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THE WRITER Koh Shi Li. Born on 6 Sept 1987. Virgo. Has 2 sisters, whom i'm in a love-hate relationship with. Met the most wonderful guy, who is also damn lucky to have met me, on 18 Nov 2006 and we have been working hard towards a beautiful future tgt since then. HER MAN Puah Yeow Chong  HER UPDATES TAGBOARD HER FRIENDS OTHERS HER MEMORIES August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 February 2012 March 2012 April 2012 May 2012 June 2012 July 2012 August 2012 September 2012 October 2012 November 2012 December 2012 CREDIT |
Sunday, November 20, 2011 I've Graduated! I have officially graduated from my Entry Level Buddhism Class, and we attended the 结业典礼 today. I guess it's called 结业典礼, instead of 毕业典礼, because in you'll forever be learning Buddhism, unless you're Buddha himself. So you'll never be able to graduate from learning Buddhism. My certificate.  This is how the 大殿, where we gather every Sunday morning, before our lesson starts, looks like. If you can see, our 大师父 is the very skinny person sitting near the screen. I heard from my mum that she's already very old, and weak. And I remember when we had the 义工分享会 sometime back, she thanked those volunteers for the Mid-Autumn Festival, until she 哽咽, because the volunteers had to stand in the mud, while giving out the food, and she was very touched by our efforts. There were a few performances, and my mum, and aunties, took part in the dancing performance. Here's mummy helping her friend with their fake long fingernails. The one smiling at the camera is one of my aunties (四姑姑). There are no pictures of my mum dancing on the stage, because I took a video of the entire performance. Here's the group with their teacher. My mum studies in the class which learns the 经典. No idea what is that, but they do not have to take exams at the end of the year, and they don't get a certificate. My aunties, and my mum. The dancing group with 浩翊师父, who is my teacher. 结业典礼开始时，大师父和我们分享了几个故事。首先，她问我们有没有修行，因为，修要配合行。如果我们只有修，却没有行，那我们上课也白上了。而且，我们每个人都要有一颗感恩的心。感恩 is the root to happiness.大师父分享的第一个故事是： 有一个单身的女人，她刚搬到她的新家时，发现她的邻居是一个非常穷苦的寡妇和她的两个孩子。有一天她住的大楼停电了。当她正准备要把蜡烛拿出来时，邻居的小女孩就来敲她的门。她一开门，小女孩马上问道：“大楼停电了，请问你家里有蜡烛吗？” 女生心里想：“果然！他们穷得连蜡烛都买不起。” 但是，她认为不能让穷苦的邻居太依赖她，她便匆忙的回答：“没有，没有！”这时，小女孩从口袋拿了两支蜡烛，开心的笑着说：“我就知道你一定没有准备蜡烛！妈妈说你一个人住，担心你没有蜡烛，所以叫我拿两支蜡烛来给你。” This is a simple story, which is probably taken from the internet, or somewhere, but it really touched my heart. I almost teared when she shared this story with us. The moral of the story is, there is someone in everyone's life, whom we need to be grateful for. No matter the favor is a big one, or a small and simple one, like the candle story, we need to show gratitude to them. 大师父 shared a total of 4 stories, but this one left the deepest impression in me. I must learn to have 感恩的心, no matter the event is a good or bad one, or the person has treated me well or bad, they have helped to make who we are today. The good events, and nice people, we need to be grateful to them. The bad events, nasty people, has helped to make us stronger, or learn a new lesson. Hence, for this reason, we need to be grateful to them as well. If we have became angry, upset, beaten, then we will be miserable people. If we can learn to have a 感恩的心, then we will be happy people! It's hard to learn to have a 感恩的心 for the nasty people, like my boss, but I shall try and see if I can attain it, because I hope to be a happier person! But it will be VERY hard, because I am a very rash and short-tempered person. |