greeting 
Grußwort
Weifo for a person to the first three realms of all parents in all other intellectual
no hope with such Jishou Buddha mortal than
line benefits for their own benefit and to seek financial reporting to facilities
佛 大 慈仁 无 此事 怨亲 憎 爱 以 等 利
YUI Butsu-ICHI-NIN-DAI-ICHI
SAN GAI-FU Bo-IS-SAI CHI
O-IS-SAI-TO- MU-YO-To
KEI-SHU-SE-SON-KE-U-HI
BON-BU-gyo-EI-KO-RI-HO
JV-I-SAI-JI-Kyu-SE
Butsu-DAI -JI-NIN-MU-HI-JI
ON SHIN-ZO-AI-I-TO-RI
But the Buddha of the Most High,
father and mother of three worlds, all knowing,
is not among all beings his peers.
I bow my head before the Incomparable, the world honored
The ordinary man practicing kindness in order to use them himself, because he
strives for revenge, he donates his fortune.
The Buddha is not so out of great compassion,
in the same way he helps those who resent him or close to it, hate it or love it.
(A song of praise to the Buddha, Nagarjuna Great wisdom passed down through the paper) (T.1509, 94a27)
The Bodhisattva Kannon hears the cries of the world. But what he hears these days? What he finds in these busy pre-Christmas bustle, full of expectations and moods?
People are traveling to each other to prepare a feeling of closeness. Man gives himself, is celebrated, you know where you belong. If all goes well, it leaves a positive impression. Often, however, something goes wrong also. You are in too close proximity with people, to whom one has anything else apart. You can feel the differences, there is a dispute. - Those people feel at this time that they have no one to ever greater proximity. The festival makes them aware of the pain. The Bodhisattva Kannon hear well, especially in the Christmas period many painful calls.
The more we behave like the "ordinary people" from the above verses (which we are, of course) the more likely is that the party fails for us. If you only buy gifts, only to return to positive experiences in the form of "Christmas cheer" recover, the motivation is very shallow and the risk of very great disappointment.
But Christmas can also take different: The evergreen Christmas tree with the glowing candles is a wonderful symbol. Be resistant to - summer and winter to be indifferent, that's exactly the quality that distinguishes according to the second verse of the Buddha. The Buddha is how to say in German, all being green at all times. It can be swayed by anything in his work. The candles, which are important in these days as the shortest in the northern countries are, are a symbol of the light that we know from the name of Amida Buddha.
is understood to perhaps Christmas is not only Christian or secular, but can also celebrate Buddhist.
In Gassho,
your Nottelmann Marc-Feil.
