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The Buddhism in Me

May 20th, 2008 | Category: religion

I have to confess that I’m not a very good buddhist as compared to my younger days where I used to practice meditation everyday and followed my mum to the temple every Sunday. Wesak was an important religious ocassion for my family; we’d spent the night before at the temple chanting with the lamas and rinpoche. Then the next day mum and her buddhist friends would buy racks of living creature such as baits, insects, worms, fishes and put them away in the pond as part of  the” releasing life” ceremony.

 

I was quite a spiritual person since I was a kid. My first lucid dream happened in primary four. And I’d ask questions related to human existence that adults would shun me off. And even more creepily, I used to have imaginary friends too! Freaking you out now, aren’t I?

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Anyway, let’s not even go into that.

 

Those were the good old days when life was much simpler and I had all the time in the world to think about human existence and the universe. My spirituality connection gradually faded away over the years after I left home for UK.  Or was it subconsciously that I’ve made an effort to detach myself from things like that? Well anyway, that’s not important. For the past 3 years that I’ve been working in KL, I still make an effort to go to the temple every now and then but that’s about it.

 
 

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So it’s Wesak day today. Went to Maha  Vihara temple in Brickfield this afternoon in spite of the horrendous traffic. But it was such a blessing that the weather was so pleasant.

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But the place was sandwich packed with thousands of people. And there was one problem.
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I’m extremely BO phobic! :(
  
BO gives me migraine and it was really hard, hence I decided not to linger around and made it as quick as possible. 
  

  
After done with my prayer, got blessings from the reverend, made all the donations, and off home I went.  
   

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