A contest is going one now at Ngee Ann City. It is the The Subaru Challenge in which the contestants must put their hands on a car and keep it there for days until there's only one left. The last person standing will win a Subaru car. So many of these participants were sleepless for days and all of them started to hallucinate. Some of them started seeing flowers on the car whileone participant could not recognise his own family members. Another hallucinated seeing a spongecake on the floor. There's also some who began speaking nonsense to the people around them. To these people, the hallucinations are real but to we the onlookers, we don't see shit man. Til this day, scientists are still perplexed by the actual functions of sleep, as well as one of its component, dreaming. Through recent studies on sleep deprivation done on rats, scientists came to know that animals that have been deprived of sleep for 4-5 days or more will go insane. Thus, sleep is a biological need animals cannot do without, including us humans. According to Tibetan Buddhism, dreams are linked to our karma in certain ways. Nevertheless, the above phenomenon is a implication that the world is nothing but an illusion and what we see, feel, smell so real it's just a reflection of our own minds. Even Quantum physics have proven that everything that is real to us is a simply a matter of relativity and perspectivism. Deprived of the ability for our mind to function properly, the world will warped before our very eyes.
Just reached 30580 times of the Lakshmi mantra.
Not many people know what's the Sanskrit name of Wang Shen Zhou. It is Sukhavati Vyuha Dharani, which means the Chant of the Western Paradise. Too long to translate into Chinese so we simply called it Wang Shen Zhou.
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