Jul 08
Saturday
Manifesting Great Eastern Kindness
A chance encounter becomes an opportunity for compassion and generosity
by Janet Pal
It’s Saturday morning, June 10. I’m on my way to the Toronto Shambhala Centre. A man is walking towards me.
Oh please let him walk past me. I’m in a hurry. I have a talk to give today and I have to practice.
“Can you help me? I’m so hungry. I came here for a better life. No one will help me.”
His face was only inches from mine, close enough that I could feel his breath, and the heat from his body, or maybe it was my own.
“Please can you help me? I’m so hungry” he said again, tremulously. Continue…
