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Dear Friends,
Is it at all possible to make our hearts soft enough to embrace in any small measure the enormity of the human suffering inflicted on the victims of the tsunami? people in Asia? What they have to endure is unimaginable--such terrible loss and no one at hand to comfort them since all around are in the same awful state. No one to say, "Come and stay with me." Because their homes have been destroyed too. It's all so dreadful. We can only believe that the human spirit is indominable and that somehow life will go on.
How true the Buddha's words: "more water has been shed by human tears than there is in all the great oceans of the earth."
I recently sat for a month in Massachusetts and on Monday, January 10th, I depart for another month to Burma, (Myanmar) to sit in the Kyaswa Monastery, situated in the Sagaing Hills north of Mandalay. It will be the first time, in over 20 years of practice, that I've sat in a Buddhist country so I'm really looking forward to the experience.
I had planned a trip to India in March which I have just cancelled since I want to take some time to write.
I will make another entry when I return from Burma. |
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With Love,
Lorna |
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1/3/2005
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Lorna Kelly
"Write that book for the Glory of God
and the Good of people"
- Mother Teresa
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