THE DIARY GAME : 01/09/2020 : Cultivate a limitless heart of goodwill - for all throughout the cosmos!

_{Before go to temple}

Today is a holiday in my country because it is a Full Moon Poya Day. Full moon poya day is a Buddhist ceremony day, and because of that, it considers as a national holiday. I didn't went university yesterday as there were no lectures for me. So I spent the day at home and today as well. I waked up at 5.30 a.m to start studies early.

Before everything, I participated in spud4steem. I prepared my participation post for the spud4steem. If you still not participated it and willing to participate do it quickly.

_{Power up}

After having the breakfast I started studies. I finished some pending assignments that should be done before the examination. Time to time I went to help my grandmother as she is feeling ill now.

In the afternoon, it started to rain. At about 2.00 p.m I went to have a nap and It was 4.00 p.m when I wake up.🤫 Even with the rain, I proposed my father to go to the temple. I plucked some flowers and collected some herbal leaves to offer Lord Buddha.

_{Rain drops on flowers}

Father, brother, and I dressed to go to the temple. Mother didn't come as she is suffering from foot pain. We usually dress white when go to the temple. At the temple, first we arranged flowers and herbal leaves in trays. We prepared 3 trays from each. When getting into a Buddhist temple, there is an order to visit each part. There are 3 main symbols we worship.

Dagoba

_Dagoba

Dagoba is the first place we should worship. A dagoba is built to memorize the Lord Buddha. In some dagoba's , relics of Buddha are deposited. So we worship dagoba by imagining worshiping the live Buddha.

Bodhi Tree

_{Bodhi Tree}

Then we worship the bodhi tree. In every temple, there is a bodhi tree. The Siddhartha Gautama became Buddha under a Bodhi Tree after improving the mind. We worship Bodhi Tree as a memorial object that consumed by Buddha. In this temple, the Bodhi tree is a very ancient one. It expands half of the temple.

Image House (Bodu Ge)

_{Image house of this temple}

I'm not sure about the English term used, but this is a house/building that contains statues and paintings related to Budha's life. It is a calm and artistic place where we can sit and sing Gatha to worship. Let me share one additional photograph of the Image house of another temple.

_{More beautiful image house of another temple (captured on past)}

We sat on the floor and sang Buddhist Gatha to worship all three places, and to offer flowers, lamps, and herbs. Also sang Pirith which contains words discoursed by load buddha.

Cultivate a limitless heart of goodwill - for all throughout the cosmos!

It is a line from Karaniya Meththa Suthra, which discoursed about kindness and forgiveness. We didn't forget to remember our loving mother and wish for her to get well soon.

After coming back, I had a wash and started writing the diary.

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