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The Best Way to Predict Your Future is to Create It--the Tasks of LifeBy CatherineYen(18,446)    Veneral Master Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan The following "tasks of life" were introduced by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder of Fo Guang Shan Monastery in 2005. They can be regarded as a motto for life. There are total 100 tasks that people should pattern and achieve. On Everday Life
1. Read at least one newspaper a day to keep up with the world, Read at least one good book a day to nurture a knowledgeable character.
2. Stick to a regular daily routing; maintain ugright and honest mental and physical behavior. Wake up and go to bed at regular times; maintain regular food-intakes during the each day's three meals.
3. Develop the habit to exercise and walk at least five thousand steps per day.
4. Stay away from tobacco, alcohol, pornography, and drugs. Govern and regulate your own life.
5. Use your money and possessions wisely, do not over spend or use them excessively.
6. Develop wholesome habits; regrain from inappropriate eating of snacks or thoughtlessly losing one's temper. Good habits are the best way to maintain a wholesome and healthy life.
7. Recite the Buddha's name thrice before each meal, and observe the Five Contemplations at Mealtime when eating at home.
8. Travel the world beneath the clouds and moon, and experience the spirit of alms-procession at least once in your life. In other words, embark on a journey on your own.
9. Give away all your possissions at least once or twice in your life as a way to experience the state of emptiness.
10. Manage your time well, utilize your space wisely, and bring harmony to the human world. Allow these three dimensions to become one, and your life shall not be lived in vain.
On Establishing One's Persona
11.Life becomes valuable when you allow others to take advantage of your abilities. Leave history behind by learning to live life with ingenuity.
12. One must not be unaware of the law of causes, conditions and effects. One must not be unclear between failure and success, fortune and misfortune.
13. Develop right understanding and right views; do not simply repeat what others have said and be led blindly by others.
14. Establish self-confidence, self-expections, and personal goals.
15. Obtain at least three kinds of licenses throughout your life. For example, driving, cooking, typing, medical practice, nursing, teaching, law practice, and architecture licenses and so on.
16. Learn to be articulate in speaking and writing; learn to listen, appreciate, think, sing, paint or be skillful at certain things. The more you learn the better you are; otherwise, learn at least half of the above.
17. Whatever role you play, play it well; never look otherwise.
18.Do not be greedy for others' possessions, nor be stingy with your own wealth. When you work diligently, the right conditiions shall fall into place. However, there is many a slip between cup and lip, laziness and sluggishness can also cause what is readily yours to fly away.
19. Be sharp in your observations, consider all angles, and be olerant and encompassing of others. Furthermore, welcome new thinking, new ideas, new concepts and new styles. In particular, allow sequential thinking so as to increase the depth of your thoughts.
20. Frequently share your joy, compassion, glory and success with others.
21. Do not gossip, spread, fuss over, or be influenced by gossop.
22. Learn to discipline yourself, awaken yourself and enlighten yourself. Perseverance, determination, optimism, diligence and willingness to give and develop connections with others will lead to a bright future.
23. Control your emotion and temper, and never be manipulated by them. Govern your behavior with your senses, because while emotions only arise temporarily, life will last for as long as you live.
24. Plan and use your time wisely, never squander your timme and let it pass in vain.
25. Strive toward your goals and soar far and high. Never cling to the past, look far into your future instead.
26. Do not always ask others for help; find help from within instead. By setting a good example with your own conduct, you can determine the outcome of your efforts.
27. Corerct your bad habits; create your own destiny instead of waiting for opportunities to fall upon you.
28. Find joy and happiness in doing what you do for a living, then progress to spread that joy and happiness to others.
29. Anger cannot help you solve problems; only a peaceful and calm mind can help you deal with life.
30. One would rather be un-intelligent than be unreasonable. One would rather be poor than to be non-compassionate. 31. Be active and fearless. Think before you act. 32. There is no absolute difficulty or ease. Diligence turns the difficult into the easy, while sloth makes the easy difficult.
33.Forget selfish thoughts and dedicate yourself to justice, truth, fairness and the common good.
34. Find theh wisdom and strength to resist worldly temptations such as wealth, sexual love, fame and food. In particular, do not handle official business with personal emotions. Instead, one should make decisions base on morality, justice and fairness.
On Dealing with the World
35.Think of others first when it comes to benefits. Never betray others for your own gains.
36. Speak neither of your own merits nor other's faults. Everything in this world is as transient and ephemeral as a fleeting cloud.
37. Be concerned only with right or wrong, not gains or loss, because right and wrong are determined by a set law, while gains and loss are determinded by selfishness.
38. Do not violate others' rights for your own benefits.Even giving others an advantage may sometimes be necessary.
39. Do not find satisfaction by ridiculing others; instead, learn to give joy and praise to others, and win their recognitiion.
40. Do not attack others out of jealousy of their goodness. Respect, follow and rejoice in their good examples.
41. Plan your career well, use your money wisely, purify your feelings effectively, and remain unattached to fame and fortune.
42. Feel at ease under all circumstances, live by following the right conditions, feel carefree at all times, and do everything with a joyful heart.
43. Fame and defamation are a natural part of life. Remain unattached to them and always maintain inner peace.
44. Be honest and kind, and always give others space to retreat, as one day they may be of help to you. This is also to reserve future potentials.
45. Dio not forget your initial determinations, nor cling to old grudges against a friends. Be an uninvited helper to achieve goodness, and remain unmoved by society while following the right conditions.
46. Cultivate the strength of tolerance in order to understand, accept , take responsility of, resolve an dameliorate external circumstances. Then progress to cultivate tolerance for life, tolerance for all dharmas, and tolerance for non-arising dharmas so as to turn the cultivationn of tolerance into strength and wisdom.
47. Learn to get used to pressure exerted by the external environment, and progress to become unaffected by its existence, because the existence of pressure can bring you power. Between Self and Others 48. When you help others, you are also helping yourself. Your consideration towards others also means care and love for yourself.
49.Cater to those who wish to do good, and recognze a common goal with them.. Oblige others and respect their wishes in order for a bright future to exist.
50.Be modest and courteous in associating with the world. Be humble and willing to learn, make necessary concessions to accommodate theh general situation, and be understanding toward others.
51. Be gentle and humble when dealing with others. Show kindness through speech and facial expressions to make others feel as if they are bathing in the spring breeze.
52. Harmony, calmness and peace are the keys to interpersonal harmony. Diligence, hard-work and assiduity are the keys to success.
53. Treat others with honesty and strive to achieve satisfaction foro all. Treat your guests with respect to make them feel at home.
54. When you meet other people, say at least three sentences to them, and accompany them for a round. Be reasonabale at all times and always put a smile on your face.
55. Respect, praise, and tolerance are a triad for keeping good relations with the world.
56. Refrain from verbosity in times of joy, and do not take your anger out on others.
57.Listen well, and take note of the essence of what others have to say.
58. Never hit the nail directly on the head; learn the noble art of subtlety.
59. Reproach someone with conforting words, criticize with compliments, reprimand with praises, and give orders with respect. 60.Be sincere, passionate, and polite. Utilize the following words often in your speech:"please", "thank you" and "sorry". 61.Educate and praise youngsters; care for and look after the elderly; guide and assist the disable; advise and be considerate towards the depressed.
62. Care for your neighbors and community, and participate in local events. Help and keep guard for each other, and coexist in harmony.
63.Attend to your parents and seniors, and be filial to them. Give younger ones opportunities, and offer guidance whenever needed.
64. Frequently help others without asking for anything in return. Do good whenever possible, and be a virtuous and delightful volunteer worker for the human world.
65.Listen to the words of kindness and never forget their meaning. One must not become a "nonhuman"
66. Always be responsible, for reason is fair, upgright and equal for all.
67.Retain the ability for self-reflection under all circumstances. Never blame everyone and everything else for your unhappiness, for every matter has its own cause and effect.
68.Do not be jealous of those who have done good deeds, spoken kind words or are respected by others. Instead, beb determined to follow their examples.
69. Be thankful to the kindhearted, be grateful to the helpful, and be touched by acts of virtue.
70.Frequently do something which touches people's hearts, and also allow yourself to be touched by the kindness of others.
71. Learn to accept disadvantages, false accusations, setbacks, and humiliation, and then you will be ready to ccept glory.
72. Subject yourself to ascetic trainings to strengthen yourself in life, even ten years of it is not too much.
73. Set your mind on one to three lifetime role models and resolve to follow their examples.
74. It is necessary to be friends with virtuous ones in life. When you encounter virtuous teachers, be sure to stay close to them, be loyal and never disobey them.
75.Relinquish unreasonable attachment, and accept the truth with a humble mind. Only humility brings good, while arrogance causes nothing but unfavorable outcomes.
76. Discover your greatest shorcomin, be willing to correct it, and put your vow into thorough practice.
77. The ability to admit your faults is the greatest virtue. It is also the greatest courage of all.
78. Remember what wrong you have done, constantly remind yourself of it, and never make the same mistake again.
79. Self-reflect before you blame others for their mistakes, for only a fair assessment of your merits and faults gives you the right to judge others.
80. Cherish life, care for life, respect life and never hurt life.
81. Do not be blinded by love; do not bebtray yourself for money.
82. Learn to accept disadvantages and even teach yourself that they are actually advantages.
83.Meditate for at lease five minutes or read a prayer from Beads of Pearl: Prayers for Engaged Living every day.
84. Spend at least half a day in solitude once a week for self-reflection. Be a vegetarian at least one day every month to nurture your heart of compassion.
85. Practice the three actos of goodness everyday: do good things, say good words, and think good thoughts.
86. Observe the Seven Virtues in your daily life: no drugs, no pornography, no violence, no stealing, no gambling, no alcohol, and no harsh speech.
87. Have deep faith in the Dharma and constantly contemplate all virtues. Refrain from doing anything unwholesome, and practice all good.
88. Always keep the promise you have made, because a promise cannot be taken back once it is made.
89. Feel shame for what you do not know,what you are incapable of, what makes you inpure, and what makes you unkind, for shame is like a garland that adorns us.
90.Think of what is good and beautiful instead of what is sad and sorrowful. Turn your mind into a factory that produces nothing but good. 91. Always have sympathy and pray for unfortunate ones no matter where you are. 92.The ability to give brings true wealth; the ability to give bring true gain. 93.Cultivate merits by giving according to what your ability, role, wwillingness, and conditions allow. 94.Organ donation helps prolong life and also offers a new life to waste-material. 95.Develop the capacity to treat others by the following concepts: you are important while I am not, you have while I don't, you are happy while I suffer, you are right while I am wrong. 96.Do not be suspicious or jealous of others. Merit comes from helping others fulfill their goals as well as treating others with kindness.
98.Never infect others with your own sadness, and never bring your worries to bed.
99. Learn to improve your mind, reform your character, turn around, and make necessary U-turn in life.
100.Be consistent in your behavior and understanding. Do not be enlightened in theory but ignorant in practice.
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