11.22.04
Karma at Hong Kong Supermarket
On saturday, our kungfu class went out to eat after training. On the way out, we started talking about ‘treating other people like you treat the ground’. This daoist principle has both a positive and negative way of looking at it. At the end of the remark, we passed a woman and her kid loading groceries in the car. After the kid finished putting the last bag in the car, he kicked the cart straight back away from the car. The cart passed right in front of us. The idea of treating others like i treat the ground came up, and i left the cart where it moved to. The cart was too close to the car to allow the woman to back out properly. And sure enough, the kid had to get out and move the cart. I think next time he’ll push the cart further… hopefully he’ll put it somewhere it wont impede another car.