After Mother's Day

Karma Kagyu Buddhist Centre Singapore

After the Mother’s day celebration in Karma Kagyud Buddhist Centre Singapore, most of the events organized by the centre in May are completed. The 3 days recitation of Om Mani Padme Hung, H.H. Karmapa’s Birthday, Vesak day and Mother’s day programs have been completed and the experience was really great for everyone who participated. I saw that all the programs are very well organized and the organizers and helpers really worked hard to make the events successful. They did not just treat what they are doing as work but as a chance to benefit people with love from their hearts and were therefore committed to make the programs successful. That is why the result was so beautiful and heartwarming. Not everyone is professional in organizing such events, but if the organizers have sincerity and genuinely want to benefit others, the result is indescribable and participants feel deep appreciation from their hearts for the effort made. These people worked tirelessly day and night for the cause of achieving success in order to benefit everyone. This finally resulted in the development of immense joy and accumulation of positive thoughts and feelings, in the true spirit of Dharma. I wish everyone well and that every thought and action you have will bring ever greater benefits to others. Just like Bodhisattvas who benefit sentient beings unconditionally, may you also develop such abilities and qualities.

The Mother’s day celebration was an event that was so touching that even I could not hold back my tears. I was overwhelmed by the feelings developed when I was in the midst of so many mothers who have so much love in their eyes and were so caring. I felt as if I was their son and receiving their care and love, just like my own mother has given me. The way they looked and smiled gently at me while I was giving a speech, reminded me of my own real mother who loves me and cares for me so much. I could not continue to speak as the tears started to flow. I think that all mothers are not just only someone else’s mother. If you look into their eyes and see how they smile at you, you can feel that they are like your own mother. I really feel that every mother is a wonderful person and I actually wanted to say in the speech that mothers are the most beautiful persons in the world because true beauty lies not in looks but in the heart. A mother’s heart is pure and filled with unconditional love and constant care for her child.

When I think back about my childhood, I recollect how my mother suffered just to bring me up. Yet most of the time; I did not think about her kindness and still did things against her wishes. Now, I feel I was such a terrible person but my mother’s love for me and the care she shows me has not faded or died. Even though I am advanced in age now, she still worries about me and wonders constantly if I were well or not. Every single prayer she has made, she has never dedicated for her own well-being, but she has never forgotten to dedicate towards her son’s well-being. Not just my own mother is so selfless but every mother is like that, only in different ways. So mothers are the most wonderful persons on earth after the Triple Gems.
With my present mother as an example, I recollect all mother sentient beings’ kindness towards me through the countless eons of rebirth. I therefore wish that everyone is free from suffering and its cause and that everyone may attain the greatest happiness while in Samsara and may finally achieve enlightenment.