2007-11-03

Kung Fu Fighting

I knew it was OK to be both a lover and a fighter........
(Brosden wearing my pirate hat when he came over to show me his presentation on Tiger Woods.)

ComPASSION

A Western Buddhist woman was in India, studying with her teacher. She was riding with another woman friend in a rickshaw carriage, when they were attacked by a man on the street.

In the end, the attacker only succeeded in frightening the women, but the Buddhist woman was quite upset by the event and told her teacher so. She asked him what she should have done – what the appropriate Buddhist response would have been.

The teacher said simply, “You should have very mindfully and with great compassion, whacked the attacker over the head with your umbrella.

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