Talk by ven Heng Sure at Tai Pei Buddhist Centre 大悲佛教中心 organised by Buddhist Union :)
As the name suggested, the talk is on stress but shifu benefited us with even more! Ven Heng Sure was famous for a monk that did the 3 step 1 bow for 3yrs along the coast of California to City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah.
No notes taken so here is what I still remembered.
He shared with us that during his years of 3-step 1-bow, the journey is never smooth. There are supporters that cheers them along the way and of course they do face some serious resistance. He shared that there a people that would just pour beers over them to mock them. There was once where there is a violent man that even calls them devil. But in some twist of fate, shifu's endeavour melts the heart of this violent man and his life gets better.
Ven Heng Sure then share briefly on how his respected teacher came to America to spread buddhism totally with the westerners in mind! His teacher accepted 5 westerns under him and ven Heng Sure is one of them.
Ven Heng Sure then said that a mother ran to him crying telling him to "rescue" her child who has been evangelize away. Ven Heng Sure then advise us that to attract youths into Buddhism, we should not assume they like to wear the black robe and do chanting Amituofo....Amituofo.... Instead, we should practise the Dharma in our life and benefit from it. Leading by examples and showing them how Dharma can be so relevant yet fun to practise, the effort is more fruitful.
The playful shifu even introduce us to his 2 furry community representative!! Using the animal puppet to show that all animals be it big or small shows fear and stress. Shifu also goes into how to use the 4 noble truth to understand stress and how to better manage it.
Below is the link to get Shifu's english folk songs for free! But please be honest to post an act of kindness!! DOn't cheat.
http://www.dharmaradio.org/paramita/index.htm
Read the intro and click on Acts of Kindness and follow the instructions :)
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