Spirituality | Tzu Chi

Life Wisdom

Twelve minutes a day, 365 days a year, Life Wisdom encapsulates the essential messages from Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s talks to Tzu Chi volunteers worldwide. In this daily program, the Master shares with the audience her views on major world events, Tzu Chi’s work around the globe, inspiring stories of people and events, as well as the Buddha’s teachings and how they can be practiced in everyday life.

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Stories Told by Dharma Master Cheng Yen

A production of ink-wash animation, Stories Told by Dharma Master Cheng Yen features the Master telling folktales or stories from Buddhist scriptures and concluding each episode with her words that offer the audience much food for thought. With captivating storylines and lifelike animated images, the program is welcomed by viewers both young and old alike.

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Wisdom at Dawn

Hailed as the king of all sutras, the Lotus Sutra contains the true Dharma expounded by the Buddha in his later years. In the Sutra, the Buddha affirms that all living beings can attain Buddhahood and encourages everyone to walk the Bodhisattva Path by benefiting others. Listen to Master Cheng Yen expounding the Lotus Sutra in Wisdom at Dawn and bathe in the Dharma bliss of one of the most important and influential teachings of the Buddha.

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Essence of the Bodhi Mind

Essence of the Bodhi Mind is a weekly program that explores various topics from world events, social and environmental problems, to interpersonal relations, family issues, and more. Twenty-four minutes an episode, the program not only presents actual examples to illustrate the topic of the week, but also pinpoints the views of Dharma Master Cheng Yen, experts and scholars on the topic for viewers to reflect upon and derive insights from.

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Life Wisdom

April 21, 2019

Sowing Good Karmic Seeds
in People’s Inner-Field

April 20, 2019

Being a Supporter of the Dharma
and Sowing Seeds of Love

April 19, 2019

Tzu Chi Recycling Volunteers:
Cultivating Blessings and Wisdom

April 18, 2019

Remembering Tzu Chi’s
Humble Beginnings

April 17, 2019

Paving the Tzu Chi Path
with Unwavering Dedication

April 16, 2019

Shouldering Tzu Chi’s Missions
in Indonesia

April 15, 2019

Remembering Tzu Chi’s History
and Passing on the Dharma Lineage

April 14, 2019

Reducing Our Desires to
Have A Calm and Tranquil Heart

Stories Told by Dharma Master Cheng Yen

The Benevolent Deer King

Man claims himself to be the most intelligent of animals. But is man also the most loving creature on earth? Watch the story and see how animals share the same Buddha nature as human beings’.

The Heavenly Being and the Ghost

A heavenly being saw a ghost lash a pile of bones and curse furiously at them. So she went over and asked the ghost what he was doing…

Kindness Begets Kindness

In ancient China, there was a wealthy family where the wife had tuberculosis. Her husband sought the help of a famous doctor who suggested that the wife eat the brains of 100 sparrows…

The Purple Golden Alms Bowl

In Ming Dynasty, there was an elderly monk who was very well cultivated. When the king of hell noticed that the monk’s life should have come to an end, he sent two hell wardens to bring the monk back to hell…

The Boy Who Found the Wellspring

A little faith goes a long way. This is a story of a little boy whose faith saved the people in his village from dying of drought.

The Loving Spiritual Cultivator

A spiritual cultivator went to the mountains and sat down to meditate. As he sat there, a mother bird came and laid eggs on the long hair he piled up on top of his head…

The Fisherman’s Trip to
the Sea Palace

To thank a fisherman, Taro, for saving its life, a turtle took him to the Dragon King’s palace undersea. Taro spent three days in the palace, but when he returned home, it turned out that decades had passed…

The Black Rat and the White Rat

To flee from wolves, a hunter grabbed a vine hanging down from a tree into a well. As he was descending into the well, he saw snakes at the bottom of the well and two rats gnawing at the vine he was clinging to…

Wisdom at Dawn