Lecture by Venerable Master Hua at University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 9, 1985
0:00 Intro
0:57 The television is a man-eater
2:09 The word for computer translates literally into "electric brain"
3:34 You say it's human? It's not really human
4:39 Built-in phone, with its antennae located in the eyebrows, perhaps, or from his hair
6:07 In the future people will forget entirely what people look like
7:43 The first of these is "not fighting"
8:49 The second rule is "no greed"
10:28 The last one is "no lying"
11:39 I always say, "Everything's okay, no problem!"
In this era, when technology and materialism flourish, we want to take a careful look at the thinking of the times and ask ourselves whether or not this is a good age to live in.
Science has made great advances in technology and that certainly counts as good. But we should also realize the truth in the saying,"Anything taken to the ultimate point transforms into its opposite."
In the case of technological advances, good things also beckon misfortune.
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Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (Traditional Chinese: 宣化上人; Hanyu Pinyin: Xuān Huà Shàng Rén; Vietnamese: Hòa Thượng Tuyên Hóa) was an important figure in Western Mahayana Buddhism.
Master Hsuan Hua founded the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA), a well-known Buddhist organisation based in USA, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He also built the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, one of the first Buddhist monasteries in USA, and established the Buddhist Text Translation Society, which works on the translation of scriptures into English.
He is credited as the first Chinese Buddhist Zen master to introduce Orthodox Buddhism to the West, as well as he also ordained the first Buddhist monks in the United States.
Master Hsuan Hua was the Ninth Patriarch of the Wei-Yang Chan (Chinese Zen) School of Buddhism and received the Wei-Yang lineage's Dharma Seal from the Venerable Master Hsu Yun.
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