Year 2009, May 9, Vesak day fall on Saturday, It mean the day before (Friday night) I will be at Bright Hill Evergreen Home (光明山). This is my third year joined 3-steps-1-bow (三步一拜) ceremony. This is to believed to purify negative actions of the past and is an act of homage to lord Buddha. This year, especially more people. We reached around 11pm in the night, walked around the temple, “bathing” a Buddha statue and pray. We’ve been queued for 4 hours (from 11.30pm - 3.30am) to began the 3-steps-1-bow ritual around the temple, it took about 2hours to complete the ritual. Unfortunately, we were unable to finish due to thunders and heavy rain, and it just few more steps left. However, we back with clear, peaceful and pleasure heart & mind.
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