Beyond

Last weekend, Ally and I joined a two-day meditation in Dharma Drum Mountain. During these two days, everyone couldn’t talk to each other or use cell phone, what we could do was concentrating on our mind, and tried to reach a peaceful and harmonious state. As we know, saying is one thing and doing is another. Because of preparing going abroad and staying in the UK, I didn’t practice meditation for almost one year (these are excuses!). My body is hard as a stone, I couldn’t put my foot on the ground together, and furthermore, my knee suffered enormous pain when I did meditation. Apart from that, there were lots of distracting thoughts appeared in my mind, but I was supposed to have a pure mind. Just as Buddha said, there are too many desires, demands in our mind. However, it is a great chance to face ourselves. In the modern life, we are always busy to do anything, we seldom have opportunity to calm down and think about our life pace.
When I got home on the Sunday night and turned on the TV news, the world was still the same, there were lots scandals, rumours and sensational headlines. At that moment I knew, I really enjoyed a peaceful vocation in Dharma Drum Mountain despite having a painful knee.