The “Four Givings” should be practiced together with the “Five Excellences”; in this way, our system of service can function smoothly and effectively.
Only when there is contemplative observation within the flow of daily life do we perceive a simple self and live with ease and freedom.
Our guiding principle in life is that, “Life is the field of merit, and work is Dharma practice.”
An authentic Dharma practitioner is fundamentally different from an ordinary person. Ordinary beings are caught in the cycle of afflictions, continually entangled as defilement breeds further defilement.
What is the greatest gift bestowed upon us? It is affliction itself. For it is precisely through afflictions that wisdom arises.
Time goes by real fast and impermanence is everywhere. Only through Dharma practice could we know how to live our lives to the fullest value.