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     尊敬的三位法师、南澳州总督、南澳州州长、各位善信们，欢迎您们来参加南澳竹林寺新春贺岁庆典，并对您们的到来表示衷心的感谢！

    感恩您们长期以来对本寺的关心、支持与帮助！僧俗二众弟子以最虔诚的心于三宝前祝福您们蒸蒸日上、越来越好！怎样才能越来越好呢？我相信你们能来佛堂就是因为你们具足善心，善心即好心做事。

    佛家言：“如是因，如是果。”好人必有好报！光好心还不够，还得有用心，只有用心才能把事情做好！佛经云：“制心一处，无事不办！”只有用心、专心才能把事情做好！光有善心、用心还不够圆满，所以还要开心！只要开心做事，即便碰到再大的困难也不会生烦恼！

    佛经又云：“以法自娱！”说的就是做事要以娱乐的心态去完成；在娱乐的心态中待人处事必须还要有善心和用心，这种娱乐的处事待人之道才会利人利己，这也是佛教中所说的自利利他的菩萨精神！

    最后，祝愿各位：身心健康！阖家平安！世界和平！人民安乐！谢谢大家！

    【英文】

    Respectable Venerables, HisExcellency The Hon. Hieu Van Le, AO Governor of South Australia, The Premier ofSouth Australia, Distinguished Guests and Buddhist Devotees,

    Welcome to our SA Zhu-lin Buddhist Temple's Spring Festival celebration whereNew Year greetings are extended to each other. Furthermore, we would like to give you our genuine thanks for attending this event. We are especially grateful for your long-lasting care and concern, support and helps all over theyears.

    In front of The Triple Jewels, we the Sangha and lay-person of Buddhist disciples with the best sincerity in our heart to give you the blessing of becoming flourishing and prosperous and getting better and better.

    How to get better and better? In treating people and handling matters, we always have benevolence and compassion; to be diligent and attentive and to be joyful. To have benevolence means you deal with matters with a kind heart. In Buddhism, we have the saying:“There is cause; there is effect”。 Agood person will always be rewarded with good karma. However, with just the benevolence is not enough. We need to have diligence and attentiveness.This is the way to enable us to manage matters properly. Buddhist scripture says to concentrate your heart on one method or one thing, there is nothing you can't do. So with kind heart and attentiveness, you will be able to deal with affairs correctly and efficiently. However with only these two elements, you will not achieve complete success. We still require joys and happiness in dealing with matters.With joyful attitude, even the biggest difficulty and worst problem will not worry you. The Buddhist Scripture says to find ways to amuse yourself. That is to say whenever we perform a task, we have a happy approach and outlook and be able to amuse ourselves along the way. Always remember, we also required to have compassion and attentiveness. With these three elements in treating people and handling affairs, we will be able to benefit others as well as ourselves,this is what we call the spirit of Bodhisattva - to benefit oneself as well as others.

    Wishing all of you healthy and sound body and mind; the whole family is safe and well; the world peace; good luck and happiness for everyone; may true beliefs long-lived.

    Thanks everyone.