My father was such a good father....
Nov 7 marks Pa's 10th anniversary. I miss him dearly.
On Nov 7 this year, I visited the Sri Lankan Temple at St George's Road with Lucy. Incidently, she had a buddhist event there on Nov 8 and she had to be there on the 7th to make preparations. I went to help her out.
This Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple was the temple that Pa brought us to in the past. I remember the times when we prayed together as a family at the temple for my father's heath and obtained the prayers and blessings of the monk there. The Boddhi tree, the back yard, the sleeping buddha there.... walking around in that temple on Nov 7 brought back alot of memories.
I helped to clean the hall of the sleeping buddha that day. We flushed the floor with water and scrubbed it clean with soap. I wasn't totally prepared as I wasn't properly attired for the cleaning but still, we cleaned the temple together.
Cleaning the temple brought a sense of inner peace that I cannot describe. It made me feel close to my father and at the same time, I seem to be able to put aside everything else in life and be at peace inside.
I will help Lucy again for any such future events that she has.