After the Buddha Drum ha ceased, the early service formally begins. I sit on the stairway, listening to the chanting of scriptures from the Hall of Supreme Mercy. Ever so silently I just sit staring at the big drum and again I hear that drum which had just thundered come again like surging waves.
佛鼓敲完，早課才正式開始，我坐下來在台階上，聽著大悲殿裡的經聲，靜靜的注視那面大鼓，靜靜的，只是靜靜的注視那面鼓，剛剛響過的鼓聲又如潮洶湧而來。