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在澳洲新道場那兒還有觀音像，真人大小，金屬材質，設計有甘露水從淨瓶中流下來，夜間有五彩燈光照著觀音像，景象莊嚴。水池的四週圍是走道，可以繞佛。
那邊有很多種類的鳥，像極樂世界似的。我和恆貴師從講堂看出去，可以看到餵鳥臺。那邊有鸚鵡，身上有紅、綠、藍、黃各種顏色。還有白色大鸚鵡，嘴巴彎的；另外一種鳥全身一片紅。
外頭樹上還有一隻很奇怪的鳥，頭跟身子一樣大。結果這隻鳥從樹上掉下來，原來牠嘴上啣著一隻長長的蟲子，正在吃呢！我和恆貴師告訴牠不能吃肉，這邊有很多素菜可以吃，叫牠吃素，可是牠不聽，還一直吃那蟲子。這時候另外一隻烏過來了，看著這隻正吃蟲子的怪鳥，彷佛說：「你沒聽見她們對你說的話嗎？」。我和恆貴師還對這隻鳥說：「你真是無可救藥，無慚無愧，跟你講也沒用」。
我們回到講堂之後，那隻鳥居然到講堂旁邊，在門那邊等我們。我們就對這隻鳥說，「你真是沒有羞恥心，無可救藥，在出家人面前吃葷」。這隻鳥聽了頭一直往下垂，所以我們就為這隻鳥授三皈依，最後等我們走開的時候，這隻鳥還目送著我們離開。或許將來在澳洲有更多的眾生願意聽聞佛法。
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In the new Way-place (monastery) in
Australia there's a beautiful Guanyin image outside, life
size and cast in metal, similar in style to the ones we have
in the back of the Buddha Hall. She's standing in the middle
of a pool of very pure water. There's a flagstone path
surrounding the pool where you can walk and recite her name.
Water flows out from her sweet dew vase into the pool, and
five colored lights shine on her at night. It's a very
beautiful sight.
There are many, many different kinds of birds there, sort of
like the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Heng Gwei Shi and I were
standing in the lecture hall looking outside and there's a
bird feeder out there where we saw all of the birds coming
for their dinner. There were wild parrots with variegated
plumage of red, green, blue, and yellow. There were
cockatoos, which are large white birds with curved beaks and
a feathered crest. There were also birds that were solid
red, beautifully bright red in color, and many other kinds
of birds.
Then we noticed a very strange looking bird in the tree
outside. His head was about the same size as his body, and
he looked very heavy. Suddenly we heard this crash through
the leaves and the branches, and then this thump on the
ground! The bird had fallen out of the tree. In his mouth
was a long worm. It was eating the worm. We started telling
him that he shouldn't be eating meat, and that there was
very fine vegetarian food over there and he could go have
some. But he was so much into the state of eating this worm,
that although we were scolding him and telling him that he
shouldn't be doing this, he continued to eat the worm. Then
another bird went over and stood in front of him, and just
looked at him as if to say, "Can't you hear what they're
telling you?" But then he ate the worm. It went down his
throat, and his whole body quivered and shook! Then he just
sat there. We said to him, "Well, you're really shameless!
You're really hopeless! There's no sense in talking to you!"
We went back into the lecture hall. We were there for a few
minutes, and as we were about to leave we noticed that the
bird who had eaten the worm was sitting right by the door,
waiting for us. So we walked out. He looked at us and we
said, "You're really hopeless! You're not the least bit
ashamed. You ate that worm right in front of left-home
people!"
He turned his ear up, and listened! Then Heng Gwei Shi and I
took turns talking to him, and he would turn his ear and
listen to whoever was talking to him! Then we gave him the
Three Refuges and left. And even when we left he just sat
there and looked at us as we walked away. So maybe when
people go to Australia there will be more than people who
will be willing to listen to the Dharma there.
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