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Glad to bring my parents along to the door of dharma
The greatest part of getting to know the dhamma, I learnt to be grattitude towards my parents. The difficult part is how to do the talk. For several years have been trying to share the joy of learning the dharma with my parents. Recently, my sister have bought the ticket to the 5th Global conference and she can’t make it. My first thought is to invite my parents to join. I know that will be difficult. The next thought is as usual they will be making excuses trying not to make it. However, I’ve make the effort to give them a call, encouraging them to come. Guess what, my mum…
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Mindfulness of my parents.
Every since I graduated from University, I travelled down to Kuala Lumpur from Ipoh, to look for a job, later settled down for good in KL until today, about 14 years already. When I was working I did not think about my mom ( of course my dad passed away 14 years ago) All my brothers have also left to work outstation, left with my mom and a younger sister. Soon after that married with kids, everyday just work and spend more time with friends and my family only, less time spent talking to mom, call her or visit her in Ipoh. Sometimes months never call or visit. That changes…
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Rats in my house
there has been rats visiting & residing e in my house since weeks ago.. is getting less !? why..we set up rats-trap in cage, everytime we caught one for past 2 years, Jasmine & I release them in the wilderness neighbourhood., not forgeting chant triple gems for them.then, we noted rats visiting us become less agressive & wiser.they are less visiting our house now! or, perhaps seasonal.may we all become compassionate & wise..
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Peaceful passing away
About 2 years ago, a friend came to me saying that her grandfather was admitted to the Hospital in coma. The doctor could not detect what was wrong with him. He, the patient, did not respond to any of the medicine the doctor applied or fed him. As he was still breathing, so they had to keep him alive by providing the respiratory aids + liquid foods. That went on for more than a week, and as the medical cost was running more and more, her father was thinking of pulling off the plug, but the doctor did not allow him to do so as the patient was still “alive”.…
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Dharma Talk in Tzu Yun Tung, Kuala Lumpur
The Dharma talk came as a surprise. mum just came home from the temple last Sunday and said, Ven.Heng Sure would be having a dharma talk at Tzu Yun Tung next Sat night. I was very happy (an understatement) to hear that, the last time I saw him was nine years ago. Since it’s Saturday night, my usual evenings for dating purpose, I tried to get my bf to go too. He didn’t want to. I nagged, begged, and even told him, you might want to make the mistake of going,( then found that it’s not right for you), than to make the mistake of not going at all. Well,…
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Travel and Donation
Yesterday, my family and I just came back from Cambodia. We heard that it is a very poor country and so I decided to bring along some food to give to the poor children there. When we were giving out the chocolate we brought, the children were fighting and snatching from the other smaller kids. We were a bit disturb at their conduct.It shows that they are hungry for the food. I know the food cannot help them much but I am instilling the kindness of giving to my children and not to waste food.
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Touch by the love by my Parents and remorse for not having done enough
The loss of both my parents shook me into realising how inadequate attention and enough appreciation were extended to them despite their gift of life to me. A gift that is so unconditional that it touches my heart deeply despite moments of discontent felt during my adolescence age which at that time was considered unjustly meted to me. The guilt felt became so strong that I began radiating daily metta and merits to them. In addition I have also sponsored printing of dharma books dedicated in memory of them. Wishing that they rejoice in the merits of dharma-dana and may they take existence in a happier and more blissful state…
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Exam
Many years ago as a student I was in the middle of a graduation exam. We were in a group of four candidates each, and we had our exam appointment with the professor, who most of the time happened to be the head of the faculty or the dean himself. Getting grilled by the “prof” was certainly not very amusing, so we were all pretty stress out. One of my comrade was so nervous since it was her second try to pass the examination, so she was walking up and down the hall and couldn’t sit still for a minute, she even told me she had to take some pills…
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Junk Mail
Where I live, you must get your mail from a group of mailboxes not far from the house. Whenever I go to get mail for my mom, I see junk mail and advertisements strewn all over the floor. Even though there are trashcans, people are careless and just throw them on the ground. Recently, I began to pick up the fallen junk mail to through in the trash. It feels good to be cleaning up the neighborhood and helping out the Earth.
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Litter
These days I see so much trash on the ground. I want to help and clean up the trash. That’s why I’m trying to pick up at least 1 or more piece(s)of garbage each day.