Ron Starbuck Texas, USA
Here, I am with my begging bowl in hand,
that only I can see.
I am in the heart of Manhattan,
dressed in a Canali double breasted suit walking from St. Bart’s to the
Waldorf, it’s only one block and
a world away from home. A young lady passes by, smiles and that is all it
takes you know, one solitary smile, and my begging bowl is full once more.
Such riches come rarely, such joy
is known as Shantideva teaches, by
wishing joy to others first. Did you know?
That a single smile, like this one, can
save ten thousand worlds, across ten thousand universes, as if the first light
of creation has turned back upon the world.