We were three volunteers working in the kitchen of the Center – setting tables, serving food, washing dishes, cleaning the place. The guests, children and adults, standing in a row for the food, eating, taking the tray and dishes back to the kitchen. The all-pervading intention to help and to be grateful that you can [...]
Taking and Giving
The 6th of July – Anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama, spent at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Pomaia, Italy It was my first evening there. We all gathered in the gompa (similar to a chapel) for the puja (ceremony). Monks, visitors, residents, volunteers, children and grown-ups. And a yellow cat that, I was [...]
