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A Rehearsal from the Heart

A Rehearsal from the Heart

On 26 and 27 October 2013, Tzu Chi volunteers took up their places on each side of the stage tagged A and B. With 504 actors on each side of the stage...

Miscellaneous |

Subtracting the Unnecessary to Derive the Sum of Happiness

Subtracting the Unnecessary to Derive the Sum of Happiness

In life, there are many different combinations of factors that give rise to happiness. What makes up the sum total of your happiness? Pre and post cancer...

People |

Managing Personal Challenges With No Downtime

Managing Personal Challenges With No Downtime

Taking to heart the sense of urgency that Master Cheng Yen so often speaks of, Zhou Chun Hua does not allow herself to slacken for even a moment...

People |

Spiritual Training With the Help of Sandbags and Kneepads

Spiritual Training With the Help of Sandbags and Kneepads

Lin Jin Yan is a nursing coordinator of TIMA and also a sign language facilitator for TIMA members. Watching her singing and confidently using the accompanying sign language on stage as she knelt down and stood up...

People |

Replacing Overtime with Volunteer Work

Replacing Overtime with Volunteer Work

Whenever she heard Master Cheng Yan say that “time is running out”, Zhuang Mei Hui would hang her head feeling ashamed, because she had put off what was important for too long. Having known of Tzu Chi for 12 years...

People |

Letting Go to See Beyond Our Own Little World

Letting Go to See Beyond Our Own Little World

For over ten years, Su Xiu Zhen had experienced a rollercoaster of emotions in her life due to an unhappy marriage. Despite the suffering in her heart, she did not confide in others; she did not know where to start...

People |

Vegetarian Bento from a Loving Mother

Vegetarian Bento from a Loving Mother

When it comes to following a vegetarian diet, thirteen year old Fang Qiao is her mother Fang Yu Lan’s best buddy. Though of a tender age, Fang Qiao will not hesitate to do what is right; she has gotten over her habit of not touching greens...

People |

Abandoning Narcissism so that Wisdom can Flower

Abandoning Narcissism so that Wisdom can Flower

Shen Shui Xian’s busy life used to revolve around a small food stall. With little education, Shui Xian had a ready tongue and a fierce manner picked up from spending her early years at the markets with her mother. More than half a century later...

People |

To be Grateful and Forgiving in the Face of Misfortune

To be Grateful and Forgiving in the Face of Misfortune

If he had not participated in the “Dharma as Water” study sessions and learned about the teachings in the Water Repentance Text, Joo Yeow Sing would not have been able to be so forgiving for the unfathomable injury inflicted on him. At the combined...

People |

Tzu Chi Singapore’s 20th Anniversary Bowing Pilgrimmage

Tzu Chi Singapore’s 20th Anniversary Bowing Pilgrimmage

The scene of a dignified procession of volunteers taking part in the bowing pilgrimage solemnly was a fitting symbolism of the efforts that Tzu Chi had put in over the last twenty years in Singapore. On 6 October 2013...

Miscellaneous |

My Daughter, a Script from My Past

My Daughter, a Script from My Past

When her youngest daughter was born saddled with illness, just like her first child who had passed away, Cao Su Hua was thunderstruck and wondered, “What bad karma have I forged in the past?”...

People |

Going Vegetarianism During the Mid-Autumn Festival Distribution

Going Vegetarianism During the Mid-Autumn Festival Distribution

With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming up, volunteers from Tzu Chi Singapore shared the idea of celebrating the festival by encouraging vegetarianism to protect the environment. Care recipients were invited to collect...

Charity, Env. Protection |

Loving Communication in a Chaotic Technological Era

Loving Communication in a Chaotic Technological Era

Is technology a tool to transmit love or an obstruction to communication? During the “Advanced Technology vs the Parent-child Relationship” talk on 30 August 2013, school Head of Department (HOD), Li Wen Yi and...

Education |

Tzu Chi Teenagers’ Class Present“The Four Evil Karmas of Speech”and Apply Them to Daily Life

Tzu Chi Teenagers’ Class Present“The Four Evil Karmas of Speech”and Apply Them to Daily Life

During the teenagers’ class on 28 August 2013, 92 young teens presented a segment from the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation on the four evil karmas of speech - abusive language, lying, flattery and gossip, to their parents...

Education, Miscellaneous |

Have You Gone Vegetarian?

Have You Gone Vegetarian?

“Have you gone vegetarian?” In convincing our friends and relatives to become vegetarian, it is never easy even when we can do so face-to-face. For Sister Chen Sai Zhen...

People |

“Faith”, “Will” and “Actions” – Doing Things with a Resolute Heart

“Faith”, “Will” and “Actions” – Doing Things with a Resolute Heart

8 August 2013 was Vesak Day, a public holiday, and also the annual Singapore Tzu Ching Leadership Camp. On this day, a total of 89 Tzu Chings, Tzu Chi seniors and parent instructors...

Education |

Taking On a Hallowed Mission Bravely

Taking On a Hallowed Mission Bravely

Just as there is only one planet Earth and one Master Cheng Yen, in our one lifetime, we have only one chance to make the best of it. On 4 August during the half day training camp attended by commissioners and Faith Corps members, Madam Hung Su-chen...

Miscellaneous |

A True Friend For Life in the Jing Si Aphorisms

A True Friend For Life in the Jing Si Aphorisms

On 3 August 2013, Madam Hung Su-chen, who had formerly undertaken the responsibility as an editor working on the book compilation of the “Jing Si Aphorisms”, shared her experience in compiling both the book as well as the Tzu Chi Anthem...

Miscellaneous |