Uncle Yang introduced a tibetan monk, Pan-da lama to my sis and me on last wed. I invited him to go to dad's house on sunday to perform a deliverance rite, we scheduled the time meet at 9am as he said that rites should be performed in the morning as the morning is Buddha's time. I feel at ease with the Lama as i can see that he is a simple person. When we say that someone is simple, we sometimes think that that means the person is not as intelligent, or even dumb, and easily deceivable.
I believe that the utmost sophistication and wisdom comes from the most simplest person. Being shrewed, clever, or even cunning can sometimes be the worst thing that could happen to a person. It happened to me at least. I thought i was being clever when i tried all means and ways to shun responsibilities of dad, there are many extreme and evil things i did to him, i managed to get away each time because he has never complaint, aways being patient on me. I tried to tell myself that I have done enough, and used all my intelligence to take advantage of him.
To ensure that there is no cock up, i even went to my dad's house twice on sat (once at noon and no ones' home, once at 11pm) to make sure we can enter the place.
On Sunday, i called Pan-da lama at 8:30am met him up as incidentally, he stays in woodlands at a devotee's place, (it must have been Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's workings?), the Lama requested for some rice and water from the tenant.
I had to clean up the room where my dad passed away so that the Lama can do his chanting, i believe we spent close to an hour for the ritual. With my limited sanskrit I believe he started off with the great compassion mantra (大悲咒）and proceed to other mantras including Om mani padme hum and Namo Amitabha.
End of the ritual, I used the Standard Chinese Mahayana school ritual to thank Pan-da lama and gave donations on behalf of dad for the building of the monastery in Nepal. He gave me 2 tibetan artefact's for protection.
愿以此功德回向极乐国民徐玉和
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