宗博季刊第121期

國際交流 20 and ineffectual unless we promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature.” During this round-table discussion, I had the opportunity to introduce the principles of Buddhist Education – namely realizing the deep interconnectedness of each person with each other person and each thing in the universe as well as the compassion flowing from the realization of Oneness. I then spoke about the “Life Education Program” called for by Minister Ovid Tseng in 2001 in response to the high suicide rate of young people in Taiwan, and the way in which the life education program is implemented in MWR through its exhibits and programs, teaching students why their lives are precious and how they can contribute to their families, friends, and society by becoming good persons. As I spoke freely, looking directly at Pope Francis, who sat only 3 seats away from me, he kindly listened by returning my gaze, which was a great joy and honor. I felt very grateful to be able to represent Master Hsin Tao and MWR in these two extraordinary and important meetings in the presence of his Holiness and many old and new friends, first and foremost among them Cardinal Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot and Msgr. Indunil Kankanamalage, who all send their kindest regards to Dharma Master, *The Vatican said the idea for the meeting initially came from the British and Italian embassies to the Holy See. The religious leaders had dined at the residence of the British ambassador to Italy yesterday. Welby, once a senior oil industry executive, said: “We need a pilgrimage to a clean economy”, adding that “dramatic” changes in taxation were needed to promote a greener economy. “We need a global financial architecture which repents of its past sins,” he said. “We have in the last 100 years declared war on the creation. The world has just enough time to get this right.”