Good Karma Music Stories

There’s a student studying to be a physical therapist who is staying with us. College students don’t have much money and just barely getting by. She works several jobs and is rarely home. I usually offer her some fruits or any food that I cook so that she can have some healthy food to eat. She’s always so appreciative and happy to accept the food.

Now, I have been practicing gratitude towards the Four Field of Grace

The good deed is one that is done several times a week and comes in many forms. I volunteer in a second grade classroom and lead environmental trips for Audubon. I teach Dhamma and meditation classes to people in various types of recovery. I facilitate recovery meetings. I help my 92 year old mother 5-7 days a week. I follow the eightfold path and keep the five precepts everyday.

Jan. 2024. I was broke. -4k€. Still broke 🙂 but one night I was walking in the street close to the Vieux Port. Then I heard someone calling me. I went to check on him. I think his name was Mouss, he was a 40-ish African guy with a perfect accent from Marseille. He asked me where I am from. I told him I was born and raised in Paris but I fell in Love with the energy of the city of Marseille. I was going to play on an important play in a big Theater but I have decided to listen to my heart instead of my head so I have moved in Marseille. 10th Jan. marked my first visit in Marseille. 21st Jan. signed my rental lease in Marseille without even a permanent job contract. Still today I don’t have a contract! Ambiance of trusted between Mouss and me. I asked him where he was born.
« In Marseille, same arrondissement as Zinedine Zidane » then we spoke about looking for a job
« Listen, you should work hard. Look a Zidane, he was born in one of the poorest neighborhood in France, La Castellane, then he went to AS Cannes, then Bordeaux. After some years of hardship he went to Italy, Juventus Turin before going and performing very well in Real Madrid .  All comes from hard work and slowly but steady progress. » I was impressed by his sense of work ethics.
I asked him: I would like to offer you something to eat. Sweet or Salty? « Salty » « sure, how about French Fries ? » « oh I prefer a small bag of chips please » « ok will try my best, but it s already 2am so I m not sure. Will come back » it happened that we were close to a fast food chain still opened at that time. I went and decided to ordered the same menu as I had a few hours ago. Went back to Mouss.
« So Mouss, here we go » « But, but it’s more than a bag of French Fries » « Yea, it’s ok, it’s the same Veggie Menu that I had before » then he started to repeat «  merci, merci, merci, merci…. Merci, merci, merci, merci… merci, merci, merci …mer… » I can see that he was very moved 🥹 while I walked away he was still repeating the same word « merci » and watching over the sky. Of course, I was moved to. That night I made the resolve to live a life of service and to try my very best to be in service to people in need in the Universe. Before I want the Universe to be in my service. Now I just want to be in service to the Universe, bringing me where I need to go.
Today, I am writing those lines from Roma, Italy 🇮🇹 the eternal city. I am traveling with my Best Friend Forever. Her artist name is La Youth. And yesterday we have decided that we will keep traveling the world in order to offer some peaceful and healing music around the world. Yesterday we recorded a song near the Colliseum. You could check the result in TikTok (still need to upload the video in couple days). Our first and only one video made 40k views in less than 48h. I think we have some potentials… 😅 we need to follow Mouss’ life advice: to work hard.

TikTok French_Bamboo https://www.tiktok.com/@french_bamboo?_t=8kPm4tTSLqa&_r=1

我的新房子，冬天物业公司送了赠品–毛线织成的门把套，好看又防寒，冬天开门不冻手。就在前天，被几个小孩子给撸走了。门把手是不锈钢的，没有把套，开门关门时，手都很凉。如果是以前我会很生气，会想办法拿回来或者会在业主群里面开骂（年前就有业主因为此事骂过）。
现在我的处理办法是：心平气和地提醒家长们，孩子出于贪玩或者喜欢门把套拿走就走吧，但要和户主打声招呼。否则意义就不一样了。勿以恶小而为之。
我认为这也是一个善的行为。事情虽小，但也能看出来我自己的改变。

阿弥陀佛

Massage a monastic practitioner’s arm to ease and tame the pain

Help a friend who doesn’t know much about computer redeem online credit card point for gift cards.