..续本文上一页ill now, I keep the same feeling.

　　For example, when I am visiting Hong Kong this time, my feeling is that there will not be next time, and I will never go back. This is a habitual tendency through many years” practice on impermanence. No matter what I am doing, I regard it as the last time. This cannot make me negative, but instead more positive, because it pushes me to do everything at my best.

　　Therefore, we Buddhist should not care for nothing due to impermanence, and should not regard everything meaningless due to the renunciation of samsara as it is full of sufferings. This negative attitude is not reasonable at all.

　　Why don”t Hong Kong people have the concept of time

　　 We started half an hour ago, but there is a bunch of people who keep coming in. In Tibet, people are very serious about dharma teaching. If it starts at seven o”clock, everybody will be here at seven, and nobody comes in late. Well, perhaps it”s due to the freedom in Hong Kong, which is not so good under certain circumstances. Never mind, you can come or leave as you like. I”m totally fine with it.

　　Today I can”t talk too much, but still have something to share with you. In fact, it”s not necessary to speak too much. If you have faith and pay attention to dharma teaching, just the simple words “I will die, so will you” can bring you huge benefits; otherwise, even though I spend all my time and energy, perhaps you just feel the speaker is too talkative, but have no idea of what he”s talking.

　　Many years ago, the guru H. H. Wish-Fulfilling Gem Jigme Phuntsok came to Hong Kong and taught dharma. At that time most people only understood Cantonese, and we had to find a translator. Every time I spoke H. H. the guru”s teaching in Chinese, and then the interpreter interpreted them into Cantonese to the audience. Today, most of you seem to understand my teaching. So you see, your languages and habits also keep changing.

　　Today, we can gather here and talk about dharma, we should first appreciate the great Master Jing Xiong of Tri Virtues Advocate Centre, as well as the sangha”s efforts. They worked hard to create such a good opportunity for us to study dharma together. As we learned from the Buddhist texts, from the interdependent origination point of view, even the opportunity for us to have one lecture together is very rare. As the stanza I mentioned just now, “Whatever is stored up is bound to run out, and whatever rises up is bound to fall down”, it is so precious that Shakyamuni Buddha had to dig one thousand holes on his body as an exchange for it at his casual stage. Now you need not such austerity or any hard work to get the stanza, and it is just due to your own merits.

　　IV. The Issues Today”s Buddhists Are Facing

　　Nowadays, for all dharma centers and monasteries, either in Hong Kong, mainland, Tibet, or other countries and regions, the most important thing is to be harmonic with each other. If the disciples of different gurus keep quarreling and fighting all the time, they can only hurt, or even destroy the whole Buddhism, instead of benefiting anybody.

　　Till last century, people had been solving big issues through wars. Nowadays, as the whole world is called “Earth Village”, making friends and seeking common points while reserving differences are the main principles among different countries. Being Buddhists, why shall we compete among different groups

　　 As we know, regardless Theravada Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism or Chinese Buddhism, they all originated from Shakyamuni Buddha, so it is unreasonable to compete with each other. If we couldn”t maintain harmony among Buddhists, the whole Buddhism cannot make any progress or develop.

　　In fact, the development of Buddhism in both Hong Kong and Taiwan has very open space, where many eminent masters hold great dharm…

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