I ask a friend what selflessness means.
He tells me an ancient parable of how the Buddha once heard the cries of a starving lioness, unable to feed her cubs, and so leapt off a cliff; smashing his body on the rocks below as food for them.
At first the idea of this extreme act horrifies me.
But then I realise that it has been played out over history, time and time again by great leaders who were willing to lay everything on the line for others.
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