Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
We write beautiful maxims; but are we well imbued with them, and are we putting them into practice? Epictetus
One Little Angel is proud to present
God Love All Beings Quotes from the World Religion
A Proper Understanding of Religion
It is essential to have proper understanding of what religion is all about. The Chinese word for religion is 宗教 (Zong-jiao). The character 宗 (Zong) means ‘main,’ ‘important,’ or ‘noble and esteemed.’ The character 教 (Jiao) means ‘education,’ ‘teachings,’ or ‘actions that serve to moralise, civilise or enlighten humanity.’ Put together, 宗教 (Zong-jiao) means ‘the main education,’ ‘the important teachings,’ and ‘the noble, esteemed actions that moralise, civilise, or enlighten people.’ Observing closely every major religion’s sacred scriptures and history of education, we can see that the principal contents of religious teachings can be classified into four categories: morality, ethics, causality and sacred wisdom.
This commentary on God Loves All Beings - Quotes from the World Religion by Master Chin Kung was produced between 2018 and 2019 and recorded at the UNESCO. Although intended for a Buddhist audience, the commentary is remarkably open-minded regarding the teachings of all religions and as such deserves to be read by everyone, believers and non-believers alike.
- Conference 1: Introduction of the association at UNESCO and its role; - Conferences 2 to 4: Introduction of the conference series God loves all beings. - Lectures 5 to 8: commentary on Bahá'í texts. - Lectures 9 to 23: commentary on Buddhist texts.
Vidéos:
Inter-Faiths Dialogue
Quotes of the Day
Chow Tun-i
The way of the sage is nothing but humanity, righteousness, the Mean, and correctness. Preserve it and it will be ennobling. Practice it and it will be beneficial. Extend it and it will match Heaven and Earth. Is it not easy and simple? Is it hard to know? (If so), it is because we do not preserve, practice, and extend it.
One Little Angel is proud to present Scriptures 360 by
Religious cohesion, bringing religion back to education and mutual learning amongst religious groups can foster social harmony and promote world peace. Venerable Master Chin Kung encouraged practitioners of different faiths to select 360 passages of the most essential teachings in their respective sacred texts, and compiled them into Scriptures 360, for the convenience of the general public.
This set of books is compiled by: - Members of the Toowoomba Interfaith Working Group (Queensland, Australia), - Syed Hassan Al-Atas (Imam and Head of Ba alwie Mosque Singapore), - Reverend Master Lee Zhiwang (President of Taoist Mission Singapore), - Mr K. Rajamanikam (Singapore)
Biography of the Day
Buddha Sakyamuni
the enlightened One, usual title given to the founder of Buddhism. He is also called the Tathagata [he who has come thus], Bhagavat [the Lord], and Sugata [well-gone]. He probably lived from 563 to 483 B.C. The story of his life is overlaid with legend, the earliest written accounts dating 200 years after his death (see Buddhist literature).
His given name was Siddhartha and his family name Gautama (or Gotama). He was born the son of a king of the Sakya clan of the Kshatriya, or warrior, caste (hence his later epithet Sakyamuni, “the sage of the Sakyas”) in the Himalayan foothills in what is now S Nepal. It was predicted at his birth that he would become either a world ruler or a world teacher; therefore ...