ANZBYC [Day 1 | 06.07.2007]
Early morning: 7am @ Dining Hall
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9am, Registration @ ANZBYC office
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10am, Group Initial Contact
After the registration, we need to gather with our group mates and start to know each other.
Met my group leader which is Gabriel, from Sydney. And another girl from Syd, Winky. After that we were still waiting for other group members and during dat spare time its kinda boring and we all got nth to do.
Btw, more members came and there were Jason and Chanon from Brisbane, Raymond the HK guy frm Melbourne YAD 3, and another guy from Auckland which is Chyi Main. And it seems like only we and Winky are girls? All guys? Thats not good! Hmmm.... After that found out from the name list we still lack of 2 members whom are same sex with me! Yea! But havent see them yet...
So we introduce ourselves as usual thingy 2 start. Then Gabriel gave each of us a 'goody bag' which contain a pen, a notepad, and a booklet which contain program schedule and other informations. And another member in our group turns up and she is Tina which
And we need to come out a cheer for our group and it needs to related to our group name which is ARHAT. It means 'one who deserves oblations'. After we scratching our heads and squeezing our brains, we came out something like this
( but mainly is from Gabriel, hehe):
Wakakaka...
After the cheer CREATING. The next task we need 2 complete is to do our group banner in a so call board which is in red color(Arhat's color). We came out some ideas for it and started to draw on da board. We drew a Buddha's head but in a pirates form which suits our cheer. Some offering thingy and our group NAME.
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11:10am, Rules & Regulations Interpretation @ front of the Main Shrine
Some basic R&R in the camp announced by Terry and Melissa( the disciplinarians). After that each group PRESENTED their group cheer. And a member turns out, which is our co-leader, Tina from Auckland.
12:00pm, Lunch & Temple Tour
Introduce us every spot in the temple. And explain how and why and when this temple has been built. Over all its kinda messy tour cz some of them are not listening or even chit chatting. So its kinda noisy and messy.
After that, i met my last group member, Yolanda from Auckland before we have our lunch.
After that we prepare for our lunch and its gonna be a semi formal lunch. Whats semi formal lunch and whats formal lunch b/n informal lunch? Informal lunch means the normal way we eat at home( noisy, ugly etc.) and formal way is according the rules of temple or tradition of Chinese meal eating. I oledi did that for several times and i do practice it at home so shouldn't be a problem for me.
But Yolanda dislike the formal meals and she was like annoy by it once she heard its gonna be a semi formal lunch. Hehehe... But i reckon she got use to it after few times of it ya?
And during the lunch they taught us how to eat in da formal meals. After the lunch, we had a walking meditation but everyone kinda chit chatting than MEDITATING. It was so noisy and it shoudn't be like that. Hmmm....
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1:00pm, Opening Ceremony @ Siang Yun Hall
The emcees of the opening ceremony, kinda formal ya?
Hehe...
2:30pm, Buddhist Etiquette @ Dining Hall
by Venerable RuLian
Overall is a Buddhist Etiquette class which teaches us how to do half bow and full bow in Buddhist which i already know how to do it.
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3:30pm, Ice Breaking Game/ Dharma Friend Game @ Dining Hall
And the Dharma Friend thingy is like u randomly choose a paper with a certain number on it, each number represent a person in the camp. And you need to write something to that person which is your Dharma friend. And i m da lucky one who got one of my group mate as my Dharma Friend which is Chyi Main.
I did wrote a letter to him but i din receive any letter frm my Dharma Friend. That bad yay? 
And i dont even know who is my Dharma friend untill today. Maybe i dont hv one. Sniff sniff...
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4:00-6:00pm, Shower Time / Time with Abbess
Yea yea! Time to bathe! Heap heap hurray!!But the shower time kinda odd, cz we didnt get to bathe in the temple, cz the bath rooms are limited and we need to actually go out to a volunteer's house to have our bath. Weird?
So its like we all go in a batch, which is 4 person a batch and there will be a volunteer that drives us to his or her house to bathe.
So i am the lucky one that able to bathe in da 1st session. So i quickly packed my shampoos and cloths and gather @ the front shrine. After that, a lady drove us to her house which is near by. We call the lady Lai Ma Ma（賴媽媽), her house was reli reli reli nice!
Its BIG and reli tidy and nice inside. There are 3 bath rooms in the house so i need to wait the other 3 finish then only will be my turn.
I wait @ downstairs and had a short chat with Lai Mama's hubby which is the 1st BLIA president in Auckland. Isnt it cool?
And he showed me his photo of been to the Antarctica and took photo with da King penguin! Thats reli awesome!
Winky was done and i get to use the bath room that she used before. I washed my hair and came out with my hair still wet. Lai Mama saw my hair still wet and she ask me to dry my hair before i leave in case i get sick. So i quickly blow my hair and everyone is waiting for me in the car. Embarrassing!
After back to temple, we put our things back and no one tells us we need to go 2 da main shrine after our bath. So some of us just stay inside the room. I walked out and wondering what should we do now.Saw a person walking to me and i asked where should i head to? That gal said i could go 2 da main shrine for the Abbess' talk. And only i know there is a talk inside the main shrine.
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6:00pm, Gift Time @ Dining Hall
Wondering whats the gift time before the session comes. Then only i know its like marks giving session for each group. So nothing much.
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6:30pm, Medicine Meal @ Dining Hall
Medicine meal means dinner in Buddhist. After lunch's teaching. So dinner will be a formal meal
. Everyone is so quiet to finish the meal, cz in Buddhist study we eat without making any sound from the cutlery or the dishes. Cz the hungry ghost can hear the noise when you are eating and they will be hungry but couldn't get any food. So try to be sympathy and kind to the hungry ghost by practicing a good table manner. Even its not for the hungry ghost, we should practice a good table manner that dont eat with sound, cz i do few annoying when people chew with sound. But i still can see some of those people shaking their legs when eating, that doesnt look good as well. Can you imagine a pretty girl that look so nice and perfect infront of you, eating her meal in a five stars restaurant and suddenly u saw her shaking her leg due to she is so happy to have a meal with you? Ewwww...... 
Thats disgusting. So now can u imagine?
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7:30pm, Special Topic Lecture @ SiangYun Hall
by Abbess ManShin
Topic: Enlightment with Compassion 覺有情——菩薩行著的思維
Took some notes during the lecture and share it out here. But it will be in Chinese, so sorry for those who cant read.
菩薩（覺悟）薩埵（有情） = 菩薩 = 覺有情
觀音菩薩 = 觀音覺有情
四圣：
寺院里撞鐘108下時，觀想眾生聽聞鐘聲煩惱清、離地獄、出火坑、得智慧。每撞一下有會燈光，有燈光就有智慧，因開始不執著，開始提起正念。
佛光人四大信條：
9:00pm, Sitting Meditation @ Main Shrine
by Venerable MiaoYu
Venerable MiaoYu taught us how to do a proper sitting meditation, hows the sitting posture, what should we do and hows the progress. A good time to claim your mind and body down before go to bed.
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10:00pm, Time to sleep!
Its time to sleep! Yea its early but yet we still need to sleep otherwise you cant get up on time for the morning chanting.
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Day 01 rating(over 5):
Not really satisfy with the result for day 1 cz i feel it still can be improve in many ways. Anyhow, keep it up!
______________________________________________________________________________________
More posts for ANZBYC, click here to those posts!
And here for the full set of ANZNYC camp pics!
http://dreamztree.multiply.com/photos/album/99/ANZBYC_-_2007_Auckland
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9am, Registration @ ANZBYC office
______________________________________________________________________________________
10am, Group Initial Contact
After the registration, we need to gather with our group mates and start to know each other.
Met my group leader which is Gabriel, from Sydney. And another girl from Syd, Winky. After that we were still waiting for other group members and during dat spare time its kinda boring and we all got nth to do.
Btw, more members came and there were Jason and Chanon from Brisbane, Raymond the HK guy frm Melbourne YAD 3, and another guy from Auckland which is Chyi Main. And it seems like only we and Winky are girls? All guys? Thats not good! Hmmm.... After that found out from the name list we still lack of 2 members whom are same sex with me! Yea! But havent see them yet...
So we introduce ourselves as usual thingy 2 start. Then Gabriel gave each of us a 'goody bag' which contain a pen, a notepad, and a booklet which contain program schedule and other informations. And another member in our group turns up and she is Tina which
And we need to come out a cheer for our group and it needs to related to our group name which is ARHAT. It means 'one who deserves oblations'. After we scratching our heads and squeezing our brains, we came out something like this
( but mainly is from Gabriel, hehe):Ar Ar ArhatSounds lame? Erhermmm... No comment... Better than we cant think anything better than this.
pirates of Auckland
We dun plunder
We dun pillage
We save ur village
Now...
Offer us something!!!!
Wakakaka...After the cheer CREATING. The next task we need 2 complete is to do our group banner in a so call board which is in red color(Arhat's color). We came out some ideas for it and started to draw on da board. We drew a Buddha's head but in a pirates form which suits our cheer. Some offering thingy and our group NAME.
______________________________________________________________________________________
11:10am, Rules & Regulations Interpretation @ front of the Main Shrine
Some basic R&R in the camp announced by Terry and Melissa( the disciplinarians). After that each group PRESENTED their group cheer. And a member turns out, which is our co-leader, Tina from Auckland.
12:00pm, Lunch & Temple Tour
Introduce us every spot in the temple. And explain how and why and when this temple has been built. Over all its kinda messy tour cz some of them are not listening or even chit chatting. So its kinda noisy and messy.
After that, i met my last group member, Yolanda from Auckland before we have our lunch.
After that we prepare for our lunch and its gonna be a semi formal lunch. Whats semi formal lunch and whats formal lunch b/n informal lunch?
Informal lunch means the normal way we eat at home( noisy, ugly etc.) and formal way is according the rules of temple or tradition of Chinese meal eating. I oledi did that for several times and i do practice it at home so shouldn't be a problem for me. But Yolanda dislike the formal meals and she was like annoy by it once she heard its gonna be a semi formal lunch. Hehehe... But i reckon she got use to it after few times of it ya?And during the lunch they taught us how to eat in da formal meals. After the lunch, we had a walking meditation but everyone kinda chit chatting than MEDITATING. It was so noisy and it shoudn't be like that. Hmmm....
______________________________________________________________________________________
1:00pm, Opening Ceremony @ Siang Yun Hall
Hehe...2:30pm, Buddhist Etiquette @ Dining Hall
by Venerable RuLian
Overall is a Buddhist Etiquette class which teaches us how to do half bow and full bow in Buddhist which i already know how to do it.
______________________________________________________________________________________
3:30pm, Ice Breaking Game/ Dharma Friend Game @ Dining Hall
And the Dharma Friend thingy is like u randomly choose a paper with a certain number on it, each number represent a person in the camp. And you need to write something to that person which is your Dharma friend. And i m da lucky one who got one of my group mate as my Dharma Friend which is Chyi Main.
I did wrote a letter to him but i din receive any letter frm my Dharma Friend. That bad yay? And i dont even know who is my Dharma friend untill today. Maybe i dont hv one. Sniff sniff...______________________________________________________________________________________
4:00-6:00pm, Shower Time / Time with Abbess
Yea yea! Time to bathe! Heap heap hurray!!
But the shower time kinda odd, cz we didnt get to bathe in the temple, cz the bath rooms are limited and we need to actually go out to a volunteer's house to have our bath. Weird? So its like we all go in a batch, which is 4 person a batch and there will be a volunteer that drives us to his or her house to bathe.So i am the lucky one that able to bathe in da 1st session. So i quickly packed my shampoos and cloths and gather @ the front shrine. After that, a lady drove us to her house which is near by. We call the lady Lai Ma Ma（賴媽媽), her house was reli reli reli nice!
Its BIG and reli tidy and nice inside. There are 3 bath rooms in the house so i need to wait the other 3 finish then only will be my turn.I wait @ downstairs and had a short chat with Lai Mama's hubby which is the 1st BLIA president in Auckland. Isnt it cool?
And he showed me his photo of been to the Antarctica and took photo with da King penguin! Thats reli awesome!Winky was done and i get to use the bath room that she used before. I washed my hair and came out with my hair still wet. Lai Mama saw my hair still wet and she ask me to dry my hair before i leave in case i get sick. So i quickly blow my hair and everyone is waiting for me in the car. Embarrassing!
After back to temple, we put our things back and no one tells us we need to go 2 da main shrine after our bath. So some of us just stay inside the room. I walked out and wondering what should we do now.
Saw a person walking to me and i asked where should i head to? That gal said i could go 2 da main shrine for the Abbess' talk. And only i know there is a talk inside the main shrine.______________________________________________________________________________________
6:00pm, Gift Time @ Dining Hall
Wondering whats the gift time before the session comes. Then only i know its like marks giving session for each group. So nothing much.
______________________________________________________________________________________
6:30pm, Medicine Meal @ Dining Hall
Medicine meal means dinner in Buddhist. After lunch's teaching. So dinner will be a formal meal
. Everyone is so quiet to finish the meal, cz in Buddhist study we eat without making any sound from the cutlery or the dishes. Cz the hungry ghost can hear the noise when you are eating and they will be hungry but couldn't get any food. So try to be sympathy and kind to the hungry ghost by practicing a good table manner. Even its not for the hungry ghost, we should practice a good table manner that dont eat with sound, cz i do few annoying when people chew with sound. But i still can see some of those people shaking their legs when eating, that doesnt look good as well. Can you imagine a pretty girl that look so nice and perfect infront of you, eating her meal in a five stars restaurant and suddenly u saw her shaking her leg due to she is so happy to have a meal with you? Ewwww...... Thats disgusting. So now can u imagine?______________________________________________________________________________________
7:30pm, Special Topic Lecture @ SiangYun Hall
by Abbess ManShin
Topic: Enlightment with Compassion 覺有情——菩薩行著的思維
Took some notes during the lecture and share it out here. But it will be in Chinese, so sorry for those who cant read.
菩薩（覺悟）薩埵（有情） = 菩薩 = 覺有情
觀音菩薩 = 觀音覺有情
四圣：
- 佛
- 有正悟無上正等正覺 = 三藐三菩提 = 什么都懂
- 菩薩
- 需經過52個階位（stages）以修菩薩道，其中有：
- 菩薩心（菩薩願力）
- 發慈悲心（度眾的慈悲）
- 須有包容，容人的雅量
- 弘法之勇
- 不怕繁忙
- 不怕辛苦
- 有修道的恒心
- 正覺的智慧
- 出世的性格（just do it without attachment)
- 護持的熱誠
- 忍辱的力量
- 覺有情的思維
- 大家一起修行，心中有大眾。覺有情。像宇宙之心，像大海、大地，什么都收。像稻田，種出良/福田。像光明。這就是菩薩的思維。
- 緣覺：Silempe Buddha( Preyeka)
- 觀因緣法
- 不說話，因覺悟因果，明白，開悟了。所以自己修行。
- 聲聞：
- They study four noble truth（四圣諦）
- 四圣諦： 苦集滅道
- 滅道 = 自己修行
寺院里撞鐘108下時，觀想眾生聽聞鐘聲煩惱清、離地獄、出火坑、得智慧。每撞一下有會燈光，有燈光就有智慧，因開始不執著，開始提起正念。
佛光人四大信條：
- 給人信心
- 給人歡喜
- 給人希望
- 給人方便
9:00pm, Sitting Meditation @ Main Shrine
by Venerable MiaoYu
Venerable MiaoYu taught us how to do a proper sitting meditation, hows the sitting posture, what should we do and hows the progress. A good time to claim your mind and body down before go to bed.
______________________________________________________________________________________
10:00pm, Time to sleep!
Its time to sleep! Yea its early but yet we still need to sleep otherwise you cant get up on time for the morning chanting.
______________________________________________________________________________________
Day 01 rating(over 5):
Not really satisfy with the result for day 1 cz i feel it still can be improve in many ways. Anyhow, keep it up!
______________________________________________________________________________________
More posts for ANZBYC, click here to those posts!
And here for the full set of ANZNYC camp pics!
http://dreamztree.multiply.com/photos/album/99/ANZBYC_-_2007_Auckland
Labels: ANZBYC, Auckland, australia, BLIA, diary, FGS, Melbourne, New Zealand, YAD
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