noemi hiraishi

I am sorry. I wrote the THN part first and then went to the top
of the page and wrote about the chinese ideograms. When I
finished it, I thought that the posting were done.
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U. 6yo came on her wheelchair. Close to the end of the event, I
told her father that I was reading Dalai Lama and C. "The way to
Happiness" and that I finally understood what compassion was and
how to develop it. I was looking for this understanding since
1988.

He mentioned that there must be a reason for the handicapped to
be born. I also told him that I think that just the presence per
se of the handcapped in our everyday life gives us the
non-handicapped an opportunity to develop compassion and bring
out the good of us, it gives us an opportunity to become gentle.

The 17 of us shared the 40 m square. There we cooked, bathed and
sleeped. The space was smaller than my mother's living room in
brazil but of the same size of our apartment here in Japan. This
place is available for group for a fee of US$ 10.00 per person.
for US20.00 per person, we had dinner, breakfast, tea, coffee,
and a sleeping place. The children played at the park.

love and peace