May your dreams come true
Sometimes we hear people saying this...."May your dreams come true."
Some dreams do come true in reality. Some dreams like striking 1st prize lottery, becoming a tai tai, getting a job as a host for Japan Hours, hardly or will never come true. And there are dreams which you don't have to wait for it to come true, but you make them come true.
I had a dream in 2008 and in my dream I saw a group of people performing some form of prayers, and I wanted to join them too. That was how I started to make my dream came true, that was when I first started to perform the 3 steps 1 bow ceremony.
Rightfully, as one grows older, he should cut down the intensity of what he's been doing for the past. However, each year, I will try a different way to make the ceremony tougher than the previous one that I did. From 1 day of strict vegetarian to current 3 days straights in a row before the ceremony commences, as a form of self purification. From taking big steps to current small steps. From doing once a year to current two times a year with one on Vesak Day and the other for the internal volunteers which usually happens 1-2 weeks earlier. From taking a train, a bus, cycle to last year just walking my way to the temple from Aljunied to Sin Min. Perhaps in your eyes is a form of torture and maybe a little too extreme. I disagreed, as I did it willingly and peacefully and I regarded it as a form of sincerity. When you are really sincere of giving everything, there shouldn't be any pain or fear ahead you, it's just simply joy and peace.
My 6th year doing it, and still loving it...i guess when i love something, i can love it for very very long...
To be continued...
Some dreams do come true in reality. Some dreams like striking 1st prize lottery, becoming a tai tai, getting a job as a host for Japan Hours, hardly or will never come true. And there are dreams which you don't have to wait for it to come true, but you make them come true.
I had a dream in 2008 and in my dream I saw a group of people performing some form of prayers, and I wanted to join them too. That was how I started to make my dream came true, that was when I first started to perform the 3 steps 1 bow ceremony.
Rightfully, as one grows older, he should cut down the intensity of what he's been doing for the past. However, each year, I will try a different way to make the ceremony tougher than the previous one that I did. From 1 day of strict vegetarian to current 3 days straights in a row before the ceremony commences, as a form of self purification. From taking big steps to current small steps. From doing once a year to current two times a year with one on Vesak Day and the other for the internal volunteers which usually happens 1-2 weeks earlier. From taking a train, a bus, cycle to last year just walking my way to the temple from Aljunied to Sin Min. Perhaps in your eyes is a form of torture and maybe a little too extreme. I disagreed, as I did it willingly and peacefully and I regarded it as a form of sincerity. When you are really sincere of giving everything, there shouldn't be any pain or fear ahead you, it's just simply joy and peace.
My 6th year doing it, and still loving it...i guess when i love something, i can love it for very very long...
To be continued...