上星期二，吾帶著學生們到超市，選購吾為她他們量身泡製的除夕發財宴的食材。與其吃外頭，吾鼓勵她他們自己下廚。

走了兩個多小時，看了20-30多種食材及年貨，不停地介紹和解説各種食物和產品的品牌對於她他們生命的做用。整個過程沒有感覺到累，由開始到結束，都是非常的法喜充滿。學生反饋： “首次在超市裏，得到那麽多資訊，關於哪個品牌適合自己和家人個人八字的。這些是非常有利的資訊。今年也是第一次聼到有開年菜的菜單。以往都是以為只要吃得貴，吃得豐盛就是好，原來也要吃得對。”

玳瑚師父要奉勸所有的人，要多多留意妳你們的起居飲食。我們的華人習俗很多，最大一環莫過於除夕的團圓飯，千萬不可以省，而去吃泡麵、吃粥，一定要豐盛一點，因爲那個是決定妳你來年的榮枯。如果省的話，會省去妳你一年的榮。

希望來年還有機會可以帶更多人來，發揚這知識，讓更多人知曉五行套入飲食裏面，對於健康、財富、家庭和諧、事業順心的一種助力。但要奉勸學生們的一句話，要破解災難，始終要以德行為基礎。

Last Tuesday, I brought my students to the supermarket to select the various food ingredients, specially tailored for each of them, for their Fortune Feast on the eve of Chinese New Year. Instead of eating out, I encouraged them to cook at home.

We walked for almost 2 hours and looked through 20 – 30 different food items and CNY products and I gave a non-stop introduction on each item and how the students can use them to complement their lives. I did not feel any tiredness during this session from the start till the end. My heart was filled with the joy of Dharma.

A positive testament from a student, “This is the first time I got so much information in a supermarket, regarding which brands of food items are beneficial for me and my family, based on our individual birth charts. This is also the first time I learnt about the Fortune Feast menu to prepare, to get the New Year off to a good start! I used to think that it would suffice as long as we had an expensive and sumptuous dinner. But I have now realized that it is more important to eat the correct type of food.”

I wish to advise everyone to take a closer look at your daily lifestyle routines. We Chinese have many traditions but the most significant of them all is the family reunion dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. Please do not be stingy for this important dinner, and avoid having porridge or instant noodles. It must be a sumptuous dinner, as this will set the stage for your prosperity the rest of the year. If you choose to eat miserly for this dinner, the prosperity that follows will be equally miserable.

It is my hope that I will be able to bring more people along for such an “excursion”, come next year, and let more people appreciate the significance of the five elements in their diet and the positive effects on their health, wealth, family harmony and career development. However, a word of advice to my students, I must add that good morals and virtues still form the basis of evading misfortunes in your lives.