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Something simple happened a couple of days ago, that upon hindsight, seems more significant than not. I was seated at a coffeeshop eating with a friend. Some distance ahead was a table with three or four schoolgirls. I happened to look in their direction when they stood to leave. To my surprise, I saw a handphone atop a wallet left on the table. As I didn’t know how to address the group and since they were not exactly within earshot, I rushed to pick up the items, before dashing after them. By that time, they were about 30 metres away already, and I had to weave my way through the dinner crowd. When I caught up, I tapped the shoulder of the one closest, and asked, ‘Does this (these) belong to one of you?’ That girl exclaimed, ‘Ya, ya! Oh my God!’ (But what has any imagined deity got to do with this?) Right after passing the items back, I turned and rushed back to eat. Upon return, my friend asked, ‘Did they thank you?’ I replied, ‘I dunno.’ Even if she wanted to, I didn’t give her a chance.<\/p>\n
It struck me later that I wasn’t doing\u00a0 a thankless job, simply because I wasn’t expecting thanks – to the extent that I didn’t even look at the girl’s face for any expression of gratitude, much more to say a word of thanks. I don’t even remember how she looked like. As an interesting symmetry of the suddenness of the event, I don’t think she registered how I looked like either. I was surprised at my spontaneity and its unconditional nature, though it was really just a small favour. But there is still much stuff to improve. For instance, during my rushing through the crowd, I brushed someone lightly on the shoulder, but was too anxious and impatient to get ahead to pause to apologise. It made me think… there must really be countless people (that we don’t register well), whom we need to apologise to due to our unmindfulness, just as there must be countless people (that we also don’t register) that we need to thank.<\/p>\n
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\nInvisible Bodhisattvas & Maras
\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/thedailyenlightenment-realisation\/message\/106<\/a>
\nGratitude to Who?
\nhttp:\/\/www.moonpointer.com\/index1.php?itemid=2493<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"