Tsuki-meinichi (Monthly memorial day)

14th today.Two months have passed since Iain’s passing. In Japan with some religious families, a family monk visits the family on Tsuki-meinichi and recites a scripture. In our house, however, no monks will visit us because Iain’s tie is with a Buddhist Abbey in England. So my daughter and I offered incense by ourselves and recited the scripture of great wisdom both in English and Japanese just like Iain and I used to do in the morning.

Sometimes we did it before breakfast, other times after.Looking back it was the only quiet time in a day and I’m really happy that we kept doing it together. After the recitation Iain will offer the merit of recitation for the benefit of our home and for the people in our thoughts and for every sentient being. Then we smiled “Good morning, love!” to each other, which made us feel happy and made us get on with our work all through the day. Well, actually we should have done three bows but Iain never insisted on that one, maybe it would have been too much for his heart.

posted by Edera