My staff, a staunch Buddhist

I was shocked when I meet my staff for lunch.  She looks totally different and I could not recognized her at the first glance.  Why some stranger stood in front of me and looking at me ? I have just removed the chair and make way for her to park her car. Strange. Finally, she called my name and I notice she is my staff.  What an awkward moment ?

After lunch, she came into my office and told me that she is wearing a wig.  I thought she changed her hair style and she just cut her hair short last week.  She is feeling so uncomfortable in the wig and asked permission to wear a hat.  Of course, I told her to do so as not to be in such uncomfortable manner.

On more enquiry, she told me that she just shaved her hair and became a fully committed Buddhist. For the past few months after she join my team, she has been talking about her " karmic sins" and she needs to be committed to Buddhism in order to cleanse her sins.  I did not suspect or thought that she could shaved her hair to be " Choot Kar" in Cantonese.   This is really a big decision  for someone to be fully committed to Buddhism and choose to live the live of a lay nun.  Fully vegetarian and committed to the Buddhist way of living.

I know that there are people in Thailand or in Malaysia that could live like a lay monk for one month or two months. Some individuals also become a full time monk after many years as a professional person. These people really knows what they want and to learn the way of the Buddha.

It is not a bad decision as these people have seen through life and have become a bigger person or " tall people " who have seen beyond the materialistic world to live a simple life and cleaning their sins for a better after life. These believers are preparing to exit the realm of life instead of living in circles in our life on earth. Buddhist believes that in each life we have to do many goods to go up the realm in our lives before we attain our Buddhahood and enters into Nirvana.

So, here I wish my staff , who for whatever reasons have chosen this path.

Amitabha ...