18 April 2025

Dear devotees & friends,

We thank all for your support and your co-operation in embracing our call for a greener environment during the recent Qing Ming Remembrance Festival. Nevertheless, we hope you will bring less joss papers and other paper offerings for offerings to your ancestors. If possible, we should refrain from doing it and offer oil lamps instead. In Buddhism, light is a powerful symbol representing wisdom and the illumination of the mind. Lighting an oil lamp is seen as ailluminating the way forward, dispel darkness and eliminate ignorance.

Our mission is to expound the teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha and to cultivate compassion, loving kindness and wisdom for the benefit of all humanity. In this respect, Venerable Sek Meow Ee will be giving monthly Dharma talks on the last Sunday of every month, starting from April, from 9.30 am to 10.30 am. With better understanding and practice in our daily lives, we hope to light to ourselves and others.

82nd 8-precept retreat 八関齋戒

Due to the 2025 General Election, the retreat will now be held on 30th April (7.00 pm) and 1st May 2025.

Recitation of The Shurangama Sutra 楞嚴經

We are pleased to announce that we will be having the recitation of The Shurangama Sutra 楞嚴經 from 10th and 12th May 2025 to commemorate the 2569th Vesak Day.

The Shurangama Sutra has traditionally been regarded as a complete and practical manual for spiritual practice that will eventually lead to enlightenment. It gives instruction in the correct understanding of the Buddha-nature, which is the potential within all beings for becoming a Buddha. The Sutra explains how and why this true nature is hidden within our ordinary experience of ourselves and of the world, and it shows how we can uncover this nature and recognise that it is our own true mind. There are also teachings on moral precepts, strict dietary practices and ethical conduct.

"楞嚴經": 緣起於五百世的愛戀。年輕貌美的摩登伽女，對 「面如淨滿月、眼若青蓮華」 的阿難尊者一見傾心，二人由於宿世因緣之故而相識，但卻由此開啟了摩登伽女的修行之路…令她獲得新生，從此脫離情愛的痛苦折磨。

楞嚴經是以佛陀弟子阿難化緣時遭摩登伽女以邪咒攝入婬室，險將破戒的故事作為開篇之序分；其內容正宗分包括有修楞嚴大定之法、解脫的程序、菩薩修行之階次，二十五菩薩聖者之圓通法門、乃至詳說宇宙和生命的奧祕、世界的成因、眾生輪替的因緣、及五十陰魔的境界以辨識邪正等等，無不逐一剖析，次第分明。

經中講到楞嚴五十魔境，一一揭示色、受、想、行、識，五蘊各有十個魔境，天魔外道無所遁形，因此，所有魔都最想毀滅楞嚴經。

經中的楞嚴咒同為「咒中之王」，破魔顯正、功德巍巍，加持神力超勝，至誠不斷持誦者具足以下諸般功德：

  1. 鎮伏災曜咒詛之一切危害。

  2. 超渡多生累劫的冤親債主、七世父母，無始來的冤橫宿殃、舊業陳債無法惱害。

  3. 令行小乘者回小向大，趣入菩提妙道。

  4. 一切苦難盡除，諸善願如意成就。

  5. 迅疾消除五逆無間重罪。

  6. 令破戒之人，得戒根清淨；未精進者，令得精進；無智慧者，令得智慧。

  7. 常與諸佛菩薩同生一所，不生貧窮濁惡處。

  8. 命終隨意往生十方諸佛剎土，來世受用無窮無盡。

Please refer to '2025 Vesak Day' for the complete list of activities.

Offering Food Ritual at Damengshan ceremony大蒙山施食儀法會 22 June 2025 五月廿七日

Merits from food offering 蒙山施食的功德

There are many merits and virtues in giving food. The Sutra on the Difference of Karma and Result (業果分別經) and Nectar Sutra of Giving to Hungry Ghosts (餓鬼甘露經) list out the merits including mitigating disaster, increase longevity, living in peace and contentment and early attainment of enlightenment.

施食有很多功德，如《佛為首迦長者說業報差別經》載，奉施飲食功德：得命；得色；得力；得安穩無礙辯；得無所畏；無諸懈怠，為眾敬仰；眾人愛樂；具大福報；命終生天；速證涅盤。

If you wish to participate in any of our activities, kindly call Alice or Danny on telephone 6253 3532 or visit our Monastery.

May the Merits of the Triple Gems be Always with you!

 

 

 



Yours sincerely









 

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