Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

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

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

the moment I “come back to myself” is the moment I am aware of my body, mind, feelings, and sensations but I am neither swept away, ignorant, indifferent, nor repulsed by them.

“If you have pain or discomfort in your body, notice it, embrace it. Breathe in, and know this pain is not ‘you.’ We can be there for the pain without becoming the pain.

had slowly begun to embrace my sadness without siding with it or thinking that it is permanent.

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

When sadness or restlessness arises, I can sit still or lie down and remain still in order to be present for it. I recognize the old tendency to grab a book or to look for someone to talk to, in order to fill up that void or to distract the buzzing of my mind. But I practice to be still because I no longer wish to run away from myself.

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

Our sensory perceptions are like a trail. When we pass by once, a faint line is laid down. It can be overgrown if we don’t ever use it again. However, if we travel it very often, it will become a trail, a road, a street, and then a freeway. When we experience an emotion again and again, it becomes habitual and habituated. When the neural pathway is

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