Thursday, August 14, 2008

Karma

The perennial question: "So you think a kid with Downes Syndrome is being punished for the misdeeds of previous lives?" (People are always trying to prove to you that your beliefs are wrong, especially if they have none of their own.)
Who says that kid's not a bodhisattva incarnated in this form to teach people to care for something other than themselves? or to make people aware that their hearts are hard so they can begin to make some sort of spiritual progress?
Besides, a disabled kid's life is only a marathon of suffering to those who look on, secretly appalled by what they see as his imperfections.

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