浴佛圣典法会佛历2568 – 格伦诺基市代理市长市议员苏希基致辞
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王大师,
贵宾们,
您们都是贵宾，谢谢！
我没有生病，我将冒着损害我对自己外表的骄傲的危险而摘下口罩。【观众笑声】我刚做过晒斑的治疗，看起来很糟糕，但我在这里充满著爱与您分享。【苏希基笑同时摘下口罩】
我有幸在过去十年中成为王大师的朋友，而你们许多人也是我在这段旅程中认识的。王大师仍然与一直是一位伟大的朋友，总是为我的伴侣彼得祈祷和加持，而现在他又面临另一严重的疾病。
今天早上我起床后，像许多公众人物一样，因为人家对您说的难听话而泪流满面，尤其是当您是一个公众人物时。王大师，我是陷入了自我怜悯中，导致分心的。
一如既往的，我像通常那样阅读了您的智慧言辞时，我觉得我找到了我所寻求的。那就是，现在世界似乎充满了愤怒，有许多人感到不满，停止了做感恩的人，停止了对所拥有的事物表示感激和满足。
我们是住在澳大利亚其中非常安全的地方，但不幸的是，于格伦奥奇市里，我们的种族歧视的存在比我们希望的还要多，这将是我未来几年的个人挑战，我要在任何地方消除我看到的种族歧视。因为我相信，真理和和谐来自于我们停止以肤色、文化或信仰来判断人。王大师，你在过去十年中一直是一位伟大的老师，你向我展示了和平是一份真正的礼物，是我们所有人都需要不断练习以实现的东西。
在这本书(指场刊)中，你引述的智慧言辞说道：“现代科技已克服了种种限制，而为人类生活带来了前所未有的改变。” 这句话非常真实。“诚然，世人享受科技成果，却不能满足于无止欲望，而导致精神颓废，心灵空虚，道德沦丧，利令智昏。” 这确实是如此。社交媒体的出现已经让一些人变得非常残忍，他们可能不会当面说出不好听的话，但在网络上却言辞刻薄。
因此，我希望我们都从王大师慷慨的礼物中得到了启示，祂邀请我们分享祂的文化，接受祂的加持以及祂学院所有人的加持，我们要拥抱这份礼物，将其带回我们自己的社区并分享出去，因为我们是可以共同努力而改变世界的。
谢谢您！
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Bathing Buddha Holy Ceremony Dharma Meeting Buddhist Calendar 2568 – Speech by Acting Mayor of the City of Glenorchy Alderman Sue Hickey
【Audience applaud enthusiastically】
Master Wang,
Distinguished guests,
You’re all distinguished. Thank you.
I’m not sick, I’m going to take my mask off at my vanity peril. 【Audience laughs】I’ve had sun aging spots treated and it looks horrible, but here I am sharing it with you with love. 【Sue Hickey laughs】
I have been blessed to be a friend of Master Wang for over a decade, and many of you I have met on that journey. Master Wang continues to be a great friend, always praying and blessing my partner Peter, as he faces yet another great sickness.
I got up this morning, like many people in public life, into complete tears because of ugly things that are said about you, particularly when you are a public person. And I got distracted in my own self-pity Master Wang.
And so as usual when I read something out of your wise words of wisdom, I think I’ve found what I was looking for. And that is, the world just seems to be so angry at the moment, there are people so dissatisfied, people have stopped being gratitude, showing gratification for what they have.
We live in a very safe part of Australia, unfortunately Glenorchy we have more racism than we would like, and that is going to be my personal challenge for the next few years, is to stamp out racism anywhere I see it. Because I do believe truth and harmony comes when we stop judging people by the colour of their skin, their culture or their beliefs. And Master Wang, you’ve been a great teacher over that decade, you’ve shown me that peace is a real gift, and something that we all need to continually practice for it to manifest.
In your wise words of wisdom in this book, it says, “modern technology has overcome various limitations, bringing unprecedented changes to human life.” How true is that? “However, while people enjoy the fruits of technology, they often find themselves unsatisfied with endless desires, leading to spiritual decay, emotional emptiness, moral decline, and intellectual confusion.” And that is so true. The emergence of social media has turned people who would not say something nasty to your face, into very cruel things…
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