“Be Generous and Pure-minded”

This book discussed about the topic of life, and it consisted of numerous short stories. Master Cheng Yen stated in the book that, “Beauty was about having a generous heart and a pure mind. It could bring joy and it’s the fundamental of humanity.”

After reading this book, I understood that “human’s time has limitation”. We often shared the same thought that there’re always tomorrow, thus we could leave our tasks to tomorrow. However, this was not the case. Life was short and temporary that we could not assure the existence of tomorrow. Hence, it reminded me that I needed to change my bad habit of procrastinating and live in the present. Besides that, this book made me realized that, we had to change our attitude in order to change our destiny. All troubles would be gone when we dealt our lives with a right mindset. In order to maintain a right mindset, we had to turn our negative thoughts into the positive ones.

Lastly, I learned that “act with willingness and accept with joyfulness”. We usually complained about our problems or blamed on others but we did not reflect on ourselves. We were able to quickly spot the mistakes in others, however, we hardly reflected our own mistakes. Therefore, we must learn to reflect ourselves at all time and also communicate with others to create a harmonious atmosphere.

—— Ms. Chen