Over the passing year, everyone has been accumulating merits and virtues.
As we age a year, we increase our blessings and wisdom as well as Samadhi meritorious virtues.

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標籤: #Buddhist cultivation #Cultivating merits and wisdom #Samadhi #Venerable Master Miao Lien

In order to bring peace to the world and make people’s minds more compassionate, we must practice Buddhism. If one person practices Buddhism, that person will enjoy peacefulness; if everyone can practice Buddhism, the world will be at peace. We wish that the world be peaceful!

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標籤: #Buddhist cultivation #Compassion #Venerable Master Miao Lien

“All phenomena are created by the mind.” Your appearance changes according to the thoughts in your mind. When you think about someone who has wronged you, your appearance will be one of anger. On the other hand, thinking about gratefulness will bring forth happiness and tranquility.

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標籤: #Kind thoughts #Venerable Master Miao Lien

Hatred and love can get you into trouble; without them, your body and mind will be at ease.

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With sincerity, anything can be accomplished and things will always turn out well.

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Overeating will not only impede your cultivation of the Way, but it will also adversely affect your digestive system and reduce your blessings. There is a limited and predetermined quantity of meals that one can enjoy in one’s lifetime. Exhausting one’s blessings before the end of one’s life will bring forth retributions of poverty and starvation.

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The five desires (wealth, lust, fame, food, and sleep) are like brine – the more you drink the thirstier you become. Our greed is as deep as the ocean; you can never get to the bottom of it. Discontent is a kind of suffering. Happiness can only be found by minimizing your worldly desires, by being content with what you have.

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By upholding the Buddha’s precepts, eliminating bad deeds and cultivating good ones, you will have unlimited future blessings and wisdom and will ultimately attain Buddhahood. This is the best way to go. There is no better path.

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Do you want others to notice you more?
A mind immersed in gratitude brings forth contentment. The resulting compassion and inner peace projected in your appearance will garner people’s attention.

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標籤: #Compassion #Venerable Master Miao Lien

Only when you let go of your secular mindset will you be able to focus on the Buddha Way.

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標籤: #Secular mind #Venerable Master Miao Lien