Showing posts with label #reminder. Show all posts
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Thursday, 5 January 2017

私立2总心得报告 —— 外护篇

(。・∀・)ノ゙嗨~!呵呵,我这里也应该很久没更新部落了。在这新的一年里,私立2也刚过了,是时候整理自己的心得。

这次参加私立的因缘不一样哟~ 不是以学员的身份,而是*噔噔噔噔* 外护~!说实在的,之前没有好好体会过真的不知道外护多辛苦多伟大!这次终于尝试了,从中也学了不少。

由于必须兼职24hr metta Samadhi Youth的代表之一,只能在24hr metta结束后直接坐巴士下到普照寺去。抵达时也已经是营进行的第3天了。虽然如此,但依然受益许多。

承担外护这责任,基本上就是帮助aunty准备膳食,确保营员3餐温饱也保持斋堂的整洁。由于所有的膳食都是Aunty负责,而这位aunty菩萨年龄也已有70了,行动有点不便,因此我们的角色是协助aunty做菜。总的来说,她就是Commander in Chief,负责指挥,而我们是她的soldiers。在这里也事先说明,我可是几乎没进厨房的人(有也是找吃的),一直一来我都对于准备吃的比较随便,若是我一个人为自己做菜,一定是随随便便解决它。但这次可是为营员师父们准备的,所以绝对不能潦草。进入厨房的我,对于烹饪切菜一窍不通,做任何事时不是问旁边的外护就是有样学样,刚开始时还真的有点害羞尴尬,但也慢慢习惯,学习了不同的切菜方式。之后在营的最后一天,也因为另一位负责帮aunty炒菜的外护金盛师兄有点儿不舒服,aunty就“使唤”我代替他。炒菜过程,aunty很严格,强调手脚要快,不能摸。因此,给我这对于烹饪0经验的人有点儿措手不及,但也同时提起了我认真的心态,当下用心投入炒菜。发现到能够投入用心地做一件事情时,心情是开心的,有着深深的满足感。最近的我,都在颓废状态中,很难提起心里认真于当下,很多事情都是随随便便,常常心不在焉,但这次真的很感恩aunty再次让我看到用心的美。

Aunty虽然只不过是个外护之一,但从不看小自己的重要性,听外护长说aunty每一天早上都比任何人更早起身。每当外护长准时进厨房时就已经看到aunty在那里下厨很久了,也听说aunty在营的第二天为了炖汤,做到半夜2点才入睡,那天的她只睡了3小时多。第一天入营的我也发现到aunty当天的眼睛是非常红的。从中,可以看见aunty是多么的无私,多么地想为这批学佛的孩子出点力。Aunty也说过类似这番话:“到时等你们这些未来佛来度化aunty啊~” 想说的是,也不知道是谁在度化谁呢,想到这里都觉得非常感动。另外,在大出坡时,aunty也很幽默且很有智慧的跟我们说,打扫拖地时可以唱观音菩萨或是释迦摩尼佛,这样自己也会越做越开心,越做越欢喜。她还活泼地唱了一首给我们听,在唱地时候身体也随着拖地的动作摇摆,增添了当下的气氛。

在无尽灯的环节里,也听到许多营员的分享,其中两位姐妹的分享让我特别欣赏。在他们分享中,让我体会到他们是多么用心在学佛,珍惜着每次闻法的机会,也从中不断以法解决生命中的问题,如何把法带回家、运用在家庭和谐上。感恩他们让我看到法的感动和可贵。

离营前,我也在佛陀面前告假。当下以为自己在这3天中得到的感动也只不过如此,没什么好依旧的,但其实心里在敝着。在拜忏下去时,我哭了。越哭越停不下来,眼泪不断流下。原因简单,在这3天中体会到aunty的用心,也看到她那无私的爱,最后也因为无法留下帮她准备晚餐、与她共享最后的晚餐,心中有着莫名的不舍、心疼甚至忏愧。心疼的是看到aunty这样不断用心付出,她那无我的精神,就算身体老了,还是继续这样不屈地为佛教奉献;忏愧的是看到aunty到了这年龄还精进学佛、用心体会人生,而我明明有手有脚,健健康康地,这阵子却像个废人一样,窝在家里,把自己与世界、与自己的心隔绝。。。我还以自己心累,对于人事物渐渐失去感觉 当作 所谓“借口”,但在学佛另个角落有位70岁的老aunty在为佛教界,社会,甚至未来做出庞大庞大的改变,虽然她不是什么著名的伟人,更不是什么政治家,但单凭着她那份慈爱心、用心,我想,应该影响了许多人的心,再次重新把心打开。她所做的庞大改变是以她的身口意让人重新见到光明,让我重新感受爱的感觉。虽然只有3天的时间,但在这3天内,aunty已经足以让我深深被打动,在我心中留下了一个非常特别的位子。

在佛陀前,我拜忏,忏悔我所做的一切,忏悔自己不够精进;也在同时,发了一个愿:

一定 一定 一定  要一直在学佛路上一同与善友善知识的陪同下不断精进向上向善。

这样才对得起aunty;对得起父母;对得起所有成就了今天的我的恩人。

最后也因为这样,我想在这2017年,别再等了,别再睡了。还有许多的法在等着我去学习。
池塘的水在一天一天的减少,鱼儿怎还能快乐地游水?

你,还在等什么?

在这新的一年里 能够以3宝为方向,学习佛陀的慈悲智慧,精进学习,快乐成长。


心法 合十


我和那位漂亮的菩萨。
离开前,还求个抱、拍个相,也告诉了aunty要好好照顾自己的身心。但之后心中非常遗憾因为没有把心里真正要说的话说出来。当下其实想告诉让她我是多么感恩感激她的,想要让她看到因为她我心中重新温暖了起来,想要不只是“告诉”她要照顾身体而已,而是不断地强调她要照顾自己,就算是她突然嫌我啰嗦我都要拼命说,想要让她知道我是多么心疼她的,想要她知道虽然只有3天的时间,但我是被爱的,想要说的是很多很多的 谢谢 和 很多很多的 我爱你 的。师父说,只要一直在学佛路上,我们每个人都会有缘再见,希望我有天能够再次见到Aunty您。

Sunday, 24 April 2016

Love

Hmm... seems like it has been a long time since I blogged.

So what brings me to blog in this lovely and serene evening? Well, its because of this feeling I just experienced and I wanted to jot it down so that I can remind my future-self to be this way whenever and wherever I can.

Tonight's post will be again, about her. Hahaha, but this will not be one of those "emo" posts, trust me  :)

Just seen her photo in Facebook about half an hour ago, and as I see her face closely and attentively for the first time in some time, I noticed something. Other than her smile being just as beautiful as always, there was something more to it - she's happy. From that photo itself, I can see that she was truly enjoying herself and being happy as how she can be right now.

And in that very moment, in my heart, there's not one sense of hatred, anger, sadness or any other negativity you can think of. What was in my mind during that time was: "Wow, you are smiling so beautifully and you do seem like you are happy." At that very moment itself, I knew I had let go of the past (or at least the sad stuffs that happened and how we hurt each other). And then my thought was simply this:

"I am my own happiness, and I don't need to depend on anyone to achieve that happiness, and same goes to you. I don't care if you are being with another person right now or still being single. I just wish the best for you, I hope you are happy, I hope you are safe. And I don't need you for me to be happy. But I'm happy for you because
I love you."


So, I guess this is something what Xiong Mama and Xiong Papa trying to preach us - Metta, which is unconditional love. And surely, it feels GREAT. And of course, I have to admit lately when thinking of her, its not about the pain any more, but about how we were happy and how it's a pity right now that we are not able to be together. So this time, maybe you can say, its another type of unwillingness to let go. However, I think what's best for now is to not dwell in the past, whether is a sad past or happy ones and start living in the "now".

To whoever reading this or whether it is the people I know or don't know,
YOU ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE AWESOME! (Including myself, haha)

May you be well and happy. :)
PEACE OUT & Love you berry much <3 
(Oh! And not to forget, Finals Hwaiting~!)
Photo Credits to Jason Mraz's "Love is a Four Letter Word" Album Cover

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Career Talk之心得报告

Okay, so I thought about Yew Vee's idea of having a session where we can all sit down and share anything we had learnt in every event we participated or organized (especially organized), whether its from a technical point of view or emotional point of view. It can be anything. And I thought this idea is definitely good, because it brings out a lot of positive energy and at the same time, we can be truthful not only to ourselves, but to others. So instead of having a session (which most of us probably won't have the time), I decided to put it down in words instead.

To be honest, about this career talk, I admit that I haven't been doing a really good job in up-keeping throughout this time. I know this weakness of mine, which is I get bored of following-through something and lose focus easily. Most people shall say this as 三分钟热度. I lose interested in things which needs attention and upkeep throughout time, in this case, is needing to follow-through WhatApps every time. And throughout the time, I will try as best as possible to escape this, sometimes having the mindset of: "If I can avoid it, I will avoid it until I can't". And until the day before the event, where all the last minute magic happens, I get frustrated easily, because of all the workload I delayed until the very end of time suddenly weighed down on me so heavily.

And in the process, I had troubled the people around me, and might even hurt them. I hereby say I'm sorry to those that I had hurt. Sorry to Szeching for being scolded with no valid reason. From Szeching and Quian Wei, I learnt to really put faith on people, especially to those who are close to me. Forgive me that I hadn't believe you two so much, as this is my first time not really having to brief you guys face to face about how the whole event runs, I got anxious, not knowing whether you two were truly aware of the whole flow. And also maybe I'm just to used to handle all the things by my own, maybe I stand alone for too long that I forgot how to trust people again. But in fact, you guys really did a splendid job as emcees, especially Szeching, you really improved a lot. Thank you and sorry.

And to Karwye, who was almost totally blurred throughout the planning period, sorry that I didn't explain much about the details to you. Sometimes I really caught up with a lot of things that I forgot to tell you the updates and also a lot of things I always assumed that you should know. And in the very last minute, you were forced to accompany me doing those last minute work. Thank you for tolerating my attitude and bad habits. I will change for the better.

And as for Yuhang and YewVee, haha... for the pre-U session, honestly, although I didn't manage to sit throughout the whole sharing, but I know you guys did an AWESOME job. Seems like I found people who are really reliable to be my vice-chairpersons. Seriously, really lucky to have you two.

Of course, not to forget the remaining exco who came, Qian Shi. Thank you for helping out even though you can be at home relaxing that time. Some more forced by me to sit for sharings that you were not interested in. Haha!

So to sum this up, from this event, I learnt to trust people more, and if we were to improve SYN for the better, the first step I must take is to run the whole body as a TEAM, not by an individual. I have to remind myself I'm not a lone wolf any more as I have you guys. And through believing people and giving people the parts they need to unlock their potentials and learning growth, that's when we all feel as if we are truly a TEAM. Thank you to all who fulfilled my learning today! Truly grateful to have you guys! Love you guys! SYN add oil!!! Muacks~ <3 XD