On 9/17/05 7:38 AM, "TurquoiseB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really like it when I read about someone who
> is rich and famous doing something that involves
> gettin' down in the mud and interacting with the
> common people. It can indicate that this person
> is open to experience outside his class, outside
> the walls of the palace. Like when Sean Penn went
> down to New Orleans recently to help out. I read
> one account, from a firefighter there who encount-
> ered him, that shows *just* how down in the mud
> he got. The firefighter wrote of how Penn dived
> into the sewage/chemical stew to save people who
> had been swept away in the current while trying
> to reach the boat that had come to rescue them.
In Red Cross Disaster relief, the volunteers seem to be mainly of two types:
older people who are retired or near-retired, and wealthier people of some
independent means who will just go from disaster to disaster. Since
participation on the national level requires a *minimum* two-week
commitment, not a lot of people can do this. But a lot of people with the
means can and do do this, we just never hear about it.
There are karma dakinis at all levels of society.
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