Dharma Drum Mountain has chosen “The Great Bodhi Mind” as its annul theme for the year 2022, and invites members of the public to jointly cultivate merit and wisdom, by developing a capacity of mind radiating compassion for the benefit of others. Benefit others and you benefit yourself; this is also how we emulate the myriad ways of a bodhisattva.

With the still rampant pandemic and other issues that humanity has to work together to solve, Ven. Guo Huei urges people to learn from the Buddha’s spirit of great compassion, to help protect the world’s environment as a whole. Also, by applying the great wisdom of non-self and using the method of “Four Steps for Handling a Problem: Face it, Accept it, Deal with it, Let it go”, we will be able to overcome the difficult situation that is facing all of us. As long as we think more of others and less of self, while making an aspiration to contribute ourselves to serving sentient beings, I believe that in this new year we can certainly bring new hope to the world, by sharing the power of peace, wellbeing, and harmony.