Good Karma Music Stories

This morning I helped a homeless woman who was having trouble with her laptop. She was having trouble connecting to wireless hotspots. We first walked to the library, but I had so much trouble that I thought it was the library’s network which had given me trouble in the past too. So I asked her if she could go with me to the library at the college, but she said she didn’t have bus fare. SO I gave her $2 for bus fare and we went. I tried to connect at the college but still had trouble until I found something she had changed in her internet settings that had created some kind of phony firewall. So I deleted it and helped her install firefox browser and now she is sitting across from me doing fine. So that was fun.Just thought I would share.

I offered introduction to the Dharma to interested friends, who are both now setting the wheel in motion 🙂

I use to go to Tze Yun Tung Temple (Prajna Guan Yin Sagely Monastery) become volunter helper. Recently, I also help to recite NAMO AMITOUFO when there is any dharma friend’s or relative passaway, which lead by our Dharma Master. I feel that this is very good. In Chinese Community, some of the people may feel that going to a deceased house or funeral place is not good & bring bad luck, I think this is superstitious. I feel that when help to recite NAMO AMITOUFO for the deceased, besides “assist” the deceased to go PURELAND by inviting AMITOUFO to come, we can also plant good seeds at PURELAND. So, I hope in future there will be more people to join for the Recitation for the Deceased. AMITOUFO!

I’m writing this because I’d like to give a copy of the Paramita CD to a young friend of mine named David. He’s 17 and lives with his parents — and with me when I’m in California. His parents have invited me to stay at their house as long as I would like to: no rent, no utility bills, offering me anything I would like from the kitchen, sometimes fixing food for me. There are acts of kindness in this household every day. Mary (my friend and David’s step-mom) just called me because I wasn’t feeling so well this morning. She was wondering if she could pick up anything for me on her way home from work to help me feel better. Just one example in a whole parade of good, kind and compassionate acts.You might ask “why do these people share everything they have with you without asking for anything in return?” Maybe it’s because they’re my friends. Maybe it’s because they love me. Or maybe it’s because I’ve decided to give everything I have to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. A little over two years ago, I ordained as an eight-precept nun. My head was shaved then and today I shaved it again, as I have every couple of weeks just before the moon day since. The robes are white. I hope someday I will be able to put on brown robes and take on more precepts. There isn’t anything I want to keep for myself at this point. I only want to awaken and to help as many others along the way as I can.When nothing else matters but being free from suffering and relieving the suffering of others, then kindness is just normal. It’s the air and water and sustanence of life.Oh, my friends know that I won’t be staying forever. I’m here “between” monasteries, so to speak. In a few months I’ll return to England to enter further training at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery with a group of deeply commited women of integrity — a new family in the Dharma. May we all recognize our place in the family of kind and compassionate beings.Blessings and much metta to you all,Santussika

To my girlfiend best thing I could do today was my coming home from half year trip from Asia. I was travelling in different buddhist temples studying myself. So today I have more Juha to give her in the future and I think now she is more happy than ever I can remember.

Attending to the little things makes a lot of difference. I called the customer service number of my new health insurance plan with a specific question about coverage that was unclear in the booklet I had received. The customer service representative who answered my call was very abrupt, hardly seemed to listen to my question, and her tone of voice was harsh. I persisted in trying to clarify my question for her so that I could get an answer but I was unfailingly polite, met every one of her abrupt responses with a kind reply, not giving up on trying to get the information I wanted, but always gently and respectfully. By the end of the call we were talking like best friends with her telling me that she would investigate the problem further and let me know if she discovered anything more and if I found anything out about the problem would I please call her and let her know. Sometimes you can see the effect of small kindness almost immediately plus it feels so much better to not get hooked into angry reactivity however the response is received.

My priceless act of kindness is followed out almost daily. my friend desiree has cmt and she cant do alot of the things that many humans take for granted especially in the winter she cant hold her pencils or walk very far without her muscles spasming and i always make it a point to go out of my way take notes or give her piggyback rides to her next class so that she doesnt get a detention i tie her shoes when they are un done ant stick up for her when the other kids make fun of her gait. i have been doing this consistantly for her ever since probably the first month of sixth grade