星雲大師【成長的人生】－小小的稻穗

Описание: 第1個十年「成長的人生」1－10歲
The First 10 Years: Growing Up (Age 1 to 10)

1. 大師出生農村，由於家貧，加上外祖母的影響，養成勤勞、慈悲的性格。
2. 勤勞：家人外出工作，他自己在家主動耙灰、打掃、整理環境，希望讓父母回家有一個驚喜：「哇！家中這麼乾淨。」甚至主動燒水、煮飯、劈柴、牧牛、犁田、插秧等，從小他都一一做過。從生活的工作經驗裏，他學會了重視實際，而非只有理論。
3. 慈悲：大師一生受外婆影響很大，外婆信佛虔誠，個性慈悲。從小耳濡目染下，他不敢打死一隻蚊蟲、蒼蠅、螞蟻，而且對小動物很有愛心。他曾把一隻受傷缺喙的小雞養大並能下蛋。創建佛光山後，開山寮經常有受傷的鴿子、松鼠，他細心照顧，為牠們取名「滿飛」、「滿地」，三十多年來不知凡幾。佛光山從開山時的鳥不生蛋，到現在經常有近百種鳥兒鳴叫。

1. Born in a rural village, the poverty of his family and influence of his maternal grandmother helped him nurture a compassionate and hardworking nature.
2. Being Hardworking: He would tidy up the house while his family was out to work, hoping to give his parents a pleasant surprise when they got home. His experiences in boiling water, cooking meals, chopping woods, herding cattle, ploughing fields and so on, enabled him to focus on being practical rather than theoretical.
3. Being Compassionate: Venerable Master's maternal grandmother was a pious and devoted Buddhist who had a compassionate heart. Being influenced by her, he never dared to kill a mosquito, a fly, or an ant, and was very loving towards small animals. He once took care of an injured chick until it was able to lay eggs. Injured pigeons and squirrels could often be found inside the Founding Master's House up at Fo Guang Shan. The number of animals that have been taken care by him over the past thirty years is hard to keep count of Fo Guang Shan went from a place where no birds laid their eggs to today's home to hundreds of birds.