Edition 110 January 2016 Chung Tian Buddhist Temple 1034 Underwood Road Priestdale QLD 4127, Australia Website: www.chungtian.org.au BLIAQ Newsletter Email: [email protected] Buddha’s Light International Association of Queensland, Australia Ph: 3841 3511 Fax: 3841 3522 ha Be Smart and Agile Upcoming Events 30 January 2016 Humanistic Buddhism Preachers Workshop 6 February 2016 BLIAQ Members & volunteers Gathering 7 February 2016 Chinese New Year’s Eve Celebrations 8 February 2016 Peace and blessings to you all! Homage to Thousand Buddha Service The year 2016, according to the Chinese Zodiac custom, belongs to the Year of Monkey. Monkeys are very clever with great adroitness. We often see monkeys performing stunts or tricks in a bid to 13 February 2016 win applause from onlookers. The giving of joy to other people is a very important kind of giving in Homage to Thousand the world. Buddha Service I hope that in this year, all our Foguang people as well as people that are brought together by affinities will be wise and nimble like the fictional Money King who is almighty with supernatural 14 February 2016 power. I also hope that our acquaintances can exert the innate power of the mind so that it is like a Cultural Open Day monkey that moves and thinks. While our dexterity unfolds, we will become a man of refined manners and have great tact in handling matters. 27 February 2016 May everything be well with you! My best greetings to you all! Venerable Master Hsing Yun Patrons and Volunteers Gathering A Prayer for the New Year 6 March 2016 Oh great, compassionate Buddha, another year is apt to bring spring breezes, a new year is finally Clean Up Australia Day coming down to the world again. The toll of temple bells, the new calendar on the wall; everything indicates that all things change from old to new, once a new year begins again. Oh great, compassionate Buddha, at the beginning of the New Year I will regard everything in the future as a today that is new-born, and everything in the past as a yesterday that is past I would like to express my wishes; at the beginning of this New Year, I wish for: Harmony in the family and happiness at home; contentment in life and the performing of good deeds to help the world; stability in emotions and dignity in character, the elimination of bad habits and advances in moral culture; determination in doing things and compassion in treating others; smoothness in career and health in body and mind; improvement in cultivation and increase in wisdom and understanding; prosperity in Buddhism and the liberation of all beings; steadfastness in society and happiness in people; peace on earth and universal rejoicing. Oh great, compassionate Buddha, in the New Year please bless me: That every word I say be compassionated kind and encouraging; that everything I do be liked by most people and beneficial to the masses; that every intention I have be a blessing to others and a transfer of merits to them; that every action I take be beneficial to the nation and of assistance to the world; that I be willing to contribute my own body and mind to society; that I be willing to share everything I own with others. I pray to you, Buddha, please bless and support me with your compassion; allow me to share in the suffering of others, allow me to promote the well-being of society. Oh great, compassionate Buddha, I vow to participate and serve in the activities of temples and other place that teach Dharma; I vow to progress unadulteratedly, with determination, to cultivate and uphold the discipline and forms that remove the trials of life. Oh great, compassionate Buddha, please give me strength, allow me to progress unadulteratedly, without idleness, on the way to enlightenment, and to never complain or regret. Please give me faith; allow me to be able to subdue evil obstruction on the way to truth, and to benefit both self and others. Oh great, compassionate Buddha, the New Year is a pervasive, new spirit. Allow me to start everything anew; oh great, compassionate Buddha, allow me to start everything anew.. Venerable Master Hsing Yun Page 1 New Year Greetings New Year Greetings As we step into 2016, may prosperity and abundance follow you and bless you for the whole year round. On behalf of Chung Tian Temple and all the Venerables, we would like to express our warmest gratitude to all the BLIAQ members, devotees, volunteers and friends for your support and contribution throughout the years. Your contribution means the world to us and the propagation of Buddhism in Australia. I would like to personally thank each of you for the time, contribution and commitment you have given to Chung Tian Temple. We truly appreciate your support. Thank you so much. Along with all the new hopes and promises that the New Year will bring, we hope that it also brings us more opportunities to work together. Wish you a very Happy and Successful Year ahead. May Buddha bless you and your family with happiness, good health, peace and joy. Venerable Chueh Shan, Abbess of Chung Tian Temple Dear BLIAQ members and friends, Firstly, I would like to take this great opportunity to wish you all have a jubilant and auspicious Year of Monkey and of course, thanks to the guidance of the Venerables. With their wisdom, together we achieved a lot in the past year. The concept of Humanistic Buddhism is based on the fact that everyone has the nature of Buddha. That is why Venerable Master Hsing Yun always encourages us to speak out “I am Buddha” with confidence. I do believe, through continuously attending Dharma functions, learning the true meanings of Buddhism and good practices, we can cultivate our nature of Buddha very well to make ourselves to attain it. This year, the 20th BBDF will be held from 29 April to 1 May at South Bank Parklands. It is really a milestone for us. Please accept my sincere appreciation for your support and contribution in the past years. As you can understand, we are unable to make it so successful without your support. Let us do it together again. Thanks! Wish you have a peaceful and harmonious year of 2016. Kim Wu, President of BLIAQ All in a Thought When we talk about time, we often say “time flies”, however our thoughts flash past like lightning, even faster than time. Our minds are like the tides; thoughts arise and cease, one after another, never ending. Our mind is not limited by time and space, we can travel the world all in a thought and we can go through three lifetimes in a thought. We can go up to heaven and then come back down to earth, all in a thought. Our minds could be as large at the universe, or even encompass realms as numerous as grains of sand. Just as the Chinese saying goes, “When we have no worries in our minds, a small bed is as large as the universe. But when we have troubles on our minds, even the whole world seems very small.” Our minds can embrace three thousand realms just in a singles thought. Be it heaven or hell, or being reborn in the six realms, whether it is Buddha or demon, it is all in a thought. Our mind is our master, for from our mind arises views, and if we change our views and our outlook on life, we can change our fate. A thought can change tears into smiles and a thought can transform foolery into skillful means. A thought of compassion to help others elicits the mind of sages, and a thought of jealousy to hurt others brings forth the mind of the wicked. A thought of selfishness to gain profit for oneself will only achieve limited accomplishments and a thought of initiative to benefit others will attain limitless merit. In history, the fate of countries have been changed due to one thought; kings and emperors have risen and fallen from a single thought and the countries with them. In this world, many change their entire lives in a hasty decision. Many take their lives for lost love, leaving their families in pain and grief, while some steal and kill for profit, bringing others great harm and ruining their own lives as well, and it is all due to a thought. Our minds hold the key to our rise and fall. There are two sides to every thought; we can be liberated and let go of all worries in a thought of enlightenment and we can be trapped and create waves of agitation in a thought of delusion. The mind is also a symbol of eternity, a thought of enlightenment can transform the ordinary into the wise, and worry can become bodhi. A thought of delusion affects our whole life, and at the moment of passing, guides our next life. A thought can be so crucial – as practitioners, shouldn’t we be cautious of all that there is in a thought? Venerable Master Hsing Yun Page 2 Invitation to visit Australia Zoo by Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin In order to thank BLIAQ Loving Care Group for the generous donation in 2015 Buddha Birthday Festival, Australia Zoo specially invited Abbess Venerable Chueh Shan, Loving Care Group Leader Wang Shuang-Rong, Vice Leader Karan Chi and BBDF Marketing Manager Ralph Smith and his wife to come for a visit in the morning of 14 th of January 2016.
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