Temple Stay at Guinsa, Korea - Geumgang University @ 2019 Week 9 住在Guinsa寺庙之初体验,韩国- 金剛大学@ 2019第9周

Wow, it's been a long time i put my blog a side 😅and it's time to begin again! 1st of November, we have a chance to experience temple stay for 2days 1night in Guinsa, Korea. It was actually a compulsory program for all the new foreign student who study in Geumgang University and we enjoyed ourselves a lot when being at there.

哇,我的博客放在一边好像蛮久了😅,好啦,现在是重新开始的时候啦! 11月1日,我们有机会参加2天1夜住寺庙体验. 实际上是在金剛大学,所有新来的外国学生都必需要参加的一课而我们在那里也蛮喜欢享受的.

Once we arrived at Guinsa, we have to walk a uphill road and all of us were so excited at the beginning while being attracted by the scene along the way up to our accommodation. There were an instructor who looked gentle and tranquil then brought us to our rooms and introduced us all the locations of the temple.

抵达Guinsa 后,我们必须走上一条上山的路到宿舍. 一路上大家都很兴奋,还被周围美丽的风景吸引. 我们有一位看起来很温柔导师带到我们的房间, 还给我们介绍了寺庙的所有位置.

Uphill road to our accommodation.💁

According to our instructor, saying that Guinsa is actually a headquarter for more than 100 sub-temples all over Korea and the architecture of the temple was really an eye open experience. But for me, what is more important in this temple stay was the messages delivered by the instructor and the monks or nuns and i will share with you later.
据我们的导师说, Guinsa是韩国100多个庙宇的总部, 而寺庙的建筑真的是一可以让你大开眼见. 但是对于我来说, 在这个寺庙更重要的是导师和僧侣们传达的信息,我等等与你分享.

The entrance of Guinsa. Guinsa 入口.

During the temple tour, our instructor told us the life of the monks and nuns here is actually not that easy as we thought. It is because everybody here has a role just like everybody in the world has a reason as he said. To be simplified, the monks and nuns here are only have 2hours free time which is their sleeping time and most of the time they need to do the job being assigned, for example, a cooker or a farmer who have to work from morning to dawn and meditation during certain time in their own way. The instruction told us that it's not a religion but is a way in learning how to live happier in our life. No matter what religion your are, your are always welcome to learn the knowledge from the Buddha.

在游览寺庙时,我们的导师告诉我们,这里的僧侣的生活其实并不像我们想象的那么简单.这是因为每个人都有自己的角色,就像为什么你会在这世界上的道理一样. 简单来说,这里的僧侣们只有2小时的空闲时间,这是他们的睡眠时间,而大多数时间他们需要做被分配的工作,例如,一名廚师或农夫,都必须活动从早晨到黎明并以自己的方式冥想. 导师一直告诉我们,这不是宗教信仰,而是学习如何在我们的生活中更快乐的方式. 无论你是什么宗教,你都是欢迎学习佛陀的知识.

The Buddha Hall. 佛堂.

Our instructor was introducing the temple. 导师给我们介绍这寺庙时.

After the temple tour, we were invited to join hiking program and i was so excited because i like exercise a lot. During the temple tour was actually all uphill road and all of us exhausted but still we were hiking to the top of the hill! Only half of us reached the top of the hill and we enjoyed a lot of the stunning sunset view 😍while gasp for breath. For me, there were OK during uphill but my knee was pain during downhill, may it is a sign of getting old? 👵haha.

参观寺庙后,我们就join了爬山记.我是很兴奋,因为我很喜欢运动. 参观寺庙时实际上都是上坡路,我们所有的人都疲惫不堪,但我们还是爬到了山顶!只有我们一半到达山顶,而喘着气到达山顶的回报是令人惊叹的夕阳景色😍~对于我来说,上坡还好,但下坡时我的膝盖疼痛, 这可能是老了的迹象吗~哈哈👵.

Step by step~ there are lots of beatiful view are waiting for u😉一步一步往上爬, 美丽的风景就在等着你😉!

The 1st batch of us who reached the top!🌄第一批到达上顶的我们.

Before our dinner time, we have to join an evening ceremony but for those think that is a religion matter was no force to join as our instructor emphasize that it's free time for your heart so just follow your heart. We gathered in the Buddha hall where the monks and nuns do learning and showing respect to the Buddha. Same goes to us, we learned how to bow to show our respect to the Buddha. For me, during the ceremony, seems brought our mind to peace and remove all turbulence inside your heart and your mind while there are some background of the sound of the monks.

在我们的晚餐时间之前,我们必须参加傍晚仪式,但是对于那些认为这是宗教仪式的人来说,没有任何强制,因为我们的教练强调,是否参加这是你的自由. 我们聚集在佛教大厅里, 向僧侣们学习如何鞠躬以表彰我们对佛陀的尊重. 对我来说,在仪式上,似乎带来了我们的心灵和平,消除了你心灵和思想中的所有动荡.

All the meals being served are vegetables and those food were all hard work of the monks and nuns, therefore, no food waste during every meals. I think it was an important message also to all the people where we should finish every meals that we had as to appreciate what you had and what given by the surrounding.

所有供应的饭菜都是蔬菜, 那些食物都是僧侣们辛勤工作的成果, 因此每次饭菜都不能有食物浪费. 我认为这是一个重要的信息,所有的人,我们应该把每一顿饭吃完,是你珍惜所拥有的和周围环境给的事物的一种行为.

Dinner~🍠🌿☘🍆🌽晚餐~

After an hour rest, we proceed to another hall and having meditation together. During the meditation time, what i received from the instructor is built your inner strength by doing meditation. And there were a nun who keep smiling all the way and teaching us the way to breath. She said that most of the time people focus on something which they think is important but they forget how to breath and focus in some small things that will bring us happiness as well in our live.

休息一个小时后,我们到另一个大厅进行冥想. 在冥想的时候, 我从教练那里收到的是通过冥想来建立你的内在力量. 有一个尼姑教我们呼吸的方式而她脸上是一直挂着微笑的. 她说,大多数时候,人们将重点放在他们认为重要的事情上，但人们忘记了一些会为我们的生活带来幸福的小事情比如如何呼吸.

Time for meditation exercise~最不安静的瑜伽时间😂😂

The whole process was peaceful and funnier than what i thought about meditation. We breath profoundly, slowly and sit with crossed-leg like the Buddha's way on the floor which was uncomfortable. Well, our instructor said that, always sit with crossed-leg on the floor and it will heal your spine although was uncomfortable. During the process what they focus was want us try to liberating our soul and mind; get into profoundly of ourselves. And always imagine we are in a perfect condition and focus on what you want. All these linked me to Einstein said, imagination is important than your knowledge. Where imagination is infinity in our life and the nun told us kick all our memory during meditation and glory of your imagination that one of the knowledge of Buddha. Sounds evangelistic but i think that was a spiritual self learning process which enhance ourselves to control our emotion and not controlled by emotion.

整个过程比我想到的冥想更有趣. 我们学习深深的呼吸,慢慢地坐着,像佛一样在交叉坐在地板上. 那么,我们的导师说, 多坐在地板上交叉腿,它会治愈你的脊椎,虽然不舒服. 在这个过程中,他们的重点是要我们试图解放我们的灵魂和心灵; 深入自己.总是想象我们处于一个完美的状态,专注于你想要的. 所有的这些让我联想到爱因斯坦所说的,"想象力比你的知识重要".在我们的生活中,想象力是无限的,尼姑告诉我们,让冥想排除所有徘徊的回忆, 专注你想要的, 这也是佛陀的知识之一. 听起来传道,但我认为这是一种精神自我学习过程,它能够增强自我控制情绪,而不是受到情感的控制.

The section end on 9:30pm and the next morning 3:30am we gathered at the Buddha hall again for morning ceremony. The instructor told us it's up to us to join or not to join the morning ceremony and i was struggle whether to join or not the night before because there are some distances from our accommodation. At the end only 7 of us joined the morning ceremony including our instructor and me. The different of morning ceremony and evening ceremony was we have to walk around the temple and spent longer time in the Buddha hall and it was a refreshing morning!

冥想在晚上九点半结束了而第二天早上三点三十分,我们再次聚集在佛像大厅为了早上的仪式. 导师告诉我们,我们参于这仪式与否是我们的自由,我因为距离我们的住宿有一段距离让我犹豫去还是不去. 最后只有7人加入了早上的仪式,包括我们的教练和我. 早晨和晚上的不同,我们必须走在寺庙周围,在佛像厅度过更长的时间,btw这是一个清爽的早晨!

The morning ceremony is one hour, of course we get back to our bed😴😴😴. After breakfast at 630am, we took bus to another temple to have a visit and to do walking meditation. We walked as what the nun taught us during the night before, "heel to toe and continue to breath, heel to oe and continue to breath" was what in our mind. Then we backed to our Guinsa again and this time there were a monk with the nun having teatime. During the teatime, they talked about a lot about life. During the conversation, that i interested and believe is KARMA. Which what we had now is because of what we had did in our past life or our previous live and what is the next is depending on what we do now. And they encourage us to do more good things or helping other that based on our conscience. Hopefully whoever see this will apply it in our daily life so that we can have a better worlbtw

早上的仪式是一个小时, 我们当然回到我们的床上😪😪😪. 吃了早上六点半的早餐后, 我们乘坐公共汽车去另一个寺庙去参观,做冥想.我们像那晚上尼姑教我们怎样样走路,“脚跟跟着脚趾,继续呼吸,脚跟跟着脚趾, 继续呼吸”是我们默默念在心的. 然后,我们就回到Guinsa,接着与尼姑的点心与谈话时间,也多了一位和尚. 在点心间,他们谈论了很多关于生命的话题. 在谈话中,我有兴趣并相信是* KARMA *. 就是我们现在所在的是因为我们在过去的一生中所做的,或者是我们以前的生活,下一个是取决于我们现在做什么. 他们鼓励我们做更多好的事情,或者以善良的心帮助别人.希望任何看到这一点的人都会在日常生活中应用它,让我们能有一个更美好的世界.

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And that's all that i learnt from the trip and i hope is is beneficial to you as well! Be kind and keep breathing! you are doing good~ Thank you.