VOWING ONESELF TO LEARN 84K WORLDLY PHENOMENA
ARTICLE 1:
CELEBRATION OF NEW YEAR AND ROSE PARADE
As usual, the Americans celebrated the New Year of 2025 with the 136th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on the first day of the year, at 8am PST, Wed, Jan 01, 2025.
Many visitors took plane from afar to Pasadena to watch this famous festival with their own eyes. From yesterday evening, many families kept up their tradition of camping on the street at night to experience the cold of the homeless in the winter and reserved good spots to enjoy the parade. Millions of Americans and millions people around the world watched it on TV.
Like previous years, the Rose Parade this year was so gorgeous and lasted for a little bit over two hours on the distance of 5 and a half miles with 39 magnificent floral floats that were much more splendid than ever; 24 vivid and professional marching bands coming from many high schools or colleges of other states or even from other countries together with the cheer leaders trouped with young, beautiful girls skillfully dancing in the imbued-South American dresses. This year, there was especially a float of the young Vietnamese generation with the theme “Love 2 Yeu”. There were also 16 equestrian units with many well-trained horses, whose hair was shiningly white and brown, trotted very artfully. Many of them with four legs wrapped in white, blue, and yellow cloth like socks, with high ones on the front legs and short ones on the rear. They looked so cute.
But no matter how striking the time of fun is, it must come to an end. Has anyone caught that in the very moment of glory flashing the ending instance?
Is there anyone who could know though the performance was just over two hours, it took the hosts and staff months of preparation to provide such a wonderful and satisfying time for viewers? More than 18 million roses of all colors and many millions of other flowers were used for 39 floral floats. Tons of vegetables, roots, fruits, and all kinds of nuts and seeds were also needed to attach to them. This year, the average cost for each of them was 227,000 USD. It did not mention the volunteer efforts of many people over long months as well as the time for practice of the bands and their travels from far away. So, without community or society, how could millions of people on our planet earth have such cheerful and enjoyable moments to begin the new year? I’d bow my body in sincere gratitude to society and all types of beings, sentient and non-sentient.
People all over the world exultantly celebrate the New Year...Big banquets or intimate parties, warm and hearfelt wishes, simple or expensive gifts, long trips to reunite with loved ones, or far-away travels to rest and relax... Everyone did want to leave behind the hustle and bustle of the old years in human life. They all look towards the future with expectations and dreams.
Does it seem every year, every 365 days, to be the milepost for people to pause, take some short break, throw away the distresses in their hearts and open their arms to receive the upcoming splendors. If such should come, many worries and sorrows that a few people might know would definitely accompany. No glory could happen without tears. It is said by the ancients, isn’t it?
With that keeps on and on, people grow up, get aged and sick then die. Does it wonder that the flamboyants of welcoming a new year is a chance for people to halt and energize themselves with entertainments so that they can continue moving forward in the impermanence and immerse themselves into the endless cycle of reincarnation again? If, in the next life on a certain distant planet, and, if they could keep their human bodies, they would probably do the same. Their Asava, the dormant defilement sources, has deeply imprinted in their Alayavijnana, the subconsciousness.
But if they lose their human bodies, who knows in which whack they are. Have any of us thought of this?
English version by Ngọc Huyền
Seclusion of NonSpeech, New Year of 2025
Link to Vietnamese article: http://tanhkhong.org/a4537/dd0755-ngoc-huyen-tam-van-phap-mon-the-nguyen-hoc-bai-1-don-mung-nam-moi-va-le-hoi-hoa-hong
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