A Buddha in a Taxi
March 28, 2011
Whisper Message
The Whisper message comes from everywhere and from anyone, even a cab driver. To really serve others from heart we do so without obligation or feelings of inconvenience or annoyance. We can only do this if we understand and know this one truth told to Vanessa by a gentle Armenian Los Angeles cabbie named Nick.
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March 28th, 2011 at 6:29 am
Vanessa,
This one really touch my heart and soul – and it made me cry. So touching. I will definitely be passing this one on! I work with low income families and this is what it is all about – because we are one. Thanks for taking your laptop with you to LA!!!
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Sandra when I would share this story with the participants at the meeting I attended I would well up every time I got to the part where he called me his sister. Your so right, we are one. So glad this touched your heart and you are moved to pass it on, thank you!
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Anette Sederquist Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Vahessa,
I loved this one, I will share this with my Prayer Chaplains at our next meeting, if that is ok with you.
Anette
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Of course Anette, this is how it gets lived again and again and again. Thank YOU!
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March 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am
What a beautiful story and lovely way to begin the week! Thank you, Vanessa!
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 10:26 am
You are so welcome Mary Helen. This lovely man’s words have engraved themselves in my heart and it is my honor to pass them on. And DO have a lovely week! love, V
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March 28th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I enjoyed the message and the wise words of the taxi driver. However, although I understand the concept of how love given out comes back to you increased, the ‘doing it for yourself’ made me think “isn’t that selfish?” I’d be interested in your view.
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Great question Mary, and others may be wondering the same thing. I can’t think of anything I do or say that isn’t “selfish”. It begins by fully embracing the knowing that there is (as Byron Katie says) only one of us here. Your whole world is self reflective… it mirrors you and is dreamed by you. By acting kindly in the world you act kindly to you… there’s no difference. So this driver acted on my behalf, but understood that it was for him, for his highest good. The forgotten luggage was just another way for him to live as kindness, which feels really, really good. By being kind to himself he showed me kindness and by showing me kindness he expanded kindness within… and by expanding kindness within he is able to express that outward into his very own world. It is a profound knowing and that’s why I call him a buddha, because more than knowing it as philosophy, he is living it. He saw no separation between myself and himself… so he knew his actions were for him. Another way to say this is he serves others and gives himself the bliss that comes from it.
Thank you Mary for this honest question, which by the way you asked for yourself and I answered for me
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March 28th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Thank you. A beautiful story. Love in action, not just a nice theory. It would be good to see stories like this in our newspapers and on television to help counter the rubbish where other races are portrayed as a problem.
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I agree Stephen, so what are you waiting for?
You can start with this one…
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March 28th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Oh Vanessa, your message came at just the right time for me. I was trying to price my paintings which I am going to enter in a show, and had been struggling with pricing them “appropriately.” I felt almost like giving them away, I am so eager to share them with the world. When I heard your message I was reminded that the love I put into my paintings will not vanish when I give them away, it will multiply. I am not devaluing “me” by pricing them affordably, because whoever loves them and buys them, is part of “me!” Thanks also to John Cody, who planted the seed of this realization in me yesterday at our YEW meeting, and it got reinforced by you today.
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Oh Darcy, how wonderful that you received this message at the “right time”. Congratulations on entering your beautiful paintings in a show. That alone takes great courage and love. Have fun with all of it. love, V
p.s. Be sure to get over to purposeyourlife.com as I will offer some amazing insights regarding how our life purpose and lessons have a lot to do with how we feel about getting paid for our true work!!
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March 28th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Enjoyed it, Thank you! What a great reflection.
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Vanessa Reply:
March 28th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
You are so welcome Lucy!
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March 29th, 2011 at 5:25 am
Wonderful Weekly Whisper and how wonderful to hear that your taxi driver lived the ideal of we are one. I agreat lesson, thank you.
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Vanessa Reply:
March 29th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
You are very welcome Karen. Thank you for writing, it is a great lesson for us all.
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March 29th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Gratitude remains ever expanding in this World. This story makes my mind still and calm, thank you for sharing! Enjoy the ocean side city…
<3 Camille
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Vanessa Reply:
March 29th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I love those words Camille “gratitude remains ever expanding…” nicely put.
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March 30th, 2011 at 3:54 am
It never ceases to amaze me how the weekly whisper always provides me with exactly what I need at that time! Another perfect message. Thank you. Love Angela
Ps I am really very excited about your new website…
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March 30th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Hi Vanessa,
What a nice story and message, what you do for others you are actually doing for yourself. You have such a warm, calming voice. I love it. Thanks.
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April 7th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Vanessa,
What a wonderful illustration of love. Each moment of our lives we are either giving love or withholding it. I love tipping the scales in my favor by doing random acts of kindness often.
We are always afforded with these opportunities each and every day if we would only look for them.
After all there’s only one of us in the room.
R
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