Narration excerpt from the book Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg
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there is a true story of two young Children that illustrates this quality of loving kindness. An eight year old girl was quite sick from a rare blood disease, and they searched all over for a donor and found that only her six year old brother could save her life. So the doctor and mother asked the boy if you would be willing to give his blood to help his sister. The boy asked for some time to think about it, and after two or three days, he went to his mother and said, I'm ready to talk about it now. He agreed to do it. So the family went together to the doctor's clinic, and the doctor laid one cot next to the other so that they could see each other while the bottle of blood was taken from the boy's arm and put into his sister's weak body. When the boy saw the life coming back into his sister, he called to the doctor and whispered a question into his year so his sister could not hear it. He said, Dr will I begin to die right away. He had not understood that When you give your blood to help another. It is only part of your blood. And that is why it had taken him two or three days to think over whether he was willing to die to save his sister. This is the basis for meditation of loving kindness. When you hear that story, perhaps you can remember that place in yourself that is so deeply loved another that you would give even your own life for them.