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010105 - 08 - 2009 - 113

Korean Buddhism for International Readers

Autumn 2009

Vol.39

Temple Bell Chime

+82-2-736-5583 www.PGsori.net

Patience

When a childish person becomes angry and hurls insults at me,overcome him with silence and patience.Please listen well.Usually, we are patient with superiors, because we are afraid of them regardless of the fact that our actionsand opinions may be right. When we are patient with equals,it is because we don’t want a confrontation.Thus, being willingly patient with inferiors is the supreme patience.

From the

Agama Sutra

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Jung Byung-rye

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F r i e n d so nT h eP a t h

www.thenanum.org

One becoming two or more is the meaning of sharing.

Just as each person has his own unique look,each person hurriedly follows his own ideas and goals.Sometimes we even compete fiercely not to lose.Although, it’s clear we live together breathing the same air.Webster defines sharing as dividing one into two or more. To give only what is left is not sharing. To give even when there is not enough is sharing.Sharing is to live together in love.

Sharing

begins with a small offering

Friends on the Path:

A Public Interest Foundation

“Friends on the Path” is a Jogye Order public welfare foundation. Itis the first Buddhist foundation of its kind. Its objectives are to helpsociety through a transparent collection and distribution of fundshelping the underprivileged class, restoration of ethic unity,environmental preservation, and supporting the development of the international community.

Take a good look at yourself.Transcend time and space, and you’ll see that you are eternal, you are infinite.Should the universe collapse and disappear, you would still be immovable. You are all forms and all formlessness in the universe itself. You are the twinkling stars and the dancing butterflies you are everything.

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