Festival of Culture Sharing Open Day at the Temple – Savouring Culture and Cuisines
On 21st June, an “Open Day for Festival of Culture Sharing” was held at the temple. BLIA North Island sub-chapters including the young adult division held many stalls for the visitors, including delicious vegetarian food stalls, culture stalls with calligraphy, Chinese beading and Chinese knotting crafts. The police force also took the opportunity to display their new patrol cars for the public as well as pass on useful advice for public safety, which were welcomed by the visitors
Afterwards Venerable Abbess Manshin invited over 30 BLIA volunteers to the VIP room to thank their meticulous hard work toward this festival. Despite lack of experience for this sort of event and dubbing English dialogue for Buddhist cartoon “Little Monk Sees the World” was a last minute creation, the tightly scheduled mission allowed everyone to experience the strength of creativity. BLIA Vice-President Linda Daniell expressed that many lessons and skills were learnt through the experience of this festival, which allow everyone to improve and experience the daily relevance of Buddhism.
One of the organiser Sally Wong explained that the success of this festival ultimately lies with the combined contribution and effort of all BLIA volunteers involved. As a result, with this renewed confidence, it is hoped that the scale of this festival can be expanded for the coming years. English sub-chapter member Martin reflected upon his experience as having obtained the most benefit from facing the many challenges and changing circumstances throughout this event. He also reiterated the important educational values of “3 Good Deeds and 4 Kinds of Giving” for all visiting students and teachers.
The Abbess encouraged everyone by emphasising the simplistic ideals of “3G4G”. But the continuous practice of these ideals requires constant self-improvement. Through awareness toward one’s shortcomings our characters can be refined; our potentials uncovered and true meaning of our lives can be discovered.
One of the organiser Sally Wong explained that the success of this festival ultimately lies with the combined contribution and effort of all BLIA volunteers involved. As a result, with this renewed confidence, it is hoped that the scale of this festival can be expanded for the coming years. English sub-chapter member Martin reflected upon his experience as having obtained the most benefit from facing the many challenges and changing circumstances throughout this event. He also reiterated the important educational values of “3 Good Deeds and 4 Kinds of Giving” for all visiting students and teachers.
The Abbess encouraged everyone by emphasising the simplistic ideals of “3G4G”. But the continuous practice of these ideals requires constant self-improvement. Through awareness toward one’s shortcomings our characters can be refined; our potentials uncovered and true meaning of our lives can be discovered.