Lately, I havent been feeling well and was quite low moraled - a combination of work + health + other personal matters. I was feeling so depressed that I feel like escaping, something which has never been an option for me in life. I felt i have no energy and motivation to confront the heaps of problems which were constantly throwing onto me.

I told my situation to a Christian friend and he posed me a striking question: What happened to your religion?

He really caught me totally off guard. Its not as if i have forgotten abt buddhism during this dark period, but it definitely takes someone from another religion to wake me up.

After a night of deep thoughts and reflections, I realise my problems (or problems in general) cannot be easily overcome or solved just by mere chantings, or even by a few hours more of meditation sessions. I feel that what matters most is our faith for our religion (buddhism here), which is to be accumulated and steadily built up from our daily practices and applications.

Still feeling doubtful in the morning, i drove to labrador park again during lunch time to further sort out my thoughts. I have initially planned to take 1/2 day off to go SriLankaramaya temple to meditate but unfortunately my work load doesn allow. Fortunately, my taiwan friend (who is a devoted buddhist) called me at the right moment when i was sorting out my thoughts at Labrador.

I left labrador as a happy person. I felt much lighter and could feel a small sense of liberation. Its all in the mind - the sweetest things presented to you yday may end up being your nightmares which haunt you today. Memories only remain sweet if we can truely let them go, otherwise attachments to them will only guarantee you sufferings.