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03-31-2007, 04:28 PM
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Re: Is Selflessness Good, And Does Religion Breed Selfishness?
A six year old boy was asked to donate blood to help his sister who had contracted a life-threatening blood disease. He asked for a few days to consider his decision, at the end of which he consented to the request. After the doctor had taken his blood, the boy asked, “When will I start to die?”
-taken from The Experience of Meditation - ed. by Jonathan Shear. |
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03-31-2007, 04:37 PM
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at peace
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Re: Is Selflessness Good, And Does Religion Breed Selfishness?
Wow. A six-year-old. No wonder I learn so much from kids. I wonder what he said when he found out he didn't have to die then....maybe he did a cartwheel? I wonder if he cried...
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