HELo!! 2nd day of the D2YC camp 2008. For the morning we did puja which means payin respects to the buddha. i'll just explain the routines of the camp first so i dont have to keep repeatin it over and over.First routines is lights off at 11. (but we still talk in the dark).then wake up time at 6 and puja at 6.30.morning exercise- And every time before and after meal we have to say a things like this(I TAKE THIS FOOD,NOT FOR BEAUTY OR PLEASURE BUT FOR THE SUSTANENCE OF MY BODY,WITH THIS FOOD I RELEASE MYSELF FROM D SUFFERING OF HUNGER FOR A WHILE. AND MAY THE TRIPLE GEM, THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION , BE OUR GUIDING LINE. SADU *3( sadu means thank you or excellent). sound a chore to do that every day but it really calms your mind and u learn to appreciatte your food . and 1 last routine... VEGETARIAN FOR THE WHOLE 5 DAYS!!! but thats not that bad too... the purpose of eatin only vegetarian was to follow the 5 precepts in buddhism which is- 1.do not lie 2.-do not steal 3.no sexual misconduct 4. do not kill or harm living things 5. do not take intoxicating liquids like drugs ,etc. yea so thats the protocall every day. Today the first event up was temple tour. We were suppose to go to our respective places and complete a task then at last we had to learn the history of the places in the temple.Then we had a workshop. but i forgotten it de. so cant write bout it untill it comes back. during the afternoon we had our first hymn singing session. personally i like hymn singing the best. its basically singin dhamma songs but dont be fooled its too very modern. thats wat surprised me too last year. I like hymn singin cause of 3 reasons . 1 WE GET TO SING OUT HEARS OUT WITHOUT A CARE!!! 2. The songs are touching and moving yet still fun. We also get to put our hand on each other's shoulders and just sway away... everyone is also very nice , we get to share with ppl we never met before 2 and i really loved that the most. sharin... 3. everyone will just goof around without a care during this sessions we get thing like human trains and mexican waves.this is one of the songs we sung then after that we had the dhamma talk . that part we got a really interesting task. its started out as the person splitiing us into ppl who will succeed and stuff. so he made a goal called touch ceilling. the idea is simple just touch the ceilling. the celling was at least 3 persons height . we had 5 sessions to touch the celling. first we got into groups of 4. we brainstormed and tried but still couldnt touch the celling. We found out that we had not enuf man power so we merged with another group.the othere group too followed. and in the end we TOUCHED the ceilling!!! it was really fun...lucky the dhamma speaker was a very competitive person so we kept competting against each other for every task during the talk. So we had dinner and went to bed at 9.30.
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And every time before and after meal we have to say a things like this(I TAKE THIS FOOD,NOT FOR BEAUTY OR PLEASURE BUT FOR THE SUSTANENCE OF MY BODY,WITH THIS FOOD I RELEASE MYSELF FROM D SUFFERING OF HUNGER FOR A WHILE. AND MAY THE TRIPLE GEM, THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION , BE OUR GUIDING LINE. SADU *3( sadu means thank you or excellent). sound a chore to do that every day but it really calms your mind and u learn to appreciatte your food . and 1 last routine... VEGETARIAN FOR THE WHOLE 5 DAYS!!! but thats not that bad too... the purpose of eatin only vegetarian was to follow the 5 precepts in buddhism which is-