Grace.C

i found out that each time after attending a meeting, i would feel really great, like i was recharged and refresh! especially after attending a group meeting, whether it's a chanting meet or a discussion meet, i just feel really good. like i would re-determine my goals again and set out again to continue the rest of my days in really high spirit and to continue it the next day. i guess group meetings is a medium where all of us could share our problems and received encouragement from members, without having to worry people would judge you for what you're doing, or where you come from. thought sometimes i might have nothing to share, but it's still good to listen to what other people have to say, what they are going through, i might not be able to help, or that i might not have any encouragement for them, but listening to how other people encourage these people, in turn, would encourages me back. today, we talked about 'three thousand realms in a single moment of life'. andy, cherrie, leeyong and myself was the ones presenting today on 10 worlds. i shared my hellish first 2 days in melbourne about my terrible acocmodation. it was not something big, but it was related to world of hell and i just thought that for me, that was hell. after the meeting, pe invited me to join them for dinner at a korean restaurant nearby. i spoke to pj during the dinner, and i found out a lot about her and her process of battling with 3rd level cancer last year. though it's her experience, but at the end of the conversation, i felt to thankful on behalf of her, that she's a daishonin practitioner, and because that her whole family and herself is chanting, she was able to went through everything with so much protections and came off well again now. i really could feel the power of chanting from what she had gone through. ive known someone, who have now passed away because of cancer, and i tried to shakubuku his daughter, but it fell into deaf years, until now i felt terribly sorry for her lost. =(