Vesak day blues
May. 19th, 2008 by Al 
19th of May is the celebration of Vesak day here in Singapore.For those in the west who do not know what’s a Vesak day is, it is the celebration of the birth and enlightenment of buddha.
My family though buddhists are never strict vegetarians but surprisingly my mum cook vegetarian meal today.Why the blues you may asked?The cyclones in Myanmar and earthquake disaster in PRC that killed tens of thousands ,the death toll is still rising.All this coincide with the Olympics 2008 held in China which is in Asia.
PRC military are rushing in but even then with the massive scale of human catastrophe in Sichuan china , the resources at their disposal may not be able to cope.Foreign rescue teams are allowed to help in the excavation efforts to save remaining people who survived but trapped under the rubbles.All this is being done when our crude energy are not being yet exhausted.
I’m never much of a religous person but after 911 my search for the meaning of life intensified, and the answers is never an easy one. Buddhism on the surface seems like a fatalistic faith , much more of a philosophy of life than a religion.Maybe that’s what life is all about, the fragility of men and coming to terms of one’s mortality.
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