The floor of the main hall is always so clean and white. Makes people wonder maybe the dust in the air feels for these cleanliness and does not wish to stain the floor. Volunteered to clean the main hall yesterday and was so happy to have some realisation.
As I mop the floor, I discovered more and more fine stains appearing on the floor. The stains come in different colour, some easy to wipe away and some more stubborn ones. These seemingly obvious stains I see currently has never for once appear to spoil the purity of the floor. Yet these stain gives me the desire to clean them all up.
Before we set our mind to learn the righteous way of living, our habits are in fact our blindspots. These habit is never an issue in our life. As we embarked on the journey to perfect our bodily actions and mind, these "stains" shows up very obviously due to our increase in intensity of our mindfulness.
Our practises seem to create more troubled mind. But if upon realising these stain, we do not attach our mind to the stains, then I believe these stains on the floor would not have caused the uprising of my desire to remove them.
Cleaning up the floor and perfecting our actions are basic task of our life and in fact is our daily chores. But maybe by not clinging to the notions of right and wrong, we can free our mind better.
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Nelson, that is the purpose of me doing 香灯 all the while. As i am not committed to do full-time, therefore i commit myself to do at least one big event on a yearly basis. When u lead, u see, u learn n u explore to make things better the next time.
u clean, u observe and your perserverence makes u do better step after step. No one is perfect and buddha is not perfect till he see thru every details in his life...
Thanx all for your comments. Ya temple is an interesting place. A place of ppl that are aware that their mind is sick, and finding their own medicine to cure their own sickness :)
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