Life Wisdom

Life Wisdom: Passing On Love and Goodness Generation After Generation

13 September 2021
Life Wisdom on September 01, 2021: The Buddha taught us to give with great, selfless love. With great loving-kindness, we will bring joy to people around the world. With great compassion, we will feel others' suffering as our very own. We can't bear to see disaster survivors suffer, and instead of doing nothing at all, we will reach out to the ill without hesitation.

Life Wisdom: Living in Harmony with All Things on Earth

10 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 21, 2021: We humans have been damaging the land and polluting the air. So, Nature's elements have become imbalanced and disasters have been occurring frequently, bringing suffering to many people.

Life Wisdom: To Always Strive toward Kindness

09 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 20, 2021: Everything changes and is impermanent, and that is due to the passing of time. Therefore, people get old and suffer from unexpected illnesses. That is why I often say that let us create blessings.

Life Wisdom: Seizing Every Moment to Give with Love

09 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 19, 2021: Look at our Tzu Chi volunteers. They all give with love and help the needy more than willingly. How heartwarming! How admirable our volunteers are! We are carrying out relief projects. To help the needy, we must give with love, and wherever there are people in need, we must do all we can to help them. We see how the poor are also willing to give of themselves.

Life Wisdom: Extinguishing Our Desires with the Water of Dharma

08 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 18, 2021: I talk about vegetarianism countless times a day. Let us keep our desires in check. Our desires lead to the creation of bad karma and bad karma is mostly created as a result of people eating meat. Now, we all have to wear a face mask, which reminds us to guard our mouth.

Life Wisdom: Learning Lessons from Disasters

07 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 17, 2021: We see Haiti. On August 14, it was affected by a strong quake. The casualties are heavy, and many people have become homeless as their houses have been leveled. There is devastation as far as the eye can see. And now, in the aftermath of the quake, Haiti is also affected by a tropical depression.

Life Wisdom: Saving Mother Earth by Giving of Our Power of Love

03 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 16, 2021: The Earth is hurt badly and its illness is very severe; the only remedy is for humans to awaken in time. A big disaster is here, so, let us awaken, raise our heads and genuinely repent to the sky; we repent for our ignorance and our greed. This “we” includes everyone, including each of us here.

Life Wisdom: Protecting Our World by Creating Blessings

01 September 2021
Life Wisdom on August 15, 2021: What we’ve seen (of this pandemic) always make our hearts (ache), like they are being squeezed tightly and cannot break free. Indeed, the pandemic has given us a sense of heavy pressure as it is a crisis. Yet, have humans awakened to this? Have we? Life is impermanent.

Life Wisdom: Encouraging People to Do Good and Promoting a Vegetarian Diet

31 August 2021
Life Wisdom on August 14, 2021: Hearing Shangri-La Group can be involved in promoting vegetarianism, I’m grateful to Mr. Chen’s courage and mindfulness. With only one or two people changing their mindsets, it has reached to many people.

Life Wisdom: Sharing Our Stories of Creating Blessings

31 August 2021
Life Wisdom on August 13, 2021: In the world, when there are people in suffering, Tzu Chi volunteers would quickly send aid and give timely help. Serving as living bodhisattvas, Tzu Chi volunteers indeed give of themselves for the world. Life is impermanent, we should always be content; the most important is to create blessings.
Nothing is impossible with confdence, perseverance, and courage.
- Kata Perenungan Master Cheng Yen -