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If people with scattered minds enter stupas or temples, and say but once, "Namo Buddha," they have realized the Buddha Way. --Dharma Flower Sutra, Chapter 2: Expedient Devices

若人散亂心  入於塔廟中  一稱南無佛  皆已成佛道   --大乘妙法蓮華經方便品第二

Om Mani Padme Hum  Om Mani Padme Hum  Om Mani Padme Hum

唵嘛呢叭彌吽  唵嘛呢叭彌吽  唵嘛呢叭彌吽

>> Link to Long Beach Daily Photo's blog on the statute of Virgin Mary (Two Bhikshunis [fully ordained Buddhist nuns] representing LBSM attended the gathering the Sunday following 9/11 and recited Amitabha Buddha's name.)  長堤當地居民部落格聖母像的照片。誠如留言所提,長堤聖寺比丘尼代表長堤聖寺於9/11後的星期日長堤當地的追悼會上致詞和念佛號。  
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History of

Long Beach Sagely Monastery

 

 

 

The History of

Long beach Sagely Monastery

 

A Talk by

the Ven. Master Hsuan Hua

at Long Beach Sagely Monastery

on 03-31-93

 

Excerpted from

the First Memorial Volume

Commemorating the Anniversary of

the Ven. Master Hsuan Hua's Entering Nirvana

 

Ven. Master:  [Addressing the assembly] You should all know how Long Beach Sagely Monastery was established.

 

Disciple:  We are very lucky to have such a fine place.  It used to be a Catholic convent.  The nuns lived a cloistered life here for 40 years.  Since they never went out, they had their own clinic and their own bakery for making bread and cookies. 

 

Although people made offerings to them, the convent was not entirely open to the public.  There was a small area in the front for visitors, but the rest of the convent was closed to the public. 

 

Later, feeling that the place no longer suited their needs, the nuns moved to a new place in Santa Barbara.  The timing was right....

 

Ven. Master:  ...I did not come here to take a look--I only listened to your description of the place.  I didn't see it before we bought it.

 

Disciple:  ....It's a famous landmark in Long Beach because the nuns lived and cultivated here for 40 years.  All the local Catholics know this place.  If you just mention that it's at the intersection of Redondo Avenue and Ocean Boulevard, people will know it. 

 

When we bought the place, we asked them to leave the statue of the Virgin Mary in the front, because we also worship her as Guanyin Bodhisattva.  Even now, Catholics still come to pay homage and bring lots of fresh flowers to offer to her every day. 

 

Originally, there wasn't an area large enough to serve as a Buddha hall.  The Buddha hall we are sitting in now used to be a garden.  After we drew up a design and applied for permits from the City, we converted the garden into the Buddha hall.

 

Ven. Master:  You should all know the history of Long Beach Sagely Monastery.  It was purchased by the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas--no one else paid a penny.  I remember  the history of each of our temples very well.

 

I want to tell you that, from now on, you may make donations according to your ability--whether you wish to perform services to save the deceased, renovate a temple, and so on.  Although we now have so many temples and the expenses are not small, we can still manage to feed and clothe everyone, and no one will have to freeze or go hungry.

 

Now, you who are my disciples should know that your teacher is poor, and you ought to follow me in poverty.  Once you have money, troubles come and you cannot cultivate.  Once you have wealth, you will want to eat, drink, and have fun--and you will stop at nothing.  You won't be like your teacher who uses the same napkin for many days.  I don't think any of my disciples do that. You are all from free countries and don't know how to be thrifty. 

 

For that reason, I don't want to be like those money-grubbers who say,

"What Heaven has conferred is called money; accordance with nature is called money.  Money may not be parted with for an instant."

Today, I am very happy.  This monastery is much bigger than the one we had on Huntington Drive [one of the previous locations of Gold Wheel Sagely Monastery] in 1976.  It has a garden and overlooks the ocean, and the air is quite fresh.

 

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