SEEING ROBE (as seeing Buddha):: Kathin, the ceremony, offering robe to a monk, who own the old robe, and could manage it.

SEEING ROBE
(as seeing Buddha)

Kathin, the ceremony,

offering robe to a monk,

who own the old robe,
and could manage it.

The robe disciplined,
in Buddha time,
could be seeked out
pieces of cloth,
only along garbage pile.

And managed it:
sewing, cutting and dyeing,
which could not finish
by oneself.

The word, Kathin,
is wood frame,
 used to stretch cloth
in sewing.

Nowadays, 
robe offering ceremony
comes instead,
during period one month,
after rainy season ended.

Monk robe is unimaginable,
meaning to Buddha,
seeing robe as seeing Buddha,
the savior.

Buddha Power
is unimaginable,
one who disrespected,
would be like the one
who hates his eye ball.

Monk robe,
is the symbol of:
 purity, quality, magnificence,
exquisiteness, elegance, majesty,
respect, eminence.

Monk robe is sacred.
 Buddha power is
eternal to the person
who faith in.

Above all, monkhood is
the last life living
of human,
before entering Nirvana,
permanently.

Kathin ceremony,
once a year,
the great ceremony,
all monks and all devotees
manage.

There are two ceremonies
in Kathin ceremony:
Sangha sole ceremony
and offering robe ceremony.

Kathin ceremony,
robe managing ceremony
by Sangha,
is the special robe,
gaining great merit,
affecting our life unexpectedly.

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