Another Wesak day gone by

Three days ago, we celebrate the Wesak Day and it just went by like another other previous Wesak Day. Any difference , just chanting , prayer and the usual routine of celebrating the Day.  Nevertheless, it maybe another routine but it helps to bring up the awareness of the believers' compassion. 

One of the wisdom is " don't be just a taker but instead try to be a giver ".  Coming to think about it, we valued our wealth very much and we accumulated as much as possible through greed.  Cash is king or money means power . The power to enjoy our lives with all the materialistic things which end of our day , we cannot carry with us into our next life.  But , the pressure of having the wealth and the power over our life means everything to us.  We earn, save and keep and we are willing to give as giving means less wealth and less power.

It is a wonder why our mind play this trick on us ?  We can be as happy with just enough for us to live a simple life , in a simple house and with simple food and money not spend or given away is a useless piece of paper.  Our senses of security by holding on it  is a false sense which have been taught to us in our education system or through the influence of people. We are just following and not living.

We struggle day and night , suffering restless days and nights while working like a dog and this is just to make us rich and secured. Life is unpredictable and death is certain.  If we can understand this wisdom and breakaway from our entrenched thoughts of " more " means " excellent" , our life will be happier and freer.  We can have a more balance of life and only do the things that we like or when we like instead of stuck in a hole to get more money. 

Yeah, Master Time waits for no one and it is better to have the wisdom than to blindly follow the examples of the Jones.  Our thoughts of big, more or huge means everything to us.  A bigger house, a bigger car, a more beautiful wife, a fat bank account , many hypocratic friends, a big land bank , a spacious office, etc are everything we want. 

I was told at lunch time that one richman's daughter was spending everyday RM300 on just drinking coffee and her meal. She is having 7 difference sport cars and is not working .  Isn't this excessive ?  now the richman has fallen from the sky because of the new Government in Malaysia, What if all her father's riches are gone with the wind, how can she manage her life style ? She will  be struggling to live by the day and this is the law of Karma.  What reap what we sow.

So, lets wake up our senses on each Wesak Day and look ourselves in the mirrow and wake up to the realities of wisdom.

Namaste.