I attended the meeting of making a handwritten copy of a sutra for the first time.
It has been held once a month at our zen temple since this year.
It took about an hour to write down the sutra called 'Heart Sutra'.
This sutra has 262 words and represents 'the emptiness'.
My heart became calm while I was writing them.
After finish writing, we offered the paper to the principal image of the temple.
I'll go to the meeting next month.
I practiced a Japanese calligraphy long ago but I couldn't be a skilled calligrapher at all.
I made it by only tracing the characters.
I remember my uncle was doing the same thing after he recovered from a serious disease.
I think great many people in Japan are good sutra calligrapher.