09/05/2024
My favorite thing about international travel is immersing myself in different cultures.
Singapore is a melting pot of different ethnicities & cultures & it only takes a few minutes on the MRT (metro) to get a taste.
Chinatown even offers variety. For instance, I had an amazing lunch at a Turkish stall in a Chinese hawker center.
I visited a Hindu temple in the heart of Chinatown. Most religious Chinese are Buddhist.
My favorite experience thus far was spending time at the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, home of hundreds of thousands of Buddhas.
In borrowed garb, I covered my shoulders and knees and climbed a few stairs of a platform where I sat on a floor cushion with a handful of others and practiced the ancient art of meditation.
The fact that a Christian medal of St. Anthony hangs around my neck wasn’t lost on me.
In my world, spirituality means it doesn’t matter which God or Gods or Saints you worship (if any).
What matters is that you are kind and loving and have every intention of leaving this world better than you found it.
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