Lifechanyuan doesn't celebrate any people's birthday
生命禅院内不过生日
Lifechanyuan doesn't celebrate any people's birthday
雪峰
Xue Feng
给小宝宝过生日，给老人祝寿是人间的一种温情，也是一种文化上的享受，所以，生命禅院不反对过生日。
To celebrate birthday for babies or the aged is a kind of tender feeling and a cultural enjoyment in the Mortal world. So Lifechanyuan does not oppose people to celebrate birthday.
但是，当青年人、中年人过生日，特别讲排场时，更多的不是温情和享受，而是庸俗和累赘。
However, when the youth and middle age celebrate their birthday in an extravagant way, this conduct does not embody the tender feeling or enjoyment, but philistine and burdensome.
官场人物过生日，那时一种隐形的腐败。
People in the official circles celebrating their birthdays are a kind of invisible corruption.
商场人物过生日，那时一种炫耀和来宾的逢场作戏。
Businessmen celebrating their birthday are a kind of flaunting and obsession.
生命禅院要把人生尽量简单朴素化，要简化仁义礼智信，深化道德。
Lifechanyuan tries to make the human life simple and plain, to simplify the five cardinal virtues-humanity, justice, propriety, wisdom and credit, to deepen the morality.
As a result, we are not willing to make a fuss about birthday to waste our energy, time and material resources just for momentary vanity. If we want to celebrate birthday, we should celebrate the birth of Heaven, the Thousand-year World, the ten-thousand-year world, Elysium world and Celestial Islands Continent.
繁文缛节我们不要啦！
What we need are not unnecessary and over elaborate formalities, just simplicities!