Itchy fingers, I decided to search for some chinese pop songs. To my disgust/surprise/excitement, I have no difficulty finding them! Even songs from Jay Chou's latest album which is barely a week old can be found on the site! And well, I was so tempted to download them for my listening pleasure, but wat a minute.. isnt that breaking of 2nd precepts? Hmmm.....
After watching the movie Spring...Spring again, the scenes and images of the film kept flashing on my mind during my meditation sittig on saturday evening. What Sayalay said was very right. She always forbid us from watching movies/tv (except news) as it weakens your concentration and disturbs your meditation. Watching films and meditation are like walking towards 2 different destinations which are of exactly opposite directions.
I also recalled some advices from Ven Manko (Fo Guang Yuan). She said sometimes she would lock herself up in her room to meditate for the entire day. This is to help her gain back her mindfulness, sharpness and concentration as whenever she goes out to attend some functions, celebrations or visits, the trees, flowers, colours and countless images she captured on her mind will weaken her mindfulness.
Today is a very hot and sunny afternoon, and I feel bright and chirpy within. I should be going out for a hot afternoon meditation :D
And here are the pictures I took just now. SL is extremely quiet and peaceful. The construction site was inactive this afternoon, and probably I had too high expectation for my sitting jus now, it din turn out to be good, just so so :D Anyway, a nice recharge.
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