Buddhism: Change for the Better

Sometimes something happens. We see a crying child with no shoes or food to eat, we see nuns serving lepers in poverty, we hear about the genocide of Rwanda, Sudan, the Balkans, Armenians, Jews, Tibet, Cambodia and so on, we see the smiling face of a spiritual person. And it happens, our life changes. We can no longer follow our old habits, our selfish goals lose significance. We change.

But usually we don’t. We avoid, rationalize, become cynical, defeatist, distracted. What has kept you from changing for the better today? Yesterday?