Wisdom for Life
Learning from Each Other
We must be confident of our own ability and trust others earnestly. In our daily interactions with other people, we must help each other out and learn from each other...
The Core of Cultivation is Mindfulness
We often talk about the mind and mindfulness. To be mindful is to reflect on our innate nature and keep our mind and thoughts free from impurities.
Heaven is where Trouble is Absent
A shift in the mind to be kind brings joy, and the joy is heavenly. On the contrary, evil thoughts bring mental disturbance that can be very torturing.
Unleash the Pure Love of a Bodhisattva
Be mindful and look after your mind at all times, do not let ill intentions arise due to greed, hatred and ignorance. Be grateful whenever there is opportunity to give and serve others.
Stability is the Greatest Asset
What constitutes real happiness in life? Does happiness mean having lots of material wealth?
The Rich among the Poor
Life’s bliss is about owning a luxurious car or a grand house, it is about having a heart full of great love. Only when one is wholeheartedly servicing others in society without holding back, can the most blissful life be achieved.
Spread Love and Accumulate Merit
Great love goes beyond international boundaries and compassion knows no distance. True compassion is when we take immediate action to help and save others.
The Sole Audience
Regardless of whom we face, we must be brave in expressing our sincere and caring gestures. Do not keep these caring thoughts to ourselves, we must show them with action. This will bring meaning and true happiness to our lives.
Cultivating a Heart of Great Compassion
Interpersonal conflicts arise due to our conflicting hearts. If everyone can cultivate great compassion and wisdom, scenes of chaos will settle down, internal conflicts too will dissipate.
Tzu Chi’s “Four Spirituality Soup”
An understanding, grateful and accommodative person is naturally a contented person. He can be happy even leading a simple life.
Building Trust
If a person is untrustworthy, it would be difficult for others to take his words to heart no matter how good they sound…… So how do we make others trust us? We can do that by humbling our ego and broadening our heart.
Humbling Ourselves
Cultivating our mind and character is just like opening up a field of goodness. It takes initial hard work to clear the weeds and rocks in the field, which means we must first clear the field of our mind of unwholesome thoughts.
How to Resolve Hurt Feelings
If we can constantly develop a forgiving heart, we will be happy, joyful and blessed at all times. But if we keep hoping for others to give to us, we will definitely suffer very painfully…
Illnesses of the Mind
Most illnesses of the mind are caused by people’s desires and expectations from outside. They are easily tempted and are thus unable to keep to their boundaries and be proper in their behaviour, causing them to be prone to such illnesses.
How to Endure with Ease
We must remember to constantly reflect on ourselves to examine whether our sense of pride is too strong or if we have a sense of “base pride”?
Mind Detox
Most people love themselves excessively. This inevitably causes one to develop a self-protective nature, which makes one fearful of being harmed by others. Hence, people would attack others out of the excessive love they have for themselves.
Safeguard the Bodhi Tree in Our Heart
We must dissolve all of yesterday’s issues today and totally erase from our minds, the gossip that we have just heard. At all times, we must harbour such a heart and not let the affliction of anger take root in the field of our hearts.
