Sudanese university students offer free schooling to children internally displaced due to conflict 蘇丹大學生為區域衝突造成內部流離失所的兒童提供免費教育 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waDU2bDk2Bc
In today’s news
今日新聞提要:
Belgium contributes to demining in Syria and Iraq
比利時為敘利亞和伊拉克排雷行動做出了貢獻;
Potential seed of life on Earth discovered in meteorites
在隕石中發現了地球上潜在的生命種子;
United States scientists study low-cost way to further cleanse treated wastewater
美國科學家研究更進一步淨化處理廢水且低成本的方法;
United Kingdom Space Agency wins sustainability award
英國太空總署榮獲永續發展獎;
American businessman pays past due utility bills for struggling households
美國商人為處境艱難的家庭支付到期的水電費;
Report predicts vegan protein market will skyrocket
報告預測純素蛋白市場將飆升;
Estonians honor much loved former stray dog with statue
愛沙尼亞人民以雕像紀念深受喜愛的前流浪狗。
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Today is the International Day of Families! You know, our family members like our parents, siblings, and relatives are the most important people to us. Family can also include anybody who is important to us, people who care about us, people who love us, and people we love. Our beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke about how peace in the family is connected with peace in the world. “If a family is stable, and the parents are setting good virtuous examples, the children definitely would not grow up to become bad people. Even if there are exceptions, they are very few. They won't fall to a very bad level. World peace originated from peace in the family. In Chinese we say, cultivate ourselves, harmonize the family, govern the country, and pacify the world. We contribute our best quality to society and family. By offering the best to our family, we are offering the best to society and to the world.”
So, to celebrate International Day of Families, would you like to learn how to make some crafty gifts for your family? We will use recycled materials and turn something old and useless into something beautiful and useful. That way we have less things going to the trash that pollute our planet. You won’t even have to spend more money on new things either. First, let’s learn how to make a piece of art to hang on the wall. We need toilet paper rolls, a large piece of cardboard, glitter, green and brown paint, a ruler and some glue. Following the lines, cut the roll. Glue 5 of the glittered pieces together to make one flower. Finally, apply the varnish to the inside of the petals, sprinkle glitter to the insides of the petals. The next thing we will learn to make is a storage box. How about a pen holder for your brother?
The International Day of Families is another chance for us to express our love for our close ones. Who knows? Maybe we can make a difference in the world too, like Supreme Master Ching Hai told us. “If everyone fulfills their responsibility, like parents are very protective to their children, and children are very filial to the elders, then the world will become peaceful. Everything comes from family. Consequently, the natural disasters and wars will become less and less.”
今天是國際家庭日!你知道,我們的家人像是父母、兄弟姊妹和親戚都是我們最重要的人。家人還能包括任何對我們重要的人、關心我們的人、愛我們的人和我們愛的人。我們摯愛的清海無上師談到家庭和平與世界和平的關係。「如果家庭穩固,父母好好的道德榜樣,小孩絕對長大不會當壞人的。即使有的話,也非常、非常少。不會壞到哪一個程度。世界和平是從家庭和平出來的嘛。我們中國就說修身、齊家、治國、平天下。我�
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In today’s news
今日新聞提要,
European Union supports food assistance in Afghanistan
歐盟支援對阿富汗的糧食援助;
Nobel laureate urges mask wearing
諾貝爾獎得主敦促戴口罩;
Netherlands to prohibit single-use plastics
荷蘭禁用拋棄式塑膠;
Australian researchers improve wastewater sanitizing process
澳洲研究人員改進污水消毒流程;
Police officer saves girl from danger in United States
美國警察拯救女孩於危難;
Global shift away from meat seen amid pandemic
疫情大流行期間全球肉類消費減少;
India’s Nagaland State ends dog meat trade.
印度那加蘭邦終止狗肉交易。
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In today’s news,
今日新聞提要:
Haiti receives life-saving relief assistance from European Commission,
海地獲得歐盟執委會救命援助行動;
new study shows British COVID-19 variant more lethal than previously understood,
最新研究顯示英國變種新冠病毒致死性比先前了解的還更強;
photographer captures recurring tree of life pattern appearing in Australian lake,
攝影師捕捉到澳洲湖中反覆出現的生命樹圖案;
carbon-absorbing skyscraper nearing completion in Taiwan (Formosa),
台灣(福爾摩沙)的吸碳摩天樓已接近完工;
Texas, USA couple gives delivery driver refuge from winter storm,
美國德州夫婦收留冬季風暴中受困送貨司機;
successful Romanian plant-based meat company expands its product range,
經營有成的羅馬尼亞植物肉品公司擴大其產品種類;
Canadian team to monitor critically endangered right whales from space.
加拿大團隊從太空監測瀕絕的露脊鯨。
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In today’s news,
今日新聞提要:
Saudi Arabia provides aid of US$10 million to Ukrainian refugees in Poland,
沙烏地阿拉伯捐贈一千萬美元濟助波蘭境內的烏克蘭難民;
previously unknown infectious disease found in China caused by virus that jumped from animal-people to humans,
中國發現前所未知的傳染病,其病毒是從動物族人傳染給人類;
app helps in learning minority languages in Europe,
應用程式促進歐洲少數民族語言的學習;
United States climate awareness organization creates infographics showing efficiency of electric vehicles,
美國氣候意識組織製作的圖解資訊顯示電動車的能源效率;
French sailor saved from Atlantic Ocean after sheltering under capsized sailboat,
法國水手在大西洋翻覆的船底避難後獲救;
Los Angeles, California-based vegan team takes top spot in food truck competition in United States,
來自加州洛杉磯的純素團隊在美國餐車大賽奪冠,
bird-person in Singapore lands on man’s shoulder and doesn’t want to leave.
新加坡鳥族人停在男士肩上不肯離去。
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His Holiness, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is the spiritual head of the 900-year-old Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Despite having been brought up as a meat-eater in a nomadic family in Tibet, His Holiness subsequently abandoned meat and firmly encouraged others to stop buying, making and eating meat. The 17th Karmapa believes strongly in compassion, loving-kindness, women’s rights, vegetarianism and caring for Mother Earth as universal values.
In one of his talks on vegetarianism given on January 3rd, 2007, at the 24th annual Great Kagyu Monlam, Bodhgaya, India, His Holiness directed all his followers to adhere to vegetarianism: “Any monastery that belongs to Kamtsang Kagyu, the monastery kitchen cannot and should not make any food with meat. And if you bring meat and cook it in the monastery kitchen, then that means that you are not taking me as your teacher, you are not belonging to Karma Kagyu. And there is nothing to discuss about that. That's finished. That is very important.”
“In general, the encampment had very strict rules on meat. They did not begin these rules during the time of the 8th Karmapa. They were ancient rules established long prior to that by previous Karmapas. How do we know this? There is a text by the 9th Karmapa, Wangchug Dorje, called ‘The Great Rule Book for the Encampment: The Ornament of the World’ which says that: ‘The examples of Drumzam Lingpa, 5th Karmapa, Dezhin Shegpa, 6th Karmapa, Thongwa Donden and 7th Karmapa, Chodrak Gyatso are similar. In particular, they gathered only monastics around them. Those that were included in the encampment could not have any meat, not even so much as the hair of a deer, nor drink any alcohol, even as much as a tip on a blade of grass.’”
“Likewise, if you read the 8th’s Karmapa’s commentary on the Vinaya, The Orbit of the Sun that Clearly Illuminates the World, it states that when doing the Gutor and Mahakala rituals at the end of the year, meat should not be included in those offerings. He not only banned eating meat in the Great Encampment, but he promoted vegetarianism to Tibetans all over Tibet. In the index of the 8th Karmapa’s Collected Works, there is also an advice to Tibetans as to why it is inappropriate to eat the meat of defenceless animals.”
法王十七世噶瑪巴伍金赤列多吉,是藏傳佛教中具有九百年歷史傳承的噶瑪噶舉派靈性導師。儘管大寶法王生長於西藏的游牧家庭,從小吃肉,但他隨後斷絕肉食,並且堅定地鼓勵其他人停止賣肉、停止生產肉食及吃肉。十七世噶瑪巴堅信慈悲、仁慈、女權、素食主義及關心地球母親等普世價值。
二○○七年一月三日,在印度菩提伽耶舉辦了第廿四屆噶舉默朗木祈願大
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