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Words from Master Cheng Yen 40 Tzu Chi Global in Action
4 The Bodhisattva Practice of Patient Endurance
Dharma Master Cheng Yen Dharma as Water: Great Repentance
CEO’s Note 44 Making Vows after Repenting
7 Building Hope for Haiti’s Future Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Han Huang 46 Once Caught, Learning to Release
Chunshan Chen
Hope Rises from the Rubble Song of Bodhisattvas
CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM 10 Teach a Man to Plant
Colin Legerton 48 Correct the Past and Cultivate the Future
thoughts for meditation, contemplation, and reflection from Master Cheng Yen 17 A Beautiful Dream Come True Lyrics: Sixi Wang, Music: Shouquan Li
Shirley Tseng & Peter Chu 51 Tzu Chi Americas in Action
20 Building a Beautiful Dream
Shirley Tseng & Fay Chou Living Bodhisattvas
23 Love Turns Despair into Hope 54 Grace Chen: My Life Mentor
Joseph Champagne Johan Alwall
24 Tzu Chi in Haiti: Since the Quake Storytelling by the Master
26 New Life for Durocher, New Hope for Solino 58 Making Good Connections Enables
Colin Legerton the Bodhisattva Path
30 Thank You, Master Cheng Yen Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Clotaire Saint-Natus
32 Restoring the Luster of the Pearl of the Antilles Vegetarian Style
Fay Chou 61 Legim: A Haiti Happy Campus Recipe
Haiti Happy Campus Team
Hurricane Sandy Special Report Young Bodhisattvas
35 White House Honors Tzu Chi for Sandy Relief 62 The Unreasonable Effectiveness
Tzu Chi Foundation of Collective Behavior
37 An Open Letter to Dharma Master Cheng Yen Tsung-Lin Hsieh et al.
John Reyes
38 Tzu Chi Named NVOAD Member of the Year 64 Tzu Chi Directory
Tzu Chi Foundation 67 Tzu Chi: A Brief History

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