Yun Yang Temple Australia
Accommodate with Conditions
One should accept one’s destiny without objections. For example, if one is destined to be the children’s father or mother, then one must play the role of a father or a mother well, be responsible in providing for the children and bringing the children up as good members of the community. As fathers or mothers, you do not complain about hardship and sufferings the children have have caused you to endure. This is because the children and yourselves are destined to meet in this world. The union of the children and yourself as a family unit at the present time is the result of the “cause and effect” (karma) of your past lives.
This goes on to say that when your destiny appears in whatever forms, do not reject it; and when your destiny disappears in the thin air, do not regret it.
Accommodate with Happiness
Whatever forms your destiny is in, accept your destiny with joy. Whether the condition of your present life is harsh or easy, whether your life is long or short, your life is the cause and effect or karma of your past doings. One should accept one’s good or bad karma with joy and spend time and effort now in performing good deeds for the benefit of all humanity. By doing so, one’s bad karma can be reduced or prevented and good karma can be created.
Accommodate with capabilities
One should accept one's present position and fulfil one’s responsibilities and duties. Do not be conscious about others who are in a better or worse position than you and do not place any attachment to the status.
Carrying one’s responsibilities and duties according to one’s ability wholeheartedly will benefit both oneself and others. For example, if one has the ability to do the work but one is not doing it, then one is not fulfilling one’s responsibilities and duties. On the other hand, if one does not have the ability to do the work but force oneself into doing it, then one is not fulfilling one’s responsibilities and duties neither.
Yun Yang Temple's Dedications
I. Buddhist Families
Rounding and chanting Buddha's name
Yun Yang Temple encourages all families of its members and devotees to take refuge in the Triple Gems (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) and to uphold the five precepts (refrain from killing, stealing, improper sexual conduct, improper speech and intoxication). Family practices are held every week to help and encourage friends and relatives of its members and devotees to learn, practice and spread the Dharma.
II. Respect for the Elders
Fulfilling filial duty (or paying respect to the elders) is a Chinese tradition. Birthday celebrations are held on a regular basis to promote the old ritual of children paying respect to their parents. The celebrations provide an opportunity for the children to express their gratitude to their parents for the hardship and sacrifices their parents endured in bearing them, bringing them up, providing for them and guiding them. It is a way of saying “thank you” to their parents. Transference of merits ritual is also held for the members and devotees on a regular basis to allow them to transfer their good deed to their deed relatives in order to relieve the deed relatives from suffering in endless kalpas.
III. Caring for the Old and Sick
 
Venerable Ru Sun happily delivering lunch for the elderly Ready for a delicious lunch
The sick and dying people need care and support the most. Upon request by the family members, Venerable Master Ru-Sun leads his compassionate team to the hospital or the home of the old and sick to provide him or her emotional and spiritual support.
IV. Recuperation
Yun Yang Temple cares for the health of its members and devotees by inviting experienced and skillful traditional Chinese doctors to the temple for consultation. Many members and devotees’ illness was cured due to the compassion and the skills of these doctors. The Venerable Master Ru-Sun plans to establish a center in Melbourne for convalescent persons to practice Buddhism and receive spiritual support from the temple.
V. Extending the wisdom of Buddha
Yun Yang Temple has established an education centre to propagate and advocate the Buddha’s teachings, to raise the Sangha (monk)’s talent and to promote Buddhist cultures and arts.
VI. Setting up cultural centre
Yun Yang School was set up to promote traditional ethical virtues and various kinds of arts and crafts.
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