Jason watched five minutes ago as I rescued a wasp trapped in our house.
I slipped a plastic cup over it, while murmuring: "I mean you no harm.
You are safe. If you will allow me, I will return you to your home. I
understand you are afraid. You are safe..." Jason cowered on the
stairs as I slipped an index card under the cup, then carefully took the
wasp outside and set it free. I told Ja
son
that if I was a wasp, I would want to meet a human like me. That
empathy is being the change you wish to see in the world. He said: "but
if I was a wasp, and I met a human who wasn't like you, I would sting
him. Repeatedly." And if that isn't the essence of the martial
arts, I don't know what is. Every moment can be a lesson.
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