Activities

Songfeng Traditional Chinese Culture Library

China Address

No. 1 Renmin Street, Libu Town,
Yangshan County, Qingyuan City,
Guangdong Province, China
www.songfenglibrary.com

UK Address

59 Stock Street
London
E13 0BX
UK
Info@chineseculture.co.uk
www.chineseculture.co.uk

Warm reminder: Dharma masters and respected teachers visiting London for short-term talks to promote the best of traditional culture are welcome to stay with us free of charge, with meals provided. Please book in advance. Thank you very much!

We also sincerely hope that this library may become Venerable Master Dinghong’s “Guanyin Pure Land Practice Centre in the UK”. Our daily scheduled and informal practice focuses on the Great Compassion Mantra. We know that we are only insignificant grains of sand, yet we deeply hope to make a small contribution to Venerable Master Dinghong’s work of spreading the Dharma and benefiting all beings.

Current Activities of Songfeng Traditional Chinese Culture Library in the UK

1. Providing Simple, Healthy Hot Meals for People Experiencing Homelessness

We regularly prepare simple, healthy hot meals for people experiencing homelessness who need them. We warmly welcome anyone who feels drawn to join us, bringing warmth and care with purity of heart, sincerity, compassion and enthusiasm.

2. Good News of Recovery for Patients, Especially Those with Serious or Terminal Illnesses

In China and around the world, many patients with complex or terminal illnesses have experienced varying degrees of recovery, or even complete recovery, after practising qigong or receiving universal energy treatments. This has become a common occurrence.

  1. First, we emphasise the importance of making a vow. If your illness improves, what can you do for your family and the wider community? Let go of the thought “I am unlucky”, and of the darkness, pain and inner exhaustion associated with despondency and a self-centred outlook. Open your heart. Reframe illness as a rare opportunity to bear suffering on behalf of all beings, and gradually recognise that the meaning of your life lies in joyfully benefiting them. Only when the power of a vow exceeds the power of karma can the karmic causes and effects of illness be changed. Those with religious faith may sincerely make vows before Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, God or other sacred beings; those without religious faith may make vows before heaven and earth and their own conscience. Repeat your vows every day (making a vow is also part of healing), keep developing yourself, and check whether you are putting them into practice in daily life. Plant the vow in every cell of your body and integrate it into every word and action. Complete dedication and a selfless state of mind make it easier to receive the positive energy of nature and the universe. The library’s aim is not only to remove patients’ physical suffering, but also to learn together with them, so that everyone’s spiritual wellbeing may be further enriched.
  2. Qi, or vital energy, is the foundation of all life and the force that sustains it. Qi guides the flow of blood, and the strength or weakness of vital energy directly determines the body’s state of health. Within the essence of nearly ten thousand years of traditional Chinese culture, there are eighty-four thousand qigong methods. With a positive outlook and consistent daily practice of any one method, great benefits are sure to follow. Like flowers in full bloom, each method has its own strengths. For more than forty years, we have consistently taught Chinese Crane Soaring Qigong, founded by Teacher Zhao Jinxiang. Its main advantage is that the five sections of movement practice allow practitioners to experience qi quickly and open important acupuncture points such as Laogong. Practitioners then move on to standing practice, during which spontaneous qigong arises naturally: the body shakes and stretches the muscles and joints; the hands instinctively and precisely tap along the body’s meridians and press acupuncture points, enabling the body to clear blockages, detoxify and heal itself. The entire process is natural, spontaneous, responsive to the moment and deeply relaxed, with effects equivalent to treatment by an experienced qigong master or massage therapist. It can soon eliminate all illnesses, restore abundant energy and bring a strong, healthy physique.
  3. We also refer patients to Chang Sheng Xue centres for universal energy treatments. The centres founded by Teachers Lin and Wei are found in major cities around the world, and all their services are free of charge, making them readily accessible. We also hope for the compassionate support of the respected Teacher Lin and the UK Chang Sheng Xue management team, so that the library may serve as a treatment centre on one chosen day each week, benefiting more people who feel drawn to this practice. Warm reminder: In response to the needs of elderly neighbours, patients with limited mobility, fellow Buddhist practitioners and senior devotees, we can now accommodate your preferred date and time and make the necessary arrangements, provided you book in advance. To put Chang Sheng Xue’s principle of “compassionately helping people” into practice, we strive together to express our innate purity of heart and great compassion, serving with selfless dedication and without attachment to appearances. In this way, we naturally receive the strongest and most auspicious universal energy, working together towards joyful and fulfilling healing. We can also provide simple, healthy hot meals free of charge at any time. We are deeply grateful for, and cherish, the opportunity you give us to serve.
  4. Eat healthy organic food and maintain adequate nutrition. The library has excellent senior advisers with expertise in nutrition, herbs and dietary therapy, offering integrated guidance.

Whether to continue an existing hospital treatment plan should be carefully decided by the patient and their family in consultation with their doctor.

3. Litter-Picking Chan: Purifying the Environment, Purifying Body and Mind

The Chinese phrase for “Litter-Picking Chan” is not especially easy to say, and one might accidentally shorten it to “Litter Chan”. What a difference one word makes! All things arise from the mind: one pure thought, one moment of paradise. With favourable timing, surroundings and community, our library is only a four-minute walk from the London Greenway, a 4.3-mile green corridor with peaceful surroundings suitable for walking, relaxation and quiet reflection. We warmly welcome you to sign up and join us, enjoying the calm, refreshing and peaceful experience of caring for the Greenway in the present moment.

4. Charity Facility Repairs and Voluntary Service

The library has practical skills in carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, masonry and building repairs. We are always happy to provide voluntary repair services to charitable organisations in need, completely free of charge, including all renovation materials.

If you have relevant skills, we warmly welcome you to join us and use your expertise to serve society and benefit the community.

5. Compassionate Rescue of Wild Animals

In the bustling city of London, if you encounter an injured wild animal or a young animal that cannot yet survive independently, a pet clinic may be unable to help. The best approach is to take the animal directly to a wildlife hospital or to our library. We have prepared a range of solid and liquid foods and sleeping nests, and have built a special insulated shelter in the garden. We will also transfer the animals as soon as possible to a well-established, professional and compassionate wildlife hospital: The Broadwater Forest Wildlife Hospital.

Warm reminder: We cherish the memory of the respected Annette and feel deep gratitude to her. She was an ordinary member of the community with a pure and sacred heart, who founded a wildlife hospital with angel-like compassion: The Broadwater Forest Wildlife Hospital. We appeal to kind-hearted people from all walks of life to donate money, give their time as volunteers caring for wildlife, or donate supplies such as medical equipment and wildlife food, so that the hospital can care for and help more and more wonderful wild animals!

Hospital telephone: 01892 543213

Address:
Fairview Ln,
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN3 9LU


All operations and activities of Songfeng Traditional Chinese Culture Library are free of charge. The library will never have a donation box and does not accept donations of money or goods. We deeply cherish everyone’s kindness, and hope that your good deeds will benefit society by directing donations to more formally established, larger charitable organisations, helping more beings. In addition, the premises we use are our own property, so our costs are modest.

May we together fully integrate Master Hsing Yun’s Three Acts of Goodness – doing good deeds, speaking good words and keeping good thoughts – and the Four Givings – giving others confidence, joy, hope and convenience – into ordinary daily life.

The library is still expanding, and the scope of our services is limited. Thank you for your understanding.

We sincerely hope to be heart to heart, shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand with you, learning and progressing together as we return to the joyful home within our hearts!

With heartfelt gratitude, thank you for every opportunity you have given us!