A Practitioner's Kindness is Displayed Through a Small Matter

By an Australian practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) A seemingly insignificant thing happened at the "Music of the Spring" show in Sydney.

In the afternoon on the day of the show, everyone was right into the swing of things and busy with rehearsing and preparing for the show. This went on till dinner time, when one of the practitioners took the initiative to go out to buy takeaway dinner for everyone. Not long after, she and few others came back laden with 20 or more boxed meals. She called the others to come to have their dinner. As the other practitioners started to settle down for their meal, there were still a few boxes left on the table and she kept on urging and passing the meals to those who had not yet had one. At that moment I realized she herself was only eating some pieces of toast. I asked her why she was not eating the meal herself and she replied that she had already eaten. I took that to mean that she had already taken lunch, so I shared some of my food with her. Only then did I discover that she had out of her own pocket bought dinner for everyone but herself, and she had in fact not eaten at all. Her first thought was to feed everyone else first.

The next day, I related this small incident to my husband, who is not a practitioner, and he was really moved by it just like I had been. He said that it would have been much better if I had offered her all of my meal. Later that evening, I spotted my husband picking up his English version of "Zhuan Falun", which till then had been left there unread for a long time.

This may seem like something so insignificant, but it is something that I will never forget.

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