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The Kindness Of A Mother

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According to the Filial Piety Sutra, there are ten types of kindness bestowed by a mother to her child: 1. The kindness of providing protection and care while the child is in the womb. While the foetus is growing in the womb, the mother nourishes the baby with her own body, and carry the burden of a heavy tummy, bearing the backache and pain that comes with it. The mother withstands the morning sickness, sluggishness and drowsiness from the body hormone changes without complaint and talks to her baby with love.  2. The kindness of bearing suffering during birth. The pregnancy lasts for then months and the mother withstands the morning sickness, sluggishness and drowsiness from the body hormone changes without complaint. She looks toward the day of holding her baby in her arms. During birth, she experiences fear and anxiety (especially in the olden days when medical care was limited) and the pain of giving birth when the head of the baby appears. There is always danger during giving bir
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True Self Awareness

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True Self Awareness Life delivers us a series of good fortune as well as uneventful mis-happenings and misfortunes. How we react or respond to these situations often depends on who we are at a given point of time. Are we acting based on our fear and ignorance, based on pride and ego, or are we acting based on our true nature? We are often frequently challenged to follow and act from within our values as we learn how to respond to the arising happiness, sufferings, pain, confusion and uncertainty. What is Our True Nature? True Nature is limitless and has no boundaries. It has no forms nor attachments. Who we truly are is not based on age, gender, race, family, friends, nor external situations such as material things, status and wealth.  Stop for a moment and ask yourself, “Have I ever taken a moment to ponder on what is my true nature?”. “Am I aware of what is going on in myself, my feelings, my body, my perceptions, my limiting beliefs, my response to situations, etc?”. What do you bel
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Zongzi Festival

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The Tradition of Zongzi Festival  Today 25th June 2020 is the 5th Day of the 5th Month in the year of the Golden Rat. It is also the day of a long Chinese tradition festival of Zongzi (dumpling), also known as the Dumpling Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. In the olden days, families got together on the eve before the festival to wrap rice dumplings filled with red dates, meat, mushrooms and other delicacies in Argy-wormwood leaves. The making of the Zongzi requires patience and focus. The Zongzi leaves have to be wrapped together carefully in a special way to prevent its fillings from falling apart during its boiling process, which takes several hours. The making of Zongzi together reinforces family ties and bond. It was also a day used to pay respect to elders and to especially show filial piety to parents and grand-elders.   In the current world, this tradition is no longer practised in its true sense. Dumplings are cooked earlier, or commercially made due to the busyness of the mo
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How does what we do matters?

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We live in a modern world where it is common we live in a cloud of ego, and we rely on external factors for pleasures and fulfilment. We may even have forgotten our roots and our supreme self, or maybe we just couldn’t be bothered to care much amidst the busyness of life. However, in every one of us, there is an inner self filled with clarity, love, peace, kindness, compassion and calmness waiting to return to us. When we can harmonise the mind with the heart, and connect with the living force within the heart, we can then understand our true self, and others around us, and why everything we do matters. Every action has its consequences, and when we take ownership of our actions, it empowers us to learn from mistakes and experiences. By learning from past actions, we can make better decisions in the future, thus, creating a better self. With a better self that is filled with empathy, good thoughts, kindness and compassion, we will act with more awareness and diligence in how we behave
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