To have a warm and happy family, we should nurture a heart of joy and shower our family with blessings.
- by Master Cheng Yen
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Stir-fry sauce
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Jing Si Aphorisms 靜思語
Jing-Si-Aphorisms
The past is gone; the future is unknown. Seize the present. Now is the time.
- by Master Cheng Yen
Jing Si Aphorisms 靜思語
Jing-Si-Aphorisms
Suffering is caused by endless desire; the desire that creates bad karma.
- by Master Cheng Yen
Jing Si Aphorisms 靜思語
Jing-Si-Aphorisms
The process of spiritual cultivation is to nurture virtue and rectify conduct and behaviour.
- by Master Cheng Yen
Jing Si Aphorisms 靜思語
Jing-Si-Aphorisms
The expressions on our face and the tone of our voice all communicate to others. So smile and speak softly; preserve a gentle attitude.
- by Master Cheng Yen
About Us 關於我們
Gold Coast Tzu Ching is a charity group for youths and young adults below the age of 35. We follow the teachings of Buddhist nun Master Cheng Yen, who founded Tzu Chi Compassionate Relief Foundation.
We welcome members from all religions. We respect everyone for their beliefs. As long as you have the will to participate in doing good, you are welcome to join us on our compassionate relief efforts.
Our main volunteer activities are: food aid, nursing home visits and recycling. If you know of any other charitable activities that may need the hands of some young, compassionate people then please, by all means, let us know!
This year, our committee is made up of:
- President: Samuel Wen
- Co-Secretary: Nicole Chiu
- Co-Secretary: Pohan Lin
We have weekly meetings with all Tzu Ching members on Saturday mornings at 9:30 am at the Tzu Chi office. Feel free to come by and share your opinions on how we can better contribute to society! (Keep checking this blog for updates on upcoming events!)
If you would like to know more information, please feel free to contact us via email at tzuchinggc@yahoo.com.tw
Mission of Culture 文化志業
The Tzu Chi Mission of Culture plays an important role in spreading Buddhist culture. Everything from radio, audiotapes, publications and TV broadcasting to the Internet is fully utilized. We hope that through these media, people can learn about Buddhism and the Tzu Chi culture, and that we can help save all people from the suffering of this world.
Tzu Chi officially published the first issue of Tzu Chi Monthly magazine in July 1967. That was the first step that Master Cheng Yen took to advocate Buddhism culture. A medical scholarship was established in 1982 to encourage talented young people to move into the medical field. A radio show, "The Tzu Chi World," was first broadcast in January 1985. On August 1, 1986, the Tzu Chi Cultural Center was opened in Taipei. Six days later, the Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien was opened, and ground was broken for construction of the Still Thoughts Hall, the "cultural castle of the Tzu Chi spirit." Another biweekly magazine, the Tzu Chi Companion, was first published in September 1986. To give readers convenient access to Tzu Chi publications, the Tzu Chi Cultural Publishing company was established in 1990. Buddhist and Tzu Chi cultural publications and books were then delivered to bookstores and convenience stores, instead of being passed out by volunteers.
Starting from January 1991, in conjunction with the Taiwan Government Information Office and the Labor Bureau, Tzu Chi hosted the "Happy Life" series of public lectures. By January 1996, over a hundred lectures had been given. The "Tzu Chi World," a TV program, was first broadcast on the Taiwan Television cable network in February 1995. On January 1, 1996, the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation went on the Wide World Web (http://www.tzuchi.org.tw) to spread Tzu Chi's love and culture to every corner of the world. The Tzu Chi Great Love Television station began broadcasting on January 1, 1998. On August 1 of the same year, Rhythms Magazine was first officially published. As of now, we can say that the promotion strategy of the Tzu Chi mission of culture is quite complete.
The first issue of the Tzu Chi World monthly magazine was published in Los Angeles in 1991. The Vancouver Chinese Voice radio station has broadcast eight minutes of Master Cheng Yen's Still Thoughts every Friday since 1992. These activities have helped to motivate Tzu Chi people abroad to promote the Tzu Chi mission of culture overseas.
慈濟的文化志業擔任佛教文化宣導推動角色，舉凡聲音、文字、影像到電腦網際網路的應用，無不備全。其目的是希望透過現代人所能接觸到的一切媒體，吸收學習佛教、慈濟的精神，以達到度化人間的目的。
一九六七年七月慈濟正式發行第一份刊物《慈濟月刊》，這是證嚴上人倡導文化志業的第一步。一九八二年設立「醫學獎學金」，其目的是為獎勵並培養優秀的醫學人才。一九八五年十一月，廣播節目「慈濟世界」正式開播。一九八六年八月一日成立「慈濟文化志業中心」，同月十七日在慈濟醫院開幕的同時，象徵慈濟精神文化堡壘的「靜思堂」正式動土。一九八六年九月又創刊《慈濟道侶》半月刊。為方便廣大社會讀者接觸慈濟出版品，更於一九九○年十月成立「慈濟文化出版社」，出版各類佛教及慈濟文化相關書籍，採取有別於過去贈送結緣的發行方式，透過書店、便利商店……等通路正式流通。
此外，一九九一年一月起，慈濟持續與行政院新聞局及勞委會合辦「幸福人生系列」講座，到一九九六年十一月已逾百場。一九九五年十二月，「慈濟世界」電視節目，正式在國內有線電視播映。一九九六年一月一日，正式將「慈濟慈善事業基金會」相關介紹，載入國際網際網路（http://www.tzuchi.org.tw），向全世界傳送慈濟所有訊息。一九九八年元旦，慈濟大愛電視台正式開播，同年八月一日《經典雜誌》創刊發行。如今，慈濟文化志業訊息的宣導系統，可說已經相當完備了。
一九九一年，美國慈濟月刊創刊。一九九二年，溫哥華華僑之聲電台，每週五播出八分鐘證嚴上人的靜思語。這些都帶領其餘各國慈濟人，推動各項慈濟海外文化志業。
Mission of Education 教育志業
In order to help solve the shortage of nurses on Taiwan's east coast and provide a source of nursing staff for the Tzu Chi General Hospital, and in the hope of training nurses who would be both skilled and compassionate, Master Cheng Yen established the Tzu Chi Junior College of Nursing in Hualien in 1989.
In order to train more medical personnel for the Tzu Chi General Hospital and to improve some inadequacies in the Taiwanese medical system, and in the hope of cultivating for society and all humanity doctors who would treat patients as they would their own relatives, the Master also established the Tzu Chi College of Medicine in Hualien in 1994.
The nursing school was upgraded to the Tzu Chi College of Technology by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in August 1999, and the medical college was upgraded to Tzu Chi University in the summer of 2000. The Tzu Chi High School and Tzu Chi Experimental Elementary School opened in September 2000. The establishment of these schools realized Tzu Chi's goal to set up a comprehensive educational system which offers education all the way from kindergarten to post-graduate studies.
In 1991, the first overseas Tzu Chi Youth organization was set up. In 1994, the first overseas Tzu Chi humanities school was established in the United States, which was the first step in the future expansion of the overseas mission of education.
證嚴上人為解決台灣東部地區護理人才的欠缺，提供慈濟醫院將來所需的護士來源，並希望培育出具有慈悲心懷的優秀護士，因此決心籌建慈濟護理專科學校。一九八九年，慈濟護專於花蓮成立。
為擴大栽培將來慈濟醫療志業體所需各類醫事人員，並改善台灣醫療界一些不良風氣等問題，且希望為社會、為人類培育「視病如親」的良醫，證嚴上人於一九九四年繼續在花蓮創辦慈濟醫學院。
繼慈濟護專、慈濟醫學院（一九九八年八月改制為慈濟醫學暨人文社會學院）之後，證嚴上人目前正在積極籌設慈濟大學。慈濟教育志業體的最終目標，是希望能建立一個從幼稚園、小學、初中、高中、專科、大學、研究所，整體連貫的慈濟教育體系。
一九九一年起，海外的慈濟青少年團體接連成立。一九九四年，第一所海外慈濟人文學校在美國創辦，為日後慈濟海外教育志業的拓展邁開初步。
Mission of Medicine 醫療志業
Beginning in 1972, Tzu Chi arranged free clinics for low-income families twice a week. In 1978, Master Cheng Yen decided to established a new hospital. In 1979, after she got permission from her mentor, Dharma Master Yin Shun, she put her plan into action.
The Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien was opened on August 7, 1986. It was the first hospital in Taiwan which did not require a security deposit from patients before they could get treatment. This policy received the support of the government, and the health department of the Republic of China later issued a regulation that no hospital in Taiwan could charge patients this security deposit. Furthermore, the Tzu Chi hospital allowed all monks and nuns to receive treatment without charge.
The Hualien hospital was only the first step of the Tzu Chi medical mission. Tzu Chi Dalin General Hospital started construction in 1996. The Hsintien hospital in Taipei and the Kuanshan hospital in Taitung both opened in 1999. Plans were also laid for the Children's Rehabilitation Center and the Tzu Chi Tantzu hospital in Taichung. Master Cheng Yen hopes that with a nation-wide Tzu Chi medical network, people throughout the island can have equal access to good medical resources. Her ideal is that every town and village can have a hospital with good, altruistic doctors and nurses.
Tzu Chi charity work abroad originally focused on helping to provide medical treatment for the poor. The Buddhist Tzu Chi Free Clinic Center in Alhambra, California, was opened in 1993 to provide free medical care for financially disadvantaged people in the community. The establishment of the center was the first step in extending the medical mission outside of Taiwan. Later, the Tzu Chi office in Vancouver, Canada, in conjunction with the Vancouver General Hospital, established the Tzu Chi Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.. We also have a kidney dialysis center in Malaysia. In addition to these permanent medical centers, other Tzu Chi offices around the world frequently provide free clinics for the poor.
慈濟功德會於一九七二年，便開始在花蓮市舉辦每週兩天的義診活動，服務貧病民眾。一九七八年證嚴上人計畫進一步蓋醫院，這個構想於一九七九獲得印順導師的贊同後，便著手進行籌畫。
一九八六年八月十七日花蓮慈濟醫院正式啟用。它首先開創了病患「免保證金制度」，此項改革立刻獲得政府的贊許，衛生署遂於該年十二月頒發命令，自一九八七年起全國所有醫院比照辦理。此外，對於出家弘法的僧侶，慈濟醫院提供完全免費的醫療服務，也是另一項創舉。
對證嚴上人而言，花蓮慈濟醫院只是整個醫療志業的初步奠基。一九九六年十月十三日動土的慈濟大林醫院，及規畫中的慈濟潭子醫院、兒童復健發展中心……等，也都只是階段性目標。建立慈濟全國醫療網，讓全國的百姓普遍平等地享受醫療資源，每個地方都可以有醫院，並有良醫、良護救助病人，這才是證嚴上人最終的理想。
慈濟海外慈善工作，原本就有協助貧民接受醫療的服務。一九九三年美國佛教慈濟義診中心的正式啟業，主動為社區各族裔貧困病患提供免費醫療，更是海外醫療志業具體拓展的第一步。之後慈濟溫哥華分會與溫哥華中央醫院合作成立的慈濟傳統醫學中心，馬來西亞的洗腎中心，都是慈濟海外常設的醫療志業單位，其他各地也經常舉辦義診活動。
Mission of Charity 慈善志業
Tzu Chi's mission began with charity work. When the Tzu Chi Foundation was first established in 1966, it started with providing charitable help to the poor.
Tzu Chi's mission of charity is currently divided into six categories: 1. providing long-term help to low-income families; 2. donating rice to low-income families; 3. subsidizing clinical diagnosis and prescriptions; 4. providing medical aid; 5. providing emergency help during disasters; 6. assisting the poor and orphans with funeral needs.
Tzu Chi has been promoting its overseas mission of charity in local countries since the establishment of the U.S. Tzu Chi Foundation in California in 1985 and the subsequent proliferation of its global branches and coordination offices. Master Cheng Yen hopes that, based on the philosophy and method of "self support and use of local resources," Tzu Chi's overseas missions can inspire Great Love and activate local sources of compassion.
慈濟的志業始於慈善工作。一九六六年慈濟功德會成立之初，便是從慈善濟貧開始。
目前慈濟的慈善志業工作分為：一、低收入戶長期濟助；二、低收入戶白米濟助；三、義診藥費補助；四、醫療濟助；五、災害急難濟助；六、孤貧喪葬濟助等六個項目。
海外慈善志業，則隨著一九八五年慈濟美國分會在加州立案，及之後全球各地分會或聯絡處的成立，而就地推動。證嚴上人希望慈濟海外的各項志業，都能以「自力更生，就地取材」的精神與做法，來啟發大愛，開發當地的愛心資源。
Jing Si Aphorisms 靜思語
Jing-Si-Aphorisms
A snobbish person is not only unhappy but will make others feel miserable.
- by Master Cheng Yen
The Four Missions 四大志業
The Four Missions of Tzu Chi Foundation are Charity, Medicine, Education and Culture. The work of Tzu Chi is focused in these areas.
慈善、醫療、教育、文化四項工作，併稱慈濟「四大志業」，這是慈濟志業發展的方向。
Contact 聯絡
黃金海岸慈濟會所
Gold Coast Tzu Chi Foundation Office Lot 13, The Brickworks Annex,
Warehouse Rd, Southport
QLD 4215
Phone: (07) 55 328 966
Fax: (07) 55 263 348
Email: tzuchinggc@yahoo.com.tw
Vegetable Stir Fry
Recipes
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 2 tbs vegetable oil
- 50g butter
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- 100g carrots, cut into thin matchsticks
- 225g Swiss brown mushrooms, sliced
- 175g baby corn
- 225g bean sprouts, trimmed
- 250g baby spinach
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 tbs honey
- 150ml teriyaki marinade
- 85ml soy sauce
- 3 tbs Worcestershire sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 50g grated ginger
- To make the sauce, combine teriyaki marinade, the sauces, garlic and ginger in a bowl and set aside.
- Heat oil and butter in a wok over high heat. Add onion and cook for about 30 seconds. Add carrot, mushroom and corn, and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add bean sprouts and baby spinach and continue cooking for about 30 seconds until spinach begins to wilt.
- Stir in sauce, lime juice and honey, and cook for long enough to just heat the sauce through.
(By Valli Little via Taste.com.au)
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