All That We Do Matters

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 ...

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 ...