Good Karma Music Stories

Where I live, you must get your mail from a group of mailboxes not far from the house. Whenever I go to get mail for my mom, I see junk mail and advertisements strewn all over the floor. Even though there are trashcans, people are careless and just throw them on the ground. Recently, I began to pick up the fallen junk mail to through in the trash. It feels good to be cleaning up the neighborhood and helping out the Earth.

These days I see so much trash on the ground. I want to help and clean up the trash. That’s why I’m trying to pick up at least 1 or more piece(s)of garbage each day.

My aunt decided to leave the home life. At first, I didn’t want her to, I did all that I could to stop her, to erase that idea from her mind. After a week of that, I started thinking from her point of view, and I saw that she was determined to leave the home life. Reluctantly, I let her go, even though it made me sad. I let broke the attachment that I had towards her, the want to have her near me at all times, for I knew that it was best for her, even though I am still sad and upset.

Have been watching over the patience paramita for many years now after I learned about it at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery with Rev. Master Heng Sure and nowadays when I meet people I am much more generous with them and there is not much prejudice, opinion or ideas about them. Try to act like a mirror and just reflect what they really are and relationships are awesome. Also try to avoid gossiping about people in general as a daily practice. Not sure if that is an act of kindness and if I deserve to download the Paramita CD but it was what came to mind as part of my current experience. Peace and joy.

It all started when I heard a teacher in my school named Mr. Allen talking about trash on the playground. So I began picking up trash on the playground and after all of the trash on the playground was gone, I had a handful of trash! Then he gave me a speacial piece of paper called a Monarch Chafacter Counts slip and thats how I ended up typing this story.

I will do good things everyday like picking up trash at school, pick up recyclable items from the street, helping my mom with cooking, speak gentle words to my friends and not get angry, and recite the “Heart Sutra” everyday.I will also not to waste paper, water, and foods.

I’ve learned this lesson from my 7-year-old daughter. As I have released little bugs in my house, my daughter and husband start doing the same thing. I even say the triple jewels and recite the Amitabha Buddha 3 times before releasing them, and my daughter takes this habit after me. However, she is even more gentle with them than I do. I have a habit of blowing the bugs out of my hand, and when she sees that, she’d tell me, “Mom, you’ve hurted them, no one wants to be thrown down like that.” I often end up apologizing to the bugs and her. Not only she corrects me, but my daughter actually models her words. When she released them, she would put her hand on the ground and let them crawl down gently from her hands or the soft art brittle brush. Moreover, when she sees the tiniest bugs or spiders, she calls for me to take them out gently because she is afraid that she’d kill them. I am glad that we teach each other the lesson of compassion.