積極人生，謙虛滿分；自我愈大，不安 愈多。 Great accomplishment - complete humility; big ego - great insecurity. - Master Sheng Yen

 

智慧，不是知識、不是經驗、不是思 辯，而是超越自我中心的態度。 Wisdom is not simply knowledge, nor experience, nor idle speculation; it is an attitude that transcends self-centeredness. - Master Sheng Yen

 

不用牽掛過去，不必擔心未來，踏實於 現在，就與過去和未來同在。 There is no need to dwell in the past, no necessity to worry about the future: the enduring present holds both past and future. - Master Sheng Yen

 

過去已成虛幻，未來尚是夢想，把握現 在最重要。 The past is an illusion; the future, a dream; the present, essential. - Master Sheng Yen

 

人的價值，不在壽命的長短，而在貢獻 的大小。 The value of life is not in duration but in contribution. - Master Sheng Yen

 

人生的目標，是來受報、還願、發願 的。 The aim of life is to receive karmic retribution, fulfill vows, and make new ones. - Master Sheng Yen

 

生命的意義是為了服務，生活的價值是 為了奉獻。 The meaning of life lies in serving; the value of life in giving. - Master Sheng Yen

 

隨時隨地心存感激，以財力、體力、智 慧、心力、來做一切的奉獻。 Help others with strength of mind and body, with wealth and wisdom - always and everywhere with a thankful mind. - Master Sheng Yen

 

用感恩的心、用報恩的心，來做服務的工作，便不會 感到倦怠與疲累。 Serve others with a mind of gratitude and reciprocity and you will be neither tired nor weary. - Master Sheng Yen

 

壓力通常來自對身外事物過於在意，同 時也過於在意他人的評斷。 Pressure usually comes from too much concern with what we encounter around us as well as how people judge us. - Master Sheng Yen

 

甘願吃明虧，是仁者；受辱吃暗虧，是 愚蠢。 The noble one suffers mistreatment willingly; the fool is humiliated by what he suffers. - Master Sheng Yen

 

給人方便等於給自己方便。 Making life easier for others is making your life easier for yourself. - Master Sheng Yen

 

船過水無痕，鳥飛不留影，成敗得失都 不會引起心情的波動，那就是自在解脫 的大智慧。 Boat passes, wake disappears; bird flies, shadow departs. Gain or lose, succeed or fail - emotions do not stir: this is the great wisdom of freedom and liberation. - Master Sheng Yen

 

「精進」不等於拼命，而是努力不懈。 True diligence doesn't mean placing your life at risk. It is simply unwavering persistence - Master Sheng Yen

 

山不轉路轉，路不轉人轉，人不轉心 轉。 Can't move the mountain? Build a road! Road blocked? Start climbing! Can't climb? Shift mind! - Master Sheng Yen

 

大鴨游出大路，小鴨游出小路，不游就 沒有路。 Big duck swims, big wake; little duck swims, little wake. No duck in the water? No wake at all. - Master Sheng Yen

 

心隨境轉是凡夫；境隨心轉是聖賢。 An ordinary mind bends to circumstances; a sage mind transforms circumstances. - Master Sheng Yen

 

面對許多的情況，只管用智慧處理事，以慈悲對待人 ，而不擔心自己的利害得失，就不會有煩惱了。 Face whatever is in front of you, act with wisdom, treat people with compassion; forget benefit, harm, gain, and loss, and vexations will diminish. - Master Sheng Yen

 

慈悲心愈重，智慧愈高，煩惱也就愈 少。 Deep wisdom, great compassion: few vexations. - Master Sheng Yen

 

以智慧時時修正偏差，以慈悲處處給人 方便。 When you are off balance, always right yourself with wisdom, everywhere you go, use compassion to make life easy for others. - Master Sheng Yen

 

用智慧處理事，以慈悲關懷人。 Do what you have to do with wisdom; treat people with care and compassion. - Master Sheng Yen

 

人生的起起落落，都是成長的經驗。 Life's ups and downs are the stuff of growth and development. - Master Sheng Yen

 

9 見有機緣宜把握，沒有機緣要營造，機緣未熟不強 求。 Seize opportunity when it arises, create it when it doesn't exist; but when the time is not ripe, don't take unnecessary action. - Master Sheng Yen

 

成功的三部曲是：隨順因緣、把握因 緣、創造因緣。 The three acts of success: accord with causes and conditions, act decisively when they arise, shape the future. - Master Sheng Yen

 

隨遇而安，隨緣奉獻。 Be at ease in all encounters; give of yourself, as conditions permit - Master Sheng Yen