I recently donated the cost of a new wheelchair to the Wheelchair Foundation. It’s some thing I’ve wanted to do since I was injured and (after a period of recovery) experienced the great relief of being able to, with the help of a wheelchair, move my own body again. It makes me extremely glad to be able to give that experience to another person.

One day in the mail I received a disconnect notice from the water utility. It said that if the stated amount was not paid immediately, the water would be turned off. It was a notice that should have gone to my nextdoor neighbors. My neighbors are a loving, open-hearted family with 5 kids and not very much money. I paid the bill. I would do it again for the priveledge of knowing this family.

On the final evening of a qigong seminar weekend in east Melbourne, I was ready to drive home which was about 1hr 15 min away. A woman was asking the number to phone a taxi so that she could get a ride to the train station and catch a train to the city. It was very cold and rainy night.I told her that I would drive her to the city. My home was actually in other direction, but I didn’t want the woman to be waiting in the cold.I drove her into the city, while I had a chant of ‘Namo Quan Shr Yin Pusa’ playing in my car. When…

I listened an interview from estonian internet-radio of enlightened teacher Dave Oshana, and thus performed an act of kindness to myself and through me to everyone around me.

One day I was walking back to my dorm room and passed a bench with a cellphone on it. I had kind of walked passed, then stopped and walked back and picked it up. I asked around if it belonged to anyone. It looked like a new phone because I had never seen commercials for it or anything. Usually in a situation like this some people would just keep the phone and wait for the service to be disconnected. I called the contact under Mom and waited around until I got a call back and then returned the phone. My thinking was, if someone found my phone, I would really…

It was more than twenty years ago, I just moved from Los Angeles to San Jose. I didn’t have a car back then, so I took buses to work and school. I always smiled and said “Good Morning!” to everyone I met at bus stops, to bus drivers and the passengers on the buses as well. Nearly everyone of them would either smiled back to me or said “Good Morning!” EXCEPT one bus driver. He never smiled and never spoke a word to anyone(not only me). Each time when I smiled at him and said “Good Morning!”, his stern face didn’t show any emotion and never responded. Most of time,…

When I was five years old, my father wasn’t a vegetarian and I tried to convince him to bea vegetarian. He would never believe me so I hadto do something that was an act of kindness. I went to the store with my father and saw manybutchers that were starting to kill the pigs and I told my father how the pigs like being alive not being eaten. When both of us heard the pig cry my dad decided to not eat meat and was a vegetarian. I finally was HAPPY !!!!!

My on call residents at the university hospital were on call overnight on Christams day. They couldn’t spend the day with their family but were spending the day taking care of sick patients, serving in the path they have chosen. But still, I think staying in the hospital on a holiday overnight can be a little challenging. I was supervising them but am able to go home and have a Christmas dinner. My girlfriend and I bought them each a gift- a scarf and a book, to keep them warm and open their mind. We went to an office that is open, gifts wrapped and labeled for each of them.…

In Islam,it is said that smiling in the face of your brother is charity. I smile to as many people as I can everyday. Please do the same..it can make other people’s days 🙂

i invited a few student friends away on a trip to noosa (a beautiful part of australia) and we shared some personal stories together. Maybe that weekend bonded us all for life. One of my new friends told us of a personal story of how he had helped a prosititute get out of her lifestyle of entrapment, to become something. I shared that I wanted to find a good husband and have a child. He said he would pray for me. 2 weeks later, he texted me and said “there is a guy I want you to meet. He has just moved into my apartment. He has a good soul,…