恆
寶師出家前，曾在馬來西亞教了二十年多的書。這些年的寶貴經驗，使她在教導、輔助佛教徒時，得心應手。恆寶師一九九一年出家後，曾到位於加拿大溫哥華的金佛聖寺服務過一段時間，在她的指導下，週日佛學班非常受歡迎。當她為了回萬佛聖城受具足戒而離開時，學生及家長都哭了。
讀書法，有三到；
心眼口，信皆要。
恆寶師的教材，是宣公上人推薦的《弟子規》，內容包括了道德教學。因此，學生的自信及學習慾望都被喚醒了，他們的才華也在恆寶師的輔導下蓬勃發展。我們都親眼見過，在金佛寺一個星期日的午齋上，一個四歲的學生在大眾前背誦了整本《弟子規》，大人們都驚訝不已。其他學生的歌唱、音樂、說故事、背誦等節目就更不用提了。
方讀此，勿慕彼；
此未終，彼勿起。
受戒後，恆寶師留在萬佛聖城育良小學教書，直到她到新加坡一個連屬道場服務為止，後來又由那裡轉到馬西亞的分支道場。
恆寶師在去年一九九四年又回到了金佛聖寺，任職週日佛學班的主任，學生及家長都非常歡喜。他繼續用中國文化中，歷久彌新的道德觀來教導學生，把它們運用於西方生活中，能幫年輕人培養出一套以古聖先賢的智慧為基礎的價值觀。
凡是人，皆須愛；
天同覆，地同載。
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F
or more than two decades before she left the home-life, Heng Bau Shi was a teacher in Malaysia. Those valuable years of experience have provided her with countless expedients to use in teaching, guiding, and counselling young students of the Dharma. After leaving home in 1991, Heng Bau Shi served for a period of time at Gold Buddha Monastery in Vancouver. Under her expertise, the Sunday School flourished, and when Heng Bau Shi prepared to return to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to receive full ordination as a Buddhist nun, the parents and students wept at her departure.
The way to success in your studies,
Is to focus your attention on three:
Trust your eyes, mouth, and mind.
Believe that these are all that you need.
Using Standards for Students, a text containing instructions in virtue recommended by Venerable Master Hua, Heng Bau Shi was able to awaken in her students both self-confidence and an aspiration for learning. Under her guidance, the students’ talents blossomed and developed. Many of us once witnessed one of her four-year-old students recite from memory the entire Standards for Students for an astonished audience of adults one Sunday morning during the noon meal at Gold Buddha Monastery! We were also impressed by the songs, music, stories, and recitations of the many other students in the Sunday School.
Study one book at a time,
Don’t let your concentration scatter.
Stick with this topic till finished,
Only then choose another to learn.
After her ordination, Heng Bau taught at the Instilling Goodness and Developing Virtue Girls’ School at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas until she went to serve in Singapore at an affiliated monastery and then in Malaysia at the Association’s branch.
In 1994 Heng Bau Shi returned to Gold Buddha Monastery, much to the parents’ and students’ delight and now holds the position of Principal of the Sunday School. She continues to educate students in the long-enduring moral values that are imbedded in the Chinese culture, and by applying them to life in the West is able to help young people develop a firm set of values based in the wisdom of sages.
For all creatures throughout the world,
We should cherish a kindred regard.
The sky covers all of us equally.
The earth supports all humankind.
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