Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

Suffering has no beginning and no end. It has no single cause. It has been transmitted to us from our ancestors, from our parents, from our environment, and from the way in which we have lived these past many years. Peace, stability, and freedom also work in the same way. They have no beginning, no end, and no single cause. We can choose the path o

Peace, happiness, and freedom are the delicious fruits of the Beginner’s Mind, and they are also the essential nutriments for the Beginner’s Mind. Thus, if we fail to nourish peace, happiness, and freedom in ourselves daily, our Mind of Love can become eroded. Status, power, stress, frustration, worry, hope, aspiration, expectation, and disappointm

I saw that I needed diligent awareness to slowly develop the capacity to not grasp or have aversion towards anything that I recognize inside or around me.

When the wave realizes that she is the water, she is free of all comparison. She has no need to try to return to the water. She can just be. She is free.

“Mother, I am walking for you. I know that in your life, you were never able to take a peaceful step.”

impermanent. Yet I hold on to the illusion of permanence, and when a change takes place, I suffer. I suffer because I take for granted what is, and I want to control what is not.

I have surges of anger, and I also have waves of sadness. I have learned to see it is not just my own sadness, but it is also my mother’s sadness and her mother’s before her, from

Every living being in this world is made of the same stuff. We each have positive seeds and negative seeds. Depending on our environment and on our own actions, thoughts, behavior, and speech, we water certain seeds more than others, and as a result we seem to be one way or another; but in reality we all have all the seeds. When I view myself and o

Dang Nghiem;

youth. I walk with the awareness that my loved ones step with me into stability and freedom.