Jan 3, 2005, Happy New Year

Is it at all possible to make our hearts soft enough to embrace in any small measure the enormity of the human suffering inflicted on the victims of the tsunami? people in Asia? What they have to endure is unimaginable--such terrible loss and no one at hand to comfort them since all around are in the same awful state. No one to say, "Come and stay with me." Because their homes have been destroyed too. It's all so dreadful. We can only believe that the human spirit is indominable and that somehow life will go on. How true the Buddha's words: "more water has been shed by human tears than there is in all the great oceans of the earth."