九月七日周报

尊敬的各位學長, 您們好!

Welcome to all new families who joined our first dizigui class on Sept. 07. 

【The circus is in town!】

The following note is from Jeffery Leggo who, as a Shriner, is promoting the tickets of the Shrine Circus for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The original price for each ticket is $30 (Please check the link:https://www.imarktickets.com/Event.aspx?instanceID=45044022984800&sitetheme=45), but we can get $5 for a show. See below:
"The Shrine Circus (http://www.shrinecircus.ca) has come to town and is going to be in Laval from 09/12 to 09/22.  Tickets for the circus are normally $30, but as a Shriner I can get them for you for $5.  The good news is that the Shriners are a not-for-profit organization and all of the revenue goes to support the Shriners hospital for children.  You can feel like you’ve done a good deed while you’re enjoying time with your family!
You might be wondering, why I can offer them so cheaply?  Because we promote the circus ourselves, we do not have to pay the lions share to a promotion company, and we can in fact contribute more from the $5 tickets to the hospital."


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As he said, you will support the Shriners hospital for children while enjoying your family time. If you are interested, please let us know before 13:00 pm,  Wednesday, Sept. 11. By replying this mail, please indicate how many tickets you would like to have. We could not guarantee that the tickets will be available for all of you who are interested.
For the schedule and the address of the shows, please refer to: http://www.shrinecircus.ca/buy-tickets/ and select the city "Laval". The ticket is a general admission and you can choose any time and any day to see the show. One group of us will go there on Sunday Sept. 15, 16:00 pm.Thus, if you choose this time slot, you can meet some of dizigui students. Please arrive in advance so that you can get the better seats.
Once we receive your mails, we will order the tickets and will distribute them on Sept. 14 in the dizigui classroom "Room 3409" between 11: 30 am - 11:40 am.

【通知】

新学期教室調整如下:

弟子規成人共修班: Room 3410
弟子規少年學習班: Room 3409
弟子規親子共學班及兒童學習班: Room 3414

弟子規課本: 弟子規簡體拼音課本家長們可以點擊這裡下載。

【課堂紀要】

本週我們和少年學習班與兒童學習班一起回顧了“弟子規與幸福”的主題。

【什麼是弟子規】

弟子規不是強加給小朋友的規定， 而是聖賢人，如孔子，證悟到一定境界後所體悟的。（弟子規，聖人訓）

Everyone would like to seek the happiness. Tal Ben-Shahar taught at Harvard University, where his classes on science of happiness were among the most popular courses in the University's history. About 1400 students attended his class. He delivered a speech on happiness at the Museum of Science, Boston. The link of this powerful speech is:http://archive.org/details/PositivePsychologyTheScienceOfHappiness．

學習弟子規是為了獲得幸福。 

【弟子規與幸福】

我們感受到的真正幸福往往是被愛和愛他人時的心理觸動，而不是外在的名利。 幸福如果只是一種感受， 一份體驗的話，他的獲得是被動的，不穩定的，隨機的。幸福和愛一樣，是一種能力， 一種藝術， 可以通過學習主動的獲得。

學習弟子規是學習愛的能力，從而主動把握幸福。

入則孝 -- 我們首先要愛自己的父母。父母對我們恩重如山，如果不愛父母，對別人的愛不一定真誠。
出則悌 -- 愛兄弟姐妹。兄弟姐妹將陪伴我們走最長的人生之路。愛及尊敬其他長輩。
謹 -- 愛並認真對待所做的每一件事。
信 -- 愛自己。對自己說的話負責。同時不斷地通過改過提升自己，接近聖賢人的狀態。("信"單元的後半部，重點講如何改過。)
汎愛眾 -- 愛所有其他的人。
親仁 -- 愛並親近品德高尚的人，並向他們學習。交好朋友。
餘力學文 -- 愛古聖先賢，並向他們學習。