Getting ready for the All Souls Festival, volunteers wash fruit and prepare jai vegetarian food as offerings. They also get ready to film the ceremony so participants around the world can join together to chant virtually.
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All Souls Festival 5 – Ancestors
We all have a relationship with our ancestors. All Souls Festival provides a way to care for & maintain harmony with them, which extends to our lives & communities. At the FLK International Centre the Columbarium, along with the cemetery and Memorial Hall, are permanent places to care for people after they have died.
All Souls Festival 4 – Volunteers
At this time of year the temples bustle with activity. Volunteers at D’arcy Street Temple in Toronto prepare for the All Souls Festival.
FLK All Souls Festival chanting ceremonies will take place virtually this year.
All Souls Festival 3 – Beautiful Bags
All Souls Festival gives the living an opportunity to express filial piety, harmony and dedication by honouring ancestors, relatives and friends who have passed away.
Beautiful paper bags decorated with symbols of longevity, balance and comfort in the afterlife hold paper offerings to be burnt.
FLK All Souls Festival chanting ceremonies will take place virtually this year.
All Souls Festival 2 – Offerings
Paper offerings help the souls.
FLK All Souls Festival chanting ceremonies will take place virtually this year.
Buddhist and Taoist temples around the world observe All Souls Festival during the first half of the 7th lunar month when the gates of the realm of the dead are opened and the souls of the deceased can receive offerings.
Paper offerings help the souls.
FLK All Souls Festival chanting ceremonies will take place virtually this year.
Goon Yam Festival
Yesterday participants of Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism from around the world chanted to celebrate and be inspired by Goon Yam (Guanyin), the bodhisattva of compassion. Through chanting together our intention is to bring greater peace and harmony to the world.
All Souls Festival 1 – Folding Paper Money
All Souls Festival is one of the most important times of year in the Taoist calendar. It provides an opportunity for the living to honour those who have passed away. Volunteers prepare paper offerings for the souls of the departed in the Realm of Yin.
FLK All Souls Festival chanting ceremonies will take place virtually this year.
Southern Dipper Festival
Yesterday we celebrated the Southern Dipper Festival virtually with 1000 people from 26 countries. The Southern Dipper, together with the Northern Dipper, grants longevity. Chanting together expresses our intention to bring health and longevity to all the people of the world.
World MS Day
I have MS and was getting petrifying attacks of paralysis. Within four months of beginning Taoist Tai Chi® arts, I could move again and my balance had improved. Taoist Tai Chi® practice is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
~Sylvia
My asthma with the practice of Taoist Tai Chi® arts
I was very young when I started suffering from allergic asthma, particularly severe during spring. So, it is years that I need to check the Oxygen blood saturation (pO2) regularly, with an oxymeter: until recently, I have been finding it around 90/92 %, which doctors found acceptable.
With the practice of Taoist Tai Chi® arts (I started 8 years ago) the p02 rose and stabilized between 94 and 96%.
Since the pandemic began, I started self-practice on a daily basis and gained more and more confidence with listening, feeling, paying attention to opening and letting go.
(As a matter of fact, I must confess that not having someone next to me watching – be it the instructor or the “best student” in the class – and following my personal timing helped me a lot in developing a relaxed attention, as opposite to the tense one I used to experience).
As a result, now my usual saturation value is in the range of 98-99% and I aim to reach 100%!
Definitely, also the weekly chanting sessions played an important role in this improvement. When I first tried to chant during workshops, I was quickly out of breath and had to stop immediately, albeit reluctantly. Now I very much enjoy it: it makes me feel each time more open, quiet and relaxed.
Even though I look forward to gathering together again now or then, I know I took the best from these difficult times.
That’s why I want to say how grateful I am to Master Moy for such a richness he left us and to our Leaders who keep sharing and spreading it, with generosity.
Ornella, Italy