I’ve been talking a lot about the 78 boat people from Sri Lanka this week.
I was on 7pm Project on Monday, with George Negus firing off about how what Rudd and Co are doing is illegal.
Then on 2UE with Steve Price on Wednesday, where I got enraged about how these people are not illegal (until proven otherwise), are not flooding here (it’s a trickle), and just need to be processed. By a country that is signed to the UN charter.
And then I was on ABC 702’s journalist’s forum yesterday evening, where I pointed out that in the absence of true leadership from Rudd and Co, the lecturn – and blackboard – has been handed over to a goose like Wilson Tuckey to imflame things with talk of terrorists and army intervention and other mis-information.
But I take a deep breath now and share this Buddhist thought I flicked open to to in Jack Kornfield’s Book A Path With Heart when the sheer emotion of it all sent me looking for softness:
Compassion is the “quivering of the pure heart” when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
I found it in the chapter titled Stopping The War. Of course.
