Friday, May 12, 2006 ++
HAPPY VESAK!
- a season of gratitude connecting lives....
so. its vesak 2550 this year.
well. buddhism has been spread for 2550 years alr.
yet there are still so much sentient beings.
''treasure here and now, for this is the onlytime & place''
vesak day, is the birth of prince siddhartha, the buddha.
the theme a season of gratitude connecting lives is from kmspks.
went to kmspks yesterday for 3 step 1 bow.
it was fantastic.
the 3s1b was quite a long distance, around the whole kmspks.
it has up and down slopes.
all kinds of different road surfaces.
the upslope very steep lor. haha.
and i slipped but nvr fall when going down slope.
it was alr raining then.
i went with my family.
xiaogu, ah ma, mummy, daddy, tankoonheng, da-gu(gan ma), gan ma's husband, clarice, shuan, clarice and shaun's aunty and one fren of gan ma's husband(an uncle).
we belong to grp 4, which was suppose to start queuing at 8pm.
but we were so kiasu, we went at 5pm.
den we walk around..
eat. go toilet.
lol.
actually my dad is not going.
he kept saying he gotta work den cannot make it on time.
but while queuing up, we called him and tell him there's still long way to go before we start.
so in the end he turned up.
haha so happy.
i was quite disappointed when he say he's not coming. so do my mum.
so glad he came.
and we start queuing at like 6?
ya.its just 6pm ok! and got pple from grp 4 alr start queuing.
and we start at around 9.50pm.
end at 11.50pm.
2 hrs huh.
haha.
just before we started,
the sky was red. and i hear thunder. and see some lightning.
SO SCARY. lol.
and just as we start 3step1bow for NOT LONG.
it started raining.
was quite a heavy shower.
well, everybody was happy when it rain.
we all had the same thought.
its the blessing of the triple gems showering upon us.
i thought i would be very touched and i'll cry.
BUT I DIDN'T.
LOL.
only at first when this whole trail started,
i almost tear.
when i see the abbot ended his sharing
and the gong sound started.
and the music starts to play
and everybody in front bow down.
that kind of feeling...
i started having goosebumps.
and tears almost roll out.
haha.
i guess i didn't feel very repentful den.
i was trying.
but it's just.... like that. haha.
well sometimes its not like ''oh i wanna repent for this this this this this''
whats the point if u say but u dont have any action for it?
ytd i was just ''oh ya. must take this chance to repent''
but u dunno why.
no matter what u say, the correct feeling is not there.
very sad.
cos that arrogant thoughts is still there. its hidden up.
and u cant see it.
sometimes u may not even know about it.
perhaps that's the reason why. haha.
to further describe how it was like when its raining.
we're totally drenched.
the hair esp.
when its wet.
u bow and stand, bow and stand.
the wet hair will keep on dripping.
spectacle was wet but vision wasn't blur.
den ground filled with around 1 or 2cm depth of liquid.
so everything is just VERY wet lah.
u dunno what kind of liquid thing is on your hair. LOL.
den comes the bumpy road surfaces with holes with algaes.
den your hair will dep dep here. dep dep there.
LOL.
sometimes by luck, u'll bow at the drain cover part. HAHA.
and someplaces is just very muddy, so your hands, forhead would just be stain with mud and tiny rocks naturally.
ROCKS!
walao. i've biten sand particles TWO times.
hurhur.
i dunno what else went into my mouth. LOL.
as the rain stops, wind starts to blow.
SO COLD.
halfway towards the end,
i got headache as i stand up.
my head was so heavy then.
and i tot maybe i had fall sick alr.
HAHAHA.
but apparently NOT.
sad. lol.
but if i would to fall sick,
den i cant study.
and if i cant study and i recover by monday.......
what the.
what is going to happen to me? LOL.
nah. im not sick.
actually. with the rain around.
u'll experience something different.
but in anyway, we all were happy that it rains.
like something washing away our sins.
of cos its not that easy.
this is my 2nd year doing 3s1b.
i would say its slightly better.
cos last year i had bruises on my knees
and the skin peeled off at my feets.
this year got nothing.
no. only when it just ended,
i got red patches on both knees.
now dun have alr. just that if i press it, it hurts ABIT.
abit of muscle ache too.
HAHAHAHA. so lousy lah.
one round only den like that, lol.
photos of last year's 3 steps 1 bow taken from kmspsk's website
kmspsk's abbot leading...
it rains every year huh.
the ground is wet too.
they're the grp ONE pple.
haha. thye sky is still so bright huh.
i only started at 10pm!!
oh btw. the whole event ended at 4am.
devotees without tickets would do after those with tickets.
and they'll usually officially end at 4am.
wah. the feeling when u finish and see pple queuing.
just feel like telling them to keep it up.
haha.
i was asking xiaogu ytd after we finish.
''if now call u to do this all over again.......''
HAHA. and we both laughed. nobody answered.
oh i ate alot of carrot cake there.
very nice! and i was hungry. haha.
wanted to go and take a look at the expessing gratitude art thingy.
but didn't.
''the well-doer rejoices here, he rejoices hereafter.... in the blissful state.'' (Dhammapada V. 81) 1:29 PM
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