Maha Tare Buddhist Centre Singapore is pleased to announce as part of its annual Dharma activities – “Sharing Happiness”, a program aimed at extending aid and support to elderly members at elderly people’s home in and around Singapore.
- Date: 12 April 2015
- Time: 11am to 1pm
- Venue: AWWA Community Home for Senior Citizens
Blk 123 Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 #02-4035 Singapore 56012
Members and Friends of the Maha Tare Buddhist Centre will be providing lunch and goodie bags to AWWA Community Home for Senior Citizens.
We welcome everyone to join us and share some love and care to the elderly.
The following contributions are welcome:
- Join us as a Volunteer
- Maha Tare Buddhist Centre invites you to volunteer time for an enriching and meaningful lunch with the elderly.
- Sponsorship of requested items
- AWWA Community Home for Senior Citizens has specially requested for the following household items
- Packed Lunch
- Cooking Oil (Small Bottle)
- Sesame Oil (Small Bottle)
- 3 in 1 Coffee (Less Sugar)
- Planta (Small Can) or Margarine
- Siang Pure Oil
- Yoko Yoko
- AWWA Community Home for Senior Citizens has specially requested for the following household items
If you wish to be a volunteer and/or sponsor any of the above items, please contact Christina at 9685 6632.
Sharing Happiness program is a charitable program, where Maha Tare Centre will make offerings of daily essentials such as food, clothing, and medical supplements, as well as spiritual and emotional support to elderly members of our community. These elderly members, as we know, have sacrificed their lives on both familial and national fronts and today live in elderly people’s homes around the country. We see this charitable program as a way of expressing our gratitude and acknowledging the sacrifices they have made. Charity, giving or generosity, above all, forms the first of six transcendental practices promoted by our most excellent teacher Buddha Shakyamuni. All three forms of giving—of material things, emotional and mental support, and spiritual and religious guidance—will be extended to the recipients. As teachings of the Buddha have stressed on how the practice of giving to one’s parents, elderly and poor are among the highest forms of giving, we hope to make this a meritorious event.
Generosity or giving externally appears as a practice where givers, like a savior, give things to help those who are in need. Of course things offered will largely help and benefit the recipients. However, it also helps the giver, as much, by providing the giver a rare opportunity to cultivate virtues and merits. Giving or generosity, provide more opportunities for wealth, riches and prosperity as Karmic results in this and future lives. Above all this act of kindness of giving things to a complete stranger amounts to selfless giving, which in unaffected by our social notion of friends and enemies or stained by any wishes to receive something in return from whom you give. We, at Maha Tare Buddhist Centre, believe that it brings deep inner satisfaction.
Members and friends, who wish to contribute or participate in our Sharing Happiness program, are very welcome.
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