Tzu Chi's Altruism from Global Perspective

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Altruism of Buddhist Tzu Chi From
Global Perspectives
Her Rey-Sheng
Spokesman of Tzu Chi Foundation
Professor of Tzu Chi University
2016/04/16

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Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Founded Tzu Chi Foundation in 1966
Developing Four Missions:
Charity, Medicine, Education and
Culture
The Missions aim to purify human
mind, harmonize the society, and may
the world free form disasters.

3. Tzu Chi
Tzu: Compassion
Chi: Relief
Tzu Chi Compassion Relief Foundation
Emphasizes on action of Buddhism.
Dharma Master Cheng Yen:
Walking Sutra: Sutra is the path,
and
the path is for walk.

4. Tzu Chi Four Missions
1. Charity Mission
● International Relief
● Community Volunteerism
2. Medical Mission
● Bone Marrow Donation
3. Educational Mission
4. Culture Mission
Environmental Protection

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The Origin of Tzu Chi Foundation: Compsassion

6. Self Enlightenment to
Altruism

7. A Pool of Blood of an Aboriginal
Pregnant Woman and the Origin
of Tzu Chi Foundation in 1966

8. The Man who carried the
Pregnant Woman to Clinic

11. The Buddhist Renaissance
• Original Buddhism did not emphasize on
the redemption from material
perspective.(Dharma Master In Shun)
• Giving Dharma and man shall solve his
life problem.
• Buddhist Tzu Chi Society: Not only giving
Dharma but to provide them physical
health, material abundance and pure mind.

12. • At the time, the east coast of Taiwan, where the
Master first settled, was undeveloped and
impoverished.
• The Master and her monastic disciples supported
themselves by sewing baby shoes, and many
different handy jobs to support their living.
• Even today, residents of the Jing Si Abode support
them own livelihood by doing various works.
The Life of Jin Shi Abode

14. Self-Support Principle
 All the donations go to needy
 This builds integrity and trust

17. No work, No meal
Residents of the Jing Si Abode support their own livelihood by
doing various works.
Harvest peanuts,1989.

19. Handcrafting, 1985.

24. The First Tzu Chi Volunteer
Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Self Reliance and Helping Others
Leadership that based on Great
Virtue
Lead by Value and Spirit.

28. Treat Suffering People as Buddha
Shower Buddha to Purify Oneself
Master Cheng Yen:
Showering Suffered Recipients and treat
them
as Buddha and this is the true
purification for
oneself.

29. Bamboo Bank Era
30 housewives
saved fifty cents per day.

31. From One to Infinite
• Sutra of Infinite Meaning: One can
produce hundreds and to millions
and to innumerable.
• Start from a small step: Low Ball
Principle
• Daily practice compassion.

33. • Charity is for the people with love not
with money
• True compassion is not just having
sympathy for other's suffering. Instead, it
is to reach out to relive suffering people
with concrete actions.

34. Visiting the Poor Around Taiwan
The commissioners during the early years underwent the difficult
situation. They are the role models for present day.

35. Awakening through Action
• Life is Impermanent
• Not from the words of Sutra but
throught he contact of
suffering

36. Personal Contact with the Suffering
• Seeing suffering knows that one is blessed.
We are fortunate to be a giver
• Through contact the suffering we may
inspire our compassion intrinsic.
• Treat Suffering One as our teacher.

50. Strength of a Comfort Embrace
• Dharma Master Cheng Yen believes that all people
are capable of the same great compassion as the
Buddha.
• Comfort Embrace is the power of Nature
Earth.
Where there is a suffering there is a strength of
comfort embrace.

51. The Volunteer put blanket on the Japanese
elder after the 311 Tsunami and embraced her

53. Embrace the Survivals
Katrina Survivals
in the US.

61. Altruistic Philosophy
• According to the dharma of interdependent
arising, everything are interconnected.
• The whole universe is one.
• Others and self have no distinguished.
• Helping others is to helping ourselves.

62. Altruistic Goal
• Through helping others, we purify our
spirits.
• Through social fulfillment, we reach self
actualization.
• Accomplishment of social justice.

63. Altruistic Action
We are not only provide them
materials but love, respect, and
gratitude.
With Compassion we care the one that
originally are unrelated with us.
With Empathy we relive all suffered
living being.

64. Tzu Chi Core Value
Selfless Giving
• Giving selflessly and Interdependent
origination
• Giving is an arising and selfless is
ultimate calmness or true emptiness.
• Through Action to reach the state of
Enlightenment.

65. We are so fortunate to be a givers.Giving With Gratitude

66. Learn from the suffering.

67. Tzu Chi volunteers gives with a gratitude heart.

72. The Definition of Equality
Three Moral Values: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Tzu Chi : Great love Philanthropy
John Rawls : The Justice to eliminate inequality
1. Equal Opportunity
1. Provide Best Benefit to the Most
Disadvantage Minority

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Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center, 2014

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A medical case in Hualien Medical Center: the 16 year old Aboriginal
boy, Chan-Chin Lin, experienced a car accident and doctors had to
amputated half of his body. The nurses came to encourage him.

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The medical volunteers from Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center visiting Lin at
home. A volunteer played guitar and sang with him.

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Lin has been very grateful for all the love and support from Tzu Chi people
from the beginning when the tragedy happened, hospitalized, to the start of his
own business.

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81. LEAH AND RACHEL

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Noventree a native of Batam Island, Indonesia. His face was
deformed caused by the tumor.

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6Yang Xiaodong - Xiamen

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After four surgeries, Yang Xiaodong corrected over 140 degrees
bent of body. He walked to the Abode to thank Master Cheng Yen
himself.

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Equal Love Principle One
Love all living beings
• Inspire Rich to Support the Poor
• Not only donate money but participate relief
work in person
.

92. Educate rich to support the poor.

99. Great Love to All Beings
Tzu Chi’s Relief works has cross
beyond any boundaries of religions,
nationalities, races, and cultures.

101. 慈善Charity
2002.09捷克Czech Republic
捷克百年水災，約旦及土耳其志工前往卡林區勘災。

102. 慈善Charity
1999.08 南斯拉夫 Yugoslavia
慈濟與M.D.M.簽約，合作為科索沃難民設立30個醫療站

103. 慈善Charity
2003.11 多明尼加
發放床墊等物資及學用品，讓災民告別席地而眠的困境

104. 慈善Charity
2004.03伊朗IRAN
2004 Iran Earthquake。

105. 發
放
前
，
全
體
團
員
在
滿
是
物
資
的
體
育
館
裏
合
照
。
2008 South America, Puerto Rico

107. Katrina in the States

108. Florida Tornado Disaster Relief at Ground Zero

109. 慈善Charity
2003.10 美國America
南加州森林大火造成世紀災難，慈濟人前往援助。California Wild Fire Disaster Relief

112. 慈善Charity
2002.12 澳洲 Australia
Australia 2002 Drought

113. Charity
2002.10 India
India Earthquake 2002. Collaborated with Care France
227 Houses。

114. 2003 Big Earthquake in Bam Iran

122. 所謂「三年一小旱，五年一大旱，十年九旱」，甘肅隴中近年來乾旱的狀況更趨嚴重。
本會自1998年起，針對地區特性及需要，擬定「蓄水集水工程援助計畫」，先後在會寧、
通渭、東鄉等地區，建設水窖與集水面配套的集水工程，徹底解決居民的用水問題，並
進而落實脫困的希望。

123. 77 Years Old Lady has
carried water for fifty
years
Since age 16-age 65

124. Searching for Water is a Daily Ritual

126. 所謂「三年一小旱，五年一大旱，十年九旱」，甘肅隴中近年來乾旱的狀況更趨嚴重。
本會自1998年起，針對地區特性及需要，擬定「蓄水集水工程援助計畫」，先後在會寧、
通渭、東鄉等地區，建設水窖與集水面配套的集水工程，徹底解決居民的用水問題，並
進而落實脫困的希望。

127. Her Pencil
used until the
lead left

128. Built a new School to the children

130. Relocate the villagers to the area that close
to the Yellow River. Provide them house and

131. 從安心、安身到安生，慈濟人在大陸援建的居民住房，講求的是實用、
耐用及美觀。

133. 2000/08/27 ～29日決定針對貴州省花溪區高坡鄉、麥坪鄉，羅甸縣羅沙鄉、董架鄉及紫
雲縣松山鎮進行移民遷村。此為慈濟針對貴州貧困山區推動的扶困計畫之始。

134. 2000/08/27 ～29日決定針對貴州省花溪區高坡鄉、麥坪鄉，羅甸縣羅沙鄉、董架鄉及紫
雲縣松山鎮進行移民遷村。此為慈濟針對貴州貧困山區推動的扶困計畫之始。

135. 希望這些村將來可成為標竿，將公共設施及綠化作為配套，成為新村示範點。

136. 移民遷村計畫除了顧及村民將來生計外，在房屋建設規劃上，兼具實用、耐用及美觀，
同時保留少數民族的特色，更要規畫好生活環境，包括綠化、排水等。

137. Equal Love Principle Two:
Inspire Everyone to Love

138. Helping the Poor Educate
them to Have Rich Mind

139. Mr. Michael Pan, Tzu Chi volunteer in South Africa. He despited
all difficulties and brought aids to needy people, and lead more
and more local residents to help others.

142. After years of experience, Pan began to realize that job training
would be more useful than donations
In May 1995, the three sewing classes began in Umbumbulu.

144. The Archetype of Cycle of Love
• Educate rich to support the poor, and then
support poor and educate them to have rich
mind.”
• By practicing the principles of giving with
gratitude and always delivering respect and
love to recipients, many recipients eventually join
the volunteers to devote their love an efforts to
others who are in need.

146. South African Tzu Chi volunteers have began brining in charity
work into Swaziland.

153. Ms. Gladys Ngema(left), the first
black Tzu Chi commissioner.
A then recipient of Tzu Chi and
was moved to come forward and
help others, she now is a devoted
full-time Tzu Chi volunteer.
“When I was at the bottom, it was
Tzu Chi who saved me,” she said.
“Cheng Yen has sent us these
messengers. We are doing God’s
work.”

154. A Christian Delivers Tzu Chi Spirit of Buddhism
• Dlamini was a former recipient of aid from Tzu
Chi. In the winter of 1995, he received food aid
and, in 2005, joined the foundation as a member.
• I want to tell others about Tzu Chi and teach the
young about HIV, not to use drugs and to love one
another. Before, nobody helped. I lived on the
streets begging and surviving somehow. I did not
know what a normal life was.”

155. 南非傳教士凱瑟琳(Catherine Ngidi)

156. • Ngema, a fervent Protestant shared: “We are doing
God’s work. Master Cheng Yen has great love. “
• Jesus and Buddha are the same.
• Tzu Chi people are like angels. In the hour of our
greatest need, they brought clothes to us. From them, I
have learnt the way of love. Now I hope I can do the
same thing and love my own people.”
Jesus and Buddha Are the Same

159. Relief Work in Myanmar 2008

161. Farmers 1466 households.
Crops distributed 416 tons.
Rice Fields 4,573 hectares .
Farmers 7,099 households.
Cyanamid 3,798.9 tons.
Potassium Fertilizer 1,379.7 tons.
Rice Fields 31,532 hectares.
Grain Distribution
Fertilizer Distribution

162. Each seed is a manifestation of love from all Tzu Chi
volunteers, 6 months later the seeds are harvested.

164. Before preparing a meal, the farmer saves a
handful of rice for the needy

165. Save the rice in a jar for the needy

168. Tzu Chi Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Disaster Relief
On November 8, 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan (
Yolanda) packed wind speeds of more than 300
kilometers per hour and swept through the central
Philippines.
It caused enormous damage to 80% of the
infrastructure and an estimated 6,000 casualties in
Leyte and Samar, which were the provinces worst-
hit. It was the biggest natural calamity in the history
of the Philippines.

169. Boats and ships wash ashore
被海浪沖上岸邊的船隻。

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The Yolanda Typhoon in
Philippine

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173. Tzu Chi volunteers survey the needs in affected areas.
慈濟志工進入災區勘災。

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186. Hand by hand they rebuilt their
homes
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187. Tacloban City stood like an orphan. The volunteers looked at all the fallen
trees, chopped trunks, leaning electricity poles and collapsed houses.

188. Residents participate in Cash Relief for Rebuild Program

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192. Children and adults line up with all kinds of containers in front of a
steaming hot pot. Each day, in a simple and crude kitchen, Tzu Chi
volunteers cook nutritious instant rice for the residents.

199. Chairs with a backrest set up in a simple space serve as dental chairs.
Dentists from Sweden, Dr. Anders Alwall and Dr. Gunn Karlberg are
providing dental treatment

200. Tzu Chi holds relief aids
distributions, including
relief fund.

201. Tzu Chi assists in rebuilding the Sto. Nino Church, which was
badly damaged by Typhoon Haiyan.

202. Save the rice in a jar for the needy

204. Great Love to South Asia
in Tsunami 2004
By Helping Others You May
Transcend Your Own
Suffering

207. Tsunami Indonesia

209. In the South Asia Tsunami, the man had lost all his love ones.
Accompanying by the medical team and volunteers,
the gentleman is finally walked out the depression.

210. Dr. Lee helped to register and triage at the first day.

211. Free medical service

213. Comforting the seniors for out of the pain earlier

214. Ready for distribution aid

215. Tzu Chi volunteer and locals work together with joy

216. Great Love Village III

218. 美輪美奐的齊大愛一村

220. The Third Equal Love
Principle:
Employ Love to Response
Hatret

228. 雅加達水患，印尼慈濟人協助清理紅溪河，用愛
讓雅加達亮起來。

250. Muslim and
Buddhism

251. Help the Poor and Educate the rich

252. The Impact of Tzu Chi to
Muslim School
• A transformation on Islamic
boarding school in Jakarta.
• Muslim Elder Habib and Tzu Chi
volunteers treasure their
friendships.

256. Elder Habib said Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s Great Love
like the sunshine enlightening everyone in the world.
2007/08/26

263. With respect and gratefulness, we hang up the photo of
Dharma Cheng Yen on every classrooms and hope students bow
before the class.”
said Elder Habib.

267. Through Altruism to
Ultimate Enlightenment
• Helping others to purify your mind.
• Others are innumerable therefore, Buddha’s
effort is endless.
• Until all sentient beings have been
enlightened, the Buddha will reach his
ultimately complete awakening.

268. Gratitude