Buddhism
Tzu Chi has been promoting Buddhism not only for the religion but also for the life lessons that can be learned from it. Tzu Chi has made a lot of events that let people remember the teachings from the Buddha.
Every year, on the second Sunday of May, Tzu Chi treats this as a 3-in-1 celebration day because on this day, Buddha's Birthday, Mother's Day and Tzu Chi day is being celebrated. Usually on Buddha's Birthday, Buddhists bathe the Buddha but Tzu Chi believes that it is the people that needs cleansing to be able to be good individuals.
Tzu Chi also has sutra adaptations on the Sutra of the Innumerable Meanings and on the Sutra of the Water Repentance through the use of sign language. The Sutra of the Innumerable Meanings tell people that time is running out and there will be disasters if people do not stand for a change. The Sutra of the Water Repentance, on the other hand, tell people that they need to repent their wrong doings.
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“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
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