I went to a Buddhist banquet on Chinese New Year Eve earlier this year on 2/14. Many enjoyed the V day with their love ones while I engaged in conversion with friends. I filled the conversation gap with browsing the Winter Olympics. I noticed Mikaela Shiffrin's success and texted my ski friend. After that, I began to hum a tune out of nowhere. I must have persistently humming it for an hour and felt quite strange. After the banquet, while I was walking to the parking lot, I suddenly realized that the tune was "The Girl with Flaxen Hair" by Claude Debussy. My ski friend do have flaxen hair and is a half-French. I was impressed by my mind's pick (if not so random) which fits the event.
Last night, 4/25, I met my ski friend again in a gathering. When I chose my playlist in my car when going home, I was so sure that I clicked the Caprice by Rachmaninoff but must have accidentally clicked one below it, which is "The Girl with Flaxen Hair", didn't even know it was in the list at all. I was all giggling about the coincidence while waving my ski friend goodbye.
I wrote the event in here since as I grow, I begin to wonder the cause and effect in a Buddhist term is more about events that appear in concordant rather than direct reason that we attribute by our logical mind. I must have read too many Madhyamaka book since I tend to not to believe in coincidence as much as I did because God doesn't roll a dice? My journey into Green Tara practice and Kagyu school are also more like pre-set events, about which I should write later, than by a dice-rolling.
They said: "Once is a fluke. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a trend." Let's see if it is a trend.
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