Udumbara..you must have heard of it ..
It's a flower from Buddhism
3000years once, it's said to be a very sacred flower that blooms that flower ..
I'm not certain..
It was about a decade ago .. I saw it on the news
I don't remember which temple it was but
There was a time when it was reported that Udumbara bloomed on a Buddha statue..
Some people say ..what they call Udumbara is actually dragonfly eggs ..
This also is not accurate..
But I thought carefully..
If a lotus flower bloomed on a Buddha statuethen
it wouldn't have bloomed instantly..
For a flower to bloom, it takes at least a few days..
The Buddha statues in the temple are given a sticker once a day, aren't they??
If the monks or bodhisattvas who manage them didn't shirk their duties..
They would have cleaned them carefully every daythen
That Udam Bara thing hasn't appeared in the world..or maybe it hasn't..appeared I think too..
Even though I cleaned it thoroughly, if it appeared anyway..what could it be, the will of Buddha..
I think I'll just wrap it up like this..
When I saw Udam Bara then
Originally, I'm a bit mischievoustoo
Women can't see a man whose nose hair is sticking out,
But men, if they don't shave their nose hair, the hair sticks out of their nostrils..
That's better than looking good, isn't it? It's nice to be good at managing nose hair...
But sometimes one pops out...
Then, I grab the hair that has popped out with my fingernails and..quickly grab and pull it...
My eyes sting as much as if I had been stabbed,but
I stare at the nose hair with teary eyes,and
it turned out that the whole follicle had been pulled out...
It's interesting(?) When I touched my hair follicle, it felt a little sticky, like it had some adhesive power, and so..
My wife was sitting next to me, watching TV, and her mind was elsewhere, sowhen
I touched her nose hair..No, I mean her hair follicle, right?..
If you put some ointment on my wife's arm or leg,
try it once..
It's amazingly sticky and stays on the skin for a long time,..
I stared at it for a long time, andthat's it.
That's me..
You look like a doll..
What are you talking about? I stared in surprise and then burst out laughing,and
It was so funny that I used to play doll games often back then...
But..
Now I can't play doll games anymore..
These days, if I pull out a nose hair once,
it seems like I'm getting older, it comes out much easier than before...
When I look at the pulled out nose hair, it seems like a hair follicle would appear.
That also only shows such follicles with almost no adhesion.. ..
Ah.. there's nothing you can do against time..
While looking at the pulled nose hair, such thoughts come..
If I think back to the old days
When I pulled nose hair, tears used to trickle down..
But now it comes out too easily
There doesn't seem to be much occasion for tears to glisten
But while having such thoughts, it feels like tears might come from regret..
Still I..
When I was young, I played Udambara games, so I'm not inexperienced.
Even those who haven't experienced it, would probably be surprised.
Compared to that, I wonder if I'm lucky..
