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| Lotus at Kandang Kerbau Hospital Lotus Pond. |
This day commemorates and celebrates the birth, enlightenment (nirvana) and
passing away (Parinirvana) of the Lord Gautama Buddha all in one day. A
miracle, no?
Anyway, on this day, I went on a
morning walk at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital: the place of my birth. I love the
lotus pond just next to it. I also love capturing the flowers in bloom in the
pond. It’s quietly contemplative there and I love it.
In the midst of my sketching/painting, I suddenly thought of my
paternal grandfather. Not sure why. Was it the music I was listening to, or the
statuettes of Bodhisattvas that lined his residential shrine? I am not sure. I
hardly know the man, except that he was my father’s father and he’s brother (my
granduncle) was a sailor. Anyway, I let the thought come in and out of my
contemplation as I recorded the flowers pictorially and in watercolours, before
me.
Like the withered and brown ones in the pond, the man, my
grandfather had passed away years ago and like the pods left standing in the
sparkling green waters, his body has also gone to seed.
Happy Vesak.
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