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Being
an overseas student demands a great deal of independency. Now you need to do
almost everything yourself. And you know what, that includes one thing that
your mom always does, cooking.
I
am not bad in cooking. It is just that I only familiar with simple stuff such
as sup ayam, ayam kicap, ayam kurma etc. One day I decided to cook ayam masak
merah which I regard among the hardest dish to made. No worry. All recipes are
now just on your fingertip, so I googled it.
Now,
it takes some skills and arts.
The
main ingredient is the chilli pes. I know I got this. I used to watch my mom
did it before. You just need to cut the dry chillies, soak them with some hot
water and blend them completely using the blender.
I
did all that. To be honest I did not know why you need to soak the chillies
with hot water in the first place. I did it because I see others did. So I
ended up blending the chillies together with its seeds.
Whaaaaaaaaaat?!
The
ayam masak merah turns out to be crazy spicy. Honestly no one wants the
chillies seed blended into their ‘sambal’.
……………………
Right,
I get a very profound lesson here.
Why
did you do something? Is it only because others did it? Or you actually have a
good idea of why exactly you do it?
This
is a very important question that needs to be answered.
Likewise.
I have no idea why people used to soak the dry chillies with hot water. I ended
up blended the seed s together when actually the reason you soak it is to eliminate
the seeds to get a pure chilli pes. Without
knowing the exact purpose of it I ended up not only screwing the dish but also
bring spiciness to others.
……………………
That’s
exactly how we need to approach life.
We
need to ask why we did certain things in certain ways. Do we just blindly
follow others or the pre-established rules that was set before us? Or do we
have a clear reason for doing it. We know exactly the purpose and its objective.
We actually did it in pure consciousness. That’s to say, we know the meaning
behind everything that we do.
We
need to ask.
Ask
ourselves.
Why?
……………………
So,
why did you perform solah?
Why
did you fast?
Why
did you make zikr?
Why
did you chase knowledge?
Why?
Why?
And
why?
If
we do not know what the purposes, what are the objectives, we are in the brink
of being ignorance. Our ibadah is mere physical activities. Actions without the
souls.
Praying
supposedly to remember yet it just mere remembered as routines.
Like
supposedly soaking chillies to remove seeds yet they still get blended away.
……………………
Ask
brothers.
Seek
the meaning.
Why?
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