Entries by Venerable Wuling (2173)
May 29, 2020 Helping naturally and appropriately.
Seeing a young girl struggle to extract a paper towel from its dispenser, I reached over to turn the awkwardly-placed dispenser knob. With that, the paper towel magically rolled out. Eagerly tearing off the towel, the girl turned and looked up at me.
Her smile was radiant. I also had a big happy smile as we shared our moment of hard-won success.
Helping her had been so natural. There had been no need to judge whether she was worthy of help. She was a little girl!
No need to decide if I should be the one to help. No one else noticed her predicament.
And deciding how to help wasn’t an issue because, thanks to personal experience, I knew how to extract the towel!
And so, I offered my help unconditionally and spontaneously. By experiencing a rare flash of clarity, I had gone straight from perception to action. Looking back over what had just happened, I mused that perhaps this could be considered a rare taste of how awakened beings help. Naturally and appropriately.
