write an essay about the tittle"i travel i enjoyed"
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Sanghas function best when the members
take care of one another. This holds true
even when the definition of Sangha is
extended to include all kinds of groups;
e.g. one’s household, circle of friends,
neighborhood, nation, or global
community. Of course we need good
leaders, yet there are different types of
leaders. A good leader empowers others,
sharing both responsibility and the
satisfaction of a job well done. It may
even be possible to have a Sangha where
all the members function in their own
way as leaders and there is a genuine
feeling of joint ownership.
I’d like to share two stories that
illustrate how the Dharma teachings can
influence how a Sangha functions. One
story is set in rural Japan where a village
is looking for a new leader. The villagers
think of an ingenious test. They fill a
large, shallow stone basin, measuring
about twenty feet in diameter, with very
hot water. They ask their two candidates
to demonstrate their abilities in some
fashion. The first candidate is a
powerfully built man who has undergone
rigorous martial arts training. He strips
down to his fundoshi (Japanese-style
underpants) and with a determined
attitude, slowly steps into the water.
Beads of sweat appear on his face as he
lowers himself deeper and deeper in the
hot water. Whispers are heard among the
villagers, “What courage!” “What
discipline!” The man then steps out of
the water, refuses an offered towel, and
calmly sits down on a nearby rock.
The second candidate is a middle-
aged woman known for her marital
ability of fostering a harmonious
household. As she stood before the
basin of steaming hot water, her two
children cry out, “Mom, don’t go in!”
She hesitates and after a moment of
thought, smiles and signals her husband
and his two brothers to bring tubs of cold
water from the nearby stream. She asks
for the tubs of cold water to be poured
into the stone basin. She then takes her
two children and steps into the water.
As her children are splashing and
laughing, she calls out for all the
villagers to join them.
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- In my life, I have gone on many memorable trips. I look forward to my families annual trip to Georgia every year, and I will never forget our trip to Graceland or all the different family events we’ve gone to out east. But the one trip that has stayed in my mind and had the greatest impact on me wasn’t a family trip. It was my synagogue’s youth group trip to Cincinnati.
- In my life, I have gone on many memorable trips. I look forward to my families annual trip to Georgia every year, and I will never forget our trip to Graceland or all the different family events we’ve gone to out east. But the one trip that has stayed in my mind and had the greatest impact on me wasn’t a family trip. It was my synagogue’s youth group trip to Cincinnati. Every year my temple youth group takes all it’s freshmen on a special trip to Cincinnati, as part of their confirmation in the Jewish faith. We all got up early on a Friday and the bus departed at seven. After an exhaustingly long bus ride it was time for our first destination. We all got dressed up in our good clothes and arrived at a church. Actually it wasn’t a church. It was the first reformed Jewish temple ever established in the world. The founders wanted to create a place of worship that was seemingly identical to the norm (Christianity.) The temple had an Ottoman-esque interior, roofed with elaborately painted domes, lined with traditional wooden pews, with a massive organ in the back that’s pipes snaked up the wall like ivy. There was even a steeple (back when the temple was first built, the neighboring church made their steeple taller because they didn’t want to be outdone by jews.) The only tip-off that this wasn’t a church was that there were no crosses.