Name: Buddhist Teaching for Children: This Precious Life
Uploaded: 2015-05-28T12:17:39.000Z
Duration: 15 min 5 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Gerund

And you are all so beautiful, adorable... [laughs].

you bring us our memory back when we were a child

Really it brings a tramendous amount of feeling.

Because I was one of you guys, a small child. I grew up in Tibet.

And so today we talk about Precious Human Birth.

It's commonly understood that your life is very precious

Everyday your mother and father are always concerned about you

and take care of you, giving you the best:

your favorite clothes and your favorite foods

because if you eat too much candy then you'll loose your precious teeth.

So they care because their love is boundless.

So as children you recognize how precious your parents are.

They also see the precious moment of your life.

And they really love you deep down in their heart.

You see, they are so busy, everyday they have to do a lot of things but they take thier time

and read a story to you before you go to bed.

When you wake up, they support from the beginning of the day all the way to the end.

So, it's wonderful that you have precious parents and you have your precious life.

And so that kind of love you have to relate to other children.

Like here, we have about 20 or 30 children and you don't know each other but you can treasure them.

They are also very precious. They are all looking for that happiness, that love that all of you do.

And then also your pets, like your dog...

Ah, you see! They are also your family, you know?

And so you also treat them with love and respect.

And also in you class there are many other children.

Maybe they are not...maybe sometimes you look down on other children....

You never want to do that because everyone wants to have that precious moment of love.

Because if you have love then your precious human birth is really meaningful.

And then you can relate that to other animals. Maybe you see, when you go to school, little bugs or ants?

Because they love their life, they want to have love.

So you don't kill or and don't harm them.

Just move without stepping on them, always aware.

And that is a very common importance of using the precious human birth in a love way,

And with parents, whether you are Buddhist or not,

it is common that we are all seeking for that happiness.

We want to be happy and we want to succeed etc.

The success of our life or quality of our life is actually spending our life....

We don' know how long we stay, but spending our life with quality, that is actually a treasure.

You might live like 100 years but if your life is spent with non-appreciation then that is not so good.

So basically you should treasure every moment of your life.

With this love we are able to help so many beings.

They become very famous and become very popular due to

that love to all beings, no matter who they are.

So this kind of love is never departed from our mind.

It is a matter of really treasuring that love that we have.

So we shouldn't think, "Oh, I am lacking in life quality,"

because the love that we have is always within us.

So expand that love, extending it to all sentient beings

who seek love and freedom from suffering.

So also I'm very happy that you are releasing some worms today.

And Lama Tendrup is also blessing them and doing some prayers.

This is so wonderful and I'll tell you a story related to that.

And so it was a very interesting situation...

and the owner said, "Ah, he's very nice..."

"Very big, but he will be hamburger soon."

So that is a simple sentence: "He will be hamburger."

Well that's very easy but we are talking about someone in the prime of their life.

An animal with such dignity, so majestic and such a precious life.

So we, some of our supporters, together, we did a life release.

It was quite expensive to buy him but when it comes to that kind of situation

money is nothing, you will feel very happy.

So today you'll go to the fish pond and you do life release.

You will do some prayers and release them so they are not killed.

So that is how we use human life in a precious way.

Of course, The Precious Human Birth is explained with a lot of details in a Buddhist way.

But the common way basically says that we use our precious human birth

with such love and really treasure that moment of your family, the moment with your children.

And you appreciate the positive part of your life.

Because normally we all feel when we get, up we normally think,

"Oh, what do I have to do, what are all the things I need to worry about?"

rather than really appreciating what we already have.

Because you are discovering that your life is so rich.

And if you appreciate every moment of your life

Otherwise, life is passing with a lot of stress or a lot of worry.