有時候我也會一大早起床 ~ 有圖為證。拍完又爬進被窩，這也不在話下。Proof that I do sometimes get up at the crack of dawn. Then I very sensibly crawl back into the blankets. Moon and Venus, with the rising sun coming. 月下有金星，日未出。

臺灣真是修行地！修，要除三毒：貪、嗔、癡。為了讓我們了解三毒，天天有人現身說法顯貪、嗔、癡。國民黨貪，民進黨嗔，兩黨極度癡。

Just love Deuteronomy, the poetry, the sweetness, the rosiness. Here’s a great quote, from 28:42: Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

招供：陶老師上課也會打盹。上清德法師舉辦的「成佛之道研習營」，內容精闢，但實在太睏，雖然很努力記筆記，但眼皮不聽話。

「結使煩惱」居然寫成這樣~~~赧！

今天臺灣最常講的一句話：「好冷！」無妄齋五度。五年來第一次穿襪子！The most frequent sentence in Taiwan today: It’s cold! 5C, cold and rainy. I put on socks for the first time in five years.

it gets colder than this, but today really feels cold.

十一年前，烏來的畢卡索：泰雅畫家鐵木送我三張畫，至今猶珍藏，百看不厭。Eleven years ago, the Tayal painter Temu Yasa, the Picasso of Wulai, gave me three of his paintings. I treasure them.

今早到坪林清德法師的道場，紹印精舍，參加一天的共修，迎接新年。回家路上我們決定轉進屈尺，因為我們看到路邊牌子寫「阿黎氏沉香會館」，愛沉香，所以很好奇：聽說有下午茶，晚餐要預約，因時料做菜。

先講不好的：茶不怎麼樣，咖啡平平，但環境超塵。寬敞的空間擺古董桌椅，已經殊勝；更誇張的是，兩百五十年前，乾隆皇帝御賜太醫的「尚德堂」書房，整間從安徽搬到屈尺。一般清朝風格太多雕蟲小技，而尚德堂大方、精緻、裝飾恰到好處。現在臺灣缺乏的就是個「雅」字，而阿黎氏沉香會館可以彌補此遺憾。

加上，他們的沉香是頂級的。若有空，可到屈尺沐浴一番。link

We celebrated the fifth day of the New Year by spending the day in Buddhist ceremonies at a small temple in Pinglin. On the way back, we decided to investigate a new place in Gsyuw which apparently sells incense, as well as providing afternoon tea and dinner by reservation.

Frankly, the tea isn’t worth the trip, the coffee average. But the place itself is superior. You drink your mediocre coffee in a spacious hall decorated with superb antique Chinese furniture. What is more astonishing is the side room. About 250 years ago, the Emperor Chienlung presented his doctor with a study ~ the room ~ and it has been dismantled and moved from the mainland to Taiwan. Ching decoration runs to rococo, but the study is a perfect balance of structural beauty and apt ornamentation.

I almost forgot to mention the incense, which is refined to perfection. If you have a chance, be sure to spend some time there. 

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今天與Watan Kahat到福山找林慶台牧師，他們正在打糯米做年糕，我們吃的不亦樂乎！全身麵粉方面~~

Today we went with Watan Kahat to Kmaloci village to visit Nolay Piho, the star of Sediq Bale, back to his secret identity as pastor and, in his own words, 野人/wild man. They were pounding rice into cakes, and we all got stuffed and covered with flour.