Good Karma Music Stories

I vow to implement a library software for the books available at Gold Sage Monastery. The literature made available there is truly a treaure trove. In this day and age, when every library has a web interface to search, reserve and track books, the library at GSM should have such a software too. This is a action that has not taken place yet, but it will be done.

There has been some times when i have been waiting for the bus somewhere in Helsinki or Espoo (city next to Helsinki in Finland) and all the passengers from that particular stop have already boarded the bus and the bus has been ready to take of. Then i have seen somebody appearing somewhere around the corner or up the hill etc. and very spontaneously without thinking too much i have raised my hand to stop the bus from leaving or gotten into the bus to inform the driver about some persons still coming onboard. This has happened perhaps three of four times in the last years. The people running have then not missed their bus. Not all the times her/him has really noticed what took place. I remember at least one time being thanked for this action. I felt really good afterwards and realized from this experience that one should not hesitate when there´s a chance to help someone -just do it. Your body knows what it is doing.

I recently translated a few articles from Enlgish to Chinese for the above mentioned journal. The past issues of this journal (back to the 1970’s) are going to be available online. The translation is going to make the journal more accessible to Chinese-only readers. I have to fully understand the text in order to translate them, so I learned a lot in this process, too. This is not priceless, but qualifies for action of kindness.

At the end of July I and my brother went sailing with 12 bahai youth from Nagu close to Turku in Finland to Esbo close to the capital. Our contribution was to provide the boats (two sailing boats) and to serve as captains on the boats. For most of the young people coming from lapland and the inner parts of Finland the sail was a completely new experience. Some pictures from the jurney are found at: http://patej.1g.fi/bahai/purjehdusvaellus2007

I work as a teacher and pastoral care adviser. I met up with a student who was really stressed because her parent has cancer. My student is from a single-parent family. We spoke in my office for a long time. In that time she told me many things about her life, and I listened to her. She taught me a lot about human resilience, and I am very honoured to have such trust from another person. My students have taught me to look beyond myself. I think I will enrol in a professional counselling course next year.

I am so grateful to Reverent Master Sure for making these songs available online. Thank you very much for your kind and compassion.

I am so grateful to Reverent Master Sure for making these songs available online.