This year marks the fiftieth anniversary for Moh Hong Buddhist Shrine. We asked our Master to share with us her thoughts on this milestone and her theme of “With one heart, we cherish The Way” (一心珍惜正道).
今年，巫峰佛堂将迎来建立50周年庆典。为此我们尊请师父分享迈入重大的里程碑和今年主题 ：一心珍惜正道的想法和心得。
On this, she says: “Fifty years is hard to come by. Many of you have been travelling with me on this journey; walking alongside each other for this time. We should cherish（珍惜）this moment; cherish this opportunity, cherish our journey on “the Way (正道)” with the one heart (一心).
师父对此表示：“过去的50年，一路走来并不容易。许多教友跟我相互陪伴、相互扶持，走过这一段旅程。我们携手追寻、一心珍惜正道。这一路上的点点滴滴、彼此之间宝贵的机缘，还有眼前的这一刻，都值得我们珍惜。
Eight years ago, many of you asked to learn more about our philosophy, so I decided to share the crux of the Middle Way by working bits and bites of philosophy into Vesak. The concept of “theme” that was developed each year was the start of my lessons for you.
8年前，你们中有许多人要求修习我们更深奥的佛理。因此，我当时决定，每逢卫塞节前整理佛门的禅理，与大家分享中道的核心。每年所定的主题，就是我给大家学习的第一课。
I taught you to train yourself by first taming your heart – to balance your heart, to treat everyone, including the Buddha, with the same “heart”. My example to you was that one should not treat family any different from non-family.
我教大家，要训练自己，就必须先修心 – 让自己的心平衡，不管是佛或众生，皆以平等心待之。我给大家举了个例子，就是我们对待家人和外人，态度做法都必须一致无二。
When you begin to accept this fundamental value and abandon the attitude of treating people differently; the journey begins. While I did not expect you to achieve this one heart over just one Vesak, planting this seed of thought into you was sufficient so you may continue to train yourself while learning the next quality – that of cherishment.
如果你开始接受这一基本的道理，不再以不同的态度分别对待不同的人，那你已经开始自己的学佛之旅了。当然，我并不期望大家在一个卫塞节内就了解一心的真谛。不过，只要种下佛理的种子，你就能继续自我训练修习下一步 – 珍惜。
Cherishment is another fundamental value that we must all cultivate before we can begin to appreciate the greater details that is contained within The Way (i.e. the Middle Way).
珍惜是我们必须学习的另一个基本道理。学会了珍惜，我们才更能领悟正道（即中道）其中的妙处。
It is with the value of cherishment, embodied within a singular heart, that we can begin to appreciate the nature of this life. And from mindfulness through the practice of meditation, we begin to unravel the true nature of this being. Understanding that form and non-form (emptiness) are not separate opposing ends, but are of the same thing. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.
只有秉承一心、学会珍惜，我们才能开始珍爱生命。一心打坐冥思，用心钻研，我们就能开始参透生命，了解有相和无相（空）并非各执一端、互相对立，正所谓空即是色、色即是空，空与色、有相无相本是一体两面。
Such duality is the underlying nature of the five shankas (五蕴), or aggregates, that make up what we perceive as, the physical “being”–i.e. form, feelings, perception, violations, and consciousness.
五蕴者，色、受、想、行、识，是我们所能感受的实相。五蕴皆空，即是体现虚虚实实、实实虚虚一体两面之涵义。
In 2012 Vesak, the theme was The Way and you learnt about mediation, meditating on the concept of non-self.
2012年，我们佛堂以正道为卫塞节主题，引导大家学习静坐冥思、进入无我。
So this year, being our 50th year, it would be most apt for us to regroup what we have learnt so far, and I offer to you this theme to dwell on. “With the one heart, we cherish The Way”. Through the values of the one heart and cherishment we can begin to understand the Middle Way.
今年恰逢佛堂建立50周年，也是我们重新整理、重新认识所学的良机。因此，我给大家定下“一心珍惜正道”这个主题，让我们秉承一心、学会珍惜，开始领悟中道。
Starting this Vesak, and for the 365 days that follow, I hope you will continue to reflect on this. I have selected a new chant – “The Heart Sutra” (心经) for you to learn and appreciate this fundamental nature of being – that of the duality within the five aggregates.
我希望大家从卫塞节开始，并在接下来的365天，继续深思。我给大家选了心经，让大家修习何谓世间众相，了解五蕴皆空的道理。
Happy Vesak 2015.
祝大家2015年卫塞节快乐。