Day 18c: Mingling with a Monk … (05/02/2019)
Walking through the sunny woods on my way through Switzerland, I was climbing up a steadily sloped trail when I came to a fork in the road — to the slight right my chosen Camino path that continued along its upward trajectory, and to my slight left a route sloping downward back towards the way from which I had come. And who should be traversing this latter woodland roadway at precisely that moment but a mendicant monk named Jotiyo who met me precisely where the aforementioned pathways intersected … :O
True to our respective journeys, we paused there for awhile and chatted amicably about various themes of import — the power of willing self-sacrifice & selfless service, as well as the importance of making sure that we temper our objective view of our unquestionably dysfunctional world with a purposefully positive outlook of the way that world might very well evolve; in essence A) having the courage to accurately see how screwed up things truly are while B) simultaneously remembering that — if enough of us “join the team” and start living a life founded in Caring & Compassion — our currently dim future can indeed still end up becoming one that is filled with the shining brightness of justice and kindness.
Amen — Let it be so! 😀
“Our bold words mean very little unless they are boldly enlivened by our hands & feet.” ~ inspired by Jotiyo
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