fyi: FGS also owned the Nantian Temple at Wollongong (the supposedly biggest temple at South Hemisphere)
i joined their youth group activities, and help them decorate theFo2 Tang2 佛堂 with CNY stuff. problem is we gotta handmade them with color papers.... after much brainstorming, it's surprising how well it turned out to be. well at first i thought the best CNY deco r those that we can buy outside....but from those raw materials we can actually make wonders.
after that we get the nun-incharge to pray for us-med students and doctors for our studies and exam.... the nun was so distracted during her 心经 by the people who volunteered to paint the fo tang cuz the paint was dripping everywhere on the floor. she actually wondered away while still chanting it. actually it's the first time that some one chat for me, a pretty new experience
i think it's sad that buddhism symbolic places have become commercialised overtime. i'm not particularly targeting at any organisation. it's the same everywhere now, even in msia and china.....well....i guess there's no way it's goin to affect my connection with the inspiration from buddha even if i don't pay them donation or buy their joss sticks. but it's juz disappointing how they taint buddhism....
well.....i guess those people need to make a living too >_<
just something to share.......
while i was young....i will juz stand infront of buddha statue, closed my eyes and joined my palms as told by my parents, wishing for something without realising what's the true purpose of it.....i guess many of us are still doin that....but infact if you look closely at the teachings.... they never ask you to wish for something and they never really say that they will grant you something. it's juz that those buddha teachings actually guide you through your difficulties. there's no one big person up there looking after you and granting your wishes. you actually need to work your way through and somehow those different chant that contains the teachings will help you thru.
but another thing that puzzled me is that those chants are in such complicated chinese which some words i have never ever seen in my life. by chanting it 1000 times in a day as some politician may cliam. how is that going to to help you. how are you goin to be enlightened when you don't understand the chant. anyway, i guess there's when unibud talk comes into place. i have never been to any of them....but i wondered whether they do explain the meaning of the chant.
well.... my parents or the older generation have a different understanding of these kind of stuff. i think it's an age thing again. we shall see in my future blog 10-20 years down the road how my views may change.
anyway, my dad actually made a wish infront of the buddha that i can graduate successfully as a doctor. well.....if watever my interpretation is wrong... i'm in deep shit bcuz buddha is not goin to grant my dad's wish. well i guess buddha is kind enough to pardon me for this state that i'm goin thru....:P
after that we went to LCH's fren's place, the wife prepared us some special delicious Bangladeshi savoury!!!
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