Contributors

This blog follows the travels of the Turberfield family as they drop out of the normal busyness of corporate life to explore the ancient art of Tibetan Thangka, the dusty mountaintop temples of the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau and travel overland from Singapore to England.

Offering to The Spiritual Guide in a lofty gompa perched above the natural fort of Dongwan valley, weekly trips to Shangri La's unpredictable shower rooms, keeping the cows out of the bins, scaling sacred Mount Shika, haggling for pu-er in the tea markets of Kunming and the nightly wonder of the milky way - possibly as far as it's possible to get from the subway at rush hour....

The main contributors are Michelle (also widely known as "The Boss") and David with bits and pieces from San San and Jon Jon. We hope you enjoy and look forward to your comments.

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

The biggest prayer wheel

In the center of Shangri-la old town, there is a temple with Je Tsongkapa. Next to the temple, they built a very big prayer wheel that need at least 3 adults to move it. In the wheel, inscripted 12.4 million om mani pani hum. Just turning it 3 times, you send out so much compassion wishes!!!!

Even though the initial intention for this wheel was for tourist purpose but it is to me not even abit tacky. The simple wish, everyone turning the wheel placed, is simply beautiful!

I was feeling rather emotional today, and was depressed. After an outburst, I took Jon to the prayer wheel to calm down.

While I was there, I seek Buddha's help. I felt a total mess. I felt useless and helpless. How can I stop all these unhappy feeling arising from nowhere?

B sent an answer. The Prayer Wheel stopped moving while I was there, pondering what to do. There was 4 of us but yet we could not move it! We tried and tried, push and pull but the wheel would not budge at all. Finally a few more people turned up and we managed to get it going.

I am not a lone island. My spiritual practice cannot progress if I do not try to accept other and let them help me. I need to try harder to learn from everyone, see their sufferings and develop renunciation!

May everyone be happy, May everyone be free from misery, May everyone have equanimity, free from hatred and attachments!


- Posted by Mich using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Shangri-la, China

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)