For 2017, Dharma Drum Mountain has chosen “Bring blessings and wisdom home” as its annual theme. Ven. Guo Dong, abbot president of DDM, urges us to look after ourselves with wisdom and a mind of gratitude while applying compassion and practicing giving to care for our family and the surrounding environment. He also encourages people to practice the bodhisattva path by taking the thoughts and actions of all beings as the family, and then progress from smaller to bigger, from inside to outside, cultivating blessings and wisdom, transmitting the mind of wisdom to our future generations.