I attended 'Tondo festival' held at my family temple in the morning.
This event was the first time at my temple.
We brought ornaments of New Year, used charms and so on.
The service was started with priest's sutra and and all ornaments were burnt clearly.
After that sweet bean paste soup with rice cakes which had been served to God during new years days were served to everyone.
Spiced sake was also served.
We all had a very good time.
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After that I went to a main hall in the temple to attend the sutra transcription meeting that is held on 17 day every month.
Everyone writes wishes on the transcription paper of the last line.
The wishes are various, for example safety of all the family, traffic safety, recovering from sickness, happiness of the ancestor, being healthy and so on.
Among them there was a wish for 'world peace' that was the first time I heard at the meeting.
I had been wanted to write ' world peace', but I had been hesitated to do so because it is a too big wish.
But 'world peace' is very important though it is very difficult.
I'll try to write 'world peace' on the transcription paper next time.
