Little Bird Great Survival

Went for a walk at Botanic, discovered a new birdie still with undeveloped wings, great fighting spirit to stay alive, looking for food by itself. Its parent is nowhere in sight, so tiny that any jogger could just stamp/smash it under one's shoes unknowingly. It looks like it is still at a age to be fed by its parents at a nest, yet it is hopping unsteadily by itself at the path.
Even a small birdie treasures its life, so should we as human beings...

Depressed folks, treasure your existing human form to do more good deeds to accumulate merits for better future. Even if you think you wish to be reborn as a simple well taken care of birdie, you need also to start creating good causes for future rebirth which could be done with your existing form.
Aim high instead for Pureland, where you will be in a land of no worries... land of no depression...
Amituofo

May It Survive Well,
May All Survive Well,
May All Be Well...
May All Be Happy...
Amituofo

Lecture on "Universal Door Chapter 25" by Dharma Master Heng Sure in Singapore

What a coincidence, it was starting from 19th too last year that he started his series of talk.

This year from 19th-22nd Apr, 1 day more and the Lecture is on "Universal Door Chapter 25" and on the 1st nite he already made people appreciate the sutra better by using many interesting stories to illustrate benefits of reciting the name of Guanshiyin Bodhisattva; why is the Bodhisattva Guanshiyin called ‘Guanshiyin’?

His 1st song for the nite: "She carries me" by Jennifer Berezan:
"She is a boat she is a light high on a hill in dark at night
She is a wave She is the deep She is the dark where angels sleeps
when all is still and peace abides She carries me to the other side.
*Chorus
She carries me She carries me
She carries me to the other side. (x2)
And though I walk through valleys deep and shadows chases me in my sleep
On rocky clifs I stand alone I had no name I had no home
with broken wings I reach to fly she carries me to the other side.
*Chorus
A thousand arms a thousands eyes A thousands ears to hear my cries
She is the gate She is the door She leads me through and back once more.
When day has dawn When death is night She’ll carries me to the other side.
*Chorus
She is the first, she is the last she is the future and the past
Mother of all, of earth and sky She carries me to the other side
*Chorus"
~ found the lyrics at  http://www.invibes.net/she-carries-me/

He ends the nite by folk-singing "Dedication of merits".
Very enjoyable night, 3 more nites to attend...

Useful Info : Tea & Soya Bean......Let's share this

new email info sharing...
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Are you drinking the right tea?
1. People who use their 'brain' to work or students who study hard day and night.
--- Should drink more Chrysanthemum Tea.

2. People who need a lot of body energy to work or those people who exercise a lot everyday.
--- Should drink Wu Loong Tea .

3. People who travel on a bike or work in dirty and polluted places.
--- Should drink Green Tea.

4. For people who like to sit down all day long and not do anything, even exercising.
--- Must drink Green Tea and Flower Tea.

5. People who smoke and drink a lot of alcoholic drinks.
--- Should drink more Green Tea.

6. Carnivore (i.e. People who must eat meat at least once a day or feel sickly)
--- Try to drink some Wu Loong Tea.


7. People who go to the washroom too often or not often enough.
--- Should drink more Honey Tea.


8. People with high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
--- Wu Loong Tea , Green Tea.

9. Those who work with computers everyday.
--- Need to drink a Lot of Tea ( any tea will do).


Whenever you are working with the computer, you
should make some tea. Drink it when you are free.
Drinking Tea is healthy; it can protect and prevent the
harmful ultraviolet light from harming us (when using
computer).

Furthermore, it can also relief us when we are tired and
help make our body feel fresh again.


SOYA BEAN
All of us know that Soya bean drink provides good protein to our body... but many of us don't know that there are certain days we should avoid drinking it.

Soya bean drinks are best consumed on hot sunny days when the sun is strong. The soya milk will give lots of nutrients to the body as the body is able to
absorb the protein well.

However, avoid the drink when the weather is cloudy or raining.
Taking the drink in that weather, the body will not be able to take in the protein and will result in a disease called ' GOUT ' or ' high acidic urine' due to
the high protein residue in the body, after a long run.

This disease will cause pain to your knee joints and it will only be in control when you control your food intake of proteins and medication. The pain is unbearable and usually you will have no idea what you have taken to
cause the pain.
Food like soya beans, anchovies, broccoli, spinach, peanuts, & especially animal organs etc should be avoided to prevent the pain from attacking.

So my friend, pass this to your family,
relatives and friends to keep an alert
on the pros and cons of soya bean milk
and when it is to be taken and to be avoided..