聯邦政府代表 Honourable Duncan Kerr MP 於中國漢傳密學研究院開幕聖典上的致辭

聯邦政府代表Honourable Duncan Kerr MP 於中國漢傳密學研究院開幕聖典上的致辭
於金剛禪大學阿絲律耶宮2009年7月28日

Speech by The Honourable Duncan Kerr MP
At the Holy Opening Ceremony of the
Chinese Han Transmission Esotericism Academy

      28th July, 2009
At the Asraya Palace of Jin-Gang-Dhyana University

 

  王大師，萬分感謝您仁慈的言詞。

    Master Wang, thank you so much for your kind words.

    今天能夠來到這裡，感到很喜悅。當我抵達這裡時，我坐在已故州長Jim Bacon的兒子──Scott Bacon的旁邊。從某種意義上而言，可以說是造就了或者說是圓滿了一個緣，因為，他［已故州長Jim Bacon］和我在很久之前一起見了　王大師──大約九年前；我記得，　王大師，當時您第一次提出成立此中國漢傳密學研究院。 

   It is a delight to be present here today.  And when I arrived, I sat next to Scott Bacon - the son of the late Jim Bacon, and it was in a sense a making or closure of a circle, because he and I met with Master Wang very early on, about nine years ago, I think, Master Wang, when your proposal to establish this Chinese Han Transmission Esotericism Academy was first proposed.   

    所以，今天能夠和Scott Bacon，以及諸位貴賓相聚，我們有信心支持他們團體。而　王大師也作了回報，通過您們的努力，對Glenorchy巿、皞峇燈巿的努力、諸位巿委會代表、令我們增光的學者們、與您合作良好的警察、您們社團本身以及已經當塔州和皞峇燈為自己的家的很多信仰者們，來反哺社會。  

   And so, being able to be present with Scott Bacon today, and with so many other dignitaries, we have the confidence of support of their community, and Master Wang, you express it in return, [through] the endeavours that you are making to the city of Glenorchy, the city of Hobart, the representatives of councils, the academics who have graced us with their presence, the police with whom you work so well, and the many devotees that are part of this community that has made Tasmania and Hobart their home.   

   我感到，大家共聚一堂，目睹今天的到來，是一件殊勝的事。  

     To come together and see this day come is I think an extraordinary thing.   

    我感到，我們各位都應該嘗試令每一天變得特別。我們每天醒來時都應該喜悅，因為我們仍然生存，因為我們有能夠對我們的社會作出貢獻的美好經驗。但是，很可惜，在我們生命中許多的時光，都沒有好好作出反省，時間就溜走了。

      And I suppose all of us really should try to make everyday an extraordinary day.  Every day we should wake with pleasure to be alive and to be part of that great experience of making a contribution to our society.  But sadly, so many days of our lives passed where we have just go through that day without too much reflection.      

    因而，今天來到這裡，令我們有了片刻的反省時間，發現通過很多人的努力，是可以達到一定的成果。我感謝您──Aunty［土著領袖］，您仁慈的歡迎辭，和［感恩］Pollawa土著人民［澳洲土人的某一個種族］，因為，這確實是我們會忘記的──我們所立足的土地，以前受到歐洲人的到來而被大大地奪取。  

    So being here today allows us a little moment of reflection to realise the hard work of many people does sometimes come together with an achievement.   And I thank you Aunty, for your kind remarks, by way of welcome, and the [Pollawa] people, because it is something we also forget - that we do stand on the land of people who were dispossessed very largely by European arrival.  

    但是，我們卻又能夠通過一些方法，令這個廣大的社團，此社團包括這裡原居的土著人民的後代、後來，這些變遷令到我們現在共同分享這個多元文化的州，以她的多元化、以她的種種活力、她對不同宗教的容忍、她的自由、和她那獨特的生活方式。  

   But somehow, we have made this great community come together, a community that involves the decedents of those original indigenous people, those who settled early on, sons and daughters of convicts and sons and daughters of those who supervised the convicts, and then later, this [gradient flux] that makes our multicultural state with all its diversities, all its excitements, its religious tolerance, its freedoms, and its extraordinary way of life that we now can share together. 

   所以，　王大師，我為今天能夠和您在一起而感到高興。我亦很感謝您仁慈的歡迎，我祝願您和所有與您的教派有關係的人，在此中國漢傳密學研究院裡獲得巨大的成功。  

   So I am delighted to be present with you today, Master Wang.  I am so very pleased with your kind welcome and I wish you and all that are associated with your order every great success with this Chinese Han Transmission Esotericism Academy .  

  感謝您。  

  Thank you.  

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