觀世音菩薩慈語： Compassionate Words from Guanyin Bodhisattva: 為什麼眾生，會遭受苦難呢！因為離不開貪、嗔、痴而造的苦果。每個人，今生會遇到的問題不同，因為前世因，才有今世的果。 Why do sentient beings suffer? Because they cannot free themselves from greed, hatred, and delusion, and thus create the bitter fruits of suffering. The problems each person encounters in this life are different, but because there are causes from past lives, there are results in this life. 無業不轉人，這個業，要怎麼去消呢！要有真功實善及仙佛作主，作公平審判、功過相抵才能過關。沒有功德，賢士如何能消業呢！ No one is reborn as a human without karma. How can this karma be dissolved? It requires true merit and genuine good deeds, and the Immortals and Buddhas to preside, making a fair judgment, with merits and faults offsetting each other, before one can pass. Without merit and virtue, how can you, virtuous ones, dissolve your karma? 肉體的病痛，就交給醫生，靈性的慧命，就交給上天。 Physical illness and pain—leave them to the doctor. The wisdom-life of the spirit—leave it to Heaven. 修道人，要有修道的風範、肚量，要渡家裡的人，不只是言語渡化，真正的渡化，是從身德的表現，把自己修好，錯誤態度、言行改變。 Those who cultivate the Tao should have the demeanor and magnanimity of cultivators. To guide and save family members, it is not only through words. True guidance comes from the expression of virtue in body and conduct: cultivate yourself well and change wrong attitudes, words, and actions. 與家人應對時候，要有慈悲語，讓家人感受，你來佛堂精進、學習後的改變。不用你說大道理，來說服家人向道，自己改變，才能影響家人向道修行。 When dealing with family, use compassionate words, so your family can feel the changes in you after you have come to the holy temple to diligently cultivate and learn. You need not use lofty principles to persuade your family to turn toward the Tao. Only by changing yourself can you influence your family to turn toward the Tao and cultivate. 要改變今生的命運，藉由修行，改變錯誤思想，錯誤的言行，才能真正改變，人生命運的不如意。 To change the destiny of this life, through cultivation, change wrong thoughts and wrong words and actions. Only then can you truly change the unhappiness and misfortunes of your life’s destiny.