Monday Musings…1st May 2023…May Day, Disolvable Vaccines Plasters, Making Merit(Buddhism)…

Welcome to Monday Musings where my muse pinpoints anything exciting or unusual I have read, seen or experienced during the last week it could be anything that piques my interest…Last week I was on a bit of a rant so this week I thought I would tone it down a little -smile and today is May Day…historically in Europe and the UK it is associated with rural pagan festivities…

Traditions often include gathering wildflowers and green branches, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May Queen (sometimes with a male companion), and setting up a Maypole, May Tree or May Bush, around which people dance. Bonfires are also part of the festival in some regions…

Science never ceases to amaze me and sometimes it also scares me…this is one of the advances that amazes me… first seen on acflory@wordpress.com...its brilliant idea for anyone who has a needle phobia or who lives in a remote place…or is housebound…mobile dissolvable vaccine patches…

https://newatlas.com/medical/novel-mobile-printer-on-demand-dissolvable-vaccine-patches/

Thai volunteers exhume the bones of the nameless dead, who have no one else to care for them, the remains are washed and laid out to dry then they perform a ceremony on the remains to aid the deceased in their spiritual rebirths…

Dressed all in white the volunteers carefully and respectively clean all the bones…The bones are then all laid out neatly to dry in the sunshine…

They are then taken to the temple where Thais make merit and add gold leaf to the bones then they are buried again to rest eternal and go forward to the afterlife…One way for Thai Buddhists to show their respect for a person or concept is to make merit by affixing small squares of gold leaf onto images of Buddha or other sacred objects…in this case, it is placed on the skulls of the deceased who have no families of their own…

Even the act of making gold leaf earns merit for individuals. Sheets of gold are pounded to .000005 of an inch. The leaves of gold are made by two poundings with wooden mallets. It takes about five hours of hammering to complete one pouch of gold leaf. Then the job passes to the delicate hands of young girls to slice up squares of 2.5 centimetres and put them on waxed paper and stacked in booklets ready to sell.

Postage-stamp-size booklets of gold leaves are always on sale along with incense, flowers and candles at temples and shrines for use as daily offerings.

Making merit is something practising Buddhists do…Merit-making is important to Buddhist practice…it is a beneficial and protective force which accumulates as a result of good deeds, acts, or thoughts…

I think it is a lovely ceremony to make merit for those who have no family…

Thank you for joining me today as always I look forward toy your comments and appreciate any shares…xx

22 thoughts on “Monday Musings…1st May 2023…May Day, Disolvable Vaccines Plasters, Making Merit(Buddhism)…”

  3. Liz Gauffreau

    The vaccine patches sound like a good way to prevent an epidemic from becoming a pandemic–although I still don’t understand 3-D printers. The Thai ceremony for the nameless dead is fascinating. It looks as though it’s not for recent nameless dead?

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  4. Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life.

    I think the 3D dissolvable vaccine patches is brilliant and I can see that evolving as a way to perhaps dispense other life saving vaccines and medications particularly to the group you mention. That is also a wonderful ceremony and not only for the unknown dead but also the living who must have benefited by the act of kindness but also a sense of comfort about their own mortality. ♥

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    1. CarolCooks2 Post author

      Yes it’s a lovely ceremony, Sally and the living earn merit to pay forward to the dead it’s the Buddhist way of making merit I suppose similar to confession in the RC religion ❤

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    1. CarolCooks2 Post author

      Hi Pete…I don’t think it would either, however, knowing what I know and have seen of Buddhism it fits perfectly and I think is lovely Thais are very respectful of the dead, 🙂 x

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