Visiting, gifts and food for patients 2019.05.16
Dear Benefactors,
In life, sometimes we are caught up in our business and family activities, so we do not have time to observe what is happening around us. So we don’t know how bless we are – physical health, a happy family, and sufficient material. Previously, some benefactors whose relatives past away, asked Tu Bi to perform the good deeds and dedicate the merit for the decease to reborn in Pureland peaceful world and pray for peace for the family and benefactors.
The awareness of ‘saving sentient beings’ – no matter how big or small the task, when a chance arise our volunteers will try to do it. We were lucky to be able to work with nuns at Loc Uyen Pagoda in Da Lat and be accompanied by a charity program to visit and give gifts from Vien Thong Pagoda in Houston, guided by abbess Thich Nu Minh Lien. The Dharma teaching of impermanence – suffering, birth, aging, illness, death, etc. were presented before our eyes when visiting patients with kidney disease, cancer …
When visiting cancer patients, we were speechless. The image of a bump growing on a woman’s chest, it is like the head of a man with eyes and a mouth … bumps growing all over a woman’s body make her suffer. The presence of the monks and nuns who visited and gave gifts to 100 patients on the occasion of Lunar New Year brought a lot of joy to patients and their families. Pray for patients to be free from illness and peace. To help the ill acquire good karma, we went to the market at 5 am to buy fish, toads, etc … before restaurants and the public go to the market to buy fresh meat for their daily meal. Before the “life release”, the group chanted sutras and took refuge in the Three Jewels. Looking at the image of the swimming fish and the frogs crawling to the shore as if to thank delegation before disappearing.
In addition, in March 2019, the Tu Bi Foundation had the opportunity to donate 100 lunches to patients with free eye surgery in Saigon. Through this program, we also learned that in the South, charitable organizations have received a lot of help from domestic and foreign benefactors. But we had a lot of difficulties calling for help poor patients in the North. At the northern temples, there are many people who need eye surgery, but they are not helped.
Tu Bi Foundation will try its best to be able to conduct a charitable eye examination for the poor in remote areas in the North of September, 2019. Much appreciation to our benefactors near and far for their continuing support.
Tu Bi Foundation
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