Jay

獲得諾貝爾和平獎的孟加拉人尤諾斯（Muhammad Yunus）尤諾斯一連串的作為，的確是成功地讓「低收入→微儲蓄→零投資→低收入」的惡性循環，轉化為「低收入→信用貸款→投資→更高收入→更高儲蓄→償還貸款→更高投資→更高收入」的正向循環。 (陳俊吉，嘉鼎管理集團總經理)


上述的努力著實令人欽佩，但有些定數是人為努力所無法改變，如石油、鐵、煤等天然資源之蘊藏量；有些則不易改，如全球的物質需求；而有些則是改了以後反而會危害全人類，如全人類的消費增加（加速資源消耗）。筆者認為第二、三類的需求、慾求不應被刺激增加，而儘量保持為「定數」或「定數以下」的水準。

故第一類可稱為「實定數」，代表「實然的定數」；第二、三類可稱為「應定數」，代表「應然的定數」。

像尤諾斯他改善窮人的生活，使窮人的基本生活滿足，的確會增加物質的消耗。但是，他並無使地球上總體的消耗增加，何以故？因剝削窮人的商人，其收入便會減少，而使其消費能力減少，故整體上並無造成「應定數」的破壞。總而言之，任何如尤諾斯合理的努力，而能使資源的消耗原因從第三類的追逐更高慾求轉為二類的滿足基本需求，亦即從「想要性」的消費能力轉向「需要性」的消費能力，但又不違背「定數」，都是值得鼓勵的。



反之，像歐巴馬以不斷地增加美國人工作機會的方式來救經濟，則嚴重造成「應定數」的破壞，並造成「實定數」的嚴重耗損，使下一波更可怕的危機──資源危機提早到來

Four disasters: War, Diseases, Economy, Resources

The reasons of these disasters:


War: Fighting for material things and bias.

Diseases: Sars, Bird flu, Mad cow diseases…all because people hurt animals for self-interest. Ex.: raise animals in animal farm, kill wild life animals for quench their desire.

Economy: financial opacity.

Resources: better economy, faster depletion.

Conclusion: all of these disasters are not natural disasters, they are mainly because of people’s greed, and sometimes hatred.

When people are thinking economy, I am talking about surviving.

When people are still thinking about saving economy,I am thinking about saving lives.

一、 The true meaning of "True Cultivation"(修道真修) : Cultivate one's heart, elevate one's nature, and then one can be truly benefited from Dharma.

二、 Cutl the huge snowball into pieces (Through enlightenment, 悟) Use wisdom to see through it, to analyze it, and the snowball will be cut into pieces.

三、 Four kinds of fear of the death

The Vegetarian Diet Makes American Healthier Jay Yen




According to the article, “What Causes Cancers?” (June 5, 1997) Biedebach, M. C.

Ph. D. from the California State University, Long Beach, states that “…only two kinds of cancer … have a little connection with what you eat. One is lung cancer…The other is skin cancer.” Obviously, fresh vegetables and fruits are not the main reason of cancer; on the contrary, it comes from diets contain animal products. Meat is delicious and nutritious; however, it causes a lot of health problems. People should eat food that will not cause health problems and promote their health conditions at the same time—that is the vegetarian diet. It will reduce people’s risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure. Also, it can get rid of their extra weight, and prevent them from getting several cancers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

加州大學長堤分校的Biedebach教授在「為何造成癌症？」一文中指出，「只有兩種癌症與你的飲食無關……一種是肺癌……另一種是皮膚癌。」顯然，造成癌症的主因並非新鮮的蔬果，而是含動物性成分的飲食。肉食雖然可口營養，但卻會造成許多健康問題。人們所吃應是能促進健康又不會造成健康問題的飲食──就像素食一樣。素食能減少人們得心臟病、中風、高血壓的風險，又能減重並預防數種癌症。

I. Introduction

1. Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful for the grace of God, virtues of Holy Teachers, Lao Qian Ren and Qian Ren, so that I can have this chance to share the topic with you..

2. Let’s talk about “Love” first. People innately, naturally, have three senses about love, which are empathy, sympathy, and compassion. Empathy means you have the same experience, and you can understand others’ feeling. Sympathy means that you are not necessarily have the same experience and know the people’s feeling, but you feel sad for him. For example, as a man, of course, I don’t have the experience to give birth to a baby, but I feel bad for the mother who is suffering from the process of laboring. Compassion means we not only understand others’ pain, feel sad for them, but also try to relieve their pain, and give them happiness.

3. In Taiwan, most people become vegetarian because of religion; therefore, many people see vegetarianism as a kind of religious belief. However, today, I would like to say that the most important reason for being a vegetarian is “Love”. Because of the three senses of love, we will naturally care about animals, people, environment, and ourselves.



I. 前言

1. 各位先生女士，後學感謝天恩師德，老前人前人老慈悲大德，因此後學才有此機會在此與各位分享此議題。

2. 我們首先談「愛」。人們天生地、自然地擁有三種愛的感受能力，即同理心、同情心及慈悲心。同理心代表您他人有相同經驗，且能瞭解他人的感受。同情心是指您不必然有相同經驗及瞭解他人感受，但您替他人感到難過。例如，後學是乾道，必然沒有生小孩的經驗，但後學也會替正在受分娩之苦的婦女感到難過。慈悲心則是您不但瞭解他人的痛苦，替他人感到難過，還會進一步地想要替他們解除痛苦，帶來歡樂。

3. 在台灣，大部分的人是因宗教因素而吃素;因此，大部分的人都視素食主義為宗教信仰。然而，今天，後學想說，成為素食者最重要的理由是因為「愛」。由於上述三種愛的感受，使我們自然而然地關心動物、人們、環境，及我們自己。

(Hereby, I would like to express my gratitude to Betty Ke and Frances Chang, who proofread my article without any reward)
還記得幾年前，當SARS橫行時，四千多人深受其害，其影響及於二十七國，並造成二百五十一人死亡。此外，愛滋病、禽流感、狂牛症等，都造成許多人們失去其財產及親愛的家人，並使你我生活在致命的威脅下。雖然這些疾病幾乎無法由現代醫學治癒，但仍有一種有效的方式來避免您受到這些威脅，並增加健康—那就是素食。

Just a few years ago, more than four thousand people suffered from SARS, and it spread to 27 countries just within a few months and caused the deaths of 251 people. Besides this disease, AIDS, bird flu, and mad cow disease have all caused many people to lose their properties and lovely families, and make you and me live under the lethal threats. Although many of these diseases are almost incurable by modern medical science, there is still an effective way to prevent you from these threats, and enhance your health—that is vegetarian diet.

Nowadays, because of the WTO and other trade oriented agreements and bodies, many commercial barriers have almost disappeared. Therefore, international enterprises have become stronger and many local small and medium companies have had to shut down. Moreover, the mechanization of manufacture, the computerization of information processing, the downsizing of the businesses, and labor-intensive industries been transferred to developing countries, all of these will cause fewer jobs for long term.

To solve this problem, most people usually think that how to stimulate economy and enlarge the need of manpower of labor market. This means may have some effects, but the trend of jobs opportunity decreasing will not change. Another approach which is more feasible to solve the problem is to reduce the need of work from some people, and Half-time Working System will be a good way to fulfill this approach. In this system, people do not work full-time, but they still can get their benefits according to the percentage that they work. For example, if a person only works a half day everyday, then he can get 50% of his benefit. Also, when he works two days a week, he can get 40%.

國際貿易的障礙，在各國紛紛加入ＷＴＯ後而降低許多。也因此，許多中小企業不敵國際企業的競爭，而紛紛關廠倒閉。再加上製造的機械化，資訊處理的電腦化，勞力密集產業外移，及企業為節省人力成本而精簡人事；工作機會，整體而言，長期必然呈現負成長的趨勢。

　　為解決此問題，一般人的思考方向，不外乎是如何刺激經濟，擴大就業市場需求。個人在此有不同的思維方式，即朝減低工作的需求思考，而「半職制」即是達成此目標的好方法。此制乃指一個人上班之工時，不如一般全職的員工，但仍享有依其工時等比例的全職員工福利。例如一個員工，每天只上半天班，則他仍可享有一般員工一半的年終獎金及退休金；若每週只上三天班，則領五分之三的福利。