Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the Bell Tower. (At least, it seemed so.) I felt compelled to whip out my phone to snap it… and so I did. Then as I walked on, I wondered… What now? So what? What do I do with the picture? Should I blog it? What should I write about it? Here it goes…
A rainbow!
Much ado about ‘something’,
that swiftly becomes ‘nothing’,
that is none other than ‘transience’.
Much ado because I snapped it,
as if I could hold on to it,
as if I could do some good with it.
Is this reminder of transience good enough?
As Stonepeace put it,
Because everything changes from moment to moment,
we should treasure everything in this moment.
Because everything changes from moment to moment,
we should not be attached to anything in this moment.
Yes, sometime, if we look up at the sky more often, we can see rainbow, although not all the time that beautiful, could be because of our climate here.
The blue sky and moving fluffy cloud are beautiful to look at too. They don’t cost a single cent, and always there if we just slow down and enjoy it. If we can enjoy that moment, that moment is happiness and is our, no one can steal it away …
If we can enjoy many of these little moments, it will form a big one. I still am working hard to learn this …
The best things in life are free…
like Nirvana,
and the ‘ticket’ to Pureland 😆
We are being ‘cheated’ by our ‘society’, we were taught from young that being successful, rich is happiness … ha..ha.. we are going wrong direction, come back …