Volunteer service has unlimited advantages! Enjoy your advantages!
It is best to volunteer in the temple through the introduction of Buddhist friends, which is the most convenient. Volunteers cook and clean the kitchen. It usually starts with cleaning. The most basic work is done, and cooking can be reassuring. Remember, do everything with sincerity and respect, which is the real cultivation of happiness.
Learning and practicing Buddhism emphasizes substance, not form, and everything is based on cultivating the mind.
Practice is at the bottom. Blessed are the low-lying places, and dangerous are the high-lying places!
To be a volunteer is to do your own thing with your heart, learn more from the advantages of others, and never look at anyone's fault, let alone anyone's fault. To say someone else's fault is to put someone else's garbage into your pocket. Remember, hiding evil and promoting good is always the right way.
One principle: do more things and have less contact with people. (including becoming a monk)
Because, if you know a lot about people, you need to talk more. If you talk too much, your heart will not be clean. Without a clean heart, it is not easy to get wisdom.
You know, wisdom is not learned, but naturally born from a clean heart. Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor, doesn't know a word. After becoming a monk, I worked as a coolie for cooking, but I can see clearly. It can be seen that wisdom is not because you learn more, but because you are willing to let go. Letting go is not doing nothing, but doing things without leaving a trace in your heart.
Learning Buddha is not in the temple, at home, in life. People who study Buddhism should treat each other with sincerity, respect, everything and everyone. If you understand this truth, you can do volunteer work anywhere and you can write good news.