Theme Speech at the Dharma Meeting celebrating
Chinese Lunar New Year and Birthday of Maitreya Buddha
5th February, 2000 -
Chinese New Year Day of the Year of Dragon
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Dear guests, Jin-Gang brothers and sisters, gurus, elder gurus, and dear friends! It is a great honour to celebrate Chinese New Year and Maitreya's birthday with all of you today, here in the southern hemisphere so far away from China. It is also a great honour for Tasmanian Buddhism to have received such support from every guest and honoured guest here today. Buddhism is a religion of life. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of knowledge of life, it is a philosophy elucidating everything about life. In Buddhism, the understanding of the relationships between all phenomena in the cosmos is based upon the concept of "conditional arising"(occurrence due to conditions); and the understanding of the true substance of the cosmos is the "Buddha nature". Under the guidance-in-practice of "form, system and application", it happens that the "Buddha nature" generates the great application of "sunyata". |
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