The monk had told us the night before that he encourage us to wake up by 5.30am to watch the sunrise in the morning. Most of us were skeptical that we can wake up that early even though I was quite keen to achieve that. However, I was surprised when my phone apps showed that the sunrise is at 4.45am, I was puzzled but I thought the monk could not be wrong as he had been living in the temple for so long. The sun was indeed up by 4am+ and it woke all of us up immediately as the hall we were sleeping in has no curtains and the sunlight shone through our 'bedroom' like it was already 8am. We then concluded that the monk had wanted us to watch the sun coming up among the mountains instead of the actual sunrise that we imagined.
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| Sun rose up around 5.45am |
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| J playing with the dogs |
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| The Kannon statue near the viewing point |
We took a short walk of about 400m to the viewing point where we can watch the sun 'rise'. It was hard to imagine that it was just 5am+ as its usually still pitch dark in SG at that time. We took some photos around the place and walked back to the temple for a rest. There was nothing much to do except to keep our beddings and stuff and laze around since we had one hour before the zazen meditation session.
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