This is very nice. Youtube video.
Looks like Hong Kong Buddhists who are proud of their Buddhism and putting up videos to show it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9425_kPAn74&feature=dir
<b>Former Miss HK is buddhist beauty</b>
Video description:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: scmp888
http://www.scmp.com/video
Thousands of Hongkongers have lost money during the financial meltdown, but former beauty queen and singing star Cally Kwong Mei-wan is not among them. She left the market last year when prices were climbing but had not peaked.
<b>A devout Buddhist and philanthropist, Ms Kwong uses the principles of her religion to guide her</b> through the treacherous shoals of the investment world.
Ms Kwong is an example of Hong Kong's growing number of philanthropists, at ease in talking of the material as well as spiritual side of being wealthy. More than just a pretty face, she has made a fortune through clever investment and has given much of it away.
Interview in Cantonese with English subtitles.
Category:Â News & Politics
<b>Tags:
buddhism buddhist</b> cally former hong kong kwong mei miss money <b>philanthropist philanthropy</b> scmp wan wealth
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oh come on, click on it. She's lovely IMO.
I absolutely love how they start the video with:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Cally Kwong Mei-wan,
a successful entrepreneur, singer
and former Miss Hong Kong,
shares her views on
the financial crisis.
<b>Ms Kwong is also a
devout Buddhist</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo--> (The beautiful Zhang Zi Yi and Michelle Yeoh are also devout Buddhists.)
In the middle of it, the subtitles to her speaking reads:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Through Buddhism I also learned to not be so selfish and materialistic
and it has so much resonance now that the markets are in such bad shape.
Money truly isn't everything and it certainly isn't that easy to earn.
Those who earn a lot of money ought to do more charity work.
After all, we can't bring our money into the afterlife.
Someone who spends their life accumulating so much wealth
will eventually have to depart from this world.
So why not use your excess money to help those less fortunate.
I believe it is a very fulfilling way to spend one's money.
I think happiness is more important than money.
Then again what constitutes as being rich or not rich?
Each and every one of us is capable of finding happiness.
What's important is being in the right state of mind.
A wealthy person is not always necessarily happy.
Whereas a relatively not so rich person who has good health or a loving family
or does volunteer work can be just as happy.
Money can't always buy you happiness.
The real task is to know what you want in order to lead a fulfilling life.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So different from the annoying christian characters who are always trying to do a one-upmanship on how they donate 'so much more money' than other people.
The contrast with the Bauddha Miss HK is stark: she doesn't try to score points like the christos with their "my christianism makes me a better person than you". (Although, if she ever <i>were</i> to say "my Buddhism makes me a better person than christos", she would be absolutely right.)
Being Buddhist, she simply says something very universal yet personal like "Someone who spends their life accumulating so much wealth will eventually have to depart from this world. So why not use your excess money to help those less fortunate. I believe it is a very fulfilling way to spend one's money." Very like my Taiwanese Bauddha friend. They never brag, they just do <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> and you never know it unless you ask them (or interview them, as above).
I like this sort of active promotion of Bauddha Dharma. Whoever posted this youtube video may have partly done it in response to the annoying number of christian braggarts out there who regularly like to boast about 'pretty' christians doing charity (Indian christians are also notorious for bragging in vain in this manner). But missionizing money is not charity - World Vision and other christoterror orgs is not charity - that's funding terrorism. Theirs is money that buys death (of persons, communities and natural traditions), instead of sustaining life for life's sake. Theirs is money used to intrude on and invade others - for the selfish purpose of conversion, unlike Natural Traditionalist orgs that try to improve the welfare of their own and any others that are in need, for no other end than that. A world of difference.
Looks like Hong Kong Buddhists who are proud of their Buddhism and putting up videos to show it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9425_kPAn74&feature=dir
<b>Former Miss HK is buddhist beauty</b>
Video description:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: scmp888
http://www.scmp.com/video
Thousands of Hongkongers have lost money during the financial meltdown, but former beauty queen and singing star Cally Kwong Mei-wan is not among them. She left the market last year when prices were climbing but had not peaked.
<b>A devout Buddhist and philanthropist, Ms Kwong uses the principles of her religion to guide her</b> through the treacherous shoals of the investment world.
Ms Kwong is an example of Hong Kong's growing number of philanthropists, at ease in talking of the material as well as spiritual side of being wealthy. More than just a pretty face, she has made a fortune through clever investment and has given much of it away.
Interview in Cantonese with English subtitles.
Category:Â News & Politics
<b>Tags:
buddhism buddhist</b> cally former hong kong kwong mei miss money <b>philanthropist philanthropy</b> scmp wan wealth
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oh come on, click on it. She's lovely IMO.
I absolutely love how they start the video with:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Cally Kwong Mei-wan,
a successful entrepreneur, singer
and former Miss Hong Kong,
shares her views on
the financial crisis.
<b>Ms Kwong is also a
devout Buddhist</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo--> (The beautiful Zhang Zi Yi and Michelle Yeoh are also devout Buddhists.)
In the middle of it, the subtitles to her speaking reads:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Through Buddhism I also learned to not be so selfish and materialistic
and it has so much resonance now that the markets are in such bad shape.
Money truly isn't everything and it certainly isn't that easy to earn.
Those who earn a lot of money ought to do more charity work.
After all, we can't bring our money into the afterlife.
Someone who spends their life accumulating so much wealth
will eventually have to depart from this world.
So why not use your excess money to help those less fortunate.
I believe it is a very fulfilling way to spend one's money.
I think happiness is more important than money.
Then again what constitutes as being rich or not rich?
Each and every one of us is capable of finding happiness.
What's important is being in the right state of mind.
A wealthy person is not always necessarily happy.
Whereas a relatively not so rich person who has good health or a loving family
or does volunteer work can be just as happy.
Money can't always buy you happiness.
The real task is to know what you want in order to lead a fulfilling life.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So different from the annoying christian characters who are always trying to do a one-upmanship on how they donate 'so much more money' than other people.
The contrast with the Bauddha Miss HK is stark: she doesn't try to score points like the christos with their "my christianism makes me a better person than you". (Although, if she ever <i>were</i> to say "my Buddhism makes me a better person than christos", she would be absolutely right.)
Being Buddhist, she simply says something very universal yet personal like "Someone who spends their life accumulating so much wealth will eventually have to depart from this world. So why not use your excess money to help those less fortunate. I believe it is a very fulfilling way to spend one's money." Very like my Taiwanese Bauddha friend. They never brag, they just do <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> and you never know it unless you ask them (or interview them, as above).I like this sort of active promotion of Bauddha Dharma. Whoever posted this youtube video may have partly done it in response to the annoying number of christian braggarts out there who regularly like to boast about 'pretty' christians doing charity (Indian christians are also notorious for bragging in vain in this manner). But missionizing money is not charity - World Vision and other christoterror orgs is not charity - that's funding terrorism. Theirs is money that buys death (of persons, communities and natural traditions), instead of sustaining life for life's sake. Theirs is money used to intrude on and invade others - for the selfish purpose of conversion, unlike Natural Traditionalist orgs that try to improve the welfare of their own and any others that are in need, for no other end than that. A world of difference.