‘A lotus for you; a Buddha to be’

Armed with my best defence, I went to get coffee. As I watched the hard, angry faces impatiently pushing and bustling against one another for the best seats and first place in the line, I used my Gatha. I looked at each one in turn, ‘A lotus for you; a Buddha to be’ and offered them a glowing white lotus flower from the palm of my hand. Then something miraculous happened.